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1 Samuel 25 (Part 2) Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Let's go to the book of 1st Samuel together in chapter 25.
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  And where we concluded last week, was in verse 13.
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  So let's begin in verse 14. It's good to see you with your
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  Bibles today. Let's pray.
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  Lord, this is your holy word. This is the truth.
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  This is your voice. This is breathed out by you.
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  What, we recognize us as the sufficient inerrant.
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  Word of God, we tremble before it Lord, help us realize we are
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  not reading a story for moral principles.
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  Help us realize that we are not just reading a piece of History.
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  Lord, this word has been given for Archer.
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  Meaning for our correcting, our reproof our comfort.
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  Our transformation Lord. We need the empowerment of the
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  Holy Spirit to rest upon the ministry of the word.
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  Tonight, we've come to Feast at your table and so Lord, may we
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  leave here full, may we leave here with a heart that is
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  softened towards you, your will. Your purposes for our lives.
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  We surrender. This Bible study asking that you
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  would take full control Lord filter every word man's opinion.
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  Lord, may it fall to the ground. May not even reach.
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  Our ears Olga may not even come out of this vessel.
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  Maybe your word alone, your mind.
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  Your will in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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  At this point of our study. David is prepared to do
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  something that we never thought David would do.
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  David this man who has entrusted himself to God.
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  And so many ways especially with how he's been treated by King,
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  Saul is now about to take Vengeance for the harm that he
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  had experienced from another up to this point, he is trusted God
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  to deal with Saul. But for some reason, when it
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  came to the insults of nabal, he thought to himself that it would
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  be better if he were to execute Revenge.
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  And this was painful obviously for him because he had given
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  good, he had shared good, he had provided good table and he
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  experienced nothing but evil and wickedness from this man who was
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  supposed to be his brother a man from his own tribe.
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  And before we even read another verse we can we can come to this
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  conclusion up to this point of this chapter that yet again we
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  were given another example about a man of God one of the most
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  devoted and Sanctified Servants of God and an Kingdom is but a
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  man's still. And even the best of God's men,
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  God's woman are susceptible to Temptation and succumbing to the
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  Flesh. And so may we never put too much
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  hope in man, may we never worship man.
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  Rely too much on, man. The only one that will never
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  fail. Us is the one that died for us.
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  Others will fail, others will have shortcomings.
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  It's no excuse for us to not pursue Holiness but it is an
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  insight to Remind us that we are able to fall and fail,
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  therefore, we need him all the more.
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  If a man, like, David can fails, surely you?
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  And I can fail, And there's much to learn in the remaining of
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  this chapter. Look how many verses are left in
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  that chapter. So much to learn from this King
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  and training but not just from David, we are now going to learn
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  so much from Another Hero, an unsung hero by the way.
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  Unfortunately, Abigail was not praised in all of Israel through
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  song like David was. But nevertheless, she was still
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  someone to be praised. She is going to save the day.
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  She is going to through her intervention provide much much,
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  much instruction for you. And I, I mean, look again at
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  this chapter and consider this, that most of this content is
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  given for and is reserved for her speech toward David.
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  Not into versus not in one verse.
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  But in many, many words and many, many arguments, surely God
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  wants to teach us something through this.
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  Man named Abigail. And that's what we're going to
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  see in this chapter up to this point.
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  Look at verse 3. All we know about this woman was
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  as she was a wife of a fool and that she was Discerning and
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  beautiful. She was a woman of good
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  understanding. She was a woman who had outer
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  beauty, but more importantly, inner beauty and we are going to
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  see how that's going to flesh out.
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  We're going to see these qualities come to life.
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  But interestingly enough what we're going to see is the
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  discernment of the woman behind lighted, way more than her
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  appearance. In fact, her appearance isn't
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  mentioned again, goes to show what God values, we goes to show
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  what we should be learning from and as a people who are called
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  by our God to be wise and Discerning and prudent and
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  cautious. We are going to see some marks
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  of a wise individual. Of a servant of God.
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  What was them actually? Looks like when it's when it's
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  manifested and so the main point of this message of this Bible
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  study is going to be marks of wisdom.
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  This chapter is so rich that you can have two Bibles as you.
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  Have many Bible studies on it but two themes.
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  There is so much of the Gospel in this chapter so much of the
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  Gospel. So many parallels to gospel
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  experience gospel truth. And then there's also the
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  Practical implications of what it means to live out as a person
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  who cherishes and pursues and apply something that the Bible
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  values and that is wisdom. Not knowledge.
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  Wisdom knowledge is information. Wisdom is what you do with the
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  data that you receive throughout your life.
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  And as you hear these different points, can I challenge you to
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  do something? Can we all do this together?
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  We're going to hear one point after the other through
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  Abigail's encounter with David and let's ask ourselves.
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  Lord, is this true of me is this true?
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  My life, if not, would you give me the wisdom?
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  Would you give me the impartation necessary so that I
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  can be an effective vessel For Your Glory?
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  Because we will not be effective.
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  If we do not have wisdom, we will do much harm to our
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  testimony to the testimony of the gospel.
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  And so, therefore, the great protection in this.
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  Life As We navigate through it with all the events and
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  surprises is to be a people who know how to treasure wisdom.
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  It's quite amazing. How much of this tax is
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  dedicated to Abigail. So let's begin in verse 14 and
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  see how her life In This Moment can help us.
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  The last scene that we have in our minds before we read verse
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  14, is that David, with 400? Men are approaching the bowel
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  and his his home with swords, 200 are left behind with the.
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  Baggage 400 are Marching on towards this man ready to
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  eradicate them from the face of the Earth.
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  And so in verse 14 we read but one of the young men told
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  Abigail Annabelle's wife behold Davidson Messengers out of the
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  Wilderness to greet our master and he railed at them yet.
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  The men were very Be good to us and we suffered no harm and we
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  did not miss anything. When we were in the fields as
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  long as we went with them, they were a wall to us both by night.
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  And by day all the, while we were with them, keeping the
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  Sheep. Now, therefore know this and
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  consider what you should do for harm is determined against our
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  master and against all his house and he has such a worthless man,
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  that no one that one cannot speak to him.
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  Him. The first thing that we learn
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  about this woman, as we read this text is that one of the
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  young servants, who observed and learn about nabela's words
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  towards David, and what David, obviously had done for him and
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  his Readiness to retaliate was that he approaches Abigail his
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  Instinct. His reflexes reaction was go to
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  this woman. And for good reason, Abigail
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  obviously had a reputation and her reputation was this.
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  She was able to provide worthwhile information advice.
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  She was a source of guidance. And this says, something about
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  her character, something about this woman that is important for
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  us to understand about our own lives.
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  She was a person who could solve problems and not one who fueled
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  them. She was a peacemaker, not a
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  troublemaker. She was someone that saw peace
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  between relationships, the ultimate.
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  And then she knew the best way to accomplish that end.
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  And unfortunately that was not true of Nepal, and that's not
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  true of many people. When a person is a peacemaker,
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  Jesus says that they are blessed.
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  Not only will they be blessed but they are a blessing and
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  surely that is true for any Community.
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  Any household, any group of friends, any Ministry, when you
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  have people who strive for rest among Brothers, they are a
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  treasure. Indeed, in fact, David himself
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  recognized the That Abigail was look down at verse 33.
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  Blessed. Be your discretion and blessed.
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  Be you who have kept me this day, from blood guilt, and from
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  working salvation, with my own hand, this woman was a blessing
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  and it's a joy to know that you. And I can be a blessing to
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  others that our presence that are words that are actions.
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  Bring about Harmony and not havoc, and not chaos, and not
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  disturbance, and not strife What was said of Abigail could not be
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  said of so many people in the Bible, including Jobs, wife,
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  have you realized that Satan had access to everything in jobs
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  life he can destroy anything including his family.
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  He destroyed jobs kids but he leaves Jobs wife on the scene
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  I've ever thought about that. You know what that means?
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  That Satan, with whatever cunning he had thought to
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  himself. I could kill her but it would be
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  more destructive for job of. I keep her alive.
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  Imagine that. And her words, proved that she
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  was nothing more than a greater challenge to the issues that he
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  was experiencing. And that could be said of people
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  today in churches, again, in marriages and household among
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  siblings at workplaces. That their presence only brings
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  more disturbance and difficulty when we are supposed to bring
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  about Grace and assistance and lifting each other's burdens
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  this woman was was of that sort. And we're going to see just how
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  Discerning she was and these verses.
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  But one insight about Abigail is actually found in what is said
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  about her husband. Notice what the man says that
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  the at the end of verse 17 about in about, he is such a worthless
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  man, that one cannot speak to him.
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  Nabob was a man that he couldn't, he would not listen to
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  your advice. He would not even dare entertain
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  the possibility that your input can actually be better than his
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  Outlook. He could not humble himself.
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  He would not even listen to what you would have to say.
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  It was his way or the highway. It was his plan or no plan.
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  And this individual, whose name means foolish is.
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  Proving that by this very Insight here, he would not even
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  open his ears to what somebody can say, even if it was the most
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  trustworthy servant, even if his own wife, And that proves that
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  his wife was the opposite. She was open.
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  She was humble, she could be approached.
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  She could inquire, she can listen, she could, she could
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  consider a better option. That didn't stem from our own
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  thinking, or own ideas. And that is in the Bible, the
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  first Mark in this, in this chapter, the first Mark of
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  wisdom, someone who is willing to listen.
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  Someone who is willing to listen, I love this verse.
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  I've courted it many times because it has blessed me in my
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  life. It's an Ecclesiastes 413 better
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  to be a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish King who no
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  longer knew how to take advice. What's foolishness?
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  According to that verse a man, no matter how stately is, no
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  matter what resources, he has a man who cannot take advice is a
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  fool. Is a fool and that's Annabelle.
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  But that's not his wife, Abigail.
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  She could obviously receive. And therefore, one of the marks
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  of somebody who is walking and good understanding, is that
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  there they are willing to give their ear so that they can gain
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  better understanding. So, here's a question to ask for
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  ourselves and this Very practical.
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  Bible study, do you seek advice from Godly men and godly woman?
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  How does your heart respond to correction, to advice to input?
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  Is it is it difficult for you to be?
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  Told that perhaps you're wrong? Or are you in the place where
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  you are so willing to be in the will of God that even if you are
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  in the wrong you would want to be told you're in the wrong
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  because you want to be walking in the light.
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  There is no way that anybody will graduate in wisdom, if they
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  can't get this simple, foundational, attitude
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  developed. I must be willing to hear.
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  I must be willing to listen. This was this woman.
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  But we go on to verse 18. DC is second Mark.
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  Then Abigail made haste and took 200 Loaves, and two skins of
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  wine and five sheep already prepared and 5c has of Parts
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  grain and 100 clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of
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  figs and laid them on donkeys. And she said to her young men,
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  go on before me, behold? I come after you, but she did
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  not tell her husband Abal verse 18, what sticks out to you
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  There, when it comes to her response to the news from this
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  young man. Haste very good then Abigail
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  made haste. Here's Point, number two, of a
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  person who possesses wisdom. Number one is that they are
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  willing to. Listen, they're willing to hear
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  they're willing to Humble themselves through the opinions
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  and the insights of others. Number two, they have an ability
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  to foresee They have an ability to foresee.
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  I'm not talking about being prophetic in the sense that you
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  can see the future. We'll get to what I mean in a
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  moment. But notice her promptness based
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  on the news when she was told from this young man, the
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  imminent danger. She was able to in that moment,
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  interpret the urgency of the matter and she acted
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  appropriately. So she did not, she did not fail
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  to realize how serious this issue was.
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  And so she began to move according to the news that came
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  to her front door. And a person who possesses good
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  understanding, may not know exactly how everything in life
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  will unfold every situation or circumstance.
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  But one thing is for certain, they understand the possible
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  danger of someone or something. And they know to a great degree
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  how they should best either approach or avoid approach or
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  avoid address or do not address. They have that kind of a
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  concept, they have that comprehension and the by Praises
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  that kind of wisdom. This is not me reading into the
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  text. The Bible speaks exactly about
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  this on more than one occasion in the book that people go to,
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  to learn about how to be wise. So, in Proverbs 27:12, what are,
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  we told the prudent sees danger and hides himself but the simple
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  go on and suffer, they suffer for it.
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  So, a wise person is able to look out into the Horizon and
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  know what to do based on what is coming their way, they live,
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  with a sense of being prepared, they, they work.
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  Proactively now, always reacting.
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  And this woman is proving that there are many things in life
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  that will cause you. And I in wisdom to not respond
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  to words of people, the actions of people to say this is not
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  worth investing and iota of energy.
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  Right? David did that with his older
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  brothers brother was trying to scorn him and lock him in
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  public. And they was like, okay okay I
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  got it. I got bigger things to do here
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  and so we had to be careful not to invest things into battles
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  that don't matter in the end. But you have some people have
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  this idea of wisdom and it's not wisdom that no matter what the
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  situation is. Just leave it to God, it sounds
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  spiritual, let God deal with it, let God deal.
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  And yes, it's true. There are some things that we
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  have to which are out of our control.
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  Say, Lord, Can't do anything about this, you must intervene.
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  But if we think that everything that happens in life has to be
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  God, dealing with it, meaning that we don't, we don't lift our
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  hands, we don't move, we don't plan.
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  Then we have a lot of issues with many men and women of
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  scripture, including Paul, if Paul said, just leave it to God,
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  don't worry about it. You know, it's his church.
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  He can take care of it, then. Why did he name so many names?
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  21. Christians about agitators and
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  false teachers. Why did he warn churches?
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  Be careful of these individuals, just leave it to the Lord.
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  The Lord no, don't do that. Don't do that all the time.
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  That's not wise but you have people who give that kind of
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  advice for every single thing just the Lord will know.
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  God gives you instructions to do something, he gives you
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  principles, he gives you guidelines of how to go about
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  certain things and he will hold us accountable for it.
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  And so we have to we have to pull back and realize that there
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  are moments where the best thing to do is Be quiet and let the
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  Lord fight that battle. And there are other times where
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  God expects us to do something, how do you know what to do at
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  what point with what situation? Well, that's where wisdom comes
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  in. That's that's why we need God to
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  give us that frame of mind to go.
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  This is the Lord's. This is where I have to do
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  something prayerfully. Yes, inquiring God to empower me
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  and to give me the guidance, But ultimately, I got to do
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  something here. And that's what we see here.
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  Look at verse 34. Look.
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  How David comments about Abigail's intervention.
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  For surely as the Lord, the god of Israel Lives who has
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  restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come
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  to meet me. Truly by morning, there are not
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  been left to nibble so much as one male you didn't come and
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  show up. You all would have been dead.
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  Your timing. Your promptness was a God thing.
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  But look at her the same woman who acted in such promptness.
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  Look at her patients in verse 36 and dealing with her husband and
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  Abigail came to Nepal and behold.
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  He was holding a feast in his house like the Feast of a king.
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  And the ball is heart was Marry within him for, he was very
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  drunk so she told them nothing at all until the morning light.
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  You see, there was a moment to act, there was a moment to wait
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  and the context the context will determine that and the wisdom
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  will know what to say went to Saint.
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  Is this the time, is this not the time so there's no code of
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  what to do in every situation. You realize that right?
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  The Bible would be this big but what God does is he impart
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  something known as wisdom. So that even in 2022 when you're
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  in a situation that is not necessarily in a book of the
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  Bible, you know how to go about in the most righteous and God
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  glorifying way. And with this woman she knew
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  when to act shoot she knew where not to act, and both were very,
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  very prosperous. And as I look at this, as I look
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  at her, promptness, her Readiness, her hastiness to act
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  upon the news that she receives. Don't you, don't?
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  You get a gospel, a gospel idea here.
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  That she receives some news of imminent judgment and her
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  comprehension was to be urgent with her response and that is
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  the same. That is the same kind of
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  attitude people must have when it comes to receiving the news
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  of the Gospel. To promptly, realize the urgency
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  of the matter and to respond to the demands of such a truth.
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  As soon as possible, she did not delay.
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  She did not. Wait, she did not think we know
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  this. This can hold off till next week
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  she realized though not knowing when it was about to happen.
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  That there was a man coming though, unjust was his
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  Vengeance? There is one coming who is just
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  with his vengeance. And Paul gave us the timeframe
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  of how every person should respond to that.
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  Truth today is the day of salvation.
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  Now why would you wait till tomorrow?
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  If we looked at abigaile in this situation and she said you know
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  I'll think about it I got to contemplate other Concepts
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  first. I got to realize if I really
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  want to get into this and we would say whatever foolish.
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  You're a fool. Why would you even hold off on
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  that? It's coming?
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  Whether you realize it or not, whether you believe it or not,
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  it's going to happen. And so, if we would call Abigail
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  a fool for reacting in such a way with such delay in
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  hesitation, what we tell. If those who do the same with
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  the coming Christ, the ultimate manifestation of foolishness.
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  And so we see that there is an ability to interpret the timing
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  of things, the context of things and 24, see where things can go,
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  that can only come when God by his Spirit through his word in
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  prayer, gives you something known as wisdom.
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  Look at verse 19, and she said to her young men, go on before
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  me, behold? I come after you, but she did
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  not tell her husband about Here's the third Mark of wisdom.
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  First was you're able to listen second there is an ability to
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  foreseen to act to act based on the unique situation.
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  What to do, what not to do. Let me let me emphasize that
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  point again. Solomon knew what to do when
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  those two women came arguing for who who belong to the baby whose
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  mother was the baby and he goes, give me his sword cut in half.
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  Give them each a piece. Where did that come from?
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  Where did that come from? It didn't come from the book of
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  Deuteronomy. You can't find a verse on that.
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  Prior to that he asked God for wisdom and God gave him the
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  exact ability to know how to evaluate and move about in a
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  situation that was extremely unique.
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  So unique was a and so profound was it that they said, this was
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  from God. What's the wisdom here in verse
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  19? Very good.
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  But she did not tell her husband Duvall.
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  Now, I don't know if that would sound like wisdom to us, but it
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  is because wisdom is not just knowing what to say, it's
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  knowing what not to say. Wisdom is not just being able to
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  give out wonderful truths about life and how to go about certain
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  situation. Wisdom also knows how to sing
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  even the right thing to the wrong person.
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  This is Beyond Basics, this is deeper than that.
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  And we see that here with this woman.
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  Unfortunately, in this case, the person who is intentionally
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  uninformed was their own husband.
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  So we can't look at this as a proof.
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  Text of being conniving and deceiving and being sneaky
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  especially when it comes to marriage because a man and woman
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  and that Covenant are one. They share many things together.
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  But as we come to a text like this, although she's not working
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  against her husband, she is doing something that her husband
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  should have been doing. Remember the bowel was not just
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  being rude to David nabarro was breaking God's commands in his
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  treatment of David by not providing from as a script.
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  Sure says to provide. So what she is doing here, is
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  she is paying the debt that the Manos.
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  She is stepping up because he would not step up and she and
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  wisdom knew. If I include him in this, it
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  will be to our own destruction because surely he would object
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  and there will be chaos and it will be to his own demise.
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  And so the best thing to do though it was a difficult thing
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  to do. Was I cannot tell this man, he
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  is just too foolish. She knew that the servants knew
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  that the only person who didn't believe that was himself, But
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  the principle is still here, right?
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  Obviously the situation is unique, this is a matter of life
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  and death, it's not a matter of you should buy certain piece of
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  furniture for the house or not. You're not telling your hubby,
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  that's not what it is. We're going to die here and so
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  she needed to come and she needed to step up and she needed
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  to exclude him for his own life. And for her own life, or for
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  many other people's lives, wisdom knows what not to say.
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  And what not to say to certain people.
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  That's not being secretive, that's being prudent and
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  responsible. Foolishness is seen in the
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  person who is unable to conceal. Who is unable to reserve things
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  for the thrill of being some kind of informant.
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  For the thrill of engaging in conversations that can easily to
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  gossip. And other Troublesome talk a
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  person who is wise is quiet. They know that even what is
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  true. And right, if it's in the hands
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  of the immature or those who are not able to deal with such
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  information that could be more harmful than anything else.
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  The Bible tells us in Proverbs 20, do not associate with a
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  simple babbler. Somebody that can't just stop
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  talking somebody that just doesn't they don't.
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  Local 8, their words. They just just word vomit on
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  everything and everybody. All right, somebody jokingly
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  said, if you want news to get across the land, don't go to
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  your local news station. Just go to your local church.
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  People in the church are very good at spreading information,
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  very fast and it's information that not needed to be spread.
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  And yet, here we see that this woman knew what not to say and
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  that was actually for the greater good, that was for the
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  greater good. I can give you many examples of
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  what that looks like, but let me just ask you this question.
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  Remember we're examining ourselves.
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  Do you always have their urge to share everything that you learn,
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  or you experience in life? Is there any privacy in your
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  life? You know, God even encourages
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  you and I to keep things secret You know that right?
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  No, is it looking me like I'm lying, doesn't he tell you when
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  you pray to do it in secret? Did he tell you when you fast to
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  do it in secret, didn't you say when you give to do it in
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  secret, you know, we talked about being having an intimate
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  relationship with the Lord. But there's nothing intimate
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  about it. God, even in him, he wants
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  things to be one-on-one to certain level.
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  Yes, we live in community, and we live openly, and we're
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  transparent for the sake of accountability.
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  But there must be some things that are just between us and
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  him. He tells us that he tells us
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  that I remember a young brother who was young in the faith?
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  When he first got saved, he poor fellow.
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  He thought that he can trust every Christian that he talked
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  to you. And so when he first got saved
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  he starts he just joined a local church.
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  He was telling everybody what God was revealing to his heart,
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  what God was calling him to do? How I think God is going to take
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  me there and do this with me and somebody wisely?
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  Put them aside maybe you broke his heart but it's okay.
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  He can't be doing that stuff. Why I'm with Christians?
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  I'm in the church. Yeah you'll figure it out long
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  enough. And that person learn from a
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  wise individual, but he also learned from experience.
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  And so there is a wisdom in knowing how to conceal and not
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  being a person who continually and always reveals, whether
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  that's your personal information, whether that's what
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  you see, whether it's about the sins of other people.
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  Joseph got in a lot of trouble for it by sharing his dreams,
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  right? I mean, talk about immaturity,
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  you share it the first time, and you can tell that they're acting
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  different around you, and you go ahead and you add fuel to the
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  fire. And you tell them this next
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  dream, There's wisdom and concealing.
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  Let's read on here in verse 20 and as she rode on the donkey
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  and Kane under cover of the mountain.
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  Behold David and his men came down toward her and she met them
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  now. David had said, surely in vain
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  have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness so
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  that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him and he has
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  returned me, evil for good. God do so to the enemies of
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  David and more also, if by morning, I leave so much as one
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  male of all who belong to him. Now before we go into this next
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  point the scripture, it's almost like we're getting a scene cut.
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  As we now see in the suspense is building of Abigail preparing
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  the provision for this man. We come to the man and we can
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  see the fumes from his head and we even see the frustration.
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  So boiled over in his heart. So burning in his soul that he's
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  actually voicing. What is bothering him to the
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  Bone. He's actually talking to
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  himself. How much this man is consumed
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  with rage. And as you read her, you get an
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  idea of why he is angry, and it's really an inside of why
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  many people are disappointed in their Christian walk.
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  Notice what he says here Now, David had said in verse 21,
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  surely in vain, I have guarded, all that this fellow has in the
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  wilderness. David believed for a moment that
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  his efforts that his service, that his sacrifice was a waste.
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  Because I just wasted my time. I wasted my energy.
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  I wasted my love. And you know what?
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  My brother, my sister, you will open yourself up to a lot of
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  disappointment in your Christian walk.
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  If you are only looking for rewards in this life, Because
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  you have many people that are ready to give up simply because
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  they didn't receive the praise that they were expecting for
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  their service and you have people who are not only just
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  willing to give up their ready to turn their back on God
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  altogether because they receive unjust treatment for their for
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  their good. If you view your ministry in
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  light of how David viewed his service, you're setting yourself
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  up to not have great longevity in your faithfulness to the
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  Lord. you're setting yourself up for much internal turmoil, if
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  you just see your reward in this life, And not just
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  disappointment. If you're not careful, that kind
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  of frustration can lead to justifying certain sins and
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  compromise to medicate yourself because sin always promises
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  immediate rewarding gratification.
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  And this man wanted to satisfy to a certain degree, I wanted to
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  just kill all these people and a mini genocide.
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  You know what the antidote is, you know, what the remedy is to
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  this believe. With all your heart that there
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  is a God in heaven, who is keeping a count of all your
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  works. All your Works ones that you
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  would even consider to be worthy to be rewarded.
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  And I believe God knew God knew that in his people throughout
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  time Woodfield, The Temptations. That David is saying with
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  believe those lies. And so throughout the
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  scriptures, he's given many promises and assurances that
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  there is a day coming where I will look you in the eyes and I
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  will reward you though men have ignored you and dismissed you
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  One of my favorite scriptures is in the New Testament.
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  It's in Hebrews chapter 6, verse 10.
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  Look what the author says for, God is Not unjust for God is Not
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  unjust. So as to overlook your work and
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  the love that you have shown for his name and serving the Saints
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  as you still do, men might be unjust.
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  Even your spiritual leaders might be unjust by taking
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  advantage of your never thanking you or never giving you the
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  appreciation. That you believe you deserve but
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  God is Not unjust to overlook what you do for the Saints.
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  He will, in fact, rewards you and it will be greater than if
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  all the world was given to. You see, if David believe that
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  what he had done for Anna ball, don't he was mistreated.
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  I'm sure that this would have subsided much more than What's
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  Happening Here. But we're coming back to
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  Abigail, right? She's about to face this enraged
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  Warrior. When Abigail saw David and verse
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  23, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell before
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  David on her face and bowed to the ground.
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  She fell at his feet and said, on me alone, my Lord be the
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  guilt. Please let your servant speak in
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  your ears and hear the words of your servant, all right.
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  Marks of wisdom, number one, you're able to listen number
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  two, you have an ability to foresee.
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  You don't have blinders on you, understand that possible dangers
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  of rewards. The best outcome of the
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  decisions that you would make in a certain circumstance.
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  Number three, we learned that wisdom also knows not what to
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  say. And to say the right thing to
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  the wrong person is not beneficial.
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  There is an element of concealment for the sake of
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  people's protection and your own protection at times number, for
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  a wise person, possesses a calculated ability to approach a
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  specific audience in a specific way.
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  A wise person knows what to say how to say it, depending on the
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  person, who is receiving, what you want to offer.
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  And that's what we see in this woman.
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  This encounter, this confrontation is very unique, it
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  is dripping with Grace. It is dripping with Divine
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  wisdom and it is an encouragement in a world where
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  you will deal with conflict and people who will step on your
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  toes. And that's what we see with this
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  woman. She comes to David and what's
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  the first thing that she does in verse 23?
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  She falls before him. She bowed before him before she
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  says anything. She's already demonstrating a
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  posture of respect. I love that.
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  You know why? Because not only with all the
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  supplies that she brought all the food that she brought not
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  only is she supplying and paying for the debt that the mall did
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  not pay. She's also providing the respect
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  that he refused to give. She comes with humility and she
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  falls at his feet. And she gently appeals to him.
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  Read this. I don't know if you read it
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  before the Bible study, read it. After you'll realize it, as we
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  read it together, how many times she refers to him as my Lord, my
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  Lord, my Lord, my Lord, my Lord, my Lord, this is this is amazing
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  because she's doing the exact opposite of what her husband was
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  doing. She knows exactly what the wound
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  is, as she's treating it. She's not just she's doing
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  something very, very intentional here.
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  And what I love about her initial approach, is that she
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  could have come off immediately with a sharp rebuke.
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  You know why? Because David is about to do
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  something that is extremely sinful.
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  He's about to kill people unjustly.
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  And maybe with the news coming to us about a person who was
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  about to do that, and with the power that you have, as a
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  wealthy woman with, with many servants, at your disposal, she
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  could have come on. His, what do you think you are?
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  What do you think you're doing? Would it would have been
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  Justified? Perhaps would have been the best
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  option. Perhaps not wouldn't be the most
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  effective way of approaching the situation.
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  She comes in a way that wins David and his attention and his
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  willingness to pause and consider what she has to say.
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  That's wisdom that is wisdom. And we heard it earlier about
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  how a gentle answer turns away wrath, you know, I've put that
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  to test a couple of times in my life with strangers and it works
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  it actually works especially in a day and especially in a nation
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  like America where it doesn't take much for people to be upset
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  with you. It's incredible.
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  And we see it. We see it lived out.
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  Here she respects the man, she comes with that kind of Aura.
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  She comes with that kind of attitude, and what's even more
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  impressive. Was she is a wealthy and
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  beautiful woman. She didn't come with a sense of
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  superiority. She didn't come with a snobby,
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  kind of feel about her. She came like a servant.
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  She came and bowed before him. That's amazing because I learned
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  by that this woman though. She had the money though, she
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  had the beauty that didn't poison her character.
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  She didn't, she didn't, she didn't allow that to interfere
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  with her treatment of other people.
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  And so, when she comes with this, we learn here that the
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  fragrance of humility is attractive.
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  And you and I are to apply that as a perfume on our garment, so
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  that the closer we get to people, the more inviting we are
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  because nothing repels people more than pride and arrogance.
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  Even if what you have to say is right, if you stink with that
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  stench people want to walk away from you without even giving you
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  a chance to say what you think you have to say.
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  She's so, she's so adorable. Not an acute sense.
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  But in the sense of just just her sensitivity and our
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  willingness to come solo is wonderful and look what she does
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  here, in verse 24. On me alone, my Lord be the
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  guilt. Please let your servant speak in
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  your ears and hear the words of your servant this machine.
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  This is so she doesn't come with respect.
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  Now she comes, she's coming with a form of repentance.
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  She says put the guilt on me now.
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  Hold on that seems Noble. But that's also that's also
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  wrong to our sense of justice because we know that the person
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  who's in the wrong is Annabelle. Not her and she admits that in
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  the next verse. She confesses I was ignorant of
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  what took place here, but she still has her initial call to
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  him. Wants to take the attention away
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  from the ball and put it on her and she's willing to pay for
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  whatever. Ball.
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  Her husband has caused. This is astounding.
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  Now, here's the prophetic picture.
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  Who does that sound like? Your lord.
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  Our savior. Who is more beautiful than
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  10,000? Who's wiser than Solomon?
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  and who like, Abigail is willing to stand in the way between
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  Wrath, and the guilty. Who's willing to take the guilt
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  of another and for it to be placed upon herself.
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  This is, this is a picture of Christ.
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  Let me stand in the way. Though, they are deserving of
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  it. I will take it upon myself.
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  And I will do so in the form of great humility.
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  As we were told in Philippians 2 that he humbled himself by
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  becoming a servant and dying, not just any death, but even
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  death on a cross. And so we see gospel picture
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  here. But we also see something very
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  very, very important when it comes to our practical life,
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  right? What she is doing and her desire
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  to evade this, and to bring this to rest, is that she is not
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  downplaying. The seriousness of the offense,
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  she's not ignoring she is not trying to dismiss or give excuse
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  of what was done against David listen, and she doesn't a 25
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  look here. Let not my Lord regard.
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  This worthless fellow nutball for as his name is.
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  So is he in the ball? Is his name and Folly is with
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  him but I yours Servant did not see the young men of my Lord
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  whom you sent. Is that sound like somebody who
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  is downplaying, what happened? No, she's calling it as it is,
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  and she is pinning. The guilt exactly where it
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  should go. She's recognizing the
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  foolishness of this man. And that is good, because if you
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  and I are striving to bring about reconciliation, whether in
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  our own lives are between others, one of the worst things
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  that you can do is either make an excuse, or to dismiss the
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  pain. At somebody experienced from the
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  wrong wrong of somebody else. This is especially hard when we
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  are the offender and we are at a crisis, you have to reconcile.
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  So let me just do this and you approach the person that you
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  have offended and in that process you are we've all done
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  it. We've all we've all thought it.
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  How can I downplay my offense as much as possible?
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  And the reason why we do that is because we don't want our pride
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  to be hurt, right? You're saying, why is that?
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  Why is that our inclination? Because we inherited from Adam
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  and Eve, that's why. Almost immediately after the
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  fall, one of the reflexes of men and his Fallen state was ago.
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  It's her fault. Yeah I did it but you did that
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  for me to do this. Have you said it before?
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  Have you thought of before? Nothing of the sort from this
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  woman. Because you and I have to
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  determine in those moments of potential reconciliation.
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  Am I willing for my pride to be hurt so that the hurt can be
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  restored. Am I willing for my pride to be
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  hurt so that the genuinely hurting can be healed?
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  That's going to require acknowledgement.
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  It's going to require honest assessment.
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  I was wrong. I cannot tell you how over the
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  years of seeing people attempt to reconcile how that is one of
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  the most powerful healing forces.
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  To seeing something rebuild again.
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  When there's like no hint of excuses, just like I'm wrong.
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  It's wrong. It was evil.
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  It was wicked. I was in the flesh.
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  It just like you can even in the atmosphere just like something
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  happens. This is what she's doing and I
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  have a feeling that in this moment already.
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  There was cool water poured on the inflamed heart of this this
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  Mighty Soldier. She had this ability to know how
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  to come what to say, how to say it.
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  And already there's been great success in her attempt to bring
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  about peace in the situation. A wise person knows how to
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  approach a specific audience in a specific way.
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  If they're filled with Fury, you're not going to fight fire
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  with fire, that's that's unwise. If they are hurting and and they
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  are hurting because of their sin and they're showing remote
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  remorse and Brokenness you're not going to come and take
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  another whip at them. You're going to come in a way in
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  which you can encourage them and build them up.
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  If there's somebody who is extremely arrogant Anderson, no
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  sign of repentance, no sign of conviction.
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  You might have to be a little bit more Stern.
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  How do you apply all of that something called wisdom?
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  But we come here and we see something else of fifth sign of
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  wisdom. And it's here in verse 26.
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  Now, then my Lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives
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  because the Lord has restrained you from blood guilt and from
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  saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those
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  who seek to do evil to my Lord be aznable.
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  And now let this present that your servant has brought to my
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  Lord be given to the young. Men who follow my Lord, please
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  forgive the trespass of your servant for the Lord will
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  certainly make my Lord assure house because my Lord is
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  fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be
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  found. You saw as long as you live, if
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  men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my
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  Lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living, and the
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  care of the Lord, your God, and the lives of your enemies.
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  He shall sling out from the hollow of a sling and when the
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  Lord has done to my Lord, according to all the good that
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  he has spoken concerning you and has appointed, you Prince over
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  Israel, my Lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of
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  conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my Lord,
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  working salvation himself. If and when the Lord has dealt
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  well with my Lord, then remember your servant beautiful
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  incredible piercing gripping. What's happening here?
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  So after she addresses him with respect and reverence, and with
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  balm and her voice and her words, there's much to learn in
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  the remainder of their speech here.
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  But one specific thing needs to be highlighted.
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  She now includes the Lord in the matter.
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  Seven times she names the Lord. And she's doing the
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  strategically. She knows who she speaking to.
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  She speaking to a man of God, a man who loves God.
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  She didn't know him personally, but she knew enough about him.
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  That David would care about how God would see the situation.
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  And that tells me something about what Temptation does, what
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  sin does is that it is able to Blind you to the awareness of
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  God and his involvement in situations in your life.
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  It's amazing how sin when it is indulge or when it is answer to,
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  it has an intoxicating effect upon the mind and often times if
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  people are not careful, when they are just consumed with
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  passion, they exclude God from their thinking.
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  And if they're not careful, they might include God, but they will
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  twist something about God's word and his willingness person to
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  justify the behavior that they are premeditating to act upon
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  what she does. Is she, she's trying to sober
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  him up and here's the fifth. Mark of a person who possesses
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  wisdom, they have a theological frame of mind.
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  In other words, they know God's word and they know how it
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  applies to daily life. This wisdom that comes from God.
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  Surely you can have practical wisdom in life to know how to go
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  about certain things about ultimate.
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  Wisdom comes from God. So how are you going to?
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  No Greater Heights of wisdom without knowing god and his word
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  and how it applies to people's lives.
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  Christians should be the best counselors in the world and
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  obviously doesn't help much for the person whose unregenerate.
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  But but to us, we have to understand what's happening.
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  Here she is including God in the matter and she knows God's word
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  specifically in his applying it specifically.
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  How is she doing that? Look again, here in verse 26.
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  What do you see from this? Now, then my Lord, as the Lord
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  lives, and as your soul lives because the Lord had has
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  restrained you from blood guilt. And from saving with your own
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  hand, what is she talking about right there?
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  She's talking about what's happening in this very moment.
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  Is she not? So, what's Abigail doing?
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  She realizes that this interruption is Providence.
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  He David God, God is trying to get your attention in this
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  moment right here. I'm telling you that this is not
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  Abigail coming to you. This is God, providing you a
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  chance to not move forward in your sin.
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  This woman, understood how Providence work that this young
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  man coming up to her and her catching David on time.
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  That was God and she is rehearsing that over this man,
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  God is giving you a chance not to act in the flesh and she's
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  doing it. So carefully realize that she is
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  indirectly. Telling him you are about to do
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  evil, you're about to do wrong and God is trying to stop.
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  You, like, brilliant. So she's now interpreting
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  Providence in the matter. She believed in Providence and
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  she knew how to see Providence when it presented itself.
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  But look at verse 28, what did she say in verse 28, please
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  forgive the trespass of your servant.
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  Look at this part for the Lord. Will certainly make my Lord a
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  scherff house because my Lord is fighting the battles of the
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  Lord, and evil shall not be found in you.
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  As long as you live, she's reminding David that as a
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  servant of God, you are fighting God's battles, you are doing his
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  will, you're accomplishing his purposes because of this David
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  know this that your future is secure.
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  Your future. God has your future in his hand.
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  She believed that she believed that for day that she wanted
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  David to believe it. Don't don't forget how this is
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  going to affect the days to come realize.
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  The goodness of God, he's brought you up to this point and
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  he wants to continue to lead. You don't take matters into your
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  own hands. So she had understanding of
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  God's plans and God's involvement in the purposes that
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  he has and she's counseling. This man with that truth.
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  Verse 29, what did she say? If men rise up to pursue you and
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  to seek your life, the life of my Lord shall be bound up in the
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  bundle of the living, in the care of the Lord.
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  Your God God's protection. This is not your fight to fight.
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  God will protect you. And look at look at the
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  language. He uses your he shall sling out
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  as from the hollow of a sling. What does that alluding to?
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  I believe she's alluding back to the battle between David and
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  Goliath. All of Israel heard about it,
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  surely she heard about it and she's using the same language of
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  that experience and say, listen David, the God that was faithful
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  to you between you and Goliath will deal with this situation.
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  If you dealt with Goliath, he'll deal with no ball.
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  If you dealt with that giant, you'll deal with this fool,
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  don't get involved with this, she was aware of God's acts.
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  She was aware of what he's done throughout history.
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  Even if it was obviously in her time, but she was aware, she
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  applied that, she reminded David of that.
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  Look at verse 30. and when the Lord has done to my Lord,
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  according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and
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  has appointed you Prince over Israel, God's promises.
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  Look how confident she is in. God's promises.
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  What does she say in verse 30? and, when the Lord, she did, say
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  if She say if the Lord has done to my Lord, but when it's a
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  matter of when it's going to happen.
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  So confident, so, anchored. If God said something is going
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  to happen, and she is so confident in what God said that
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  she's calling David to build the foundation of his life and his
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  trust upon the Reliance of the character and the faithfulness
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  of God. This woman is wise surely
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  because she knows who our God is and she knows how God's his
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  character bleeds into our lives and how we act in our lives will
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  determine how things play out. And if we, if we obeyed, and
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  here's a blessing, if he disobeyed his risk of great
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  loss, wisdom is found in the person.
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  Who knows their God And that's why you should strive to find
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  people in your life, who walk with God.
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  If you're going to get Council on anything.
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  Because this is the ultimate source of truth and light in
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  this life. Verse 31.
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  Here's the final sign of wisdom. I'm sure if we dissected it
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  more, we can find many others. Let's look at verse 31.
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  Here's the final one. My Lord shall have no cause of
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  grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause
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  or for my Lord, working salvation himself.
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  What is she concerned about? The future.
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  She's concerned about the days to come.
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  She's concerned about when the dust settles and and the the
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  emotions subsides and the deed has been done, what will happen
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  after the fact that's wisdom. Fools only think about the
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  moment, wise people think about how the moment effects tomorrow.
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  Fool things about immediate results.
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  Wisdom things about the long-lasting effects.
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  And we become fools when we are tempted with sin.
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  Because we don't think about the consequences.
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  We only think about what we can get from the moment, but a
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  person who has wisdom even in the midst of the tornadoes of
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  Temptation, can see if I give in to this, this is what can
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  happen. Potentially.
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  And so I will not give in to this because I see that the sin
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  and the consequences, outweighs whatever, promises or pleasure
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  gratification that I can get right now.
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  And she's reminding him of this. If you do this, if you do this,
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  your testimony is going to be ruined.
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  How are people going to look up to you as a king?
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  When they know that you have massacred a man and his
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  employees and his family? How are people going to think
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  that you're consistent with Saul?
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  You've claimed to be a one who trusted in God's Vengeance and
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  left things into his own hands. But in this case, you didn't
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  think about this. What is Saul going to be able to
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  say about you? If you kill this man without
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  cause will he not win? More people to come against you
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  bellina have something on you? If you go about this, you see
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  what wisdom does. Wisdom thinks about the future
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  not just today. And that is true, even in face
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  of sin. And so here's a woman who's
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  radiating who almost personifies wisdom.
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  It's incredible. And we can go on to finish the
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  rest of this chapter, to look at different different things.
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  Concerning that theme. But let's just look at David's
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  response real quickly. So you can imagine once she
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  pauses on this, I don't know if she just kept your head down, I
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  don't know if she looked into his eyes.
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  I don't know how it looked, but you can just imagine the tension
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  in the air as David was there. I don't even have his hand on
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  his sword as this woman. Just appeared out of nowhere.
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  And David said to Abigail blessed, be the Lord, the god of
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  Israel who sent you this day to meet me blessed.
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  Be your discretion and blessed. Be you with kept me this day,
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  from blood guilt, and from working salvation, with my own
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  hand, for surely as the Lord, the god of Israel Lives who has
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  restrained me from hurting you, unless you had heard and come to
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  me me, truly by morning, they're not been left tunable so much as
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  one male Then David received from her hand, what she had
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  brought him and he said to her go up in peace in your house,
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  see, I will be your voice and I've granted your petition.
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  This man was so bird. It worked.
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  It was a success he humbled himself, he acknowledged that he
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  was ready to commit a great sin. He realized that she was right
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  and he was in the wrong. And In This Moment here we can
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  learn so much from his response but here's here's a point I want
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  to make out of many points. What is he bless about?
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  Abigail and verse 3? What did we learn about our two
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  things? She was what The street and what
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  beautiful? What is he praising here?
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  If you praising her hair, her eyes, her figure is that what?
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  Want his heart? Now their discretion is their
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  character. You know why?
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  This is encouraging by the end of the chapter.
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  He's going to marry this woman. He's going to marry this woman
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  because he didn't realize this is someone that pushes me
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  towards righteousness. This is someone that stirs me up
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  to Godliness. This is someone that doesn't
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  cause me to be tempted. More but causes me to live for
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  my God more. I want her as a partner in life,
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  my single brothers and sisters consider that as a candidate
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  consider, what truly matters and last in the long run, consider
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  as you want to serve God and be faithful to him.
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  That whoever you're going to run this race with will help you.
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  I heard from somebody that whoever your spouse is going to
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  be, they will either give you weights or they're going to give
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  you wings. I met the person by God's grace
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  give you wings to soar to Greater Holiness and
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  Effectiveness and fruitfulness for the kingdom of God.
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  He Praises God, he Praises God for her and he wants to marry
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  her and he's going to do that though.
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  I don't agree the way he does it because he marries different
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  people too. What do we do with the rest of
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  this chapter? It would be awkward to finish
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  here. So let's complete it.
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  And the way we're going to look at it is we're going to see here
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  in a moment, Abigail's fate and the balls Faith.
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  They both received the same Revelation and opportunity
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  concerning David. They both responded to it
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  differently and they both will experience different outcomes as
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  a result. So it is with the sinner in
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  light of the truth of Jesus Christ.
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  The ball will prove. What will happen to the center?
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  And Abigail approved to some degree.
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  What is the end result of the person?
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  Who acknowledges the true, son of David verse 36 and Abigail
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  came to Nepal and behold. He was holding a feast in his
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  house like the Feast of a king and the balls heart was Mary
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  within him for he was very drunk so she told them nothing at all
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  until the morning light. Look at that little phrase and
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  behold. It's almost as though the holy
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  spirit that could you believe what's happening right now?
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  Check this out. What's Happening Here?
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  That while there's impending judgment on the way, this man is
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  partying. This man isn't swimming and
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  debauchery. This man is enjoying his worldly
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  success drinking and being Merry, and being loud and
• 1:00:08
  indulging. All the while there is someone
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  on his way to bring about a finality of his life.
• 1:00:17
  What a picture of the world, what a picture of what's
• 1:00:19
  happening this Friday night? That there is the son of David,
• 1:00:25
  the root and descendant of David, who is on his way, not
• 1:00:28
  with unjust Revenge, but just Revenge upon the wiccan of those
• 1:00:32
  who did not obey the gospel. And he will bring about eternal
• 1:00:35
  judgment. And yet the world is drowning in
• 1:00:38
  the sound of pleasure, and flesh, and sin, and it didn't
• 1:00:43
  change. The fact of what was coming his
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  way. And some would look at Abigail
• 1:00:49
  and consider her to be the fool. You're not going to celebrate in
• 1:00:52
  this time of sharing of sheep of the Harvest.
• 1:00:55
  You're not going to join in this.
• 1:00:59
  Who is the real fool? The one who was enjoying the
• 1:01:03
  party or the one who is getting right?
• 1:01:07
  Before they were judged. In the end, the Real Fool as we
• 1:01:12
  know is noble. And the person who knew what to
• 1:01:15
  do with their time and their lives was was Abigail, so it is
• 1:01:18
  with the Christian first. Peter tells us that the world is
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  surprised when you do not join them with their filth.
• 1:01:26
  And if Peter goes on to say, but but these people in their
• 1:01:28
  debauchery and then their world in this will be judged will be
• 1:01:32
  judged. See, while the bowel here is
• 1:01:35
  numbing himself. Abigail, was was getting
• 1:01:39
  reconciliation accomplished. because she looked forward, she
• 1:01:46
  looked at the future, even if that in our context and our
• 1:01:49
  understanding of this, even if it's the Eternal aspect, And
• 1:01:54
  this man, he's partying he's enjoying himself.
• 1:01:58
  But look at verse 37 in the morning when the wine had gone
• 1:02:01
  out of Nevada, the one of the world runs out of entually guys.
• 1:02:05
  his wife told him these things and his heart died within him
• 1:02:08
  and he became a stone About 10 days later.
• 1:02:12
  The Lord struck Nepal, he died. Think about it.
• 1:02:15
  So the night before your heart is Mary, you're talking about
• 1:02:20
  your success, your boasting, about your success, Like what
• 1:02:24
  Jesus said in Luke, right about the man who had Barnes and he
• 1:02:27
  filled the Barnes and goes I got to build more Barnes.
• 1:02:29
  What I'm going to do with all this stuff and then he says you
• 1:02:32
  fool, you do not know on this night, your soul is required of
• 1:02:36
  you. And here's a man the night
• 1:02:38
  before. He's the he's the heart of the
• 1:02:42
  party everybody's coming because of him.
• 1:02:46
  He's splurging, And the next day, he has a stroke.
• 1:02:51
  The next day he becomes a stone what a picture of the
• 1:02:56
  unpredictability of life, and here's this man 10 days and a
• 1:03:00
  vegetable like condition. Sealed in his state of the soul
• 1:03:08
  and God killed him. What about your sheep?
• 1:03:11
  Now, what about the 3000 in the 1000 goes, what about it?
• 1:03:15
  What's that gonna matter now? What's that going to matter?
• 1:03:18
  Now, as you stand before, God and answer for your life, Look
• 1:03:23
  at the fate of Abigail. Verse 39, when David heard that
• 1:03:28
  Annabelle was dead. He said, blessed.
• 1:03:30
  Be the Lord was Avenge the insult.
• 1:03:32
  I received at the hand of Nepal and has kept back his servant
• 1:03:35
  from wrongdoing. The Lord has returned the evil
• 1:03:38
  of Nepal in his own head, then David sent and spoke to Abigail
• 1:03:42
  to take her as his wife. The Servants of David came to
• 1:03:49
  Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, David has sent us to you to
• 1:03:52
  take you to him as his wife. Now isn't incredible.
• 1:03:55
  This is a woman who knew well, through new Comfort, a new
• 1:03:58
  luxury. Who probably even knew Fame on a
• 1:04:02
  local level. And look how she responds to
• 1:04:06
  this news as she Rose. And she Rose rather and bowed
• 1:04:09
  with her face to the ground and said, behold your handmade is a
• 1:04:12
  servant to wash the feet of the Servants of my Lord.
• 1:04:18
  Can you imagine that? She didn't get up and say, yeah,
• 1:04:21
  that's right. I am.
• 1:04:22
  I'm I am a queen. You pick the right one.
• 1:04:28
  She goes, I want to wash the feet, not just of David.
• 1:04:31
  I want to wash the feet of the Servants of David.
• 1:04:36
  She accepts the invitation to be wedded to this King and she saw
• 1:04:41
  a greater treasure to be Associated and to be intimate
• 1:04:45
  with this King, then to have all the land, all the goats, all
• 1:04:49
  this sheep, all the property, all the security that this life
• 1:04:53
  can offer. So it is with the Christian, so
• 1:04:56
  it is with the Christian and you know, what's incredible?
• 1:04:59
  Here she is not entering into a palace by saying yes to David.
• 1:05:05
  She's entering into a wilderness.
• 1:05:08
  There is no immediate benefit out of this.
• 1:05:11
  It would be much later until until David becomes the actual
• 1:05:14
  ruler and king of all of Israel. And there is a room with
• 1:05:18
  Abigail's name on it. But she still saw it of great
• 1:05:25
  Worth to say I want to walk this life with this King and serve
• 1:05:29
  him even if I have to turn my back on all of what I've known,
• 1:05:34
  all that has been granted to me all the protection and pleasure
• 1:05:37
  and provision. In this life, I rather be with
• 1:05:39
  this King. even if the reward is down the road, Believer.
• 1:05:46
  Do you feel that way with your relationship with Christ?
• 1:05:51
  Or do you have a tension in your life between the lifestyle of
• 1:05:53
  noble and living for Christ? I hope you see his Beauty.
• 1:06:00
  See David here was attractive to this woman even though he was a
• 1:06:04
  fallen man, who'd made mistakes. But there is nothing that we can
• 1:06:09
  point at Christ and say there's something wrong here.
• 1:06:12
  He's perfect, he's altogether. Lovely.
• 1:06:17
  And if you see him for who he truly is, you cannot help but be
• 1:06:19
  magnetized towards him. And if you haven't realized that
• 1:06:24
  long enough, if you haven't realized that up to this point,
• 1:06:27
  ask God to show you just how incredible he is.
• 1:06:31
  Ask him to give you such a revelation of who he is.
• 1:06:35
  That you wouldn't even look over your shoulder.
• 1:06:36
  And say, I wonder if I should have stayed.
• 1:06:40
  I wonder if I should have gave half of myself.
• 1:06:43
  Why? I don't know if this is really
• 1:06:45
  worth it. She became his wife.
• 1:06:51
  To wash feet. She saw serving David as a
• 1:06:56
  greater treasure than whatever Noble have to provide and leave
• 1:06:59
  for her. Maybe be the same as a testimony
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  to this world. Let's pray.
• 1:07:24
  Well, thank you for making us your bride.
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  Thank you. Oh God.
• 1:07:31
  That as you sent Abigail away with peace.
• 1:07:38
  So you do with us who are reconciled to Christ in the
• 1:07:41
  gospel. Well, we pray in this moment.
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  That you would renew our vision. Of the goodness of Jesus.
• 1:07:53
  And we ask, oh, God. That you would give us a fresh
• 1:07:59
  dose of wisdom. Rewire us.
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  Show us where we need to grow. Instill within us.
• 1:08:09
  A sense of understanding so that we can be prepared.
• 1:08:15
  With surprises in life. We want to be found as faithful
• 1:08:22
  ambassadors of Jesus Christ. It's a Lord give us and equip us
• 1:08:27
  and furnish us with what is necessary so that we would not
• 1:08:30
  taint that testimony. And we pray O Lord that you
• 1:08:34
  would receive the Worship You Deserve as a result of what we
• 1:08:38
  ate today together. We bless you for your goodness,
• 1:08:42
  through your word. We thank you for how you've
• 1:08:44
  spoken to our hearts be glorified now as we worship you,
• 1:08:48
  in Jesus name. Amen.
• 1:08:51
  Amen. Let's Stand Together.