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1 Samuel 20 (Part 2) Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  And before we read, let's pray, one more time as we as we come
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  before God in his word. Lord, we believe that you are
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  real. You are true.
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  You are alive. You are approachable as we sang.
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  That veil has been torn in two. Not only for us to enter into
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  the holy of holies before your presence to now dwell in us.
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  And so we thank you that we are now your Abode.
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  We are now your dwelling place and Lord as you are as you were
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  concerned about the structure of the Tabernacle with every inch
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  of it. Every qubit Material every
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  layer. So you are concerned with every
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  detail of Our Lives. You long for every part of who
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  we are to reflect your glory your moral Majesty.
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  We pray that as we expound the word as our dear brother and
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  pastor had earlier shared enrollments, these things have
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  been given to us for our encouragement.
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  We come to the word to be encouraged and built up into.
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  Christlikeness sanctify us unto Christ and Jesus Name we pray,
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  amen. Notice that dark chapter studies
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  in this book are so lengthy. That we have two parts in one
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  chapter three parts in one chapter and that is the case
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  with this one. But that is the beauty of this
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  Bible study. It's just for us to extract as
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  much truth from every verse that we can.
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  And even then sometimes, if not, every time I leave a Bible,
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  study said there's so much more yet to be discovered.
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  There's so much more yet to look yet for us to learn and Is
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  certainly true in this chapter but we will do our best by God's
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  grace you. And I up to this point,
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  especially in this chapter. I've learned so much through the
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  friendship between Jonathan and David.
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  It's amazing. The attention that the Bible
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  gives between these two men and it's important for us to take
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  our time to study their interaction, the Covenant that
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  they had made with one another because you're about to find out
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  that this is the last time we're going to see a lengthy
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  interaction between David and John.
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  Nathan, there's going to be one more time and then we're never
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  going to hear of Jonathan again. And one of the things that we
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  learned about Jonathan was that he was indeed a man who stood
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  for the truth, you've heard that in more than one occasion that
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  Jonathan was somebody who paid the price to defend and to be on
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  the side of righteousness. And that was the opportunity
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  that presented itself to him with David and his father.
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  He was willing to stand by David because he was willing to stand
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  by the truth even though it cause great discomfort in his
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  life especially with the Dynamics of his relationship
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  with his own dad with his own father and Jonathan's decision
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  to stand by David was not motivated by political ambition
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  was not motivated to satisfy some kind of selfish desire.
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  Again, it was propelled by a desire to stand for what God
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  would stand for, and he wanted to stand with David because he
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  wanted to stand with his Lord. And if we're not convinced that
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  that truth, then verse 16 will seal the matter for for
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  certainty and verse 16, we read after David and Jonathan are
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  going back and forth of David trying to convince his best
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  friend that his dad is actually trying to assassinate him.
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  Your dad is actually trying to get at me.
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  He's trying to eradicate me from the face of the Earth and
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  Jonathan's willing to believe it, but it's hard for him to
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  believe it because he saw his father repent He saw his dad
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  make a vow that he would never do such a thing and so they are
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  ready to make a plan to expose Saul and they just made a
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  covenant again to re-establish their relationship and not just
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  for their life, but for their descendants and the life's to
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  come. We read here in verse 16 and
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  Jonathan made a covenant. With the House of David saying,
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  may the Lord take Vengeance on David's enemies and Jonathan
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  made David swear Again by his love for him.
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  For he loved them as he loved his own soul.
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  This was a man who stood for truth.
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  How do we know that? Well, number one, he invokes the
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  name of the Lord, he appeals to God this issue between David and
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  Saul was not just a mere disagreement that it was not
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  just neutral from from spirituality.
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  Now, if very much involved God, there was right, there is wrong,
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  there is obedience, there is, this will be nice, there is
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  righteousness, there is wickedness and David did not
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  side with anybody for any other reason.
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  Other than God is the One, who determines?
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  Who is true? And God is the one because he
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  will judge between right and wrong.
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  He will decide the Fate between these two men and Jonathan was
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  fully aware of that. He was fully aware that God will
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  intervene in this. And if God is going to intervene
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  in this, then I want to be on his good side.
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  I want to be in his favor. I want to be blessed by God, I
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  don't want to stand against God and so I'm going to side with
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  you because it is clear that you are on God's side.
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  But notice he goes even further than that.
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  He says may the Lord take Vengeance on David's enemies Why
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  is that significant? Can somebody tell me why that's
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  significant. Yeah.
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  Saw his own dad is in the category of being David's enemy.
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  And so, he's so willing to stand for truth, even if he is having
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  to see his own, father on the side of being disciplined and
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  judged by God, he is so unbiased in this moment that he realizes
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  that even though his own father would stand against God, he is
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  willing to be on God's side and That is the same allegiance that
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  Jesus calls his disciples to. It is the same standard that we
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  would have to hate our fathers, and hate our mothers, and our
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  brothers, and our sisters, our wives, even our own children,
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  and the Bible doesn't use that word hate the same way that you
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  and I would understand it. Yes.
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  In some contexts, but in that context, he's not saying you
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  have to despise them or be hostile towards him, you know,
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  this very well. What he's saying is that your
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  allegiance to Christ should be so intense, so devoted that
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  would make Every other relationship of yours look like
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  hate and comparison. Jonathan here is a man of Truth.
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  And so he's willing to say even if my dad is an enemy to God,
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  He's worthy to be judged. He deserves to be judged.
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  So don't tell me that Jonathan doesn't love truth, the man
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  loves the truth. And as I read this, you and I
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  learned something, something very important with this concept
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  of Revenge. Have you ever noticed how much
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  attention is given to this concept of Retribution or taking
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  Revenge? It's from cover to cover the
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  Holy Spirit as sprinkle that all over whether by way of command
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  or instruction or by way of example as presented before us
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  tonight. It is incredible.
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  How much of the Bible instructs the people of God of how to
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  manage this temptation to take revenge?
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  Have you ever wondered why? It's because God, in his wisdom
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  knows that the people of God will have to endure, great
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  personal offenses. It will be a frequent
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  occurrence, you will know it and it will intensify as you grow
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  and faithfulness to Christ. And because that pain will be
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  common. So will the temptation to take
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  matters into your own hands in order to retaliate and satisfy
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  that burning sensation? That?
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  If you've done me wrong, you're going to get it right back.
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  If not you're going to get it worse.
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  And it's incredible because I was reading Romans this week and
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  the verse that you heard in the reading came to me, but I saw it
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  in a way that I never realized before I saw it, and it made me
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  consider the absolute seriousness of us obeying that
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  instruction. That seems so strange.
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  I seem so foreign but it's so real.
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  It's so real. When you walk in godliness, you
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  will be persecuted. And the verse is this and Romans
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  12:19. Vengeance is mine.
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  Says the Lord. I will repay.
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  I will repay in the thing that stood out to me.
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  Was that phrase? Vengeance is mine.
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  And I thought to myself God is making an exclusive claim there.
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  He is saying this thing of Vengeance of Revenge that
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  belongs exclusively to me. That doesn't belong to you.
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  Now, if it belongs to God, if it's his rightful possession, if
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  it's his prerogative. Then what do we do?
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  If we attempt to take Vengeance into our own hands?
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  What's the equation? If it belongs to God and I try
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  to take it from God and make it mine?
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  What is that called in the Bible?
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  Yeah, it's called stealing. That's theft.
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  Here's what I understood from this that taking revenge is not
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  just wrong in itself, because it's ungodly and uncalled.
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  For taking revenge is vile because I'm stealing.
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  I am robbing god of what solely belongs to him.
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  I want you to never forget that. The next time you are tempted to
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  take revenge with your words with your actions, even in your
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  thoughts, even in your meditations to realize.
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  This is thievery. Because God says vengeance.
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  Is mine? It belongs solely to me, you
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  have no right to entertain it. You have no right to execute it.
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  And if we do give in to that Temptation, not only are we
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  doing wrong to somebody else? We are actually stealing from
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  God himself. May the Lord take Vengeance on
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  David's enemies and the Jonathan reassures him of the Covenant
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  and he wants to be reassured of David's love.
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  Then Jonathan comes up with a plan.
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  Jonathan is in agreement with David and he wants to provide an
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  answer to this mystery. At least a mystery to him about
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  his, his father's attitude, toward David Verse 18.
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  Then Jonathan said to him. Tomorrow is the new moon.
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  And you will be missed because your seat will be empty.
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  On the third day, go down quickly to the place where you
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  hate yourself when the matter was was in hand and remain
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  beside the stone Heap. And I will shoot, three arrows
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  to the side of it as though I had shot out of Mark and behold.
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  I will send the boy saying, go find the arrows.
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  If I say to the boy. Look, the arrows aren't in the
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  side of you take them then you are to come for as the Lord
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  lives. It is safe for you and there is
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  no danger. But if I say to A youth.
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  Look, the arrows are Beyond you, then go for the Lord has sent
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  you away. And as for the matter of which
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  you and I have spoken, behold the Lord is between you and me
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  forever. So David had presented Jonathan,
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  a plan. Listen, we got to find out.
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  You need to know this for yourself.
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  You might not believe me, but I believe it's so real.
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  In your dad's hard that it will be revealed.
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  So go and tell your dad that I couldn't make it to the feast
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  the new moon feast and just watch his reaction.
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  Watch Jonathan, I'm telling you. If you just look at how he's
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  going to respond to my absence, you'll have all the evidence
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  that is required Johnson's. Fine, fine, fine, fine.
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  But we got to be smarter about this.
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  So this is what we're going to do.
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  I'm going to give you an answer to what I discovered but it's
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  going to be in Disguise. It's not going to be obvious.
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  And the reason why I believe he's saying this is because
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  perhaps his father's even spying on Jonathan.
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  Perhaps he fears that even saw has sent men to see where
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  Jonathan is to know where the whereabouts of David is.
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  And so he wants to protect that. He doesn't want to expose David
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  so obviously. And so he comes up with this
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  idea that I'm going to shoot arrows and depending on where
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  they land will determine what your destiny is.
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  And it's so incredible. And in these verses there's an
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  interesting phrase that proves to me the depths of the
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  knowledge that Jonathan has concerning his God and our God.
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  And here's what he says, it's an interesting phrase.
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  He says, if and verse 21 I will send the boys saying, go find
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  the arrows if I say to the boy. Look, the arrows are on the side
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  of you take them. Then you're to come forth as the
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  Lord lives. It is safe for you.
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  There is no danger. But if I say to the youth look
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  the arrows are Beyond you then go look at this for the Lord has
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  sent you away. The Lord has sent you a David.
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  You know what, I take out of that.
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  I'm sure you see it now. Maybe you've seen it before.
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  This is a man who believed that, although Saul might be the
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  reason for David's departure. God was really the cause
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  Sovereign over your life. Your God is.
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  And as much as salt is King and he has Authority, and he can
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  push you around and he can drive you Into the Wilderness.
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  God is the one who's actually sending you.
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  And believer tonight, you have to understand that this is the
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  great confidence for the Christian who is Walking rightly
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  with God. That even though you are facing
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  the Injustice of men, even though you are in a place where
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  all the odds are against you, God is the one coming back as a.
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  This is God. if you have to go, it's God.
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  And I wonder if we have the same understanding of God, Especially
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  when we are experiencing. What?
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  David might be experiencing? Do I really believe that God is
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  the one who's taking it away from me.
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  Do I really believe that is God? Who's stopping me?
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  Do I really believe? It's God, is closing the door?
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  Do I really believe that it is God.
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  Who is determining every step that I take whether I'm aware of
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  his Supernatural intervention or not. if you don't believe that
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  you will know much more weight to those seasons, That are
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  burdensome, you will know much more heaviness, that can be
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  lightened by a simple understanding that.
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  It's the Lord who sends you. I believe if Christians
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  understood that they would need a lot less counseling sessions.
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  I believe that there'd be a lot less tears being shed to be lot
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  less sleepless nights to be a lot less questions and doubts.
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  If I really believe that God is providential over my existence
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  Then bring ten Saul's in my life.
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  God is going to control each of them.
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  And he's going to use them for my sanctification and for his
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  glory. But look at David's example.
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  He says on the third day in verse 19 go down quickly, what
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  does that mean about David? What does he have to do?
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  What does David have to do while Jonathan seeks an answer.
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  Wait, something that we're not good at.
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  Wait. David has to now put everything
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  on pause and there's nothing like waiting.
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  When the decision that's going to be revealed is going to
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  determine the rest of your life. This isn't waiting, whether he's
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  going to get accepted to Seminary, though.
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  That might be stressful. No, no.
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  This is waiting for. What is my future going to look
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  like in every sphere and every aspect?
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  Where am I going to live? What's going to happen to my
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  family? My wife, how am I?
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  How am I going to? Am I ever going to worship at
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  the temple again? Am I ever going to be able to go
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  back to Bethlehem? That's the kind of waiting so
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  three days as much as we think it's from Friday to Sunday or
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  Monday morning. Three days for David, Shirley
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  would feel like three years. Three years.
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  It would feel like an eternity especially when David didn't
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  have the luxury to stay in the Royal Suite with his wife
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  because you come here and verse 24 and you realize where he's
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  waiting. So David hid himself in the
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  field, that's where he's waiting for three days and some forest
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  and some desert land, our Rock, became his pillow for three
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  nights. And he would wait wondering
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  wonder if he prayed during that time.
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  Sure, he did. And I look at this and I can't
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  help but smile, you know why? I can smile because I see that
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  God is willing to make his most faithful and devoted servants.
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  Wait. And not just wait for an answer,
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  but be uncomfortable while you're waiting.
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  This is why you and I are studying the Old Testament.
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  We're not studying the Old Testament.
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  Merely to find theology, or to see the lineage of how the
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  Messiah came through the nation of Israel, or to see Prophecies
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  of Christ. Although we study all things in
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  light of looking for Christ, but we just heard it earlier, I can
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  come to the Old Testament, simply to be encouraged.
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  This is why we're getting familiar with God's ways because
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  life is real life isn't just sermons.
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  Life isn't just going to conferences, life is real,
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  there's actual episodes that happened there they're
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  suffering. There's there's things that we
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  need to do that are that are very Earthly and real and
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  because of that, we need to come and see.
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  Oh look, God, actually makes his servants weight and sometimes if
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  not all times. The waiting is not comfortable.
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  It is willing to do it for the man who would become the next
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  king of Israel would be the example, for all Kings of what
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  to emulate. And surely he's going to make me
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  wait. Surely, I can't comment.
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  Huff and puff. It God doesn't answer my
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  prayers. The night, I pray them.
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  Surely if I feel fidgety and surely.
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  If I don't like the fact that I've been in the season for a
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  while, whether it's singleness or jobless or whatever it is,
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  surely it's not because God doesn't love me.
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  He made David wait. so God's silence and no matter is a sign
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  of his displeasure with us. David would wait.
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  And we read in verse 24. he hit himself in the field and when
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  the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food The king sat on
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  his seat. As that other times on the seat,
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  by the wall wonder why he stopped by the wall.
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  Probably to protect himself from David.
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  He sat by the wall, Jonathan sat opposite and Abner Sat by saw
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  side but David's place was empty.
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  And you can imagine the suspense of reading this, right?
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  This is the moment that we've been waiting for.
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  This is now going to reveal. If Saul is going to expose
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  himself to Jonathan, if Jonathan's going to be
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  confirmed, if he's going to feel as though he is.
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  Now totally convinced that what David was saying is true.
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  This is it but before we come to the revelation of Saul's heart,
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  there's so many things leading up to it.
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  That has so much benefit to us. This is some type of feast that
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  is obviously religious. It's a new moon feast.
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  And the reason why we know that it is religious in nature
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  because in verse 26, we read it yet.
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  Saul did not say anything that day for a thought.
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  Something has happened to him. He is not clean, surely, he is
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  not clean. And so we know in the Old
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  Testament. We know, especially in Leviticus
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  that if there was something that you've done, whether you touch
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  that Body or there is relations between you and your spouse.
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  You would be considered unclean and oftentimes it would be just
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  for a day. You'd be disqualified from
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  participating in certain religious feasts, and festivals
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  and observances. And so, in Saul's mind, he's
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  thinking David much must have to a funeral or something.
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  And so that's why he's not here. So we know that this is a
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  spiritually motivated Feast, right?
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  So what does that say about Saul?
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  If this new moon thing is is an observance to somewhat recognize
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  God and celebrate God. What does that reveal about
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  Saul? Well, he's in attendance.
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  He's sitting there not just that he's actually participating.
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  He's eating. Guess what does it mean a thing
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  about his spirituality? Guys are hypocrite.
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  The guy's a hypocrite. You know what I read here?
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  I read that you can have people attend a worship service, sing,
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  pray, serve and be just like solve filled with jealousy, and
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  envy and murderous rage. Think about this, this man is
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  sitting at the table. He's there.
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  Maybe he's even saying some things we don't know, it's not
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  recorded, he's certainly participating in the meal and I
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  read here that just because once presence in a religious setting,
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  Does not indicate that the presence of Christ is ruling in
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  their hearts. And Saul again is not just
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  present, he's actually involved nevertheless.
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  It adds no validity to his spiritual condition This
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  scenario is no different today you know a very well.
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  I'm sure. and the longer you stay in church, the more you
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  realize that there are a lot of people like Saul That is just
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  there there and there, there may be even frequently present, they
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  observe all things, but inside they're dead inside.
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  They're filled with vices they're filled with creepy
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  things, they're filled with cobwebs and lifelessness So what
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  does it mean to be present in a religious gathering?
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  Just like this tonight very little Very little.
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  Fact, I was thinking about Judas, I don't know why Judas
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  has been on my mind. For these past few weeks, and
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  the thing that keeps ringing, in my mind that keeps replaying was
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  like this man served in the greatest Ministry, known to
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  mankind. And this man could claim a close
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  proximity to Christ unlike any other and yet he was still damp
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  to hell. He was still, he's in Hell, the
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  guys in hell and he saw not just saw Miracles, he performed
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  miracles. We're going to be shocked at the
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  judgement seat of Christ. I'm telling you, we are going to
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  be shocked. He was there.
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  He was there and at the same religious gathering.
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  He's about to assign, try to assassinate his own son.
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  It's incredible. It's like mind-boggling. but on
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  the second day in verse 27, but on the second day, the day after
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  the new moon, David's place was empty.
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  And Saul said to Jonathan his son, why has not the son of
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  Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today, either
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  yesterday or today. So one day passed by and he
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  could justify it one day passed by and he even went to a law to
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  try to make sense of it. David isn't here.
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  I mean, think about this, you actually are expecting the
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  presence of David after you try to kill him more than Like how
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  delusional can you be, but that's what Pride does it makes
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  you the center of the universe? And so this man thinks where's
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  David? Now, the second I, he's supposed
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  to be on the clear, he supposed to be cleansed, he's supposed to
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  be at this Feast, he supposed to be here at this table, David
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  doesn't show up. There is no excuse and Saul's
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  mind and so now he interrogates Jonathan and he asked him, hey,
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  where was yesterday and where is he today?
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  Have you noticed the wording of his question though.
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  What stands out when he talks to Jonathan what stands out about
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  his question. Anybody see it?
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  He doesn't say David. Why has not the son of Jesse
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  come to the meal? Who?
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  This guy is just getting worse and worse and worse.
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  You know what's happening. His jealousy has reached such a
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  feverish pitch that he could not even mention, David's name.
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  This guy was so eaten up by Envy that he could not even utter
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  David's identity, and instead refers him to the son of Jesse
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  now, we think that's far-fetched, but that is one of
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  the strongest marks of stage for envy and Stage for
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  unforgiveness. Here's how it could be real in
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  our lives today. You can be in a group and
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  somebody mentions the name of somebody that you either have
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  bitterness towards and Mention of their name.
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  Can erupt volcanic emotions. Volcanic emotions.
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  Just A Rush of anger just a rush.
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  Of bitterness. And so this man is he's headed
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  towards trouble and now, it's manifesting, it's so clear, it's
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  so obvious. He can't even refer to him by
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  his name. And it's not just because he's
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  jealous, not just because he can't stand David, it's because
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  he's in a sense belittling him. He's almost saying who is Or
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  where is the son of a nobody? He's not connected to the Royal
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  Line. He doesn't even want to
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  entertain that thought. Where is nobody?
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  That's what he's trying to say. And Jonathan and this moment,
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  probably I wonder how he respond.
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  I wonder what that look on his face was because at this point I
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  wasn't enough to know whether or not saw was bent on killing
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  David. So he takes advantage of this
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  moment. He seizes the opportunity and he
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  presents what him and David had planned?
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  He presents the scenario. He releases the bait.
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  To see how is Saul going to respond.
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  And this is a reminder that David convinced a Godly Man to
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  not tell the truth. David you didn't have to come up
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  with a lie to expose, Saul Saul had enough evil in his heart to
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  expose himself, but he does go with it and he gets the desired
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  goal, but just a simple reminder that.
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  Just because something is achieved through.
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  The means of sin. Doesn't justify the sin.
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  Jonathan verse 28 answered Saul David.
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  Earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.
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  He said, let me go for our clan holds a sacrifice in the city,
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  and my brother has commanded me to be there.
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  So now, if I found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my
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  brother's. For this reason, he is not come
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  to the Kings Table. So, the bait has been cast.
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  It's there before, Saul. And I am very, very, very
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  confident that Jonathan was not expecting what was about to
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  shoot out of his dad's mouth. Verse 30 then Saul's anger was
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  kindled against Jonathan and he said to him you son of a
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  perverse rebellious woman. Do I not know that you have
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  chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of
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  your mother's nakedness for as long as the son of Jesse?
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  There it is again. Can't say his name lives on the
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  earth. Neither you nor your kingdom
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  shall be established there for And and bring him to me for he
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  shall surely die. And I can just imagine the forks
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  dropping the music cutting off. The food stop being chewed in
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  people's mouths. As Saul erupts.
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  At a religious gathering. What do you take out of these
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  answers? There's so much, there's so much
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  in Saul's where the reveals Many things about his heart and many
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  things about the power of sin. Any observations from this?
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  Very great observation. This, this, this emotional
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  thing, this thing of jealousy who knew how far it would go,
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  it's not just now between him and David, it's affecting his
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  son. He's now insulting his own wife
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  publicly He's dishonoring his own wife at a religious
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  gathering with deplorable words. Who would have thought that
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  someone's personal hidden sin would have such extensive
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  consequences? Yes, great observation.
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  Anything else? He saw right through so that I
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  didn't really help anyway. The Leyden even helped anyway
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  because Saul Reddit for what it was.
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  Yes absolutely. Anything else.
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  Sure, sure. So now, he's really emphasizing
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  the threat that David carries as as, obviously God's anointed one
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  and he is trying to hammer that in his son's head, which is
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  amazing because it doesn't move Jonathan at all.
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  Yes. Right.
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  Absolutely. So he's really now becoming
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  Reckless and it's becoming very dangerous and his behavior.
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  Yes. He forced them to distance
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  himself from both David and his son.
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  Yes. So now that's a great
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  observation. Now, he's now he's cutting off
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  all ties because sin erodes, it it eats up anything that's good
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  in life. And he that is Holy and precious
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  that, that God would consider a gift.
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  Sin has has no limit and destroying these things.
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  And, and when I read this about how he refers to Jonathan, he
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  says, you son of a perverse and Rebellion rebellious woman, the
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  irony If he's the son of anything, he's a son of a
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  perverse and rebellious man. And and look at this.
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  He insults Jonathan's mother. That's your wife, brother.
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  That's your wife. I read that I thought maybe this
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  is an indication that things were not really good in Saul's
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  marriage. Maybe this is an indication that
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  things weren't even good between his own wife.
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  So he had no problem just smearing her.
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  And just using her as a means to injure his own son and even harm
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  her her name and her reputation front of all these people think
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  about this, this man is destroying absolutely everything
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  in his life and he's just digging himself deeper into
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  this. And I look at I look at
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  Jonathan. And I hear this insult, and it's
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  even more than just insulting, his wife, insulting his mother,
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  you know what he's trying to say here.
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  What is he saying by saying you son of a perverse and
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  rebellious? When what is he trying to
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  essentially say? You're not my son.
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  You're not mine. You must be your mom must have
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  got with another guy and had you Because he's calling his mama,
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  harlot. Perverse and rebellious woman
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  who's your dad? Because my son wouldn't betray
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  me. Like how you're betraying me do
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  you feel the weight of it now You know, I've sat with people
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  not in this setting, but in different places who have still
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  felt the wounds people who have been physically abused by their
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  parents and they've told me the physical physical abuse, meant
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  nothing in comparison to being told you're no longer my
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  daughter. This is painful.
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  Let's let's let's feel this. It's not just read as a comment.
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  Let's read. Let's feel it.
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  You're not my son. Because my son wouldn't do what
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  you're doing, Jonathan. You're going to stand for this,
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  son of Jesse against your own dad.
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  Your mom must have slept somebody and brought you into
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  the world. Are we ready to be disowned for
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  our faith? Because this is, this is the
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  principal. Jonathan is going to come to a
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  Crossroads, it he's already set up, he's already made up his
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  mind, but he's going to come to a Crossroads where he's going to
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  really, have to make a decision now, because his relationship
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  with his dad is hanging by a thread.
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  It's hanging by a thread. All for what, for one simple
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  reason he's standing for the truth.
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  And is that is challenging him and and notice he calls them
• 35:26
  rebellious. What's so confusing about that?
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  Who's really the rebellious one? A comparison between Saul and
• 35:35
  Jonathan. I think we know the answer to
• 35:37
  that but sin has a way of warping our judgment.
• 35:43
  Pride has a way of blinding us and and, and it's all was so
• 35:46
  blinded to his own sin and his own character flaw and his own
• 35:50
  Disobedience that he was, he was with, apparently a clear
• 35:54
  conscience. Able to label the one who's
• 35:56
  actually standing for truth as a rebel, your the rebel, And so
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  here's another principle are you willing?
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  Are you ready to be labeled as evil for standing for the truth?
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  Because that's what he's enduring now.
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  You could feel the heat of this moment.
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  Now, here's a man who's essentially saying are you my
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  son or not? Who's being called a rebel?
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  And that was just, it was more than just a common.
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  He's saying, are you a rebel to this Kingdom?
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  Are you part of, are you part of the plan to overthrow me?
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  And Jonathan and this moment has to make a decision.
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  And he does make a decision in verse 32.
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  Then Jonathan answered Sol his father.
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  Why should he be put to death? What has he done?
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  He crossed the line. That's it.
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  He made his choice right there. And up to this point, as
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  difficult, as it was, to make a decision to stand by David.
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  This was this was the, the crossroads And God will find
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  ways to test our faith. When we have to stand for truth.
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  When it comes with a price tag, may God give us a boldness and a
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  courage to stand for Christ. When there's a price attached to
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  it. And what's amazing here in verse
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  31, for as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth,
• 37:39
  neither you nor your kingdom shall be established.
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  So he's, he's trying to express some kind of concern about
• 37:45
  Jonathan's future and David being a threat to that.
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  He said hey don't you see what this what this kid is going to
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  do. Your posterity is at risk.
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  Your position is at risk, your future is at risk, your
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  Dynasty's at risk. You're going to just give it all
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  up for the son of Jesse. And so you can see how this is
• 38:08
  trickery. This is manipulation, Saul is
• 38:10
  trying to persuade Jonathan by highlighting his own benefit and
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  his own future and his own well-being.
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  Here's the thing. You can't tempt a man, like
• 38:21
  Jonathan with Fame with security, with prominence, even
• 38:28
  with a palace, when you've already been sold out to God's
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  purposes, Jonathan he doesn't even entertain the thought
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  because Jonathan as we've learned from chapter 18, when he
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  destroyed himself and place his weapon and his all these things
• 38:42
  into the hands of of David. He already made a statement and
• 38:45
  that statement was this, I'm surrendered to the program that
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  God has ordained for my life. And if in God's Providence and
• 38:52
  in his planning, I'm not supposed to be king, but you're
• 38:55
  supposed to be king, then I would Joyce submit to that It's
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  very difficult to tempt, a man, or a woman who is completely
• 39:06
  sold out to the purposes of God. Even if it is at his own
• 39:11
  expense, even if the whole world can be, offered to him as Satan
• 39:15
  tempted Jesus, when your heart is convinced to please your
• 39:20
  master, whatever it demands of you.
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  Satan has very little to work with.
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  And that's what he's showing here.
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  Quick question. Do you believe that saw was
• 39:33
  actually concerned about Jonathan's future?
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  Is this a dad wants to make sure that his son has a Ministry and
• 39:43
  his son has has something to look forward to.
• 39:45
  Is that is that what's happening here?
• 39:49
  It's all being a good dad here and he just being cautious, know
• 39:52
  why? We have so much already up to.
• 39:57
  This point are studying for Samuel to give us reason to
• 40:00
  believe that Saul has proven over.
• 40:03
  And over that he's very, very little concern about others and
• 40:08
  very much concerned about himself proof.
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  Remember when we saw David, scuse me, Jonathan, overtake,
• 40:14
  that Garrison of the Philistines and first, Samuel 13 who took
• 40:17
  the credit for that saw So his son accomplish a great thing and
• 40:24
  he wanted to take credit for himself now.
• 40:26
  Never mind other chapters. How do we know in this very same
• 40:29
  chapter, the same context. That's all could care less about
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  his son's future and it was all about his name and his
• 40:38
  reputation and the monument that he set up.
• 40:42
  Look at verse 33. But saw hurled his spear at him
• 40:48
  to strike him. Interesting.
• 40:52
  So, you're concerned about your son, being the king, and the
• 40:56
  next move, you're ready to pin him against his chair with a
• 40:59
  spear. Good job, Saul.
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  Very simple illustration of a principle that you and I have
• 41:08
  heard all our lives. That your words and my words.
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  Do not mean much of our actions contradict, right?
• 41:19
  Saul claims one thing. He behaves in another saw
• 41:22
  professes. One thing and his behavior
• 41:24
  proves another the language of love in the Christian faith is
• 41:29
  spoken by acts of service and sacrifice.
• 41:35
  Even our love to God, no matter how much we profess it.
• 41:38
  If one says I love God but hates his brother.
• 41:40
  John says he's a liar. I want you to be king and in the
• 41:46
  next breath, he takes a spear and he uses that breath to try
• 41:49
  to kill his son. Your words mean so much song.
• 41:55
  I read that now is convicted. When I say to somebody, I love
• 41:58
  you. Do I really mean I love you.
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  Like what do I mean by that? I love you brother.
• 42:04
  What do I mean by that? When I say when I say I'm here
• 42:08
  for you? What do I mean when I say this
• 42:09
  one's going to hurt. When I say, I'm going to pray
• 42:11
  for you. Like These Things are Slip out
• 42:15
  of our mouths, you know? I'll pray for you.
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  A simple but necessary point about our actions being the
• 42:26
  determining factor of the worth and the validity of our claims.
• 42:31
  I want you to be king, I'm protecting your Dynasty.
• 42:36
  John. And so this spear is hurled at
• 42:43
  him and we read. So Jonathan that same verse knew
• 42:47
  that his father was determined to put David to death.
• 42:50
  This guy is willing to kill his own son.
• 42:55
  Why would I have it any trouble to believe that he's willing to
• 42:59
  kill a Farmer Boy? David was right.
• 43:04
  David was right now, this is incredible and verse 34 you read
• 43:10
  about Jonathan again. You read about Jonathan again
• 43:15
  and you see something. Listen, when I say Jonathan, I
• 43:17
  hope I hope you. And I have studied this man
• 43:20
  enough to realize that he is a great great portrait of
• 43:24
  selflessness of death to self. Right.
• 43:28
  If God Made You King though, politically, I'm supposed to be
• 43:31
  king, it's yours. If I had to stand for truth,
• 43:33
  even though I have to face the fury of my father, then I will
• 43:36
  stand for truth. Like this guy, this guy is dead
• 43:39
  to himself and now we go even deeper into his Art the Holy
• 43:44
  Spirit. Allows us to go even further
• 43:45
  into this man's soul to see that.
• 43:48
  He's really, really dead to himself.
• 43:51
  And a beautiful way, we see it in verse 34 and Jonathan Rose
• 43:55
  from the table and fierce anger. Yeah, no kidding.
• 44:00
  You just called my mom, a prostitute.
• 44:04
  He just said, I'm not your son. You just threw a spear at me.
• 44:09
  Is that why? He was angry?
• 44:10
  No. Jonathan Rose from the table and
• 44:14
  fierce anger and ate no food. The second day of the month for
• 44:18
  he was grieved for David. Free was grieved for David
• 44:24
  because his father has disgraced him.
• 44:31
  Can you be consumed with such a love for another person?
• 44:35
  That even though you yourself are enduring pain and hurt,
• 44:40
  that's being hurled at you. You were so unconcerned about
• 44:43
  you because there's somebody else who is undergoing, shame
• 44:48
  and disgrace and Injustice, it's possible.
• 44:53
  It's possible to be so dead to self. that when it comes to
• 44:59
  insults towards you like a corpse, you're in Shakin. but
• 45:06
  when it comes to somebody else, you're broken, And this is not
• 45:11
  just an illustration of what our love should look like.
• 45:14
  For one another as members of the body of Christ I believe
• 45:16
  this is an illustration of what Christ demands from us
• 45:21
  concerning our love for him. What I mean by that that we
• 45:24
  should be so alive in Christ that when it comes to his name
• 45:27
  being blasphemed and his name being smeared in the dirt and
• 45:31
  his name being Contradicted by the character of Christians and
• 45:36
  maybe even our own lives. That it would, it would break
• 45:39
  us. And even cause what the psalmist
• 45:43
  said, a righteous indignation because they have broken your
• 45:46
  long, but as much as we might be alive to Christ that we would,
• 45:52
  we would be so sensitive to these things.
• 45:55
  So sensitive, that even when you go to that game and people are
• 45:58
  using God's name in vain, you would cringe.
• 46:02
  When you thought you were watching, something innocent and
• 46:04
  somebody takes the name of Jesus Christ as a cuss word, as an
• 46:06
  expression of frustration, it would burn in your bosom. so
• 46:12
  alive in Christ in such a way, but so dead to self that if
• 46:16
  people spit in your face, It's like you spout on a dead man.
• 46:23
  Jonathan. What a man makes you wonder why
• 46:28
  he didn't become king. I mean.
• 46:32
  We somebody made this beautiful illustration with Jonathan and
• 46:35
  David Jonathan was just as much as a man of God, and David was
• 46:38
  so why did God choose day? Because that's his sovereignty.
• 46:43
  David even up to me, I would not be concerned about me.
• 46:49
  Paul had a disciple like that. Paul had a man named Timothy,
• 46:54
  and I love this verse. It has stuck with me ever since
• 46:56
  I read it, and I can't shake it off because It just made an
• 47:01
  impression on my soul, you don't have to turn there, but just
• 47:03
  listen to these words, he writes to the Philippians and he says
• 47:06
  in Philippians 2 24. I have no one like him, Timothy,
• 47:10
  who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare?
• 47:13
  Why verse 21 for they all seek their own interest.
• 47:18
  Not those of Jesus Christ. They Timothy is unique.
• 47:23
  Why is Timothy unique? Not because he's a great order,
• 47:25
  not because not because he's a theologian because the man's
• 47:30
  interest moment. He thought about one person
• 47:33
  David He thought it won't person his friend.
• 47:40
  Oh, that Christ would fill us with such a love for one another
• 47:43
  and for him. So what happens first 35?
• 47:50
  In the morning. Jonathan went out to the field
• 47:52
  to the appointment with David and with him a little boy.
• 47:55
  Now this is what I'm going to do.
• 47:56
  The remainder of the study. This portion of the text is so
• 48:00
  beautifully written. It's so detailed, it's so
• 48:04
  colorful that as I read it, I don't have a doubt that you're
• 48:08
  going to begin to Envision it in your mind.
• 48:10
  You're going to actually see it play out.
• 48:11
  So let me just read it. I'm not going to interrupt and
• 48:14
  just just let your mind. Let a holy imagination.
• 48:17
  Now, come to life and then we'll Talk about a few points.
• 48:23
  In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the
• 48:25
  appointment with David and with him a little boy and he said to
• 48:29
  this his boy run and find the arrows that I shoot as the boy
• 48:34
  ran, he shot an arrow Beyond him.
• 48:37
  And he rose and departed and Jonathan went into the City and
• 48:43
  the curtain closes. Precious beautiful.
• 48:50
  So many things. So many things to learn but just
• 48:54
  a few to consider tonight. first, did you notice that there
• 48:59
  is an interesting Segment dedicated to Jonathan in this
• 49:04
  little boy. Right.
• 49:08
  It's amazing. How this is how we get
• 49:11
  revelation. We ask the text questions.
• 49:14
  Why? What why this whole thing played
• 49:17
  out? He brought this little boy and
• 49:19
  this little boy went and he followed the Arrow when he came,
• 49:21
  he says no, no, come on, let's go.
• 49:23
  Let's get moving and he comes and says human the wisdom of
• 49:26
  Christ when we don't we don't think that even obeying the Lord
• 49:31
  will bring about the best outcome.
• 49:33
  And yet still, he is worthy of our obedience.
• 49:37
  Says here that this boy obeyed his master.
• 49:43
  And it's really the Simplicity of the Christian Life.
• 49:47
  You and I have God's word, have God's instructions and All
• 49:51
  Seasons. If you ever are doubting the
• 49:54
  will of God for your life realize that no matter what the
• 49:57
  particular as you were asking for the will of God has been
• 50:00
  revealed to you. It's here.
• 50:04
  And here is the Simplicity of this illustration.
• 50:06
  It's really the Simplicity of the Christian Life Trust and
• 50:08
  Obey for there's no other way but to be happy in Jesus, but to
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  trust and obey, Just like this childlike Faith, right?
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  He didn't ask question. You think this little boy with
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  the Jonathan, why are you shooting arrows?
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  And me picking it up target practice.
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  You would need to shoot more arrows.
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  I don't understand. And then now you brought me all
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  the way up to this field and now you want me to pick up one arrow
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  and then you want me to go all the way back to the city.
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  That's not, that's not childlike faith.
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  I don't understand Lord how this command is going to help me in
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  this situation. In fact, I think it's going to
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  get me in more trouble. But I'm going to trust you.
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  If you want to be an honest believer, then I will be an
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  honest believe and I will be truthful in this situation.
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  D.c. simple illustration. So let's look at the other side.
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  You and I as friends you and I as gospel Folk, To one another.
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  We are called to be correctors to be rebuked errs, to be
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  instructors, right? In love and in patients.
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  And with with great caution And we are to be to this outside
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  world truth-tellers. We are not supposed to withhold
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  the truth. We don't just emphasize on the
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  good. We don't even have good news if
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  we don't first have bad news. but on the flip side, how much
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  do we honor truth speakers in our lives?
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  how much do we value those in our lives that are willing to
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  call us out if we need to be called out, Do we love open
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  rebuke more than hidden love? Do we love the Embrace of
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  someone who's willing to wound us more than the kiss of an
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  enemy. I see David as a man of great.
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  Humility and integrity when he sees Jonathan, delivered this
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  message. He respects him.
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  He vows to him. He honors him.
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  And we must be the same to those who speak into our lives truth.
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  And I don't think that everybody has the right to speak into our
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  lives, by the way. I don't, because not everybody
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  has the best intention in mind for you.
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  There are some people who want to criticize you to Cripple you.
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  I'm not saying be naive and let anybody just say what they want.
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  Or like no by the, the sermon of the spirit.
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  Be very prayerful of inviting people into your life that will
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  in love. And you know, and love will say
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  what they need to say even if it hurts to build you up, David
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  honored, he honored Jonathan and after this, They Embrace and in
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  good fashion, Middle Eastern style.
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  They kiss each other. And they weep.
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  They weep. David weeps more.
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  Obviously Jonathan's going to get, get to go back to the city,
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  Jonathan's going to go see his other friends.
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  Jonathan's going to go to his warm bed, Jonathan's going to be
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  able to be part of the army, still David.
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  It's not gonna be able to see his wife.
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  He actually has to go fetch his family to leave Bethlehem
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  because he's scared for their safety.
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  He's gonna have to walk in the desert night thinking.
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  I thought I was supposed to be the king.
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  How is this? How is this work?
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  so, he weeps more Can I be honest with you?
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  When I read that I got angry. Because I see this, I see
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  Jonathan and David embracing each other weeping weeping
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  weeping. And all I could think and saying
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  this is Sol's fault. And I believe we need to be more
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  angry about Sin. I don't think Christians are
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  angry enough. Not about people, talking about
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  Sin, the destructive nature about Sin.
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  I believe if we were, if we had that anger more real in our
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  lives, we wouldn't tolerate it so easily in our lives.
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  Jesus Christ was anointed with the oil of gladness, not just
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  because he loved righteousness, but because he hated wickedness,
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  We just think Jesus was. Just he just loves and when
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  anything wrong happened. He just don't do that.
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  No. He hated wickedness.
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  He hated wickedness so much that he shed his blood, because of
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  it. Since shatters it breaks it
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  destroys. And we see a picture of it here.
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  Destroying a friendship. Destroying family.
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  Destroying something that could have been so beautiful.
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  Be careful not to be angry at people because people are not
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  our enemies. Sin and Satan our enemies.
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  Jonathan after weeping heaving, maybe puts Javits David aside
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  holds him by the shoulders. And he says, these three
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  wonderful words that should not be surprising coming from a man
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  of God after David is weeping and maybe Jonathan collected
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  himself earlier and David still weeping.
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  He says, in verse 42, go in peace.
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  Go in peace. David, I know this hurts.
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  I know. This is painful.
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  I know you didn't expect this. Remember what I said earlier,
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  the Lord is sending you away and he says, go in peace.
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  Because he reminds him of the Covenant that they made, in the
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  name of the Lord. He reminds him that his future
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  is secure, he reminds him in essence indirectly that when
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  you, and I have isn't going to finish, it's not leave it or
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  jealous of it. as in sauce case, We end on a sad note.
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  But we end also on a hopeful note, go in.
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  Peace. David could go into that Bleak,
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  lifeless Wilderness in Israel. Knowing that the Lord had sent
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  them there. And you and I can have great
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  confidence tonight that wherever we are in this moment.
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  If you are walking with God, no matter what man has done to
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  cause it. No matter what kind of family
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  dysfunction, you're trying to deal with.
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  No matter what it is in your life, God is sovereign.
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  And what he's going to put David through is absolutely necessary
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  before he becomes king. You think God is think God is
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  just reacting to Saul. You think God's Got, You Know
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  What I really was? I was really having David to
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  stay in the palace this whole time.
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  So let's just figure out another plan.
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  No, God ordained it. God ordained it and this would
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  do nothing but good to David as we're about to find out in the
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  weeks ahead. Cherishes Bible study because
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  And this season and this month of the year, we're going to be
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  focusing on the Incarnation of Christ.
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  So keep this fresh in your hearts before we return to this
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  Bible study. Let's pray and ask God to do
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  that. Loi, thank you.
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  That you and your great wisdom have spelled out such a glorious
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  story filled with sanctifying truths.
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  Lord, as we've concluded, our study of Jonathan in great
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  detail. We thank you for this real
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  person who who illustrates so much of the potential of the man
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  set apart for God. Lord of Jonathan.
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  Is an example of anything. Surely tonight.
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  Lord, he's an example of the devotion, and the sacrifice that
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  is required of us, in light of the son of David Christ, Jesus
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  himself. We asked, oh God.
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  That those who would blaspheme his name would hurt us more than
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  if they have blasphemed our name.
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  If they have tarnished our name, it would not mean anything in
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  comparison to your glorious glorious name.
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  We ask. Oh God.
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  That we would have that fiery devotion that even if God
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  forbid, we have to stand against the most lovely people in their
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  lives, the closest people to our lives.
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  We will choose peace with Christ, over peace with man.
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  Lord. We pray that as we've learned so
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  much about friendship that it went in, just stir our minds.
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  Our hearts, it wouldn't be just good fresh insights Lord.
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  Make It Real in our lives to love each other.
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  With such a selfless concern. That people's pain would be our
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  pain and people's distress would be our distress.
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  That people's hunger would be our hunger.
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  There need would be our need Inspire that in our hearts, by
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  the spirit of God, we can't do it.
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  Lord, we confess. We will fail at this.
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  Leave us to ourselves Lord, and we will be consumed with
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  ourselves but do a work in US. For those in this place, Lord,
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  Jesus, who are enduring suffering, the Injustice of man
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  Payne. Family, even the hurtful words
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  of those that are supposed to Spring forth life, we just pray
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  that this would serve as a motivation to remain.
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  Holy Vengeance is mine says the Lord.
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  We leave it to you, we will not rob you.
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  We will not steal from you. And tonight not only is
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  Vengeance yours. All the glory is yours and we
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  want to give you glory tonight because your word is life and
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  you have supplied life into our souls tonight in a fresh way.
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  We give you maximum praise, we give you all the honor and all
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  the glory in this house because we have received, we have eaten
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  of your word, the bread of life. Be blessed by our worship.
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  As we respond to these truths and we say I surrender and I
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  give myself to your purposes, no matter, what is demanded of me
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  to make it so and Jesus name we pray.
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  Amen.