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#20250820 - David: A Man After God’s Heart - The Formative Years - 1 Samuel 13:11-14 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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Amen. So let's start.
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Off in Second Chronicles chapter 16.
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I'm going to read a section here, and I want you to just
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follow along. Chapter 16 of Second Chronicles,
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verses 7 through 10. What's going on here?
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We're right in the middle. Of an of a.
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Historical incident here where the king.
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Of Judah doesn't rely. Upon the Lord and He.
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Gets rebuked by a prophet, but it reveals of the heart of the
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Lord so. Follow along with me chapter 16
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of the Second Chronicles, verse 7.
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At that time. Hanani.
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The seer came to ASA. King of Judah, and said to him
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because. You have relied.
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On the king of Syria and have not relied on the Lord your God
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therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your
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hand were The Ethiopians and the Lubin not a huge army with very
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many Chariots and horsemen yet because you relied on the.
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Lord, he delivered. Them into your hand and this is
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the main. Verse for the eyes of the.
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Lord, run to and. Fro throughout the whole earth.
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To show himself strong on behalf.
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Of those whose heart is. Loyal to him in this you have
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done foolishly, Therefore from now on.
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You shall have wars. Then ASA was angry with the seer
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and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him because of
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this and ASA. Oppressed some of the.
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People at that time. So in this situation here the
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king of Judah, whose name was ASA.
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He had a previous battle with the.
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Ethiopians and you look at it there in chapter 14 of second
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Chronicles and it was it's described as a million man army.
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I mean way, way outnumbered and because King ASA relied upon the
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Lord, God stepped in and helped them and that was a testimony.
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And you know when God works in our.
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Life in the past. He wants to show you and
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encourage you that you can trust him for what's next.
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Because sometimes we. Go yeah, he worked that way but
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but I sort. Of helped out and now I'm in
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this situation. I doubt if he's and we.
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We like to talk ourselves out of it.
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Now I'm not sure what was going on with King ASA here.
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But all of a. Sudden he started looking at the
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strength of other nations armies to help him instead of the Lord
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he. He didn't fall back on that
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testimony. The faithfulness of God in the
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past six times can be counted on for the 7th time.
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And you might be in the middle of 1/7 time right now.
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Yeah, He's worked in your life and it's.
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And you know, you look back and you just see God has been so
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strong, so why can't you trust him right now?
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And you're looking at all kinds of other.
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Ways to work it? Out instead of just taking and
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dropping everything, laying it out on the table saying OK.
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I give up, so would you work? Would you just give me the next
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most important thing, Lord? I'm going to trust you and then
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your mind goes. Well, yeah, but what if, what
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if, What if? Stop, stop, stop, Lord.
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It's yours. Give me your piece right now.
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Let's see what happens. Well, King ASA didn't do that.
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And the prophet in verse 9. Said the eyes of the.
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Lord, run to and. Fro throughout the whole earth.
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To show himself strong. On behalf of those whose heart
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is loyal. To him, this is a Kingdom
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principle and should be a memory.
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Verse that you. Purpose to memorize starting
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right now. For the rest of your life.
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It's important here. But, but let's talk.
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About this a minute here. Because it it.
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Implies some things from going wait a minute, the eyes.
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Of the Lord. What does the Lord have eyes?
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I thought he was spirit. Well, OK, let's think about.
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This Let's break this down when the scriptures speak of the Lord
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having. Eyes or ears, or feet for that
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matter, The Holy Spirit. Was using something referred to
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as an anthropomorphism and what that means?
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Is it's a way of? Communicating some aspect of the
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Lord's nature and attributes using human terminology because.
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We have really a. Limited frame I mean our our
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reason and our logic and our linear way of seeing things is
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super limited compared to the all knowing.
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God that we serve. And so.
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The Holy Spirit uses pictures. To help communicate concepts.
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And that's the idea. Here where it says the eyes of
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the Lord. And so what's that mean The.
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Eyes of the Lord. It just it just means.
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That he he sees all. Things, and in that seeing he
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knows all things with complete and perfect knowledge.
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Things seen and things unseen. The eyes of the Lord.
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He's a God of knowledge, all knowledge, omniscient.
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This is the God that we serve that has humbled Himself.
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And tabernacled in a body of. Flesh Jesus is called the.
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Fullness of the Godhead, bodily and even as.
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He prays to the Father. We see that special fellowship.
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Between the Father and the Son, while the Son is was here on the
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earth as recorded in the Gospels.
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Even right now as we're sitting here, I'm standing here, you're
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watching online, sitting on your couch, drinking your coffee or
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whatever you're doing. That's great.
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I'm glad you're doing that. But the Lord knows everything
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about. Us.
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And that could be. Unsettling if you're trying to
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hide something you know in Hebrews.
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Chapter 4 Verses. 12 and 13 it. Says for the word of.
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God is living and powerful and sharper than any 2 edged sword,
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piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints
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and Morrow, and as a discerner. Of the.
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Thoughts and the intents of the heart.
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And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things
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are naked and open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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And I can rest in that. Because when thoughts come
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across my mind, thoughts that you know, I don't.
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Want those thoughts there? The Lord understands.
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He knows the difference between my thoughts and the motives and
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the intents of my heart. I can trust Him.
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He understands. He wants me in.
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Grace to be free. In him because he does
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understand. A creature.
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Like me, I don't even understand me and my wife doesn't
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understand me, but the Lord understands me and he doesn't
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receive rumors from other people about me.
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That's pretty cool because some people can get pretty upset with
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you and they're going, oh, I'm going to pray for you.
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OK, Well you can tell that it's not going to be a blessing, but
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so you go. I'm trusting in a God who?
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Is a God of truth. And he knows all things and he
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doesn't receive rumors about me, although everything he knows
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about me. Is serious, but he doesn't deal
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with. Everything at once does he?
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He deals with one thing at a time.
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The eyes of the Lord. Run to and fro.
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How do eyes run? OK, another concept.
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God running. The eyes of the Lord.
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Running to and. Fro throughout the whole earth.
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Well, the the whole concept of running carries the meaning of
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urgency and speed and focus. There's an intensity, there's.
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There's a. Purpose.
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There's an urgency. The eyes of the Lord run to and.
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Fro throughout the whole earth. And so the extent is.
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God is looking for something, looking for someone.
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God is wanting to do something, and he's looking for a vessel
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through whom to do it. And it's not like he's
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meandering and stumbling over rocks or something.
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Turn turning over you and oh, yeah, there is a worm.
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Yeah. I'll pick that up.
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No, the Lord is looking through the whole earth, the many
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billions of people right now He's looking.
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To do a work. What's he want to do?
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He wants to show himself strong on behalf of of anyone who will
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put their loyalty and trust in him.
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That's the heart of our. God and so sometimes we we're
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we're looking for God. God, I want you just.
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To bless what I do. And what he's looking for is.
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Will you? Be loyal to me.
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Will you? Will you?
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Will your heart? Be aligned with my heart.
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Will we be? Like minded you might say, as we
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were praying earlier. That's what God is.
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Looking for He's waiting to do great, exceedingly, abundantly,
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above all that we can ask or think.
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But He wants our heart. First, it all starts with that
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for the eyes. Of the Lord run to and.
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Fro throughout the whole earth. To show himself strong in.
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Behalf of him whose heart is loyal to.
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Him, he knows we need his strength and he's offering that
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strength to have a heart loyal to him means.
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That the depth of our soul is. Set on receiving His ways,
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obeying His Word, lining up with His heart, and living out His
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commands. And so I just want to leave you
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with this line before we go on to our next section.
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The work of God always begins with the desire of God to
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accomplish. The purpose of God to the glory
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of God. And you can write that down.
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The work of God always begins with the desire.
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Of God. Not the desire of man.
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The desire of God. To accomplish the purpose of.
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God to the glory of God. So he's looking for someone.
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Well, let's go on to Part 2 and turn in your.
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Bible there. To First Samuel, chapter 13.
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Now in this setting, here we have King Saul of Israel.
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He's been king for a number. Of years but.
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He just seems to keep disobeying the.
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Lord, because of pressure. From the outside, he wants to be
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a man's man. He wants.
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To be the leader, he wants to be the.
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King, and he looks the. Part but his heart.
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Is is not lined up? With the Lord it's.
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Lined up with his own pride and every single time he he makes
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decisions to go against the command of the Lord and it like
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stacks up against him to the point.
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Where God is ready to say I've got to let you go.
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From this position. And so that's.
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Where we are here in First Samuel, let's tell you.
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Let's start in verse 11 to 14, First Samuel 13, verses 11
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through 14. In this situation, King.
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Saul gets all panicky because. Samuel delays coming and the
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soldiers are fleeing. Because they're scared of the.
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Philistines. So here's what we read.
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Finally, Sam Samuel shows up and finds that.
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Saul had. Forced a burnt offering.
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He had no right to do that. That was the job of a priest.
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Verse 11. And Samuel said, What have you
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done? And Saul said, Well, when I saw
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the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come
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within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered
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together at Mcnash, then I said, the Philistines will now come
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down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the
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Lord. Therefore I felt compelled and
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offered a burnt offering. And Samuel said to Saul, You
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have done foolishly. You have not kept the
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commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you for
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now. The Lord would have established.
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Your Kingdom over Israel forever, but now your Kingdom
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shall not continue. The Lord has sought for himself.
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A man after his own heart. And the Lord has.
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Commanded him to be commander. Over his people because you.
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Have not kept what the Lord commanded you.
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What a sad situation, Saul. Had so much potential.
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He was head and shoulders. Higher than anybody else in.
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Israel, he was like the. Hero that they wanted the
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Terminator and and yet he didn't have.
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The right heart for the Lord. And out of impatience and fear,
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he forced a burnt offering to try to gain God.
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'S favor for the battle. That was upon him doing some
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religious act, almost as a superstition.
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To try to get God to be obligated to help.
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And he missed the plot. He just missed it.
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And notice here when King Saul answered Samuel, he projected
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the blame and that was it seems to be his way when he goes.
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Into disobedience, he projects the.
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Blame on other people he projected the blame on.
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The soldiers that were. Abandoning.
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And gosh, if they hadn't left, then I wouldn't have been in
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this situation. And then he blamed Samuel for
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being late. And then he blamed the
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Philistines for putting pressure on him.
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It's like blame game. And by the way, we can do that
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too, to cover our own disobedience.
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To the Lord's Word. And sometimes we can so
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rationalize. Why we choose to do?
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Certain things and we cover it and we go, well, do you know
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this is I needed to do this at this time because if I didn't do
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it, then the sail would end. And you know what?
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What are you? Doing buying, you know, what are
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you doing and buying the boat. I don't understand.
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BOAT. Break out another thousand you.
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Realize what it costs. You know, to maintain a boat you
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don't even have a trailer. You, you, you have a little.
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Geo Metro You. Can't pull this with that.
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I mean, I mean think. About it.
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Oh. Yeah, but it was on sale.
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Fear can make us. Or drive.
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Us into decisions that we. Later regret.
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And then we blame others. Well, you shouldn't.
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It's none of your business. And and it's, it's all the
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blame. And the Lord wants to clean our
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life from that. Because what's the opposite of
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that? You humble yourself and say I
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sinned. No, it's not other.
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People's fault. Yeah, but if my wife hadn't have
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done this, No, stop it. It's not your wife.
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It's what's going on in your heart.
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You know you can have a. A glass of water with.
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Dirt on the bottom and you can leave it there for a long time
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and it looks. Pretty clear until you.
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Bump the. Glass just because your wife.
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Bumped you and it. Kicked up all this dirt.
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It's not her fault. You're the one that has a dirt
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so that makes sense. I've been married. 55 years I.
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I understand this. So having a heart for God.
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King Saul didn't have that, and he lost the privilege of being
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king. Because it says the Lord has
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sought for himself. A man after his own heart.
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Do you know when you're asking God, what's your will for my
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life? Here's His.
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Will for your for your life be a.
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Person after God's heart. Instead of just.
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Asking God to bless your plans. Bless your house, bless your
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life, bless this, bless that. Bring it back and say, God, I
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want to be a person that's. After your heart, whatever that.
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Means when you get married and you're standing at.
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The altar, hopefully you have each other's heart.
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Hopefully. People get married for lots of
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reasons. But with the.
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Lord, he wants. You to have his heart.
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And like our our prayer time here being like minded, like
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sold. With the Lord, so how?
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Do we know what? The Lord's heart is like, well,
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God. Revealed his heart to Moses and
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Mount Sinai in Exodus in Yeah, Exodus 34.
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Five the Lord descended. In the cloud, and stood with
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Moses there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord, and the Lord
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passed by him and proclaimed. The Lord, the Lord God.
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Merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abounding in
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goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving
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iniquity and transgression and sin.
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And then the 8th 1 is he's just by no means clearing the guilty,
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visiting the iniquity of the Father's upon the children and
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the children's children to the third and 4th generation.
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So being a man or woman. After God's heart, because
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that's what. We're talking about here, David,
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a man after. God's heart.
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What's that mean? It means.
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That we are. Saying deep within our soul, I
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want to be merciful and. Gracious as the Lord is.
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I want to be long. Suffering as the Lord is.
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I want to abound in goodness and.
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Truth as the Lord is. I want the Lord Himself to flow
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through my life and and. Here's the great news.
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God has already set that up for you.
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It's called the fruit of the Holy Spirit with you as a
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Christian because you. Believed on the Lord Jesus and
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you're in under the new covenant.
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God places his. Spirit right within your heart
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and the Holy. Spirit produces this.
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Fruit in your life. As you.
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Yield to him, Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering, kindness,
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goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control to be a
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person after. God's heart, because that is his
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heart. The fruit of the Spirit is the
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heart. Of God, he knows we can't do it
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on our own to say, OK, I'm going to be patient today.
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I'm going to be, I'm purposing to be long-suffering today.
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Everything's going fine until you get in your car and all the
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sudden. You're late for work.
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Every single light you come to is.
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Red. And people are racing through
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red lights and secretly you're thinking I'd like to.
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Race the red. Lights because I'm I'm late.
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But OK, I'll stop here. And then somebody, the light
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turns green and the person next to you doesn't go and they're
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just sitting there. And then you have a choice to
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make. I do have a horn.
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Maybe something's wrong and you're late and that's when you
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I'm talking about. What happened about two?
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Weeks ago. OK, and then the light turned
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red. I'm going.
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Well, then the light turns green and they don't move.
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So I got out of my car. I mean, don't do this at home,
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OK? I got out of my car and I went
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up and I went. Are you OK?
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And. It was a lady.
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It looks like it was she. Hadn't been driving very long
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and she didn't know what to do because she wanted to turn left
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and there. Was lots of cars.
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And she just froze in front of me.
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So how did you handle it, Bob? Well, I backed up and just went
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off to the other way. Yeah.
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I need to have God's long-suffering rule my life
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where all of a sudden my. First thought is.
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Maybe something's wrong there. Maybe it's not like they're
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trying to just annoy me because that's usually not the case.
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Plus, self-control is a good fruit of the Spirit, by the way.
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It's called the reins on the on the on the horse.
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You know Bob. Shut up.
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Just pull it back. King Saul was a man after man's
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heart, but not a man after. God's heart.
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And God wants someone that's after.
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His heart, that's his desire. And here.
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We see the 1st. Revelation to Samuel that God is
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looking for someone after his heart and he's ready to let go
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of King Saul in his position. You know King Saul ends up
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being. Used as.
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Someone you don't want to be like.
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I don't want my life to be an example of what not to do.
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I don't want my life to be an example of.
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Failure I have. So many colleagues, friends of
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mine. That have just sabotaged their
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life by a little folly. And it has ruined their life,
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ruined their families, ruined their ministries.
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I don't want to be used. By the.
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Lord to be an example of what you shouldn't do and and God
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used King Saul like that. And here's the thing, there's
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kind of a Saul in all of us. It's.
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Called the. Flesh.
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And I don't want the flesh to rule my life.
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I want the Holy Spirit to rule my life.
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I want to be a man. After God's heart, God will
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resist the proud, but give grace.
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To the humble and he. Says that because he wants to
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bless. And sometimes he has to chasten
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us in our pride. So.
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That after we humble ourselves, He can help.
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He can help us and be strong on our behalf.
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The end goal is to be strong on our.
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Behalf So here is this. Thing little by little unfolding
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with Samuel as Samuel is discovering God's up to
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something. God is looking for someone.
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Now go. Over a couple of chapters.
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To chapter 15, First Samuel 15 and look at and we're going to
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read three different or two different sections in First
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Samuel 15. And by the way, God gave Saul
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one more chance, and King Saul blew it.
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And we come to verse 10 of chapter 15.
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Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, I.
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Greatly regret that I have set up.
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Saul as king, for he has turned back from following me and has
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not performed my commandments. And it grieves Samuel.
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And he cried. Out to the.
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Lord, all night, so when Samuel rose early in the morning to
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meet. Saul, it was told.
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Samuel saying Saul went to Carmel and indeed he set up a
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monument for himself. It's like.
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He's he's, he doesn't get it. I know that some of you have
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children. That have walked away.
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From the Lord and you want to. Protect them because that's.
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What you were doing your whole life, but now they're in a place
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where you can't protect them and they're making decisions that
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are destructive decisions and you try to reason with them and
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they don't listen because after all, you don't know anything.
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And that's. So hard is the.
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Lord in charge of your children or not?
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Well, if he was in, if he was in, charge it.
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Should look like. This and that.
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OK, wait a minute. Really.
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You're giving God counsel on how it should look?
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You know, I wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer either.
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And my parents prayed for me, and it took a it took on a very
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unusual situation to bring me around and to them, I.
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Looked hopeless, but God's a creator.
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He knows how your kids think. He knows.
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How they process he. Knows how to turn their heart
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around, but you got to put Jesus between you and your kids and
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let the. Lord, do the work.
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You know, when I think of all the.
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Kids downstairs, upstairs. I wonder how many Davids are
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there. I wonder.
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I wonder how many kids. And by the way, God called David
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a man after his heart when he was in his teens.
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He wasn't some guy in the army. That was just, you know.
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It was he was out doing sheep. He was a lightweight in the
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family, but he. Loved God, He worshipped God.
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Being out there in the middle of nowhere, God saw him.
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I like that. That's what I'm looking for.
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And so when you think about the 100.
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And 85 kids that were here at. Second service and by the way,
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we need. Helpers just to throw that.
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In. But you can be a part.
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Of encouraging a man after God's heart, a woman after God's.
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Heart because suffer the little. Children to come to me.
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For such is the. Kingdom of Heaven.
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Little by little, this is. Playing out and Samuel is
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revealing. God's heart here.
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Because it says in verse 24 of chapter 15, Samuel said, Saul
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said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the
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commandment of the Lord and your.
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Words because I feared the people.
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And obeyed their voice. Here we go again, Saul the
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projector. Now therefore, please pardon my
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sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord but Samuel.
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Said to Saul. I will not return with you, for
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you have rejected. The word of the Lord.
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And the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.
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In other words, we're talking about the.
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Position God still loves Saul. But he couldn't have him in that
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position anymore, and Samuel turned around to.
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Go away, Saul sees the edge of his.
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Robe And it tore, and Samuel said to him, The Lord has torn
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the Kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a
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neighbor of yours who is better than you.
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Here's a little. Bit more information where
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they're revealing here. God is revealing through Samuel
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that He has found somebody. First of all, the Lord was
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looking. For somebody.
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But now he's found somebody. And who he found was a young
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teenage boy that nobody knew. A neighbor of yours who's better
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than you and also the strength of Israel will not lie nor
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relent, for he is not a man. That he should.
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Relent. And now the next.
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Step is chapter. 16 verses one to three.
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Now the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul,
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seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?
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Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse the
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Bethlehemite, for I have provided myself a king among his
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sons. And Samuel said, How can I go if
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Saul? Hears it, he will kill.
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Me. So it's little by little.
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God is showing step by. Step his next desire because
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he's. Found someone.
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Who has a heart after? Him and it lands on David now,
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and this is the first time Samuel understands this and by
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the way, in our own Christian walk.
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Do you understand that God? Leads us step by step.
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He doesn't give you the full revelation of of how he's going
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to. Work day by day.
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He's with you today and he promises.
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To be with you and. He promises not to.
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Forsake you, He'll give you the grace for today.
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He won't give you tomorrow's. Grace for today He'll give you
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today's grace for today. And so I don't know what to do.
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Lord, how am I? Going to deal with this.
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OK, settle down sufficient to the day's the.
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Evil. I'll help you today.
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We'll get through this. You just stay close.
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To me, we'll get. Through it, step by step, little
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by little, little. Things unfold one by another.
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Notice verse 1 of chapter 16. For I have provided myself a
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king among his sons. You know, when I read that
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verse, especially in the King James, I couldn't help but think
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of. Jesus, here's the Lord.
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Saying, I have provided myself a king among his sons.
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Jesus was the son of David. Let Saul mourn for him.
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Verse one. How long are you going to mourn
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for Saul seeing I've rejected him?
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You know when when we see things go bad, mourning over what
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happened is a right thing. It's important.
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It's a necessary. Part of life, but there.
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Comes a time when you. Have to go forward.
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Even though you're sad, you can't stop everything.
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You must get up and go. Forward.
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It doesn't. Mean you're abandoning or being
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unfaithful, but you go forward in the sadness.
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To watch the Lord. Work in the next step.
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And that's what God was calling Samuel to do.
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Proverbs. Says Hope.
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Deferred makes the heart. Sick nevertheless.
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When it when it comes. It's a well of life.
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And we have those seasons when things die in our life and we
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don't like that. And our our dream dies, our plan
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dies, our our retirement. Dies and all the rest of it.
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And you got to say. Wait a second, backup is the.
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Lord really in charge, and the answer is absolutely, but he's
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taken you on a detour, and that's another study we know
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from. Scripture that this.
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Young teen called David was a man after.
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God's heart acts. 1320. 2 Paul the apostle says.
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And when God had removed Saul, he raised up for them David as
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king, to whom? Also he gave.
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Testimony and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man
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after my own heart, who will do all my will.
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And then Psalm 8920. The quote there I have.
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Found my servant David with my holy oil.
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I've anointed him. And then Psalm 78, verse 70 and
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to 70. 2 The Lord also. Chose David his servant, and
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took him from the sheepfolds from.
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Following the ewes that had. Young he brought him to shepherd
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Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
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So he shepherded. Them according to the integrity
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of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands
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integrity and. Skill God is.
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Looking for integrity, but he's also looking.
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It's looking for skill, and you know how.
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Did David develop skill? In playing on his lyre his, you
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know, homemade guitar, I'm sure he didn't have a Martin or.
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A tailor, he just, he had this. Some little thing called the
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liar you know it wasn't going to be.
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Ever. Be in the Top 40.
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But he was out there. Nobody heard him.
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Except the sheep. And he just sang to the.
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Lord, just worship the Lord. And God listened and you know
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when you're in the shower and you sing because it's a nice
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echo chamber, and even though you sing horrible, you sound
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like you're, you know, you're a pop.
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Star so it's you know, God is. Listening.
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But when you're worshipping him, can I say God is tone deaf?
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I think I can because. He looks through it all.
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He doesn't go like this going. It's a little rough, but I I got
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it. No, it's not that.
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Way he looks at it. And he?
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Just it just blesses his. Heart, you know, when you're
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little. I mean, having grandkids just
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opened up another. Part of the heart.
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Of God to me because when I see that when I hear them when they
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were when they were super. Little.
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You know, and they're, they're like singing a chorus they heard
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and it's kind of they mix up the words and, and you just.
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Go. You know, that's so sweet.
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That's another plug for you serving in the children's
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ministry, by the way. OK, Hey, you know what David was
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called a man after? God's heart before.
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Samuel anointed him. Being after God's heart didn't
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happen because he got anointed only very few men.
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Very few were anointed outwardly.
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With the Holy Spirit to. Carry on a work.
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Whether it was a prophet? A priest, a king, that's in the
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Old Testament season, but in the New Testament season under the
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New Covenant. God says.
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I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, your sons and your
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daughters. Shall prophecy.
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Your your young men shall. See visions your old.
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Men shall dream dreams, even the maidservants and the men
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servants. And so the the anointing of the
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Holy Spirit upon your life. As a believer is there for you.
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And and it changed. David's life after.
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He was anointed by Samuel here, and by the way, he wasn't even
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invited. To the feast.
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That God told Samuel to set up in Bethlehem.
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He was left out. Doing and taking care.
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Of the sheep, he was counted as a lightweight, probably.
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Got all the hand me downs and everything else, but it didn't
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change his life, he says. I'm you know, God is the most
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important thing to me. I don't.
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Care what you do. And he was a, as a teenager, a
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man. After God's heart.
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And so he was brought in, and when Samuel saw him.
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The Lord said that's. Him, because Samuel wouldn't
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have picked him. Naturally, he was thinking it
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was one of his three oldest. Brothers but God.
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Was looking and I tell. You what God is.
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Looking right now. God wants to be so.
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Strong in your behalf. He really does.
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That's his heart. And he'll work with you.
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He's long-suffering. He's patient, he's kind.
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He's. Good, but.
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He wants you to be like minded with him.
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That you take his heart to be your heart, his desires to be
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your desires, his law to be your law.
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And then God wants to pour out his spirit on your life and
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change you to give you boldness and courage like happened with
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David after he was anointed. It doesn't mean you're going to
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go in the ministry or or be some great politician or something.
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I mean. Politicians, are they great?
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Can I say that? I think so.
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I want to be anointed to do what?
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God has called. Me to do that's the main thing
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God doesn't need 2 of you because one is enough he needs
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you to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and.
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Carry out what he's called you to do with your.
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Family. With your work with the.
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Situations that unfold with all of a sudden, the.
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Desires of your heart to. Be involved with this and and
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and. God just wants to.
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Do that work? He but it takes being.
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Filled with the Holy Spirit. Be controlled by him, have
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boldness by him, not just. OK, I believe that.
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Jesus is the Son of God, and that's good.
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No, God has so much more for you but you.
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Have to be filled with the Holy Spirit, just like David.
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Was it changed his life. So tonight we have seen God was
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looking for someone. We watched the Lord reveal it
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little by little. And it landed upon this young
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teenager. He wasn't made king right away.
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And nobody knew in that, in that.
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Feast. Why?
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Even Samuel had anointed him, but God knew and it changed.
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David's life because. When you follow his life and
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that's part of your assignment as well.
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Keep on reading and just see all the sudden the changes that
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happened in David's life that he had.
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No, he wasn't planning. It just happened.
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As God was. Bringing him, training him,
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preparing him. And I tell you what.
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That's what God wants to do in your life.
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He wants to prepare you, He wants to train you, and He's got
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a plan for your life different than anybody else's.
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So Father in heaven, as we consider this time here,
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examining what happened with your servant David way back.
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Many, many, many. Years ago, the Bible shows your
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way. And Lord, we touched upon things
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in our own. Life that you see are.
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Very damaging. And that's projection of blame
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to cover disobedience to your word, blaming others, blaming
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things, blaming circumstances we've touched upon.
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The fact that there's. Repercussion to disobedience and
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we but we've touched upon the. Fact that you're looking.
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And Father God, how we need the fullness.
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Of the Holy Spirit. Upon our life.
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To carry out all that you. Want to do in US and through US
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change us by the fruit of the Spirit.
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But give us. Boldness and courage and power
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in our. Service to you, whatever that
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service is. And as we continue to.
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Pray here if you're here. Tonight and you're not even sure
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if you're in the family. Of God, Why should God?
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Choose you. I want to.
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Tell you the Lord is. Looking at you right now and he
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understands and he knows. He knows what to do, but he's
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waiting for your first step. As we continue to pray if this.
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Is you this? Evening and you need to get your
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life right with. God.
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I want you just to stand right where you are, and in standing
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you're saying I need to get my life right with you tonight.
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Is there anyone here tonight as the rest of us continue to pray,
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just between you and the. Lord God has been.
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Speaking to your heart, you need to.
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Get it right So. Standing is that first step
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right here. Anyone else?
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There'll be a pastor or a servant that will come up next
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to you and and help you, but I, I just want to give you 1.
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More opportunity to say, OK. I just need to stand and make
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things right. Is there anyone here?
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Anyone else from my brother?
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Here that has stood, I ask you just to.
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To follow me in prayer and open your heart to the Lord.
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OK, all right And say to him, God, I come to you tonight and I
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want to surrender my life to you.
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I turn from all the sin of my. Life with your help, forgive.
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Me of all my sin, wash me clean on the inside and fill me with
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your Holy Spirit. Change me to be a man after your
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heart. Those of you watching online,
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listening on the radio, just. Lift up a prayer just.
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Similar to that, Lord knows your heart and he'll take it and
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He'll do his work. So Father in Heaven we're at,
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we're thankful for how you love us and the work you're doing in
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our life. Thanks.
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For the scriptures that talk to us about.
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Young, David and the Process. We pray for all the.
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Children in our children's ministry, Lord, keep your hand
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on them, bless them, protect them, grow them in Jesus name,
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Amen. We pray that you've been
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