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1 Samuel 22 (Part 1) Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Thank you for the worship tonight.
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  Thank you for your voice is tonight.
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  Sometimes when we have music and it's powerful and we have gifted
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  people, it can almost you can almost distract us from
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  participating. And so, every time I'm up here
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  and I hear the voices behind me, it's always an encouragement.
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  It's always a bomb to my soul. So thank you for singing
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  tonight. And now we're going to continue
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  to Worship in the hearing of God's word.
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  And so if you have your Bibles meet First Samuel chapter 22 as
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  we continue in our Bible study in this wonderful exciting
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  riveting. Portion of scripture in the
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  library of God's word, we're going to pray again and we're
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  going to read the first five verses because that's all we're
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  going to discuss tonight, and it will be enough.
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  I hope I'm sure that it will be enough especially if we
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  participate and engage with the text.
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  So, let's just pray one more time as we, as we come before
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  God and His word. Lord, we are.
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  Humbled, we are so, Hungry for your word.
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  We thank you that we can sit in a place like this and look to
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  our left and to the right and see people with Bibles and their
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  hands. And with eagerness in their
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  hearts to receive your word and we pray that we would sense your
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  voice. That this Bible study would not
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  be muddied by opinion. It would not be muddied by the
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  the the weaknesses of a vessel. That is not depending on you.
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  But Lord, we depend on you, I depend on you and we ask Lord
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  for the sake of your name, navigate and lead us through
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  this. Portion of scripture, the way
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  you intended it to be delivered, to the Saints.
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  We give you all the glory and thinks that we have your word at
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  our disposal. We do not take it for granted,
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  but more importantly, though, we asked you would help us obey it
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  to really obey it. We trust in you tonight in Jesus
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  name, amen. First one.
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  David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adam.
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  And when his brothers and all his father's house, heard it,
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  they went down there to him and everyone who is in distress and
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  everyone who was in debt and everyone who was bitter insole
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  gather to him and he became Commander over them.
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  And there are with them about 400 men and David went from
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  there to misbah of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab,
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  please let my father and my mother stay with you.
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  Till I know what God will do for me, and he left them with the
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  king of Moab and stayed with him all the time.
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  That David was in the stronghold.
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  Then the prophet God said to David, do not remain in the
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  stronghold depart and go into the land of Judah.
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  So David departed and went into the forest of harith.
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  Now last week we touched on first Samuel, 21.
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  And first Samuel 21 was the introduction to a new season and
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  David's life up to that point. We heard of David, The Humble
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  Shepherd of Israel. Then we discovered David, the
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  the unexpected hero of Israel. And now we see David as The
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  Fugitive of Israel and in chapter 21, we are introduced to
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  the first steps of David as an exile as an outlaw.
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  And as we examine those verses, we came to the humble
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  conclusion, that David did not prove himself.
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  As praiseworthy. He was driven by much fear.
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  He was driven by much anxiety and it showed itself because he
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  just lied and lied and lied. And we look at that and we think
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  this, this is not seem like the same man that we witnessed a few
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  chapters earlier, who stood before towering Philistine and
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  with a slingshot and simple Faith overcame. and now we see
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  David fearful of King Saul and I believe that that speaks of the
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  complexities of our weaknesses as individuals, I just find an
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  amazing you could stand before a giant and not hesitate to move
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  forward and to fight him. But when it came to King Saul,
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  You running away. And you're lying, and you're
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  sinning, and you're pretending, and you're using fleshly ideas
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  to try to accomplish things. And we think this is
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  inconsistent, but we should not be quick to condemn the man
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  because it describes again, many of us.
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  There's some perhaps in this room that are that are more
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  inclined to be fearful about anything, that poses a threat,
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  even your own shadow scares. You sometimes, whereas there are
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  others who who are generally courageous, but when it comes to
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  certain circumstances they they fall the crush their confused,
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  the thrown into bewilderment but no matter what our disposition
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  is, no matter what the meter of fear is in your life, it is
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  God's will for all of us that whatever fear visits us, it
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  would bow to the faith that you have in the one who is in
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  control of all things, that's God's will fear.
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  Should be a foreign feeling to us, but God is gracious.
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  As we see with David that even though it might be a familiar
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  thing, he takes his time to work on us until becomes Concord And
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  is submits to the truth that we are convinced of and David's
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  going to learn that he's learning that quickly, he
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  actually learns it. By the end of chapter 21, do you
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  remember that he wrote to Psalms and light of his Escape of those
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  men at God? He wrote two songs and those
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  psalms proved that he had repented that after letting
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  saliva slide down his beard and after trying to act like a crazy
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  person so that they can just let him go.
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  He realizes the foolishness of such a thing and he confesses to
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  God, Lies have only brought me to this point.
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  He doesn't say as directly as that, but you know, that he has
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  turned from his ways and he chooses to trust in God, from
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  that moment on and though we see it in those psalms we're going
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  to actually see it in action as we come to chapter 22.
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  So what do we read? What we read in verse 1.
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  He escapes gath, he escapes the Philistines and he finds refuge
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  in a cave in an area called Adam.
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  And this alone shows us just how desperate things got for David
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  because there was no other place that promised him security.
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  There is no other Refuge that he can calculate in his mind that
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  would be that would be enough for him.
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  That would be safe for him. That would be a stronghold for
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  him. So you know where he goes, he
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  goes into a naturally craved hole in some area and some
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  Wilderness and he tucks himself in there and the dark cold damp
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  This of that thing. And it's a sad sight to us,
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  isn't it? I mean, where's your family?
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  You can't go to your wife. You can't go to your parents.
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  You probably question the soldiers that you once worked
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  with because they're under Saul's rule.
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  Where do you go? And this man has settled and
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  it's hard. I have to whether this all by
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  myself and I'm not guessing, I'm not, I'm not trying to speculate
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  here because we are told that, we know that David believe that
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  this point I'm I have to do this all alone and he expresses that
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  utter loneliness, would, you know, it in a Psalm that he
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  wrote while in this cave? How many songs did David right
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  in light of this chapter? Does anybody know?
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  Two. Some 57 Psalm 142, you have your
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  Bibles right? Let's go to Psalm 142 and let's
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  see what he says in that. Psalm in light of this, this is
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  why again, we read the entirety of scripture because we see the
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  Glorious Harmony of the word of God Psalm 142, look at the title
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  of his psalm. In verse 1, it says a masculine
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  of David when he was in the cave a prayer.
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  So just imagine David writing this out, crying out to God.
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  As he is hiding in a cave and look what he says here in verse
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  4. He's praying to God, he's he's
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  crying out to the Lord. Look to the right.
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  And see there is none who takes notice of Me, no, refuge remains
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  to me. No one cares for my soul.
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  He's convinced of that and his circumstances seem to prove that
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  I can't go anywhere as he's traveling from gath, he's
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  thinking, where can I go? And because of such a destitute
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  State, he is convinced nobody. Nobody cares for me, and I
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  believe that although many people have experienced
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  different levels of trauma. One of the greatest pains you
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  can know in this life is when you have convinced yourself that
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  you are not loved. We are relational creatures, God
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  made us in His image, he is relational within himself and so
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  you and I need contact with other humans, but not just
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  contact with, I mean, help. We need to know that we are we
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  are cared for and we are cherished.
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  There's healing in that there is there's some sort of anchor in
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  that. And David here, he believes that
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  that is not the case. His circumstances have have told
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  them and convince him otherwise. And so he's in this place where
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  he's expressing himself to God, no one cares for my soul and I
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  find that quite fascinating, because as he's expressing, the
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  lack of compassion of those around him, he's speaking to the
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  one who cares about him the most He's communicating his ache, but
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  he's also coming to the one who will love him more than if all
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  of Israel had come to his help. And that is one of the treasures
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  that you and I have in Jesus Christ.
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  That is one of the great jewels of the Gospel.
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  Yes. Safe from the wrath of God.
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  Yes, saved for heaven. Yes, saved from hell but also
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  saved to be brought to God. And every single one of you in
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  this place tonight, if you have put your faith in Jesus,
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  genuinely, if you have repented and believed on God, you can
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  claim a personal intimate relationship with the Risen Lord
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  and because of your faith, you so honors, your faith that he
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  has committed himself to you. As he did to David.
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  He has committed himself, he is bound himself to you, not just
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  to secure your salvation, but to govern your life and to lead
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  you, and to shape you and to allow everything that comes
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  against you to be filtered through his Sovereign purpose,
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  so that it can only do good to you.
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  So here's David though, sharing his pain.
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  He's actually sharing it with the friend of friends.
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  The one that will care for him the most and that's your
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  inheritance in mind, in fact. we see that although he believes
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  this at first, His beliefs are going to change by the end of
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  the song. Look at the last verse, and what
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  does he say here? As he pours out his heart?
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  To God, he says, in verse 7, bring me out of prison that I
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  may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me
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  for, you will deal bountifully with me.
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  That's the beauty of the Psalms because yes there are honest and
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  yes we see the transparency of a man although he's a man of God
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  of the Brokenness that he knows. But oftentimes in those psalms
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  of lament, they end with faith. They end with a trust.
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  A declaration of confidence in the Lord.
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  And although you and I listen, you can discover a knowledge of
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  Christ, not just theologically though that's important.
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  And I just theoretically and not just through cramming certain
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  verses together, but you can know, you can discover something
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  about Jesus, where you tangibly know his faithfulness to you and
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  it actually heals you and comforts you And Paul himself.
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  That's not a foreign idea. Paul himself says in.
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  Second Timothy, everyone has deserted me but the Lord stood
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  by me. He wasn't just speaking into the
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  air that he wasn't being poetic. He was like I really sense God's
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  nearness to me even though my fellow missionaries have
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  abandoned me those who have served have left me the Lord
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  stood by me you can you can know Jesus that way.
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  That's true in the old. That's true in the new, that's
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  true today, but we cannot limit how God dispenses his comfort.
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  We cannot be narrow in our understanding of how God
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  manifests his goodness in your life and mine because God could
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  have sent a torrent of peace to flood.
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  The soul of David. But we realize that David here,
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  recognizes how God is going to embrace him.
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  And make his comfort known to him.
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  Did you see it? The righteous will surround me
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  for. You will deal bountifully with
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  me. See what David realized, David
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  made the connection that the actual physical emotional
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  support that he would know from actual people was a direct
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  expression of God's goodness. His life.
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  In other words, the fact that David is going to as we read
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  have his parents come to him and his brothers come to him.
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  He sees that as God's direct means of comforting him.
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  In other words, the righteous in David's life are God's provision
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  for the relief in this pressing season.
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  And you and I have to see it that way, we have to understand
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  that this is how God's work that when you and I are surrounded by
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  Christ. Honoring God fearing people who
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  live to reflect his character. That is not disconnected from
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  God. Loving you, that is not
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  disconnect from God showing Mercy to you actually caring for
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  you. So don't limit it to some
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  mystical Supernatural experience, where you're
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  showered with almost this coating that You're almost
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  Untouchable, God can do that. But look what David says you're
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  going to deal bountifully to me, I'm gonna know you're
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  overwhelming favor because I'm going to be able to pick up my
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  phone and call somebody and they're going to be able to give
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  me some wisdom. Or I'm going to be visited by
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  some people from church and they're going to, they're going
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  to bring me food and they're going to sit beside me.
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  And I see that as you dealing. So bountifully with me, And this
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  is not just an idea. This is theological.
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  This is true throughout scripture.
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  You don't have to turn there but listen to what Paul says about
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  his friend Titus, he says in 2nd Corinthians 7 6 but God who
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  comforts the downcast. Now how would you finish that
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  sentence? But God who comforts the
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  downcast provides a peace that surpasses all understanding and
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  he does opens your mind to understand the height the depth,
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  the breadth of the love of Christ and he dies but it's not
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  what Paul says. But God who comforts the
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  downcast comforted Us by the Meaning of Titus.
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  Titus showed up. Titus knocked on the door.
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  Titus arrived. And as Titus came, his presence
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  was a manifestation of God's comfort.
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  To a downcast people. What I'm trying to communicate
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  to you tonight, is that you would see God behind those acts
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  of love. From familiar people.
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  Hey, you would be able to identify God's personal care for
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  you through things, that move your heart from those that you
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  do life with. But you and I just think that
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  person you and I just have a stir of affection for that
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  individual, but you would be able to worship God even more.
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  As you are, able to receive the encouragement and the life
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  giving gifts of other people in your life.
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  I hope you see that some of you have have gone through difficult
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  seasons in life. And so what you did was you
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  either reached out or someone reached out to you as a minister
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  or counselor and they sat with you and they listen to you and
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  they pray with you. Can I ask you something tonight?
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  Did you Consider that that was God.
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  Introducing that vessel into your life.
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  Because God loved you in that season.
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  Some of you have known the warmth and the healing of the
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  Simplicity of the Believers presence in your living room.
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  When you had a difficult week and them just sitting there and
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  making you laugh brought relief to your heart but can I ask you?
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  Did you recognize that? That was God dealing bountifully
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  with you. because my Bible says, it is It is God's doing, it's
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  not separated from his doing. See God through that.
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  And you will know worship with a greater intensity that you
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  didn't know before but this brings up another point that
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  although God is responsible for the righteous who stand with us
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  when we can barely stand. Our own, there is a
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  responsibility that you and I carry.
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  So let's go back to First same and we're still in verse 11.
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  And look at verse 1, of chapter, 22, David departed from there
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  and escaped. To the cave of Adam, we must
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  read our Bible slowly and when his brothers and all his How's
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  did, what? What did they do?
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  They heard it. They heard about it.
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  And when this news came to them, they went down there to him,
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  this is for our instruction. Yes, God is responsible for
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  those people in our lives, but there's a responsibility that
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  you and I carry, and that is to be so aware of the situation and
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  the circumstances, and the things that are brothers and
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  sisters are enduring that when this news becomes known to us,
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  it moves us to action that should be our reflex as the body
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  of Christ. That should be our response.
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  We should be so we should be so intricately woven together.
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  In RIT that there is an immediate support.
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  There's an immediate reaction of needing to know what to do to
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  help. That's the beauty of the body of
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  Christ. And, you know, there's a there's
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  a portion in the Old Testament in the book of Exodus.
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  It's it's after chapter VII given after chapter after
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  chapter 15, chapters about the Tabernacle being built, and
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  there's a little verse in there that never ceases to bless my
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  heart and make me, pray, a certain prayer when I come to
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  him because Moses receives the instructions for the Tabernacle
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  and he even received the list of the materials and their costly
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  materials, he makes it known to the nation of Israel and so
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  every Go morning, the people of Israel, line up to give to the
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  Craftsman, the material needed to make this structure possible.
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  And something happens, at one point the support the
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  contribution was so great. That the servants come to Moses
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  and I want you to hear what they said.
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  You don't have to turn there but just listen to these words in
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  Exodus 30 65 They said to Moses, the people bring much more than
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  enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do.
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  So here's Pastor Moses. Standing there.
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  Receiving instruction from Heaven about how to build this
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  dwelling place for God, and the people are so excited.
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  There's so in tune. They're so willing that it came
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  to the point where the servants approach Moses said, hey Moses,
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  you got to tell them to stop giving because we have more than
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  enough and then we re later on that.
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  He restrains, the people from bringing And every time I read,
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  I say Lord may this church May. Our church have the same
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  attitude when it comes to building your house in the New
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  Covenant. the as we are the temple of God and as God is
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  building us and and Furnishing us and fashioning us to be the
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  bride that Jesus purchased That every time there is someone who
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  is sick, weak broken, missing in need of assistance, the support
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  would be overwhelming. I'm not talking about financial
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  giving here. I'm talking about the, the
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  stones that make up the house of God, not the physical structure.
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  There's a time and place for that.
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  I'm talking about as God is building this house, that
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  whenever we see a piece missing broken that the support the
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  participation would be so overwhelming that we would say
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  brothers and sisters. So, and so asked, stop blowing
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  up their phone. They're doing great.
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  They're doing wonderful. Thank you.
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  May that be The culture of MBC. God is able to do it, and that's
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  what we see with them. They they heard that their
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  brother Was in some obscure place all by himself and it move
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  them to action and this brings up the second point of this
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  verse. Yes, we see.
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  We see that David realized that in his suffering God expresses
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  his means of comfort in different ways but we also see
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  the wisdom of God in suffering. Can anybody hear help us
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  understand the family, dynamics of David and his household?
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  What do we know about Dave and his household?
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  How would you, how would you feel?
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  If the prophet of God comes? And he says, God has told me,
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  one of your son's has an important duty to fulfill and
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  your father doesn't consider you out of all the sun's.
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  Everybody else comes to the party, but your left into the
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  field. Would that make you feel good?
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  No, I'm sure somebody like that would have to go through many
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  counseling sessions. Actually.
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  I'm serious. What else?
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  Tommy? Family Dynamics, what else?
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  Have we learned up to this point with David and his family that
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  gives us an idea of what it's like, and his household.
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  Yeah, so David comes to the battlefield and he provides
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  goods for his brothers and Elijah, criticizes him, and even
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  falsely accused him of pride and arrogance.
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  So those are the two snapshots, the main snapshots that you and
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  I get of David's family and it makes us realize and gives us an
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  impression that it's not the most healthy household.
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  But what happens here? David is in a low place and his
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  family comes together. His brothers come together.
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  What does that say about what they did with Saul?
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  Does anybody know? Who are the three older ones and
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  what were they doing? Were they serving in Saul's
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  army? Yes, they were.
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  So what do they do? They cut ties with him.
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  Because to now come and support David.
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  At this point, is to make a declaration, we side with David
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  and we stand against all. And so the three all this along
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  with the others and the parents now come to support David.
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  And here's the beauty of this because I read that, I thought
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  here's Saul creating havoc in Israel breaking up homes,
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  causing confusion and chaos. And in the midst of all of that
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  David's families, coming closer together.
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  I don't know if they've ever been this supportive of each
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  other. I don't know if David has ever
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  seen and observed such love and care and Sacrifice from his
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  loved ones. But it's happening in the midst
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  of all of this. Here's the thing, if you and I
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  really believe that all things work together for the good of
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  those who love him who are called according to his purpose.
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  Then you and I by the spirits, help must be able to recognize
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  the good even in the midst of suffering.
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  Because while David is, in during a personal trial, God is
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  healing his family. And so, why why resist a
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  semester of suffering in the school of God?
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  When you know that this illustration among so many
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  proves to us that God is doing a deeper and greater work than we
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  can perceive? And so, the brothers come.
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  And the parents come. And yeah, it's a mystery of God,
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  why why God allows the righteous to suffer.
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  But here's something that's never a mystery, there's always
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  sanctifying purpose in it. Always.
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  And sometimes in ways that we don't realize immediately,
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  that's what's happening here. But these are not the only ones
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  that have come to look at verse 2 now.
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  And everyone who is in this dress and everyone who is in
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  debt and everyone who was bitter and soul gathered to him and he
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  became Commander over them. And there are Some of about 400
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  men. So now we read this interesting
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  description of this band of men that joined David and the cave.
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  One thing we hear is that there's 400 and that seems
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  encouraging in itself, but it's not much when you compare it to
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  Saul's Army. But what's worthy of our
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  discussion tonight is is what kind of men they are.
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  Look at this, distressed in debt, Bitter and soul.
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  When you read that, you have to be careful.
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  Not to think that this is just a raggedy bunch of rebels that see
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  an opportunity to come against all and David's the way to make
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  it possible. So let's start a coupe here and
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  let's just gather around them, and maybe we can overtake this
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  Kingdom. That's not the description of
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  these men at all. Who thinks you're that?
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  These men have come to encourage David.
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  Because we might read it that way, right?
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  Like God God sent the brothers and God sent the parents.
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  And look at this. Now, here's another way. 400
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  men. That makes an exile Journey.
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  A lot more comfortable. That makes you feel a lot more
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  safe, but I don't think the primary purpose of this being
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  given to us. Is to show that David is
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  receiving more encouragement. I believe it's to show that
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  these men have come to receive comfort from David.
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  Could it be possible that this description they were in
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  distress? They were in debt.
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  They were bitter and soul was because they've lived under the
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  rule and reign of Saul and this was the consequence of it.
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  And so, when they, when they saw David and that they could see
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  this tension and David fleeing they recognize in the heart,
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  that's that's the true king. That's the one that God's really
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  chosen. That's one was really able to
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  bring Israel to God's intent for us as a people.
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  And so, we're going to follow David.
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  We're going to choose to stay with him, even though it will
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  cost us very much. And that is the case that is
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  exactly what's happening. So let's let's look at another
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  important element of personal suffering here. but even though
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  he's in during a certain trial, God is allowing that this season
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  of suffering to actually minister to other people.
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  So while David is being comforted, it doesn't take very
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  long until God uses David to be Comfort to others.
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  Because of there's anybody who can help a group of men who are
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  bitter distress and in debt because of a king, it's this
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  man. It's this man.
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  So here's the thing suffering of any kind.
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  Listen, very carefully tonight for the sake of your
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  encouragement, suffering of any kind.
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  If it's physical, emotional mental, there is nothing that
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  you've endured that will be wasted.
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  There is nothing that you've endured that as sabotage your
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  usefulness to God. God will use all of that
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  suffering, all of that pain, all of those tears.
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  With circumstances that were beyond your control to
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  immediately, recycle it, if not, then then soon enough to
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  actually bless and uplift and build others.
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  Because that's what the Bible says the same.
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  Paul who said, God, who comforts the downcast as comfort Us by
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  the coming of Titus. You know what he said, he said
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  in that same book early on So that we may be able to comfort
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  those. Who are in any Affliction with
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  the comfort, with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
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  And second Corinthians 14, we were comforted by God, not just
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  for our sake, but for the sake of others, so that we can share
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  that same comfort with those who are in any Affliction.
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  So, here's the beauty. When you suffer, God, intends to
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  recycle that suffering in order for it to be a weapon to Aid and
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  to assist others who are suffering.
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  And this is what I often tell people who are sit with on a
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  personal level that needs some counselor.
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  Anything I tend to say, especially when they are
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  responding with with a desire to obey and Trust in God's wisdom,
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  one day, though, you may not be a pastor one day, you will sit
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  on this side of the room and you will look into the eyes of
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  another desperate soul and you can tell them, God brought me
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  through the same thing. You'll be able to bring you
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  through it as well. So these four hundred men come
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  David early on said the righteous will surround me, not
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  just for the sake of being built up himself.
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  But now he's about to, he's about to build up, 400 guys that
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  are just tired or tired of living under the reign of Saul.
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  Do you see the prophetic imagery here?
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  Do you see Jesus in this verse? Do you see the description of
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  such men paralleling? The description of the soul that
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  comes to Christ. Do you not see it?
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  How often it is for people to come to this point in life.
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  Distressed aware of their bankruptcy in the soul, bitter
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  and spirit, bitter with life bitter because they realize that
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  they are a terrible master of their own existence.
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  They then began to explore the possibility of Jesus, actually
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  being the true king of kings and the Lord of lords.
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  You see these men come to David to find relief and the same
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  description of men today. Come to the son of David to find
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  that same relief. I can't tell you the amount of
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  people that I have even had conversations with And some of
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  them have converted to the faith.
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  And some of them have come very close, but we're not convinced
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  enough. When they only have realized the
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  lack of satisfaction that comes. From living for themselves.
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  Do they then entertain Jesus Christ as Lord?
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  And that's that's I believe one of the main ways in which a
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  person truly surrenders to Jesus Christ when you have learned, I
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  can't do this. This world has nothing to offer
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  me. I I can't find pleasure.
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  I can't find Joy. I can't find peace.
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  I can't find a security in my eternal destination.
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  I can't arrive. There I am exhausted, I am
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  distressed. I find myself no matter how much
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  I give, no matter what kind of projects I create the matter.
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  How much I change my luck, no matter how much I change my
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  house, no matter how I changed my car, my friends, my
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  destination, my place of a dress, no matter how much I
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  change. Why am I still empty?
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  It's been years. It's only then where the gospel
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  begins to sound very attractive. Not for all, but for many, and
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  let me tell you tonight, why many people do not forsake, the
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  reign of Satan and of the Flesh, and of the world, because they
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  still believe. That's all has something to
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  offer them. They still believe that living
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  as the Lord of their own lives, will promise something greater
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  than bowing, your knee, at the foot of the cross.
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  Can I prove that to you in this text scroll down to verse 7.
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  We're not going to be there tonight, but look how saw speaks
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  to some of his other men when he realizes that people are leaving
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  his ranks and saw said to his servants who stood about him
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  here? Now people have Benjamin, will
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  the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and Vineyards.
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  Will he make you all? There's of thousands of
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  commanders of hundreds. What a liar.
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  What a manipulator. What a deceiver and saw here is
• 35:04
  a picture of Satan who Whispers false promises in the ears of
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  men, including those who have grown up in the church so that
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  they would not come to the conclusion that Jesus Christ is
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  Worthy. He is worthy.
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  To be crowned as the Lord Of My Life.
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  That's what it really is down deep inside.
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  There's something still out there.
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  There's something I still have to explore.
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  There's something I still want to Endeavor to accomplish and I
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  just believe that Jesus will ruin my plans.
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  You know what I appreciate about ministering to youth talking
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  about high school early, High School, Middle School, is how
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  honest they are, how honest they are.
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  And I can't tell you the times that I've talked to Youth and
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  how they've told me, I'm just scared that Jesus is going to
• 35:56
  ruin my plans. He's going to give me a wife
• 35:59
  that I don't want as though. God works that way.
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  He's going to give me a job that I don't want he's going to call
• 36:05
  me to a place that's too cold. I've had these conversation.
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  I'm looking like You're going to destroy your life.
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  Not only are you going to destroy your life?
• 36:20
  Now you're going to destroy your soul for all eternity.
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  I've even had a conversation with one person who said let me
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  just try it out, I said that's not how it works.
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  It's not how it works. You hope that it works that way,
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  you think that you are so Sovereign that you can determine
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  the consequence of your sin. I said you will come out with
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  scars for sure. But you might never come out at
• 36:44
  all and be totally destroyed. And we, as people should love
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  people enough to tell them that, because this is what Satan is
• 36:53
  telling other people look, look at what you're going to miss out
• 36:55
  on. Look at where you going to
• 36:56
  forsake, look at what I'm able to give you.
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  And sometimes it's not Satan directly obviously he
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  masquerades as an angel of Light, he uses people, he uses
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  false teachers. And these men do have come to
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  the conclusion that Saul is a liar.
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  Salt is a liar. And so, look at this other point
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  here. They choose to pledge their
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  allegiance to David. When it was the least
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  convenient, it was David wasn't on a throne.
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  David and I have this impressive Army know.
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  He was he was at zero. You can say he was all by
• 37:39
  himself and yet they so believe that Destiny of God for David.
• 37:44
  They sold believe the hand of God, the anointing on him that
• 37:47
  they came to him when there is nothing profitable for them and
• 37:51
  choosing to do so at least initially.
• 37:55
  In fact that this put them in greater risk, you have a
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  demented man who's ready to kill his son-in-law.
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  Surely he's willing to kill all of us and yet still they truly
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  believe in the heart of hearts that he is worthy.
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  God is worthy. This plan that God has for David
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  and for all of us is more precious than our own lives.
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  So we will surrender to the purposes of God in David.
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  And we will come to him. If this is the attitude, towards
• 38:24
  a man for a temporary Kingdom, how much more the Christ and how
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  much more his eternal Kingdom and how much more the
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  willingness to follow him. Even if it doesn't benefit you
• 38:34
  one bit in the physical, even if it doesn't promise you, one
• 38:38
  thing in this world, he is still worthy to be followed in a cave.
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  As these men illustrate. So they do.
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  And we read in verse 3 and David went from there to miss pay of
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  Moab and he said to the king of Moab, please let my father and
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  my mother stay with you till I know what God will do for me.
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  What do you see there? What do you see here?
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  I see another element of suffering.
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  I see another ingredient of How To Suffer.
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  Well, I see a man who was pressed by great anxieties who
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  is constantly looking over his shoulder because at any time saw
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  can can appear with a band of men with arrows and Spears.
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  And yet, in the midst of all of that, he has a concern.
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  And what's his concern, the well-being of my parents,
• 39:38
  They're elderly, they can't travel with this robust.
• 39:42
  Youthful band of men, And so even before David moves on in
• 39:49
  his Exile, he sets it as a priority to take care of his
• 39:54
  parents. He suffering he is suffering,
• 39:59
  but here's the thing about suffering suffering should never
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  make us selfish. That even though you and I might
• 40:07
  be in during certain things that you might be fighting a private
• 40:11
  war, that others do not know about in your mind, in your
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  heart as you lay in bed, all by yourself.
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  Even though such things may be real, and sometimes
• 40:20
  overwhelming, they never should encourage us to neglect our
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  duties. Never.
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  There are some unique moments and Urgent circumstances that
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  would cause you to receive help and that give it out as much.
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  But I'm not speaking about those circumstances.
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  I'm speaking about how you and I will through many tribulations
• 40:42
  enter the kingdom of God. And through those tribulations,
• 40:45
  we must still be aware that we can still be of help to others.
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  And there are still responsibilities.
• 40:51
  That God has called me to. And David realized that there
• 40:55
  was a law written in the book of Exodus that you shall honor your
• 40:58
  father and mother. So I'm going to take care of
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  them. And he does.
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  And that's the essence of obedience.
• 41:08
  It doesn't feel good all the time.
• 41:09
  It's not convenient, but there's a duty to fulfill.
• 41:13
  And even though we are enduring something God supplies, the
• 41:16
  grace in the strength, to still be faithful to his commands.
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  And that's what this man does. And you know what's amazing here
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  is that his character shining because it reflects the
• 41:28
  character of God, he's honoring his parents.
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  And we just heard that his father didn't give him the best
• 41:32
  treatment as a Young Man. Because the essence of honoring,
• 41:38
  your parents is not, it's not I fry and tooth for tooth.
• 41:41
  The faith element of honoring. Your parents is that even though
• 41:45
  they might have not honored me, even though I can find many
• 41:48
  faults even though I can point back to moments where they've
• 41:50
  really hurt me. God commanded me to honor them.
• 41:53
  And so I will honor them. And what is honor?
• 41:56
  Look like, it doesn't look like you just overlooking their sins.
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  It looks like you despite what they've done to you, to still
• 42:04
  love them and love. Is to care for them and their
• 42:08
  need to provide the basic necessities for them as they
• 42:12
  come to a place in life where they can't take care of
• 42:14
  themselves. And so, David says, before we
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  even move on, guys, I know we have a plan.
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  I know we're trying to figure this out.
• 42:22
  My mom and dad need to be at a different place because it's
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  going to hurt them more if they come.
• 42:28
  And so what does he do? He goes to Moab, but look at
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  this. Look at the quality of his care.
• 42:33
  He doesn't just go to Moab and drop him off at a hotel.
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  He goes, Goes to the king of Moab, Royal Treatment.
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  No pun intended. I'm going to take you to the
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  king of Moab, the most secure place, the most profitable, the
• 42:47
  most The most safe place for my parents and he goes and he
• 42:52
  offers an invitation for this King to take care of his parents
• 42:56
  and it worked she when you and I obey God's commands, we don't
• 43:01
  try to do the bare minimum. We don't just try to quiet our
• 43:05
  conscience and do something poorly.
• 43:07
  We try to do it with the greatest effort.
• 43:11
  And the greatest strength and the greatest option and that's
• 43:16
  what he's doing with his parents.
• 43:20
  Why did he go to Moab? So if you remember in Ruth, we
• 43:29
  read a mini genealogy and and David is related to a moabite is
• 43:34
  named Ruth. And so, he's hoping that as he
• 43:37
  goes to this people group, though, they are not the people
• 43:40
  of God that because of his his mixed-race, they would be able
• 43:43
  to relate and, and provide some assistance, and it worked.
• 43:47
  So he goes to the moabites and he asked for help with his
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  parents. and God honored that But look at his faith.
• 43:56
  Where's the faith of David? The faith that we did not see in
• 43:59
  chapter 21 and verse 3. Look what he says to the man
• 44:04
  What does he say? It's right there.
• 44:13
  Till I know what God will do for me.
• 44:16
  Unashamedly telling this Pagan king, would you take care of my
• 44:20
  parents until the true God? Reveals to me, the next step.
• 44:25
  This is a this is a different David than the one who came
• 44:28
  before the king of gath and shook, like a crazy man and let
• 44:32
  saliva out of his mouth, he learned, he truly repented, he
• 44:37
  knew personal Revival and faith in God, he comes to this King.
• 44:41
  He says, would you take care of my parents?
• 44:43
  Until God shows me the next step and I'll tell you why, that is
• 44:46
  so encouraging and exemplary for us.
• 44:50
  He's not just speaking in generalities here until God
• 44:52
  shows me there. There's a man about to find you.
• 44:56
  There's a king chasing you and you're willing you're willing to
• 45:00
  stop in your place and wait on God, to give you the next step.
• 45:06
  That's trust, that's Trust. And so already, we are convinced
• 45:11
  that from chapter 21 to this chapter, he has made a great
• 45:15
  development in his trust in God. I'm not going to move until God
• 45:20
  shows me what to do next and you're going to see that faith
• 45:23
  strengthened will be couple of episodes where he falls back
• 45:26
  again, but you're gonna see him strengthened and strengthened in
• 45:28
  his trust in God. And he does, he does here.
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  And God Honors that Faith because God is so pleased with
• 45:38
  faith. That is heart is moved by that.
• 45:42
  It's moved into action. Look at verse 4.
• 45:45
  He left them with the king of Moab and they stayed with him
• 45:47
  all the time. That David was in the
• 45:49
  stronghold. Then the prophet God said to
• 45:52
  David, do not remain in the stronghold, the part and go into
• 45:56
  the land of Judah. This is this is a blessing and
• 46:02
  I'll tell you why. Because David here, although as
• 46:08
  we read in the Psalms he was living in the unknown, it was a
• 46:12
  very dark place. He could not even believe that
• 46:16
  people loved him. God was watching him the whole
• 46:19
  time. God was observing him.
• 46:22
  God was providing means of comfort to him.
• 46:25
  And finally at the right time when the faith was there, when
• 46:29
  that trust remained. God showed him where to go next.
• 46:36
  That is. a promise for you and I That you and I can trust that
• 46:42
  his leadership is perfect. It may not be convenient, it may
• 46:47
  not be free from challenges but it is perfect.
• 46:50
  It is absolutely perfect. And in this case with David, It
• 46:57
  was Supernatural a true, Prophet comes and tells them what to do
• 47:02
  in your case in mind. Can God do it.
• 47:03
  Supernaturally. Absolutely.
• 47:05
  But oftentimes God does a providentially and it's just as
• 47:08
  impressive. He loves circumstances to come
• 47:12
  doors to shut doors to open. And we say, ah, but one thing
• 47:15
  that he will guarantee you and me is that he will never leave
• 47:19
  us. He will never abandon us.
• 47:22
  You always move us forward as we continue to trust in him.
• 47:27
  And here's where the faith is shown even more, God says, what
• 47:31
  do not remain in the stronghold depart and go into the land of
• 47:34
  Judea? Why is that a troubling command?
• 47:38
  Why is that troubling command? It was safe there.
• 47:46
  Are you sure you heard from God? God, this is a really good
• 47:49
  place. I got 400 men and not only is it
• 47:52
  safe here. He's telling him to go back to
• 47:55
  the land. Where Saul is ruling and
• 47:57
  reigning. Go back to Judah.
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  Wouldn't you tell me to go a different direction?
• 48:05
  Maybe further this way? No gold back to the area that
• 48:09
  would make you more vulnerable and observable.
• 48:13
  And David doesn't hesitate. He goes, He departs into that
• 48:19
  area. And here is here's a lesson
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  about obedience as you heard it before.
• 48:26
  It doesn't always appease. Our senses doesn't always
• 48:31
  satisfy reason doesn't contradict reason, but it
• 48:36
  doesn't always satisfy what we think is best our own
• 48:40
  calculations in our own ideas of how to bring about the best
• 48:43
  result of something. God will put us in circumstances
• 48:48
  and situations and dilemmas, where there is a clear word of
• 48:52
  how to deal with it. But there will be a pressure it
• 48:55
  within and outside to do it differently sometimes.
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  Even sinfully and the faith is, will you trust me in this?
• 49:03
  Will you trust me? And David has learned from
• 49:05
  chapter 21 when I try to do it my way I lied.
• 49:09
  I pretended to be insane and it brought me know where I'm going
• 49:13
  to trust God even though to the watching eyes.
• 49:15
  They look insane. It may look simplistic.
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  It may look silly, I'm going to trust the word of God, and
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  that's what he does. He goes into that place and it's
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  in that place. Where, as next week we come,
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  we're going to see We're going to see how his faith is going to
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  be tested even more. His leadership is perfect
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  brothers and sisters. It's absolutely perfect, but
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  it's not free from challenges. It's not free from emotional and
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  even physical pain, but it is free from unnecessary grief.
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  It is free from unnecessary, shame and regret.
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  But challenging chapters, you signed up to follow Christ.
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  It's inevitable, it's promised and David understood that at
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  this point of his Exile. I've learned that it's not going
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  to be easy, but if I'm holding onto his hand, I will be safe.
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  And he does, he goes, let me end with this thought.
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  David had how many men? What else did David have?
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  I'll tell you what. He had.
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  He had God's spirit on his life. Saul, we're going to find out
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  have thousands of men. Thousands.
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  He had a palace. He had chariots, he had
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  Authority. But he didn't have the spirit of
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  God. Numbers and resources.
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  Are not the Criterion of God's blessing, on a Ministry, or on
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  the minister. If we looked at this in the
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  flesh, we would see David with 400 raggedy guys.
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  Depressed, face, fallen in a cave, wandering, and then we
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  would look at saw in his Palace. And all the weaponry.
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  You know how many people would would estimate that?
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  Here's a man who is successful for God.
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  And here's a man who is questionable.
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  He had all the while God was with this group and not with
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  this group. How do you measure success?
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  Do not be fooled by packed stadiums.
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  Do not be fooled by YouTube views.
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  Not be fooled by even the money coming into a certain Ministry.
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  It's the spirit of God. It's the fruit of the holy
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  spirit. It's the people who represent
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  that Ministry. Is the people that represent
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  that church, that movement and the character that they hold in
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  The Obedience of the word of God that determines.
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  If they are truly successful and truly have favor in the eyes of
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  God, don't forget that. With all that being said, oh, we
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  can go on, but we'll hold off until next week, so let's pray.
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  Florida. It might be very well.
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  True. That there are some in here who
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  are enduring a trial, a Dark Night of the Soul, Lord there,
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  maybe even some in here who who feel the absence of the love and
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  the care of people in their lives.
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  But Lord, you are able to stand by us in a way that it is
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  recognizable. As Paul as Paul wrote about.
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  But you're also able to surround us with the righteous that is
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  nothing less, but the same love that you would show if you had
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  manifested your goodness in our hearts, help us see, even the
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  people in our own lives. Those who are truly righteous
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  and love you that are in our lives.
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  Help us see that this is an expression of your care for us.
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  Lord help us at the same time. If we are suffering to not think
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  that our lives are being wasted, even though our bodies might be
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  decaying, even though our resources might be drained, even
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  though their must there might be much pain.
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  Oh God, it's never to sabotage our ministry but only to make it
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  more effective and to enhance the mercy and the love in our
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  own hearts for other people. Hello.
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  We think about how suffering or great trials in life.
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  Carries its own Temptation. That's the temptation of being
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  so focused on ourselves that we fail to honor our own duties.
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  And to fail to tap into the strength that you can give us as
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  Paul experienced that he preached in the midst of much
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  conflict. He's still preached.
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  He still served the church. Help us to know that strength to
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  still be in attendance, to still be, prayerful to still be
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  faithful to our Ministries, even though we are enduring great
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  trouble. And Lord we ask as all of us can
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  relate to for reminder, that you are faithful in your leadership
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  that at the right time, you will make the next step perfectly
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  known and your perfect way. And all you asked us to do is
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  remain faithful where we're at until that comes though.
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  We are blessed by the word of the lord.
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  We are blessed by David's life up to this point.
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  We thank you for the provision of this story and the
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  Application, it carries for our lives.
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  We give you glory tonight. In Jesus name, we pray.
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  Amen.