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Speaker 1: The other events of my sixth grade year blur into
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a fog. I don't remember the name of our school principle.
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I don't remember the name of that brown haired girl
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upon whom I had a crush. I don't remember what
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we did for the holidays. I don't even remember what
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grades I made. But that one spring evening in nineteen
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sixty seven is crystal clear.
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Speaker 2: I can still see myself sitting in.
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Speaker 1: My parents' bedroom, dinner table, conversation wifs down the hallway.
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We have guests over, but I have asked to be
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excused early from the table. My mom has baked apple pie,
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but I even passed on dessert. Has time for chit
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chat and pastries At a time like this, I am
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waiting on the phone to ring. I expected the phone
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to ring before the meal, but the call didn't come.
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I assumed the phone would ring during the meal, but
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the phone did not.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm staring at the.
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Speaker 1: Phone like a dog at a bone. I'm hoping the
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little league coach will call and tell me that I
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have made his team. So I'm sitting on the bed.
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My glove is at my side, my baseball bat is
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at my side.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why. I just thought I needed it
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in case he called.
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Speaker 1: I can hear kids playing out on the street in
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the front of the house, but I do not dare
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leave the house to join them. I'm waiting on the call.
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I'm waiting on the phone to ring, but it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: And the guests leave and I go back and help
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with the dishes.
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Speaker 1: Mom has comforting words, my dad pats me on the back,
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and I keep.
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Speaker 2: An ear toward the phone. But it doesn't ring. It's
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just silent, painfully silent.
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Speaker 1: You know, in the great scheme of things, not making
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a little league team is not.
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Speaker 2: A big deal. But twelve year olds don't think of
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the great scheme of things.
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Speaker 1: And all I could think about was what the kids
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would say and what I would say when we talked
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about the team we were on, or in my case,
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wasn't on the next day.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if you know that feeling the phone didn't
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ring for you either, And maybe in a much.
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Speaker 1: Grander scheme of things, when you applied for the job,
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when you hoped you'd receive at least the interview, when
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you sent in your application, when you tried to make
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up or get help, the call never came. You know
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the pain of a no call.
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Speaker 2: We all do so much so that.
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Speaker 1: We've coined phrases to describe the moment. He was left
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standing out in the cold, she was left standing.
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Speaker 2: At the altar. Oh, that one hurts.
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Speaker 1: Or he was left holding the bag, or my favorite,
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he's out tending sheep in the pasture.
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Speaker 2: You haven't heard that.
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Speaker 1: One David had. And the story of David begins with
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him out tending sheep in the pasture, if you like
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to fill in the blanks. As we look at the
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story of David today, we begin with a nation in chaos.
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It was a tough situation. It was a tough situation.
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The nation was in chaos. The reason that we're looking
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at the story of David is because the next chapter
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in the story that we're looking at, the story of
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God takes us into the story of David. We're looking
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at the whole scope of Scripture, beginning in Creation, ending
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in Revelation, one major event at the time, using the story,
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which is a chronological version of the Bible, and it
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gives us a chance to move all the way through
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the Bible in thirty weeks on a timeline. Last week
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we looked at the story of Saul. Today we look
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at the story of David. The story of David begins
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really with the story of Samuel. First Samuel, chapter sixteen
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describes Samuel himself.
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Speaker 2: He's portrayed as a silver bearded.
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Speaker 1: Priest ambling down a narrow trail toward the town of Bethlehem.
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He pulls a heffer behind him. He has a small
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village ahead of him, and he has a lot of
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anxiety brewing within him. The people who notice him as
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he comes by, wonder what in the world world an
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important priest like Samuel is doing, headed toward a forgotten
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hamlet like Bethlehem.
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Speaker 2: Samuel. They think.
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Speaker 1: Samuel mothered by Hannah, tutored or mentored by Eli, called
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by God. And when the sons of Eli turned south,
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as Samuel stepped forward, and he became the spiritual leader
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of ancient Israel. And when Israel needed spiritual focus, he
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provided it. And when Israel wanted a king, he anointed
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one at great hesitation.
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Speaker 2: He anointed Saul.
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Speaker 1: All the very name Saul caused Samuel to grow.
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Speaker 2: Tall, Saul strong, Saul.
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Speaker 1: The Israelites wanted a king, and now we have a king.
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Speaker 2: They wanted a leader, and now we have a laos.
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Speaker 1: Samuel glanced from side to side, hoping nobody heard him
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say that out loud.
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Speaker 2: No one heard him.
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Speaker 1: He was safe, as safe as any person could be
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during the reign of a king gone mannic. Saul's eyes
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were growing wilder by the day, and his heart was
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growing harder.
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Speaker 2: By the day.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't the king he used to be. In fact,
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in God's eyes, he wasn't even king at all. The
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First Samuel, chapter sixteen and verse one, or page one
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forty five in the story, if you'd like to read,
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the Lord said to Samuel, how long will you mourn
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for Saul? Since I have rejected him as king over Israel?
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Fill your horn with oil and be on your way.
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I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have
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chosen one of his sons to be king. So one
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thousand BC is a time of transition from one king
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to the next, from ron Ear to the next. Three
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centuries of frozen faith have left the people in a
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spiritual winter. One writer describes the days between Joshua and
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Samuel by saying, in those days, Israel did not have
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a king, and everyone did what seemed right. It was
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a time of unending corruption. And then there was the
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problem of the Philistines. The Philistines for those giant breeding,
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war loving, bloodthirsty neighbors. If they were the Grizzlies, then
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the Hebrews were salmon. They just kept gobbling them up.
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They had everything that the Hebrews did not. They had
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the monopoly on iron and blacksmithing. Consequently, they had swords
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and spears and iron wheeled chariots. The Philistines forged weapons.
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The Hebrews fought with crude slings and arrows, while the
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Philistines thundered in their chariots. The Israelizes retaliated with farm
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tools and knives. Why, there was one particular battle where
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the entire nation of Israel owned only two swords, one
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for Jonathan and one for Saul. So it was a
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tough time. Corruption from within, danger from without. Saul was weak,
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the nation increasingly weaker. What should Samuel do, or better, asked,
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what would God do?
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Speaker 2: Well? He did what no one imagined.
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Speaker 1: He issued a surprise invitation to the nobody from Nowheresville.
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God dispatched Samuel to the town of Red Eye, Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: Not really.
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Speaker 1: He sent him to Sawgrass, Mississippi, not exactly. He gave
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him a bus ticket and told him to go to Muleshoe, Texas. Well.
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Speaker 2: No, not exactly.
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Speaker 1: But he could have had he been alive today, because
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Bethlehem in his day was the equivalent to a mule shoe,
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or a red eye or a sawgrass. A forgotten hamlet
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six miles south of Jerusalem.
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Speaker 2: A few hundred years.
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Speaker 1: Earlier, it had been the home of Ruth we read
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her story. A thousand years from now it will be
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the home of a baby born in Bethlehem. His name now,
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if you can't fill in that blank, really concerned. But
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a thousand years before Jesus will be born in Bethlehem.
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It is the home of a shepherd boy whose story
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begins out tending the sheep. So Samuel has come to
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this little town. I'm sure the people wondered, what in
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the world is Samuel doing here? Prophets don't come to Bethlehem.
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He assures them that he's there simply to offer a sacrifice,
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and he invites all the leaders of the city to
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join him. And he also invites Jesse to come and
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tells Jesse to bring.
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Speaker 2: All eight of his sons.
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Speaker 1: Has it turned out this invitation, Well, there is more
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to it than Samuel let on. He was there to
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select a king. God told him to go to the
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house of Jesse. We're not told exactly how God told
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him that, but we are told what happened when he
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met with the family of Jesse. It's a delightful scene.
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It has a dog show feel to it. Jesse paraded
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his boys one at a time in front of Samuel,
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kind of like canaines on leashes, and Samuel examined them
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from several angles more than once, ready to give one
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of the sons the blue ribbon and call him king,
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but God would always stop him.
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Speaker 2: It started like this.
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Speaker 1: When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, surely the
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Lord's anointed stands.
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Speaker 2: Here before the Lord.
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Speaker 1: Eliab, the oldest, seemed like the logical choice. He was
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the firstborn son, seemed like the logical choice to replace
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Saul as king.
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Speaker 2: King Eliab.
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Speaker 1: We envisioned Eliab as the village casanova, wavy hair, strong jaw.
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Speaker 2: He wears these.
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Speaker 1: Tight wranglers, big belt, buckle, got a piano keyboard.
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Speaker 2: Smile. This is the guy.
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Speaker 1: Samuel thinks, No, God says, and then he explains the
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Lord does not look at the things.
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Speaker 2: People look at.
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Speaker 1: People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks
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at the heart. A Bendab enters as brother and contestant
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number two. You would have thought a j Q model
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had just walked in. A Benedeb wears an Italian suit,
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alligator shoes, jet black, oiled back hair. You want a
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classy king of Bendeb's got bling bling, but God's not
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in the classy. Samuel asks for brother number three. His
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name is Shama. He's bookish, he's studious, walked right out
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of the library.
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Speaker 2: He could use a charisma transplant, but he's busting with brains.
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Speaker 1: He had a degree in the state university, and he's
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already applied for some postgraduate study in Egypt. And Jesse
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told Samuel he was the valedictorian of Bethlehem High.
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Speaker 2: Samuel was impressed, but God wasn't.
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Speaker 1: I'm still in First Samuel sixteen, still on page one
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forty five in the story, he reminded the priest the
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Lord does not look at the things people look at.
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People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks
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at the heart. So seven sons pass and seven sons fail.
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The procession comes to a halt, and Jesse.
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Speaker 2: Is quiet.
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Speaker 1: Samuel looks around the room and he counts the sons one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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and then he looks at Jesse and his says, Jesse,
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don't you don't you have eight sons? A similar question
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caused the stepmother of Cinderella to squirm, and I'm thinking
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that Jesse must have squirmed as well. And here was
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his response. There is still the youngest, Jesse answered, he
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is tending the sheep. Last time that I remember, we
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as a church studied this story was way back in
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two thousand and five. And if you are around then
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and you have a really keen memory, I remember we
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made a real big deal about that verse. There is
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still the youngest. It's a Hebrew word pronounced something like hakaton.
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I like to say it just because it's fun to say.
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It's kind of clearing your throat. Hakatan hakatah. I know
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you're dying to try it. Give it a go, Hakatan hacatan.
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There is still the hactan best I can tell, the
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more literal translation of that word would be the English
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word are you in tea? There's still the runt. We
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have any youngest siblings in the room, raise your hand.
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If you're a youngest sibling. I was the youngest of four.
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I am the youngest of four. I guess that hasn't changed.
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And I can remember my older sisters and brother occasionally saying, Oh,
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he's the baby, he's the baby, he's the hakaton, he's
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the runt of the family. He's the baby. And so
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here the father says that. Jesse says that, yeah, I've
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got seven sons, but don't you have one more?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I've got a runt.
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Speaker 1: How would you feel if you learned there was a
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family meeting of your family and you weren't invited.
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Speaker 2: There's a runt and he's out taking care of the sheep.
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Speaker 1: We've got him where runts deserve to be, out in
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the pasture where they can't cause any trouble, just hanging
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out with the wooly heads. We do have the runt,
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we do have the hakatan. Leave him out there where
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he should be, and so that's where we find David.
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That's where we find David. If somebody were to carve
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the mountain Rushmore of Faith, his name would be at
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the base, his face would be in the rock.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you agree?
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Speaker 1: Sixty six chapters in the Bible are dedicated to the
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story of David sixty six. There's only one person in
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scripture who gets more space, Jesus Christ. The city of
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Jerusalem will come to be known as the city of
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Jesus himself will come to be called the Son of
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Even today the emblem of Israel is called the star
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of Will know him as the giant killer. He'll bring
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down Goliath. Will know him as the worshiper. He'll write
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psalms that we still read, poems we still quote. The
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Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Will know
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him as a king, will know him as an adulterer,
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will know him as a man after God's own heart.
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Well knowing is one who struggled, yet found faith and
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found forgiveness.
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Speaker 2: But where does his story begin.
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Speaker 1: His story begins outside of a sleepy hamlet called Bethlehem,
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one camel town. Out in the sheep in the pasture, uncredentialed,
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forgotten by the family, the one who introduced us to
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the word Hakatah.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you've been out in that pasture.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you know the sheep filled, called forgotten, neglected, turned out, marginalized,
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this fit cast off, too old, too tired, too weak,
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wrong age, wrong gender, wrong color, wrong training.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you've waited for the phone to ring. That's where we.
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Speaker 1: Find David, and the story of David picks up a
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piece of excitement. Because we see the kind of person
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that God picks, we wonder, because we know the kind
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of person that society picks. Society tends to grade us
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according to the inches of our waist, the square footage
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of our house, the color of our skin, the make
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of our car, the label of our clothes, the sides
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of our office, the presence of diplomas, the absence of pimples.
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But God has a different measure. Again, he says it.
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The Lord does not look at the things people look at.
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People look at the outward appearance, But the Lord looks
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at the heart. Those words were written for all the
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misfits of society. God uses us all, and these words
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offer this great inspiration.
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Speaker 2: God has a place for you.
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Speaker 1: Moses ran from justice, but God used him. Jonah ran
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from God, but God used him. Rehab ran a brothel,
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Samson ran to the wrong woman, Jacob ran in the
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wrong circles, Elijah ran into the mountains, Sarah ran out
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of hope, Lot ran with the wrong crowd, but God
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used them all and David. God saw this teenage boy
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serving him in the backwoods of Bethlehem, and through the
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voice of a brother, God called David.
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Speaker 2: Come in.
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Speaker 1: And so David stood up and he walked into the
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family meeting. All the eyes saw a gangly teenager who
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smelled like sheep.
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Speaker 2: But God saw something different.
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Speaker 1: And the Lord said to Samuel, rise and annoyed him.
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This is the one. Oh, what a beautiful promise comes
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out of this. The promise not read like this. God
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pics the nobody's nobody notices. God picks the nobody's nobody notices.
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God picked David nobody noticing, but God did because God
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saw his heart. He came to be known as a
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man who was after God's own heart. In both ways,
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he was after God's own heart. He was in pursuit
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of God's own heart, but he took after God's own
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heart because the more he pursued God, the more he
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looked like God. And so when God saw David, he said,
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now I can work with a heart like that. And
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here's what you need to know, my friend. God has
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said the same about you. Now, maybe you don't like
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what's in your heart.
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Speaker 2: But I want to tell you.
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Speaker 1: Don't get the deciding vote. God does, and he has
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already cast his vote in your favor.
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Speaker 2: He has seen your heart and he.
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Speaker 1: Has decided you are worth redeeming, you are worth purchasing,
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and He has selected you. He has selected you in
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spite of what people have said about you, and in
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spite of what's if you say about you. God has
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selected you, and he will do for you what Samuel
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did for David. He will anoint you. He will anoint
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you not with the oil of a priest, but with
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the presence of the Holy Spirit, and he will wash
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you clean, and he'll call you into his kingdom.
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Speaker 2: Here's the big news. God is for you. God is
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for you. Do you agree with him?
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Speaker 1: Now here's a question. Are you for you? God is
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for you? Are you for you? Or are you against you?
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You See, David could have resisted. David could have said, oh,
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I'm too inexperienced, or I'm too young, or I'm too stupid.
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He could have had a thousand and one reasons to
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resist that anointing.
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Speaker 2: But he received it. He agreed.
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Speaker 1: He agreed with Samuel's declaration. In doing so, agreed with
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God's declaration. If God is for me, then I'm going
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to be for me. You know, you can be.
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Speaker 2: Either your worst critic or your greatest cheerleader. You can
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be your worst critic or your greatest cheerleader.
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Speaker 1: Which are you? Think about the words you say to yourself.
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Think about the words you say to yourself. The words
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that make the biggest difference in your life really are
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not the words that you remember from your parents, or
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the words you remember from your siblings, or even the
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words at your workplace, But they are the words you
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say to you about you. What do you say to
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you about you? Do you ever beat yourself up? Do
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you find the voice that she's playing over and over
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in your head is loaded with phrases like well, I'm
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not good enough, or I'm too old, or I'm too dumb,
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or I'm too inexperienced, or I'm too brown, too black,
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too white, too young. When you do that, my friend,
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what you're doing is you are disagreeing with God. You're
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disagreeing with God, and you are agreeing with the devil
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because that's his assessment of you. And those words do
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not come from Heaven. Those words come from the devil.
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And when you agree with what the devil says about you,
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then in essence, you're opening your spirit up to the
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work of the day. So you've got to stop that.
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I mean, you can't tolerate that one moment. I'm not
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saying that you pretend that you don't have struggles or weaknesses,
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but I do say that you must agree with God
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that you have been selected, you have been anointed, you
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have been.
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Speaker 2: Called for a high and holy purpose.
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Speaker 1: That God has looked at your life from beginning to end,
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and he has decided. He has declared, and he is
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the only judge in the universe, and he outranks you,
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and he has declared that you are destined for His kingdom.
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And even when troubles come and troubles go, that does
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not change. And when the storms come and the storms pass,
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that does not change. What God has said about you
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is determined by God himself. And the reason that stories
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like the story of David are in the Bible not
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just for our inspiration, not just for our entertainment, but
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for our inspiration, because we've all been in that pasture.
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Speaker 2: And we need to hear God call us out of it.
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And so the question, lingers, are you for you the
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apostle Paul models how this works.
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Speaker 1: The apostle Paul said, if God is for us, who
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could be against us?
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Speaker 2: Look what, Paul, this guy discovered. God is for us.
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Speaker 1: You're valuable, You're purse, purposeful, You're important to God. He says,
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fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have called
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you by name. So if God is for you, shouldn't
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you be for you?
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Speaker 2: You could not if you want. If God is for you,
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shouldn't you be for you? But you're against yourself.
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Speaker 1: When you call yourself dumb or ugly or a failure,
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you are against you. When you tell yourself there is
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no solution, there is no hope, there is no promise.
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You are against you when you decide that you have
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no talents, or no treasure or no future.
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Speaker 2: These words, these words work against you.
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Speaker 1: And if you tell yourself something often enough, you will
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believe it. If you tell yourself something often enough, you
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will believe it. If you roll out of bed tomorrow
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morning saying, oh, terrible, this is a yucky, awful day,
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guess what, oh terrible, yucky awful day, it will become.
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Words have power power to bring life or power to
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bring death. And if you go to work or go
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to school tomorrow, thinking I can't do it.
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Speaker 2: Fail, It's just a matter of time. I'm an utter slob.
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Speaker 1: These words are toxic and they actually agree with the devil.
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So you tell him to get lost, and you hold
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fast the promises of Scripture. Here's how people of God think.
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They think like the apostle Paul, who said, no, in
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all these things, we.
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Speaker 2: Are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
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Speaker 1: For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor
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angels nor demons, nor the present nor the future, nor
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any powers, neither height nor depth, nothing in all creation
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will be able to separate us from the love of
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God that is in Christ, Jesus our Lord. That's the
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passage of a person who feels anointed by God, called
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by God, living by God. And these passages exist so
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that we cannot just read them, but so that we
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can personalize them. A personalized passage would read like this,
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knowing all these things, we are more than conquerors through
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Him who loved us. I am convinced that neither poor health,
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neither college debt, neither pink slips, neither today's deadline or
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tomorrow's diagnosis nor any job transfers. Neither addictions, your moral failures,
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nor anything else in all creation will be able to
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separate me from the love of God that is in Christ,
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Jesus Arty. That's how David's think, That's how Paul's think.
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The world may call me a hacatan, but I believe
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I'm called by God, and there is irreverent confidence, not
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a naivete, but a confidence that God is the only judge,
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and that since He has called you, you must be
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worth calling. By the way, that telephone never did ring,
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but the doorbell did.
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Speaker 2: Late in the evening, there was a ring at the door.
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My dad answered it.
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Speaker 1: I went behind him to see who it was, and
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he turned and said, well, look who's here.
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Speaker 2: The coach and the little league coach.
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Speaker 1: Came, and I remember him kind of fumbling out an apology,
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thinking saying, well, I thought my assistant coach was going
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to call you.
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Speaker 2: But indeed we do want you to be on our team.
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Speaker 1: It was years later that I discovered the truth. It
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turns out, somewhere between dinner and the doorbell, my father
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had called the coach. He cashed in a few favors.
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Didn't matter to me.
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Speaker 2: I was on the team.
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Speaker 1: Your father has spoken on your behalf as well, and
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he wants you.
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Speaker 2: One show up, suit up. There's still some games left
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in this season. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Now, Heavenly Father, we bless your name. We thank you
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because you have called us. May we live in response
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to this call. May we live in response to this call.
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Some of our minds are so full of toxic declarations
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about ourselves that we desperately need your help to believe
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what you believe about us.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord, Thank.
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Speaker 1: You for this call that you have placed upon us.
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Thank you for the Holy Spirit who lives inside us.
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Thank you for the heaven that awaits us. Thank you
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for the scripture that guides us. And most of all,
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thank you for our Lord, Jesus Christ, who saves us.
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We pray in the name of Christ, and all the
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church said.
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Speaker 3: Up utta up ugly coming