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1 Samuel 22 (Part 2) Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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Thank you, priest him for that powerful worship, and now we
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worship in the hearing of God's word.
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Meet me in first Samuel 22 please.
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As we conclude this chapter together.
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It never fails. That when I personally study the
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word, it's almost overwhelming of how much God can say and some
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obscure passages. And I hope you've learned that
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over the years that surely all of God's word is god-breathed.
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It is not wasted, it is not just historical data.
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It is God's voice that the man of God, may be complete and
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furnished and Polished unto righteousness and reflection of
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the person of Jesus Christ. And we come here in 1st Samuel,
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22. We are at verse 6 as we heard
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last week, the first five verses focused on David's point of view
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as a fugitive as an outcast it was completely dedicated to his
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experience in this in the scene. But now as we come to verse 6,
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there is a shift that's about to take place, but before we come
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to this shift, we've learned Just in five verses about how
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the righteous are a direct blessing from God.
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To his righteous that as they are surrounded and supported by
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those who fear, God, that is surely a gift from God.
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And if you have people that you can identify as those who love
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Christ, and are there for you and are praying for you, in our
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counseling, you know, that you have something of a gift from
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God himself. And we also saw David suffering
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personally in a very overwhelming fashion, but at the
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same time we learned that this man honored Duties in the midst
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of his difficulties and he exemplified that by taking care
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of his parents, when he was looking over his own shoulder
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because he could have been killed at any moment.
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And we also saw David graduate in his faith.
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The man was consumed with fear and chapter 21 and a very
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dishonorable way. But we see here in chapter 22
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that is repentance in those psalms proved, to be genuine
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because he is now showing Owing more trust in God.
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It's going to find it. So encouraging, that God can
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tell us that. David was a man after his own
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heart, even though David wasn't totally mature in his faith, God
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can declare that over somebody while they're learning while
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they're growing, while they're being stretched.
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Surely he's merciful. but what we've learned from David, Is
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sufficient in this chapter because now we come to learn
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from Saul and will still learn from David, but we're going to
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see mainly what the Holy Spirit has to say about not the prey
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but the Predator the unruly King named Saul.
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And if David graduated in his faith, in this chapter, we're
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going to see Saul intensify in his rage and his jealousy, and
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his Envy. See you and I are either growing
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in One Direction or the other. We either growing in Christ or a
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growing in the flesh. We're either maturing
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spiritually or we are maturing in our old man.
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There is no Center, there's no neutrality and unfortunately
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Saul is consumed with sin and it's going to show as we read
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here in verse 6. Now, Saul heard that David was
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discovered and the men who were with him saw was sitting at
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gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in
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his hand. And all his servants were
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standing about him and saw said, to his servants, who stood about
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him here. Now, people of Benjamin, will
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the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and Vineyards.
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Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of
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hundreds that all of you have conspired against me?
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No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the
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son of Jesse none of you is sorry for me or discloses to me
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that my Son has stirred up. My servant against me to lie in.
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Wait, As at this day. Will continue to read in a
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moment, but there's so much already here.
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We read. Now, as the scene turns over to
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Saul that Saul is now surrounded with his servants contrasting.
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David as we heard last week who was supported by four hundred
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men in a cave and it's in this verse that we read.
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The reason for this conference Saul calls his servants because
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he learned the whereabouts of David and he also learned surely
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the piercing news that 400 of his own have abandoned him and
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I've joined his enemy and indirectly are saying, we
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believe that David is King, not, you saw And this is clearly
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disturbing to the man. And so we read now Vision it and
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vision. It, he's sitting there
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underneath a tree. But he has something in his
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hand. What is it?
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A spear that should raise a flag because this is not the first
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time that we've seen this madman in such a position.
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You. And I have studied saw long
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enough to realize that whenever this person has a weapon in his
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hand, and he's in a bad mood, something is not going to be
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pleasant in a moment. This is disturbing.
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Because he is thrown that spear at David many times.
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He's even thrown a spear at his own son, and here he is.
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In the presence of his other servants.
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Clearly shaken and he has a spear in his hand.
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I think that we can read that and realize that saw was as a
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particular type of leader. He was a leader that rained and
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controlled with fear and intimidation He bullied people
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he caused him to have an unhealthy sense of reverence
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towards him so that he can get them to do what he wanted them
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to do. And that is a leadership that
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will never be honored by men and will not have longevity as
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you're going to find out about Saul.
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But this verse already teaches us something.
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The first verse verse 6, already teaches us something.
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So wonderful about God as it connects to our concluding
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thought from last week. Last week, we concluded with the
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observation that as David is hiding in a stronghold.
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God sends a prophet named God. And this man, God tells David
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get up and go and not just continue to flee, but I'm
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telling you to go into the territory of Judah.
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Now, why? Is that a concerning command?
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Does anybody remember Saul is governing that land.
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So God is asking Saul rather David to come into a territory
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where he's more vulnerable to solve spies and to Saul himself.
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It seems like a contradiction, it doesn't seem reasonable.
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But when you come to verse 6, we now see by the holy spirit's
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commentary, why it is that God sent God to David and told him
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to get up and go. Why is it Because Saul, what?
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He discovered where he was saw, learned the location of David
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and these men and God seen what saw learn speaks to his prophet
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and the Prophet. This messenger comes and tells
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David get up and go in a certain direction.
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And here's the wonderful thing David obeyed, even though he
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didn't have all the answers because he knew that God had the
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answer. It's as simple as that.
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You read verse six. And you and I are supposed to
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understand that, we as the people of God, do not need all
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of the answers to his leadership in our lives.
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If you and I think that we inherit a supernatural peace,
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because we have this unlimited access to every answer to every
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step in our lives. We are setting ourselves up for
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disappointment, the piece and the trust that you.
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And I have as God navigates and leads and Shepherd us through
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life, is not the fact that we have every answer before it
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comes. It comes by the truth of his
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character. It comes in a knowledge of who
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he is and based on the knowledge of who he is, regardless of how
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he leads us. If you are rightly walking with
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him, you can trust his Direction.
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So why be flustered with with delays in life?
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And why be consumed with anxiety.
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When you are now being directed to a destination that you didn't
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plan for in your life when you and I are supposed to just trust
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him and trust that he has the answers, and if it's in his
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wisdom to reveal that answer in this lifetime or not, it's not
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up to us. It's not up to us.
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There are many times as we're going to see that, God tells
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David specifically why he's about to do something.
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And there are other times, like, what we just see here, where he
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doesn't And we just got to trust that when God keeps us in the
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dark, it is more profitable for us than if he had given us every
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answer. And David shows that as you
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departed and went toward Judah and it's you, and I who have the
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opportunity to read, verse 6, & Co look at the wisdom of God.
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David didn't understand and God didn't find the need to explain.
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And you and I have the word of God that must be applied in so
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many situations that might be unique.
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But at the same time, though they may not make sense in a
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moment. God is calling us to trust his
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wisdom and not our own ideas. And when Providence leads us in
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a certain way, that might cause turbulence to our comfort or to
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our plans and our desires, what will we do?
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We must trust trust and Obey for.
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There's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey,
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David does this? because David had a revelation
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I'm sure that you and I must have on a basic level and it's
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this that no matter how God orchestrates, our life, he has
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his glory primarily in mind And the good of his people that
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every season of life, even if you're Afflicted, God is doing
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many things, he is providing for us, he is protecting us and
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surely his polishing us. To reflect the image of his son,
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which is his Ultimate Will for your life, no matter what kind
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of 925 you have. No matter what kind of spouse
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you have, if you're in Christ, you're predestined to Christ
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likeness in this life. And so we read that in verse 6.
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So encouraging, but much more to learn.
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And verse 7, we see something else.
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Saul said to his servants who stood about him here?
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Now people have Benjamin, will the son of Jesse give everyone
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of you fields and Vineyards and he goes on Bible study questions
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examinations do you have your Bibles tonight?
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I hope so. Look at your Bibles and verse 7.
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And would you share what stands out to you with the details of
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Paul a rather Saul's conversation with these men?
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What stands out to you? What are some details?
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That should be highlighted. Causing the son of Jesse.
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That's one that's really good. Yes.
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Again he refers to him as a son of Jesse.
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There's something even before that though.
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Yes, the people of Benjamin are those who are surrounding him,
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there's 11 tribes missing, but why is this interesting where
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was Saul from that same tribe. And so saw as being very
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political here, this is tribalism.
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This is Saul trying to win the support of those who share his
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lineage, because he thinks it will be more likely remember the
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whole nation, adored David. And so he's playing.
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He's playing tricks here by wooing.
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Those from his own race, though, it's the same race.
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His own tribe better word winning those, from those who
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share his same background and he's trying to convince him to
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be on his side. It's a sad, reminder of how many
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people will pledge allegiance to family to culture.
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To nationality to safety to opportunity over that, which is
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right. And that's not just things that
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happen in the world. That happens within Christendom
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that, you have people who will Elevate these things over that,
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which is true, and holy, And saw is that kind of, man.
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But secondly, we see, as our sister said that he is further
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proving his political manipulation by referring to
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David in a certain way. We heard this before, but this
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man calls him, the son of Jesse, he would not dare attribute, any
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kind of success to David or anything of his faithful
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character? What he's trying to do is
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highlight the lowliest part of who he is. in the presence of
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these men that he's trying to woo and convince Proving to us
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that this men's jealousy is still at a feverish pitch, this
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man is consumed. This man can't even mention his
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name because bitterness and envy and unforgiveness can reach such
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a height in the soul. That even the mere mention of
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someone's name, whether they've offended us or they are the
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object of our Envy can surge when that us all these evil
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emotions. The guys, so sensitive, he's so
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Infected with this sin that he can't even say David.
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So, he calls him, the son of Jesse, and it's a reminder of
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how jealousy can manifest itself jealousy, when it reaches a
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certain point can be so ferocious, and so ugly that it
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attempts to belittle and humiliate the person that we
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might have these things towards so that we can, at least plant
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the seed of Suspicion and their hearts.
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And that's what he's trying to do.
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Now let's examine his speech, Let's examine examine what he's
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trying to say to these people. He realizes that 400 of his men
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just left, right? And he doesn't want that to
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continue to happen. He's now feeling what he is
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feared that people will join David and David will become
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king. Nevermind, God said that it
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would happen. He will even fight against God.
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And so what he's trying to do here is discredit David To these
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men. And the summary of the verses
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that we read is simply this, who is the son of Jesse?
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What can he actually offer you? For you to even consider joining
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him. What, what does he have?
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What, look at him hiding in a cave.
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Is this someone that you really want to to join and to link arms
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with it's pathetic. It's so sad, it's so low.
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But this is a carnal man that uses carnal means to persuade
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people. And so he's doing it here and
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you heard it last week that the enemy of souls uses, very
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similar Persuasions when there are people who are standing Are
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standing at the gap between the decision of joining, the kingdom
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of God, or choosing to stay with the kingdom of darkness.
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And people here all the time. Who is Jesus Christ?
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What does this Jesus actually have to offer you in this life?
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What is a life surrender to this Messiah actually benefit for you
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in this life? Are you sure that you want to
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put your promotion in life at risk?
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Because you'll be recognized as a bible-believing, Christian in
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this kind of society, are you sure you really, would?
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You really want to make that public?
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What kind of possessions can you really claim as your own?
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What kind of things can you grow in?
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If you are going to now pledge yourself to a sacrificial life
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for Jesus Christ, you really want to do that.
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And here's the point, I read this and I thought to myself, if
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there's anyone who should question the incentives of
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anybody else, it's the child of God when he is tempted with
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worldliness. Can I show you one of my
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personal favorite verses concerning sin?
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Yes, Jesus Christ died for sin. That's wonderful.
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That is the nothing can triumph over that, but I want to show
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you a practical verse a practical verse that will
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transform the way you face Temptation.
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If you just apply it by faith, it's found in the book of
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Romans, it's in chapter 6, and it's in verse 21.
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Look how Paul calls the Christians to put sin into
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question to put their old life into question.
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But, what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of
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which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is
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death. I love that.
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I love that. Is it a Roman Christians?
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Just pause for a moment and think about your former life and
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asked, what benefit, what fruit was I really getting from me
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pursuing, the desires of My Flesh to me submitting to every
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impulse of my body and my thoughts are my fantasies.
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What actually came out of that? And if you really think long and
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hard, if you actually discipline yourself because what Temptation
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does is it presents to you? The Sensation that satisfies and
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the Bible is very honest. The Bible doesn't lie to us and
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say sin doesn't feel good. Or else, where's the power and
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Temptation? Scripture tells us in Hebrews
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that sin has pleasure, but it's fleeting pleasure, so examine
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your life. Now, this will be extremely
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difficult if you've never been truly converted, If you've never
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tasted the goodness of Jesus Christ, if you've never, if
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you've never known what it's like to experientially, be
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satisfied in your salvation. You know why?
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Because you have nothing to compare it to, you have nothing
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to compare your sin, which which is the Ecstasy of those who are
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outside of Christ, you have nothing to say.
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This is the contrast But if you're in Christ, this verse
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gives you license to say, where was I before this?
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What I'm houses even a persuasion, how is this, even a
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suggestion? Okay, so you live out in your
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flesh, do you remember the shame?
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The remember the guilt. Do you remember the regret?
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The remember, the hollowness. Do you remember laying at night
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wondering, why you even exist? What's your purpose in life?
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You remember that kind of Torment.
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Think Beyond The Mirage of the Oasis of sin and realized that
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you were actually eating sand before you came to the living
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water in Christ. And so if there's anybody that's
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going to question anything, if there's anybody that's going to
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say, what is, what is what have to offer?
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It's the believer, when Satan and the flesh.
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Say Hey you really want to move forward, you have nothing to
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offer me. I've been there done that.
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Got the t-shirt and in Christ clothed me with his
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righteousness, I'm done. I'm done.
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And I believe the reason why you have people within the church
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that are so defeated by sin at least in part is because they
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have not tasted that. The Lord is good, they've not
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seen that the Lord is good. They got some emotional thing
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that happened at one point in their lives.
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What you're going to hear this Sunday by the way?
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And they weren't really born again.
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And so they just they live in this defeated Christian Life and
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and partly many of the cases because they haven't come from
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Death to life to even begin with.
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But for the converted, for those who have truly been born again,
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they can say compared to this. I'm not going back to that so we
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come back to the first Samuel 22 now.
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Look at verse 8. This is amazing. like, if you
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are frustrated with Saul up to now, get ready for another level
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of frustration, Look what he says that all of you have
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conspired against me. No one discloses it to me.
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When my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse.
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None of you sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has
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stirred up. My servant against me to lie in,
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wait, as is this day? So this is what Sol is doing.
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He moves to win his affections from the place of false promises
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because as he's criticizing David, he's implying I have
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these things to offer you He goes from false promises to
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self-pity. I'm sure we are all convinced
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about saw that. He is a person who is completely
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consumed with selfish ambition. Like Everett ever since near his
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introduction, this man has proven to be totally motivated
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by self. And it's in this verse that some
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of the properties of a selfish attitude show themselves if you
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want to see how a selfish or self-centered person.
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Can climax in their attitude towards others.
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Here are some ingredients first. They manipulate the emotions of
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others to get what they want. And so another way of putting it
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is that they Heap guilt on those who are not in wrong in order to
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steer them to satisfy. Usually sinful means in simple
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goals and that's what he's doing here.
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He's not righteously rebuking these men.
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He has now taken his imagination and placed it on them and he's
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saying you guys are all conspiring against me.
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You guys are all playing against me.
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That's what's really going on here.
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These are baseless claims, they makes no sense whatsoever.
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He's saying that you've concealed, what Jesse and the
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son of Jesse and my son are doing.
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You've concealed the plan that they're trying to kill me.
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The guy's lying. The guy's lying and that it
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should be no surprise he's lied before but it can also mean that
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his jealousy became so obsessive that.
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He's now hallucinating. He's now reading into things
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that don't exist. He's now coming up with ideas
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that are not real. And that's what selfish is can
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do in a person, they begin to now.
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Try to put strings on people and make them puppets in order to
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satisfy their selfish goals and sometimes that selfish girl can
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simply be for praise for recognition for affection, but a
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second trait of a person who is dominated by selfishness not
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selflessness. Selfishness is that they have
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this wonderful ability? They have the art Of coming off
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as the victim and everything. Even when the mess that they're
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in was caused by them, none of you is sorry for me, are you
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serious? Have you lost it?
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After all the trouble that you've caused in the Kingdom up
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to this point. After all, the trouble, you've
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caused in the family, after all the trouble, you caused for your
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son, for your most faithful servant you were still able to
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make this about you. And this individual here is
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exemplifying to us that a selfish person can barely admit
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that they are ever wrong. No way.
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Because in their mind, this is what they think.
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If I admit that, I'm wrong. Then I forfeit my right to
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demand. If I, if I confess that I've
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done something that might have been off, then I discredit
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myself from having the authority.
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To make baseless and shameful request.
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This is pride and in their pride, like saw as long as they
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are in the right or believe that they're in the right or convince
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others that they are in the right.
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They maintain the prerogative to make claims on others or to
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behave in a certain way. That's why I'm very careful
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though. People have gone through
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traumatic past. I'm very careful.
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And you should be as well because there are people who can
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use their past trauma as an excuse to be a certain way.
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If you're a Christian filled with the Holy Spirit, if you're
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a Christian has been born again. Yeah, you might have had some
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past experience but Christ in you dominates the flesh.
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And so there are people that know how to say it, right?
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And two. Point at everything and
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everybody else. That's what modern you've heard
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me say before. And I'm telling you for a reason
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over and over again. Modern counseling especially out
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there in the world that doesn't use the scriptures to counsel
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the issue with modern counseling and modern psychology is that
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they will blame everything. But the person who is receiving
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help, it's everybody else's fault except the person who's
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wounded and whatever patterns are habits that have been
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adopted, that might be self-destructive or destructive
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as it has to be the way you grew up.
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It has to be your parents. It has to be this and can it
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contribute sure. But if we're Christians Christ
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has the power to overcome all wounds and to lead you into,
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he'll you. It might not be instantaneous
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though, it could be but we cannot stop at.
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Well, that's just the way they are because that's what they
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experienced in the past. Where is the gospel?
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Where's the power? The healing power of Jesus
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Christ. What I'm afraid of is that if we
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introduce too much counseling within the church, we can strip
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the supernatural from the gospel.
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And we make everything about this and that and nurture versus
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nature. No, no, do not forget that.
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We have a supernatural God. Who can Doom wonderful things in
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people's lives. Is he practical?
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Yes. Is their wisdom?
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Sure. Is there things that we have to
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give instruction for it? Yes.
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Do we have to talk through things up from the past?
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Absolutely but the solution comes down to the spirit.
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You might disagree with me. But just go to the book and see
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for yourself. So this is what this man is
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doing. He's, it's so childish and after
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his childish Spiel, The Silence of the crowd is all for sudden
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broken because somebody speaks up.
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And that man is found in verse 9.
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Look in your Bibles, with me then.
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Answer doeg the Edomite who stood by the Servants of Saul.
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I saw the son of Jesse coming to Knob to Hema, like the son of a
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table and he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him
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provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath.
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The Philistine. Oh, This is the first time that
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we've seen doeg in our Bibles know, we have.
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We seen it before. 21:7. Now look what it says in chapter
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21 verse 7. This is when David went to the
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Tabernacle. He went to the priest and he
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says here, now, a certain man of the Servants of Saul was there
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that day detained before the Lord, his name was doe, eyed the
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eat of my, the chief of Saul's herdsman.
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Now I'm going to ask you, what are some things that should be
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noted from this verse? What are some details?
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About doeg. Detained before the Lord.
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Now we don't know why he was detained before the Lord.
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There are some different speculations.
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It's not told. And really the reason given is
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not important. If there was a reason, it would
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be there but it could be that he was, he was ceremonially unclean
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and he was going through a purification process.
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Some say that he was being converted to the Jewish faith.
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So he was going through a process and not as well.
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We don't know, but he was detained.
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All we do know is He was in proximity of God's house being
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ministered to by God's priests, which is more important than the
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reason. Good observation any other
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observation. Edomite.
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Not an Israelite Edomite. Who are the edomites?
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Esau, brother of who Jacob, Jacob assu Israel, very good.
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So Esau who is also known as Edom.
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The edomites are descendants of Esau question where they
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friendly towards the Israelites. Were they were they favorable
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towards them with a gracious towards them or is their
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hostility and animosity? Yes, absolutely.
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So generally speaking, anybody from Edom had a certain kind of
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feeling and mindset toward the chosen people of God.
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So the fact that we're told that dog was an Edomite.
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Should raise a flag, it should raise a flag.
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What else concerning do? Egg?
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Very good. He was the chief of Saul's
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herdsman. That is not a lowly position,
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that's a manager position. That's a position of authority.
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That is something that's all. Allowed him to operate in.
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Which shows us not just a concern.
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Concerning do egg. But a concern towards Saul's
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deficient character. What do I mean by that?
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How is Saul able to have within his inner circle?
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Someone who comes from a people who do not honor, God and do not
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honor the people of God. How's that possible?
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And if you're not convinced that dog has that disposition, you're
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going to see it very, very soon. You want to know the simple
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answer? Because Saul himself was someone
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who did not honor, God and did not honor Those whom God has
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chosen. And so saw easily could have
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fellowship with somebody who is from Edom, because Saul share
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the same values. The same attitudes, And the
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absence of the things that would make somebody righteous are in
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Saul and therefore he can easily commune with somebody like doeg,
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you know what I find? So disturbing.
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Isn't it strange that Saul was able to attack David?
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Who is a true worshiper of God? But at the same time he was able
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to maintain a relationship with do a who is an enemy of God.
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Really. I have to tell you this and I've
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said it and many different instances before but I'll say it
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again who you fellowship with him with who you have
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relationships with reveals where you stand with God to a certain
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degree they're just no ifs and ands about.
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If you fellowship with a certain type of people that reveals
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something about you, the psalmist said in the first song
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that he does not walk in the counsel of the wicked.
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And he does not stand among the scoffers.
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Does not sit with sinners. I don't walk with them, I don't
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stand with them, I don't sit with them.
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That's the first thing you read from the book of Psalms.
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So the whole book which is about worship, it starts out with.
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I want to tell you who I don't fellowship with and that's
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fascinating. And notice as we come back here
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that do I Echoes Saul in the way that he refers to David.
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What does he say? In verse 9, I saw who the son of
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Jesse Hey, David rather saw how you feel about David.
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I feel about David. I saw the son of Jesse and what
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he tells them is, I was there that day where I saw him come to
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the Tabernacle and the priest helped him the priest.
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Help David. Now here's a question and you
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can answer it. If you have, if you feel like
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you have the answer, why is, do I doing this?
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Why, why is he stepping up? And why is he calling saw to the
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attention of the Betrayal of David and the priest?
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I am a lake. Any idea.
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To make it worse. But and that's true.
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But why, why is he trying to make it worse?
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What does that have to do with him?
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Okay, so promotion in mind, that's one reason.
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So just finished saying, can he give you Vineyards?
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And can he make you commanders and dogs going?
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so, Let me tell you where David and what David did actually, let
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me tell you who is conspiring with David.
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Because clearly he is persuaded by some kind of indirect promise
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from Saul. And this is, this is doeg
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proving that this man cared so much about his comfort and his
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safety and his Prosperity that he was willing to throw anybody
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under the bus. In order to arrive there, he was
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willing to step on anything even the truth itself in order for
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him to advance in this life and it's a sad sight, indeed.
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That's one reason any Reason. Very good point.
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Could it? Be that what he had learned all
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his life as an Edomite? Of how that inheritance was
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taken from Jacob, from Esau, from Jake by Jacob and all these
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things, all these deep-rooted thoughts and hatred are.
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Now, here's my chance to bring division within Israel.
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Absolutely. That could be one reason as
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well, which is scary. But it's possible any other
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reasons. Why is do I doing this?
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Why is he stepping up? And why is he pointing Saul's
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attention towards a? He melek?
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And Alive a conspiracy. Well, let me let me help you
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remember what it's all doing at this point.
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He's sitting and what does he have in his hand?
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Okay. so at any moment, I'm sure do.
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I felt it in his bones and sold the other men at any moment
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that's pure can go flying at any moment.
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As he's just finished accusing these men of conspiring against
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him. Things can become very, very
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dangerous. So this is not just about
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promotions about preservation. This is what a man saying I want
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to avoid my life being lost and I want to now turn any
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conspiracy away from us to the Ministers of God.
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And so he's diverting Saul's anger and his blind jealousy and
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his Insanity in a completely different direction.
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Hey Saul look over there and not only is he going to preserve
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himself, but he's also potentially going to be promoted
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out of this. All in all it's really a sad
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side of a person who is motivated by self and how
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they're willing to do harm to others, even those who Minister
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and serve God as the priest did. And this is sad.
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This is sad. Concerning the character of
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Dwight, but you know what's amazing?
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David wasn't surprised when he heard about it.
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David was not surprised one bit when he heard about it.
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How do you know go down to verse 22 at the author.
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One of the priests escapes. And told tells David and David
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said, the Abbe, Arthur I knew on that day.
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When doeg the Edomite was there? That he would surely tell Saul?
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I have occasion to death of all the persons of your father's
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house. What a statement So when David
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came in chapter 21 to the priest and in his peripheral, he sees,
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dog, they're detained. I don't know how he looked his
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somewhere. They're detained.
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He goes on. This guy's going to cause
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trouble. He knew it.
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Here's our question. How did he know it?
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Anybody have an idea of how he knew it.
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Uh-huh. Very good point David.
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Before he was a fugitive was top-ranked in the palace.
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Even in the early stages, he was the worshipper that was
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counseling Saul. He was the armour-bearer of
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Saul. So he was not only familiar with
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the courts, he was familiar with the employees with the people
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and so surely he came into contact with.
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Do I got some point but David was Discerning enough to know
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something about doeg, then that would lead to this before.
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There is any personal attack against David, David studied
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dog. Enough to know, I'm not
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surprised. I'm not surprised.
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Isn't it sad? That someone's evil can be
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predicted because of a present lack of the fear of God.
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Isn't it a sad thing that somebody can be.
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So, so void of spirituality? That in their language and their
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in the way they do things that they're predictable.
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In the evil that they can do. That was doeg.
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He was a Godless man, an Unholy man and David when he heard
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about it, long enough, after even a period of time, studying
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him long enough rather said, I'm not surprised that dog did this.
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So notice what do I tell? Saul and verse 10?
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He inquired of the Lord foreman gave him provisions and gave him
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the sword of Goliath. The Philistine.
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What's problematic about this report in verse 10.
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What's problematic here? What's that?
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Glides, sure, but even before that, there's three charges
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here. What's concerning about these
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charges? It has to do with one of them.
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Yes, very good. He tells Saul that the priest
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sought God on his behalf. We learned that that was in the
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case. We saw in chapter 21 that when
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David comes to the priest, he does everything.
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But inquire of God, In fact, when he had the chance to he
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instead put his trust in Goliath's sword and runs off and
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we saw the fruit of a man who did not stop and ask God for
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guidance and Direction. So doeg lies.
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Doh, egg is not observing something that actually occurred
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and if there's any doubt within us that do, I might be telling
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the truth and he's adding more light to the story.
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All you have to do is go to a portion of scripture where David
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dedicates an entire Psalm to do egg.
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Did you know that there's an entire Psalm dedicated to do
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egg? Would you like to know where it
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is? Go to Psalm 52 And it's in this
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scripture that you will see that.
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Do I in fact was lying. Was lying.
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Psalm 50 to look at verse 12, the choirmaster mass scale of
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David. When doeg the Edomite came and
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told saw David as come to the house of I'm Alec.
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So this Psalm, can you imagine a worship song?
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Written in light of somebody's betrayal and their deception.
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And look at the first four, verses why do you boast of evil
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Almighty, man? The steadfast love of God
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indoors all the day. Your tongue plots destruction.
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Like a sharp razor you worker of Deceit.
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You love evil more than good and lying more than speaking what is
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right? Say la.
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You love all words that devour old deceitful tongue?
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So, there's no truth. And what he's saying to solve,
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but is there. Is there truth in what he said
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to Saul? Yeah, two-thirds of the charges
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were legitimate. But you see the song doesn't say
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that dog was a liar. Remember what I said earlier?
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Do you want to protect yourself from much harm in this life?
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I would I would highly recommend paying attention right now.
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It doesn't say that dog was a liar.
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What did he say? He was a what a deceiver?
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That's different. The severs are much more crafty.
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They're much more much more tricky.
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And dog was a master of deception.
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And what was the deception? That one third of his charge was
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a lie whereas two-thirds of it was actually right.
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I want you to realize how deception works because we live
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this life with someone who is a Great Deceiver. and if you can
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find someone or some people to deceive, that is one of his main
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tools to Bringing pain in your life and praying in the body of
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Christ, I want you and I to grow in our discernment.
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And here's how you and I can grow in our discernment and to
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be shielded to protect your heart and to protect you from
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doing damage to other people's lives of understanding how
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deceivers operate here. It is do I didn't completely
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lie. But his lie was blended with
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truth because when a targeted audience is presented with
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something that can be agreed upon as valid that disarms them.
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that disarms them and a once they have let their guard down
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then Ally can slip in and also be digested.
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Do I hear reflects the character of Satan?
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Because Satan doesn't just go around in this world lying to
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people about the word of God. Satan goes around lying to
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people with the word of God. There's a difference.
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There are some that he's convincing to not even entertain
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believing that this is truth and there are others who believe
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that this is to be true. And so he will use the truth.
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With a pill of the LIE. And he'll let you swallow,
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whatever is true while also indulging in poison.
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And those who do the devil's work, those who are deceivers,
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they will come to present a lie, but they know, they know that
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will be more effective. Is that if they can believe, if
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they can win your trust, if they can win your agreement upon
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something, so that when you come and receive the LIE, there will
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be less suspicion about it. We need the holy spirit of God.
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I am astounded by the lack of the sermon with people.
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It's, it's dumbfounding actually.
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When you have the scriptures, you have prayer, you have Godly
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men and women in your life and you have the Holy Spirit living
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inside of you. We should be a people who are
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shielded from deception the most. an unfortunate that is not
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the case because Many a fall in the Trap that do a presents
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year. Some truth enough to convince
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you of a lie that is slipped in there and that lie is powerful
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enough to bring so much destruction as we're going to
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see in a moment. So look at here in verse 12,
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rather verse 11, then the king sent to summon.
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He met like the priest, the son of a, hey, tub and all his
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father's house, the priests who were at knob and all of them
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came to the king. And saw said here, now, son of a
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hijab and he answered Here, I Am My Lord like your heart breaks.
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This guy has no idea what he's walking into.
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He is pure and heart. Remember, David did not disclose
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why, he was really running away. So he just thinks he's being
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called in for some, maybe he's going to be summoned to
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something here, I am my Lord. And Saul said to him, why have
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you conspired against me? You and the son of Jesse and
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that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of
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God for him, so that he has risen against me to lie in wait
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as that this day. So you had hope that when saw
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called the priest to come, that he was going to exercise in some
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kind of wisdom and do some examination and some
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investigation before laying any kind of charge, but he just goes
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right for the jugular, why have you not is this true but why
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have you and really we don't have time to get into the priest
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answer to this, but all you need to know is that no matter how he
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answered, which is quite fascinating, because he defends
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David, And then he defends himself, but none of that
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mattered because Saul was out for blood and that thirst was
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going to be quenched, no matter what.
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And so, he makes the charge after the priest declares his
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innocence. In verse 16 and the King said,
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You shall surely die. Hey Malik, you and all your
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father's house. And the King said to the guard
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who stood about him turn and killed the priests of the Lord,
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because their hand also is with David and they knew that he fled
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and did not disclose it to me. This is like obsessive language.
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Like, he keeps repeating himself.
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Kill him. Imagine here's the high priest
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with 84 others and he looks at his servants, the service that
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have been quiet this whole time and he goes kill them now, get
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rid of them. What's going to happen?
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And it says here, but the Servants of the king would not
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put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord.
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I love that. Like how embarrassing for this
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King? Here's a man who's supposed to
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have authority and win the respect of those who claim to
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serve him and he can't even get him to do this one thing.
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But it's because the servants have something that he doesn't
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have. And that's the fear of God.
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These servants, though, they are servants, though.
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In society, they are lesser than the king.
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They are higher because they have something that the king
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lacks and that's wisdom. Would you rather be a king?
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Who lacks sense? Or would you rather be a servant
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who possesses knowledge? There's an amazing verse that
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touched my life that inspired my life.
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Among many verses I want to read it to you.
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In fact, I would highlight it in my Bible.
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If you do that with your Bible, it's in the book of Ecclesiastes
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that wonderful book of wisdom and it's in 4:13.
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It's an observation that Solomon makes and he says, this better
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is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish King.
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Who will no more be admonished another transition, say who will
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no longer take advice? You want to know if somebody
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lacks wisdom? You want to know if you lack
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wisdom? Here's one evidence of it.
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You don't ask people for advice. That's what the Bible says.
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A person who refuses to be admonished to be corrected to
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receive some kind of consultation that person.
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According to this verse lacks wisdom or is moved away from the
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way of wisdom. You know what I see in this
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verse that it's possible to be a child and to possess wisdom
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wisdom is not limited to. The Aged wisdom is not only
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acquired by experience. You can be a young person and be
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wiser than a seasoned person. And it says, in fact, you're
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better to be poor, you're better to be young, you're better to be
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a servant. With wisdom than a king who
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doesn't know how to take advice. So I look at these men and I
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admire them even though they don't have a throne to their
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name, there's something better and you and I will do really
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really, really well in life for the glory of God, if we put more
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energy in seeking wisdom that in seeking status wealth or power.
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because the Bible tells you, so, and when it comes to situations
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like this, that's when we see the benefit of wisdom, they
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would not dare to do it. They were willing to die
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themselves. I'm sure.
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So what is saw do? Well, there is one who is
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already proven that he is like him.
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So, in verse 18, the king said to do, I turn you turn and
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strike the priest and doeg the Edomite turn and struck down the
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priest, and he killed on that day. 85 persons who wore the
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linen, ephod, 85 priest, man, And you know what, some 52 tells
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us. It doesn't tell us that the
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sharpness of his sword brought about destruction.
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It says the sharp razor of his tongue.
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Do you know people can use their tongue in the same way?
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Someone would use a sword? Oh, you only think that swords
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can kill 85 people. Now, I can tell you about people
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who use their tongues to create massacres.
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You don't need a bomb. James says that this tongue can
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cause wildfires. You don't need a gun.
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All you have to do is whisper one thing to the wrong person
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who has the right Authority and things can get ugly really
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quick. No man can tame the tongue.
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The Bible says, except the God man.
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And so the only way that this thing, this unruly thing, this
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thing that can lead to chaos into Havoc, is of the Holy
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Spirit, guards, your mouth and mind.
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But it doesn't just do that. This, when I read this, I read
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this tonight in verse 19. I was like, I was going to fall
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out of my seat. Look at verse 19.
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And knob the city of the priest, he put to the sword, both, man
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and woman, child and infant Ox donkey and sheep.
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He put to the sword. So it wasn't enough that he
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killed the priest. And remember, if there's anybody
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who was at fault here, who's not really at fault, but if there's
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anybody who's being accused, it was just the high priest.
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It was a hey Malik, why kill the other priests?
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They weren't involved. And not only that.
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Do I get to the green light to go to Knob the city of the
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priests, at the slaughter, the children, and the ox, and the
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farms, and the houses, and to create a mini genocide.
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For those who represent the kingdom of God at that time in
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that Covenant. That's disturbing and itself,
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but read deeper, can you tell me why?
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This is even more disturbing than on the surface level?
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Anybody see it the only way you're going to see this, if you
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remember, A Bible study a few chapters ago.
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I'm going to read it again. Yeah, go ahead.
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Do you have the answer? Yes, did you guys hear the
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answer when it came to God. Instructing Saul to destroy all
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the amalekites. He disobeyed.
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To go into that region and to destroy all the amalekites and
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their ox and their sheep. Because of their generational
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sin, Saul did not come through. But when it came to killing all
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the priests, he exterminated them That's disturbing.
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That's actually frightening. so when God says, to do something,
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You hesitate. But when your flesh says to do
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something, You do it without hesitation.
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And the point is this, that if he hasn't proven to already saw
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has shown us here that satisfying self is worthy of
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more diligence than pleasing God.
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The greater sacrifices were made for selfish Pursuits than for
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God's purposes and many are like that today.
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They don't make, they might not be killing cities, but they're
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pursuing their ambition, they're building their Kingdom, and
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they're putting their sweat, and they're putting their tears.
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And when you compare that to how they are participating with
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God's program for the ages. Yeah.
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This is so heartbreaking to see. I wonder how God felt about this
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as you looked from heaven. And saw a king who is willing to
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destroy his servants without cause.
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But when it came to the unrighteous who were supposed to
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be punished and him being the agent, he did not obey.
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Surely, the judge of the earth will do.
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Right? I'm surprised.
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God didn't strike him down here. I mean Lord, we just started
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with this Exile and he's already killing priests and their
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families and you haven't intervened yet, behold the mercy
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of God. Behold the mercy of God.
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Whenever I come to text like this and I learned something new
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about the mercy of God, I get more and more offended when
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people come up to me and say, why is the god of the Old
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Testament? So angry?
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And Jesus is so nice. That when somebody says I say
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this, with all due respect, when somebody says that proves that
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they have not read their Bibles, it's as simple as that.
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And that's maybe you're not there yet, maybe you haven't
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Journey Through It. But what offends me something
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when somebody comes arrogantly, like, as though they have
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studied the Old Testament can make such an accusation.
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I'm thinking here Lord. Why have the heavens not opened?
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It's because he's merciful. And we read here in verse 20,
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the one of the sons of Adam Alec this son of a he tub named.
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Abby, Arthur escaped and fled after David.
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And I be author told David that solid killed the priests of the
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Lord. And David said, the Abbe, Arthur
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I knew on that day. When do I get the Edomite?
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Was there that he would surely tell Saul?
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I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's
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house. Stay with me.
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Do not be afraid for he. Who seeks my life.
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Seeks your life with me. You shall be in safe.
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Keeping what an interesting statement that that David makes.
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He says this is my fault. This is my fault.
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Now you can read that one and two ways you can read it in this
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way, where this is self-imposed guilt of something that is
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outside of David's control because David showed up that day
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and asked for help. He makes the connection if I had
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not gone that gone that day and have not said anything without
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ask for help, then this probably wouldn't have happened.
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And you have many believers who live in guilt even today.
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Who hold things against themselves though?
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It doesn't make sense. And there are more people prone
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to that than others that that have this introspection about
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themselves in which they they easily gravitate towards shame
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and regret though. There's no evidence for it.
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And that's a tactic of the enemy.
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He can really, really cause people to be paralyzed because
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of thoughts like this. But is there another possibility
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of why David said this? Any idea.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And so this can be pure humility.
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This can be pure humility and saying, you know.
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Yeah, there's something about my participation in this and he
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admits, he admits some wrong done.
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This is, this is what's really hard about narratives in the old
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test and because it's not like there's a commentary with every
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verse. You see what I'm saying?
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It's not like and what David said here was because of this
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and it was wrong, he shouldn't have thought like that.
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It does not as clear in the office.
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Would be very careful being dogmatic when it comes to
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narratives and that's why some people are scared to teach from
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the Old Testament all together because it's hard to distinct.
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Why is he saying this? Unless you have another verse or
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verses to back it up I'll give you one more conclusion before
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we closed. some would say that the reason why David is as
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confessing this Is because he lied.
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To the priest. Do you remember that?
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Remember, when he came before I came out.
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Like, and I am Alex, is what are you doing here alone?
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Yeah, the Kings is called me to do something, but I got it's a
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hasty thing. So can you help me out here and
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he lies again? And I wonder if David's
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conscience is pricked thinking to himself.
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If I had just told the truth maybe I could have helped the
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priest be on guard to be careful of Sol's rage and his blind
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anger and rage if that is true. The new and I've been presented
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another illustration among so many illustrations of how our
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personal sins that we think we can conceal.
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We can conceal them can reach people in ways and affect
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people's lives that we could never have imagined. if I just
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told the truth, right? If that is the case here, then
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what would have hurt more for David to say the truth or for
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him to lied? And the moment he probably
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thought Mi I worked, he probably thought Mi I was harmless.
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Mi, I helped me a just evade a situation that that could have
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caused me to be in trouble. And when he looks back, he
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realizes, if that is the interpretation.
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My like killed this guy. I had a duty to warn him.
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And you know, this that in the New Testament, there is place
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for us to warn people about other people when they are of
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great danger and threats. I hope today that on this Friday
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night, you've acquired greater wisdom from the word of God.
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Wisdom for you, not just to have a better life, a life free from
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pain, but a life that would glorify Jesus Christ by avoiding
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pitfalls that the undiscerning fall into or avoiding decisions
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that we think. In our own wisdom can work.
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When in fact the word of God says do not trust in the arm of
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the flesh. You and I have come to an
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important part of the Bible. Because things are really going
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to take another turn in chapter 23.
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Let's pray. Louis, thank you.
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That today, we had school. Today, we felt as though we were
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students sitting at the feet. Of you being an ultimate
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teacher. And this word being the book of
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books. This word being the blueprint
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for salvation and for a life. That can help us live in a way
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in which we most glorify Our God and no much more joy and safety
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and prosperity. But we just ask that you would
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help us be wise. Lord.
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If there's any application that we've heard is that there are
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different scenarios that beg us as the Book of Proverbs, does to
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acquire wisdom. Lord, make us a wise people Help
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us trust in your word. And Lord, perhaps even tonight
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there are many who are hearing The Whispers of the enemy that
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is trying to convince him, that there's something better out
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there maybe even Lord tonight, there is even one soul that
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cannot seem to give their whole heart to Christ.
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Because they've heard the same Persuasions, that's all brought
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to his men, who is the son of Jesse.
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What's the big deal of Jesus? Will you really give up your One
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Life to serve a God that you cannot see?
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But oh God we pray that you would blast through every lie
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and that you would clear the fog and that even this Bible study
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tonight would present a facet of your beauty.
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And at the heart that is not given themselves to Christ with
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surrender at this moment. Lord, may your Holy Spirit do
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what only he can do. Invicta world of
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unrighteousness. Lord tonight, we feel rich.
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We feel privileged that our eyes have been opened.
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But we thank you that this Friday night.
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We have gone that much deeper in the knowledge of who you are.
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And for this we are grateful and so Heavenly.
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Father, we Rejoice, Lord. We rejoice and we asked, oh,
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God, that as we have, studied the ugliness of being selfish of
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being self-centered, oh, Lord, we die to ourselves.
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And we ask that Christ would live in us and that we would
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live for his interests and the good of other.
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Word kill South tonight in a deeper way.
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Lord, we worship you because we have access to the truth and we
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can fellowship with you in a deeper way because of these
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truths. Blessed.
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Be the name of the Lord, in Jesus name, we pray.
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Amen. Let's stand and Worship the Lord
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Of Glory together.