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2 Samuel 9 Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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This Bible study tonight is filled with good news.
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And I'm excited to see that with you in this chapter.
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So if you're not with us on a regular basis, we are in the
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book of second, Samuel and we have been studying, it chapter
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by chapter verse by verse. So tonight we are actually in
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chapter, Which chapter Eight and nine so you're both kind of
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right but let's start in chapter 9 second, Samuel chapter 9.
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This is a meaningful text for many reasons, but it is
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especially remarkable for the New Covenant Christian.
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And the main reason for that is because in my personal opinion,
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this is perhaps one of the most powerful Old Testament
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illustrations in the life of David that portrays the message
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of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And it's and its fullness, like
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not just little hints here and there, but from beginning to
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end, you just see this consistent thread of the Gospel
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of Jesus, in this moment of David's life.
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And if you were to just have a quick read of the verses without
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Haitian. Even it would be very easy to
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discover themes that you and I enjoy in our Salvation in
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Christ. And you will see that.
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As we read through this text, the framework for that is
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David's interaction with a man by the name of what Yes, method
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bichette. I'm going to try to say that
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name because I'm going to say it a lot without my tongue twisting
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so please show Mercy to me. That is a framework in which
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we're going to see the wonderful realizations of the Gospel.
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Exhibited. But before we go there, you
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know, that last week, we came to second, Samuel chapter 8, and we
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looked at David's summary of the campaign's that he had in war
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and we stopped at a particular point.
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And we're going to revisit those verses because it will flow
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wonderfully into the main theme of The Gospel of chapter 9.
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And so before we start in one verse year, the first verse of
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chapter nine, let's go. Two verse 15 of chapter 8.
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And we're going to read these verses.
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The final three verses of chapter 8 and ask some important
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questions. Well, we thank you tonight.
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We are deeply grateful for the family of Christ who is
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gathering here on this Friday evening, when there are a
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thousand other things that we can do.
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And we know that there are a hundred different temptations
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that pull people into so many different directions to gratify
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the desires of the flesh. But oh God, we are grateful that
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these doors are open in your house that we can drink deeply
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from your word because your word is our ultimate Delight.
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We are are so grateful again for your majesty, your humility and
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your provision that is in your word today in Jesus name we
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pray. Amen.
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Second Samuel 8:15. So, David reigned over all
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Israel and David administered, Justice, and Equity to all his
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people. Joab.
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The son of Zechariah was over the Army and Jehoshaphat the son
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of a. He led was recorder and tzadik
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the son of a, he tub and a he Malik, the son of a bi far were
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priests and Soraya was secretary and Benaiah the son of jehoiada
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was over the Cara theit's and the pellet sites and David's
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Sons were priests Anything significant stands out here in
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this text because this is where we stopped last time and the
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snapshot that we have here of David's team teaches us in a
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very general sense that this man was not just a warrior who
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defended God's people. He was a leader who nurtured and
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managed God's people. Well, and he did so, by
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appointing eligible, subordinates to his
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administration he hand-selected Certain men who had skills that
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would be able to help him govern the nation and we can look at
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for the next 15-20 minutes, the value and the principles, and
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the importance of order and different qualifications for the
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house of God today. But we're not going to do that
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instead just from overview. Look at some details that you
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think might be helpful in understanding.
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The totality of God's word concerning God's character and
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his Redemptive plan. Yeah.
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Joshua very good observation. Did you guys hear Joshua?
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You notice the last few words of the last verse David's.
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Sons were priests and we will come to that in a moment.
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That's a very good observation. Josh, anything else.
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They want to kill salt. Okay, is there anybody in
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particular that stands out to you?
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Job was always David's man to go but go ahead.
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You might be confusing them with somebody else which is okay.
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Because when it comes to biblical names it's kind of
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difficult to track one or the other.
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But if you aren't to something, try to find that name and let me
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know if that is the case. Anything else?
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Look at verse 16. Rather verse 17 exotic.
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The son of a. He tub and I he may like the son
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of a Bea Arthur were priests. Why is that interesting?
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They were not just ordinary priest, they were Chief priests.
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They actually in a joint fashion occupied, the high Priestly role
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And so why should that interests us?
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Come on Old Testament, students. You should know this.
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Why is that interesting? Why is it concerning?
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How many people can become high priest?
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One, how many people that we just read?
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Okay, something's off here. We have two people named who are
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occupying the same role. Now, why is that the case?
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Does anybody have an idea? Sure, but when we go to
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Chronicles, we realize that they do actually occupy.
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Those Priestly roles, the chief Priestly roles and there is a
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reason for that. Okay, you're on to something.
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If you really want to look at the text that explains what I'm
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about to say, you go to 1st chronicles, 16?
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Verse 39 actually could backtrack to verse 37 to 39.
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I'm not going to turn there, you can reference that later.
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But the reason why we have two people here who are joined
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together in some sense, sharing the responsibility of one high
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priest is because we are in an interesting predicament
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concerning the house of worship. When David brought the ark to
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Jerusalem, did he bring the whole Tabernacle?
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No, he just brought the ark and David pitched, a unique tent for
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that Arc while the remaining Furnishing, resided in gibeon.
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and so, what you have here is David strategically Allowing one
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priest to supervise the arc while you had another priest who
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is administrating, the levitical duties back where the rest of
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the Furnishings were this is not speculation, you know.
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I'm a big man. You guys are looking at me, like
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I'm saying something that's not true.
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So let's go to 1st chronicles. 16 is I know it sounds stunning
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but put your seatbelts on its going to get crazier as we go
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on. So if you're a first chronicles
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16 verse 37, we have a parallel passage and notice what we are
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told here. So David left a saphenous
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Brothers there before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord to
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minister regularly before the ark.
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As each day required, you see that that come to verse 39 and
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he left zadok and the priest and his brothers, the priest before
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the Tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at
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gibeon to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, on the altar of the
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burnt offering regularly morning, and eating to do, all
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that is written in the law of the Lord, that he commanded
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Israel. So you have one priest in
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Jerusalem. You have another priest in
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gibeon, that's why this is happening.
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And so there's some, there's some Grace here to extend, but
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perhaps we have never thought about this before.
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This predicament here. This occurrence is somewhat of a
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unique parallel to the ministry and life of Jesus.
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Any idea how think about the Priestly situation during or
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right before Jesus public Ministry was announced.
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What was the clergy like? Among the Jews was it an order?
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Okay, so Luke chapter 3, go to verse 2, and then you're going
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to see somewhat of a foreshadowing here in second
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Samuel 8. It's just a little nudge, but
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I'll take all that I can get about anything in the Old
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Testament that might point to Jesus in Luke chapter 3, verse
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2, after giving us a description of the political scene in Jesus
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day, we get a description of the spiritual leadership of Jesus
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day. And what are we read in verse to
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Luke 3 during the high priesthood?
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I'm expecting to read one name. During the high priesthood of
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Anna's and Caiaphas. The word of God came to John the
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son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
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How many people are supposed to occupy, the high Priestly role?
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How many did you just read interesting?
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Now, this is going to be solved once Solomon becomes king and he
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succeeds his father. Because we see here that hey,
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Malik is actually going to be exiled because he's going to try
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to help adonijah occupy the throne when they belong to
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Solomon. So that's going to be solved but
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David allows it to happen at this point and I just find it.
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So interesting that during the life of Jesus, the son of David.
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He also not only had to deal with a very corrupt political
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realm. He also had to deal with a very
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Contorted, spiritual leadership that had all kinds of things
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going on and that he confronted boldly.
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Now if we think that is interesting, we come down to
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what Joshua mentioned. In verse 18 David's Sons were
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priests who here has a translation other than the ESV
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just lift your hand. I'm curious, one, two, three,
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four. Okay, maybe like six seven
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people, this is your translation, say priests, which
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translation do you have? It says priest, which
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translation says Chief rulers. Anybody have Chief rulers.
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And the King James will say Chief rulers.
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Yeah. And he has to be anybody of the
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nasb. So what you have I'm I'm
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actually surprised that the new King James has priests because
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some of those new King James translation is actually have
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Chief rulers of Chief Minister's right.
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First Chronicles, 18:17, right? Yeah.
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We'll get to that in a moment. Why is it fascinating for us
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that the ESV would use the word priests to describe?
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David's Sons. The suns were from the tribe of
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one. And that is a prerogative.
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The priesthood is a prerogative that solely belong to the sons
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of who Right, Aaron, who is a levite.
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And when you look at this, I think to myself, is there a
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mistake here? And if we thought that David
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having to high priest was irregular, it's only going to
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get more interesting. When we look at what we see
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before us, do you know why the ESV uses the word priests?
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It's because when you go to the original Hebrew word, it's
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actually and its primary definition and it's common usage
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throughout the Old Testament, the word for priests.
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And I'm under the persuasion that translators.
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When they came to this text were a little bit confused maybe or
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startled. And in order to avoid
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controversy found Liberty to broaden, the definition of a
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little bit to try to fix the apparent issue here, that David
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was walking in blatant, Defiance to the levitical code about the
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priesthood. And so, that's why in some of
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these translations, you see Chief rulers, Chief ministers,
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and our brother just point out while hold on.
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Here's an objection. When you go to the parallel
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passage in first, 18:17 what you're going to find is
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something that would confirm what those translations say,
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when they chose to use Chief rulers, Chief Minister's, we
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just heard it and First Chronicles 1817.
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It tells us and David's Sons were Chief officials in the
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service of the king in the King James.
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I was a Chiefs Now, that may end the argument, but it actually
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makes it more complicated and I'll tell you why.
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Because when you do a little digging into the Hebrew of the
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chief and the Chiefs here in first Chronicles 1817, it's a
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different word than the Hebrew word for priest in 2nd Samuel 8.
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the word for Chiefs and First Chronicles, 18:17 simply means
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primary Right, it speaks of being first, that's not what the
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Hebrew word here is for priest, and 2nd, Samuel 8.
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I believe that those who translated it this way and
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accepted the controversy to preserve.
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The purest, definition of the word, did the right thing and
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I'm glad they did. I'm glad they did, no
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translation is absolutely perfect but in this case I
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applaud the word priest being used because it's really isn't
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controversial. It isn't controversial for the
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student of the Old Testament who understands that the spirit of
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God has foretold of a coming priesthood.
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Namely one after who now Kenzi deck.
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When you see it with that lens, then you understand.
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This is something powerful. David had a revelation we touch
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on this and second, Samuel 6, in Psalms 110, he had a regular
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Revelation. That one of his descendants
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would not only be a king, he would be his Lord.
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Jesus used that Jesus used that against the Pharisees, when he
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said, how can David Son, also be his Lord.
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So there is a Divine element to his descendant.
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But more than that, when you go to verse 4 of Psalm, 110, what
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do you see you see this prophecy.
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You are priest forever. Ever After the order of
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Melchizedek so he's not just Lord over David.
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He's not just going to be a king occupying, the seat and the
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Throne of David. He's actually going to be what
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was so foreign to the law of Moses, this hybrid of priest and
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King. Priest and King that David had
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that Insight by the spirit of God.
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David, we are told, was not just a song as he was a prophet.
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New Testament tells us that. So as a prophet he receives this
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insight and I wonder if David in this moment because he had that
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Revelation initiated and delegated to his son's a unique
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role simply because he was responding to that Revelation
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and wanted to in some way prepare For this seed of his who
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would be both King and Priests. In other words, he's not doing
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this to try to obstruct the functioning of the levitical
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priesthood, and I don't even think David's Sons here were
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attempting to minister in the way that only the Levites could.
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I believe, David is just trying his best here to respond to what
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he was told about his seed, one of your son's.
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He's gonna be a king, but he's also going to be a priest.
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And what comforts me with that is that their arguments from
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silence or not, the best David has already done quite a few
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things that are very priest-like and God didn't rebuke him, God
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didn't send a prophet to correct them.
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God doesn't discipline him. God is silent about it.
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Even up to this point here. So what did David Sons do as
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priests? I'm not too sure.
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One thing I know is that he feared God enough not to allow
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his son to enter into the Tabernacle and assume levitical
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duties. So I don't know what it looks
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like. All I know is this is a
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wonderful wonderful proof that David really believed that his
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son would be a king and a priest.
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And so be encouraged by that. This is not a contradiction in
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your Bible. This is not something that the
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original writers got wrong. I believe they knew exactly what
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they were doing when they chose the word priest here because
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that's what really happened. Now, let's continue with the
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theme of Jesus. Jesus is going to dominate
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chapter 9, we come now to chapter 9 and we realize that
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David after so much success, everything being established has
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another thing set on his heart. At one point, he wanted to build
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something for God. And now he wants to do something
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for another person's house verse 1 and David said, is there still
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any one left of the House of Saul that?
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I may show him kindness for Jonathan's.
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Sake. This is what blows me away
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about. That one verse the fact that
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David has to inquire about any survivors from the house of Saul
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indicates. Clearly of the extent of the
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below that saw received from God for his sin, it almost brought
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him to near-extinction. His dynasty was almost over at
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an accelerating rate so much so that David actually had to send
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out. A search team to try to figure
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out if there are any sons of Saul left.
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And here is the lesson for us, you, and I must look at this and
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comprehend. The absolute severity of sin Sin
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in our lives is not interested in merely making.
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You feel shameful for a moment or just slightly harming you, it
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wants to devour you. It wants to corrupt everything.
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Good, in our lives, down to the core, like a pool of piranhas.
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You put anything in there. It will chew it down to the
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bone. I don't care what it is.
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It will sin will do that to your body sin will do that to your
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money. Sin will do that to your
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marriage. Sin will do it to society as a
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whole. It will bring it down to the
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point where all you have left is crumbs.
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Sometimes sin is so vicious and selfish, you'll take the crumbs
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as well. We see here that whatever you
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give unrestrained access to whatever you allow sin and
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whatever permission you give it into your life, it will do what
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it did with here with Saul. It will absolutely erode what it
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is to the point where it will be almost unrecognizable.
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If we really believe that we would be scared of it and we
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should be scared of sin. But on a positive note, you
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know, what David does, here we see something of his mercy and
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compassion that shines throughout this chapter notice
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what he says there. That I may show him what
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kindness can do. We didn't do what we usually do
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and that's read through the chapter before we discuss it.
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But the word kindness shows up a total of three times in this
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chapter that verse we just read. Now come down to verse 3.
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And the King said is they're not still somewhat of the House of
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Saul that I may show the kindness of God to him.
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I want to show the kindness of God to him and we scroll down
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what you will realize is that he says it another time he says it
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here in verse First seven. Correct.
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He says and David said them do not fear for I will show you
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kindness three times. Kindness kindness kindness.
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But do you notice verse 3? It's a particular kind of
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kindness which kind of kindness kindness of God.
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This is not just some moment of just sentimental, affection that
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he wants to act upon, there's a deep kindness that he wants to
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extend to the house of Saul. And so he's moved to do this.
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I believe this was in David's heart for many, many years ever
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since he made a covenant with Jonathan now is the time where I
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can extend kindness. And this timing is so important.
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Because what David is doing here is the exact opposite of what a
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king would do in that time. I'm when a king would arise and
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obtain power. One of his strategies would be
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to totally eradicate any competitors are potential
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threats from the preceding Dynasty.
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So that there would be no future Rebellion against his throne in
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Authority. David is literally doing what
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you would not want to do. If you are an Eastern king of
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his day. Which is astounding.
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And the kindness of God here is, is really the theme of the
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chapter? And here's what's so good,
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because what David is ready to plan and execute for Saul's
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house is what you and I understand and is magnified
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concerning Jesus, not just towards one family, but towards
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the family of Adam, the whole human race.
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And so, when you and I look at the features here and the
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details here and the acts of mercy here, look at it, in the
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lens of Jesus, the son of David and what he's willing to extend
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and what he's willing to offer to the most undeserving and so
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that's really what's going to dominate this Bible study and so
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as you and I come here we realized that kindness is the
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theme. Kindness is actually a word that
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the Holy Spirit uses when it talks about Jesus.
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When the Holy Spirit speaks about Jesus.
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He testifies of his kindness and there's many verses one of the
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ones that I memorize early on that.
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I hold close to my heart is Titus 3 4 because of the
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goodness and loving kindness of God, our savior appeared, the
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loving kindness. There's love behind that
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kindness. There is a heartbeat behind
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that. Kindness, it's not just a mere
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Duty, there's actual affection behind that kindness And the
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kindness though Titus speaks about in the past tense, it has
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appeared on the cross. It's not limited to this life.
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That kindness is only going to be realized in measures that you
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and I cannot comprehend for all of eternity.
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So let me read this to you in a fusions 27, this is glorious.
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So that in the coming ages, this is what Paul says in the coming
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ages Beyond this age, and the coming ages that we're
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anticipating, he might show the immeasurable Riches of his grace
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in kindness. Toward us in Christ Jesus.
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You know what? That tells me.
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The kindness of Jesus Christ will require an eternity to
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experience. If we thought that the cross was
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enough and it is the experience of that kindness is going to
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shower over us. And after we drank of it for
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1,000 years, another 10,000 years will come and you and I
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will just go to higher levels of enjoying the kindness of God.
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So we think we're going up to heaven and and and the Lord is
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going to stand there on his throne by his throne and sit on
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his throne with his arms crossed.
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And okay. Now, for all the attorney show
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me your appreciate your appreciation.
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Okay, go No, no. In heaven.
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Not only are we going to cast our crowns at his feet but God
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is going to continue to overshadow us with his kindness
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and an experiential way. So we're not we're not having is
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not this neutral thing and it's foggy and hazy and we hear
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angels and we're going to sing with them from time to time.
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And after 300 years we can think.
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Is this? Is it?
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This is. What is there?
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Nothing else here? No, you will be Spellbound.
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As you realize that, once you've come to a measure of kindness
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that you never knew was possible, you're only going to
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be met with a greater measure of it over and over and over and
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over and over. And this is why argue for one of
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the reasons for a resurrected body, not just so that Jesus can
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claim victory over the whole man.
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That's why we believe your body, your body, your actual body will
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be resurrected. You're not going to get a new
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one, while the other one rots in the ground.
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That one that is rotting in the ground, will be called upon And
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it will be transformed so that Jesus can claim victory over sin
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even over your flesh. But it's not just for that.
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I believe that he's going to wire us in a certain way so that
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we can we can at least enjoy the kindness and not be destroyed by
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it if I can use that word. so that we can be vessels that
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receive that kindness and actually be able to be put
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together still We can stop here and worship.
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Now, we come to this text and what do we realize?
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The kindness of David which is really the kindness of God.
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Tell me what things stand out to just from verse one, just from
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verse one, what can you tell me about the kindness of God?
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What can you tell me here as you view it, and apply it to Jesus
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Christ. Is there anyone left of the
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House of Saul that? I may show him kindness for
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Jonathan sake. So that's he initiates it, his
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kindness is the as a type of kindness that is initiated by
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him. We'll get to that in a few
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verses but wonderful Point any other observations?
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Well, think about it, this way. I just mentioned it before.
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Yes, brother. What's the inspiration in the
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reason for David to show kindness to solve for Jonathan's
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sake? Do you hear that ring?
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Great, yes. Yes, Covenant, yes.
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Exactly. And so we have David here,
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honoring a covenant that he had made with Jonathan that he is
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now going to extend to his, his house your there?
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Yes, let's backtrack and let's go to a basic premise of the
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Gospel, is the house of Saud? Deserving of the kindness of
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David answer. No, the most undeserving
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actually the candidate that is least expected to receive any
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kindness from David. You heard one reason why and I
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think that suffice has as a reason, but when you come here
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and you realize it, You think to yourself This is scandalous.
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This is actually scandalous. This is foreign this, you don't
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do this as a king. This isn't wise, this isn't
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fair, this isn't strategy, but that's what Grace is.
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It doesn't make sense. It actually offends.
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The Bible says, the gospel is a gospel of offense.
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It just doesn't make sense to human reasoning to a certain
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degree that him doing all that for me though.
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I did all that to him, I must do something.
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That's where the offense comes in.
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I must do something to contribute to this, and that's
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where that's where people don't get saved, but we see here.
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That David is willing to come and reach out to the house of
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Saul, those saws, the most undeserving, and that's you.
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And I, as sinners, There's nothing about Saul that moves,
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David and in a sense that any good that he's done to say, you
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know, I think I should do something for you in return
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unmerited. And then we heard it because the
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real inspiration here is his, willingness is because of a
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coven that he made with one of check this word out, the
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representatives of the House of Saul was there anybody apart
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from Jonathan? That was worthy to receive.
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Mercy saw know, especially with he was a headache for seven
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years. Michal even she was another
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added headache headaches everywhere from the house of
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Saul. But there is one man in that
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house whom God, honored whom David honored.
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And they shared a special bond. They shared a special friendship
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and that friendship was so wonderful, so great.
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So promising, that that David was willing, just because of him
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to be able to reach out to those who are related to him that did
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not deserve, they were unworthy members.
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Of tasting, the mercy of this King.
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You understand it, right? He is Christ.
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He becomes our brother in the flesh.
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Hebrews tells us and because he identifies with our Humanity, he
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is now able to be our representative.
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But at the same time just like Jonathan he holds a special and
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unique relationship with God and because of that that wonderful
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status that Christ held being man.
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Yes but being truly God, Odd. He now can act as our
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representative of also, as our mediator And so in the same way
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that David can only reach saws house through Jonathan.
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So it is with God, through Jesus.
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And Jesus alone are the Unworthy members worthy.
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Now, to receive the grace that apart from Jonathan, apart from
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Jesus would not be possible. If Jonathan is not in the scene,
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kindness is not on the scene. If Christ didn't step into our
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world, and walk are in our world and obey on our behalf and dying
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are Half kindness would not be realized, only Wrath.
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And so we see your clear that there was a gospel picture of
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the mediating work of Jesus Christ.
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Now we come and we realized something else in verse 2.
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And trust me what we're going to do in this Bible study does not
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do this chapter Justice maybe we'll visit another time to
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excavate more Treasures of Truth, verse 2 now there was a
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servant of the House of Saul whose name was Eva and they call
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them to David and the King set them.
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Are you ziba and he said I'm a Sherman and the King said is
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they're not still someone of the House of Saul that I may show
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the kindness of God to him. The ziba said to the king, there
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is still a son of Jonathan. He is crippled in his feet.
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And the King said to him, where is he?
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And ziba said to the king, he is in the house of Mahir.
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The son of a mile at Lo debar. Pause.
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Take a breath. Look at those two verses.
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Anything that stands out, but keep your glasses on the glasses
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of the gospel and look at it in light of that.
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He sends a search party out. They find a man by the name of
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ziba Z becomes Before the Throne and the King asked about any
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potential remnants. And he is told of one.
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Who is Jonathan son? What are we told about Jonathan
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son? My fetish Seth.
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He's crippled. Interesting.
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Insight is a knot. We are told about his physical
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condition. What else are?
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We told his physical location, his physical condition, his
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physical location. Both things point to spiritual
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truths, that pertain to us in light of the Gospel.
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Theme that we are trying to study tonight.
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Does anybody remember how mephibosheth was crippled?
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He fell, right? He fell his disability here
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because we're told that he was lame and his feet reminds us of
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our weakness in the flesh before we were summoned by Jesus.
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You and I before Christ were unable to walk in Holiness.
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We're unable to keep in step with the spirit, run able to
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satisfy the demands of God. In fact, the scriptures tells us
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that while we were weak while we were weak.
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God in his perfect timing. Sends Christ to die on our
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behalf. So mephibosheth crippled stayed
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here is an illustration that you and I could not walk out in the
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way that God called us and designed us to walk out.
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Leaving us all guilty, leaving a smeared with transgression and
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that's what we see here. A man who is unable a man who
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could not not in his own strength and his own wisdom
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because of the corruption of his flesh, could not meet the
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demands of a holy God. And now when we look back and if
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you're here in second, Samuel, go to chapter 4 because we
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touched on it quickly. And we purposely put it aside so
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that when we come to this, we can dig it up in Greater detail.
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When you look at the history of this man's condition, you
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discover even more truths about the gospel in 2nd, Samuel 44.
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Jonathan the son of Saul had a son who was crippled and his
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feet. He was five years old.
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When the news about Saul and Jonathan came from dreads cereal
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and his nurse took him up and fled and as she fled in her
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haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was mephibosheth.
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This man was crippled as a result of a fall, but it's a
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very specific fall. He was dropped. by someone else
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who would experience and he would experience because of that
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mistake, the consequence, And would be forever, altered.
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You and I in a sense were dropped.
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What we, what happened in the garden?
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With our first parents is called the fall of Man.
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And that's where Humanity fell. And when they fell, we fell also
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and we are currently suffering with a with a fractured Human
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Nature. And that will be true for the
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rest of this age, until the Lord regenerates.
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Not just us completely, but the World As We Know It.
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And so, we see here, that mephibosheth is crippled, as a
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result of the cause of somebody else's failure.
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That is true for you. And I, and Adam, and Eve that is
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true with our ancestors. That is true with our first
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parents, but I find interesting too.
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Is that it happened to him at a young age.
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In other words, the consequences of the Fall appeared very early
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when does sin tend to surface in life, when you're 40, now, when
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you're four, It's not a theological age.
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I just want to sound clever. when you're very young, when
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you're very young, the imaginations and Fascinations of
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evil men, efest, Early in life, just like in a sense
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mephibosheth script illness here is his lameness here appeared in
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his youth. And we are all convinced you
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that the evidence of our inability to walk in the ways of
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God does not take much time, it manifest quite early.
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And manifest quite early. That's the physical condition.
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What about the physical location?
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Remember, he was told he's in the house of Mahir, the son of a
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meal at low, the bar? Okay, that's why sometimes Maps
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help because they're in the back of your Bible for a reason.
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If you have them. And now you're even have to go
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to the back of your Bible, you can just study a bit longer and
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examine and you can realize where things are.
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Load. The bar is found at the east of
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the Jordan. That's where the border is into
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the Promised Land. Lodi bar is distant from where
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David is. He's not close.
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He's distant. Second to that load bar, you
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know what? It means nothing without
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pasture. It's a desolate land, it's a
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fruit. This land.
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It's a land out, lacks Harvest. And so put that together, we
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have this man where he is in a distant and desolate place.
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And he is the son of royalty. Is he not?
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He is the Sun. As Grandpa was saw his father
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was Jonathan. Is he living?
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Is he living in one of Saul's homes?
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No. Where is he?
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He's in a he's in the house of an a man named Mahir.
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The son of a mile. I believe that mephibosheth was
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was very poor. Very poor.
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Now put all those descriptions together, you have a man who is
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bankrupt. You have a man who's living in a
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remote land. You have a man who was living in
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a Barren, land, a clear picture of the Sinners condition.
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Auntie, fruitless Baron. Let me add wondering just
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wondering Isolated far from the King, far from his table, far
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from his kindness and even the physical location here points to
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the spiritual reality, for all of those who are outside of
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Jesus Christ. And sure in the physical sense.
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You might be in this place tonight and you don't know Jesus
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Christ, or you think you do and you know, some level of
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emotional, he's you are surrounded by family and friends
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you have more than what you need in life, your abundantly
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provided for, I'm not talking about the physical things.
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I'm talking about how these things point to a destitution of
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the soul, and the hollowness in your soul as I speak.
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Testifies to that. Because my words I'm sure are
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speaking and they are bouncing around because there's no
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substance in you. And I hope that would change
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even at a Bible study. So what we see here about his
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physical condition and its physical location is just a
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wonderful portrait of The Sinner.
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Who is so lost without the king. What does David do verse five?
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Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Mahir, the
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son of a meal at load, the bar, a brother mentioned it.
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Who initiated this? David.
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Go get him. Go get him.
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I don't think David went himself because we find out that when he
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comes. Mephibosheth, comes he falls
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before David, he sent out his agents, he sent out.
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He sent out the necessary Representatives on for him to go
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and get the feta Chef. It's kind of like today, Jesus
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is on his throne and he sending you and I to go out to people
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and desolate places. Distant places, poor places
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spiritually to bring them to the throne of grace.
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And so he sends them. And he initiates it this is the
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kindness of God throughout the Bible throughout history.
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Even from the beginning, Adam and Eve fell, they realize their
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nakedness. They clothed themselves with fig
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leaves and what do they do after that.
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What do they do? They hide they high.
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And as their Sheltering from the presence of God, we read that
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the Lord walked in the cool of the garden.
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Cool of the day, and he calls for Adam.
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Where are you? He looks for them.
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He searches for them, you and I are saved tonight because at one
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point you were drawn The gospel came to you, you were convicted
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it spoke to you and it called you to God and you responded to
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that. And so he first loved us.
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That's why we can love him. He entered into our world.
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He put on flesh, he died a gruesome death, when none of us
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asked them to do it. Mephibosheth didn't write a
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letter to David and have one of his men, send it to David so
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that he can, you can maybe work out a deal so that he's not he's
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not completely cut off. No, it's David.
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Who goes out that this is David's plan.
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And so, while you and I are living in and just destitution
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and poverty, spiritually, he comes into that place and he
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brings us out of it. He pulls us out of it, he pulls
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him out of it and he comes. And what I want to do for the
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rest of this time is simply look because there's so much to say
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and I almost feel like I'm doing an injustice to these verses.
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But what I'm going to do for the rest of this time you and I
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together are going to look at the consequences of the kindness
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of God in mephibosheth life. Meaning, what changed?
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What changed from of have a chef after he comes before David and
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he says, yes to what David is willing, how could he not say
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yes? And they're really categorized
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in three familiar words to us as Christians.
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Peace Fellowship, help. Peace Fellowship.
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Help. Let's read together.
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Verse 6. I'm fetish at the son of
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Jonathan son of Saul came to David and fell on his face and
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paid homage and David said, mephibosheth.
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What do you think that sounded like I wonder what it sounded
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like. I wonder what the tone was.
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I wonder what the delivery was. The first thing that David says,
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was his name, a feather shot. And he answered behold, I am
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your servant. So while his face is on the
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ground, he after he hears his name, he goes, I'm your servant
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and look what David says in verse 7.
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David said to him, three important words do not fear.
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Do not fear for, I will show you kindness for the sake of your
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father. Jonathan, and I will restore to
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you all the land of saw your father, and you shall eat at my
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table. Always peace.
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When you and I experience the kindness in Jesus Christ, that
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is the moment that redefines are standing before God, and you,
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and I have no reason to ever fear God in the sense of yes, we
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Revere him as the Bible commands us to but never in a way.
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Do we relate to him? Where we are questioning whether
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or not? He will judge us like the
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unredeemed that is expelled from the child of God, when they
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really know. Oh the kindness of God because
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the words of David are trustworthy, how much more the
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words of the son of David who is the Christ?
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So trustworthy, he's not one to lie.
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He's not want to change his mind.
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So whatever he says will come to pass.
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I can take it to heart that whatever I have here is going to
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be true a hundred years from now.
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And when I stand Before, the Throne of God.
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So what you see here is this promise of Peace, you are secure
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mephibosheth You don't have to worry about anything because of
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Jonathan. I will be perpetually good to
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you. I will not change.
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I will not flip my mind. It's a sealed deal.
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It's done. And you and I know that security
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in Christ and here's the thing. Mephibosheth was so grateful for
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this, it's so obvious, you're going to realize that later on
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when David is kicked out of his own kingdom, who comes on this
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scene to just Express his loyalty to him hint.
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Mephibosheth But I can't imagine how much more grateful he was
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when just in a few chapters. God is going to Heap up, even
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more judgment on the house of Saul.
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Solve did something with the gibeonites.
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He broke a very, very important Covenant that was made back in
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the Book of Joshua. And because he broke that
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promise, many, many years later, Divine judgment was going to
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come upon his house for it will study that in great length, when
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we come to that chapter, but there's something that happens
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when David realizes there's a famine in the land, he seeks.
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God, God says, there has to be retribution Saul's descendants
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have to pay a price for what they did to the gibeonites.
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And then there's this verse you have to turn there in second
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Samuel. We're still in the same book and
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go to chapter 21, that's where the Judgment takes place.
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But look at verse 7 As judgment was going to come on some of the
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descendants of Saul second, Samuel 21-7 reads.
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But the king spared who with Eva chef The king spared
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mephibosheth, the son of Saul's Jonathan.
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Saul's son, Jonathan because of the oath of the Lord that was
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between them. Between David and Jonathan, the
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son of Saul. I wonder what happened to
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mephibosheth heart. When he realized that if he had
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not experienced the kindness of David, if Jonathan had not made
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that oath with David, he would have very likely been among
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those who were slain You know, I look at some Christians and I
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know they love the Lord. I don't want to be judgmental.
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I know they love the Lord, but when you tell him the good news,
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it sounds to them. It sounds like old news, because
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the way they react to her speak about, it feels like old news.
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I assure you. I assure you.
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That when Divine judgment comes, you're going to in that moment.
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Be really, really happy, you're saved.
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Then you're going to be able to really, really, really sing.
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And really Rejoice, then your personality that seems to be
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restrictive to your worship is not going to really matter.
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When you understand? The significance of the Covenant
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that Christ has made with us. Fetish Seth appreciated David
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and this moment but oh, I would love to see his face.
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When certain descendants of Saul were numbered to be hung and
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they skipped over mephibosheth. That's going to happen to you.
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If you're in Christ, judgment is going to come.
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It's going to come. I know it's not popular.
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It's coming. That's the message.
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Actually of the book of Acts. We were told that they were told
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to preach about the coming judge.
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Acts 10 judgment is coming, but you and I in Christ are
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protected, we're protected. Now, we will be protected then.
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You and I should enjoy that security day by day.
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Go back to the chapter. We're studying look at verse 11
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and look what we're told about, mephibosheth.
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In verse 11. We see here that David treated
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him as one of the king's Sons. I was one of the king's Sons.
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Verse 11. So mephibosheth ate at David's
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table, like one of the king's Sons.
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That's how he would be treated. Can you imagine the picture
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here? I don't know if they had a long
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table where all of David's Sons were sitting with all the wives
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that he had and here they are eating at this, this Royal feast
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and there's one out of all of them who has broken legs the
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most unlikely, guest at the Kings Table.
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I can't imagine the spectacle Shirley was, and you and II
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believe according to the scriptures, we are a spectacle
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in the sight of Heavenly Creatures and even angels, who
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know who we are, who know what we've done, who know what we
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deserve. And yet, we are right there,
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fellowshiping with the Lord, not that, not only that, we are
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considered the bride of Christ first.
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Peter tells us that this salvation is something that
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Angels long to look into The confounded by it.
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How can it be that you would treat this family, the family of
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Adam as one of your sons? And so we see here that there's
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a piece that have heavy that fetishes enjoyed, not just the
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piece, the second, prominent changes, founded four verses
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verse 7 verse 10 verse 11, verse 13.
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I'm not going to read it but I'll just tell you in those four
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verses we were told repeatedly that David had mephibosheth eat
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at his table. It's almost as though that's
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what the Holy Spirit really wants to communicate.
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Hey realize that mephibosheth has a seat at the table.
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He's actually he's actually right there and this meant so
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much to the reader of this time because you and I eating is not
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really significant. We do it on the go we barely
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have family dinners anymore but at this time, biblically
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speaking, when you would sit at a table with somebody and eat it
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denote it denoted, close Fellowship.
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Intimacy Jesus when he spoke to the lukewarm church.
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He said, if anyone would answer as I knock on this door, I will
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come in with him and do what eat with him Revelation 3:20, I will
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eat with you. I will sit recline at table and
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actually commune with you. What we see here is that in the
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gospel, we are not just saved from wrath.
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We have a seat at the table with Jesus.
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That's the picture here that you and I entered.
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Not just into the safety, from the wrath of God, but intimacy
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with the Son of God, and we enjoy him.
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And we love him, and we relate to him, and we speak to him.
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We pour out to him. And he, interacts with us.
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He answers us. He heals us.
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He leads us. There's something.
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Now that was never known before. We're no longer at a distance
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anymore, we're no longer in a desk to place.
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We are now in the very presence of Christ.
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Just like my fetish death, always.
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Always. That is what we have access to
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in the gospel. Unfortunately, many professing
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Believers don't experience it, but it's something that you and
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I can walk in. Now Christ can be the closest
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person to you in this world. I assure you of that he can be
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the most real ever-present person that, you know, in this
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life And I'm not satisfied in those moments where he's
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distant. I know, sometimes he does clothe
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himself and darkness. A scripture says to test our
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faith. But my heart knows him.
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Your heart should know him. That gospel purchased that.
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If Jesus is just a person that you study, you're missing it.
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He's to be known. He's me relish.
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She's to be experienced, you know, this is a side note bear
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with me because when you discover things like I had
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doesn't fit, but I'm just gonna throw it out in there anyway.
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I really like my fetish F. So, you know, for me, a lot of
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the names that I love in the Bible.
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Our with characters that have very complicated names.
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Mephibosheth is one of those guys.
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Mephibosheth had his son himself.
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I think this is important for somebody to hear.
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So, pay attention, wake up. Okay?
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Pay attention lean in, what's his son's name?
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Anybody know. Yeah, Micah in verse 12,
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mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Myka Myka Am I
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saying it right? Pastor, Daniel Mika.
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I know little bit of Hebrew to Mika.
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Do you happen to know what that name means?
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Yes, you're on to it. Mija means who is like God.
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Who is like God? You know what impresses me about
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that, that makes total sense for you to name your son, who is
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like God after you experience the kindness of David. but he
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didn't name his son, Mika after he sat at the table, he named
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his son Mica long before that Doesn't that tell you about this
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man's faith? Huh.
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Here's this man who was dropped as a child to be crippled
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forever. Here's a man who had his father,
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his grandfather. His uncle's slaughtered in war.
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Here's a man who couldn't even afford his own house, but had
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some Dungey room in a desolate destitute place across the
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Jordan and yet he had a faith and trust in God, where he can
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name his son and every time he called him for his rations for
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dinner, he would be minded, who is like God, Who is like God?
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You know, we get a little poked in life as Christians and we
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wondered if there is a God. Is there a god?
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Is there a god? I didn't get the promotion that
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I thought I didn't get to go to. I didn't get the Tesla Model
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that I wanted. Is there a God?
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Here is a man who has been smashed in life.
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And yet he could say who is like God as an act of worship.
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And every time he would relate to his son, it would be a moment
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of worship. I believe.
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And this is before Mercy came his way.
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This is before he was promoted and elevated to such a degree.
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That says something. That says something.
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Peace Fellowship. Help.
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What do I mean by help? Those things might be obvious,
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the things that we already covered, they're just so strong
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with gospel truth, but this one might not be immediately
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perceived. And this is where I'm going to
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end. Look at verse 9 with me.
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Then the king called ziba, Saul servant, and set them, all that
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belong to us, all, and to all his house, I have given to your
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Masters grandson, and you and your sons and your servants
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shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce that
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your Masters grandson may have bread to eat but mephibosheth
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your Masters. Grandson shall always eat at my
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table now ziba had 15 sons and 20 servants.
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Keep your gospel glasses on. Here's What's Happening Here.
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As a result of David's kindness, he looks at ziba, he calls him
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over, he says Zeba from this moment on you're going to relate
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differently to mephibosheth. And here is your new
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responsibilities in your relationship to mephibosheth.
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You and your son's, because I'm giving him all this property.
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You're going to till the land till the soil and you're going
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to produce the crops so that he can profit from it.
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Zebra from now on, you will be a personal and ever-present help.
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To mephibosheth. Sound familiar, mephibosheth.
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Here is your inheritance all that saw loss?
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All that was just kind of left in Oblivion.
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I'm bringing it to you now it's yours.
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Your name is on it. Here's your deed.
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But my fetish show has a problem.
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There's any, what's his problem? Yeah, he can't walk.
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In his own strength, he cannot experience the fullness of his
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inheritance. Therefore, the king calls upon a
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servant to come to mephibosheth Aid.
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In order to know all that the king purchased for him.
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And so, what you have here in this closed context is ziba
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being a very strong reflection of the inheritance of the holy
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spirit. In the Christians life.
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You cannot know what the king wants you to know, if you're
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left to your natural condition. Just like my fetish who could
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not walk, it would be just as pathetic to try to live in all
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the spiritual blessings that have been purchased in Christ,
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without the aid of the advocate, in the Holy Spirit, who comes to
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help us. And so, in the same way that the
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ziba figure here is now an A2 mephibosheth.
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We have the same thing in the Holy Spirit.
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He is there to do what we cannot do in our own strength.
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He is there to empower because we lack that power.
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And so you and I now can reach Greater Heights, you and I can
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do what we could never do before this moment, we can walk in
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Holiness, we can enjoy fruit. We can profit, we can escape
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spiritual poverty, and actually grow in spiritual riches.
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Because of the servant that has been commissioned by the king.
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Oh, that excites me, that excites me because even when you
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read, the number of sons and servants that ziba had I believe
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that's two, that's the communicate, the great resource
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the overwhelming resource. That now, mephibosheth had at
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his disposal, all these servants.
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All these Sons now are for you. Method is Chef Here's the thing,
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the holy spirit is not just some idea.
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He is rivers of living water flowing through Us, Rivers of
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living water flowing through us. And what we can know about that
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is that there is a distinct obvious tangible realization of
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his presence in our lives. The fetishist life is never
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going to be the same because of ziba.
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It's never going to be the same. He doesn't have to crawl to the
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fridge anymore. He doesn't have to go and dig
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with his hands in the fields, from this moment on ziba, is
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going to do everything that he cannot do on his own.
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So here's the thing. Your call to Holiness your
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called to Joy your call to prayer, without ceasing.
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You're called to be a bold witness.
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You can't do that on your own. Neither can I leave me to
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myself? I will fail.
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I will go back to sin. I will disappoint My Savior.
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I will not boldly stand for Christ.
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My spirit will look just like my fetish at the, in the physical
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sense. I will just be laying there
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useless. But because the servant has been
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sent. You and I can actually know
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something that we never thought we could enjoy.
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And here's my charge to do because of the reality of the
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presence of the Holy Spirit. People should be able to look at
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us to some degree and say how is it that you're able to do what
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you're doing knowing that you are a flesh like me knowing that
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you're a son of Adam just like me knowing that you have the
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same nature and you're dealing with the same Temptations as me
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and you and I can testify of the Glorious inheritance in Christ
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because he sent a Helper and that helper makes all of This
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possible, I remember sitting in office with a man that I met
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once, and I never saw him again. After this, he was brought by a
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mutual friend, we sat down this was years ago and he was telling
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me about his life, and it was a polluted life.
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It was a filthy life, it was just degradation, it was just
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vile. and then he looked at me, he was a very open and very
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colorful individual and he looked at me and he leaned in
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and he goes, you do these things, don't you I thought to
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myself, how am I going to say this without sounding arrogant?
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How am I going to communicate? What Jesus actually can do for
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you without sounding like advocating?
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Sinless, perfectionism and I leaned over and says, brother,
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to be honest. No.
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No. yeah, before the age of 20 when I when I was encountered by
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Christ, probably I can, I can attest to what you're saying,
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but something happened. When Jesus changed me.
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And he looked at me with utter disbelief.
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He goes, what? You can't tell me that.
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You're actually you're serious. Hey, look at the mutual friend.
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He goes, no, no, you're not telling the truth.
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I'm like, what benefit do I have?
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Like, I don't know you. I'm not asking anything from
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you. I'm telling you what Christ can
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do in a life? He did it in my life.
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No no you're telling me and he started naming these different
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since you're telling me you don't do these things.
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You're the same age as me. You have the same hormones as
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me. You have the same Temptations as
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me. You're telling me that you don't
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give yourself over these. I said, look, man, it's getting
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very uncomfortable. I don't know how many more times
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I gotta tell, you know, because that's what the Holy Spirit
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does. And then that moment this meant
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as though he met an alien. Are you from Mars?
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so now I'm a Christian he didn't say the Mars thing, but he
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looked at me as though I was from a different planet.
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So, no, this is, this is the beauty of being a follower of
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Jesus Christ. It's not just a ticket to get
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out of hell, he brings the Holy Spirit into you and things
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change, and you're empowered and you walk different.
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You see different. You have access to different
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things, the fetish of would now have ziba in his shadow for the
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rest of his life. Well unfortunately the example
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and the illustration of the Holy Spirit and Ziva is not going to
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last too long. They might conclude here so much
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to discover. I encourage you go through this
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chapter yourself and with the New Covenant boundaries, look at
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this text and try to discover things.
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But look at the response of this man.
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In verse 6. And if that bichette the son of
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Jonathan, son of Saul came to David and fell on his face.
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And paid homage David said, mephibosheth and he answered
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behold, I am your servant. That is the appropriate response
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to the kindness of the king. When you calls your name, and
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you realize that the tone of your name being declared is a
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tone of Mercy, compassion. And love the reaction, must be
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what we see here. I'm your servant If you're
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calling me the way you're calling me, if you're calling me
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into what you're calling me into.
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Then even though these legs are broken, I will serve you.
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To the capacity in which I can serve you.
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And I will give to you what you ask of me and I will do whatever
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you call me to do. And so, your life and mind being
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totally devoted to God in service.
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Is not what we do to tap into the kindness of God.
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It's what we do because we've tasted it.
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It's what we do because we've tasted it.
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And I hope that your energy and serving the lord.
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It's not because you think that his kindness fluctuates, but
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because it is so concrete and secure and so reliable that you
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cannot help. But just throw yourself at his
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feet and say, oh my king, I'm your servant, how can I, how can
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I reserve my service tea? I'm yours.
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I'm Yours. Let's pray.
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Lord, we are overwhelmed by the portrait of this text that from
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corner to corner with every detail.
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Conveys the gospel. May it never sound like old news
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to us. maybe he realized the piece, the hope, the help, the
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fellowship that we have, because the King has decided to execute
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kindness. To the most undeserving race.
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Adams Race. and then we just pray that even if there's one
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person in this house, He does not realize what Christ has done
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on their behalf, that today, it would change.
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And they would gladly fall before your throne.
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Knowing what Jesus is done on their behalf.
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Trusting that you are more than willing to invite them to your
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table. And provide them that which
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nothing in this world can offer. Oh Lord.
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We just pray that as we sing to you. we would sing with the
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revelation of how you have preserved us from Wrath, and how
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you have provided for us. Not just in this age, but in the
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coming ages. The immeasurable Grace and
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kindness. That is toward us in Christ
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Jesus. We bless you in Jesus name.
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Amen. Amen.
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We bless you in Jesus name. Amen.
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Amen.