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428 | Living Out Your Faith · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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Music.
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Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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well in John chapter four.
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Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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or on our website at watwm.org,
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we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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Music.
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She's a happy girl.
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Saul wasn't able to defeat the giant in his life because he wasn't willing to
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take God at his word and trust him completely.
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So Saul did it his way, and it didn't work.
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David, on the other hand, declared the power of the Lord to allow God's power
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to flow through him to defeat the giant.
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David trusted completely, removed himself from the planning,
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and simply followed the will of God.
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Join us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes us on a
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journey through the Scriptures, examining the difference between battling in
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the Lord's strength and battling in our own strength.
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Hello and welcome to this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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Today we're going to look at something that hits all of us smack dab in the face.
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We're going to look at how we attack,
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how we navigate, and how we think about the problems and the troubles that come into our lives.
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And we're going to look at two very different ways of doing it.
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One, we're going to look at how Saul did it.
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Saul was an incredibly intelligent man. He was filled with wisdom,
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and he was filled with riches.
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And Saul often headed into every situation with his logic in front of him,
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with his theories and his ways and his wealth backing him.
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He often had a partly good idea. He often was partially obedient.
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But to be partially obedient is to be fully disobedient.
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And Saul reaped consequences from his decision to rely upon himself.
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If you look at 1 Samuel 15, beginning in verse 9 and going through verse 11,
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you see this, But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep
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and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs and all that was good and
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would not utterly destroy them.
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But everything that was vile and refuge, they destroyed utterly.
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Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying, It repenteth me that I have
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set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from me, following me,
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and hath not performed my commandments.
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And it grieved Samuel, and he cried unto the Lord all night.
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See, here's the situation.
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Saul had a giant in his life. He had the Amekalites. and he was to go in and
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obliterate all of them and everything they had.
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But Saul thinks to himself and says, well, if I obliterate all of them except
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the king, I can bring the king back and maybe for a ransom or something,
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somehow get even more money.
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And I could even take that money and I could build the work of the Lord.
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I could build the kingdom.
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And he destroys all of the bad sheep and oxen, but he keeps the best because
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he says he could give that as a burnt offering to the Lord.
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And that is where we see in Scripture, where he says it's better to obey than to sacrifice.
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Because what Saul actually did was he took the commandments of the Lord,
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And he modified them to fit his logic and what he thought would work for him
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and what he thought was best.
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And before we go one step further to condemn Saul,
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I want you to stop in your tracks and think about how you handle the word of
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the Lord that he gives to you directly through prayer, meditation, and scripture.
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How you take the commandments that have been written for all of us to follow
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and how you modify them to work into your lifestyle or into your family or into your crowd.
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We're all guilty of doing what Saul did at least once or twice, if not frequently.
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We hear what God says to us. It doesn't sit quite right with us or it doesn't
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make perfect sense to us.
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And then we begin to think on it or think about it. And then what we do is we
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begin to modify what he said till it makes sense to us, but it is completely
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opposite of what he told him to do or what he tells us.
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He told Saul, go into the land and obliterate it.
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Saul looked around and thought, well,
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I could get more money and that's something I could use for the Lord.
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Or we'll take these best sheep and oxen and we'll give them to the Lord.
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That's not what God said. And what I want you to hear, if you hear nothing else
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ever before from me or since this moment, I want you to hear this.
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Nothing short of strict obedience to the Lord's instructions are acceptable.
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Anything less than strict obedience to the Lord's instructions produce grief
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in heaven and pain and loss on earth.
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Nothing short of strict obedience is acceptable.
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Saul did not adhere to the strict obedience to the commandments,
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and this is what it cost him.
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The Lord told Samuel, basically, he regrets having set him up to be king,
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because he turned his back from following after me.
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And at that moment, it wasn't the first time Saul had used his logic in his
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head, and it didn't turn out well for him,
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but it was the last time he was going to be able to do it, and God not correct
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him and remove him as king.
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See, 1 Samuel 15 gives us a very strong picture of what it means to continually,
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habitually, not strictly obey the word of God.
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It grieves Samuel because Samuel knew the potential that Saul had,
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and he knew what Saul could have done.
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But Jesus says that he turned his back from following him.
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Saul started on the right path, but his own intellect was his demise.
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Because as you can see in this account in first samuel 15 saul begins to put
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his ideas above god's ideas he inserts logic where faith must be now if we turn
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just a couple chapters over.
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We find David, who is the person God chooses to give the throne to after Saul no longer holds it.
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What we see from this in 1 Samuel 13, 14 is what God is looking for when he's
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choosing people to do his work.
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In 1 Samuel 13, verse 14, this is what he says, But now thy kingdom shall not
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continue. This is what he's talking about with Saul.
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The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded
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him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.
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It was costly for Saul to insert his logic.
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Not only did it not work out well for him it also cost him his kingdom it cost him his position.
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More importantly it cost him his position with
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the lord because he was no longer trusting in
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the lord with his whole heart and soul and here comes
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david a man after god's own heart and we
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just read in first samuel 13 verse 14 that's
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what god is looking for he's not looking for
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the biggest and the best and in our in our example
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of how god chooses david and how
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david chooses to trust fully and completely upon
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god by allowing the holy spirit and the god of the universe and all of that
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power to flow through him to do that which he's called to do when he faces the
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giant in this very familiar account we are going to see the difference between
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leaning on our own heart leaning in our own Mind.
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And how the two of those are different. When we lean on our own mind and our
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own understanding, we are leaving God out of it.
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And we have now put ourselves on the throne that rightfully belongs to him.
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Now, most of the people listening to this are not kings of the land.
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But you have situations in your life. You have problems in your life.
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You have issues in your life. And God said he would never leave you nor forsake
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you. So therefore, he is waiting to give you the information.
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He is speaking to you, but you are so puffed up and so arrogant in your own
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self that you have forgotten who the King of Kings is and the Lord of Lords is.
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You've displaced him from your life, just like Saul did.
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And you've decided, well, you've got some good ideas, Lord, but let me massage
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them. Let me modify them.
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Let me make them work for me. And I'll just show you what a good idea is.
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And then you are headed for a fall because pride always comes before a fall.
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And when you live in arrogance and pride, the fall is a painful one.
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And Saul has shown us that through his life in 1 Samuel 15.
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But in 1 Samuel 17, in the first 10 verses, the giant begins to come on the
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sting and he begins to declare himself.
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It says, now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle and were
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gathered together at Shoko, which belonged to Judah, and pitched between Shoko
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and Ezekiah in Ephesadam.
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And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together and pitched by the valley
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of Elah and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
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So here we are, everybody's there, and you begin to see how the giant starts
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talking about themselves.
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In verse 4, he says there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines
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named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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And he had a helmet of brass up on his head, and he was armed with a coat of
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mail, and the weight of the coat was 5,000 shekels of brass.
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And then he continues to talk about his staff and his spear in verses 6 and 7.
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But in verse 8, he declares this, And he stood and cried unto the armies of
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Israel and said unto them,
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why are you come out to set your battle in
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array am not i a philistine and you
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servants to saul choose you a man for you
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and let him come down to me if he be able to
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fight with me and to kill me then will we be your servants but if i prevail
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against him and kill him then shall ye be our servants and serve us so here
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you have it the giant philistine with all of the world's armor and battle equipment.
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Is declaring a war right there against Israel.
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And he's declaring what he is going to do.
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If you can beat me, I, I, I.
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The giant is clearly impressed with himself, and he is clearly impressed with
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his stature, with the things he has, with his knowledge.
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So like Saul, who's using logic, here comes the giant who's completely convinced
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he's all that and a bag of chips.
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He's convinced in his own strength and his past accomplishments.
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But when you look at 1 Samuel 17, verses 11 through 19, And we see that in verse
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11, Saul and Israel heard the words of the Philistine and they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
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This man is coming, and he's talking trash.
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And he's talking and boasting about how good and how big he is.
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It's coming straight from his mind.
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Now, David, we see in verses 12 through 19, that David's left back at home.
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His brothers are in the battlefield. and the giant draws near.
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And for 40 days, he taunts the people.
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In verse 16, it says, and the Philistine drew near morning and evening and presented himself 40 days.
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I mean, you talk about a man who was sure of himself.
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You talk about a man who thought that everybody should bow to him.
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This is this giant. He's coming out in all of his glory morning and evening
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and showing himself to the people.
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The people are sore afraid.
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And so as we get to verse 17, we see that Jesse, which is David's father,
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is tasking David to go to where the armies are and to take lunch for his brother.
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And I want you to see his brothers.
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In verse 20, it says this, and David rose up early in the morning. Let's read that again.
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And David rose up early in the morning.
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David didn't slack. He didn't wait. He didn't sleep in.
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He didn't let the blanket get victory.
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No, David was given a task and David got on it.
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And many times you see in scripture that David seeks the Lord early in the morning.
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Before the devil's got a hold on him, before the devil can get him in his grasp,
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David is working in the morning with the Lord, doing what the Lord is asking him to do.
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And in this instance, what his father Jesse is asking him to do.
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But because he's obedient to his father, his father's telling him to do the right thing.
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And we are to obey those that have authority over us who are giving us the right information.
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And because he had an obedient heart, and because he was willing to sacrifice
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and do that which he was told,
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he got up early in the morning, and he finds himself in just a little few verses down,
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in the right place at the right time for God to do the amazing thing God has
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wanted to do, has intended to do, has planned to do, has strategized to do,
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and is going to do through David.
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But if David had not had an obedient heart, beginning with obedience to his
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father, he would not have been in the right place at the right time,
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and God would have used some other way, some other thing to do his work.
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So often we are slacking and we are lazy and we haven't done the prep work and
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we haven't studied and we don't have the heart that God has conditioned to put
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us in the place where we're supposed to be and to be able to receive what we're supposed to receive,
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but instead we are going about in this world talking about loving Jesus.
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Acting like we're doing his work, busy about stuff that looks churchy,
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saying churchy religious words, and our heart is not conditioned to be obedient to the Lord,
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to be obedient to the word, to be obedient to the spirit, to walk in obedience,
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to love him above all things,
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to trust in him with all of our heart, and to not lean into our own understanding.
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We can talk it, but we're not walking it. But David...
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He has an obedient heart. Now, many of you who've read a lot of the scriptures
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are going to say, man, he messed up all the time.
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David slid all over the rock, but he held to the rock. But more importantly, the rock held him.
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And in John 10, 28, it says, no man will pluck you out of the father's hand.
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David was a man of like passions like me and you.
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David didn't get it right all the time but it said
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in first samuel 13 14 that he
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was a man after god's own heart it shows
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right here in first samuel 17 that david had an obedient heart david loved the
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lord ultimately if he didn't get it right every time he would come back with
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a contrite heart and he would repent convicted,
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the Lord would forgive him just like he does us in 1 John 1.9 when he says if
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we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
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us from all unrighteousness.
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God doesn't expect perfection but God does require obedience.
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We must obey. His word must have meaning to us.
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His word must be our supreme authority.
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As David rises to take his food to his brothers, I want you to see in verse
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16, he says this, and the Beryllicines drew near morning and evening.
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Verse 26, we read that in verse 16. In verse 26, we see this.
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And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to
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the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel?
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For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?
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If you listen closely to what David is saying in verse 26 of 1 Samuel 17, what you see is this.
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David is enraged that somebody is trying to defy God's plan and God's purpose and God's people.
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When's the last time you were indignantly insulted because someone took the Lord's name in vain?
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Or someone tried to rise up against a plan you knew the Lord had?
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Perhaps the plan god had given you to execute but you just wilted under the
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pressure of someone's thoughts see i want you to go back in first samuel 17
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and see that as we look at this.
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David's brothers are completely getting ready to mock him they're embarrassed
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by him they think the idea is ridiculous.
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Saul, the king of the land, he thinks it's ridiculous. Nobody is saying that a boy, David.
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Nobody's patting him on the shoulder. Nobody really is encouraging him to move forward.
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But see, David knew the key to living successful in this life.
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And it was to bow only to the one true living God.
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It was to listen only to the voice of God.
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It was to seek only the applause and the approval of nail-scarred hands.
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David didn't care what the world thought. David didn't care what his family thought.
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David understood who God was. And David was declaring who God was with every
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step of courage and faith he took.
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As we move forward, here we see in verse 27, And the people answered him after
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this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
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And Eliab, his eldest brother, heard when he spake unto men.
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And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither?
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And with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness?
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I know thy pride and thy naughtiness of thine heart, for thou art come down
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that thou mightest see the battle.
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David has come to give them food.
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David has come to do the task he was asked. David is showing up with an obedient heart.
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And the people he loved the most and cared the most about, they were mocking
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him and they didn't understand him.
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And they were accusing him falsely of something that wasn't even true.
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Now that right there would be enough to send some of us packing.
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Crying, running for the nearest shelter as far away from this as possible because
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instead of listening to God and obeying the voice of God And instead of doing.
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What he's asking us to do,
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those little weak voices around us that seem so loud, that seem so mean,
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that seem so consistent and persistent, those are the ones we're listening to.
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And the Lord said, let the world be put away.
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Because if you're friends with the world, you'll be an enemy with God in James 4.4.
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And he says, listen to my voice. He says, my sheep hear my voice and they know
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me. In John 10, oh, friends, we have to get our priorities straight.
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And it starts as to whether or not we're going to serve the Lord with our whole heart, mind,
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soul, and strength from our heart of faith and obedience, or whether we're going
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to rely on ourself and serve through our head,
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through our knowledge, through our church speak.
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The only thing that's going to work we learn
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from saul is to do it with our
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heart to be fully engaged fully
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bought in fully sold out saul had almost all of it right but he wasn't obedient
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strict obedience is what god requires remember he's not going to bless only
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slight obedience or partial obedience because partial obedience is disobedience.
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He can only bless a heart that is obedient.
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He doesn't hear the prayers of iniquity in our heart. We have to be.
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Compliant to the commandments of the Lord and pliable in the hands of God so
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that he can use us and mold us to do impossible things through his strength.
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All things are possible to him that believe us.
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Saul's working from his head, but we're going to see David works from his heart.
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As you continue to read verse 30, he says, and he turned from him toward another
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and spake after the same manner, and the people answered him again.
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After the former manner. And when the words were heard, which David spake,
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they rehearsed them before Saul and he sent for them.
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David said to Saul in verse 32, this is a fearless David, but he's not fearless
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like the giant who was fearless in his own strength and fearless relying on his own self.
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No, he's fearless because of his defense of God, his faith in God and who God is.
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So when David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail because of him,
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thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
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And Saul said to David, thou are not able to go against this Philistine to fight
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with him, for thou art but a youth.
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He a man of war from his youth.
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David said unto Saul, thy servant kept his father's sheep.
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And there came a lion and a bear and took a lamb out of the flock.
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And when I went after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth,
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And when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him.
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Now don't fly over this verse, people.
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I want you to look at this verse carefully.
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He said, I went out after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth.
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When he arose against me, David's speaking of being a shepherd.
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And he doesn't use these words lightly.
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David said as a shepherd when the
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lion came after my sheep and grabbed
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it and had it in its mouth I took the sheep out and I smote the lion it's not
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coincidence that we're told in 1 Peter 5 that the devil walketh about as a roaring
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lion seeking whom he may devour be sober, be vigilant it.
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In this picture of David killing the lion and taking back what is rightfully his,
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you can rest assured as a child of God that regardless of where you're at right
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now, if the devil has a stronghold on you, if the devil has a grasp on you,
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if the devil is choking you,
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the shepherd's hands that are now scarred are right there asking you to ask
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for help, asking you to believe in his presence, asking you to follow strictly
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what he's telling you to do, and he will deliver you.
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David speaks as the shepherd having strength beyond what he should have.
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Verse 36, he says, thy servant slew both the lion and the bear,
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and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied
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the armies of the living God.
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Daniel, I mean, excuse me, David isn't fighting because he wants a name for himself.
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He isn't fighting because the giant is mocking him twice a day,
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evening and night, morning and evening.
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No, David is angered because someone is trying to come against his God.
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They're saying bad things about his God. They're making his God small.
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They're limiting his God. David as a shepherd, understanding how Jesus is the shepherd.
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A picture of that for each of us realizes that through God, in God's strength,
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for God's glory, that roaring lion, that massive giant has no chance.
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In verse 37, David said, moreover,
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the lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of
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the bear he will deliver me out of the hand of this philistine it's all said
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unto david go and the lord be with thee.
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David was fearless in his defense of god because of his faith in god david was
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fearless in this moment against his giant because of his great and intense belief
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of God and what God could do in and through him.
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And his witness was seen by all.
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And Saul picks up on this and he says, the Lord be with thee.
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We don't live in a vacuum. We are not isolated from the rest of the world.
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And friends, when you sin, people see it.
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And when you stand strong for the Lord, people see it.
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And you have an influence and an impact on them both ways.
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And as a child of God, you should always be impacting people to move forward,
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to move closer, to see how to live better with him, to be more intent in your
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purpose, to follow his commandments strictly,
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fully, and completely.
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Anything less grieves heaven and causes you pain.
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In verse 39, let's read back to 38.
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And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head,
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and also he armed him with a coat of mail.
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Now, Saul is trying to give David the best worldly advantage he can.
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That's the world's logic.
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That would be the world's strategy. There'd been plenty of people who have used
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that strategy, and it was effective.
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So it would make sense that this little, handsome, red-haired,
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teeny boy who is about to face a massive giant would need all he could have
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physically to protect him.
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But here's what David says about the world's logic.
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This is what David says about the world's equipment. it.
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This is what David says about using man's logic and ideas and strategy to do God's work.
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He says, David girded his sword upon his armor and he asked thee to go, for he had not proved it.
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David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not proved them.
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David put them off of him. see he knew what had gotten him victory every time
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it was doing exactly what god said the way god said it and when god said it
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and god was not in the worldly armor god wasn't in the worldly equipment.
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God had not told David to use that. David had never used it,
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and it clearly couldn't have fit him well.
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Let me tell you something about that.
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If the world's logic and the world's equipment and the things of the world fit
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you nicely and you are comfortable in them, you have a problem with your spiritual life.
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You've got a problem with God. because the things of this world should grow
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strangely dim in the light of his love and his mercy and his grace.
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The things of this world are opposing to the things of God.
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And again, we are told that if you're friends with the world,
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you're an enemy with God.
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1 Corinthians 5, 17, he says that when we become saved, we are new creatures
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in Christ and that the old things are passed away and all things are become new.
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The things of this world the things of darkness no
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longer attract you they no longer
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are part of your habits they are no longer part of your desires but you're a
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new creature and christ jesus is in you and the things of god are what important
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the word of god and feasting on it is your desire his will is your purpose his strength is your fuel.
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That's what David shows us. He's getting ready to go headfirst into this battle,
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but he's going to do it in the will of God, in the way of God.
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And when God says, do it, and perhaps what battle you're facing right now,
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what issue you might have, perhaps you need to stop for a second and consult God for his plan.
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And whether it makes any sense or not, don't worry about it.
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Do exactly what he says, how he says it, when he says it, and don't worry about the why.
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Had David taken a moment to think, I'm going to fight this battle and I've got no armor.
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This massive beast in front of me is fully equipped. There would have been fear.
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Perfect love casts out all fear.
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So David is keeping his eyes on Jesus and the prophet Isaiah said that if we
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would just keep our mind on him,
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keep focused on him, that we'll have peace because
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we trust in him in isaiah 26 3
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david is living out all of these things
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he's living out for your trust in proverbs 3 5
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6 and 7 he's living out not depending on yourself in proverbs 3 5 6 and 7 he's
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living out trusting in the lord and having perfect peace this man goes forward
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this little boy goes forward to battle he's not hesitant that's a person of
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faith that's a person with peace.
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That's a person who believes in what he says.
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Oh, how we might need to stop for a moment. Drop some self-help books.
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Forget the advice of friends and family.
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Don't let the ridicule, the mocking, the misunderstanding of even your mentors
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stop you or halt you or delay you in taking another step towards what God has told you to do.
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David isn't going to adopt worldly logic or worldly ways, and he's clear about it.
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So we pick up in verse 40, he says, And he took his staff, his hand,
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and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's
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bag, which he had, even a scrip, and his sling was in his hand.
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And he drew near to the Philistine.
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And the Philistine came on and
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drew near unto David, and the man that bare the shield went before him.
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And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him,
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for he is but a use and ruddy and of a fair countenance.
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The world's never going to understand the power of God that's in you,
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but it doesn't stop the power of God from doing what it's intended to do.
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And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog that thou comest to me with staves?
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And the Philistine cursed David by his God.
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And the Philistine said to David, come to me and I will give thy flesh into
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the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the field.
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David's going head first into this battle. Beginning in verse 5,
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we're going to see that he fights with the power of the Lord and he declares
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the Lord will deliver him.
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He is living out his faith.
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Then said David to the Philistine, thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield.
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Here's what he says. But I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts,
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the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defiled.
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This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee and
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take thine head from thee, and I will give thy carcasses to the hosts of the Philistines this day,
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and to the fowls of the air, and to the wild beast of the earth and all the
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earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Again.
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He is fighting in the strength and the power of the Lord for the glory of the Lord.
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He's going to smite the devil, which is this Philistine, this giant,
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because God is going to deliver that giant in defeat to David.
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And he's no respecter of persons.
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What he did for David, he'll do for you. but will you do for him what David continually did?
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David is living out his faith against all worldly knowledge,
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against his own intellect, against what strategy and things of the past and
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history would have said to be done.
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David believes in the name of God.
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David believes with a sense of faith that is unshakable that God will deliver him.
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David is in constant communication with God, and he's hearing what God has to
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say, and he's walking in the strength of the Lord.
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He has put himself aside, and he is a vessel filled and fit for service because
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his faith is in God and in God alone.
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Verse 47, and all this assembly shall know that the Lord save us not with sword
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and spear, for the battle is the Lord's and he will give you into our hands.
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He was steadfast on that.
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It was about God and God in him. It was about God's purpose and not his own.
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This problem that you're facing this issue that's troubling you friend invite
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god into it follow him completely partial obedience is full disobedience,
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He doesn't need you to insert your idea, opinion, or thought.
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He needs you to have a heart or want you to have a heart of absolute and full obedience.
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Verses 48 through 49, we watch God deliver David.
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And it came to pass when the Philistine arose and came and drew not to meet
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David, that David hasted and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
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He ran full on fully confident
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in the name of the lord and david
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put his hand in his bag and he took fence a stone and
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sling it and smote the philistine in his
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forehead that the stone sunk into his forehead and he fell upon his face to
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the earth simple physics would tell you that if david had killed the philistine
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with a slingshot he would have fallen backwards on his head the scripture says,
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the stone stuck and he fell forward, opposite of momentum.
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Only Jesus can defy gravity and momentum.
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Only Jesus could make that Philistine fall forward.
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Then look what happens. In verses 50 and 51, it says, So David prevailed over
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the Philistine with a sling and with a stone and smote the Philistine and slew him.
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But there was no sword in the hand of David and,
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Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine and took his sword and drew
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it out of the sheath thereof and slew him and cut off his head therewith.
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When the Philistine saw their champion was dead, they fled.
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I don't know if you've ever wondered why the Lord had David cut the Philistine's head off.
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And if you have, you may have multiple different ideas as to why that is.
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I've thought about it long and hard and many times.
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I believe from every fiber of my heart that David cut the Philistine's head
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off because he was showing that the Lord doesn't work through your head.
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Because if he'd have worked through the head, the Philistine would have kept
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his head and he would have prevailed.
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But he works through the heart of faith.
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He works through a heart that is fully sold out to the Lord.
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He works through a heart that loves him with his whole heart,
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their whole soul, their whole strength, and their whole might.
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The Philistine lost the battle because he only depended upon his self, symbolized by his head.
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David won the battle because he only depended upon the Lord,
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which gave him the victory and allowed him to cut off that which the devil thought was so precious.
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And everybody who saw that from the Philistine army, they fled.
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See, what your mockers and your enemies don't want you to know is that when you walk with the Lord,
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you're protected like David showed us when he took the lion out of the mouth
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and then killed the lion.
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When he took the sheep out of the mouth and killed the lion. We're protected.
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When we are walking in his ways, we are shielded.
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And two plus two doesn't have to equal four, because when God is in it, little is much.
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That problem you're facing, that need you have, it's minuscule for God to be
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able to take care of, to heal, and to deliver.
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And he's going to do exactly what is best for you. According to Jeremiah 29, 11, his plans are good.
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And to everything that's happening in your life, he's going to use for your
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good and his glory. We're told that in Romans 8, 28.
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In Romans 8, 38 and 39, he explains that nothing will separate us from the love he has for us.
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In Philippians 4, 13 and 19, he explains that he will supply our strength and
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he will supply all that we need.
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He is the good shepherd.
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And in Psalms 23, he explains that when we are in him, he leads us in a place
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of rest and that surely goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our life.
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In Psalms 91, he explains to us that he wants to hold us and cover us with his
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feathers under his mighty hand.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, from Genesis to Revelations, I'm told.
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Oh, friend, how long has it been since you met with the Lord,
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since you presented yourself said
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here am i send me since you asked him
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to increase your faith to take
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away to search you oh god and see if
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there be any wicked way in me and if there be lord lead me into the way of righteousness
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fill me with your goodness and grace in psalms 139 how long has it been since
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you stopped being what you thought was a co-pilot or even a backseat driver
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and just said, Lord, lead me.
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Get out of your head and give him your heart.
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Remember you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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