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2 Samuel 10 (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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  Amen. You can do a lot with technology
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  today, can't you? You know, this time of the year,
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  people like to put, they don't have a real fireplace, they like
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  to put one on their TV, right? They projected on their TV and
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  some of that stuff is so realistic and it adds a little
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  bit, I've not missed your into the house, but if you have a
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  real fireplace where you've been before real fireplace, it
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  doesn't compare because what a real fireplace offers This is
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  something that a 4K. I don't even know what the
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  update is with the latest screens these days kind of
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  fireplace that you project on your screen can bring and that
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  is warmth. And someone used as a wonderful
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  illustration of the Gathering of the Saints.
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  No matter what kind of services we offer, no matter how bless
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  you may be from watching the services online.
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  You don't know the warmth until you get there and be with the
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  people and be in the presence of God's people who have the Holy
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  Spirit living inside of them. So I am blessed to be with you
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  here on a Friday night as always.
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  And we are in second Samuel chapter 10 together in our
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  study. Second Samuel chapter 10 and as
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  you're turning there, I'm going to ask a simple question for
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  those who were here last week and the question is what was the
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  dominant theme that permeated the previous chapter?
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  Anybody remember? Mercy.
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  In other words, for Mercy, the kindness of God, the kindness of
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  God, and the kindness of God was on display through King David,
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  who extended really remarkable level of kindness to an
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  undeserving house. The house of Saul and that was
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  such a countercultural thing to do for any King, a newly
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  established King, who would deal ruthlessly with the family of
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  their predecessor. Lest there be any future threats
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  or Rebellion, or take over. He would annihilate those that
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  belong to the preceding Kingdom and Dynasty, but David did the
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  opposite, he embraced the grandson of saw.
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  He brought him close and such an act of Mercy was so filled with
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  Purity and compassion that it reminded us of what The love of
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  Christ for Humanity, the love of Jesus poured out for all of us.
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  And if we thought that David's campaign for kindness ended with
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  mephibosheth were wrong because his kindness is only going to
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  overflow into this chapter, it's going to spill into the verses
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  of this chapter that is before us tonight.
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  And what's interesting about this is David here.
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  Is seemingly on a conquest and the conquest is not for more
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  land. It's for more Hearts.
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  He just seems to be on this ambition, to really extend,
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  benevolence and care, and love, and mercy.
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  And I think that's telling we're going to read the first few
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  verses in a moment here. But let me remind you that
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  friendliness that a considerate spirit being generous, being
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  thoughtful, is something that every believer should have
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  flowing out of them to everyone around them.
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  Kindness is not an optional attitude, it's not like there's
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  some people who are more prone to that kind of disposition and
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  we can excuse ourselves, because kindness is a personality trait.
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  Do you remember who David was? He was a warrior.
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  He was a man who went to through many battles.
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  There was much Bloodshed. He was, he was just a military
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  machine and yet he can sit on top of his success and his heart
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  be stirred to extend practical, kindness to those who are
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  undeserving of it. How much more us who are in
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  dwelt with the Holy Spirit, how much more us?
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  And so I think that's important to understand because when we
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  come to chapter 9 and chapter 10, well, we are going to see is
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  practical illustrations of Christ, like kindness.
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  In fact, look at verse 1 and 2 quickly at verse of chapter 10.
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  After this, the king of the ammonites died and hanoun his
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  son, reigned in his place. And David said, I will deal
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  loyally with hanoun the son of Maharaja as his father doubt.
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  Loyally with me, who here doesn't have the ESV Instead of
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  loyally, what your word is used. Kindness right, we'll get to the
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  reason why the ESV I believe the svu's loyally but does the first
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  two verses of chapter 10 remind you of a recent study hint, just
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  last Friday. What was chapter 9?
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  How do the first verse of chapter 9 read?
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  David wanting to and he expressed his desire to show
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  kindness to the house of Saul. So, we see in the first verse of
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  chapter 9, David wants to extend kindness to mephibosheth.
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  Now, we see in the first two verses of chapter 10 that he
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  wants to do the same, but for somebody completely different,
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  somebody wasn't even a Jew. Who isn't even belonging to the
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  line of Abraham? Somebody was a gentile and so we
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  see this theme of kindness continuing but what?
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  I, so appreciate beyond the truths of practical kindness
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  that we're going to pick up along the way is the reality of
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  kindness. Meaning what?
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  Though, the chapters begin the same way.
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  They play it much differently, they do.
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  In the case of chapter 9, there was a bond created.
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  In the case of chapter 10 award is going to be caused.
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  And I believe the Holy Spirit placed these texts together for
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  many reasons. And one of those reasons is to
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  inform the child of God that it is greatly possible that you
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  will not receive reciprocal kindness or favor though.
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  You are extending an attribute of Jesus to others.
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  In other words you will inherit evil for good and if you haven't
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  yet this Bible study is going to prepare you if you have already
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  in your service to the Lord. In your ministry, in your
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  family, in your marriage, in your friendships, this Bible
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  study is going to encourage you. It's going to encourage you
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  because you're going to see that.
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  This is something that happens to the greatest men of God.
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  And these neighboring chapters as I just said are going to read
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  differently and if we have our gospel lenses in our hands and
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  from time to time, we put them on as we read these verses,
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  we're going to see another thing.
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  Something that we saw in chapter 9, we're going to view it in the
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  lens of the kindness of God with the gospel.
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  And in the same way that you and I will experience different
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  reactions to our love and service to people Christ
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  experience, it all the time. And some cases like mephibosheth
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  on. I hope you responded like him.
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  People will bow and humbleness Before, the Throne of God and
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  just alarmed at the reality that he is willing to be a friend to
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  an enemy and there will be others.
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  Unfortunately a majority who respond to the gospel like
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  hanoun which is what to scornfully reject the kindness
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  of the king and is more willing to go to war with him than to
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  submit to him. And so, are you ready?
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  I was studying this and I thought Yes, we'll be able to do
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  what we did with chapter 9 and complete.
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  All of it in one study and no it's not going to happen.
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  And what we're going to do is just look at the first five
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  verses. We're going to do what we
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  usually do. And that is what thank you for
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  that. We're going to do this.
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  I'm going to read it. If you haven't been here before,
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  you're going to not going to doze off, you're not going to
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  check your Instagram, right? Amen.
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  You're going to look at the verses and you're going to see
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  what stands out to you because we want to train you on how to
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  read your Bible effectively. Not just to say you checked off
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  my lights, you want to leave with something in your morning,
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  devotions, or your night devotions to chew on and digest
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  and get into your soul. So weary from verse 1 and
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  reading from the ESV, so one word will read differently.
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  There will be different verbiage but that's okay.
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  The thought is still the same verse 1 down to verse 5, are you
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  with me? Amen.
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  You're with me after this, the king of the ammonites died.
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  And how known his son reigned in his place, and David said, I
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  will deal loyally or kindly with hanoun the son of nahor Josh as
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  his father, dealt loyally with me.
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  So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his
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  father, and David servants came into the land of the ammonites,
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  but the princes of the ammonites said to hanoun their lord.
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  Do you think because David has sent comforters to you, that he
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  is honoring. Your father has not David sent
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  his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and
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  20. Overthrow it so hanoun took
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  David's servants and shaved half, shaved off, half the beard
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  of each and cut off their garments in the middle at their
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  hips and sent them away when it was told David.
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  He sent to meet them for the men, were greatly ashamed and
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  the King said, remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and
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  then return. Interesting piece of holy writ,
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  more valuable than a historical analysis of one of the most
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  successful dynasties in Israel's history.
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  What do you see? What do you see?
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  Yes, Joshua. Yeah, so the NIV is a little bit
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  more explicit rights. Yes, very good observation and I
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  think that's important. You know why?
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  Because it's more embarrassing than to see, and to read it as
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  at the hip, there's something exposed, and it's very, very
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  shameful, especially in this culture.
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  Any other observations, we can be thankful to the NIV for that.
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  Very good. So he initiated it right?
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  Just like chapter 9, David initiated this campaign of
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  kindness. There's a foreshadowing here
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  again at Jesus. We're going to see Christ in
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  these verses as well as we did in chapter nine.
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  Any other observations So the princes The Advisory
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  Board of the king of the ammonites were the ones who
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  showed deception or Miss judgment in the heart of the
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  king and it caused trouble. Yes.
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  Yeah, so we're going to look at why he asked them to do this.
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  So that's a good observation, you know.
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  They remain at Jericho and I think there's something there
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  for us to understand. Yes, you had something too.
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  Yeah, so there is going to be a war, that's going to come from
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  this but it's not going to be instigated by David.
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  It's going to be it's going to be it's going to be aroused by
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  the ammonites and David. Look at his tenderness, he wants
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  to ensure that the honor of his men is restored.
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  I mean there's something there. So profound and Powerful.
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  Even in our relationship with Christ will get to that to the
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  concluding moments of our study. Great observations.
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  Yes. The other gentiles.
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  It is different here. It's going beyond the borders,
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  beyond the expectation of what we would think is required of
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  our kindness. Yes.
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  Sure. Yeah.
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  That's very good point. I mean, look, can you blame this
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  this group right? The ammonites.
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  You have these foreign entities, you have these ambassadors
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  coming into your world and they are not necessarily allies and
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  so is their suspicions legitimate?
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  And we can say, yes it is legitimate but there is there's
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  a fine line between being Discerning and being cruel.
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  Right? And so I think you made the
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  right observation, a good observation, at least to say
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  they took it too far though, the idea of contemplating whether
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  this is Friend or Foe, is is understandable, anything else?
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  Yes Kinga. Yeah, so there is so again you
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  kind of just just emphasizing on what he's saying, elaborating
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  more in that this this kindness that's coming from the nation of
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  Israel. Not only are they formed but
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  their act of grace and mercy and consideration is also foreign.
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  So the only conclusion, the only equation of the mines is they
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  have to be spies, why would they do such a thing?
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  And I think, again, there's debate about whether or not
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  these men are intentionally being malicious or if they are.
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  They're trying to be wise. Advisors to the king.
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  Great, maybe a couple more and then we'll continue for the sake
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  of time. Yes, Liza,
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  Yes. When he met his own men after
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  they were humiliated again, the kindness of David is just
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  overflowing in so many different ways.
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  Absolutely, wonderful. Maybe one more and then we can
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  continue to have one last observation before we unpack.
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  These verses There's two so we'll do to Barrett.
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  And then Brian, go ahead. Bear it.
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  Yeah. Sure.
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  Yeah, it's played on much more aggression than we would think.
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  And it didn't sit them down nicely and put some kind of
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  protection around their neck. So the hair doesn't fall in
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  their garments, didn't give them a trim.
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  And if you think it was halfway this way, where they brought
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  their beards, a little shorter than what it was, that's not how
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  it happened. It would be like, shaving, the
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  right side of my face while leaving the left side,
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  untouched. That's just embarrassing in any
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  culture, right? But it's even more embarrassing
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  and humiliating for a Jew and we'll find out why Yes, Brian.
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  And then we're going to move on sorry guys.
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  Yeah, that's there's something. There's something there.
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  These advisors seem awfully familiar.
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  Awfully familiar, don't they? And we'll get to that.
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  Why? I'm, you know what I said, well,
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  can do, but there's two more will do two more, and then I got
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  to stop. I'm sorry.
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  And you go ahead and then we do have a hand up as well.
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  No, you didn't. Do you want to say something?
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  Anyway, I'm joking. Go ahead.
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  That's a great observation. In other words, can we say the
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  observation was when it came to Nepal and him being insulted by
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  Nepal? And first Samuel, 25, there was
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  a quick reaction from David. Now we come and many years has
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  passed. Since then chapter 10 of second
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  Samuel, and you have a much more calm and resolve David, I wonder
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  if he's matured Interesting thought, wonderful can we pray
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  together before we unpack these verses?
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  Well, we thank you for this Bible study.
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  We thank you for this room that love your word.
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  The people here. Who desire you, who say, I want
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  to spend my Friday night under God's word.
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  Now, Lord may we be blessed as we Feast with the scriptures in
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  Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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  After this verse 1, the king of the ammonites died in High Noon,
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  his son reigned in his place and David said, I will deal oily
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  with hanoun the son of Maharaja as his father, dealt loyalty
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  with me. ESV says, loyally and it's an
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  interesting choice of words because you heard that different
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  translations that are faithful to the original text.
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  Use the word kindness, It's because the original word is the
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  word, kindness, the same word that we saw in the previous
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  chapter numerous times and I believe the reason why the ESV
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  chose the word loyally. Is because in the Old Testament
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  and many context, the word kindness and the original is
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  often connected. Now, pay attention to, this is
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  often connected to one's desire to implement a covenant with
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  someone or to honor an already established Covenant with
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  someone. So let me let me just read you
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  one example and you don't have to turn there but it's in 1st
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  Samuel. 20. And this is when David and
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  Jonathan are To depart from one another.
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  In verse 8, we read there for a first Samuel, 20 deal.
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  Kindly with your servant, the same word, kind deal, kindly
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  with your servant for you have brought your servant into a
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  covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt and me
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  kill me yourself or why should you bring me to your father's
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  Davis? Speaking to Jonathan deal kindly
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  with me because we have a covenant.
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  So you see there's always a there's often not always a close
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  connection between kindness and Covenant and that could be a
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  clue. It could be a clue to the type
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  of kindness that David wants to extend to hanoun.
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  It's a deep loyal kindness and it could be that he is ready to
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  do what he is doing here because there is already a previous
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  covenant made with his father nakash.
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  And so he wants to honor that Covenant or he simply wants to,
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  he wants to create a covenant with his son who now is raining
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  in his father's place. We are not sure it's not
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  entirely clear, you know what is clear.
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  The Motives the desires for why he wants to be kind to hanoun.
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  Ephesians tells us Believers be kind to one another.
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  That is a command. Again, it's not something
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  optional, or we can excuse, as personality trait or lack
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  thereof, it is something that we should all be wearing.
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  And so, look at these things. These observations in terms of
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  David's kindness. His plan to reach out to this
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  man. Was because of a kind act that
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  was done to him in previous years.
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  There is no scriptural reference, to what, honeymoons,
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  dad and Josh did for David. In fact, it's even a strange
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  thing that there's even a relationship here.
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  Who remembers the last time. We heard the name, the hache It
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  was all the way back to First Samuel chapter 11.
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  When Saul was freshly anointed to be king and the hash made a
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  deal with some of those of Israel saying Hey listen gouge
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  out your right eye essentially he's just has this cruel kind of
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  deal with him. You know, let's surrender to me
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  and he gives all these ultimatums that are just
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  absolutely absurd. Salt comes to the rescue.
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  That's the only reference we have to hash and we have David
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  here wanting to be kind to his son.
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  We have no reason to know why, because there's no scriptural
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  reason, but we can assume that something happened during
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  David's Exile when he was fleeing from Saul and he might
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  have found some kind of Refuge some kind of sanctuary, some
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  kind of provision, some kind of shelter with the king of the
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  ammonites while he was in Exile, while he was hiding from the
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  king of Israel. And so David here remembers that
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  when he was in his younger years now years have gone by but he
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  could not forget, that's so important.
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  He could not forget the series of these are even that one great
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  act of kindness. That was delivered unto him and
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  it encouraged them to say. Now, I must be kind to you.
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  And I thought about that. And I think, you know, there's
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  something there in terms of our relationship with the Lord,
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  often times our lack of faithfulness to the Lord today
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  is because of our forgetfulness of his kindness yesterday.
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  We forget I like to call it spiritual amnesia.
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  How we so quickly fail to remember things that we even
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  testified about things that just brought jolts of Joy occasions.
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  When God's kindness was made manifest in your life, it just
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  evaporates and we lose touch and lose sight of God's kindness and
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  that is a gateway to many problems.
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  In our Christian walk, including slothful service, we We drag our
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  feet, we forget of God's kindness.
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  And when we fall into this weird state where we feel like we're
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  doing God, a favor now. Or we can fall into a murmuring
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  Spirit or fearful spirit because we fail to remember God's
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  kindness. And now here we are trying to
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  navigate through his mysterious ways and we begin to panic
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  because we forgot. And that's why David and many
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  occasions. The Bible tells us including
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  this man in his Psalms I'll give you one.
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  Psalm 103 verse to bless the Lord O my soul and forget, not
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  all his benefits. Forget not implying, what he's
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  preaching to himself? You are prone to forgetting, you
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  are prone to forgetting. And so, David has a spiritual
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  man, you know what he did? He disciplined himself to
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  remember, he discipline himself to rehearse, the kindness of
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  God, the Deeds of the Lord, the wonders of God, the
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  interventions of the Lord, because he realized that that
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  act of remembrance was essential to fueling future faithfulness
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  and Future fervency, For the Lord and the days to come
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  remembering has this great ability of sustaining.
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  You sustaining your affection sustaining your strength,
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  sustaining your attendance, among God's people, to serve
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  them and love God. And great trouble comes to your
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  life. In mind, when we forget David
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  here, did not forget, he could have easily forgotten.
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  He got busy, he became a king. He's just an enemy.
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  He's somebody distant. He doesn't he could not shake it
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  off, he did. Something for me, I must do
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  something back to him. Now this spiritual Amnesia is
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  not just vertical, it's horizontal, it's horizontal.
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  Meaning let me explain. Our forgetfulness of our
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  relationship with the Lord, not that.
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  We forget, we're in relationship with him.
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  But what he's done in that relationship happens all the
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  time among Brothers and Sisters in Christ.
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  One of the, there's I wouldn't trade being in the ministry for
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  the world. but with great, joy in the ministry, there are
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  great, pains personal pains, yes, not enough to kick me to
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  the curb by the grace of God, but enough to make your heart
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  sorrowful one of the one of the Sorrows of Ministries how over
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  the years You observe how Brothers and Sisters in Christ
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  can so turn on each other. even after serving the lord together
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  for many, many years It's incredible how people's
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  attitudes towards others who they are in Covenant with can
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  alter drastically. And it's painful.
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  It's painful to see it's like seeing your own immune system
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  attack itself right. There are diseases where your
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  own body that's supposed to nourish you and protect you and
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  shield. You now, turns on itself and the
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  physical pain and the hopelessness of that can be
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  translated spiritually when you see members of the body of
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  Christ. Now hand fighting your own face
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  and and your foot kicking the other leg.
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  It's just such a strange sight to see but because we don't see
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  it physically. We're not as affected by it, but
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  if you have eyes to see in the spirit, it's a really disturbing
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  sight. You have, you have people all
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  the time and it's shown in many ways.
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  There are some Christians who develop a critical spirit to
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  local Ministries and churches and they can so easily dismiss
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  all the blessings that they've enjoyed with that spiritual
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  family, and they love to magnify imperfections and point out
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  areas that are not intentionally wrong intentionally sinful but
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  just need to be mature And Timely To occur for that to
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  happen. You see people who are able to
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  just because of one unintentional offense by another
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  brother or sister hold on to that and disregard all the good
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  that that person who offended you also offered.
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  You people just kick those relations out to the curb and
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  they just move on because of their passions or because of
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  their offenses. Spiritual Amnesia forgetfulness.
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  And unfortunately there are very few like David who can retain a
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  perspective of gratitude and commitment and appreciation for
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  those that also loved Christ as time goes on, you know, the
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  Apostle Paul knew that pain. The Apostle Paul knew the pain
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  of the fickleness of those who were once faithful to him and
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  Ministry and the prayers and service.
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  Can I show you one you want to sometimes we read things and we
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  just want to look for Doctrine and that's okay.
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  That's good. But it's, it's important to
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  remember that. You got to get a read between
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  the lines and realize that though, these are authors that
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  were inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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  They are people still and these are real relationships.
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  These are not pretend scenarios the Missiles are not pretend
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  scenarios so that we can glean truths for churches today.
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  Their real person-to-person Church from Ministry leaders,
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  kind of Dynamics, I thought about this when I thought about
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  this idea of spiritual Amnesia and how we were willing to just
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  change, right? This almost like the spiritual,
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  bipolar ISM, kind of thing, Galatians 4, Paul expresses,
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  this pain when he dealt with this church when he when he was
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  hearing about what was happening to them, in terms of their
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  belief in the gospel, but more than that, it was affecting how
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  they were treating him as as a spiritual father.
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  And in Galatians 4 13, if you want to turn them to read it,
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  you can if you want to just listen just listen.
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  He writes to this church and he says isn't 4:13, you know, I was
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  because of a bodily ailment that I preach the gospel to you.
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  At first, I always love that verse, you know why?
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  Because Paul was apparently sick in the region of galatia he
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  couldn't move forward and because of his sickness, he
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  stopped in this region and it was through that sickness that
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  he met these Galatians and he preached to them and they got
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  saved. You know what that tells me?
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  Even when I have a cold, it's under the Sovereign control of
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  God. I'm not saying it was just a
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  cold. I think Paul will plow through a
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  cold But that just a wonderful Insight.
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  He goes, it was a through a bodily ailment that I met you
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  and I preach the gospel to you and verse 14.
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  And do my condition was a trial to you.
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  You did not scorn or despise me but received me as an angel of
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  God as Christ Jesus. Can you imagine how profound
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  that is? You treated me as though I was
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  Christ. You loved me.
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  You serve me. You you attended to my needs as
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  though. I was Jesus himself.
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  That's an astounding statement to make.
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  And then in verse 15, what then has become of your blessedness.
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  For, I testify to you that if possible you would have gouged
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  out your eyes and given them to me.
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  Look at verse 16. This is so heart-wrenching have
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  I then become your enemy by telling you the truth.
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  Because what happened to you, we had sweet Fellowship together.
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  Now you're suspicious suspiciously separating from me.
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  You're criticizing me. You think I'm an enemy now?
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  Because I preach the truth and there's false teachers, not
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  telling you things about the wrong gospel and because it's a
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  different gospel that I preach. Now, you're turning on me And
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  he's do you remember how God providentially brought us
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  together? I mean, this is about talk about
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  spiritual Amnesia, we forget and then because we forget we begin
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  to treat each other failing to realize how precious our
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  fellowship is how wonderful our gifts are to one another pause
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  like you loved me like as I was Jesus I preach the gospel to
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  you, I brought you to the Lord. God uses me to see your eyes
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  open to his truth. And now as time goes on and as
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  different things occur, I'm now your enemy.
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  How did that happen? Well, I'm telling you.
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  It happens, it happens. Then happen with David happens
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  in churches today. And so don't lose hope.
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  Don't be discouraged, only thing as though you're the only person
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  that this has ever happened to it happens all the time, it's
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  happened with great men of God. And if you're ever discouraged
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  to say, how is it remember speaking to those who who want
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  to be kind and who are kind? And I'm so Overjoyed to know
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  that this is a kind church, it's very kind Church.
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  And you probably struggle with the idea.
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  Or the experience. Why is not this kindness that
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  I'm showing Mutual? All it takes is just one, two,
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  three people. Even just one person for you to
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  know the sting of that. And if you ever are tended to
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  fall into despondency because of it just think about what God
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  goes through with his kindness. If you want to escape
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  depression, my friend just think about God's kindness and how it
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  is received and or rejected more rejected than received you know
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  that famous verse in. If Romans 2:4 right that it is
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  the kindness of God that does what?
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  It leads people to what repentance, it's God's kindness
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  that leads people to repentance. You know what?
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  That tells me his kindness is targeted to those who have not
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  repented In other words, his enemies.
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  God's kindness is not reserved for those who have done
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  something for him first or have proven their Worth to be
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  showered with his kindness. No, his kindness extends to
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  those who have not even repented yet.
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  In fact, that is the motivation for them to repent.
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  Here's my question to all repent.
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  A holy and just God who has every right?
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  To flare his nostrils and breathe out fire and consume his
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  enemies. Instead extents, kindness upon
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  kindness in so many ways and yet at the end of it all like High
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  Noon. They just want to go to war with
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  him. Still and this is important
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  because There's another observation I had.
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  When I considered, David's kindness here, I was meditating
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  on it, right? What was the reason for his
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  kindness? Because huh?
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  Nunes. Father did something for him in
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  the past. In other words, David's really,
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  just giving back. You did something for me.
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  So now I'm going to do something for you.
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  It makes sense, that seems like that's actually what's expected
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  of you. What happens when you have
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  nothing to work with Christian? That's an important thought.
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  What do I do? If, in my world, the scripture
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  tells me in Ephesians 4:32 and other instances in other places
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  to be kind with christ-like. Kindness, what if there is
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  nothing to work with, there's nothing to work with, with my
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  spouse, it's very difficult to do with my family.
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  I'm not really giving back anything to my church because
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  I'm not really getting much from them.
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  Speaking of hypothetical scenarios.
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  Are we off the hook then? Because David seems to only be
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  extending kindness because of something that was initiated
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  early on. I'm sorry to disappoint you.
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  We're not off the hook, we're not.
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  Because when you go back to the first verse of chapter 9, David
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  has another example that fits that scenario perfectly.
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  Why did David show kindness to mephibosheth for whose sake?
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  The fetishes did nothing. If I wish it could do nothing,
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  he couldn't even walk himself to his field, to work to feed his
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  son and his family. And David still says, because of
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  Jonathan, I will be the initiator of kindness to you.
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  And here's the point in the same way you and I have a motivation.
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  His name isn't Jonathan doll. Jesus.
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  David showed practical and merciful kindness to
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  mephibosheth because David was motivated by his honor for
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  Jonathan. And in the same way you and I
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  will have to learn how to draw from our relationship with
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  Christ to now offer Mercy to those that don't deserve it.
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  For Jesus sake. For Jesus sake, I will be kind
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  for Jesus sake. I will smile at those who frown
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  at me, for Jesus sake. I, I will plan and execute small
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  axe. But meaningful.
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  Kindness. To my stubborn spouse.
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  For Jesus sake. I will serve alongside with
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  somebody who has an issue with me, though?
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  It is. It is unjust for Jesus sake.
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  Can I tell you something? Relational.
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  Miracles can take place if every party of every sphere of every
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  relationship did what they did, react enacted, for Jesus sake,
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  it would be incredible, what we would see.
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  And that's why for those in here who are looking for a spouse.
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  Let me tell you something. Look for somebody who loves
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  Christ more than you, Because in life, when things get difficult
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  and you give them 0 reasons because of your own flesh, God
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  forbid to have them love you. They're going to have to draw
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  from something else to continue. Loving you.
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  And it's going to have to be Jesus sake.
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  If you really just have your eyes on him, if you just lift
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  your head up and look to him and you say, Lord for your sake, all
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  the power of that, the death to self that can come the Wonders.
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  The Miracles I'm fully aware that kindness.
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  Niceness gentleness patience. All these other things that are
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  connected to kindness is not easy.
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  And God is honest, enough to tell us is not easy and so, you
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  know what he says, he informs Us in Galatians 5, that it's a
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  fruit of the spirit. Not going to come from your
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  strength. Is that going to come from your
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  own ability? It's not going to come from you
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  sitting alone in a dark room and trying to convince yourself that
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  you're going to be this way because of for whatever reason
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  and your own power on your own wisdom or your own strategy,
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  it's the fruit of the Holy Spirit who can now bring this
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  into reality. Do you do it for Jesus sake?
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  I can't forgive well, there's a lot of problems with that.
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  Why can't continue? Well, there's a lot of problems
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  with that. Where are you drawing your
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  motivation from well? Because, because I'm hurt, and
• 37:40
  I'm offended. And well, don't do it for your
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  sake. Do it for Jesus sake.
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  See how everything changes there?
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  We would have a lot less counseling sessions.
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  If we if we did that really, a lot of things would be thinned
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  out. A lot of problems would just
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  disappear if every Christian really took this to heart and
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  said, you know, I'm going to do it for Christ's sake.
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  I'm going to do for Christ's sake.
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  It's so simple, isn't it? We want deep truths.
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  We want to understand Mysteries and explain and debate the you
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  just do it for Jesus sake. Let's get back to basic
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  Christianity here. Let's not complicate our walk
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  with the Lord, that's not fill our heads, but our hearts are
• 38:24
  shrunk and shriveled up because we don't know how to do simple
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  things like this and God provides us illustrations.
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  I can David's life. Okay, we're still in the first
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  verse. I don't know how we're going to
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  continue here at this pace. I noticed something else.
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  It's very brief. There's a second motivation to
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  why David went out to Honeymoon with kindness is because of the
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  news of death Now how she died and while his son was wallowing
• 38:50
  in his sorrow, David was stirred to reach out his hand at the
• 38:53
  build, a relationship with him beyond the fact that there's an
• 38:57
  obvious call for us to mourn with those who mourn.
• 38:58
  I see a gospel truth tucked in this verse.
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  And it is that Christ was also sent to us as a servant, not
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  only to rescue us from the Pains of death, but to Deliver Us from
• 39:09
  the penalty of death, The loyal love of Jesus entered into our
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  world. And part of that reason is
• 39:19
  because death came into our world and Hebrews 2 tells us
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  that he wants to Deliver Us from the fear of death.
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  He wants to Deliver Us from the pangs of death.
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  And if Christ is a, if David is a picture of Christ, I think
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  that there's something wonderful there as we look to Jesus.
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  You know, when death entered into a hundreds World, David
• 39:37
  sent consolation, but when death and into our world, you know
• 39:40
  what the son of David did, he sent salvation?
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  To rescue. David initiates it We praised
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  his actions for being so consistent.
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  It wasn't just a one-off show. It wasn't just chapter 9 as
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  chapter 10. We praise it from a distance but
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  do all appreciate it. We're about to find out.
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  Because look at the response to David's Comfort being sent
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  through his ambassadors verse 3, but the princes of the ammonites
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  set to Hanna Lord. Do you think?
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  Because David has sent comforters to you, that he is
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  honoring. Your father has not David sent
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  his servants to you to search the city at the Spy it out.
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  And to overthrow it, So I don't know how it happened.
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  The ambassadors came in, maybe they were dismissed for a
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  moment. Maybe they were told to wait out
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  into the hall and the advisors come to high noon.
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  And they say this is this is fake.
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  This is a joke. And they begin to now.
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  So lies. And to plant ideas that are not
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  true. Is that remind you of anybody?
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  The enemy of our souls. Do you know what?
• 40:53
  This kindness is reacted with slanderous accusation slanderous
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  accusation and if this reminds you of this picture, reminds you
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  of what the devil would do to a vulnerable mind, then you're not
• 41:10
  far off. You know in 1st Timothy 3:11.
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  We're told there that the wives of deacons should not be
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  slanderers. Does anybody know the original
• 41:22
  word for Slanders? You might remember if you were
• 41:27
  in our study for Sam first. Timothy years ago.
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  You ready for this Diablos? Diablos.
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  You just imagine how that would read in the Greek.
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  The wives of deacons should not be diabolo cesano.
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  The plural of it. I'm not fluent in Greek.
• 41:47
  That's that's that's pretty insightful because it tells you
• 41:50
  the nature of being mischievous. And of intentionally saying
• 41:57
  something untrue about someone or something else.
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  It's satanic. That's the origin of it.
• 42:06
  That's the life source of it. That's the fragrance of it.
• 42:10
  And you have these men that are saying things that are untrue.
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  To Honeymoon about David and his intentions and his motivations.
• 42:18
  and I looked at this and I thought, how can this be?
• 42:23
  It's yet another reminder for those who want to be actively
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  righteous you want to serve God, you want to obey him and every
• 42:29
  and with every faculty of who you are get this, I just want to
• 42:33
  prepare you. My brother, my sister, I want to
• 42:35
  prepare you your goodness in the name of Jesus Christ will not
• 42:39
  always be received with gratitude at times.
• 42:42
  It will come with questionable. And unjust, Payback.
• 42:49
  And when it does, don't lose hope.
• 42:51
  I'll tell you why in a moment. But I notice here as somebody
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  mentioned that it was the princes of the ammonites.
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  It wasn't it was a hanoun who had these thoughts to himself?
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  It was an outside source that infiltrated his judgment and I
• 43:04
  think that is so important in light of the context Was hanoun
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  An Old King or fleshly freshly established King brand new king
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  budding as a leader and oftentimes in the infancy of a
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  position. Or new responsibilities.
• 43:20
  There is the need for maturity in experience in experience here
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  and I think hanoun is proving his inexperience by the fact
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  that he is so quick to act upon what he is being told.
• 43:33
  He's so quick to react to what he is being informed with.
• 43:39
  And without pausing and examining the implications of
• 43:43
  acting upon this or investigating the claims that
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  were brought before him. He just eats it up.
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  Here's something I've said many times before, and I'll say it
• 43:50
  again, social naivete and spiritual immaturity can be
• 43:55
  proven in many ways. And one of those ways is
• 43:58
  gullibility, you know, gullibility means to be
• 44:02
  persuaded to believe something to be true without much effort.
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  Now, gullibility might be cute with your group of friends when
• 44:10
  you like to pull pranks on each other.
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  But it's a curse in the real world.
• 44:14
  It's a curse in the real world. Especially in this case because
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  listen this presumption is going to lead to a bloody war.
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  It's all going to come from Miss information on all out War where
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  thousands are going to be slain and husbands won't be going back
• 44:30
  to their homes with their wives. And their children is all going
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  to stem from thoughts that were untrue.
• 44:35
  It but was believed and acted upon as though they were
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  dangerous man. Dangerous absolutely dangerous.
• 44:43
  And when I look at this I thought there's another lesson
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  here when you look at it from hundreds perspective you want to
• 44:47
  know that what that lesson is the absolute necessity to ensure
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  that the council that you and I receive in life comes from
• 44:56
  respectable and reputable God-fearing sources.
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  It's not enough in life to seek guidance.
• 45:04
  You got to go more than that. You got to get the right
• 45:06
  guidance. The right guidance.
• 45:10
  Wisdom is proven and you seeking counsel, and I seeking counsel.
• 45:15
  But we got to take it a step further than that, it has to be
• 45:17
  the right counsel. I'm reminded of another king who
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  reduced his kingdom from Twelve Tribes down to two because of
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  wrong counsel. Do you remember his name?
• 45:29
  Rehoboam remember him. The son of Solomon.
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  The son of Solomon was brought with a problem.
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  And he sought counsel to know how to deal with it as a new
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  king. And what happened with him?
• 45:46
  He got bad Council, he acted on that Council.
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  And for Generations, the nation of Israel will not look the
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  same. Does anybody remember what
• 45:55
  happened will turn to First Kings 12 verse a I want to I
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  want you to see it for yourself because here's one way you and I
• 46:02
  can open our lives. Two wrong advice.
• 46:06
  That can be critical to our futures and our testimony for
• 46:09
  the Lord Jesus. First Kings 12:8, look at verse
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  8 very briefly And you can get bound bad counsel in many ways.
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  You can get it from wrong books, you can get it from wrong
• 46:27
  podcast, you can get it from wrong preachers.
• 46:31
  But I think the most common way is with the wrong people in your
• 46:35
  life that you have direct connections to First Kings 12-8,
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  but he being rehoboam abandoned the council that the old man
• 46:43
  gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up
• 46:47
  with him and stood before him. What stands out to you from that
• 46:52
  verse it's important to know the context just a little bit beyond
• 46:57
  it that helps. But for those who are familiar
• 46:59
  with this what is very concerning about?
• 47:02
  The way this king is handling the wisdom that he was receiving
• 47:06
  from two different parties. Okay, so there's an element of
• 47:21
  familiarity. The young men grew up with him.
• 47:23
  The old men were a little bit more distant in his life.
• 47:26
  I think there's something there. But realize that he about he
• 47:30
  abandoned the council that the old man gave him and he went
• 47:35
  with the council that the young it was immediate rejection and
• 47:38
  immediate reception from the young men what does that tell
• 47:42
  you? This King was not really looking
• 47:44
  for advice. He was looking for people to
• 47:47
  validate what he already decided in his heart.
• 47:51
  People look for advice that way. People go to multiple others
• 47:57
  before making an important decision with that kind of frame
• 48:00
  of mind. I'm not looking for the best
• 48:04
  option, the most righteous way. I'm looking for you to ease my
• 48:08
  Disturbed conscience, so I can do what I want to do more
• 48:12
  comfortably. That's what he's doing.
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  And this can be done in many ways.
• 48:20
  Listen to this, it can be done with theological issues as well.
• 48:24
  Let me prove it to you. If you want to believe
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  something. That is clearly wrong in the
• 48:33
  Bible. But fits your interpretation,
• 48:36
  you will be able to find others including theologians, who will
• 48:40
  agree with that interpretation. If you really want to believe
• 48:45
  something, if you really want to do something, if you really want
• 48:48
  to ask something, if you really want to plan something you can
• 48:50
  find a misapplied verse or verses to support you.
• 48:55
  Isn't that a frightening reality?
• 49:00
  And so the best way for you and I to avoid disaster in our life
• 49:06
  is to not. Look for people who think like
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  us. It's to look for people who
• 49:09
  think like God, Is to look for people who are willing to
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  correct you in love. You know what?
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  Look at, look at the language here.
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  You're still in First Kings 12. All right.
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  Look at verse 6. Then King rehoboam took counsel
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  with the old man, who stood who had stood before Solomon his
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  father, while he was yet. Alive saying, how do you advise,
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  what's the next word? How do you advise me to answer
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  this people? Keep that in mind now.
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  So this is what he asked when he spoke with the old men.
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  How do you advise me? Now, scroll down to verse 9.
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  This is when he speaks to the young men and he said to them,
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  what do you advise that? What's the next word we What do
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  you advise that? We answer this people who have
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  said to me, lighten, the Yoke that your father put on us.
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  How do you advise me in comparison to how do you advise
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  that we a mark of a fool, is someone who intentionally
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  surrounds himself with people who will agree with you no
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  matter what A mark of a wise man is someone who has counsel in
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  their lives. Of people who really walk with
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  God. And we'll look at you say thus
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  says the Lord. Thus says the Lord.
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  And if you and I are not watchful of ourselves, we can
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  make critical decisions in life, like rehoboam did by searching
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  for illegitimate comfort. In the validation of others, as
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  a way to soothe us. In our own deception.
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  Your flesh and mine is very clever.
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  It's very clever and finding ways to deceive.
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  And I want to show, I want to show you the route of how people
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  deceive themselves in this way. So we're still in first king.
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  There's, let's look at another king.
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  So we looked already at King hanoun.
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  We looked at King who robohand, let's go to King Ahab.
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  So go to chapter 22 of First Kings, and here's King Ava.
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  He wants to go to war with the syrians.
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  He wants to go to war with the syrians and so, he asked
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  Jehoshaphat. Will you go to war with me?
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  Why is he asking another king? While?
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  Remember, because of her humble home, we have a divided Kingdom.
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  You have the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
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  You have the southern Kingdom King Ahab, is part of the
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  northern Jehoshaphat is part of the Southern.
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  He wants to come into a lion so that they can go to war with the
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  syrians and Jehoshaphat already made the mistake to agree with
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  him. But he had a little bit of
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  discernment left in this container.
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  He had enough discernment to ask for a prophetic confirmation.
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  And so we read here in verse 5 of chapter 22 and Jehoshaphat
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  said to the king of Israel. Inquire, first for the word of
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  the Lord. Then the king of Israel
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  gathered. The prophets together about 400
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  men and said to them, shall I go to battle against ramoth-gilead
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  or shall I refrain? And they said go up for the Lord
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  will give it into the hand of the king.
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  It seems like Ahab listen to Joseph at.
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  It seemed like, he agree with them.
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  Seem like he was doing the right thing.
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  But there's a problem and the problem is indicated by verse 7,
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  but Jehoshaphat said, is there not here?
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  Another prophet of the Lord of whom we may inquire.
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  So here's your host event looks like King Ahab.
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  He says, look, I'm willing but we need some prophetic
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  confirmation. Can we get a profit King ahaz
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  is, I won't get you, I'll get you 400.
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  So he gets 400 to come into His courts and he asked them, shall
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  we go tour with ramoth-gilead or shall I refrain and 400?
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  I can just imagine it and just they're just talking over each
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  other. Go up, go up.
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  Yes, do it, do it, you'll succeed, go for it.
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  Go for it. And here's a happy smiling with
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  his big grin, right? And Joseph has looking and he's
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  nervous because he recognizes something about these profits.
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  They're not prophets of Yahweh. They're not legitimate not one
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  who abide by the word of God who walk in the fear of the Lord.
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  So he looks at. Yeah, because look I know 400
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  people in unison. Seems convincing.
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  Do we have a real Prophet though?
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  and let me tell you this, if you have 400 people who say the same
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  thing, But what they say is against the word of God, they're
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  all wrong. I don't care how convincing I
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  don't care what it sounds like as a concert.
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  If it is against the word of God, God's word jumps over four
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  hundred or four hundred thousand And this tells me something else
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  to just because they had the title profit, doesn't mean
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  they're right, ready for a shocker, just because the man
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  has a church doesn't mean he's always, right?
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  Just because the guy has a Ph.D, doesn't mean he's gonna
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  interpret the Bible Faithfully just because they have a grand
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  Ministry with hundreds of thousands of views on, YouTube
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  means what they're saying is accurate or faithful to the word
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  of God. Be careful. there's a difference
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  between a pastor and a pastor who fears God, there's a
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  difference between a church and a church that abides by the word
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  of God. Is there not a prophet of
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  Yahweh? Now look at This is like
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  unbelievable. Look at a Habs response in verse
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  8. And what he says, exposes the
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  attitude that leads to self-destruction in this life
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  and eternally verse 8, and the king of Israel said to
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  Jehoshaphat. There is yet One Man by whom we
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  may inquire of the Lord makya, the son of imlah, but I hate
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  him. Why do you hate him?
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  He had free. Never prophesize.
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  Good concerning me, but evil And Joseph had said let not the king
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  say, so he's like, trying to mildly rebuke him.
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  He's like, nah, I think it'll be okay.
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  He never prophesize. Good concerning, who me?
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  Me when it's all about you. Deception is at your door.
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  How frightening is this Micaiah? The prophet that he is alluding
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  to will prove himself in this chapter to be a true servant of
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  God, who speaks what God tells him to speak.
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  And yet in the eyes of Ahab, his word is evil.
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  His word is evil. Now that's interesting, his word
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  is evil. Because it didn't benefit him.
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  It didn't Empower him. It didn't satisfy him.
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  It didn't agree with him. And because that is his world
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  view. A very humanistic worldview of a
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  worldview where you are the center of the universe because
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  of that, he can take the message of a true man of God and say it
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  is wicked. It is absolutely vile because
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  for one reason, it doesn't profit me if you want God's
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  guidance in your life, if you want safety.
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  Fruition blessing, one. Easy way, ensure that your life
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  is not about you, And be consumed with the glory of God.
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  And be sure that whatever you seek in terms of advisory
• 56:52
  Council that as long as it is, the truth, you will obey a no
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  matter what it costs you and you will know wonders in this life.
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  Unfortunately Ahab is going to pay a hefty price for saying.
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  This message is evil and I'm going to go with these 400
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  Prophets. Hannon would pay a price.
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  So we come down to the final two verses of our study.
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  Verse 4 of chapter 10 of second Samuel.
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  So I knew and took David's servants and shaved off half
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  their beard. The beard of each and cut off
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  their garments in the middle. And our wonderful associate.
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  Joshua - that it was the split by the buttocks at their hips
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  and sent them away. Now, if you thought that the
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  Miss Judgment of the motives of David was bad enough hunting
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  takes it to another level. Because hearing something about
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  someone isn't just going to make you think differently about him
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  eventually. If you're not careful, it will
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  cause you to treat them differently.
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  And that's exactly what is happening here.
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  He takes it to a whole nother level and he humiliates these
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  ambassadors, humiliates him by as we just read shaving, half
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  the beard and mangling their garments sending them away with
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  such disgrace back to Jerusalem. Now this is you don't need like
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  a cultural insight to know why this is disturbing because
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  anybody who would do that today, if the ambassador's of the
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  nation America sent people to whatever nation and they That
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  flew them back. You might cause a war.
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  And that's what's going to happen here.
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  But why is this particularly disturbing for David's men?
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  It actually pertains to a law. A law in the Old Testament that
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  deals with the appearance of Israel's men.
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  And he light bulbs go off. Yes.
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  Very good. Very good.
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  Ryan, did you hear the answer? Let me tell it to you from
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  Leviticus 19:27. Here is what would seem as
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  strange instruction to us today? You shall not round off the hair
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  of your temples or Mar the edges of your beard.
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  In the old Covenant. This is just one of the codes of
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  many codes for Holiness to make the nation of Israel.
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  Distinct from their neighboring foreign false god worshipping
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  counterparts. And what hanoun does here is is
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  far greater than insulting the manhood Of David's ambassadors.
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  They are essentially attacking the Holiness of God.
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  And very discreet way in a way that you.
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  And I would not know unless we knew these Specific
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  Instructions. So you can imagine the
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  embarrassment that these men felt for the obvious reasons.
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  But also, because their hearts, let's assume that they love God.
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  And they had great joy and going to Gentiles and extending the
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  kindness of their King, which is a reflection of the kindness of
• 1:00:04
  God. And here, they are instead.
• 1:00:09
  Harshly treated. And here's the theme of his
• 1:00:12
  really, just the thing that's just hammering us tonight.
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  If you are faithful even kind and faithful do not be surprised
• 1:00:23
  at the harshness of this world. When you try to reach out to it,
• 1:00:26
  do not be surprised by the ruthlessness of those that you
• 1:00:29
  try to serve or if you've served for years.
• 1:00:33
  It can come and it can come in a fierce manner.
• 1:00:37
  These men had their beard shade. What happened to Christ beard,
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  they plucked it. And they spat in it and they
• 1:00:46
  blindfolded him and they punch them in the face and said, hook
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  prophesy to us. Who did it?
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  When I look at this, I can say so much more.
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  But you and I have to end on a hopeful note and there is a
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  hopeful note at the end here. Because if we hear this over and
• 1:01:05
  over as you did tonight, you might live Faithfully but you're
• 1:01:08
  going to Flinch throughout your journey to that always being
• 1:01:11
  suspicious of people always wondering their motives.
• 1:01:13
  And and now here you are you can be crippled to actually continue
• 1:01:17
  and kindness because you're thinking, is it really worth it?
• 1:01:21
  Is it really worth it? Well, for Jesus sake, it is for
• 1:01:25
  your own sake, maybe not. But for his sake, he is
• 1:01:28
  infinitely Worthy. And what I see David doing as we
• 1:01:32
  as we mention in our initial conversation with David is doing
• 1:01:36
  here, is somewhat of a, just a hint of what our King will do
• 1:01:41
  for us. We read here in verse 5, when I
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  was told David the news came to David of what happened to his
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  ambassadors. And even just he didn't just
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  hear it, he put it into account and he was going to do something
• 1:01:58
  about it. And what he did here was that he
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  called to them to stay in Jericho and to wait until the
• 1:02:08
  other half of their beard came out.
• 1:02:11
  And I'm sure he sent for fresh garments so that when they would
• 1:02:15
  come back to Jerusalem, their honor would be restored. here's
• 1:02:21
  what you have to understand in the same way, politically if
• 1:02:25
  this nation were to send ambassadors to another Nation.
• 1:02:28
  And they were bullied, or they were harmed, or they were
• 1:02:32
  assassinate. Whatever the case may be
• 1:02:35
  politically speaking, whatever happens to the Ambassador
• 1:02:38
  happens to the leader of the nation that they represent.
• 1:02:42
  You and I are ambassadors of Jesus Christ, that is our title
• 1:02:46
  in this world. We're I like to tell people, my
• 1:02:49
  citizenship people say, are you? I'm a dual citizen.
• 1:02:52
  I have one in Canada when here, but I'm starting to train myself
• 1:02:54
  to say. I have actually three
• 1:02:55
  citizenships I have one here and one of the Canada and one in
• 1:02:59
  heaven. Talk about a conversation
• 1:03:02
  opener. They might look at you like
• 1:03:03
  you're crazy but at least you did the gospel in.
• 1:03:07
  Our citizenship is in heaven. We're traveling through this
• 1:03:09
  world. We're ambassadors.
• 1:03:10
  We have a message. We are representing our Christ.
• 1:03:12
  Whatever happens to us, happens to the apple of his eye.
• 1:03:18
  And as David took it into account, so will Christ.
• 1:03:22
  And Christ has the ability that in this life to restore our
• 1:03:26
  honor. You know, one of those examples
• 1:03:27
  in the Old Testament that I always love it, when Joseph was
• 1:03:30
  falsely accused remember for rape thrown into a prison for
• 1:03:34
  years? That that can anger somebody
• 1:03:37
  who's about True Justice because you think this is unfair, he was
• 1:03:41
  faithful to Potter for how can this happen?
• 1:03:45
  And it's a subtle thing. But when you realize that he was
• 1:03:48
  promoted to be second-in-command just under the authority of
• 1:03:51
  pharaoh, something happens in that moment that celebratory
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  moment, he gives him a chariot, they travel through Egypt and
• 1:03:58
  the instruction was that all were to bow to Joseph.
• 1:04:01
  You know what? I like to think that Potter for
• 1:04:04
  in his wife, had to bow to him. Can you imagine the site
• 1:04:10
  Potiphar's? I would I would pay to see her
• 1:04:12
  face in that moment. Here's Joseph promoted.
• 1:04:18
  Established secure honored, God's faithfulness proved to be
• 1:04:24
  true. And as he's traveling there in
• 1:04:26
  his Chariot to the right. You see, part of her, I'm sure.
• 1:04:29
  Maybe he was embarrassed bowing and there's Potiphar's wife with
• 1:04:33
  a grin on her face, having to Balor need God can do it in this
• 1:04:36
  life. But he doesn't have to.
• 1:04:41
  And even if he doesn't, I'm promise one thing in the life to
• 1:04:45
  come. He will.
• 1:04:47
  In the life to come, he will. And I want to end with this
• 1:04:50
  text. If I were to ask you, why is
• 1:04:53
  Jesus coming back? What will he do?
• 1:04:54
  When he come back? We can list many things.
• 1:04:57
  Perhaps you have not considered this second Thessalonians
• 1:05:02
  chapter 1, a couple of verses, and I'm going to let you go. 2nd
• 1:05:10
  Thessalonians 1:5. That chapters about the second
• 1:05:17
  coming of Christ. And in verse 5 of chapter one,
• 1:05:21
  what do we read? This is evidence of the
• 1:05:24
  righteous Judgment of God that you may be considered worthy of
• 1:05:28
  the kingdom of God for which you are also suffering.
• 1:05:32
  Now, look at verse 6 since indeed, God considers it just to
• 1:05:38
  repay with Affliction. Those who afflict you And to,
• 1:05:45
  Grant relief to you who are afflicted, as well, as to us.
• 1:05:52
  When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty
• 1:05:55
  angels, if you are enduring scorn persecution, if things
• 1:06:02
  have been taken from you, if your reputation has been marred,
• 1:06:07
  If you have received evil for kindness.
• 1:06:12
  Here's what the Lord promises us.
• 1:06:13
  Who are faithful? He finds it just to afflict
• 1:06:18
  those who have Afflicted us. Here's if I take my eschatology,
• 1:06:24
  and I have it in compartments. And I have one compartment,
• 1:06:26
  says, reasons and what are, what are some things?
• 1:06:30
  The Lord is going to do when he returns.
• 1:06:32
  Here's one slot. Retribution and relief for The
• 1:06:38
  Afflicted. Retribution and relief for The
• 1:06:45
  Afflicted. And if you have been Afflicted,
• 1:06:48
  then this is what he will do for you.
• 1:06:54
  And I'll end by saying to those who have been afflicted.
• 1:06:58
  Or who are enduring affliction. You may have to be like those
• 1:07:03
  men who were told to remain in Jericho what I mean by that.
• 1:07:07
  You may have to wait a little bit.
• 1:07:10
  You may have to wait a little bit.
• 1:07:12
  You may actually live your whole life afflicted.
• 1:07:15
  Humiliated embarrassed lied about you may have your whole
• 1:07:22
  life finding difficulty to find a job.
• 1:07:27
  To find favor. To know memories with your
• 1:07:31
  family, who refused to have any association with you because
• 1:07:35
  you're an ambassador of Christ in this counter Christ culture.
• 1:07:40
  It may be painful to have a husband or a wife.
• 1:07:44
  Who does not love the Jesus that you love or children who mock
• 1:07:49
  you? For the Christ that you love who
• 1:07:52
  will not take serving Jesus. Seriously, as you had hoped and
• 1:07:55
  prayed for for your children. But, but take this example as an
• 1:08:01
  instruction for you, just wait. Retribution will come.
• 1:08:09
  Relief will come. And God will be good to you for
• 1:08:14
  being good to those who failed to be good to you.
• 1:08:18
  Let's pray. Lord, we learn in the past two
• 1:08:47
  weeks. That sometimes there is great
• 1:08:53
  reward for our christ-like kindness.
• 1:08:59
  But we learned tonight. Sometimes there is a reproach
• 1:09:03
  for it. Whether it is reward or reproach
• 1:09:10
  help us to remain like Jesus. It would be comforted to know
• 1:09:18
  that you like, King David. Are fully aware of the
• 1:09:23
  Affliction and the shame that we endure. and Lord, when it gets
• 1:09:29
  more difficult to follow you, in this world that is becoming
• 1:09:36
  darker and darker made this Bible study revisit our hearts
• 1:09:45
  For those who go out and evangelize.
• 1:09:50
  And they seem to have see no fruit.
• 1:09:52
  They're only cussed at and mocked and threatened and like
• 1:09:57
  these ambassadors of David, only go home.
• 1:10:00
  With their heads hanging low. Remember.
• 1:10:05
  And help us Lord to remember. That you will bring relief to us
• 1:10:11
  soon. Now, you will deal with those
• 1:10:15
  who have harmed us. Laurie.
• 1:10:20
  Rest tonight. We ask that you fill us with
• 1:10:26
  your Holy Spirit. So that we would not suffer from
• 1:10:30
  spiritual amnesia. Forget your kindness toward us.
• 1:10:35
  And lose our way down down the road.
• 1:10:39
  Or lose sight of the preciousness of our relationship
• 1:10:42
  to one another. and hold up, offenses and cut off in several
• 1:10:47
  members because we refuse to recall.
• 1:10:54
  The blessing. That our brothers and sisters
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  really are. And that you have brought these
• 1:11:01
  people into our lives as gifts. And as co-laborers in Christ,
• 1:11:05
  may this church be a Kinder Church than it already is, but
• 1:11:10
  we worship you. Lord, our hearts ache from the
• 1:11:14
  bottom of our hearts. We say come Lord, Jesus.
• 1:11:18
  We grown with creation and we say, we want you to just just
• 1:11:21
  comic just come We're weary we're tired.
• 1:11:27
  And Lord we trust that your timing is perfect.
• 1:11:30
  So if it is not in our lifetime it's if it's in the next
• 1:11:33
  lifetime or 100 years from now a thousand years from now, help us
• 1:11:36
  be faithful. No matter what comes our way for
• 1:11:40
  it? In Jesus name we pray.
• 1:11:43
  Amen. Can We Worship the Lord together
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  with the remaining strength that we have?
• 1:11:51
  Amen. Let's Stand Together.
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  Amen. Let's Stand Together.