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January 31 - 1 Samuel 22 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, It's shown here. It's Wednesday.
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  It is the middle of the week. I hope you're doing well.
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  Not quite sure what your day looks like, whether it's a big
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  one, or whether you've got a little bit of time up your
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  sleeve today, or whether you have reached the end of it.
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  Oh, well done, if that's the case.
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  But wherever you are, here we are taking a moment out of our
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  day to well, to hear more about God setting up his argument
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  against Saul and his character and leaving us no doubt that
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  Saul really is not the person that should be leading God's
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  people as king. This is, yeah.
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  Sadly, it's the descent of Saul into more and more treachery,
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  violence and desperation. But that is what happened.
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  That is the story. And so we read it together and
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  we read it not so much to hear about Saul's downfall, but we
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  read it to have that clear disparity shown to us between
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  the king that the people wanted and David the king who God chose
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  because of his character. So that is what we shall attune
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  our lens to, to learn more about God and his preference for
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  character. So join me as we read together.
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  First Samuel, chapter 22. So David left Gath and escaped
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  to The Cave of Adullam. Soon his brothers and all his
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  other relatives joined him there.
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  Then others began coming, men who were in trouble or in debt,
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  or who were just discontented until David was the captain of
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  about 400 men. Later, David went to Mizpah in
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  Moab, where he asked the King, Please allow my father and
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  mother to live here with you until I know what God is going
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  to do for me. So David's parents stayed in
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  Moab with the king during the entire time David was living in
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  his stronghold. One day the prophet Gad told
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  David leave the stronghold and return to the land of Judah.
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  Sir David went to the forest of Hereth.
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  The news of his arrival in Judah soon reached Saul.
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  At the time, the king was sitting beneath the tamarisk
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  tree on the hill at Gibeah, holding his spear and surrounded
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  by his officers. Listen here, you men of Benjamin
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  So shouted to his officers when he heard the news.
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  Has that son of Jesse promised everyone of you fields and
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  vineyards? Has he promised to make you all
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  generals and captains in his army?
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  Is that why you have conspired against me?
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  For not one of you told me when my own son made a solemn pact
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  with the son of Jesse, you're not even sorry for me.
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  Think of it, my own son encouraging him to kill me as he
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  is trying to do this very day. Then Doeg, the Edomite who was
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  standing there with Sauls men, spoke up.
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  When I was at Knob, he said, I saw the son of Jesse talking to
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  the priest Ahimelech, son of a high tib.
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  Ahimelech consulted the Lord for him.
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  Then he gave him food and the sword of Goliath.
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  The Philistine king. Saul immediately sent for
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  Ahimelech and all his family, who served as priests at Knob
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  when they arrived. Saul shouted at him.
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  Listen to me, you son of a high tub.
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  What is it, my king? Abimelech asked.
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  Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me?
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  Saul demanded. Why did you give him food and a
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  sword? Why have you consulted God for
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  him? Why have you encouraged him to
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  kill me, as he is trying to do this very day?
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  But Sir Ahimelech replied, he's anyone among all your servants,
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  as faithful as David, your son in law.
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  Why, he's the captain of your bodyguard and a highly honoured
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  member of your household. This was certainly not the first
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  time I'd consulted God for him. May the King not accuse me and
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  my family in this matter, for I knew nothing at all of any plot
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  against you. You will surely die him, Alec,
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  along with your entire family. The king shouted, and he ordered
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  his bodyguards kill these priests of the Lord, for they
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  are allies and conspirators With David.
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  They knew he was running away from me, but they didn't tell
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  me. But Souls men refused to kill
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  the Lord's priests. Then the king said to Doeg you
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  do it. So Doeg the Edomite turned on
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  them and killed them. That day, 85 priests in all,
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  still wearing their priestly garments.
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  Then he went to Knob, the town of the priests, and killed the
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  priests, families, men and women, children and babies, and
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  all the cattle, donkeys, sheep and goats.
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  Only Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, escaped and fled
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  to David when he told David that Saul had killed the priests of
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  the Lord. David exclaimed.
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  I knew it when I saw during the Edomite there that day, I knew
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  he was sure to tell Saul. Now I have caused the death of
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  all your father's family. Stay here with me and don't be
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  afraid. I will protect you with my own
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  life. For the same person wants to
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  kill us both. Lord, as we hear of the total
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  moral corruption of this man's soul, we see parallels.
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  Maybe not to the same degree of genocide, but we see in our own
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  heart where we rebel against you, where we choose our own
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  way, where we create a mess of our own making.
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  But incredibly, we know that Your Grace is big enough to
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  cover over and deal with any of our shortfalls.
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  So, Jesus, any part of us or part of our story that would
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  make us run from you and shame, I just claim that your grace is
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  enough. I respond to your promise that
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  you will separate us from our sin, as the East is from the
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  West, No matter how great that sin may be, that your sacrifice
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  is greater than it, and your death takes it all away to
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  present us blameless before the throne.
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  All that is incredible, and I pray that you would fill us with
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  your spirit so that we would be bold enough and faithful enough
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  to be able to step out from behind whatever it is, whatever
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  shame, whatever hurts, whatever memory would hold us back from
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  you. That we would step into your
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  light and be your people. OHP Thank you for that gift of
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  grace and freedom that you give us.
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  And we thank you. We praise you.
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  We worship you and we pray all these things in your name.
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  Jesus. Ah man.