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2 Samuel 6 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Second Samuel, chapter 6. Students brains, that's where
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  we're at tonight. And this will not be our last
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  week. In this chapter, we will We'll
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  cover it all by the. Hang tight and enjoy the
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  journey. Second, Samuel chapter 6, are
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  you there? if you there, meet me in verse
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  9, We're going to read this in a moment but want us to pray one
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  more time, my brother just pray but doesn't hurt to Pray Again.
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  Just come with your heart before the Lord as the word is open.
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  Before you And realize that we are here in his presence before
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  the Eternal decree of God. And Lord, we thank you that you
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  have given us your word. Thank you.
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  That you did the miracle of the new birth in each of us.
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  And the evidence at least one Mark, is that we hunger for the
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  word as a newborn baby does for milk Lord?
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  We thank you that that appetite is there, but we do not want
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  milk. We want meat, we want to grow
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  and be nourished. In the things of God.
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  The Deep things of God. And though we know that it is
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  not enough to have your word before us and to be able to
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  cleverly put things together, we need the Holy Spirit, to open
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  our minds and to burn within our hearts.
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  And so Lord, we just pray that you would have your way through
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  this text into our lives. That every man disappear but let
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  Christ be seen Christ be heard and Christ be cherished.
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  As a result of our time together.
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  We ask these things in Jesus name.
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  Amen. If you were not here two weeks
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  ago, we began our analysis of David's expedition to retrieve
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  the Ark of the Covenant that was abandoned for 70-something years
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  in the outskirts of Jerusalem and further out miles out from
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  that main city. And David here has this praise
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  worthy ambition to get this Arc and to find a permanent.
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  Imminent and honorable home for this, symbol of God's divine
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  presence on Earth with his people.
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  And that Journey that mission is covered in this one chapter but
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  you and I are going to discover that it was accomplished into
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  Ventures, not because it required two assignments to get
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  the job done. But because David royally no pun
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  intended failed in his initial attempt to get the arc and so it
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  would require for him to plan and execute a second effort and
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  it will be proven Successful to have God's presence where he
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  believed that belonged. Now, why did David fail?
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  Very simply because he assumed that he can apply his own ideas
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  and how to deal with the Holy things of God.
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  And because of his willful neglect of the revealed will of
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  God. And on top of that, his adoption
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  of worldly methods in order to accomplish a holy thing, a good
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  thing. Divine discipline was in sued
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  instead of divine blessing, And so David's little parade with
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  the thousands of people who are celebrating that moment.
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  Quickly turn into a funeral. They're lying men.
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  Dead swiftly, judged by God. And there's David with the other
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  staring at the scene with these mixed emotions.
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  Now, rushing into his bosom, not knowing our first, what to do.
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  But now on this day on this night, we go back to that day to
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  see what David will do. What is his response?
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  When and how will he move forward to carry out what he
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  believed God impressed on his heart to do for his glory.
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  And so this is what we're going to do.
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  We're going to read a few verses going to open it up and ask
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  again remember our tool belts are on to see what it is that we
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  think the Lord is trying to say from an initial standpoint of
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  the text verse 9. Remember we're on that day.
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  There's uzza dead on the threshing floor of Macon, there
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  are the thousands who stopped their instruments, playing and
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  verse 9. We see and David was afraid of
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  the Lord that day and he said how can the Ark of the Lord come
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  to me. So David was not willing to take
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  the Ark of the Lord into the city of David, but David took it
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  aside to the house of obededom the gittite And the Ark of the
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  Lord remained In The House of obededom, the gittite three
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  months and the Lord bless obededom and all his household.
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  And it was told King David, the Lord has blessed the household
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  of obededom and all that belongs to him because of the Ark of
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  God. So David went and brought up the
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  Ark of God from the house of obededom to the city of David
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  with rejoicing. And when those Who Bore the Ark
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  of the Lord had gone, six steps, he sacrificed an ox, and a
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  fatten animal and David danced before the Lord, with all his
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  might, and David was wearing a linen ephod.
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  So David and all the house of Israel, brought up the Ark of
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  the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn.
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  What stands out? What stands out?
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  Yes. House of obededom.
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  Yeah. Okay.
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  Good question. Who are the good times?
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  So that's an observation and an important one.
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  Anything else. There's a lot here.
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  A lot. What else?
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  Stands out. Amen.
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  The blessing that obit at a Edom experience.
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  For three months was in direct correlation to the presence of
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  God abiding in that home huge. Yes.
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  Yeah, so wasn't until the blessing was known.
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  That David was stirred to say. I want that for myself.
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  I want this for the nation. Absolutely.
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  Yes. A lot of emotion there.
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  Yeah, there's a lot of people scared of emotion in the church
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  for some reason. We'll cover David dancing next
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  week. So if you were looking forward
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  to understanding, what, David dancing meant you have to come
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  next week. There's just too much in here
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  before we get to that point. But good observation, anything
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  else, great observations? Yes.
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  Yes. The cart.
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  Yes. Very good.
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  They did not implement the new cards approach this time, we're
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  going to find out exactly how they did it.
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  Very important. Yes great.
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  Anything else? Yes.
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  Yes. Well it's interesting that open
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  edom's name is repeated. Many times in this tax, isn't it
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  good? Observation stick around
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  anything else? Yes.
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  Isn't that interesting? Yeah.
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  After six steps, they made a sacrifice an animal sacrifice.
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  Is that required? Or is it over the top?
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  Hmm, see what I did there. Anything else?
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  Good observations. Yes.
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  What is David doing? Wearing the attire that belonged
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  to the priests? Very, very, very important
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  observation. Yes, cookies.
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  Yes. Yes, good.
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  So you went the 1st Chronicles 15, which is a huge part of this
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  Bible study. David went to the word of God.
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  During those three months, there is no doubt about it.
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  He Revisited the scriptures to know how to go about this whole
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  endeavor. Beautiful.
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  Observation may be a couple of more so we can move on anything
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  else. Yes, you wanted to bless
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  Jerusalem and he will. Yes, he will do that.
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  Anything else. One more.
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  Go ahead. Good balance, right?
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  He does. Well, you know, and I think from
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  last week or two weeks ago, we heard how how our flesh kind of
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  gets all worked up around the story with who's a dime, because
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  we go that, how is that fair? How can, how can I choose to be
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  doing a good thing? And God disciplining for that,
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  he was just trying to help and we came to the conclusion that
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  we not. How did God not strike all of
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  them dead. Not just who's out.
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  There is a particular instruction.
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  In Numbers, Chapter 4, you don't have to turn there that He said
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  God's mercy was even being shown while killing Musa.
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  What was supposed to be done with the Holy things when it was
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  Winter supposed to be transported from one location to
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  the next, a lot of things were supposed to be done and one
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  thing that we have every reason to say didn't happen in this
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  text and that was to cover. Remember they were to literally
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  cover the different articles in the Tabernacle so that the human
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  eye would not be hold those holy things.
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  There's no indication that they cover the ark.
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  There is no indication that they handled it the way that the
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  scriptures prescribed, and it took 20 to touch it before God
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  intervened and judged. And so God's mercy was already
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  at work with the various Miss handlings, leading up to Z
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  touching the ark. And so, we have to understand
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  that God here is not, he does have a bad day and a good day.
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  God is good. All the time, all the time
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  consecutively, he is Always faithful.
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  He is Holy and he is loved and we will see how David responds
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  to the Holiness of God in verse 9.
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  David was afraid of the Lord that day.
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  Question, healthy fear or unhealthy fear Godly fear that
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  the Bible commands or ungodly fear that the Bible condemns.
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  What do you think, who says healthy fear?
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  Who says unhealthy fear? Interesting.
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  That is the most hands. I've seen whenever asked that
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  question on a Friday night and I've done it for seven years.
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  Thank you for participating in that.
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  Yes. Isn't that amazing?
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  He feared, God that day. And I believe we can come to a
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  clear conclusion by asking two questions.
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  So we're going to see where we're going to land here based
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  on these two questions. Number one, why was he afraid?
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  It's very straightforward as a not.
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  He was struck with fear because Moosa was struck dead and David
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  had every right to think this can happen to me any second now,
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  and he was so he was under that dread realizing that God's
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  discipline is active, it is Swift and sometimes can be
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  immediate. And so now adrenaline is pumping
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  in his veins and he realizes this is not a God that you can
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  play with. But that doesn't really give us
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  a confident answer because all of us should have an awareness
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  of God's discipline. Even as his children, all of us
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  should approach him with caution.
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  All of us should understand that his word is not to be tampered
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  with to our liking. We should all live with that.
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  I believe it's the second question which is what did this
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  fear encourage David to do? The helps us know whether it was
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  a healthy fear or unhealthy fear what did this?
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  This fear cause David to do. He pushes the presence of God
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  away. He disses himself from the Lord
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  and that is enough for us to say he is operating under a slavish
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  fear. Because there are those who have
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  this concept of God that he is just he is Holy but they fail to
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  see him in his totality. And so the only thing that they
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  register and their understanding of God is he will judge me, I've
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  rebelled against him. I I fail to remain in a place of
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  consistent Holiness and I'm going to pay for it one day and
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  the reaction to that caused them to do at least one or two
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  things. One to reject the concept of All
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  together and to try to silence their conscience until they feel
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  like they have Liberty to do what they want without this
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  disturbance, that one day that there's going to be
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  accountability here. And the second thing is to not
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  dismiss the reality of God, but to create an idol.
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  And his name is Jesus, and he's loving and he's good and he will
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  never harm anyone. You would never judge anyone and
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  he Winks at my sin and he'll embrace me at the end of it all.
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  In fact, he'll Embrace everybody at the end of it all.
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  So you see there is this type of fear that causes us to Shun God
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  or to change God, and both are wrong.
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  Both are evils. And David hears is kind of doing
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  that. He's saying I'm standing away
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  from the I don't want to deal with this.
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  And it's really a reaction that you see throughout the
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  scriptures when people are in the wrong type of fear of God.
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  So let me give an example, Mount Sinai.
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  God shows up and displays his Splendor and His Majesty in a
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  way that literally caused the people to shake in their sandals
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  and an Exodus 20, 20, Moses instructs, the people to run
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  from that kind of fear to escape that kind of Here.
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  And he says it's so clearly and I want you to hear these words,
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  he says to the people do not fear in Exodus, 20 20.
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  That's an easy versus food remember for God, has come to
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  test you that the fear of him, maybe before you that you may
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  not send. I always I always use that
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  scripture to teach on the fear of God.
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  That's one of my go-to references.
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  Do not fear. God has come to test you to fear
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  will hold on. You just told me not to do it.
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  Now, you're telling me to do it two types of fear.
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  Two types of fear. And the fear here that the
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  people are operating under the same, kind of feel that David
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  was under. Because look at verse 21, the
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  people stood far off, We don't want to come close to this God.
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  We don't want to deal with them. We don't want any kind of
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  relationship with him. And then what you see, Moses
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  exemplifying the exact opposite attitude, the people stood far
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  off while Moses Drew near. The people people stefanov,
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  while Moses went into the thick Darkness into the very same
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  thing that the people were terrified about Moses was
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  compelled to commune with. So, there is a revelation of the
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  beauty of the Lord. The Holiness of who he is, that
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  causes you to actually come to him and not run from him and
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  that coming to him that magnetic pulled also cause you to shun
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  the evil that would offend him. Joyfully gladly that is the
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  exact same thing that we see with Moses posture here.
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  He has his healthy reverence, he knows who God is, but it doesn't
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  discourage him. It doesn't cause him to be in
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  dismay, it causes him to run to Origin.
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  So, one element of the fear of the Lord is.
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  Yes, there is. There is a sense of Aw, but
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  there's also this fear of hurting the one that I love.
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  That is an ingredient within the, the Theology of the fear of
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  God. When you love someone, you fear
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  to hurt that person, you've probably given a gift to
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  somebody, and it was a surprise gift.
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  And when they received it, they just reacted in a way that was
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  beyond your expectation and you exhale, you say I was afraid
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  that you wouldn't love it. I think that is a part of the
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  fear of the Lord, as much as I believe that it is also an ask
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  me that cause you to tremble, literally tremble before him.
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  And so David here, unfortunately, pushes God away.
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  And says I don't I don't want anything to do this.
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  God and I take something else from this text that there are
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  those who are deceived them believing that if I draw closer
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  to God or if I open my life to the presence of God the lordship
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  of Jesus Christ, then it's going to be a burden more than it is a
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  blessing. And so I'm not interested.
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  And it's a perception that he is a stingy.
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  God, who just wants to suck the life out of you.
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  He wants to, he wants to hinder your happiness.
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  He wants to, he wants to bring limitation to your movement in
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  life, you know, it's good for you.
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  It's like, it's like his commands are like broccoli.
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  You know, it's good for you, but you don't really like the taste
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  of it. And sin is like the chocolate
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  sundae that you just, you're always wanting but you know that
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  it's going to hurt you in the end.
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  This is that's not only wrong, that's detrimental to believe
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  that. And I've heard people say I'm
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  afraid that God's going to lead me in a direction that I don't
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  want to go. He's going to make me marry
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  somebody that. I don't want to marry is going
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  to make me move somewhere. I don't want to move and so it
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  doesn't really seem like there's a payoff to the lordship of
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  Christ. I think I will remain autonomous
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  of my existence. And so if that's you and it's
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  very likely that some even one person more than one person
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  might be tempted to think that from time to time realize that
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  David is going to learn a lesson is going to show them the exact
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  opposite that when you give your heart to him, God gives so much
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  more than you can imagine so much more than you can
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  comprehend. So David says, I don't want it.
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  This is, this is more than I thought.
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  I can't handle it and he takes a break for three months.
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  That very thing that stirred him to the point where he recruited
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  the nation to join him on this project.
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  Now, he just puts it aside, he goes back to his throne.
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  He goes back to his headquarters and just three months of doing
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  day-to-day, who knows what until the news reaches his Palace?
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  God is blessing obededom. But David took it aside to the
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  house of obededom to get tight and he's going to find out very
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  soon that God's going to bless him.
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  But before we get to that point, our brother mentioned it more
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  than once. In two verses we hear about this
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  guy named obededom obededom obededom.
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  And David says obededom it's yours and we heard he's a good
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  tight. Why is that important?
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  There are many references to the good side.
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  One of the strongest references to the get tight is, is a guy
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  that his name rhymes with if--. Goliath the gittite later on.
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  In this book, he's going to be referred to as the get tight.
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  Which would mean perhaps that some would believe this, that
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  obededom is a Philistine. He's a gentile.
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  He's a foreigner within the nation's boundaries.
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  He could be someone who converted, we don't know.
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  But people think just because he is referred to as a good tight
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  then he is surely an outsider. And if that is the case and what
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  David's doing here might be a little bit cruel.
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  Because the last thing you see is God's Arc doing is judging
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  somebody and he goes I don't want it to be to me.
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  So like a hot potato. He passes it to the house of a
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  Philistine egos God. If you're gonna do anything to
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  do it in that guy's house. And we don't want to put that on
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  day because that's that's not clear.
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  It's just a thought but I don't believe he's a Philistine.
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  Does anybody remember the chapter and First Chronicles?
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  That paralleled the first attempt to David getting the
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  ark? First Chronicles wife, 13.
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  When you go to 1st Chronicles 15, you get the expanded details
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  of this event. That is Rich with insight about
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  what David thought what he said and how he went about all of
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  this. And it's in that chapter in
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  first Chronicles 15, that the name obededom shows up again and
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  there is a link between obededom and a certain occupation that I
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  believe it eliminates the possibility of him being a
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  Philistine. Would you like to see it?
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  So now, For the rest of this Bible study have one hand in
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  first Chronicles, 15, and the other hand.
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  In second, Samuel, chapter 6, go to 1st Chronicles 15.
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  I want your eyes to see the text for yourself.
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  And go to verse 24 quickly. And you're going to see
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  something that's important. We get a list of names of the
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  some of the Levites who went out to fetch for the arc from
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  obededom is home. And First Chronicles 1524, let
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  me just read this sheb Anaya, Jehoshaphat Nathanael homicide,
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  Zachariah Benaiah and Eleazar the priest, should blow the
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  trumpets before the Ark of God, obededom and G, hiya, were to be
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  Gatekeepers for the arc. You read on.
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  So David and the Elders of Israel and the commanders of the
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  thousands went to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord,
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  from the house of who obededom with rejoicing.
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  So seems like the context is suggesting that the same
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  obededom in verse 25 is the obedient and verse 24.
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  What was obededom going to do at one point?
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  Be a, what a gatekeeper who among the Israelites was allowed
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  to have any type of ministry, roll around the house of God,
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  The Levites. conclusion obededom was a levite, it was a levite
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  and there is arguments about what it means for him to be a
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  good tight, it can refer to one of the Cities there and Joshua
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  If that's the case in David, learn his lesson real quick.
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  He takes the ark and he sends it to obededom.
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  Someone who is much more qualified actually exclusively
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  qualified to be supervising, the Ark of God, and that's great.
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  But I still wonder when I learned that.
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  I still wonder about why obededom there was a bunch of
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  Levites and could it be though? It's not clear.
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  Could it be that obededom really, really wanted the Ark of
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  God in his home? Upon the assumption that he
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  became a gatekeeper. Meaning he was willing to occupy
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  a certain role that protected the Ark of the Covenant when it
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  would find a permanent home meaning what when the Ark of God
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  came to his home and it left his home after 3 months.
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  I don't want the presence of God to be away from me.
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  I'm willing to go where it goes. And so he goes online and
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  there's a position that David posted.
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  We're looking for a gatekeeper for the ark obededom is all
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  signed up. I want to be a gatekeeper.
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  I want to be as near as I can to the very presence of God and
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  it's no wonder you heard it when it came to his front step and it
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  entered into his Abode. God opened the heavens and
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  showered blessing upon blessing, not just on him, but on all that
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  he had and he tasted the goodness of God and he couldn't
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  live on without it. That's what I believe what
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  happened to obededom, a levite who hunger for God's presence.
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  And I believe David as a man after God's heart perceive that
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  and allowed the Arctic go to his home.
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  And once it left his home, obedience is, I must have it.
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  I understand that God has his own home, but I want to make my
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  home where he is and so he goes and for the rest of his life,
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  presumably he stood at that gate.
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  Just enjoying the fact that he was as near as he could be the
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  presence of God. Interestingly.
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  When the ark was in the house of abinadab for 20 years, remember
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  that did we get any such description about blessings on
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  his home? No.
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  And it makes you wonder why when you see the attitude of uzza
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  years later you kind of can put the two and two together.
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  But with this man there is blessing for three months and I
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  think it's beyond the fact that he was an Israelite.
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  I think it was more than he was a levite.
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  I believe is the way that he honored God's presence and
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  because he honored God's presence, God blessed him.
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  It is day to day. Should it be any different when
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  you open your heart to the Lord? Jesus Christ.
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  No, the ark is a shadow of Christ who tabernacled Among Us,
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  the glory of God. And when you open your life to
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  him, the home of your heart, scripture says that he abides in
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  that heart, meaning he lives there.
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  Well, that implies many things and one of those things is, what
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  you see in obededom is life. There should be tangible
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  evidence that he lives there, huh?
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  I want you to think about it. We don't have a detailed list of
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  the things that we're blessed wants to our came in.
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  But one thing is for certain, the people who knew obededom,
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  perceived, this man is blessed. And they could not separate his
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  blessing from the priest. And some God to the point that
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  they were talking about it with one another until it reached,
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  the capital of Israel. Here's what I'm proposing to you
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  today. When Christ lives in us, there
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  should be things flowing out of us that others who study us,
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  long enough can say, there's something different, there's
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  something different. And there are so many examples
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  of this in the New Testament and one that came to mind is a fit,
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  very famous passage that people often refer to, in order to
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  encourage the, people of God, to know how to do apologetics and
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  to know enough about the faith so that you can And yourself.
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  When somebody says, why do you have this hope what reference is
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  that? First.
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  Yes. Three. 15, so turn there, and I
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  want you to see that for yourself first, Peter 3:15
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  notice what Peter says about. Believers, there's something in
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  them. There's something in them.
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  There's something in US. And first Peter 3:15.
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  People of memorize this verse, it's a well-known scripture, but
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  in your hearts honor Christ, the lord, as holy always being
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  prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason
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  for the hope that is in you yet do it with gentleness and
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  respect. So I've seen many people come to
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  this, Texas a church. We need to know how to defend
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  our faith. We need to know how to answer
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  people's objections and skepticism.
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  So here's some resources, and here's some Isabel
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  understandings of the belief of this faith and not faith.
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  And this is how you can answer it.
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  That's good, that's important. It's so much deeper than that.
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  My whole life. When I've heard people refer to
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  this text, they refer to the second part and I rarely hear
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  them use the first part because here's here's my question.
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  Coming to this verse, I love asking the Bible questions.
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  And one of the things I asked is well, why would anyone even ask
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  me about the hope that is in me unless there's something about
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  me that causes them to ask? Is that a valid question?
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  Why would anybody say hey can you explain this hope that you
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  have in this thing that you call the gospel?
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  Why would anybody even ask that to begin with unless there is
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  something observable for them to be curious?
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  So, I put that question aside and here's my other question and
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  I think it's a more important question.
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  How? How and what needs to be done in
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  order for that possibility to be more real?
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  What is it that needs to be done in me for people to say, hey,
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  why do you have this hope? And the answer is in the same
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  verse Did you see it? What was the first instruction
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  before knowing how to defend your faith?
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  Verse 15. Honor Christ.
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  As hope. Be honest, maybe you have heard,
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  I have it. I have never ever heard anybody
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  refer to that instruction. Before completing this verse,
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  what does it mean to honor Christ?
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  Is holding some translations, I'm curious.
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  What does it say in the King James sky?
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  I like that sanctify, the Lord, as holy Okay.
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  Sanctify him. Which that word Sanctified means
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  to set apart which implies to make holy Sanctify.
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  The Lord or in your hearts. Honor Christ as holy.
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  What does that mean? Because it influences the second
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  part by the way and if we're Christians were serious about
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  our witness then we won't be just serious about gathering
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  information and knowing how to answer difficult questions will
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  be serious about the first part just as much.
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  Honor Christ, as holy. Here's what it means in your
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  heart. In your heart Elevate Christ, to
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  be the primary object of your affection of your Adoration of
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  your devotion of your submission.
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  That's what it means. Let him have preeminence over
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  your life. Let him be the head.
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  Let him be the control center. Let him be everything to you.
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  That's what it means. Let him have a category of love
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  in your heart that nothing else will be.
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  Challenging. That's what it means to honor
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  crisis, holy sanctify him Elevate them exalt him, place
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  them there as a supreme treasure and the light of who you are.
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  And here's here's what will happen when you do that.
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  It will do something in you and through you to such a degree
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  that others will say possibly there's something different
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  about you. Can I know more?
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  And I wonder if this part has been neglected and the emphasis
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  on just stuffing our minds with the ability to know how to
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  answer Muslims and Buddhists and Mormons.
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  I wonder if our witness has been hindered because we haven't done
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  the first part. Honor Christ is Holy.
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  Honor Christ is Holy. Something is unlocked.
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  Their something happens, they're just like oh but edom's home
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  because he treated it with this reverence and when he treated
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  with such Holiness, all the blessings started to flow,
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  something started to Sparkle, something started to shine to
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  the point where it was radiating out of the windows.
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  And people were saying, oh, to be you, something's happening
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  here knocking on his door. What's going on here?
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  Oh, it's the are Ever since it came just changed everything.
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  Do you see the connection? Do you see the connection honor
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  crisis? Holy and it can have such a
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  radiating effect that people who walk by or people who are around
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  you long enough can say, Why is it that you are this way?
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  And in fact, when you understand the hope, That Peter is calling
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  the Believers to have. And to explain it has a context.
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  In the context is in verse 14. So you're still there, right?
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  Look at verse 14. And notice what Peter says.
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  But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake, you will
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  be blessed. Have no fear of them nor be
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  troubled. And then he goes on to say,
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  honor Christ, but honor Christ in your heart.
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  As holy, Peter is speaking to persecuted Christians who are
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  suffering at the hands of authorities who are Godless and
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  making their lives difficult. And it is with that context.
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  She says Christ is in you. and because Christ is in you, even
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  though you were suffering for righteousness sake, you have the
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  ability to cause others who see that you are suffering to say,
• 35:29
  how is it that you're able to have so much hope?
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  Even though these things are happening to you, even though
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  they fired you, even though the taking away your possessions,
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  even though there's slandering your name, how is it that you
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  have hope? So I argue just like obededom
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  things have Their Blessings. This piece, this Joy, the
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  stability, and what a word for us in this day.
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  People are fearful, people are questioning, people are in
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  panic. He had to church.
• 35:59
  The church should be strong. And Shining with this hole,
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  Brothers. Who say what is it?
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  How is it that you guys are not affected by what's happening?
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  And so I want to tell you today, do you long for that?
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  If you long for things to impact others, it begins within your
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  hearts, honoring crisis. Holy, that's where it's our and
• 36:18
  let the let the rest just flow. Let the rest just happen.
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  You'd be amazed you'd be amazed to see how people will take
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  notice. Even though they don't vocalize
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  it, they will take notice. So we come back to 2nd Samuel.
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  The news about the blessings, eventually reached David.
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  And in awakened him, I want this for my life.
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  I want this for the nation. But this time he was going to go
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  about it in a completely different way.
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  And we heard the first Chronicles 15, right?
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  You want to see how he did it? We heard it already, but in
• 36:53
  first Chronicles 15, remember, one hand and second, Samuel, one
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  hand and First Chronicles, so should be able to flip back and
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  forth easily in first Chronicles 15 he says a lot.
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  But notice what he says in verse 12 and First Chronicles 15 he
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  looks at the Levites and now again Your tool belt is on.
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  I want you to notice it. Give me some things that you
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  see. When I read this, that are
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  important. And said to them, you are the
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  heads of the fathers, houses of the Levites consecrate
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  yourselves, you, and your brother's.
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  So that you may bring up the Ark of the Lord, the god of Israel
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  to the place that I have prepared for it because you did
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  not carry it. The first time, the Lord, Our
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  God broke out against us because we did not seek Him.
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  According to the rule, What stands out to this?
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  Two things come to mind. I'm sure they're more but
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  there's two things that are vital.
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  What stands out to this? What about this?
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  His mistake. He says we didn't do it the way.
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  The Bible says to do it. Let's go back to the book that's
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  the first thing in his own words.
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  We did not seek Him according to the rule and like our brother
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  said, I'm sure David went back to his home and he asked for the
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  Scrolls. And if he was a righteous King
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  in this regard, he would had a copy of God's word.
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  According to Deuteronomy 17, he would have studied And come to
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  the conclusion. We did it wrong.
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  Some would say that he knew what he was doing wrong, that could
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  be true as well. Regardless, he went back to the
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  source, the answers were there, we have to do it according to
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  the rule. And, you know, here's the thing,
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  somebody said, it two weeks ago when we looked at David's
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  initial humility, when remember First Chronicles 13?
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  He asked the leaders and he asked the people.
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  Hey, what do you guys think? If we grab the ark, we praise
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  them for his humility there. We said wow, what a leader, he
• 38:54
  didn't force himself on others, his spirituality was attractive,
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  it wasn't repulsive. And and there is a Grace that he
• 39:00
  says why don't we go do this together?
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  My heart is for the presence of God.
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  Come on, let's do this. But here is his problem even in
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  that, he did not. Old God, a church, any ministry
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  will get in a lot of trouble when they treat Ministry and and
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  the local fold as a democracy. Meaning what we start asking
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  people their opinions and we take votes and stuff.
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  I'm not against congregationalism where they
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  have that system. I'm saying when we run to the
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  people, and when we think we can get their ideas and based on
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  their ideas will move forward, and don't go to the word we're
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  in trouble. The word has to have supreme
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  authority over all of us and that's where blessings come.
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  And so David here, he got a vote but he didn't get God's voice.
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  He got the majority but he didn't get God's approval.
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  So he says, we're going back to the world, that's where we're
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  safe. And that's where God will open
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  his Blessing. But there's a second thing he
• 39:54
  didn't just say, we're going back to the rule.
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  He said something else initially, what is he saying?
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  Consecrate yourselves. You want to Modern version clean
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  up your life. That's what he's saying that's
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  important because to David, it wasn't enough for everybody to
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  cross every T into dot every I and to just have everything in
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  place. The way the Bible says, and then
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  just could do it with whoever no.
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  It's more than just having an accurate biblically accurate
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  Church government, it's more than having scripturally sound
• 40:32
  hymns and worship songs. It's more than just preaching.
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  Verse by verse our pastor preaches biblically, it's more
• 40:38
  than having everything in place because none of that means
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  anything. If those who occupy, those
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  ministerial positions are Unholy It wasn't just concerned about
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  doing the bare minimum here. Let's just just, let's just try
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  to do this and he says, no, no, no, we have to be holy our
• 40:59
  personalized. I'd be right.
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  Not just me coming up on the stage and being somebody for for
• 41:04
  half an hour and then I'm something else out there, you
• 41:06
  know, we must consecrate ourselves.
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  And this is what he was calling for, and the people obeyed.
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  And so the sounds kind of daunting right?
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  I mean because we hear what we hear strict adherence, we hear a
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  high spiritual standard for those who would serve at any
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  capacity that sounds difficult. That sounds disheartening.
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  That sounds scary for some And so Satan would say rules rules.
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  Really God is not a god of rules, you don't have to worry
• 41:36
  about that. God is flexible.
• 41:37
  You can bend things around. It's all right.
• 41:40
  Here's the thing, here's what's amazing.
• 41:43
  When David did have his own way when he went for the ark
• 41:45
  initially what did I do to him? What were the two emotions that
• 41:48
  he felt? Fear was one in the what?
• 41:51
  There was one before that anger. Behold the life of somebody who
• 41:56
  wants to play it by their own rules.
• 41:58
  You want to relate to God the way you think you want to relate
• 42:00
  to God. You're not going to get his
• 42:02
  Blessing, you're going to get turmoil, you're going to get
• 42:04
  confusion, you're going to get hollowness.
• 42:07
  You're going to get all this things that you don't want that.
• 42:10
  You think you would Escape by saying, I'm going to do it my
• 42:14
  way and in fact, you and Harold the total opposite And when
• 42:21
  David does say consecrate yourselves, they obey when he
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  says, we're going back to the book and we're going to stay as
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  close as possible to the instructions of God, two things
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  happen. Two, things happen that didn't
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  happen when he said. I think that I'm just going to
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  walk with my own wisdom and my own understanding of what a
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  Christian should be two things happen.
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  You scroll down and look what happens in verse 25 and First
• 42:44
  Chronicles 15. So David and the Elders of
• 42:48
  Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the
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  Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from the house of obededom with
• 42:55
  what Rejoice rejoice in joy. genuine heartfelt deep-seated
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  joy in the place of what in the lane of ready for this rule,
• 43:10
  keeping Actually taking God at his word, as, and trying to be
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  as close to obeying it as possible in that World.
• 43:19
  The Joy open up. Jesus says these things I have
• 43:23
  spoken to you that your joy may be full.
• 43:29
  Even before they says that, my joy may be in, you understand?
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  That Christ wants to impart his joy, and it can only be
• 43:38
  experienced in the place of these things.
• 43:41
  I have spoken to you. Lord, what did you say?
• 43:43
  I will do it. He says here's a joy and he says
• 43:46
  my joy. You know what that means?
• 43:47
  Supernatural, Joy Christ, being Supernatural himself saying I'm
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  going to give you something that nothing in this world can even
• 43:54
  come close to and the place of obedience so Joy.
• 43:59
  There is real Joy. Can I prove it to you?
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  Can I put you have seen miserable Christians my whole
• 44:04
  life, I've seen them happy and sometimes and other times, just
• 44:06
  miserable and the happiest you've ever been, right?
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  Is when you were closest to Jesus.
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  And when you got busy. And it began to affect your
• 44:17
  schedule and it began to affect your time with the Lord and your
• 44:20
  time here on the house of God, and you see now worldliness
• 44:23
  creeping in you were distracted but you weren't joyful.
• 44:28
  You had little fireworks of excitement, but it quickly
• 44:32
  turned into smoke. The most miserable that you have
• 44:35
  ever been is when you are furthest from God and the most
• 44:38
  joyful, and the most energetic you've been is when you're
• 44:42
  closest to, it's super easy. When you first got saved, what
• 44:46
  happened? Your world revolves around
• 44:49
  Christ and if felt like you were floating every day you can just
• 44:52
  walk through walls. Almost nothing can stop you and
• 44:56
  you see that is the joy that Christ wants us to walk in.
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  And that can only come when you're totally sold out there.
• 45:06
  When you're like David, and you have these mixed Ambitions?
• 45:09
  I want the Ark of God, but I want the new cart from
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  philistine. It's not going to happen and
• 45:15
  here's what else not going to happen.
• 45:17
  Look at the second thing that ensued in verse 26.
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  And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the
• 45:24
  Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. They sacrifice seven, bowls and
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  seven Rams. What happened?
• 45:30
  God, help them. God help them when they did it
• 45:35
  with the new cart that God help them.
• 45:37
  He let the things stumble, who's a put out his hand, he dies when
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  these men took the ark, put it on their shoulders with those
• 45:45
  poles and they started to head towards Jerusalem it says God
• 45:50
  came and he helped them And here's here's the messed-up
• 45:55
  thing, right? We think that, if we do Church,
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  the worldly way, if we do our personal walk with the Lord, the
• 46:00
  worldly way, it will be lighter, it'll be easier.
• 46:03
  It'll be happier. All the while we stumble along
• 46:08
  the way and yet the very thing that intimidates people, the
• 46:12
  very thing that people don't believe can work like preaching
• 46:15
  the Bible, just the way it is and having true church and not
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  just entertainment. And not trying to win people
• 46:21
  with means that are silly and shallow when we do it, the way
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  God does it as much as it's demanding as much as it may not
• 46:29
  be popular. God's help.
• 46:30
  Is there he comes to assist you. Now that might not mean much to
• 46:35
  you because you're not in a position of leadership in a
• 46:37
  church. So let me personalize it.
• 46:40
  God is ready to help you forgive.
• 46:44
  Because you know why people don't forgive their empowered by
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  holding something against somebody else?
• 46:49
  When you don't forgive you, I have something against you,
• 46:52
  right? This is how sick we are, because
• 46:54
  the person that hurt us, we let them know, we're still hurt, and
• 46:56
  we see that that hurts them, and that makes us feel good.
• 46:59
  That's sick. That's who we are though.
• 47:02
  And so, when Jesus says, forgive forget the past, I don't hold
• 47:06
  that person's past against them. Why are you keep bringing it up?
• 47:08
  And you can't seem to do it. He's ready to help you.
• 47:12
  He's ready to help you. But you have to step out in
• 47:15
  obedience Purity, right? In the sexually-charged world.
• 47:20
  You can't go on and any kind of Avenue on your phone.
• 47:22
  You can't do almost anything in our city without some kind of
• 47:25
  pornographic thing popping in your face.
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  Purity is a possible. It's possible.
• 47:30
  He's ready to help you anger, anger rage.
• 47:32
  Right. You're angry person, right?
• 47:36
  He's ready to help you. With anything you think is so
• 47:40
  difficult and you think that you can substitute it with your own
• 47:43
  Silly ideas or excuses, let that die like uzza died.
• 47:48
  Trust God's word, walk in faith and watch the help cop.
• 47:52
  Watch his grace meet you in that place.
• 47:56
  So, they experience this help. And they're walking, and they
• 48:00
  sensed this grace. And we come back to 2nd Samuel
• 48:04
  and we have two verses left and we're done.
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  If we thought that this was unusual.
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  David is going to do something. More unusual.
• 48:15
  Somebody observed, in our initial reading verse 13 and
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  those Who Bore the Ark of the Lord had gone, six steps.
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  He sacrificed an ox and a fat and animal.
• 48:27
  Here's my question, is that required in the law?
• 48:31
  Is there any command that you can find in the Old Testament
• 48:33
  says, when the arc goes out, six steps stop build an altar of
• 48:39
  burnt some animals. No, it's not.
• 48:44
  It's not found anywhere. Not even slightly suggested
• 48:47
  anyway. So then what's the next
• 48:49
  question? Why did he do it?
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  You have some who believe that David actually did this every
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  six steps and I can see how they can read that into it.
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  But there is a verse that challenges that idea.
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  He imagined every six step stopping and making a sacrifice.
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  I mean, as much as that sounds crazy, when you see what Solomon
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  did at the inauguration of the temple, he sacrificed thousands
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  upon thousands of animals, so then you're like, maybe it is
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  possible, but I don't think that's what David David is doing
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  your I think after the first six steps, right?
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  So you have these guys, they're carrying 12 and I'm not going to
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  do the six steps, David stop. Build an altar, get the animals.
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  Let's sacrifice unto the Lord. Any idea, why he did this?
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  Okay, you're on to something but not yet.
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  There's something there though, you're very close.
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  But why does he doing why is he doing this?
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  So, is there a connection between David not experiencing
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  God's judgment and him responding to that reality?
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  So there's that. Any other idea?
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  Okay, so to six steps to get out of the house and once they got
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  out of the house, like okay, here we are.
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  But what does that have to do with the sacrifice then?
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  What did you say? Because of what, You have it.
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  The answer is actually in the verse and First Chronicles 25
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  that we just covered, it's actually tells us right there
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  first Chronicles 15 verse 26 and because God helped the Levites
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  who were carrying the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord.
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  They sacrifice seven, bowls and seven Rams.
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  That's why So David knowing that, I don't know what he saw,
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  but he saw the Lord, assisting these men and blessing their
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  Journey even early on to the point.
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  Where says everyone stop. Let's give thanks to the Lord,
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  so they get the altar, they get the animals and they worship
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  God. And In the Flesh and the
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  natural, we would look at that and some would criticize and say
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  why are you taking your time? We don't need to do all of this,
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  we can get to Jerusalem. Faster, and have a bigger
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  celebration, you're hindering, the journey.
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  Come on, let's go. It's the same kind of critical
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  attitude that Mary of Bethany experienced.
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  Remember, when she broke open, that Alabaster flask imported an
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  anointed Jesus, and Judas. And the disciple says, why this
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  waste you didn't have to do this.
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  In fact, We could have used this for something else.
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  The enemy tends to try to convince us and the Flesh and
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  our own mind that we give more to God.
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  It's not really beneficial. There's no need to do more than
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  what he asks of us. Just do the bare minimum, give
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  him what he ordered and move on. Right?
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  But there are people and it's it breaks my heart to say that it's
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  not Collective. I wish it was.
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  But there are others who have experienced something of God,
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  who have tasted something like, David, tasted of the goodness of
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  God, seeing his help in the legs of these priests moving forward
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  to such a degree that they can't help.
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  But gold more than what God asked of them.
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  It's not legalism. If you're doing out of joy,
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  There are some people who say Sunday morning church his not
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  enough. I want to be in a house of God
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  as much as possible. I know some people schedules.
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  I'll permit that I'm talking about the heart desire.
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  How I want to be where the Lord's people are?
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  I want to hear more about God. I want to sing more to the Lord.
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  And so they come and you have people say why why is it Sunday
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  afternoon up? It's not legalism.
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  It's because they've been touched by the Lord.
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  You have people who pray and they don't just pray and give
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  God a grocery list, so they can go on with their day.
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  They pray and they stayed in a personalized, way, in a private
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  way. They Worship the Lord, they love
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  the Lord, they Adorn him with their praises and people think
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  it's strange. Why are you doing that?
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  Why? Why this sacrifice?
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  It's not, it's you don't have to do that.
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  I know I don't have to I want to He's worthy.
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  This is what he's done and it pulls something out of me.
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  More than just the bottom of the barrel.
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  Of my life. I think that's what David is
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  demonstrating here. He didn't have to, he wanted to,
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  I want to get to that place where I walk with the Lord,
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  where I understand what he's done in my life to such a degree
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  that it naturally, just pulls more out of me.
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  And I gladly, give it to him, let people criticize all they
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  want. People want to be spiritual
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  skeletons, looking to be spiritual skeletons.
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  He sacrifice an ox and with fatten animal but no one is what
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  he does. In verse 14, and this is where
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  we're concluding and David danced before the Lord and makes
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  people very uncomfortable. Something AMA Nations, more than
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  others. David danced before the Lord
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  with all his might? We'll cover that next week but
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  the second part of the verse is what you should look into.
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  David was wearing a linen. Ephod Linen ephod.
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  A Priestly garment. It's, it's there in the Old
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  Testament where that is a part of their outfit.
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  And some would look at this and say, there's no problem here
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  because David is actually demonstrated humility.
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  He disrobed himself from his royalty and he puts on a an
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  apron like things so that he can relate and blend in with the
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  priests and not stand out the arc, the presence of God.
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  That's the true king, not David, not David.
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  I'm just, I'm just an ordinary servant of God, like these
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  others who are going with me others would add to that and
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  say, well, Samuel little Samuel and first Samuel to we're told
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  that he wore Linden. Thought and so David, wearing it
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  is not a big deal but there's a problem there.
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  Samuel is is from what lineage? Is he from Judah?
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  Or is he from a different tribe? How could even become a priest?
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  A few was not a He was Levi, say it was a Levi.
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  He's one of the descendants of Korah.
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  So Samuel makes sense for him to wear a linen.
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  Ephod, Samuel was being raised up to be a priest and to give
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  him a little leaf onto it was cute.
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  And it was, it was a statement there that he was set apart unto
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  God. David is not from Levi.
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  David is from where. Jude, he's from the tribe of
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  Judah. There's a lot of if you continue
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  this chapter there, a lot of connotations there are a lot of
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  little hints of Priestly activity that David performs can
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  I give an example to scroll down to verse 18 very quickly.
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  And when David had finished, offering the burnt offerings and
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  the peace offerings. He blessed, the people, in the
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  name of the Lord of hosts, So someone say, that's not David
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  doing it, that's the priest doing it through his command,
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  okay? But even the second part, where
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  he blesses people, in the name of the Lord, that's what priests
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  do. So you get these hints of David
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  dressing like and acting like a what priest?
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  Somebody got in a lot of trouble for most for, assuming the role
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  of a priest. Remember him?
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  Yes. Saul did not wait for Samuel
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  early on in his ministry when he went to war with the Philistines
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  and he builds an altar and he performs a sacrifice and got
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  held it against them. David here.
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  Wearing a linen ephod. And if 18 we take it literally
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  he's somewhat participating in the offerings and he he assumes
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  this blessing upon others as though he has some kind of
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  authority Spiritual Authority. Why?
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  how is he chosen to be, what did he Okay, you have to prove it
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  though. Did God choose him to be a
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  priest? He's anointed by the Lord to be
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  a priest. He's a prophet.
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  He is a prophet acts tells us he's a prophet.
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  Okay, what does it say? Is that speaking about David
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  though? Why is David wearing a linen?
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  Ephod? Okay, so you, I see what you're
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  saying, maybe the priests allowed him to say David, it's
• 58:42
  okay, you're, you're close to us.
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  We know who you are, you can have, I don't know.
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  That's, I understand where you're coming from.
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  That's a, that's a interesting way of looking at it.
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  You can see why people are wrestle with this, right?
• 58:54
  And they just want to kind of just shoo it away to say, it's
• 58:58
  not as a it's not a big deal for him to wear this, it's just a
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  cloth. It's not really the Priestly
• 59:02
  garments and so they kind of just want to not deal with it.
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  A couple more before moving on. Why would this and you're going
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  to find out later on, in our studies second saying, I brought
• 59:14
  this up to a few people, you can actually realize that we're told
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  in second Samuel, that David's Sons.
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  Were what? Priest.
• 59:25
  Priest. What's happening here?
• 59:29
  That's exclusive to the Levites. What are people from Judah doing
• 59:35
  operating in the same capacity as priests will get there but
• 59:40
  let's just deal with this for now.
• 59:42
  A couple more in the Moon. Yeah.
• 1:00:06
  Okay, so he's kind of filling in the role in the transition with
• 1:00:10
  Samuel who is a prophet priest. I these are these are
• 1:00:14
  interesting points for sure. Yes.
• 1:00:28
  Great observation. Did you guys hear that when
• 1:00:31
  David took the holy bread back in first Samuel, nothing nothing
• 1:00:36
  happened to him, then when that was solely reserved for the
• 1:00:38
  priests. So you have these again, you
• 1:00:41
  have these little things that are happening in David's life
• 1:00:45
  where he reaches into the lane of priesthood and he does a
• 1:00:49
  couple things and God doesn't seem to intervene like he did
• 1:00:53
  with saw one more of them and explain my Ah, did you hear
• 1:01:00
  that? Is there something there?
• 1:01:05
  In light of Jesus Christ. Okay, let's stop here.
• 1:01:09
  Right. David wrote, one of the clearest
• 1:01:14
  Messianic songs that is often quoted in the New Testament,
• 1:01:20
  does anybody know what song I'm talking about?
• 1:01:22
  22 is a good one, but not 22, not to.
• 1:01:25
  That's a good one though. Nope, clothes. 110.
• 1:01:32
  Go to Psalm 110. Once you see you're going to
• 1:01:34
  say, oh, okay, I know it's something that that is Psalm
• 1:01:38
  110. The Lord says to my Lord,
• 1:01:47
  remember when Jesus used that. Sit at my right hand until I
• 1:01:53
  make your enemies your footstool.
• 1:01:57
  The Lord sends forth, from Zion, your Mighty scepter rule in the
• 1:02:01
  midst of your enemies. David's son his descendant.
• 1:02:07
  And remember, David wrote this song.
• 1:02:09
  David's son. Would be his Lord.
• 1:02:16
  And Jesus used that against the religious leaders of his day to
• 1:02:19
  say, how could he be his son while also being his Lord?
• 1:02:24
  He knew the scriptures is amazing.
• 1:02:27
  And so David, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
• 1:02:30
  at one point in his life, understood that my seed.
• 1:02:35
  Will be the Messiah, God himself.
• 1:02:39
  And as we read in verse two, Mighty scepter, rule in the
• 1:02:43
  midst of your enemies. What is that?
• 1:02:45
  What does that imply? He's going to be a king.
• 1:02:49
  But just the king, go to verse 4.
• 1:02:53
  The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind.
• 1:02:56
  You are priest forever. after the order of who not Aaron
• 1:03:03
  Melchizedek, So, track with me here, David under the
• 1:03:08
  inspiration of the Holy Spirit has a revelation, my seed.
• 1:03:13
  My son will be king, but he will also be my Lord.
• 1:03:18
  There's something Divine about that.
• 1:03:20
  It goes beyond that though. He goes, not only is he going to
• 1:03:23
  be a king, he's going to be a priest.
• 1:03:27
  And here's was astounding. You never had a marriage of
• 1:03:30
  those two roles. It was never legitimised in the
• 1:03:33
  Old Testament, the kings were Kings.
• 1:03:35
  The priests were priests, and whenever a king, try to be a
• 1:03:39
  priest. Remember, remember was I right?
• 1:03:43
  He went into the temple and he tried to give offering, and
• 1:03:45
  80-something priest, right in. And they said, you're not
• 1:03:47
  supposed to be doing that, and he was struck with Leprosy.
• 1:03:50
  So Kings were in one lane. Priests were another, they there
• 1:03:53
  was. But this, this this son of
• 1:03:55
  David, there's gonna be like a hybrid.
• 1:03:57
  He's going to be a king and a priest that alone is mind
• 1:04:01
  blowing to the Jew, But it's even more than that because you
• 1:04:05
  would think, okay, you are a priest Forever After the order
• 1:04:08
  of Aaron. after the order of Melchizedek, Mackenzie deck is
• 1:04:17
  only mentioned like really in three parts of the Bible.
• 1:04:20
  Genesis Psalm 110 Hebrews chapter 7.
• 1:04:23
  There's not much said about him. That's by Divine Design.
• 1:04:26
  Hebrews tells us why God the Holy Spirit omit certain details
• 1:04:30
  about Melchizedek namely. We don't know where he's from,
• 1:04:34
  we don't know his lineage and we don't know when and how he died.
• 1:04:38
  when is Melchizedek first mentioned in the Bible, Genesis
• 1:04:43
  and 14 verse 18. You have to go there to see how
• 1:04:47
  this relates to David to a certain extent.
• 1:04:50
  Genesis 14 18, He was a king. you know, Genesis 14, 18,
• 1:05:01
  Genesis 14, 18, And Melchizedek. King of Salem.
• 1:05:09
  Brought out Bread and Wine like come on brought out Bread and
• 1:05:14
  Wine. He was Priest of God, most high.
• 1:05:20
  Now kids are the king of Salem brought out Bread and Wine.
• 1:05:23
  He was Priest of God, most high. He appears out of nowhere
• 1:05:28
  mysteriously just appears on the scene comes before Abraham.
• 1:05:31
  Abraham recognizes something so Superior of him that he's
• 1:05:36
  compelled to give a tithe to him Melchizedek blesses Abraham.
• 1:05:42
  And as I said, the obscurity of Melchizedek the omission of
• 1:05:46
  certain details, the author of Hebrews use, That to make a case
• 1:05:52
  for Jesus. Don't lift your hand unless you
• 1:05:56
  want to show me. Do you believe now?
• 1:05:59
  Keswick was Jesus. He wasn't because in Hebrews 7,
• 1:06:04
  we read that Melchizedek. Jesus coming from, his
• 1:06:10
  priesthood was like him, he wasn't him.
• 1:06:13
  So, Melchizedek is not Jesus, just to clarify that, right?
• 1:06:16
  He's a separate individual. He's an actual priest.
• 1:06:21
  And Jesus is priesthood. Comes from him. and the fact
• 1:06:27
  that you don't know where he came from and how he left The
• 1:06:32
  author of Hebrews uses that to make a case for the eternality
• 1:06:34
  of Jesus in his divine nature and in his priesthood, its
• 1:06:39
  unending, never had really a Jesus, never had a beginning.
• 1:06:43
  He doesn't have an end and like Melchizedek the obscurity of the
• 1:06:47
  blurriness around him is to signify that Jesus in the
• 1:06:52
  literal substance form is without beginning Without End.
• 1:06:58
  Tracking with me so far. Okay good.
• 1:06:59
  I hope so. Just talk to me afterwards if
• 1:07:01
  you didn't. So let's let's backtrack for a
• 1:07:04
  second. David had a revelation, my son
• 1:07:08
  is going to be a king, he's going to be my Lord but it's
• 1:07:11
  also going to be a priest not after Aaron, but after
• 1:07:14
  Melchizedek. Okay.
• 1:07:17
  But when you come to Genesis 14 18, you realize that Melchizedek
• 1:07:20
  there's individual Was a priest of God most high, but he was
• 1:07:25
  also the king of Salem. West Salem.
• 1:07:36
  Prove it. Sounds like Jerusalem.
• 1:07:43
  If it's Jerusalem and this is, this is massive.
• 1:07:48
  King of Salem. If you're a note taker or if you
• 1:07:53
  have really good memory here's how you know Salem is Jerusalem.
• 1:07:58
  Ready Psalm 76 verse 1 and verse 2, Psalm 76 verse 1 and verse 2
• 1:08:09
  tells us That's Salem is Jerusalem.
• 1:08:20
  In Judah, God is known. his name is great in Israel, his Abode
• 1:08:27
  has been established where And Salem his Dwelling Place in
• 1:08:33
  Zaire. Now, we know that the dwelling
• 1:08:37
  place of God, what end up in Jerusalem and the author of this
• 1:08:41
  song uses the ancient reference for Jerusalem that we find in
• 1:08:46
  Genesis, 14, 18 and I believe the Holy Spirit did that by
• 1:08:49
  Design. So that when you would see that
• 1:08:51
  Melchizedek was the king of Salem, and you kept reading your
• 1:08:53
  Bible and came to some 76. You would realize that Salem was
• 1:08:57
  Jerusalem, So Melchizedek was the king of where Jerusalem at
• 1:09:04
  one point. Jerusalem before it was
• 1:09:07
  recognized as the city of David. Yes, but Jerusalem nonetheless.
• 1:09:13
  Here's what I'm proposing. It's not dogmatic.
• 1:09:17
  Could it be just, could it be that David being a prophet and
• 1:09:24
  having a level of revelation of the Messiah, that would come
• 1:09:28
  from his seed? He knew that his son would be a
• 1:09:34
  king. My Lord, a priest, after the
• 1:09:39
  order of Melchizedek and knowing Genesis Melchizedek was a king
• 1:09:46
  and priest from where Jerusalem. My son one day is going to be
• 1:09:55
  king and priest. We're in Jerusalem.
• 1:09:59
  That's where we're waiting in the second coming.
• 1:10:02
  He's going to come and set up his Rule and reign in Jerusalem.
• 1:10:09
  Could it be that with that understanding when David became
• 1:10:13
  king of Jerusalem in the very text that we are studying?
• 1:10:19
  Maybe I'm allowed to wear a little ephod.
• 1:10:23
  I'm king of Jerusalem. And Melchizedek priest king.
• 1:10:30
  My son is going to be king and priest.
• 1:10:32
  I'm not going to obstruct the lineage of air and I'm not gonna
• 1:10:35
  obstruct what God is established through Aaron.
• 1:10:38
  But let me just where literally fought for now and let me just
• 1:10:41
  let me just help a little bit here with some of the sacrifice.
• 1:10:43
  Let me just pronounce one blessing.
• 1:10:46
  I wonder if David was just entertaining the thought knowing
• 1:10:51
  what the Holy Spirit revealed about him his son and that royal
• 1:10:56
  priesthood how there would come one day someone from Judah.
• 1:11:02
  Who would have a greater priesthood than that of Aaron?
• 1:11:06
  It would be a greater King than all the other kings that came
• 1:11:09
  from David seed. Could it be that when you put
• 1:11:12
  the pieces together in this moment?
• 1:11:15
  David was just entertaining. The idea for himself knowing his
• 1:11:19
  history and knowing his future is in the, the Bible.
• 1:11:23
  Amazing is in the word of God. Wonderful.
• 1:11:25
  Let's pray. Thank God for this.
• 1:11:43
  But we are amazed at your word. We are overwhelmed by Your Word,
• 1:11:50
  Lord. You are the author of this word.
• 1:11:53
  We Rejoice at your word as a song.
• 1:11:55
  Say we Rejoice at your word. Lord tonight on this Friday
• 1:12:01
  evening. We want to thank you for
• 1:12:04
  touching our hearts. Thank you, Lord, for the word
• 1:12:08
  richly abiding in us and Lord. At this time, we respond to the
• 1:12:13
  things that we have just listened to and absorbed.
• 1:12:17
  And we give you glory and we say thank you Lord.
• 1:12:20
  Thank you, Lord, that you have shown us that you living in us
• 1:12:24
  at you being Lord. Over us, is a blessing is not a
• 1:12:28
  burden. You don't destroy You don't kill
• 1:12:35
  you, don't give less you, give more you complete, you bring
• 1:12:40
  abundance and or we have all experienced that and we've
• 1:12:43
  experienced a new level of it tonight.
• 1:12:45
  Father, we thank you that you have graced us with this portion
• 1:12:50
  and what we just want to with the remaining strength that we
• 1:12:52
  have magnify your name and to extol you and to give praise to
• 1:12:58
  the king and priest who is to come again Rule and Reign from
• 1:13:02
  Jerusalem and that Lord, we would be We would be those who
• 1:13:08
  are heirs with Christ be holding you and marveling at you.
• 1:13:11
  Thank you for redeeming us, and thank you for promising that
• 1:13:15
  future for us. Lord, we just, we give you
• 1:13:17
  praise, we are overwhelmed, overjoyed and now we Channel.
• 1:13:21
  This wonderful experience into Worship in Jesus name, we pray.
• 1:13:26
  Amen. Any man.
• 1:13:26
  Can we stand and Worship the Lord?
• 1:13:28
  What? A mighty God we serve.
• 1:13:30
  What a glorious. King we have.