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#20250910 - David: A Man After God’s Heart - The Fugitive Years - 1 Samuel 18-26 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's Word recorded live at Calvary
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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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Amen. All right, thank you for
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praying. I'm Pastor Bob Klaykamp.
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I'm one of the assistant. Pastors here at Calvary Church,
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we'd like to greet you. That are tuning in on Grace FM
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and those of. You that are.
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Watching online and of course those.
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Of you that are here. Thanks for taking the time.
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How many of you came here directly from work?
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OK, Thank you. Because you could go home and
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just have a nice dinner. OK.
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But this is your dinner, all right?
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OK. I'd like you to.
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Turn in your Bibles to First Samuel chapter 18.
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That's in the Old Testament. If you're unfamiliar with your
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Bible, in the beginning of the Bible there's an index and you
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can look up where First Samuel is and then it turns.
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To that page there so you just. Turn to First Samuel chapter 18,
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and that's where we're going to be tonight in a message that
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I've entitled David, a man after God.
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'S heart, the fugitive years. Now before.
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We have looked at David. In his formative.
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Years. Those are the years.
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From when he was born in the family of Jesse as the youngest
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son of eight or seven seven brothers and he was the 8th and
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he was kind of the runt of the family and and got the shade
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from all of his brothers like happens and all the way to when
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he was anointed by the prophet Samuel and that study is on the.
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Church App Calvary Church. App And then we did a second
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study and that was called David, a man after God's heart, the
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fighting years. And this is friend when he was
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anointed. By the Holy Spirit with that oil
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that. Samuel put on him all the.
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Way to the victory over Goliath and.
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Everything changed in his life. God put his spirit.
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Upon David and it just changed his life just in the same.
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Way as we as believers. When we put our faith in the
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Lord. Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit.
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Comes into our hearts, comes into the center.
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Of who we are. And we are a new creation.
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It's called being born again, and then there's something
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called the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Which is for service which is. Boldness and power and
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effectiveness in our service to the Lord.
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And to his. Body and that baptism with the
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Holy Spirit changes. US.
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And and give us a puts us on a new course, you might say.
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Just like it. Happened with David over here
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and you know there are times when things are going.
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So well. And then all of a sudden it's.
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Like the bottom drops out. And you're going, wait a minute,
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Everything was going so well. What?
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I didn't do anything wrong? And how come these?
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People are so upset. With me, I didn't do anything
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wrong and you see David now entering into.
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A third phase of his life called the fugitive years.
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It wasn't like God says. OK, here's what's.
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Going to happen first, here's what's going to happen second,
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here's what's going to happen third, no.
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It's like David just lived life. And everything was going
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swimmingly well until the King. Got jealous?
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And David couldn't control that. He had nothing to do with that.
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But. It was happening ever since.
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As we'll see ever. Since when they came home?
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For the victory over Goliath. The young ladies sang a top ten
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song. Saul has slain his thousands
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and. David his 10.
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Thousands. Now here's.
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Saul having fought. For so many years, protecting
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Israel. Man's man, the hero of it all.
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And here's this little guy. David getting all the credit.
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Of. Course he did.
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It's like. Goliath and Saul didn't.
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Jonathan didn't even risk himself.
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David's brothers didn't risk themselves.
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Nobody risk. Themselves for 40 days it says
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this. Stalemate went on 40 days over a
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month. Nobody.
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Dared risk their life. So here's young David as a teen.
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And by the way. Do you realize?
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That in our armed forces. There are still a lot.
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Of teenagers right now and God is fashioning them God is using
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them and so don't think that you know how would how would Saul
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give this power and. Authority over to a teenager.
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And an elder teenager, you might say.
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Well. Because God was.
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Behind it and moving the pieces around and David was just
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walking through life and he was doing what was set in front of
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him, doing it faithful as unto the Lord.
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And God was was. Moving things around and of
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course, Saul. Put out that whoever kills
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Goliath gets to be the. King's son-in-law marries my.
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Oldest daughter. And so David tried to reason
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what the soldiers look at. This is great.
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Not only that, but your whole family gets exempt from paying
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taxes in the Kingdom and still nobody would risk their.
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Life. So David just says.
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This guy, I'm on it, you know? Yeah, I can't believe it.
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And so he steps in, and of course you know the.
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Story with a. Slingshot not one of these.
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You know, this is one of the Hebrew slings.
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Slings. OK, they're.
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Harder really hits Goliath right on the forehead.
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He. Loses consciousness, falls on
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his. Face, David.
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Runs up to him. Now my question is where was the
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armor bearer for? Goliath, what happened, I mean.
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What? He just what He just?
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Like went and. Then took off.
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This is crazy. I have a little kid.
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Anyway, I I digress, sorry. These little things in between
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the stories, I'm going wait a minute, what happened to that?
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Guy, where did he go so. David enters the King's.
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Court, because God is. Putting them there on purpose.
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Do you ever think that the job you have right now is on purpose
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from the Lord and you go no, that's not that was Satan I the
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job I have is. No, that's not the Lord.
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I know the difference. Now wait a second.
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Hold on. Don't jump to conclusions.
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Yet if God is really in charge of your life, there's a reason.
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There's a purpose. Don't just write that off.
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Really don't write it off. David found himself in the
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King's court. He's playing his his.
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Little liar, they call. Them.
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They're a harp. He.
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Was pretty good at it, probably had 12.
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Strings and it. Soothed Saul's.
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Mad spirit, as an evil spirit from the Lord, was sent to
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drive. Saul out of his.
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Position which he kept fighting and so the king out of jealousy
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wanted to kill David somehow by using the Philistines.
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To kill David. And Saul's hand would be clean.
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to.
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Read a little of each. Chapter we're not doing.
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I know it says chapter 18 to 26, but don't get scared.
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I'm not going to read every single.
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Verse. But there are certain.
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Points along the way that I want us to pay attention to.
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So in chapter 18 what I want us? To do is to.
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Look at starting in verse 12 and I'm going to read through to
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verse 30. Takes about 3 minutes or so.
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Chapter 18. Verses 12 to 30.
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Now Saul was. Afraid of David because the.
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Lord was with him, but had departed from Saul.
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Therefore Saul removed him from his presence and made him his
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captain over 1000, and he David went out and came in.
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Before the people and David. Behaved wisely in all his ways,
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and the Lord was with him, therefore, when Saul saw.
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That he behaved very wisely. He was afraid.
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Of him but all Israel and Judah. Loved David because he.
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Went out and came in. Before them, which is.
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A way of saying leading the armies out on battle and
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bringing them back. Kind of like a shepherd leading
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out his his sheep and then bringing him.
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Back into the fold. Verse 17.
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Then Saul. Said to David.
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Here is my older daughter Marib. I will give.
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Her to you as a wife only be. Valiant for me and fight the.
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Lord's battles for Saul. Thought, Let my hand not be
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against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
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So David said to Saul. Who am I and what is my life or
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my father's family in Israel that?
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I should be. Son-in-law to the king, but it
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happened at the time when Mirab. Saul's daughter.
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Should have been given to David that she was given to Adriel.
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The Maholathite as a wife. Now Michael, Saul's daughter.
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Loved. David And they told Saul, and
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the thing pleased him. So Saul said, I will give her to
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him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the
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Philistines may be against him. Therefore, Saul.
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Said to David a second time. You shall be my son-in-law
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today. And Saul communicated or
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commanded his servants communicate with David.
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Secretly and say look the. King has the light in you, and
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all his servants love you now. Therefore become the King's
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son-in-law. So David's servant spoke those
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words in the hearing of David and.
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David says, Does it seem to you? To you.
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A light thing to be the King's son-in-law, seeing I am poor and
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lightly esteemed man. And the servants of Saul told
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him. Saying In this manner David
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spoke. Then, Saul said.
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Thus you shall say to David the king.
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Does not desire any dowry, but 100 foreskins of the Philistines
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to take vengeance on the King's enemies.
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But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the
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Philistines. So when his servants.
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Told David these words. It pleased David well to.
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Become the King's son-in-law now the days had not.
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Expired. Therefore, David arose.
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And went he and his men, and killed 200 men of the
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Philistines. And David brought their
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foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he
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might become the King's son-in-law.
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Then Saul gave him Michael. His daughter as wife.
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Then Saul saw and knew that the. Lord was with David.
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And that, Michael? Saul's daughter loved.
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Him and Saul was still more. Afraid of David?
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So Saul became David's enemy continually, then the Princess.
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Of the. Philistines went out to war and
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so it was whenever they went out that.
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David behaved. More wisely than all the
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servants of Saul, so that his name became highly esteemed.
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You know, Saul the king had a problem with projecting blame.
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We talked about. This in an earlier study he he
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didn't want to own up to his own.
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Failures. But he blamed everybody else for
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the problem that happened. Now maybe you are.
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Under a supervisor who does that and it's.
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Frustrating for you and you just want to leave and you just want
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or you just want to tell him or her off.
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But wait a minute. Ask.
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This question is God with me right now in this place of
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employment? Maybe you're maybe you're doing
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an Amazon Amazon job and it's just.
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It's really hard. But God is using the job to work
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on your life, work on your heart.
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There are things that have to be changed on the inside of me.
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I want everything changed on the inside.
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Out here, but God. Wants to do the work in me and
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he's probably using Amazon. I'm sorry.
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It's just it could be. UPS I think.
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It could be FedEx but but God. Is using that place of
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employment as a tool in his hand to.
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Shape your character if you're. Willing to let God do what He
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wants to do. Plus, you know you are getting
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some cash flow from your work, what we're talking about here
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tonight. Is how David dealt.
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With being a fugitive, being dealt with unfairly and justly
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and he became Public Enemy number one and he didn't do
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anything wrong. How do you?
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Deal with life. When everyone seems against you,
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I don't know if you've ever had it.
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When your whole family terms, it turns against you.
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When you have made a decision, I'm going to.
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Follow the Lord. And your family.
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Says if you do that, we're writing.
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You out of the will? Oh, yeah.
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I remember when I was down in Phoenix, I had a guy come to me
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and said my mom. Is is.
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Saying, you know, he, she's going to write me out of the
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will and I'm going bro. This.
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Listen, the Lord's your inheritance.
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It's not about money, and I know you're smarting over the whole
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thing that doesn't. It's just not fair.
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It's not right. What?
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What is God doing? But just let it go, the Lord.
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Is your inheritance, so it's. It's not about money.
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The Lord will take care of it. He promised to give you your
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daily portion, your daily bread. And so just.
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Don't box God in. Don't limit God on what he wants
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to do in the future because it's not according to your plan.
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Well, things didn't go, I mean. David was.
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I mean, God was really working at David's life and he was
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having victory after victory and and everybody was being blessed
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in the nation because the enemies were being pushed back
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and the oppression of the enemies.
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Was really. You know, the Philistines would
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come up to a an area where a man was farming and they would just
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take everything. And so having the Philistines
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pushed. Back is like.
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Victory. The only problem was the guy
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over you wants to kill me and it doesn't make sense.
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And David became Public Enemy #1.
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Take a look at. Chapter 19, verses 1 to 17.
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Just follow along with me and I'll read this now.
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Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants.
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That they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son,
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delighted greatly in David. So, Jonathan told David, saying,
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My father Saul seeks. To kill you.
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Therefore, please be on your guard until morning and stay in
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a secret place and hide and I will go out and stand beside my.
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Father in the field where you are.
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I will speak with my father about you.
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Then what I observe I will tell you.
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Thus, Jonathan spoke well of David.
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To Saul, his father. And said to him, Let not the
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king sin against. His servant against David.
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Because he's not sinned against. You, because his works have been
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very good toward you, for he took his.
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Life in his hands and killed the philistines and the Lord
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brought. About a great deliverance for
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all Israel you. Saw it and.
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Rejoiced. Then why will you?
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Sin against innocent blood and kill David without cause.
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So Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan and.
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Saul swore as the Lord. Lives.
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He shall not be killed. Then Jonathan called David and
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Jonathan told him all these things.
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So, Jonathan? Brought David to Seoul.
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And he was in his presence as in times past.
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Let's pause a moment. I don't know if I'd want to go
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back into the, you know, be around the king.
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If he's got such a a jealousy and wanting to kill me.
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I'm going, you know, I can do something different somewhere
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else. But David was just.
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Doing what's in front of him, thinking the.
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Best first. And having Jonathan, having
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someone like Jonathan to encourage him reminds me.
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Of what? We're supposed to be doing.
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With our brother or our. Sister, when things are
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difficult in the life of our. Brother or sister, it's not
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right for us to say. Man, that's tough.
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Hope it works out. Then walk away.
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Sometimes the Lord wants us to come right underneath and help
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out. If if your friend sprains their
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ankle and and you're you're walking down the street and they
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sprain their ankle on a curb, you come underneath them and you
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help them and to find help. I mean, that's practical.
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But sometimes when our brother. Or sister.
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Goes through a difficult time. It's like we'd I.
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Don't want to get involved? Attitude sneaks up and that's.
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Not what God's called us to. Do in the body of Christ we're
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to come alongside. We're to help.
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We're to. Bear one another's burdens.
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It doesn't mean we got to know everything about everybody.
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But there's. Going to be situations when
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God's going to be calling you to be a Jonathan to a David and
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don't don't pull back from that. David really needed Jonathan at
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this point because he didn't have anybody else.
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So continue on here, verse 8. And there was war again, and
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David went out and fought with the Philistines, and struck them
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with a mighty blow, and they fled from him.
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Now the distressing Spirit from the Lord came upon Saul.
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As he sat in his house with his. Spear in his hand, and David was
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playing music with his hand. Then Saul sought to pin.
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David to the wall with his spear, but he slipped.
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Away from Saul's presence. And he'd Saul drove the spear
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into the wall. So David fled and escaped that
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night. Notice what David did not do.
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He didn't take the spear. Pull it out of the.
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Wall and say and say I'm OK, you're going to we're.
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Going to do this. Together.
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No, He. Didn't throw the spear.
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Back he just ducked and he left. Verse 11 Saul also sent
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messengers to David's house to watch him and to kill him in the
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morning. And Michael, David's wife told
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him saying, if you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow
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you'll be killed. So Michael let David down
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through a window and he fled and and escaped.
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And Michael took an image which is like a statue and laid it in
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the bed and put a cover. Of goat's hair for his head and
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covered it with clothes. So when Sauls sent messengers to
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take. David, she said.
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He is sick. Then Sauls sent the messengers
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back to David saying bring him up to me in the bed that I may
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kill him. And when the messengers had come
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in, there was the image in the. Bed with a cover of goats hair
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for his head. Then Sauls said to Michael.
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Why have you? Deceived me like this and sent
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my enemy away. So that he has escaped.
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And Michael answered Saul, he said to me, let me.
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Go Why should I kill? You, I mean, what a mess, what a
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mess. There are some lessons here.
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About how David deals with difficult life situations.
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When we do pre marriage counseling there is one area we
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talk about called conflict resolutions.
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How do you deal with? Conflicts.
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Unfortunately, families don't. Disciple their kids.
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On how to deal with conflicts, our family was one that.
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We did teach the kids. How to deal with conflicts
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because they were every single week and we'd have to have a
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family meeting on Sunday night. Get everybody together.
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Micah's laughing over here. Get.
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Everybody together and OK, we're going to work out the conflicts
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because when you have three brothers and the youngest.
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Is 6. Years younger than the middle 1.
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You have conflicts. And so it was.
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OK, here is how we do it. What?
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What is your grievance? Why are?
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You so upset with your brother. Well, you know, he went in,
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broke my models and didn't even ask.
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And that's not right. It's not fair and I just want to
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hit him, you know, and, and so. We go, OK, well, Chris.
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You're the little one. Why did you go into his room?
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Well, I just want to see what. Was there?
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I said whose room is? It, well, it's.
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His room. It's not your room, is it,
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Chris? No, it's not my room.
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So. In other words, you trespassed,
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yet you crossed the line. This is how it works in our
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house. You have to respect everybody's
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property, so you you sinned against your brother.
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You, you, you know, you realize that and you have to own it.
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So, Chris, here's what you're going to do.
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You need to go to your brother right now because we're in the
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same room and you need to ask his forgiveness.
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Yeah, but it's not fair. How come I don't get a model?
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No, you need to just own it here.
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And you need to. Ask his forgiveness.
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Oh, OK. Well, yeah, well, forgive me for
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breaking your model. And then then I have to tell
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them. OK, now you.
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Have to say I forgive you that this is part of.
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Resolving the conflict, but it was like every week but gang as
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they. Grew up all the sudden.
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That pattern I watched happening with them as a pastor in
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Phoenix. There was a guy that called our
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house. From our church and I wasn't
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home and Jesse, our second son, answered the phone.
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Because in those days. My number was in the phone book.
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Do you remember phone books? You know they're.
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Like this thick. OK, my my my number was in the
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phone book. And so this guy.
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From the congregation called her house and he had a gun to his
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head and Jesse talked him down using the same patterns of
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conflict resolution and just ministered to him and I didn't
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find out about. That until the guy told.
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Me on Sunday. That.
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This son of yours talked me down off the ledge and and listen,
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you've. Got to.
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Really just know that your efforts with your children are
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for later on and and it's important to teach them.
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How about conflict resolution? Because if you don't, then it's.
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Either like fight or flight. Or freeze when a conflict.
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Happens, but this discipleship is so.
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Important here is David thinking the best first, wanting to do
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what's? Right.
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And he steps back. Into it and he almost gets shish
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kabob by the king and he's just playing his harp.
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Verse 18 So David fled and escaped and went to Samuel at
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Rama and told them all that Saul had done to him.
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And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naoth.
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Now it was told Saul saying take note David is at Naoth and Rama.
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Then Saul sent messengers. To take David.
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And when they saw the. Group of prophets.
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Prophesying and Samuel standing as leader over them.
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The Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul and they also
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prophesied. And when Saul was told, he sent
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other messengers and they prophesied likewise.
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Then Saul sent messengers again the third time and they
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prophesied also. Then he also went to Rama and
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came to the great. Well, that is at Siku.
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So we asked and said, where are Samuel and David?
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And someone said indeed they are in Naoth and Rama.
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So he went there to Naoth and Rama.
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Then the Spirit of God came upon him also and he went on and
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prophesied until he came to Naoth and Rama.
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And he kept pushing, pushing, pushing and and like the Lord
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was pushing down, pushing down on Saul to humble him.
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And he also stripped. Off his clothes and prophesied
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before Samuel unlike manner and lay down naked all that day.
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I mean this guy's kind of bizarre.
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I mean that things are really just falling apart in in his
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life now when you look at the the next couple of chapters,
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which we're not going to read and I want you.
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To read it because we're talking about how David sought to
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reconcile. It's easy to want.
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To run, but there are. Times when God has called us to
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attempt to reconcile when someone over you and.
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Authority has you do. Something that you know is wrong
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and sin, rather than saying I'm not doing that I'm out of.
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Here how about? This approach make an appeal
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saying you know boss, and we're not talking undercover.
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Boss, we're just. Talking about, you know, your
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your authority. I know.
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That. By the end of the year, you have
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a concern on how things look. To the stockholders, but the
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direction. That you're going is going to
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lead to some something probably illegal and so.
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What I would like to present to you is how.
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We can get to the same end and do it a different way, which
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doesn't violate your conscience. And that's called an appeal.
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It doesn't mean they'll. Take it.
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But at least that's the first step.
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To make an appeal. And that's what David does here
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in chapters. 20 and 21 trying to make an appeal.
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To Saul to. Reason with him it doesn't work
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but it was worth trying because then your conscience is clear
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and you go you know I've done everything I can within my power
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and by the way, sometimes we. Just are tired of fighting.
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With it and we we just want to let him have.
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It but that's that's. Not going to help anything.
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Romans chapter 12, verses 17 to 21.
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Paul writes Repay. No one evil for evil.
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Have regard for good. Things in the sight of all men.
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If it is possible, as much as depends on you, Live peaceably
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with all men, beloved, Do not avenge yourselves, but rather
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give place to. Wrath for it is.
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Written vengeance is mine. I.
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Will repay, says the. Lord, do you know?
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That most of David's. Psalms came out of his time as a
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refugee on the run, and we're going to talk about that in a
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minute. The number of Psalms that came
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out of his refugee years. And, you know, sometimes when
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you're in the middle. Of it all.
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You can panic and then make the wrong decision completely, and
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that's what happened. Excuse me?
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That's what happened in verse or in chapter 21.
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Saul tries to hide. In the Philistine territory and
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and it gets. So weird he's got to.
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Pretend to be crazy. So they'll just.
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You know, saying he's worthless. And he escapes because he played
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being crazy. I mean, I don't think that was a
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good. Decision really, because.
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Now there's other men following him.
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Do you realize that when sometimes when you make a bad
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decision, other people are affected by it?
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Your family, the people that look.
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Up to you. If you're in a leadership
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position when you when you just do a moment of folly, do you
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know how it impacts everyone? That looks.
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To you and honor I I've just watched it over the years, some
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of my colleagues making some of the worst decisions in the world
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and and the effect upon hundreds of people in the church,
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sometimes even like destroying their faith in a sense of like,
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you know, how could they do that?
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What am I even doing here and it stumbles them.
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May the Lord have mercy when we make those kind of choices, but
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it's not hopeless because God already knew you would do
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something like that, and He's already got a plan to bring you
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out of the pit and help you if you'll look to him.
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Part 2 of tonight's message is called finding refuge only in
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the Lord, and that's for Samuel 22 to 26 and these.
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Years are real hard. Most Bible commentators say that
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it's almost around a decade of time.
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So in other words, the David's 20s were ruined by a king who.
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Was jealous by a. King, who sent out a SWAT team
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to try to find him in the mountains of Judah and to make
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matters. Worse people were.
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Defaulting to David, more and more soldiers were coming to
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David. How do you hide 400 men in a
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cave? What kind of cave is that?
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I mean. These were there's caves.
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All over the region of of there in the wilderness.
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Of Judah, but. I mean, it's becoming more and
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more difficult. And so I want you to turn to
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Chapter 22 of First Samuel, and I want you to look.
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Closely at the 1st 5 verses. This section is called David's
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Cave. All right.
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Here's what it says there. David therefore departed from
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there and and. Escaped to The Cave of.
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Abdulam so when his brothers and all.
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His father's house heard it. They went.
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Down there to him and everyone who was in distress, everyone
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who was in debt and everyone who was discontented gathered to
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him. So he became a captain over them
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and there were about 400 men with him.
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When I first read this I thought, well this is.
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Like Hell's Angels. I mean, you know this.
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Is this is quite a group that's all gathered together All right,
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Verse 3. Then David went from there to
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Mizpah of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, please let my
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father and mother come here with you till I know.
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What God will do? For me.
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So he brought him before the king of Moab, and they dwelt
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with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
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Now the prophet Gad said that David do not stay in the
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stronghold and depart and go back to the land of Judah.
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So David departed and went into. The Forest of Harith.
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You know, The Cave agile limits believed is an area east of
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Bethlehem, between Bethlehem and the and the Dead Sea.
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There's tons of of caves there in the on those eastern edge of
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those. And so it's becoming more and
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more. Difficult for David to hide.
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And it says here, even his family showed up.
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Why did they show up? Because Saul.
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Saw the family as guilty by association.
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Guilty by association. I don't know if you've ever been
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blamed of something that you never did.
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Because you were. Around that person.
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Or at that place, guilty by association.
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People think the worst first. Well, here David's family was
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now in trouble. And so here is Jesse.
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And his mom, who counted David as a lightweight.
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But David didn't hold any resentment in his.
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Heart but protected them please if there are.
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Issues in your heart regarding how you were raised by your
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parents. Don't let the enemy use.
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That. To block your heart because
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God's not done. It was several years before this
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could be worked. Out When you allow bitterness
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and resentment to lock in on your heart, against your parents
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or against your children, it's like drinking poison and
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expecting the other person to die.
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The only. Person that gets hurt is.
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You. And it blocks you from what the
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Lord wants to do in the future. In reconciliation, yes it is.
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Possible. I'm not saying it's a guarantee.
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But it is possible that the Lord has.
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Been hearing your? Prayers all these years.
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And he's working on a reconciliation method.
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But don't block your heart. You may end up being in a
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situation like David where he takes his parents and protects
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them, even though he was dealt with dishonorably by his
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parents. And then notice the text here.
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There's an emphasis, emphasis. That the Holy Spirit gives in
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this text. In verse 2, everyone who was in
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distress, everyone who was in debt, everyone who was
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discontented. Gathered to David.
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Normally you don't see. That repetition, but it's there.
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For emphasis this thing of everyone.
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Is that this is all across the board things.
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Are falling apart in people. 'S lives under the reign of
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this. King and God brought them to
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David. You know this.
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This really could describe your. Current life situation here
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tonight. Or those of you.
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Watching online, you are in distress, which means being an
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anguish, in straits, being hedged in with no.
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Way out distress. Or you might be in debt over
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your head. Maybe you've made some unwise
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financial choices and have put you in deeply in debt with no
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way out. Or maybe you're discontented,
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frustrated and in bitterness of soul, and because no matter how
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hard you've tried to make things right, they've only gotten
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worse. And discontented is the meaning
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of that word. So if if when you're in one of
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these three distressed debt or discontentment, it's so easy to
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blame others. For causing these life
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experiences. But I have learned in my own.
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Life that God was. Overseeing it and he was using
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it to work in me when I was working selling insurance in
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7879 and 80. The insurance company really
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ripped me off big time and what they wouldn't correct the matter
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even as the. Proof was was put there.
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And it made. Our life very difficult,
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especially. In 1980 and we went to from hand
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to mouth financially put a pressure on our marriage and our
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family. But then looking back on it.
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God could have changed all that. But he used it.
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He used it in my life. He used it in my.
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Wife's life, he showed through it all that he is a God that.
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Can take care of us moment by moment when it's needed, not
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before it's needed. And it we didn't get out of that
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no matter how hard we tried. For a year.
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And finally, when you just go, Lord, there's nothing I can do.
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And then you, you just say. But I, I will.
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Have to trust you. I have to trust you.
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Your word is. True, and I don't understand you
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can't get. Blood out of a.
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Rock and all that. Come on.
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I mean. Gee, OK, I just trust you.
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I trust you. I trust you.
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And. Then you go to sleep and then
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you wake up and you go. I'm still a mess I.
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Trust the Lord. And I look back on it and it was
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God showing us how he. Could take care of us.
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Day by day, even though we brought right up to the end and
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it. Looked like it was all.
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Going to fall apart and he'd come through just enough and
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that set a heart knowledge in. Both of us that God.
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Can take care of us no matter. How bad it gets, God.
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Is in charge of those things. He's in charge of the little
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things. So discontented, in debt, in
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distress. You know, our sin brings those
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things on us as well. Our sin brings us into distress,
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into anguish, anguish into straits.
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Our sin brings us into debt. Way over our heads before.
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God with no way out of his wrath.
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Our sin brings us into bitterness of soul.
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No life, no hope, but God brings us to the Son of David.
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Jesus and we go to David's cave. You might say or just being
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Jesus disciples we come. With all of our mess.
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We come as we are and David didn't say get out of here
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because you're a danger to me, David said.
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Come on in. And Jesus says to us.
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Come on in. And I want to.
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I want. To have you hear the son of
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David. Talk to you in Matthew 1128 and
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he says here come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden,
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and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
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from me, for I'm gentle and lowly in heart, and you will
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find. Rest for your souls.
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For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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Why do we fight with? That.
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Well, that's just for. Salvation.
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No, no, it's for right now. Jesus is still your chief
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Shepherd. And he's telling you, come to
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me. Come to me in The Cave.
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You're in distress. You're in debt.
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You're discontented. Come to me.
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I'll be your captain. Do you know that when David was
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going through all those trials in his fugitive?
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Years he was also. Showing His men how to deal with
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things. And so God is not just working
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on you, He's working around you. And looking back in an earlier
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scripture in my notes, 2nd Corinthians 1 verses 3 and 4,
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blessed be the God and Father. Of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
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Father of mercies. And the God of all comfort, who
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comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able
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to comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort with
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which we ourselves are comforted by.
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God, do you ever? Do you ever?
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Come to the realization that sometimes the trials you're
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going through aren't even for you.
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They're for somebody else and you're and God wants you to take
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the comfort he gives to you and he wants you to take it and pass
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it along. This is what I've learned
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through my tribulation, through my.
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Trial here is how God. Spoke to me, ministered to me
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and you're in such deep weeds right now you need.
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The hope that only. Comes in Jesus and I know He can
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do it. So you're taking the same
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comfort like is mentioned there in 2nd Corinthians 1 and you're
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passing it along. It's not just about.
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You it's about how God. Wants to use you in your
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generation. I'm not sure if you're willing.
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To go to Jesus with your distress.
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You're. Trying to work it out yourself.
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And the Lord is saying come to me, Just come to me.
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I'm not going to put a lasso around you and yank you in here.
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You come to me. Of your own free will, the way
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you are. What?
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The mess you're in? Yeah, you're a hot mess.
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But I. I can deal with that.
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God meets us where we are but doesn't leave us there.
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And his work is from the inside out.
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There's so much to learn here. About David's life, read through
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this. Section on your own and just ask
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the. Lord, how did David?
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Deal with things and then look up some psalms.
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Those of you that have. A pen or pencil.
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Here are the Psalms that came out of David's fugitive years.
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Psalm 34. Psalm 52.
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Psalm 54. Psalm 56.
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Psalm 57. Psalm 59.
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Psalm 63. Psalm One, 43142.
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Rather, and there are others. Which aren't specifically
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mentioned that he was in his fugitive.
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Years that talk about the. Betrayal and the difficulty and
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the hardship. As he talks to the Lord about
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it, that could well have. Been written during those
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fugitive years and do you? Do you see what's?
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Happening. David is taking the comfort that
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he received from the Lord and his passing it on to us through
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the Psalms. So tonight in closing, I I just
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want. To pray for you.
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If you are in. One of these three categories.
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Right now you are in distress, you are in debt and you're
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discontented and we just want to pray for you don't need to know
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that. The particulars but.
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We do need to know who you. Are so we can pray for you so if
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you. If you're in those three
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categories, one of those 3 categories, could you just
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stand? So we can pray.
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For you? Yeah, just go ahead.
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All right. Anyone else?
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It's real life stuff. Now, those of you that are
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around these that are standing, could you go over to them, put
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your hand on their shoulder and let's pray for them right now,
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OK? Don't let anybody standing by.
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Themselves. Our.
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Father in heaven, we don't know what's going on in the.
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Lives of these that have. Stood before you and before.
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Us, but they. Really need your healing touch.
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They need the hope that's only found in Jesus.
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Christ, we ask God that. You'd calm the storm in their
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heart over the middle of their. Life situation so they.
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Can hear your voice and hear your next steps.
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Remind them, Lord, of your promises to them, Your kindness,
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your mercy, your compassion, your understanding, Your wisdom,
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Your power, your. Love and Father God, we.
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Want you to mark this. Day, September 10th as a.
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Change point in these. People's lives.
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That you would begin to give them the next most important
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step to bring them out of this situation to your glory.
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Since you're the Creator, you can create whatever is needed.
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But just do it your. Way and let what you.
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Love what let what the Lord said.
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In Matthew Chapter 11 come true in their life in Jesus name,
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Amen. We pray that you've been
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