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2 Samuel 4 Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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Second Samuel, chapter 4 in the word of God, is a reference
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point tonight. Last week, we had our Q&A the
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week before, we had a prayer night, and so it has been two
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weeks. Since we've come to this text
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and so there's a special excitement for tonight.
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I hope you feel that same excitement Second Samuel,
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chapter 4. And as we come here, I cannot
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help but feel the need to pray before we go to school.
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Can we pray one more time? Father, we are deeply aware that
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without the Holy Spirit. This meeting is vain.
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Lord, we are fully convinced that the holy spirit is the
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Difference Maker. He is the factor that brings
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something that can be deathly dull and bring it to life with
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Vigor. And we just ask oh God.
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That that would be the case tonight.
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You even told your own Apostles that they could not even witness
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apart from the gift of God in the Holy Spirit and we need him
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tonight. We do not assume that our gifts
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are enough. Do not presume that.
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We can do this apart from your power.
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We are, we are dependent upon your grace.
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Even for a study, that might not be as formal as a conference or
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Sunday morning meeting Lord, be in our midst and let us sense
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your nearness, more importantly, let us sense the power of your
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word being driven into our hearts in a way that brings life
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to our being. And produces the fruit that you
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desire. We commit this study into your
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hands in Jesus name, we pray. Amen. second Samuel chapter 4,
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it is in this chapter that we continue the transition of
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Israel's monarchy David is very close to being rightfully
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crowned as the king, not just of Judah, but of all of Israel and
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before that will take place, there will be a Monumental
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pivotal moment that will occur, which we will read of in chapter
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4, something huge happened before this.
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And that was the death of Abner. Who is the commander of the
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Kingdom of Israel? Who was ruled by ishka, Chef
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Abner was assassinated, Abner was Unjustly taken from this
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Earth and David mourn that loss and David is going to see even
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more Injustice performed at a time when there was great
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uncertainty and instability in this nation.
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And so as you and I come keep in mind that things are teetering.
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Everything now is being shaken. The news of Abner's death is
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sending a chill down people's spines and that is certainly the
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case for the king of the majority of the tribes ishka
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shot. We read here in the first few
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verses, his response and what is going to happen to him as a
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result of this man's death verse 1.
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We read when ishka, chefs, all son, heard that Abner had died
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at Hebron, his Courage failed. And all Israel was dismayed now,
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Saul son, had two men who were captains of rating bands.
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The name of the one was banana and the name of the other Rahab
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son of Sons of Ramona man of Benjamin from be wroth for be
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wroth. Also is counted part of Benjamin
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the bureau theit's fled to get I am and have been sojourners
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there to this day. Let's pause here.
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Verse 1 is crucial rich with application.
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The first thing that we see is Ish besets response to the news
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that report of Abner's death. Very plainly.
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We're told that his courage had failed.
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Now that means more than him being distraught emotionally
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because someone that he knew and partnered with was now taken
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from him, this speaks of Hope being dashed.
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As Abner was a valuable asset and now he was he was gone and
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Ishmael Seth realized what this would mean for him.
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And it's very simple. He was going to face a losing
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battle already ich Mich. At knew that he would stand
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absolutely no chance before the true king of Israel.
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Now that Abner is not is not there.
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And the reason why is because it was Abner's idea to raise up
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ishka to be the king and any success that they knew.
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During those seven years was due to Abner and now-ish Bischoff is
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all by himself. He's standing alone and you have
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to face these challenges alone and he knew that he was not up
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for the task. This man was not a true king, he
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was a puppet ruler. He was used by Abner for Abner
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to maintain the position of power and I'm sure he was aware
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of his weakness based on this verse.
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And he's going to realize very soon just how weak he is.
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But notice the principal here, his courage failed.
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Why? Why would a man?
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Like ishka thesz feel like he failed in his courage and his
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strength and his confidence? Any idea?
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Somebody said it. his Hope was in, who In men and amen.
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A strongman and accomplished man.
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A confident man, a military man. But a man nonetheless.
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And if you and I want to know consistent stability, in life,
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please do what I'm about to tell you to do and that is to never
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put your confidence in a mere mortal.
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It is an extremely dangerous habit, and the habit of many, to
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be able to think that your faith is dependent upon somebody else.
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Who is made of dust just like you.
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You will know great, great distress in your short life by
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simply keeping your perspective and trying to find your
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salvation. Not the salvation of your soul,
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but deliverance from many things and someone who might even
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promised to bring Salvation because that responsibility in
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that ability Belongs to the Lord Of Glory alone.
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And that is an important word for us today and you would be
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amazed to know that if you just put that lens to see how that
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exhortation is found from Genesis to revelation.
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It makes you wonder how much God knows of the temptation of even
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his own children to lean upon Dustin Ash.
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I want to show you this. This is one Psalm and it's
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encouraging to just read a big portion of it because this Psalm
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is literally dedicated to that theme.
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And if David wrote it, the author is known as unknown.
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That it's even more inspiring because this man was a king
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himself, but go to Psalm 146 very quickly and notice a few
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verses with me, beginning in verse 3 and really you don't
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even need it. Bound on these verses, they're
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just so self-explanatory. Consider these charges in a day
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where political leaders are being seen as Messiah figures in
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2022. And consider these verses as
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even spiritual leaders, and the past few years have been falling
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short and disappointing, the Evangelical World in different
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ways. Look at verse 3, put not your
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trust in princes. In a son of man in whom, there
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is no salvation. When his breath departs, he
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returns to the Earth on that very day, his plans.
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Perish blessed is. He whose help is in the god of
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Jacob. Whose hope is in the Lord, his
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God who made Heaven and Earth the sea and all that is in them
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who keeps Faith forever. Meaning he is faithful forever
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verse seven, who executes Justice for the oppressed who
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gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners
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free. Here's what the psalmist is
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trying to say. Your confidence.
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In God can't be a theological Theory.
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It's not something that you put in a catechism.
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It's not something you put in a doctrinal statement, your trust
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should actually be feelable. And there should be a system of
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belief that actually really believes that God can intervene
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in your life at a particular moment.
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I mean that's why he gives these examples beginning in verse 6
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and 7, he executes Justice for the oppressed.
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So on a day like are they were the justice system is so broken
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and corrupt, we are told to put our trust in the one who can
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execute True Justice, what else who gives food to the hungry.
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Well, that's comforting to me in a day where we're talking about
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food shortages and where the whole world now is not knowing
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how we're gonna be able to fill our grocery shelves, shelves,
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and all this talk and rumors of how we can at any moment.
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Lose what we were Comfortable with on a day-to-day basis but
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he can actually put food on your plate.
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He can actually do that. And if you really want to know
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whether or not your faith and your trust and your dependence
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upon the Lord, I mean it's really by asking yourself a
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simple question. All you have to do examine your
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own heart and just ask yourself this question.
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Do I actually believe? Do I really, really trust that
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God is able to supply? Fly. do I actually believe that
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you'd be amazed to know how many people say it sing it quote it
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print it wear it but when it really comes to it, there is no
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true, trusting God and it shows the fear in people.
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The worrying people. And the psalmist is very clear
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here. You can actually rely on God.
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I'm not talking about like one day in eternity, you will
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restore all things. I'm talking about now.
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Like right now like tomorrow he can send Ravens, he can make
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your enemies even come and be at peace with you and provide for
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you. And so you and I have to have
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that trust constantly and this Manish Bischoff has opposite
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conviction. He stands in great contrast to
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the Mighty Men. David David, who was able to
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literally stand alone in a valley?
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When there is a bunch of soldiers behind him, biting
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their nails and scratching their heads and actually believe.
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I mean I may not see him but he is here, he is actually here and
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he will be the force behind this weapon as I sling.
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Into your face. And he will be the one that will
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sustain me and guide me throughout it all.
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We see a great contrast between two kings, who had two different
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levels of understanding of, who the true God is, and what he's
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able to do. You know what, so encouraging
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though, is that there is an obscure verse a verse that many
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people often don't quote that promises us that God is able to
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even make us like this Brave hero David.
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God is actually able we look at a scripture like David.
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We look at this character and were inspired by him and yet God
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wants to assure as there's a particular promise that he is
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able to infuse that same courage, that David knew that we
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are inspired by and actually live it for ourselves.
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Can I show you that verse? It's in Zechariah Chapter 12.
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Verse 8. This is speaking about a future
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day when Jerusalem will be surrounded by foreign enemies,
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but this tells me what God is able to do even now in my life.
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And Zechariah Chapter 12 verse 8, notice the promise that God
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gives the Israel for a future time and a promise that I
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believe is available today. Zechariah Chapter 12, the
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prophet Zechariah Chapter 12 verse 8.
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We read on that day. The Lord will protect the
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inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on
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that day. Shall be like, who David the
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feeblest? The weakest.
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Those who can't lift their head and confidence, even them shall
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be like that. Mighty warrior David.
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I take that and I say Lord make me like that.
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Now today, and this time And then he goes on to say, in the
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House of David shall be like God, like the angel of the Lord
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going before them. This is not the point of the
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study, but if you want to Old Testament verse that confirms
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the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, it's there.
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Did you see it? Look at it.
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And the House of David shall be like, God, the like who the
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angel of the Lord, who is the Angel of the Lord, the
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pre-incarnate Christ. So all you need to do is find
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the verses that prove that the angel of the Lord shares the
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prerogative, 's and the abilities that Yahweh himself
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has. And then you could come to a
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verse like this which is plain and clear shall be like God.
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Like the angel of the Lord, the angel of the Lord is God.
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And Jesus is the Angel of the Lord.
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Going before them. It should be Seth here, Saul
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son. His courage failed.
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Because he put his trust in a man.
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What do you do? What do you do when you lose
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your job? What do you do when somebody
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that you trust? That somebody that brought so
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much encouragement and hope and joy into your life is taken from
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you? Do you lose courage?
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Yeah, my sting But we are to be like David and we can be like
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David by the help of the Holy Spirit.
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Let's come back to 2nd Samuel 4 and verse two and three.
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Now Saul son had two men who were captains of rating bands,
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okay? All for a sudden we are
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introduced Two two characters we never heard of them before their
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names. Are banned.
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Nia and Ricotta and their sons of a man named Ramone and for a
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specific reason. The Holy Spirit finds it
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necessary to give us some background about who these
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characters are. And all that we're told about
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them is one. They were sons of a man of
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Benjamin and to that they were military men in this Kingdom,
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specifically leaders of rating bands, And the question that we
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should always be asking when we come to text, that seem to be
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out of place, would seem to be expanded more to.
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What we would think is necessary is why Why is this given to us?
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Why are we told these things? Why not?
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Just give us the name of these men and just tell us what
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they're about to do know, before we even see what they're about
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to do. We are told who they are and so
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I present that question to you. Why do you believe the Lord?
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The author of these verses wants to tell us about where they're
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from. Well, one, where are they from?
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Which tribe do they represent? Ring a bell.
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Benjamin ring a bell. Who's from Benjamin Saul is from
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Benjamin, right? So we realize that these men
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come from the same tribe and that is supposed to cause us to
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believe at least that whoever these men are because they come
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from the same tribe, they're going to be loyal to Saul's
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house. There's some Fidelity that there
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is some kind of partnership there just because they share
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the blood of Benjamin. And so we're anticipating that
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not knowing what they're about to do.
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We're anticipating that they will come alongside.
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They will be in partnership with especially because they are all
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from Benjamin. They're supposed to be loyalty
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here, and we're going to actually see the opposite and a
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few verses. But read carefully is something
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else supposed to be conveyed. And I think there is look at
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these words here in parentheses, for beer off, they came from be
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Roth. Also is counted part of
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Benjamin, so that there is this clarification.
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Yeah. These men come from be Roth but
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be Roth. Remember they are actually part
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of Benjamin implying that perhaps there's some confusion
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there that broth actually isn't part of Benjamin.
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So the author inspired by the spirit.
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Says no, no, no, they are actually connected.
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Are these men from Benjamin? Answer, yes, or no.
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Yes, or no. This is where it's so good to be
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students of the Old Testament, the holy spirit's expecting us
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to be students of the Old Testament so that when we come
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to a verse like this, we go, interesting, interesting,
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something is about to happen based on the background of where
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they come from, does anybody know this is, like level 10 for
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Bible quiz, be Roth, you have your hand up.
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So you might know Here habits previous two, venti mocha.
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Okay, say that again their inhabitants of Very good.
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Did you study before tonight? B.
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Roth is a specific town that was inhabited before the conquest
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took place. and the mention of that is found in the very book
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that describes the conquest of Israel into the land of Canaan,
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which is the book of what Joshua, it's a turn with me
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quickly to Joshua chapter 9, and I want you to see the reference
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to be Roth. And to see which context of
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finds itself. Joshua 9:17.
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And the people of Israel set out and reach their cities on the
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third day. Now their cities were gibeon, he
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fira be wroth and curia. Theorem, do you see it, there be
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wroth. So now we're told that Joshua
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and his men, they approach these towns and were told that they
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didn't attack them. They didn't attack them.
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And the reason is because these towns were occupied by certain
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group of people who made a covenant with the nation of
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Israel, that's what the whole chapter is about.
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Do you remember that chapter when we had a whole study about
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which group of people, it's in the chapter, you can just peek
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and see the name early on the gibeonites, the gibeonites who
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made a deal with Israel and that deal would Shield them from
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being annihilated like the Of the inhabitants of the land of
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Canaan and how did they do that? What's this whole chapter about
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it's really about how Israel was deceived?
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So these gibeonites were very clever that they came with old
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clothes. They came with dried bread and
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wine skins that were broken and they made it appear as though
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they had come from a distant land, so that when they
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approached Joshua and the leadership, they make a covenant
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with them, because they themselves knew that Israel was
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sent by God, to bring about total Destruction, and they
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didn't want to be in that number.
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And Joshua failed. We're told in that same chapter
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to seek counsel from the Lord and in doing so they make a
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covenant with somebody that they were meant to actually destroy
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and then because of that Covenant it overrode, even the
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campaign itself to take over and they honor that promise and they
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brought into subjection to be slaves.
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And they survived and now the holy spirit with that reference,
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the fact that they were part of be Rocky came from be rotten and
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later on once they actually Conquest it Benjamin, The Tribe
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of Benjamin occupy, that area is wanting us to have the
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affiliation made. These men came from a town that
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deceived Israel. Something suspicious on its way.
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Something discrete, something cunning is being planned here.
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That's exactly what we are being given with this reference before
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us. And we're going to see how they
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are going to actually operate in deception to accomplish a
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certain goal. And then we think we're done
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here with new characters until we come to verse 4.
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If you thought verse 3 was with strange verse 2 and 3 look at
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verse 4, Jonathan the son of Saul had a son who was crippled
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and his feet He was five years old when the news about Saul and
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Jonathan came from Jezreel and his nurse took him up and fled.
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And as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame and his
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name was mephibosheth. And so now this seems out of
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place a little bit. Again, I ask the question, why,
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why out of the entire narrative was it necessary to put
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mephibosheth? and introducing him and even his
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disability here at this point, you have any idea why Because by
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Design, there is a case being made here, there's something
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trying to be communicated, why bring up mephibosheth now?
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Why not later? He's going to be mentioned
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later. But why at this point?
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He's another are very good and so he's actually the next male
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Heir in line after ishka, chef. And so, what's happening here is
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we are actually being revealed and where they're being exposed
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to the feebleness of this Kingdom, just how weak sauce
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Dynasty has become because we're being prepared for Ishq, has to
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be assassinated. And the next person in line is
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apparently, John. In son, mephibosheth, and he's
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crippled at the feet. And at this point, if you do the
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numbers, if he was five years old, when he heard the news of
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his dad and his grandfather being slain at War seven years
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has passed. So he's around 12 years old.
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This is supposed to be the next king in line.
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And what we're trying to understand here, what we're
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being told is this dynasty is near Extinction, it's almost
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completely gone. And even though ishka Chef is
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going to die, David has no worry to be concerned about a rising
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King, who will fight against him, because this is who he has
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to actually face if he faces him at all. and so we see here that
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we are being given a description of just how broken And just how
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crippled no pun intended, saws house has become.
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But these verses have so much more to offer us than just that.
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These verses have so much truth richness for application, and,
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and precepts for the people of God.
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You know, I read this and I couldn't help that the
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condition, the disability of mephibosheth, that he would have
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to live with, for the rest of his life was something Beyond
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his control. Somebody who was, who is called
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to take care of him, nurture him.
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Secure him, failed him. And dropped him.
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So this, this Guardian, this nurse, when they heard the news
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that the Philistines have won the war she panicked.
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And she picked up a five-year-old.
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I mean, if you have a five-year-old that's not, that's
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not necessary. But for whatever reason, she
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picks up mephibosheth and she runs.
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And as she runs whether she tripped or she lost grip, this
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young boy Falls, maybe over a balcony, made with down some
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stairs and both his feet were broken.
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Because of failure to heal, right?
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He would live with this condition where he could not
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walk for the rest of his life. And I look at this and I cannot
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help but think that this physical picture is what happens
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to many people emotionally mentally.
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You can even say spiritually. At some point in their lives.
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What do I mean by that? You'd be amazed to know how many
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people today are fractured because of something that
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happened to them when they were young.
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And many of you perhaps can attest to the fact that your
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parents who were supposed to nourish you and love you.
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And Supply Grace and wisdom and strength failed.
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You In other words, dropped you. And just like this nurse they
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didn't operate in. Good faith, they didn't have an
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anchoring trust in the Lord, a conviction that he is in
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control, or they didn't abide by his word.
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And instead they operated in fear, or lack of wisdom or
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self-interest and their failure contributed to the Brokenness of
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your development, you'd be again, amazed to know how many
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people who are adults and have children today are suffering in
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their marriage and in the way they relate to their children,
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because when they were children, They were let down either by the
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action of a father or mother or the failure to act in the way
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that they should have Act. So, what do we do?
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Because I am not in the camp that believes just because
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something happened in your developmental years, that you're
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stuck like that for the rest of your life.
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Modern psychologists might say that, and then just medicate you
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and call you to just live to blame people for the rest of
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your life and then justify your Brokenness.
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Somebody cleverly said that even a broken crayon can draw
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straight. It just depends who holds it.
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And a broken life if it is placed in the hands of a perfect
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God. Can produce good and see
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Holiness and wholeness because of his goodness, as you've
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submitted to his lordship and his Shepherd like leadership.
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Again, we offer counsel and we sit with people and so much
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trauma that is come from upbringings resurface and
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manifest in sinful Behavior. But I can't find one place in
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the Bible, where that is justifiable.
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Your father wounds do not permit you to be broken and cause
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others to be broken. Your mother wounds do not permit
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you to act in a certain way because you fail to have an
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example, I'm not negating. The fact that there is an
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influence there and there is some kind of a contribution
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there but I cannot confidently say that you are to be stuck
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there because my redeemers to Great, his gospel is too
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powerful. His love is overwhelming.
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And that Brokenness in the right hand, can draw a beautiful
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picture out of your life. If you just trust him and Trust
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in his word and allow him to heal you And I'm not being
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overly simplistic by saying that a Wan can be just you know,
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waved over your head and everything will be solved.
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But what I am saying is that as you continue to just be there in
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his presence, in his word surrounded by people who can
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console you and Lead You you will know wholeness and healing
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in Jesus name. Unfortunately, you have people
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who who live pointing to finger and even if that finger points
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to the past and you know what Isaiah says in Isaiah 58.
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God even rebukes the nation for many things even though they
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were fasting and praying because one of the things that they were
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doing was continually pointing the finger.
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You will not know healing if you do that, you will not know
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restoration if you do that. God wants you to look up and
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stretch out your hands to him and allow him to wash over you
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in a way that will transform you for good.
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That's possible. We have something that modern
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psychology doesn't. We have something that this
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world cannot figure out any man be in Christ.
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He is a new creation New Creation.
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He doesn't patch you up, he renews you Every part of who you
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are past trauma, present, trauma, and whatever is to come,
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he can Shield you and keep you. This is a gospel of Hope and
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mercy. That's the Practical thing that
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I see. But do you see the prophetic?
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Here is mephibosheth who has experienced a Brokenness because
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of a fall caused by another sound familiar.
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You're a son or a daughter of Adam as am?
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I And you and I are spiritually broken.
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We are disabled. We are able to walk in the ways
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of God. We are unable to keep in step
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with his commands because of because of our forefathers Who
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in essence dropped, the human race, and you, and I cannot walk
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in our own strength. To keep up with his righteous
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demands but what we will see, in a few chapters is David himself.
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Asks, for a descendant of Saul and he discovers that
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mephibosheth is alive. And what does he do?
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He vows to be kind to him and so he invites this man who could
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not walk on his two feet to sit at his table.
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And in second Samuel chapter 9, we read there.
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That mephibosheth was treated as one of the king's sons and he
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continually fellowship with David and was provided for and
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was treated. With unusual kindness because
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because legally technically this man is an enemy to David and his
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kingdom. And yet he still extends mercy
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and does above and beyond what anybody would do with an enemy.
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And you and I though broken because of a fall, thousands of
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years ago, Noah greater reward than the fetish F.
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Because we have the true king of Israel, the son of David who
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bids us to come and who doesn't just treat us as a son or a
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daughter, but actually adopts us And cause us as his own and we
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have continual fellowship with him, not just now, but forever,
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and ever, and to glory. And so, we even see the gospel
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here. When you partner this verse with
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second, Samuel, 9 and Beyond you, see that the gospel picture
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of a king taking as in the words of men fetishes a dead dog, like
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you and me and then crowning us with goodness and love and
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mercy. So, we come back to our main
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text. and we see in verse 5, what these two Scoundrels, these
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brothers are going to do And verse 5, we read now the sons of
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Ramon, the bira theit Rahab and bana set out and about the heat
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of the day. They came to the house of ishka
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Chef as he was taking his Noonday rest and they came into
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the midst of the house, as if to get wheat and they stab them in
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the stomach, then of a cob and Bandai, his brother escaped.
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Read the Bible slowly. What stands out to you in these
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two verses? What details?
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That could provide some kind of application in our New Covenant
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Walk With Jesus Christ? Can we draw out from these
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things? Anything else stands out from
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you before you rather? If you have something feel free
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to lift your hand and contribute.
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It's a big classroom. I know it's intimidating but
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where he got stabbed in the stomach.
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Okay, there's something there to observe.
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And talk about stab-in-the-back. That's one thing stabbed in the
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stomach. That's pretty cruel.
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Anything else? Very good.
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Someone is taking a siesta. A Noonday rest.
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Seems to be a routine as well. Great observation anything else?
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Very good. You guys are wonderful students.
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They came in as if to get wheat, let's just stop there for a
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moment. Notice, the first thing we are
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told in verse 5, as he was taking his Noonday rest, very
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common Middle Eastern heat. You would work early hours in
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the day and take a time off. People still do this in
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different parts of the world and I work in the coolness of the
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evening. And so, we see that this is some
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kind Routine that the King was a part of and this routine was
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obviously known to his servants as men.
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And unfortunately, it was known to these two men.
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And so they come at a specific time where he is, he is sleeping
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and that is condemnation to them.
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That they came to a man in the most vulnerable state that you
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can be in which is in your sleep and they assassinate him.
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But this is also an indictment against ishka chef Because we
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know that Abner has been killed. We know that the nation is an
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uproar. We know that people are
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dismayed, we know that there's political upheaval and that's
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when you take a nap. What's running through your mind
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to give you the ability to even lay back and close your eyes and
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actually fall asleep. No, indication of planning.
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No indication of praying. No indication of communicating
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your sleeping. And it's in that place where he
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is actually killed. Listen rest is good, rest is
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necessary, rest is encouraged. But there's a difference between
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race and excessive slumber. Because Slumber spiritually
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speaking makes us sitting ducks. And David will fall into the
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very same trap and just a few chapters when he was supposed to
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be at War, but instead, he was lounging on his couch and not
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just his life, but the life of the nation would never be the
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same because he chose to be in a place of rest, when he was, in
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fact, supposed to be in a place of battle. you and I put our
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souls in grave Jeopardy when we are idle I fear for Christians
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who do more sitting than serving.
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And I am very worried for Christians who do more playing
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than praying, especially in a time where you and I are living
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in great shifts that are occurring worldwide, that will
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Usher us into a world and a system and a reality of no
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return. That will impact even the way
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the church will operate and move about freely with the gospel in
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the Great Commission. You know, you and I may look at
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issue is Seth and think that he is crazy for being able to
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sleep. But let me tell you something.
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Even in the past two years, with all the events that took place,
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you still have Christians who are asleep.
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I mean, at most, you had somebody who just woke up and
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then they just went back to sleep because they hit the
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snooze button. There are still many many
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believers who do not realize, and understand the significance
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of the times that we're living in.
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And it's no wonder Jesus prophesied that he prophesied
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that even need the time. In the culmination of the age.
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You're still gonna people engaging in business and
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marrying and vacationing and investing in like at any moment.
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The sky is going to split open, he's going to come.
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So, even during the tribulation period, you're going to have
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these activities happening. It's not going to be like those
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apocalyptic movies for everybody's hiding.
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And eating a can of beans with an AK-47.
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You're gonna have people actually engaging in day-to-day
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life distracted by these things. Even though at any moment, the
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millennial kingdom is going to crash through.
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And set up a world that we desperately need.
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And so you and I have to be very, very careful, because when
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I speak about sleeping, what I'm speaking about, a spiritual
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Slumber, and spiritual Slumber is simply this and inactivity or
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an unresponsiveness to the things of God or the events that
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point to the necessity, to be on alert, the inactivity in the
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unresponsiveness, to the things of God.
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When in fact, we should heightened our awareness, and
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our involvement, and our participation in the things of
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God, because they events around his demand, such a posture and
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such a participation Let me read this verse, you don't have to
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turn there. Look up, Paul tells the Romans,
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just just because people think sometimes we go overboard with
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that kind of talk. Romans 13:11 besides this, you
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know, the time that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep.
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Paul says, wake up from sleep. Don't you realize the hour that
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were in for salvation is nearer to us now than when we first
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believed. Stay on the Roman Church.
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I mean, even a few years after the church was birthdays, they
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fell asleep. How much more now wake up.
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Don't you see this? Don't you realize this Hebrews
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10 says, I'm paraphrasing that you should continue to meet and
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encourage one another, all the more as you see the day Drawing
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Near, that's why we my heart was broken that when a global
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pandemic happened, we were closing churches down.
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No, no Hebrews. Hebrews actually says have more
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meetings. Let me remind you, okay?
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Just in case I offended somebody there.
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The Bible predicts not just one pandemic, but pestilence has a
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plural. Are we going to shut our church
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down? Every time?
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There's a pestilence that breaks out because more is coming
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according to the words of Jesus. The church needs to be the
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church and we submit to the Lord Of Glory.
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Not to the Caesar. In the White House.
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We'll see if this study stays on YouTube after that.
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So Christians need a wake-up. Christians need to realize that
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the moment we become inactive is the moment.
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Satan is at the advantage. Which comes to the next Point as
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our sister pointed out. What was that?
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That they came in as though they were grabbing wheat.
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This is deceptive and so we understand the relationship
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between them being from be Roth and their their scheme over
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here. It makes total sense.
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Now they came in a certain way. They came in Cloak with
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innocence with a different agenda when in fact they had a
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murderous plot on their hearts and so they come in And they
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look at a certain way. They act in a certain way they
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speak in a certain way when in fact that a dagger in their
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hands ready to plunge it into the stomach of a man who thought
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that he was safe enough to sleep when he should have been on his
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guard. And I think that sequence is
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beautiful. I think the order of these
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things is quite insightful. Because what we see here is that
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there is obviously a failure to discern who these men were and
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what they were doing, but that always follow spiritual
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drowsiness. He was asleep.
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And it makes you wonder where the guards were at.
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And because their guards were down literally because he was
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asleep unaware to be able to comprehend the events around
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him. He could not see what was
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coming. And so there was a lack of
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discernment there. And that cost him.
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His life deception is no small danger to someone who fails to
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abide in the truth and walk in The Fellowship of the Holy
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Spirit. And with God's people, but it is
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a very small threat to somebody who's prayerful And who walks
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with the Lord day by day and who receives the word of God, on a
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consistent basis. Such a person is strong and is
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able even by the grace of God to see past the things that are
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masked with innocence and Purity and harmlessness and to be able
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to understand the danger that can be in the Horizon.
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Somebody who's walking with the Lord consistently is always a
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few steps ahead of Satan. But someone who is not and is
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asleep spiritually just, just like what we see here there
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succumb to the schemes of the enemy without even seeing it
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coming their way. And I would tell you that the
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only way that you and I are going to have discernment and
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these times were deception is going to intensify that's going
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to be a major theme of the conference.
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The lack of discernment is troubling among Christians.
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It is troubling. And so, we have to understand
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that if we want to know, a heightened discernment and an
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ability to be ahead of the enemy's schemes, then it's going
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to require to remain awake. The lack of discipline here,
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seen a Nishka, Seth can be paralleled to the lack of
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spiritual discipline and many today and that will contribute
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to many in filtrations whether personally or into the into the
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church at Large. And this is why we have to
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understand. That remaining awake when
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especially circumstances around us.
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Are crying out. For answers, we got to be ready
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with those answers. We read on a verse 7.
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When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his
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bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him.
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This is gruesome, this is vicious.
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They took his head and went by the way, of their Arab all night
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and brought the head of ish bichette to David at Hebron.
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And they said to the king. Here is the head of ish bichette
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the son of Saul your enemy who sought your life.
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The Lord has Avenged my Lord, the king this day on Saul and on
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his offspring. Two things stand out here.
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One the way they address David. They were able to change their
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Alliance very, very swiftly. Is this a genuine?
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Is this is genuine conviction. Absolutely not.
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They're no different than Abner. When Abner was able to realize
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we're on the losing team now. He changed teams in order to
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secure his position and preserve his life.
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These men are no different Abner's dead, like we're done.
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It's just not going to work where a sinking ship time to
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jump off and they attempt to do so and they come with the
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verbage and they come even with a parent.
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Fidelity and faithfulness and loyalty.
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And the fact that this is repeated, I thought like this is
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repeating a lot. This theme is repeating a lot
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and it's very very obvious. Why?
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Because the holy spirit is trying to convey that, those who
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stand for nobility and those who stand for righteousness.
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Often do so, went, it will bring about some self-gratification
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preservation or promotion but when the sign up sheet, comes
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out to stand for the truth. When it cost you it knows.
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But very few names. And so be reminded of that.
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Don't be surprised if those who stand for the truth will not do
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so when it will cost them something even those that you
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thought stood for the truth, don't be surprised if the
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numbers diminish don't be surprised if you see people
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jumping ship. And that we have so many Old
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Testament pictures of that preparing us to see that this
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will be a possibility in our own Lifetime and it will because the
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Holy Spirit prophesied it but notice what else they do.
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Here is the head of is beset? The son of Saul your enemy who
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saw your life the Lord. Avenged my Lord.
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The Lord Avenged my Lord. They put God's name with it.
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They attached the lord's name to it.
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Believers often believe that taking the lord's name in vain
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means throwing it out there with Without respect, or as a
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expression of frustration or flippantly, that's not what it
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means to take the lord's name in vain.
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That's in part. one of the greatest ways that we can take
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the lord's name in vain is when we take his name and attribute
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it to a message or a decision or behavior and say this is because
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of God That is one of the most Blasphemous things to really do.
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And this is exactly what they're doing.
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They committed this murderous crime and they said well this is
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God, God is behind this God encourages us and God is doing
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this for you, David and David wouldn't buy it.
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But I meditate on this and I thought.
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Why do people do that though? And this is coming.
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Now, I'm coming in from a pastoral lens because over the
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years, I realized that many people do this.
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I've personally have been the recipient of it on so many
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occasions. Somebody will come, somebody
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will write, somebody will send a message.
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God is telling you, God told me to tell you.
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Okay. Why?
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And this I think at best its immaturity, it really is its
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spiritual immaturity. And there is Grace to be given
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for those especially when they first come to the faith.
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Where for some reason they think that, you know, they're like
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Isaiah or Jeremiah and God is speaking to them about
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everything and they want to tell everybody what God spoke to them
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that's at best. but that's not the case and that, that Grace
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should be replaced with correction and serious
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correction, especially for those who have matured in years in the
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faith And it's going to come off strong, but it is strong because
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this is a very serious thing. I believe one of the reasons why
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people can so easily associate God's name again, to message, or
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to a behavior or to a decision. Ready for this is because they
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believe their name is superior to his Say whoa.
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What do you mean by that? I'll explain because they have a
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purpose and they have a Pursuit. Those are tribute God as a
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source of a claim when it is not true assume.
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That God's name will support The credibility in the validation of
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their own name. In other words, the reason why
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these men are doing what they're doing is because they want to
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make it more convincing to David.
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And the reason why many people today run around and use God's
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name in vain is because they want to come off more convincing
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and they believe that God's name should serve their name as they
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try to make their name something.
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And that is really the ugliness of this.
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That's why that's why it's so horrendous.
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And that's all it takes for some people to believe somebody.
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Oh God said it. Okay.
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And they submit to that and some of them live tormented because
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somebody said God said, and God told me to get it.
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Listen, it's in the Commandments God for saw that people would do
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this regularly. And so don't be easily shaken.
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Because somebody said thus says the Lord It's a tragedy and
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it's, it has created trainwrecks throughout the ages.
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But there's another reason why I believe people do this and they
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actually the answer if you want to know, if you're interested
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and really again, I'm coming from pastoral perspective,
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because I've seen I've seen the Sheep wounded by this.
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I've seen so many people broken, and so many people even
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tormented because at one point, 10 years ago, somebody said God
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said When in fact it wasn't God. Why do people do this?
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Can I give you another strong reason.
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It's actually found in a book where God often condemned those
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who kept saying thus says the Lord, the book of Jeremiah look
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at Jeremiah 14:14 very quickly just to get an Insight of why
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this Behavior. So frequent.
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And why some are in the habit of doing this.
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Jeremiah 14:14, easy reference to remember.
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But look at the look at the rebuke that the Lord offers.
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When he looks down from heaven and sees all these false
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prophets running around saying, thus says the Lord, that says
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the Lord judgment isn't coming Invasion isn't coming.
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Peace peace. And the Lord said to me, the
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prophets are prophesying lies in my name, I did not send them,
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nor did I command them or speak to them.
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They are prophesying to you a lying Vision worthless
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divination. And look at us and the deceit of
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their own minds that is powerful.
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And the deceit of their own minds.
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So, do you want to know why even some today are running around in
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churches and the whispering people God told me, I'll tell
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you why, at least according to this verse, some people are so
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Covetous or so Desiring, something to be true.
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That they actually have come to a point where they believe God
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told them. So, it's so overwhelming.
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It's so gripping that they've come to a point where they
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actually believe that the Lord is the one who is behind,
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whatever it is, that is rumbling in their hearts.
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And Jeremiah is told that's the deceit in their own minds. so,
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they're actually under the persuasion that the Lord is the
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one behind this because they have misinterpreted their
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desires with his And so what you have with many people and this
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can slip and being very practical tonight this can slip
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and manifests even in dreams that people have.
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So what you have is you want something so badly, you think
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about something so often that it pops up in your sleep because
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it's there in your subconscious, you've been entertaining it with
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much busyness comes, many dreams, And what has to be God?
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What has to be God? Because God spoke to Joseph in a
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dream of Anna and and just it's, it's scary, it's really scary.
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Now, there will be a time God willing where we can.
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We can spend a study on how God or can God speak in a subjective
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way. But oftentimes that's not the
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case, you know, this and I have to say this, just in case people
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on YouTube are ready to find anything.
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The word of God is God's way of speaking to us.
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Yes, but God can actually manifest in certain ways.
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My concern is 99% of what people say is.
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God is not God. And we see here that the
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contribution too much of God said, is the deception in their
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own minds. We won't stop there because we
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have a few verses but we're almost there.
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Let's go to 2nd Samuel for again, as we conclude.
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These men says the Lord has Avenged, my Lord, the king this
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day on Saul and on his offspring, verse 9.
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But David answered with have been banned his brother.
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The sons of Ramon, the Beer Authority, as the Lord Lives who
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has redeemed my life out of every adversity.
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I love that. As the Lord lives.
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Now he's invoking the name of Lord in the right way, who has
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redeemed my life out of every adversity?
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What's he trying to say there? Contrary to you, Brothers.
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I experienced the Lord and the way where he delivered me and
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brought me to this point without the need of deception without
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the need of manipulation without the need of unrighteous
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activity. God is the one who made a way
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God is one. Who brought me to this point.
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God is the one who is behind all my success, I did not need to
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participate in any sinful manner to advance the cause he paved
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the path for me and remove every obstacle without the utilization
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of shady activity bribery or exploitation.
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For you to murder. This innocent man.
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Is enough evidence for me to realize that God is not behind
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what you're doing. The true God actually brought me
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here without me needing to do anything.
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That would grieve him or dishonor him to arrive.
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This is a true man of God. This is this is a true person
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who believes in God's leadership in their lives.
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If God really will bring you somewhere God will do it and you
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don't have to do anything. That would break his heart or
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take his name in vain. And then we come to verse 11 as
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we close. He essentially says in verse 10,
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the last time somebody said behold saw his dead and that he
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was bringing good news lost his life verse 11, how much more
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when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house
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on his bed, shall I? Not now require his blood at
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your hand and destroy you from the earth and David commanded.
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His young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and
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feet, and hang them beside the pool at Hebron, but they took
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the head of ishka shot and buried it in the Tomb of Abner
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at Hebron. So David looks at these
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mayonnaise as you guys set yourself up, you exposed
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yourself, you're done. And as a king, who's supposed to
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execute Justice, he has them executed kind of breaks my heart
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a little bit because we see that he didn't do this with somebody
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else. Who did he not do this with?
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He was supposed to do this with somebody else, but because he
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had a role that played in his success, he chose not to joab
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jaw. He didn't do this with joy.
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And so the inconsistency is a little disheartening but
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nonetheless there is still something to applaud here.
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David wants to make it very clear.
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I will not condone this sin but more than He's doing something
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very, very strategic and important by condemning these
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men, these men. He is bringing Clarity that he
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had no participation in this plot to the watching Nation.
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I had nothing to do with this man being removed.
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I did not, I did not try to extinguish saws house.
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This has nothing to do with me and I will prove it.
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The men who did this, I will have killed and so he is
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confirming the righteousness of his own testimony.
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Listen to this bike. Condemning evil.
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And that is important because many people believe that our
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relationship to sin as Christians is merely to shun it
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and not participate in it but the Bible actually calls us to
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go further than that. And how we deal with sin that is
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around us and Ephesians 5:11 is our last verse.
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It says very plainly. Take no part in the unfruitful
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works of darkness but instead does anybody know the rest of
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it? Expose them.
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Take no participation, no part, no affiliation.
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Even to the point where he says, don't even talk about these
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things, because even mentioning certain sins in detail can be
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spiritually, harmful. But we are to do again.
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Not just, this is yourself. Go further than that, expose
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them. You know what?
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I means expose, confronted rebuke it.
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Correct it challenge it, teach about it, clarify on it.
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Expose them. And that's what David is doing.
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Because if the church is not careful to address certain
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things, then we put ourselves in a position where we can confuse
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a watching world. Whether or not we are for it or
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not for it. And I've heard pastors over the
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years growing up as a Believer and even being in Ministry in
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the past several years. I've heard different pastors
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with with societal issues who refused to address these things
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publicly because they think that it is not their job to bring
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about clarification of where their Ministry stands on these
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things that are clear in the Bible and I agree don't make
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your Pulpit, something a soap box where you speak about every
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single issue that comes up on a headline, but We are called to
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speak on societal issues when they're about Sin.
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We should be. Because we want the church to be
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informed and we want the watching world not to be
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confused of where we stand on these things.
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And that is how we solidify Our Testimony as David did here.
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He made a statement of where he stood, according to the law of
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God based on his condemnation and not just his lack of
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participation. And if we do that, then we will
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know great success and being the light of the world.
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And that is why the days that were living in are so
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significant because if you've noticed we've seen one moral
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issue Surface after the next, right?
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And it is not just shook the world, it has been shaking the
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church and if you watch carefully what is actually
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happening? Is there is a divide taking
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place and it's a good division what's actually happening Is the
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churches. Who refuse to expose sin are
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being exposed themselves? That makes sense the churches
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who refused to address and speak about sin because these things
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in society are, pressuring people to speak up, they end up
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confessing that they're actually for these things.
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I could not believe the deafening silence in the
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Evangelical world. When Roe v--, Wade was
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overturned. It was quiet.
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It was too quiet. And you even had some who
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blatantly said, this is an assault on freedom.
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God is about choice and I said this is it.
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This is it. And that's only going to
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intensify and it is by God's Sovereign, will that in the
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west, there's going to be a greater lying drawn between the
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true. And the deceived.
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The true and the deceived. So these are exciting times may,
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I exhort you in closing. Stay awake.
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Stay awake. Not time for not nap.
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Not time to be asleep. Realize the prophetic
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significance of the signs of the time.
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And choose to be a part of what God wants to do in a redeeming
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way in our generation Lori. Thank you for this Bible study.
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But we realize that some things were repeated but we are
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creatures of repetition. We realize that some things were
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new and we thank you for fresh truth.
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The Lord. And this time, we just want to
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respond to you in gratitude that your word, even though thousands
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of years written in a culture that is almost unrecognizable to
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our own in terms of how things work and technology and
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transportation, you still have things to tell us through that.
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Through that time in history, in Israel's monarchy, you have
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things to speak to us today. We bless you for that.
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We thank you from everything that we heard today.
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That it came from your heart. Into our own Lord.
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If there's anybody in here, Who recognizes that they are
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spiritually broken. And that they are a son or
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daughter of Adam. They hear the voice of the king
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to come. To sit at your table and you
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have made a way through the cross of Jesus Christ.
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You have made a way through the blood of the Lamb to redeem
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them. And to adopt them, may they
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sense your voice, beckoning them, and bidding them to
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surrender to your lordship. And to see the love of Jesus
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Christ for them. Even in their Brokenness.
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We ask these things in Jesus name.
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Amen. Can we stand and worship
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together?