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1 Samuel 19 Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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You know the scriptures testify of the word of God that it is a
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double-edged sword. And there's many reasons for
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that. It speaks of its Precision when
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it comes to conviction and highlighting the things that we
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think are hidden from God, but as someone popularly, once said
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that it's a double-edged sword because it first first cuts the
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preacher before, it does the congregation.
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And that is certainly true. Especially in this study of 1st
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Samuel. I must testify in the presence
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of God that it has A riveting experience to open up this
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specific book and to just see the the wisdom of God and
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placing this scripture for his people for all time.
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You know. Again, you've heard me say this
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often but I'll say it again. God could have given us a
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Systematic Theology. If you ever read a Systematic
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Theology book, it's one of these thick books that just puts
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everything in categories and definitions and but God doesn't
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do that. He does give us definitions.
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He does give us theological terms, but he also gives us
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stories. He gives us poems.
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He gives us journal entries and that is what we are reading.
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Today. We are reading a story, a true
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story with many, many Rich principles that we can apply to
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our lives. And so meet me in your Bibles.
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And first Samuel chapter 19, We learned last week in first
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Samuel 18 of a pivotal moment that would change the climate of
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this narrative for the rest of the book, and it was triggered.
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It was unlocked. It was Unleashed by Saul's
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jealousy, his Envy his insecurity, which kicked into a
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new gear and would alter the direction of David's life in a
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very significant way. And in these Next few chapters.
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We are going to see the extent of this man's malice.
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We are going to see just how far sin can take a person even as
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dignified as a king, even as dignified as somebody who is
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Anointed by a well-known Godly profit.
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But before we move on in chapter 19, it would it would not be
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right to not track the final verses of 18, which we didn't
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cover last week because it flows beautifully.
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Remember that the chapters and the verses are not inspired and
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Sometimes these breaks can ruin the flow for not careful to see
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past them. And so before we go to chapter
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19, let's go to verse 17 of chapter 18 and let's pray before
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we study together. Lord, we thank you for the
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written word of God, our hearts. Come alive.
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When your Holy Spirit reveals to us.
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These truths. We hunger for the word, the pure
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word, the pure word of God. We pray that we would be able to
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receive it with humility and that it would be digested by
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your grace so that we can apply it to our lives.
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Protect us from the great error of Herod.
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Who heard John gladly but never changed.
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Change us, sanctify us, transform Us by the power of
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your word. Your son said, in that beautiful
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prayer sanctify them by your truth.
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Your word is truth. And so we submit ourselves to
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the word believing that you will change us.
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As you see our humility and our desperation for righteousness.
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We come to you now in the name of your beloved Son.
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Jesus Christ. Amen.
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I hope you remember last week. Saul's jealousy was budding.
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And now, he's craving to eliminate eradicate, David from
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the face of the Earth, and he's attempted here and there, but
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his plots have not ceased. They have only increased in
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carnality and deception. And we see that here unfolding
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in verse 17, after David escaped solemn, more than one occasion
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occasion from his Spear, and his wrath verse seventeen thousand.
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Saul said to David? Here is my elder daughter.
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Mihrab. I will give her to you for a
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wife. Only be Valiant for me and fight
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the Lord's battles force. All thought that not my hand be
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against them. But let the hand of the
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Philistines be against him. And David said to Saul, who am
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I? And who are my relatives?
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My father's clan in Israel that I should be son-in-law to the
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king. But at the time, when me ABS
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Saul's daughter should have been given to David.
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She was given to hide real, the me Jolla tight for a wife.
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So now it's always up to something.
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We read it. We have commentary on his
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attitude and on his heart, but now he comes up with this new
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scheme. I'm going to present my eldest
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daughter as a potential wife, to David.
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And it's not because I really want a Godly Man to marry my
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daughter. It's because I want to use my
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daughter as bait to position David in a way where he would
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jeopardize his life Behind Enemy Lines and that he would be
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eliminated by somebody else. And I Look innocent though.
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I have satisfied. My murderous appetite.
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Now. We've been studying this book.
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So you should remember a certain detail.
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Why should this be a question mark from the beginning?
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Why is Saul offering his daughter a suspicion to begin
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with? He already earned it.
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Did you hear that? What was one of the rewards for
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the person that would eliminate Goliath?
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Well, if you remember the prize among many was somebody would
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have the daughter for marriage David already earned this reward
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and saw is proving that what he's proven already that he does
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not keep his word. He does not, he does not care
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about whether or not he is a man of integrity concerning his
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promises. No, he should have given her up
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already. But instead he uses her again.
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Playing off of David's ignorance or probably his humility to not
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demand for her. And he's saying, I want you to
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go fight again, and then I'll give her to you.
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And David already proved himself, but perhaps, he and his
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innocence is just seeing a father who really Treasures the
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value of his daughter. And so, he's thinking that he
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needs to earn or proved himself to be more worthy as a candidate
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to be a husband for, for the Kings.
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Beautiful princess. And so he's ready to go fight.
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Presuming that Saul again, is just trying to test David, as a
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poor man who doesn't have much of of a dowry to give.
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So go and fight. Not only is David presented with
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this apparent, beautiful picture of a father who Treasures his
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daughter, but now he's facing this Mirage of piety because
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look what he says only be Valiant for me and fight.
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Who's battles the Lord's battles since when were you concerned
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about the Lord Saul? Fight the Lord's battles.
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Now, he's using what he's done before.
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He's using spiritual verbiage. Any idea why he's using God's
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name in this specifically, with David consider.
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What kind of man David was, was? He not a man after God's heart?
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Was he not a Godly Man, a spiritual man.
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He was there for Saul is attempting to persuade David to
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biting by using spirituality as a way of convincing him that
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they're on the same level and that, and that salt is a
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spiritual man. It's so conniving.
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It's so horrific, but welcome to an illustration of the Stand up
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someone sin. They are willing to use people
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like Solace his daughter and they are even willing to invoke
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the name of God to satisfy the flesh.
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I know you fear God right? You fear God so you would never
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dare use God's name in vain to advance a personal agenda.
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But here's the, here's the Trap of a person who fears God, you
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think everybody else thinks that way.
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Ah, Just because you grew up in a God-fearing family, just
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because you go to a God-fearing church does not mean everybody.
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Fears God. There are people who are just as
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easy as they are to breathe, just as simple as it is, to
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drink a glass of water. They can call and invoke God's
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name on a situation though. It's a total lie.
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This is what jealousy is doing to this man.
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It's possessing him. It's overtaking him and his
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sinful heart has no issue bulldozing over people using
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people calling God's name on the matter saying that they swear on
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God's name say that they will be innocent when they stand before.
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God concerning the matter. It's horrific.
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It's terrifying. And that's not just for Saul.
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That is a warning for all men. And if you don't believe me, let
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me ask you this. The David not do something
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similar later on, in his life. Saul is asking David to go to
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war, not so that he can actually see Victory, so that David would
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be killed in war ring a bell, okay.
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Because David when he was caught or scared that he would be
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caught in his sin did the same thing to a man by the name of
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Uriah? And so this isn't just applied
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to Saul as a unique Crazy Character.
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Know, it's the potential of every human that is.
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Unfortunately, hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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But coming back to the story, The this heartening thing about
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all this is that we have commentary and why Saul is doing
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this. We know we're told because he
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wants him to be slain by the Philistines and David were
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assuming is totally unaware of that plan burning inside of
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Saul's heart. And so we wish we can at this
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point scream into the story and say David, it's a trap.
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He's manipulating you. It's all a plan to try to get
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rid of you. And here's the thing.
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David as we're about to find out, isn't going to fall victim
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to this scheme, and it's not because David was necessarily
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Discerning. Because as Discerning as you
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might be, we do not know the depths of the human heart.
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We don't know what in our own hearts.
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And we certainly don't know when it's somebody else's heart.
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But here's the encouraging thing.
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David didn't necessarily need to know.
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Yes, there's a responsibility of being Discerning, but that can
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only take you so far. There's something much more
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important than being a Discerning person.
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And as valuable as that is and it is this to be a man or woman
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who walks with God. Because I want to tell you
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something about David, although he did not know what saw was
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planning to do. God knew.
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God knew. And because God knew God would
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protect his servant. God would Shield him.
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God would providentially protect and provide for him because that
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is one of the Privileges of a person who walks with God as
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David dead. Because no matter what Saul, or
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10,000, saws, or even the nation's plan against a servant
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of God, whether it's a man or a woman, there is a scripture that
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relates to this and you can apply it to your life as you
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desire to obey. God, fully with your existence.
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Proverbs 21. 30, you don't have to turn there.
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But just listen to these amazing words.
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Why didn't Saul's plan worked because quote?
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No wisdom. No understanding.
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No counsel. Can Avail against the Lord?
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That's why. As secretive as it is, as
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brilliant as it might be. No council.
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No understanding. No wisdom.
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Can Avail against the Lord? The safest place you are in this
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life. My brother is in the shadow of
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the Almighty. Stay close to the Lord and it
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doesn't matter what he'll belches out of the Abyss.
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It won't be able to Avail against you because you're in
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the hand of God. Notice David and verse 18 is
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humble. Answer, who am I or my
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relatives? My father's clan in Israel that
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I should be son-in-law to the king.
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That's not false humility. That's true.
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Humility. And this is a text that proves
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what we study last week that surely David.
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He passed the test of man's praise saw failed.
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Miserably When Praise went to David Saul crumbled because of
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his flesh. And the jealousy that overtook
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him David. No recorded answer, but here's
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proof just because the nation sunk his name, didn't mean that
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he had to become a proud person. He was able to keep his humble
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reputation before him and he was able still to see himself as a
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small insignificant person. And it doesn't matter what
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people were saying. There's no matter what songs
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they were singing. I Know Myself and I am small.
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I know my roots. I know what I'm capable of.
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I know where I came from. And this is going to be the
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secret too much of David's victory in his life, especially
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early on. But do these words sound
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familiar to you? Think, back think, way back in
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the same book, but think do these words sound familiar to
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anybody. Then anybody say very similar
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things about himself. Ah, go to 1st Samuel 921 when we
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were introduced to Saul and notice what Saul said, when
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Samuel came to tell him that he would be the king of Israel.
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Saul said in first Samuel, 921 Saul answered.
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Am I not have Benjamin a'ight. The least of the tribes of
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Israel and is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of The
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Tribe of Benjamin. Why then have you spoken to me
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in this way? That's a warning to us.
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Saul said, very similar things to David but look house all
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ended up. See, it's one thing to be
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humble. It's another thing to stay
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humble. Humility, like any other virtue
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in our lives. Must be nurtured and protected?
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Let's it becomes corrupted. And so we have to understand
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that we can all start in that place, but it must be
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continually watched there must be surveillance in our heart and
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how we respond to things and we must judge ourselves.
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As Paul said, lest we be judge, judge yourself.
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Examine yourself, question yourself.
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And then when you discover something as you were honestly,
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trying to see what's truly there, bring it before the Lord
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and let him deal with it. When I read this about David, I
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said, praise God for David, but I thought salsa the same thing.
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So we need to continually be filled with the spirit as we
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just heard earlier. Being filled with the spirit is
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not a one-time deal. Can I ask you something brother
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and sister? When's the last time you ask the
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Holy Spirit to fill you? When's the last time you got
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before God, before you went to work in your car, as you had
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your cup of cup? When's the last time you said,
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as I fill this cup with wonderful coffee?
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Holy Spirit, fill my heart with yourself.
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See that command in the Greek is not a one-time thing.
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It's not a flu shot that you get that command is a continual
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present tense. You're always asking your always
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seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit and we come to verse
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19, but at the time, when mihrab Saul's daughter should have been
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given to David. So clearly he passed the test
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clearly he accomplished what saw asked of him, but then salt pull
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something that we should not be surprised concerning Saul.
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When he was supposed to give his daughter.
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He not only withheld, the daughter, he gave the GAO to
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another guy altogether. Any idea why he did that?
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Everybody's on point in this Bible study tonight.
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Very good. He wanted to wound even in
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another way. So, I'm going to make you a
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promise. And I'm not going to keep the
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promise. With the hopes that I will
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frustrate you. Maybe even make you jealous,
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right? Because this man knows what it's
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like to be corrupted by jealousy.
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Let me see if he'll work on David.
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So I'm going to give my daughter to someone else and I'm going to
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even invite you to the wedding. So that, while that bride is
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there, you're going to watch and realize that should be mine.
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She should belong to me. And let's see.
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What's going to happen to you David.
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Let's see if you're going to embarrass yourself in front of
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Israel. Let's see if you're going to
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retaliate. So now I have an excuse to get
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back at UCL devilish. This is We do not know the
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extent of our wickedness. We are very creative.
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In fact, God judges, his people at one point and says that he
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credits them in a very ugly way. They come up with new ways of
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being Wicked. But David doesn't respond to
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this David. Doesn't react to this.
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He doesn't submit to the flesh. Why?
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Because we just learned his humility.
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He already knew that he wasn't deserving to be the king,
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son-in-law. It's very difficult to offend a
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humble person. Humility is a great shield from
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many offenses. But when you think you are,
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deserving of certain things and things don't come your way.
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You open yourself up to a fence and if it's not taken care of
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your open yourself up to bitterness frustration.
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Jealousy, Envy, all these ugly things, but David was solo
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already. David's face was already on the
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ground. So when saw try to kick him,
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he's like, where are you going to kick me?
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I'm already. I'm already down.
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And so humility. Here is David Shield it
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protected him from so much. He did not see himself worthy to
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begin with. So when it was not given to him.
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He was not offended. Can I ask you something?
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Have you ever offended a dead person?
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Have you ever went to the graveyard and asked those corpse
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six feet under? Hey I have you had anybody
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offend you this past week. Very difficult to frustrate a
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person who's dead. Die to yourself.
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It'll be very difficult for people to get under your skin.
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I read something that made me smile and it was a joke, I
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guess, but I think it's true. And somebody said, you know,
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it's very difficult for what people say to me to offend me,
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because I sing worse. Things about myself, Sunday
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morning. I'm a wretch and I'm a sinner
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and I'm in darkness and I'm in blind.
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All these wonderful things. So what are you going to say?
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That's going to offend? David's humility protected him.
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From the tactics and the scheme, see what Saul did to David would
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have worked on Saul. Because Saul was in the flesh.
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But how do you take down a man? Filled with the spirit?
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It's very, very difficult and Satan has great difficulty.
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And so saw in these to come up with new ideas.
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So verse 20, Now, Saul's daughter, Michal Love David.
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And they told Saul and the thing, pleased him.
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Oh my God. Loves David now.
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Oh, wonderful and it's not because there's the potential of
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his daughter. Marrying.
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A Godly, Man. It's because he has fresh bait
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to work with. Saw thought in verse 21.
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Let me give her to him that she may be a snare for him and that
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the hand of the Philistines. Maybe against him there, for
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Saul said to David a second time.
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You shall now be my son-in-law and saw commanded his servants
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speak to David and private and say behold the King has Delight
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in you really? The King has Delight in you.
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Oh, yeah, and all his servants love you.
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Now then become the king's son-in-law, and saw a servant
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spoke. Those words in the ears of
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David. So I was like this whole thing,
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like, hey, David come and they put them in a separate room
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table. Did you hear how he feels about
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you? It's like nobody talked about.
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She's in love with you, man. She's talking about you.
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She even went to her dad about you and Saul loves it.
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He wants you to marry her. He wants you to be his
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son-in-law. David said there's a seem to you
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a little thing to become the king's son-in-law since I am a
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poor man, and I have no reputation.
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And the Servants of Saul told him thus.
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And so did David speak. This went perfectly as Saul
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would have planned it. He knew that David was a man.
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That was humble. He knew that he was a man that
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would not just receive this gift, but that he would work for
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it that he would prove himself for it, but he was a poor man.
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He didn't have money to give you that.
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Have a great Dowry to offer so he would do what he did before.
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He would be surely willing to go to battle again.
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And so sauce ready to give him a new mission.
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That would be even more dangerous for David.
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You know, what's so amazing. Is the words that saw has
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concerning his daughter? Look at verse 21 against off.
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I let me give her to him. That she may be a snare for him.
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Now, some would limit that to the fact that she would be the
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Trap that would set David up to be an object of an arrow, or
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sort of some sort in battle. I think it's deeper than that.
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I think Saul knew something about the character of his
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daughter, meow. I think he knew something about
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her attitude. Something about her spirituality
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even. And so yes, the grander purpose
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would be to have him killed. But if he if he overcame that
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like he did last time now he would be trapped in marriage to
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me, Kyle. It's kind of hard to believe,
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right? Not really.
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Does this prove to be true later on in David story?
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Think now? Think now of a very famous story
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in David's life and a response from Michal.
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That wasn't very favorable on her.
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Do you remember, do you remember when David restored the ark back
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to Jerusalem? And as David was dancing and
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worshiping before the Lord. Somebody was looking out of the
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window. Let me read it to you and second
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Samuel 6 verse 16. This is farther down the road
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with David story, but I want you to see me House response to
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David's worship. As the Ark of the Lord came into
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the city of David, me how the daughter of Saul looked out of
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the window and saw King, David, leaping and dancing before the
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Lord hears a response and she despised him in her heart.
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She criticized him. He comes home and she wants to
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start a fight. Because he helped himself to
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just an average worshiper. He stripped himself of his Royal
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robes and he just became an average-looking Israelite
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dancing before the presence of God because he has restored the
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presence of God to its rightful place.
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And out of all the people who complain in the midst of all
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this celebration was the wife. The wife complaining about, what
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about his worship? About his Devotion to the Lord
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about his Zeal about his passion.
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Makes me wonder, listen carefully.
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It makes me wonder. Why me?
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How love David to begin with? Why didn't he have loved David?
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We read earlier. That's all of David.
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That didn't prove to be genuine love.
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Why did mija I love David. Well, think about who David was
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honestly, I'm just asking just being transparent.
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This isn't dogmatic with me. How love David if he was still a
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shepherd. Or is it because everybody's
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singing David's name, or is it because he was a good-looking
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ready, Country? Boy.
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What was it? That attracted me?
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How the David was that his popularity was it?
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Because he had a standing presence, was it?
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Because he was known, who knows? But I can tell you this, for
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certain when it came to David spirituality.
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She was offended by it, instead of attracted to it.
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We're going to get to this later on about how the wrong person in
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your life, can actually be a trap instead of a blessing.
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But we scroll down. Because we still have to get to
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19. Hope you don't have to go
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anywhere tonight. Saul Saul, Saul finds his
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daughter in love with this man. Know something about me.
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Ha. So it's like a win-win.
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If David dies in battle. That's the best ideal.
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If they even wins in battle. He stuck with Michal and she's
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gonna be a snare to him. Like, this is diabolical.
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So, the instruction is go out and I don't want to bride-price,
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but I want 200 foreskins of the Philistines.
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I want you to go out and kill these men and I want you to
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essentially circumcise him, here is solid, gehen trying to be all
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spiritual and try to take God's sign of the Covenant and
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circumcision and apply it to the scene.
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So, David, who's a man after God's Own Heart would be like,
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yeah, this man is really he's really after the things of God.
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David succeeds. Not only does he succeed.
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He he goes above and beyond the expectation.
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He comes back gives them 200 instead of 100.
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Saul gives his daughter Michal for a wife.
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Look at verse 28, but when saw saw and knew that the Lord was
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with David and that Michal Saul's daughter, loved them saw
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was even more afraid of David. So saw was David's enemy
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continually. Now, look at this and the
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commanders of the Philistines came out to battle and as often
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as they came out, David had more success than all the Servants of
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Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
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Everything that saw planned, literally backfired on him.
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He tried to get him killed. It didn't work.
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He tried to even make him look unpopular by trying to get
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jealousy out of him and envy. Try to get him to retaliate,
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make a scene so that it can go on the tabloids and Israel
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didn't work. In fact, the opposite happened,
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when he tried to tarnish his name and eradicate, his name,
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God, exalted his name, and it became highly esteemed.
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Why Saul? My friend?
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You're not fighting against a man.
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You're fighting against God's man.
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You're fighting against God. And not only a man, you're
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fighting. It's a humble man, a man who
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knows that he is no reputation that he is low.
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You're fighting at such a person.
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What does the scripture say that?
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He brings down the proud and he exalts the humble.
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So, while you are trying to bring down a man, God is
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bringing him up. Who do you thinks gonna win?
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And it's a picture of Jesus Christ who humbled himself.
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Even to the point of death death on a cross.
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And God has highly exalted him and made his name, the name
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above. Every other name, that at the
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name of Jesus Christ. Every knee should bow in heaven
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and on Earth, and under the Earth.
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And so he received David though. He was lowly though.
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He was the object of scorn and hatred and envy like the son of
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David was exalted. And made to be highly esteemed.
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Chapter 19. Stretch it out.
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After David's growing success, you know, else was growing this
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hatred for him. This jealousy now is getting up
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out of control. It's it can't be constraint.
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It can't be concealed. It's now bubbling over.
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It is going to get very ugly because we read just two verses
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ago. That David became Saul's enemy
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continually. That's how scary jealousy is.
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It's amazing how much the Bible gives attention to this.
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A whole story line about jealousy, makes you wonder This
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jealousy was so powerful when it was harbored and saws hard that
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it was able to make listen to this.
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A man of God, anointed of the Holy Spirit, humble and
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successful, and Incredibly gifted to be an enemy in
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someone's eyes. To be an enemy in.
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Someone's eyes, instead of a partner, instead of a friend,
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instead of a colabor and the gospel know you are standing in
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my way. I will treat you as I would
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treat my enemy. But more than that this jealousy
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got. So out of control that it's not
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subtle anymore. Sea salt try to do it secretly
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for so long. He had the spear in his hand and
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he throws it at David while he's under this influence of a
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tormenting spirit. So people can say he's mad, it's
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the spirit so he can give that excuse.
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He tried to put him an enemy line in front of Enemy Lines, to
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try to get rid of him. So that if people see David
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dead, they can't Point The Saul. He's trying to do all these
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things secretly and now all for a sudden.
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It's about to become very public.
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Saul's murderous mindset is not secret of any more.
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It's becoming more obvious to those who are closest to him and
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listen to this. It's like a flesh-eating
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disease. Leave it, untreated long enough
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and it begins to develop an odor.
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And that's how the sins of the spirit work.
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The things that make the sins of the spirit, those hidden
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attitude. So dangerous.
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Is that at first, they're not recognizable.
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They're not recognizable. They're hidden Pride.
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It stays hidden for it. Starts with a seed form, an
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embryo anger, jealousy and envy, especially but leave that thing,
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untreated, just like cancer and eventually it's going to become
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noticeable. And those are going to those
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people around, you are closest to you, will be able to
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recognize it smell it, and see it, because you did not take the
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time to come before the great physician of your soul to deal
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with it. And this is what's about to
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happen to him as we read in verse 1, Saul spoke to Jonathan
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his son and to all his servants that they should kill David.
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Now he's talking about it. Now, he's on lunch break with
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his employees in his own son. And he's like, giving them
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reasons to actually kill David. Now.
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He's not looking for the enemy to do now.
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He's looking for those who work with David to do it.
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Because that's what jealousy does.
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Listen, very carefully. This is what jealousy does
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jealousy. When it is not restrained by the
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power of the Holy Spirit. When is not destroyed by God's
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grace, not only overtakes, you it convinces you that you need
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to convince others to join you on the quest of being jealous
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for that person. What jealousy does to a person
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is that it eventually makes other people or attempts to make
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other people turn on you. And so that you can have others,
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join you on that quest of overcoming, that person that you
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want to overcome. So Javis people start
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bad-mouthing other people, especially the object of their
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jealousy and they talk to their closest friends, usually or
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their relatives. They start saying things about
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them and smearing their character and talking about
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talking about the way they walk into church.
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And maybe the way they do this and do that and and then they
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add usually to it. I'm a Discerning person.
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So I usually can tell All these different crazy things, right?
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And what they're trying to do is they're trying to win other
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people to hate them. So that they don't feel as
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guilty to hate them. So they can have a better chance
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of doing, what Satan would love to do and that's destroying
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innocent believer. This is really serious.
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And here's the thing, Jonathan responds in a way that might
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have shocked saw but Jonathan saw son, delighted much in David
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and Jonathan told David saw, my father seeks to kill you.
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Therefore be on your guard in the morning.
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Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.
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And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field
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where you are and I will speak to my father about you.
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And if I learn anything, I will tell you.
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Jonathan made a covenant with David.
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Jonathan loved David. And love warns.
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Love warns. And what's incredible about?
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Jonathan, we'll get to him in a minute.
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He stands in Greek contrast with the servants.
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The servants heard the same news that Jonathan heard and they
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knew David just as well Jonathan did.
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But here's the thing, when the servants heard.
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There was no record of them informing David of the potential
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looming threat that would come from Saul.
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Do you know why for the same reason?
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Why many Christians today don't stand for truth because they're
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afraid for their own life. They're afraid of their own
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positions and their own jobs. And so, you know what they did
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again? What many Christians do?
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They took a neutral position? That's how you feel about David.
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Okay. I'm not getting involved in
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this. But Jonathan was willing to
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stand up to his own. Dad.
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Do you know why, not? Because Jonathan loved David
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more than he loves Saul. It's because Jonathan love
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truth. That's why.
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Many people today claiming that they love truth.
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Can I tell you how your love for truth will be tested?
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When you have to make a stance that will cost you relationships
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or position. And God will put you to the test
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and he's very creative and trying to see where you stand
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because we think it just about if Isis comes into our
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neighborhood and puts us on our knees, as I'll cut your head off
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If you deny Christ, no, no. Truth is much broader than just
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gospel reality. Truth is truth across the board.
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See, we limit that. That wonderful blessing from,
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Jesus blessed. Are you?
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When you are persecuted for righteousness sake, you know how
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we replace? It blessed.
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Are you, when people persecute you for the gospels sake, he
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didn't say that. He said for righteousness sake,
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So whatever is under the category of righteous, you are
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blessed if you are persecuted because of that.
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So we think that if we stand for being the church and gathering
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together in this age, which says don't gather and we are slanted
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for that. That's not persecution.
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Why not? It's righteous.
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God. Commanded that we do it.
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So blessed. Are you when you are persecuted
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for righteousness sake, And so David.
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Is seeing the true love of a friend.
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But Jonathan is showing not just a love for a friend, a love for
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what is right. If I can speak to you, as I
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would speak to a brother. A family member, somebody dear
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and close to me. I hope what I'm about to say,
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will never ever leave your mind, and that you will remember, and
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it will echo down the corridors of your conscience for the rest
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of your existence. Stand for truth, no matter what
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it cost you. Stand for what is right, no
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matter the price. Even if it's your own family.
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Jonathan. Is willing to stand for truth.
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Even at the expense of fracturing, the relationship he
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had with his dad, you want proof that he actually damage the
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relationship with his father for the sake of Truth.
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Go to chapter 20 and look at verse 33.
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Then Jonathan answered Saul his father.
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Why should he be put to death? What has he done?
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But Saul hurled? His spear at him to strike him.
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You imagine that. So Jonathan knew that his father
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was determined to put David to death.
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In fact, if you scroll back, look at verse 30, then saws
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anger was kindled against Jonathan and he sent them.
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You son of a perverse rebellious woman.
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Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your
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own chain and to the shame of your mother's nakedness.
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Saul knew that he was, his son was willing to stand with David,
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even at the expense of the father-son relationship.
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And it's not because he loved David's presence more than his
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father's. It was because of Truth.
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Stand for what is right, no matter what it cost you because
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there is a far greater price for standing.
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What is wrong, no matter what relationships or positions, you
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keep with it. And if you're not convinced that
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Jonathan is standing for truth, just scroll down here.
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And look at verse 4. Of chapter 19.
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And Jonathan spoke. Well of David to Saul his father
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and said to him. Let not the king sin against his
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servant David because he has not sinned against you, and because
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his deeds have brought good to you.
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For, he took his life in his hand and he's struck down the
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Philistine of the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel.
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You saw it, a great salvation for officers.
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Are you saw and rejoice? Why then will you sin against
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innocent Blood by killing David without cause?
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He's using language from the law.
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He's reminding his own. Dad of the scriptures.
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Jonathan is not just courageous because he went to David.
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He says, hey look, the guy is trying to kill you.
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I've heard it with my own ears and I'm willing to put my own
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life at risk to warn you because I know you're innocent.
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I know God has called you and anointed you.
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His courage was seen the fact that he tried to preach the sin
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out of his dad's heart. He stood up to his own dad in
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kindness and wisdom. Yes and boldness but also in a
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spirit of humility. He reminds him of the acts of
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David. He reminds him of the situation.
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This is not it's not worthy for him to be killed.
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You're going to, you're going to put more guilt on yourself that.
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So, he stands up to his father. And this is admire herbal,
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especially on a day like today. And what's amazing here is
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Saul's answer in verse 6. We read here and saw listen to
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the voice of Jonathan. Sauce War.
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As the Lord lives. He shall not be put to death.
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Wow. Now.
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We that check this out 47 and Jonathan called David, Jonathan
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calls David and Jonathan reported him.
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All these things and Jonathan brought David to Saul and he was
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in his presence as before. Don't you wish the book ended
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there? Seemed like it worked.
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How wonderful. Jonathan is convicting message
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actually got ahold of salt. And not only that sauce, swear
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by the lord's name. It seems like in a genuine way,
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but we have David being restored to his original position where
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he was in close proximity with salt.
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This is MM, is reconciliation. This is a wonderful restoration.
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Jonathan was used by God to save David saw, and all the Kingdom
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of Israel for much unnecessary. Chaos.
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Don't get too excited. Because I read that and part of
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me, you know, let the little bit.
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Yeah, look at this, but then I reexamine the words.
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Does that sound like true repentance?
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Saul Suarez? The Lord lives.
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He shall not be put to death. I don't know.
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I don't see any indication of conviction of his jealousy.
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Of his hatred. I don't see any crying out to
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God for his. His rebellious acts and his
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inconsistencies and is broken. Vows.
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I just see a person that agrees not to kill somebody else.
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Whatever joy, we knew about Saul's very short-lived.
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Because even though he comes back into the presence of Saul,
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a different presence is going to overtake Saul.
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Do you know why? Because saws repentance dealt
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with this symptom of sin and not the root of sin.
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The symptom was I want to kill David.
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The route was you're jealous. And how Saul is treating his sin
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as how many people in the church are treating their sin.
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And how many people are counseling?
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People regarding their sin. They want to put to rest the
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symptoms and they don't want to do heart surgery by the word of
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God. You see what I'm saying?
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Saul's issue was not necessarily that he wanted to kill David.
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That was the branch. That was the fruit of something
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much deeper and more significant.
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And unless we get to the heart of the matter, no pun intended.
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Likes. All many people who profess
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Christ will live their Christian journey and the cycle of repent
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cry. Go back to it, repent cry.
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And when I mean repair my meeting real repentance, false
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repentance like this. Many people just apologized for
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their Outburst. They apologized for their
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swimming and lust for a season. And they just want the pastor to
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put their hand around their back and say it's okay.
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Just don't do it again. Why don't we do some heart
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surgery? Get on the table, and let God do
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some work. Why don't you do something like
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Fast a little bit? If you really want to get that
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cancer out of you. And let God go, deep.
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Be honest with yourself. Be honest before God, and let
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him bring victory in your life. Saul doesn't come before God saw
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just promises his son that he won't stick his spear in the
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face of David. Doesn't prove much because
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Saul's vow doesn't hold. Wait.
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Why? Because again, you're dealing
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with the symptom. You're not dealing with the real
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issue here. And so all it's going to take is
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a little bit of time and the right Temptation for you to go
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right back into and that's exactly what happens.
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Because look what happens in verse 8 and there was war again.
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It's all is calm, all is bright. Nothing.
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Nothing strange is happening. No eruptions.
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No plans. No schemes and Davis is doing
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what he's called to do. Be Soldier, be General.
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So War breaks out and David went and fought with the Philistines
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and struck them with a great blow.
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So that they fled, before my another awesome campaign
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completed by the anointed, man of God.
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And guess what? This is going to trigger Saul.
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Look at the next verse, then a harmful Spirit from the Lord
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Came Upon Saul when when did it happen?
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When did it happen after the victory?
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After people start talking about David again, after the news came
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to town that the Philistines were defeated once more and push
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back that much further. Saw, here's this thing and
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because of that, he didn't deal with the heart issue.
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He didn't get real with God. It flared up again.
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So what happens? Harmful, Spirit comes upon him?
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And the reason why the harmful Spirit was there, because he did
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not cry out like David and take, not your Holy Spirit from me.
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There's no language that. There's no proof of that.
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We see here, then a harmful Spirit from the Lord Came Upon
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saw as he sat in his house, with his spear in it.
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So he's ready already. Like, it's right there in his
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hand. And he's looking at David.
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He's already inflamed by Envy by what he just heard about.
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David, David's their humbly serving as a therapist and
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playing that beautiful harp. It's all sought to pin David to
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the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul so that he struck
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the spear into the wall and David fled, and escaped that
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night. What's the difference?
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What's the difference between David's reaction here than the
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first time? Anybody notice the difference?
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He fled. Last time we heard that he
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evaded Saul twice. So Saul did it once David.
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Leaves the room. Let some calm down for a little
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bit, his servants common and put them to rest of the spiritist
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tormenting all and solves their probably foaming at the mouth
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calms down. David comes back in place again,
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10 minutes in and throws a spear.
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Again. He evades him this time.
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He leaves the premises permanently.
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This time, he said, and we will never see David in this position
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for the next few years. Is that is that right?
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Or is that wrong? Is that righteous or is that
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cowardly? What do you think?
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It's righteous. Because God calls us to be wise.
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And we would say it's probably very smart not to work for
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somebody that wants to try to kill you.
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But the murder was the symptom that attempt to kill him was a
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symptom, the real issue was jealousy and here's the point
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jealousy. As much as Jonathan, try to
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reconcile the to the scriptures and form us about the difficulty
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to remain in the presence of someone who has Envy towards
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you. That's why I believe it's one of
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the most vicious. And heinous sins of the spirit.
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Proverbs 27 for says wrath. Now, listen to this.
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I want you to listen to these words.
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This is astounding, wrath is cruel.
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Anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
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Think about that. Do you know a person who has no
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control over their temper? Have you ever been in the
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presence of someone that all it takes is one little thing and
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they blow up and veins, come with their neck and they throw
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things across the room. It's not very fun to be in their
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presence. Scripture even says, if you're
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married to someone like, that's better to live in the desert.
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But this proverb tells me that there is something more severe
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than that. And that's a person who's
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jealous of you, any idea. Why.
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Any idea? Why?
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Why? In a person with jealousy, just
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they have something in their heart and they kind of stare at
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you to certain way. They might be.
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Many me talk about you Gibran. It's hidden and that's one
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element it secretive. It can be easily detected.
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It can be covered by different things and false humility short.
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Yes. Okay, so anger and wrath are
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more explosive firework moments where as jealousy has longevity
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to. As we see in Saul's life,
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anything else. Let me ask you something.
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Even though somebody might not have the right.
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We never have the right to be explosive in our anger, to be
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filled with rage. Usually there is something that
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is done to create that do right? Unless somebody's just totally
51:16
out of and they just get angry for no reason but usually it's
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something do. Divide that causes that
51:21
explosion to occur, correct? But what about jealousy?
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What does somebody have to do wrong to make somebody jealous?
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That's it? Jealousy deals with a failure to
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be complete in your identity with Christ.
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So, here's the thing, when I look at a verse like this, I
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think about Dave and I go. What did David do to make to
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makes all feel that way about him?
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And the answer is nothing. David was just fulfilling the
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will of God for his life. David displayed humility and
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loyalty and consistency and yet still he was the object of
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someone's hatred. So here's why.
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Here's why, who can stand before.
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Jealousy is a scary thing because you did nothing to cause
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it. So you can't necessarily do
52:21
anything to relieve it. What am I going to do for you?
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Not to be jealous, kill myself. Oh, quit the ministry.
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Oh, okay, not look beautiful. So that you feel better about
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yourself. You see what I'm saying?
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Oh, I'll demote myself so I don't make as much just because
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you see how you see, how this doesn't make sense you, if it's
52:43
not reconcilable, unless the holy spirit, that something in
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that person. So what David is showing here is
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I can't work with this. Like if you are a person who is
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angry or filled with rage then maybe I can I can change the way
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I do things around you that triggers that maybe there's
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something. I do that you don't do.
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And so maybe we just need to me. I died here so we can calm
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things down. No.
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No, I'm doing the will of God. So what can I do to please?
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You, I can't. I can't.
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And so he flees his presence and he is very wise in doing.
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So let me tell you, if you're a person is struggling with Josie.
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God can heal you God can restore you.
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God can make you complete. God can give you a revelation of
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your identity in Christ. That will make you feel whole.
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But if not, if likes all you ignore it and you justify it.
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I assure you. One of the consequences of among
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many that you will push people away from you.
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And things that could have been wonderful Godly Partnerships and
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friendships will, instead be you looking at innocent people as
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enemies. Don't let yourself be consumed
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by it. Give it to Christ.
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David runs you guys doing well, can we continue?
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Verse 11, Saul sent Messengers to David's house to watch him,
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that he might kill him in the morning, but me, how David's
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wife told him. If you do not escape with your
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life, tonight tomorrow, you will be killed.
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So me how let David down through the window and he fled away and
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escaped. Now.
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This is so good. I don't know.
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I wish I didn't even stop. I'm just going to read the next
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few verses because it's worthy of not being interrupted.
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Just listen to us and let the imagery play in your mind.
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So let me retract saw sent Messengers verse 11 to David's
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house to watch him that he might kill him in the morning, but me,
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how David's wife told him. If you do not escape with your
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life tonight tomorrow, you'll be killed so many holiday vadh down
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through the window and he fled And escaped Miguel took an
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image, which is actually a household God and laid it on the
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bed and put a pillow of goats hair at his head and covered it
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with the clothes. So when Saul sent Messengers to
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take David, she said he is sick. Then saw send the messengers to
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see David saying, bring him up to me in the bed that I may kill
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him. And when the messengers came in
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behold, the image was in the bed with the pillow of goats here at
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its head. Saul said to me Kyle, why have
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you deceived me, thus, and let my enemy go so that he has
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escaped. Let me call answers Saul.
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He said to me, let me go. Why should I kill you?
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If you have the money, make a movie out of this, please, this
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is like so exciting. How can you be bored with the
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scriptures? I mean, detects itself is
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riveting when you have the Holy Spirit, ready to give you
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Revelation. Oh.
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There's many things that can be said about these verses, but I
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will bring one inside that. I sure, I hope will surely bless
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you. This scene that we just
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described actually inspired David to write an entire Psalm
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about it. Does anybody know the song
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number? Mmm.
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Go to the Book of Psalms. And this is why we must read all
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of the Bible because it sheds light on different portions of
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the Bible. 59. If you are willing go home
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tomorrow tonight, whenever you desire and read Psalm 59 in
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light of tonight's Bible study, but look at verse 12, the
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choirmaster according to do not destroy a micced, MM of David
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when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him.
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So what we just read in 1st Samuel, this is David by the
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spirit, writing an entire song to describe his perspective on
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it. Aren't the scriptures.
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Wonderful. And I wish we can read all of
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it. But let's look at a few things.
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Look at verse 34, behold. They lie and wait for my life,
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Fierce men stir up Strife against me for no transgression
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or sin of mine. O, Lord, for no fault of mine.
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They run and make ready. You want to serve God, be ready
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to be attacked by those in your own camp.
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He's not speaking about the Philistines.
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He's speaking about those that he served with.
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He's speaking about the servants that he probably even went to
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war with that, they probably laughed together with that.
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They probably made memories within the palace.
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These men now are surrounding his Dwelling Place for no sin
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for no transgression. Just because they don't have the
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discernment and they don't have the spirit of God in them to
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see, like Jonathan saw, this is not right.
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In fact, look at verse 12 for the sin of their mouths, the
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words of their lips. Let them be wrapped in their
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pride for the cursing and what's that word and lies that they
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utter. How else would Saul convince a
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bunch of people to kill David. He didn't just say go kill him
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necessarily surely. There was something that he said
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to them, to convince them to kill him.
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And we're going to read that later on.
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Even David complains later. They slander me.
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If you actually look at the woes in the Book of Psalms, many of
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them have to do with slander than anything else study, it,
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most of David's laments have to do with what people said to him
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and about him more than the spears that they were ready to
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throw at him. So David here, as a man was
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innocent is experiencing attack and even lies said about him and
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what did David do? Serve, God, serve God and watch
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the potential of the enemy to try to come against you.
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But look at verse 70, I love how this song ends.
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Oh, my strength. I will sing praises to you for
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you. Oh, God are my Fortress.
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The God Who shows me steadfast love.
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I'm innocent. I don't deserve this.
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You know, what's amazing about that Psalm.
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He does this in other places, but he doesn't do it here.
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He didn't say, this is unfair. God is this what it is?
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This what comes with a package to serving you?
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I'm reconsidering, this whole anointing thing and this whole
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being a king thing. No, he says, I trust you.
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I'll sing to you in the midst of all of this.
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I'll praise you because you are my Fortress.
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Saul is not my Fortress. The armies of Israel are not my
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shield. You are.
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So we come back to the story as we were ready to close.
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Psalm 59 was written in light of this, but look at some of the
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hints here. Look at me, call me Hal rescues
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David Wright. This is God's Providence, guys.
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Look at this saw. Thought he can be secretive soft
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that he can go to his own family and try to make a plan against
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David and God's Providence is at work.
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So, Jonathan warns David initially later on me.
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Kyle tells David, she finds out somehow.
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What's the point here? Sin has a way of getting out the
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plots of Satan, have a way of getting out and God always
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prepares us, whether it's in the moment, or after the fact always
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prepares us to remain unshakable, and I moved.
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Macaulay is fulfilling. What Genesis 2 says that a man
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shall leave. His father and his mother and
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shall cleave unto his wife. You know what people do?
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They equate that merely to physical location.
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That a man or a woman, they leave their family.
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So when you get married, you're supposed to leave the home, he's
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supposedly the supervision of your parents.
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And now you become a new family unit by the spirit of God and by
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Covenant. So we look at that verse and
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Stewie go. Yes, I left my house and many
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people haven't moved emotionally.
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So, their allegiance to their parents is more Superior than
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their spouse. Their emotions are dedicated to
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their parents more than their spouse, and that's how you
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create havoc in the home. When the Bible says leave father
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and mother, it's every type of leaving, not just physical
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location. You are turning your Allegiance.
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You are turning your dedication to that person, even over your
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parents. You may not value that.
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Now you will in the future. Some know what I'm talking
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about. So we admire me call for this.
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But again, it's very short-lived because she does something David
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escapes through the window. She takes an idol.
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Puts it in the bed, puts goats hair on it.
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Puts a blanket over. Here's my question.
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What's an idol doing in your home?
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Huh? Where'd you get that?
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I can tell you this? I have a hunch that it wasn't
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David's just saying. I have a lot of confidence that
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it wasn't David's household, God.
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Amber what's all said earlier? Michal is in love with David.
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She will be a snare to him. Saw knew something about his
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daughter. I'm convinced, he knew something
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about his daughter, and one thing that he must have known is
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that she worshipped household gods?
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And we see later on that, when David worships.
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She's offended by it. You want to know how you can set
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yourself up for trap and marriage?
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Marry, somebody who is not spiritually compatible with you.
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Marry somebody? Who doesn't have God as their
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sole treasure and life? There's Supreme Delight.
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The lordship of Jesus Christ is not real over them.
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Do they go to church? Oh, they lift their hands.
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Sometimes. And here's what we think.
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Here's a warning for us. Okay, we think like me how this
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can work. Yeah, he's a man after God's Own
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Heart. He's good-looking.
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She's pretty, she's gorgeous. I can win her.
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Listen. Don't marry.
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Somebody's potential. Please don't do that.
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Don't marry what somebody could be?
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Because here's the thing, me, house idolatry and and David's
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obvious Soul dedication to God. You didn't see issues at first.
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In fact, things look good here. Like me house working with
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David. He's escaping.
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She's there. She seems like she's fulfilling
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parts of the Bible. Like in relationships today that
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spiritual unequally yoked - if that's even a word usually
1:04:04
surfaces up later, down the road.
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And so you hear crazy things. I mean, this is the fullest
1:04:09
extent where you I've said this before where you have like
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Christian young ladies willing to marry Muslims.
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I've seen it, I've talked to people and when they they try to
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convince they say well they say that I'm willing they're willing
1:04:24
to let me practice my faith. Oh, really?
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That's all it takes for you to be convinced.
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Well, he says, he's not, he's not that into it.
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He says, he'll respect my beliefs and I can go to church
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and he can do his thing. Wonderful.
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Great. Yeah.
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So what about when kids come on the scene?
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Oh, well. What's a household God?
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Doing in this house? We're going to find out later on
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in our study of David that he was in the best that this
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marriage thing. He was a man of God.
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He loved God a lot. Not really a good person in
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terms of how he chose a spouse and he wasn't the best dad
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either. We'll get to that later on.
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Now, look what happens. Not only that.
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She lies Saul Comes The Messengers.
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He's sick. Really?
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Not only that. I don't even want to get into.
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What saw saying, saw says, look at this, the progression of sin
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verse 15. Bring him up to me in the bed
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that I may kill him. See, what happened.
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He went from willing that letting the enemies kill him to
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Jonathan, and his servants to kill him.
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And now he himself is saying, let me just do this myself.
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Let me kill him. That's the progression of sin,
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unbridled and uncontrolled, and unrestrained.
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By the power of the Holy Spirit. There's a progression to
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Holiness and there's a progression in sinfulness.
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There's no neutrality in the Christian Journey.
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There's no, there's no end where you put it on and you just sit
1:06:02
there. No, you're either moving forward
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or backward. When The Messengers came and
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behold the image was in the bed. It's a goat.
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I guess something crazy like that verse 17 salsa that me.
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How, why have you deceived me? Like look, he's playing victim
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though. Because when we are filled with
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carnality, we never see ourselves as the problem.
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We always see ourselves as the victim.
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Why have you deceived me? That's a, let, my enemy go, so
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that he has asked it. That's your son-in-law.
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Let me call answered. So he said to me, let me go.
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Why should I kill you? Show me how although there is
1:06:37
something to admire about her when she let David go, she gave
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him the word so he can escape she's lying because she's
1:06:43
clearly afraid of her father. I see a different attitude and
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Jonathan, Jonathan was not like this.
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He was willing to stand to his dad and be truthful.
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And said, this is you're in the wrong.
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You can't be doing this and he was willing to put his life at
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risk. You never cease all throwing a
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spear at me. How you see saw throwing a spear
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Jonathan because Jonathan was a man of Truth and you'll pay a
1:07:04
price when you stand for. With whether it's gospel truth
1:07:07
or truth in terms of righteousness.
1:07:11
Because I wanted to save face. No!
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He try to be try to key threaten me.
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Now. Here's the thing.
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She tried to diffuse the situation by the seductiveness
1:07:19
of Sin Sin, convinces, you that. If you use it, it will make
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things better without consequences.
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So in that moment, she felt maybe, what many of us felt it
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to try to evade, a dangerous consequence.
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We lie to try to extinguish the moment.
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So she tried to diffuse it. Now.
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Here's my question to all of us. Did this lie?
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Help David, or hurt, David? I think we know the answer.
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Because someone very intelligently observed, that
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Saul could have now used this to go and Chase David.
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Now if anybody asks, all why are you leaving your throne and
1:07:59
going in the wilderness and chasing he threatened, my
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daughter? He said he was going to kill my
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daughter. I must go.
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I might not have father to stand for my own offspring.
1:08:09
You see Stick with the truth, stick with the principles of
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righteousness, as much as you might think that sin will make
1:08:18
things better. And you will evade consequences
1:08:21
sin has a law, it only brings consequences truth will
1:08:26
liberate, you truth will save. You truth will keep you He
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called it and do this. And it would only add like what
1:08:37
sin does either harms you or harm other people.
1:08:41
Now, let's fast-forward, David fleas.
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He goes to Samuel. We haven't seen Samuel in a very
1:08:45
long time. He comes to Samuel and he pours
1:08:48
his heart out to him and I could end it here, but I need to
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complete it with the stop because this is, this is a very
1:08:55
interesting place in verse 20, saw Liz.
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He's so out of it. He's willing to go to Samuel his
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house to kill David there. So verse 20, salsa and
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Messengers to take David. And when they saw the company of
1:09:08
the prophets prophesying and Samuel standing as head over
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than the spirit of God, Came Upon The Messengers of Saul and
1:09:15
they also prophesied. So imagine this, this is almost
1:09:19
comical saws. There.
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He goes. You been to man.
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Go, go to Samuels house, they go, and they show up at the
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worship service, Samuel is leading the worship, all the
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prophets are worshiping, and The Messengers come in probably
1:09:30
sword in hand, and the spirit of God comes upon them.
1:09:32
And they joined the Choir. Verse 21 when it was told Saul
1:09:38
he's like, hey your ass ass ins became part of the worship team.
1:09:44
When it was told Saul, he sent other Messengers and they also
1:09:48
prophesied. You would get the hint, right?
1:09:55
People make this about how are these people prophesying?
1:09:58
It doesn't mean that they're necessarily predicting.
1:09:59
The future prophecy has a broader definition.
1:10:03
It can also be just declaring the goodness of God, the truth
1:10:06
of God, the Praises of God. Does anybody have an idea why
1:10:10
God is allowing this. They may have an idea.
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Who's really in charge Saul? Giving solid chance to redeem
1:10:26
himself. Yes, and yes, any other ideas.
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Very good. Good good.
1:10:34
Good observation. Just because you prophesy
1:10:38
doesn't mean you're from God. Very good.
1:10:52
Very good observation. You guys are amazing students.
1:10:56
By the way, this is incredible. Yes.
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Yes. Yes.
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Did this not remind Saul of what he wants experience in God when
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he was walking with God. Absolutely.
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And in fact, if I may add one more thing, God is stopping Saul
1:11:12
from killing David. These men think that they can
1:11:17
come to David. You know, what God does.
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Now all this is how amazing God as he could have opened up the
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Earth and swallowed them. He could have done what he did
1:11:26
with Elijah when the king sent 50 bands, men.
1:11:29
Remember the fire came from heaven and consume and consume
1:11:31
the next batch. No, he makes them worship God.
1:11:37
You want to kill my servant? I'm going to turn you into
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worshippers. Saul hears.
1:11:42
It. He sends another band of men
1:11:44
they do the same. So what is Saul do verse 22?
1:11:47
Then he himself. Can you see it?
1:11:51
Like almost like a movie? He himself gets off the throne
1:11:54
and he went to Rama and came to the great.
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Well, that is insecure and he asks, where are Samuel and David
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and once and behold, they are now.
1:12:02
If and Rama and he went there tonight, othon, Rama and the
1:12:07
spirit of God Came Upon him also.
1:12:09
And as he went, he prophesied, until he came to Nazareth and
1:12:13
Rama. Now, look at this verse 24, and
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he to stripped off his clothes and he to prophesied.
1:12:20
For Samuel and Lead naked. All that day, and all that
1:12:23
night. Thus, it is said, is Saul also
1:12:26
among the prophets, Saul receive the more severe dealing.
1:12:30
By this the spirit of God, the other men, they prophesy.
1:12:34
But once all came on the scene. I don't believe that it was
1:12:38
Saul's voluntary act to start. Taking his clothes off.
1:12:42
I believe the spirit of God Came Upon him in such a way where he
1:12:45
did that under that compulsion. And the question is why here it
1:12:51
is you all touched on it. Beautifully.
1:12:54
Saul did not get the hint from God that you are fighting.
1:12:59
Not just against David. You're fighting against me.
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You sent one band of men. I stopped them.
1:13:05
You sent another band of men. I stop him.
1:13:07
You yourself come. I stopped you Saul, you're
1:13:10
fighting against my spirit. You're fighting against my plan,
1:13:14
my program for my nation. He didn't believe it or at least
1:13:18
he didn't want to submit to it. He comes and not only this, God
1:13:22
could have killed salt. He could have taken him out
1:13:25
right there. But you know what he did.
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As our brother said earlier. He's a lying him to taste.
1:13:30
What he wants new when he was walking with God.
1:13:32
This is the grace of God. Do you remember what it was like
1:13:36
to be under the influence of my spirit?
1:13:38
You've only known for these past few days and months, what it's
1:13:41
like to be under a tormenting Spirit, don't you miss what?
1:13:43
It's like to be under the shower of my grace and mercy, He's
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giving him a taste again, of what it's like to be walking
1:13:51
right with the Lord. And it's almost an invitation
1:13:55
for us all to repent, right there.
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And then come back to this. And sometimes the scripture
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tells us that the goodness of God, the kindness of God leads
1:14:04
us to repentance. It's not always fear and
1:14:07
judgment that shakes us up though.
1:14:08
God uses that even sometimes when you are away from God and
1:14:12
you've heard those testimonies God, just shows his mercy and
1:14:17
his grace. In such an extravagant way for
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you to realize that sin is not worth it worldliness is not
1:14:23
worth it. Rebellion is not worth it.
1:14:26
That's what's happening with Saul.
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But solved it and get it. No repentance.
1:14:32
So what does God do? He makes him take off his
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clothes. Why to Humble him?
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Saw ultimately the mother of all sins, his pride and Saul refused
1:14:45
to submit to God, refuse to repent before God.
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So you know what God does you think you're a king as her
1:14:50
brother said it first. I'm going to show you who's
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really the king. Take off your kingly robes.
1:14:56
Salt, took off his crown and took off his robe and took off
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his armor, and he lay there like a little boy naked.
1:15:04
And this is where I study comes full circle.
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And we started, we talked about David's humility and how God
1:15:11
exalted David because of that. And here we see Saul because of
1:15:14
his pride. God humiliates him.
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And he knows how to do it. So, we cannot afford, we cannot
1:15:26
afford to allow our hearts to entertain sin to Harbors.
1:15:30
An, do you even see the mercy of God here?
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It irks me very much. When people say God of the Old
1:15:35
Testament, is not a merciful god.
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What was that? That's mercy.
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And God is willing to be merciful to you maybe tonight at
1:15:44
this Bible study, you know, you're in sin.
1:15:48
You know, you might even have that jealousy, that envy that
1:15:51
anger that rage in your heart. God doesn't condemn you tonight.
1:15:58
God is not looking to destroy you tonight.
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God wants to heal you. God wants to pour His holy
1:16:04
spirit upon you. God wants you to know the flow
1:16:08
of his love again. The liberating sense, when you
1:16:11
know, that you are in right standing with Christ respond to
1:16:15
that tonight. Let this Bible study be like
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what it was for saw in those Messengers.
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Let It Be An arresting moment for you to realize what you are
1:16:24
actually doing and where God wants to In you, God is not
1:16:27
ready to destroy you. God is not ready to get rid of
1:16:30
you. Even though you've done
1:16:31
horrendous things as Saul did to David got still is willing to
1:16:35
put the brakes and say. Can we make this right?
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Would you respond to that tonight for those who are
1:16:42
serving? God, and you were the opposite
1:16:44
and you're experiencing great. Slander great, whatever it is
1:16:48
that you can identify know. This God is your Fortress.
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God is your Fortress. Let's pray.
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Lord, we thank you for this Bible study.
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We thank you that Lord. It is rich in wisdom and that
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you have painted it. So beautifully for us to see it
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in real life so that we can relate to it.
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And God, we ask you. You would heal us because you
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are the great physician. Lord, we are honest before you
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in this moment and we can identify things.
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Maybe that other man other men. Don't know.
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But we know and you know, we ask that you would come and do your
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work in us. We will not be like salt
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tonight. And give you false repentance.
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Lord, for those. Who are making a stands for
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truth and they are being persecuted for it.
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Whether at their job, whether in their families, and it could be
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about gospel truth. Or it could be about just making
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a judgment and a decision for what is Right, given the
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strength to endure, given the strength to communicate their
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convictions with Grace, but with boldness, at the same time.
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Oh Lord, how we need you? How we need you?
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And we ask that you would meet us in this place.
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Jesus name. Amen.
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You can stay seated if you'd like, just in this next few
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short moments. Just Worship the Lord.
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Pray to your God. Communicate your needs.
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Express your love for him and we will dismiss you.