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2 Samuel 8 Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Amen. God is good.
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  He sang beautifully tonight. I was edified and I am excited
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  to be at a fight in the word with you, but before we begin.
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  Let's see who remembered from last Friday.
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  I issued an assignment. In relation to the promises of
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  God in the word of God that you and I would familiarize
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  ourselves much more with the goodness of God pertaining to
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  his particular assurances to us. And so, your assignment was to
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  look for something that genuinely touch your heart.
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  And then you can hold onto in stormy seasons and Times of
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  Temptation and not just to console yourself but to even
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  bless somebody else at the word would be on the Tip of your
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  tongue and so I'm not going to call anybody out.
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  That's that's not a way to teach.
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  I'm just going to invite those who took that to heart and said
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  you know I'm going to do this by next Friday.
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  I'm going to give a verse and not just to show that I
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  memorized suddenly but to show that I really want to know God's
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  word for myself, anybody have a verse that they want to share.
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  Well, there was memorize or something that you've having
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  your Bible that you're trying to really embed in your heart.
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  Sure. Beautiful, Philippians, 1:6
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  Christ Assurance to us that he will work on us and keep us till
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  the end. What?
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  A beautiful promise anything else?
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  Yes. Beautiful, Psalm. 91, powerful
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  powerful scripture. Yes.
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  Thank you brother. Any other scripture?
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  Yes, yes. Amen.
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  That repeated phrase. Yes, his Mercy doesn't do her
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  forever. Yeah, sure.
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  Beautiful Romans 6, powerful chapter.
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  Yes. Any other scriptures?
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  Yes. Beautiful.
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  Some, some 30, you said, yeah, look at the reference, trying to
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  find the reference. It's important to know the
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  reference to so that if we don't have a Bible in hand that we can
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  help others find it, That is a beautiful promise, anything
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  else? Yes.
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  Yes, amen. Amen.
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  Maybe a couple more. Sure.
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  Amen. Well, we can tell that it really
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  touches your heart sister. Any other scripture?
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  Beautiful. Yes, we're using then Phoebe and
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  then we'll continue our study. Yes, amen.
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  Wonderful. Wonderful.
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  Insurance. One more.
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  Yes, Phoebe. And then you can and okay yes
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  got it. Yes.
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  Yes, one of my favorite verses on repentance acts 3:19 repent.
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  That times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
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  Wonderful May challenge you further.
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  I know that we live busy lives. Take those verses and etch them
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  on your soul so that you can say it from memory that will come in
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  handy. When you don't have a Bible in
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  hand or when your battery runs out on your iPhone.
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  That you would have it, ready? You can wield that sword and you
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  can engage in Warfare with the preparedness.
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  So, those are wonderful promises.
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  I hope that you will grow in your hunger to know the promises
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  of God. We come to 2nd Samuel now.
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  Chapter 8, Turn your Bibles there with me.
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  We have an interesting passage before us tonight.
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  It may not be as gripping as what we studied in the previous
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  chapter, but it is an intriguing passage nonetheless.
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  And the reason why I think it is intriguing is because the
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  content will demand meditation. It's not something that you can
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  just easily read and, and, and pick up certain truths from a,
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  from a, just a face value kind of thing.
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  But it's going to demand. It's going to demand you to
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  actually think with every verse what is it?
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  That the Lord is trying to say in this text, what is the
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  spiritual Insight? What is the nourishment that I
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  can acquire from this portion of scripture?
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  I'm going to read these verses but as I read them again, pay
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  attention. You can easily lose focus
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  because there's a lot of details to you and it seems like there's
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  nothing much that this text has to offer.
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  But that is not true because I hope you and I've studied the
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  Old Testament long enough to know There's not one piece of
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  the Bible that has nothing to say to us.
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  There's something here for us so it's going to be it's going to
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  be quite a few verses and I can read the whole chapter but
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  perhaps the first 14 verses so we can have just a framework of
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  what we're going to uncover tonight.
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  So keep keep with me here. If you're watching this on a
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  later time on the recording or if you're with us even now
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  online also follow along with us and I'm going to ask what stood
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  out to you. We'll see what we can do from
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  there. Second Samuel, 81 after this,
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  David defeated the Philistines and subdued them.
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  And David took meth a gamma out of the hand of the Philistines
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  and he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line,
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  making them lie down on the ground, two lines, he measured
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  to be put to death and one full line to be spared and the
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  moabites became Servants of David and brought tribute.
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  David also defeated had that as ER the son of her hope king of
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  Zaba and he went to restore his power at the river.
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  Euphrates and David took for him Seventeen hundred Horsemen and
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  twenty thousand foot soldiers and David hamstrung all the
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  Chariot horses but left enough for a hundred chariots and when
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  the syrians of Damascus came to help had a desert king of Zorba,
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  David struck down. 22,000 men of the syrians then David put
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  Garrison's and I removed Damascus and the syrians became
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  servants to David and brought tribute and the lord gave
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  Victory to David wherever he went.
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  And David took the shields of goal that were carried by the
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  Servants of had that as ER and brought them to Jerusalem and
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  from beta. And from bharath I cities of had
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  a taser King. David took very much bronze went
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  away. I king of Hamas heard that David
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  had defeated the whole Army of had a taser.
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  So I sent his son Jesus. Ram to King David to ask about
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  his health and to bless him because he fought against had as
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  ER and defeated him for had as their had often been at war with
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  toe. I injure ambra with him,
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  particles of, silver of golden of bronze.
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  These also King David dedicated to the Lord together with the
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  silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations.
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  He subdued from Edom, Moab the ammonites the Philistines emelec
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  and from the spoil of had it as of, the son of rohini, Hope king
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  of Zaba and David made a name for himself.
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  When he returned from striking down 18,000 edomites, in the
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  valley of salt, some translations would say syrians
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  there's a reason for that. Then he put Garrison's in Edom,
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  throw all Edom, he put garrisons and all the edomites became
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  David's servants and the lord gave Victory to David wherever
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  he went. Did you stick through?
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  I hope so. Now with that overview, is there
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  anything that you feel like is And if there's details there
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  that, you noticed, make make mention of it.
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  Yes. Yes.
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  So God is continually assisting David as David's heart has
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  continually said on glorifying him.
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  So from what I understand, what you're saying is that the Lord
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  is the one who's helping David do what he's doing here.
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  Correct. Yes.
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  And we were told that a couple of times in this chapter.
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  Yes. Okay.
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  Interesting. The moabites remember who they
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  were remember how they related to David?
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  We're going to discover that in the moment.
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  Some of them were spared is there a reason for that?
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  Well, don't fall asleep. In the Bible study.
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  Find out anything else. Okay, yeah, so he's dealing with
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  them in a specific way. It may seem cruel to us
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  Yeah. So is there a prophetic
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  fulfillment here? That Esau would serve?
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  Jacob. I think there is a partial
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  fulfillment there. Absolutely, yes.
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  So we see some prophetic accomplishments here so to
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  speak. Any other observations?
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  It's a challenging text isn't it?
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  But it's important to meditate on.
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  Yes. Yes.
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  So, our brother here, made a good observation, connecting
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  chapter 7 with what's happening in chapter 8.
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  Now, here's an important lesson for you.
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  When you look at the Bible and you read the Bible, some of the
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  Bible is written chronologically, right?
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  So there's a sequence of things happening in a linear timeline,
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  but the authors of the scripture inspired by the Holy Spirit,
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  we're not limited to a chronological writing style.
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  Most of them, many of them, depending on the context wrote
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  thematically. Thematically.
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  So all the events in chapter 8, it's throughout the span of
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  David's Reign, right? And it's placed here right after
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  chapter 7 for that very purpose, that we just heard that God is
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  fulfilling his promise that he gave to David about blessing his
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  household and keeping him and preserving him and prospering
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  him. So it's important to see chapter
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  8 as a partial fulfillment of the promises that we studied in
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  chapter 7. Very good.
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  Any other observations? Yes.
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  Oh Lord, you're helping me here is all of this for you all the
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  bronze, all the gold, all the silver.
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  What did he end up doing with all that?
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  By the way, He's going to he's going to use those resources to
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  build the temple. Yes, good.
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  Yes, somebody else. Somebody else had their hand up.
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  I saw somebody else with their hand up.
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  Okay good. Anything else?
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  The overview of chapter 8 if we want just a summary of what's
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  Happening Here. This is really a catalog of the
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  major Conquest that David accomplished during his Reign
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  and it's really to showcase the faithfulness of God and one of
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  the promises among the grand promise of chapter 7
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  specifically verse 9 of chapter seven, look at it very quickly.
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  God promised David to make a great name for him.
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  And that's happening as David is expanding his military presence
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  and power. A great name is being made for
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  him. He's becoming a renowned King,
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  an esteemed ruler and leader a respected man, not just a man,
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  but man of God. And so that's really the
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  overview of all of this and when you look at it you can almost
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  say this could have been summarized in one verse or two
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  maybe. We could have just looked at the
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  different enemies that he defeated by name and then we
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  could have just moved on, perhaps with a footnote that
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  says, yes, God is fulfilling his promise.
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  But instead, the Holy Spirit wants to expand on David's
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  campaigns and dealing with these different enemies and give us
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  some measure of detail in a neatly listed way, for a reason
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  to pull us in to have a closer look and to kind of kind of look
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  for what this might mean for us in our New Covenant context.
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  This chapter when I read it, it reminded me of our study in the
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  Book of Joshua, for those who were there.
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  You know, that the Book of Joshua has heavily emphasizing
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  of Israel's Ancient Warfare with God's enemies.
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  And there's a lot of this happening, just like a highlight
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  reel of how Joshua and the Israelites took over this region
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  and took over this enemy. And we come here again.
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  And we might be tempted to deal with this chapter the way many
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  fall into temptation. When it comes to handling the
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  Book of Joshua just Skimming over it to hopefully found
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  something on the surface that could apply to us in a relevant
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  way. But again, you and I've studied
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  the Old Testament long enough to know there's much more in here.
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  There are rubies of Revelation if we just, but excavate, take
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  our time and meditate to see what it is that the spirit of
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  God is saying. And I think the best way to
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  approach this chapter is to establish from a framework point
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  of view that David here, arguably has conquered a total
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  of Seven Nations, right? And we read some of them and
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  we're familiar with some of them.
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  Whether the Philistines the moabites we have Syria, we have
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  amalek Edom. Geographically, where do you
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  think these enemies were placed? On all sides.
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  West-east north-south, they are surrounding David.
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  And yet David Is Able by the enabling grace of God to
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  overcome all of them and we sang it, right?
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  And one song that this is a prophetic picture of the son of
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  David, who will come and Rule and Conquer every corner of the
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  earth and he will inherit the nation's and he will subdue all
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  of his enemies. And a total A knot in a
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  partially like David but in a complete way and so we're almost
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  getting just a taste of what's to come.
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  What we are anticipating for the physical Rule, and reign of
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  Jesus Christ, who will actually bring Kings and countries and
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  Nations to their knees and they will adore him, whether they
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  want to or not. But is there more than that?
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  Do we move on just with that? No, I don't think we move on.
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  I think what we do is we look at how David deals with these
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  different enemies and we applied the same way we did with the
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  Book of Joshua. God has made Israel promise
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  concerning their land, that it would require Faith to know what
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  God, purchased for them in a physical sense.
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  Jesus purchased a promise many promises for us and it requires
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  War to be able to know and experience and abide where he
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  wants us to be. And so, with New Covenant
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  lenses, we come to this text and we look at from one point to the
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  next two, different nations and see how this will enrich our
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  understanding of how How We Do Warfare in the spirit.
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  So we look at verse 1 after David defeated the Philistines
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  and subdue them, David took meth agama out of the hand of the
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  Philistines Philistines Ancient Ancient enemy to Israel, are
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  they not? They were persistent aggressors
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  against the people of God ever since the day of judges.
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  And now, when we come to this point, we realize that David is
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  completing what? God raised up Samson to do.
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  God, raised up Sansone to begin to bring deliverance from the
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  Philistines, and it was Saul's job to finish it and he didn't.
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  So David would do it to some degree and so he does show.
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  Interestingly, he goes to meth egg AMA and he takes it out of
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  the hands of the Philistines. This is where you have to do a
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  little extra effort to say, okay what is, is there anything in
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  that name that might help me understand what's going on here.
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  And thankfully, there is something in this name that
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  could help us understand David strategy.
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  Here, meth a gamma simply means mother City.
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  Or Bridle of the mother City. This is a key region for the
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  Philistines. This is an important location,
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  clearly, it had some kind of support system.
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  It's supplied and energized, it, it equipped the rest of the
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  Philistines. And so they really dependent
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  upon that City to either through survive or Thrive.
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  David knew that he didn't waste his time going to other towns
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  before he got there. Because you realize if I don't,
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  if I don't go for the Allure. Then everything around that is
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  just going to continue to be strengthened by methane gamma.
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  So let's just go right for the heart.
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  Let's go for the mother City and then we'll be able to overcome
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  her children, so to speak. And so David, really is coming
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  here with a strategy. He's not coming recklessly is
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  not just coming with wishful thinking.
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  And here's what I present to you based on that Revelation that
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  you and I are called to do the same with our war against sin,
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  we are called to be Tactical. Okay.
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  We are called to be mindful. We are called to be careful.
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  We're not called to just have this desire to overcome sin,
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  it's going to require more than that.
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  There needs to be a sense in which we understand why certain
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  things are happening. Where temptation is coming from
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  how to limit ourselves from influences, that will encourage
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  the impulses of the Flesh. And then to deal with it, right?
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  Unfortunately, many people don't think this way because they
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  don't consider that there is a war going on.
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  Every single day with their flesh.
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  And because of that, they are not wise, nor are they forceful
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  enough to deal with the things of the flesh.
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  If David's attitude is teaching us anything, it's that wishing
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  to be wholly is not enough to be holy, right?
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  Wishful thinking is not going to do it.
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  Your desire to be a godly man or a godly woman is not going to
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  bring you to that place. It's going to require calculated
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  effort while we partner with the spirit of God to get there.
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  Then Jesus give us so many hints and to that kind of mindset.
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  What did he say? Matthew 5:29, and and 30 you'd
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  have to turn there. You know, it very well if your
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  right hand causes you to sin. What do you do tear it out?
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  Tear it out for this better that you lose one of your members and
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  your whole body be thrown into hell.
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  And if your right hand causes you to sin, do the same thing,
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  cut it off, tear it off, throw it away because it's better to
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  have one less member of your body then to have all of it and
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  to be thrown into hell. It's Jesus encouraging literal
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  mutilation of the flesh. For Holiness as a means of
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  Holiness, know some people over history did think so.
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  This is a figurative way of trying to illustrate a powerful
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  point in terms of practical Holiness.
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  Okay? Anybody here want to sell one of
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  your eyes for a billion dollars? No, you cherish your vision,
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  don't you? You won't even.
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  Give up one of your eyes. You want to give up half of your
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  one eye. You cherish your eyes, you
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  cherish your ability to see you, cherish your Mobility, your
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  agility, the the the design that God is giving it to be able to
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  do maximum movement and strength.
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  You want to give up your right hand for anything.
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  And yet Jesus, here is using the things that we prize and cherish
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  on a day-to-day basis to say, even the most valuable things
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  that you hold to in life are worthy to be given up for the
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  sake of preserving your righteousness.
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  And evading sin. It's worth Extreme Measures to
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  cut off things in life with dramatic, desire and force.
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  In order for you to be liberated from anything that would try to
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  drag you into a place that can do damage to your soul.
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  So so even that Jesus is trying to say when you see the very
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  thing that's moving you in a direction that you don't want to
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  go deal with it. Notice it study, it realized, I
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  understand who you are, right? Look At yourself, look at your
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  patterns. Look at your habits.
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  Is there anything that is inspiring you to be less in love
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  with the Lord. Will kill it.
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  Go for that and I think because of this, this lack of desire and
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  seriousness is causing people to have just prolonged unnecessary
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  battles for years, right? Because they're dealing with the
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  fruit. They're not getting to the root.
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  they're just again just wishful thinking and they're waiting for
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  the next convicting sermon to make them cry to inspire them
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  long enough to last for tomorrow, by lunchtime ain't
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  going to work There's got to be, there's got to come a time,
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  where you sit down, look at your life, examine your life.
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  Seeing where is, where are things going wrong here?
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  Am I lazy? And am I just careless?
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  What I put before my eyes. What's going on for me?
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  Not gaining strength, spiritually.
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  And in Jesus, once you identify it, take it out.
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  And I'm sure. David here is inspiring Us in
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  that sense calls for a mindfulness of the elements.
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  I would encourage us. It calls for us to look at the,
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  the lifelines of things that are keeping us away from fullness in
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  Christ and then going for it, dealing with it.
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  By the way, this is going to be surface-level things as we touch
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  on each of these different nations.
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  So now we come to the moabites in verse 2 and he defeated Moab
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  and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on
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  the ground, two lines, he measured to be put to death and
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  one full line to be spared and the moabites became servants to
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  David and brought tribute. unlike the Philistines, the
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  nation of Moab was not always an enemy to David, How do we know
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  that? What, what's one instance, that
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  we know that David's relationship with Moab is a
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  little bit more complicated? It's not clearly defined like
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  the Philistines, okay, Ruth? Yeah.
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  But more than that, something happened during David's life.
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  Exactly. When David was initially an
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  exile and fleeing from Saul's murderous plot, he entrusted his
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  parents into the hands of the king of Moab remember that.
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  And he has to please take care of Mom and Dad, and the
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  reasoning for that is as we heard David, had some Mo B blood
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  in him. And I'm sure the moabites knew
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  that about David as well, for them to be willing to open their
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  doors for David to have his parents come and stay with them.
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  But what David experience with Marvin and David's history with
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  mob is not the same as Israel's history with Moab because mob,
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  as long as Israel was a nation harassed, the people of God and
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  severe ways. What are the two most prominent
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  ways? Notorious ways?
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  That Moab proved to be an enemy to the nation of Israel?
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  What's that? Yeah, they worship false gods
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  but directly with the nation of Israel.
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  What did they do? okay, so there is that where
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  they try to pass through Moab, which is just before the Border
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  going into the nation of Israel, but even before that What did
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  what did the moabites do? Okay, think think Wilderness
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  Journey. Okay, that's one.
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  But there's something even before that, we'll get to that
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  one in a moment. Numbers numbers numbers, numbers
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  numbers, who curse or tried to curse the Israelites, huh,
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  Balaam? The king of Moab hired.
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  Balaam curse this nation. They're going to devour us.
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  They're going to take over us and so the king of more
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  attempted to actually curse the people of God, it didn't work.
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  So then, what did they do? Numbers 25, the moabites took
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  their beautiful woman and have him strut through the camp of
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  Israel and tempted, the men and the men were seduced.
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  And they begin to not just physically, but spiritually, be
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  seduced to worship false gods. And it caused havoc.
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  And that's when Finn, he's got up and he dealt with the
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  compromise, remember that? That's the history between Moab
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  and Israel. And David here though, he has a
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  different kind of relationship chooses to attack Moab, even
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  though they were gracious to him on a personal level.
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  Why? Why is that happening?
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  Something must have happened between David being shown favor,
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  from the moabites to take care of his parents and David,
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  becoming King. Here's the thing.
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  We have no idea. We have no idea what happened
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  and so there's speculation, right?
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  And ancient commentators to this more Jewish commentators, Jewish
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  commentators. A lot of times they love
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  bringing commentaries based on speculation.
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  Here's what some would say. Well, the moabites eventually
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  killed. David's parents.
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  And so David wants to take revenge upon the moabites we but
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  that's not told anywhere in the scripture.
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  So, I don't want to complicate, and I don't want to rely on just
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  guessing what happened, but I think what we can say here is
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  that mob clearly committed to their hatred for the nation of
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  Israel, whether or not David was King, they didn't care if David
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  was King. If he was the assistant to the
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  king even after David became king, they showed themselves to
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  be enemies of Israel still. And because David was King, he
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  had a duty He had a duty to protect the people of God and to
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  fulfill his role. As a king, you're going to touch
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  the apple of God's eye. I'm going to have to deal with
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  you. So he attacks the moabites and
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  he goes to war against them. He had a choice to make.
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  Listen, it's a choice that every single one of us has to make in
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  this life. And you know what it is.
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  It's simple if our duty and our allegiance to God, Will take
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  precedence over our preferences in our priorities, in this life.
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  Every single one of us has to make that choice.
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  David had to make the difficult choice.
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  I have mobile blood in me, but because the Mo B hate, my God,
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  they hate his word hate. His people, hate his promises
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  trying to thwart the promises. I have to stand against the
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  moabites. None of us in here are even
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  worthy to be a disciple if you don't hate your mother and your
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  father, your brother, your sister, your wife.
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  Yes. Even your own children.
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  Yes. Even your own life.
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  Hate actual hate. Remember, we were at a
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  conference and a friend share that and the pastor's son.
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  Lifted his hand. He says, am I supposed to hate
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  my dad? Are you were gonna get in
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  trouble? Now as Pastor son, as his
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  question, not literal hate. but, Your love for God should so
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  outshine. Every single love that you have
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  in this life you should make it look like hate.
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  That's what that's what Jesus is trying to imply in terms of
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  preference of Allegiance. And you have to make that
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  choice. We have to all make that choice.
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  And if we can't determine in our hearts, Lord, I will go where
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  you want me to go. Even if my wife doesn't go, even
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  if my cousins. Even if my children don't want
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  to go, I will obey. I will be faithful by your
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  grace. You're not even worthy to be a
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  disciple. That is how beautiful and worthy
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  and infinitely glorious. He is that the closest
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  relationships to you are nothing in light of your love for him.
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  now, once we walk with him though we do fulfill a
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  responsibility to those who are in our lives, whether they are
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  saved or unsaved but when it comes to making a choice of
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  obeying God or pleasing your family or holding on to
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  traditional cultures that have been passed down for centuries,
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  Or relationships that have provided so much for your life.
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  But at the same time, hate the cross.
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  And hate the grace of God, you have to make a choice.
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  And I have to make a choice, David made a difficult choice,
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  but it didn't seem that. He showed much hesitation, let's
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  go to verse 3. David also defeated.
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  Now we come to the third Nation had that, as ER, the son of her
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  hope king of Zorba, we don't know much about Zorba.
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  But all we know up to this point is that David has dealt with his
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  enemies from the West. The Philistines, he's dealt with
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  his enemies from the East, the moabites.
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  Now he's going north Now, he's going to fight against the
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  syrians and Zaba are syrians. There are part of A Confederacy
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  of other syrians. There's many kings in Syria's,
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  Oba is one region, had advisors the king of Zaba and David is
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  choosing to go to war with them. And verse 3, really piqued my
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  interest when I looked at it. As he went to restore his power
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  at the river, Euphrates. If you want to take the time to
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  look at where the river Euphrates is and Northbound.
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  It's like deep. It's like in Syria.
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  It's far up there. and so, when I read this, at first, I thought
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  to myself is David stepping out of bounds Of the promised land
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  to try to occupy that which the Lord did not Grant him.
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  That was my question. When I read that verse, does
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  anybody know the answer to that question?
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  Is David going out of bounds? He's not, why isn't he?
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  Very good. Do you remember the reference?
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  No, not before before Deuteronomy for before Joshua
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  Genesis, do you want to know how David is actually in obedience?
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  Go to Genesis 15:18? Look What the Lord said to
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  Abraham in Genesis 15:18. This was the initial Covenant
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  that God made with Abraham concerning the land.
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  And the land is much larger than what your imagination, conjures
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  up. When you think of the promised
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  land on that day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram before
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  Abraham became Abraham saying to your Offspring.
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  I I give this land from the river of Egypt.
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  That's pretty South. To the Great River.
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  The river Euphrates. Interesting.
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  According to promise, God's promise to Abraham.
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  You know what David is doing. He's believing the Lord about
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  what was given to Israel to begin with and David.
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  As long as he had the authority, and the power wanted to know the
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  full measure of God's will. He wanted to know the greatest
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  extent of what God had assured, the nation of Israel.
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  And when I looked at this, I thought the reach of David's
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  military campaign is an inspiration to the believer in
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  their eagerness to know, all to stretch your soul to know all
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  that some. But all that the Lord Jesus
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  Christ has purchased. In terms of your inheritance
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  spiritually, I want to know everything that Jesus has for me
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  in this life and it's so strange because you have so many
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  believers who are Content withdrawing their little
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  boundaries and to live and just a corner of the will of God.
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  And not say, I want to expand to exhibit to everything that the
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  Lord purchased with his blood and deposit it in my Heart by
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  the spirit. And I don't know why that is.
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  But it is, God has so much more territory for you.
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  And I to occupy, but the very same thing that it required
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  Joshua to know and what required David to know is the same thing
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  that you and I need to tap into two.
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  I even know the beginnings of these things faith.
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  Faith. You need to believe the Lord.
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  You need to believe the Lord. And that's why partly why I
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  encourage you. Look at the promises of God and
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  ask yourself, is this something that I can hold on to?
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  His is something I really believe in my life?
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  And because, you know what, you have Christians, you ask them.
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  Well, what are the promises that Jesus purchased?
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  Will he forgive me of my sins for all for all of you?
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  That's wonderful. That's great.
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  You have eternal life. That's the foundation and yet
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  they're Limited in that, understand it, they don't know
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  what else. What else, the Lord in his?
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  Will he signed off on and gave and put into your hands that you
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  can take to the bank and say this is mine and I want to know
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  it. Can I give you an example?
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  First Thessalonians 5, 16 to 18, you don't have to turn there if
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  you want to you can. This is what I'm trying to talk
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  about Rejoice always. Pay attention Rejoice always
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  pray without ceasing. Give thanks in all circumstances
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  for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
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  Now, we took that and we put on T-shirts, We took that and we
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  put it on a nice writing font and we put it on a wall
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  somewhere. I want to know what in my life.
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  You know what? I take from that verse those two
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  verses Rejoice always pray, without ceasing give, thanks in
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  all circumstances because of the will of Jesus Christ.
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  I can no Perpetual uninterrupted.
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  Joy communion with God and gratitude in all things.
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  Now, either we're satisfied to put it on it.
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  T-shirt and wear it at a conference or drink it out of
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  our coffee or coffee cup. Whatever.
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  Or we can say Lord, if this is what you purchased it this is
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  your will I want to know it? Take me there.
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  Empower me to know continual Joy, continual communion with
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  you unending. Gratitude unto you.
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  This is what I'm trying to say. I hope this is coming off clear
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  here. That is experiential, theology.
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  that's something that you and I can actually tap into But if you
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  require Faith the same way that it required faith for Joshua to
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  get in and David to go beyond all the way to the border and to
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  live in abide where God had brought him for you.
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  And I are not going to grow much in the Lord you and I are not
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  going to grow much in the Lord. You know, it's amazing.
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  When you look at This is all over the scripture and this is a
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  verse that many mostly Prosperity preachers have taken
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  out of context, but I want to read it to you and 3, John
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  third, John, third Epistle of John, verse 2.
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  It's a greeting that he gives to Gaius and John says, beloved.
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  I pray that it all may go well with you and that you may be in
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  good health as it goes well with your soul other translations,
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  actually, most word-for-word translations, don't say may go
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  well with you. What would he say?
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  Say Scott. That you may Prosper.
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  That's when the prosperity preacher.
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  See God wants you to prosper and all things and in your health
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  and the focus is on the wrong thing.
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  What John is saying to Gaius is I want everything in your life
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  to be as prosperous as your soul is.
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  Ask yourself this question if my physical health. if there is a
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  reverse of the take place that my spiritual health was to
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  replace my physical health, how healthy would actually be That's
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  a good question, isn't it? Would my physical world be
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  prosperous if the prosperity of my soul were to translate into
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  that and that a wonderful question.
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  There are a lot of people who might be prospering physically
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  prospering in this, prospering even in health.
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  But their soul is all shriveled up and their spiritual
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  skeletons. But what that also shows me is
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  that God Longs for our souls to prosper that our walk with him.
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  And all the spiritual blessings would overflow.
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  We just overflow. That's what he desires for us.
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  But yet many Believers, John, wouldn't able to say that to
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  them? And that's a sad place to be.
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  And part of the reason why is because like Zaba there are
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  obstacles in our way, there's an enemy who doesn't want us to
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  prosper in such a way and we have to be willing to say,
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  whatever the flesh tries to do all the fears and seductions.
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  I'm willing to go against it just like David did with this
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  faux so that I can be where God wants me to be.
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  And so, let me give an example. How that looks, I look at
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  Rejoice, always, pray, without ceasing give, thanks in all
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  circumstances and I pray it, I pray those verses.
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  I said, Lord, either your Trading.
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  Here are my faith is not great. Either either, this is not true,
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  it's just poetic license or I'm satisfied in something less than
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  what you are bringing here before me.
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  And this text I want to be one who can always Rejoice.
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  I want to be able to walk day by day with all that I have to do
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  and still have my heart connected with you.
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  I want to be able to genuinely give, thanks in all
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  circumstances. Even if my health is not
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  prospering, even if things are falling apart, I want my soul to
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  prosper. Brothers and sisters be inspired
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  to walk in that. Don't settle for anything less
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  the Lord made a great purchase for it.
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  Now, notice what I was David did in verse 4 of second Samuel 8
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  and David took from him at Seventeen hundred Horsemen
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  20,000 foot soldiers and David hamstrung all the Chariot horses
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  but left enough for a hundred chariots.
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  Why is that important detail? So in other words, he took all
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  the Chariots of Zorba and he slit the back of their legs, the
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  horses. So they would be unable to Even
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  move. Insignificant detail.
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  No. Do you know why the Bible is
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  telling us that David did this? Because the Holy Spirit wants to
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  show us that David meticulously obeyed the law of God as a king
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  ring, a bell. Ring a bell.
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  No. Okay.
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  Where was probably the most explicit set of commands that
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  God had given for the nation of Israel concerning their kings.
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  Deuteronomy chapter 17, remember that you're not supposed to have
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  many wives, That's what's required, much gold or silver
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  and there was another one You remember now, right Deuteronomy
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  17. 16 this was a law for kings and in Deuteronomy 17, 16 only
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  he must not acquire many horses. For himself or caused the people
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  to return to Egypt. In order to acquire many horses
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  since the Lord has said to you, you shall never return that way
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  again. David is obeying that law when
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  he comes to his Oba and he kills these horses, He is trying to
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  avoid which is encouraging and disappointed the same time
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  because when it came to the not acquiring many wives, he seemed
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  to just ignore that verse. I don't know why but he did and
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  it's really speaks about our willingness to pick and choose
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  things that we like. And that we favor David is
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  obeying God in this way in this aspect.
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  He is why did God give this command to the Kings?
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  Exactly Psalm 20 verse 7. You don't have to turn there but
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  it just a reference David said some trust in chariots.
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  Some trust in horses. But we will trust in the name of
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  the Lord. David understood the principle
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  of this restrictive. Command.
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  Don't acquire many horses because I don't want you to
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  become overly dependent upon your military strength, namely
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  this advanced technology of the day these chariots I don't want
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  you to rely on that. I want you at all times to rely
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  on me. So so reserve the Temptation by
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  removing yourself from acquiring.
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  These things and remain in the place of dependency on me.
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  Now that's specific to Kings but the principle is the same for
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  all of us today especially in a day where things are very
• 42:52
  unstable, right? And and the Temptation part of
• 42:56
  spiritual warfare is for the enemy, to try to lure, you to
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  place, your trust in something. Other than God, it could be a
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  person. It can be a set of possessions.
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  It can be politics, that's part of spiritual warfare because the
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  moment, we place our faith in something else to provide to
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  empower We dishonor God and we cut off the the blessings that
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  come through the channel of Faith.
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  So it's a wonderful strategy on his part.
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  And so be careful. Believer.
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  Where does your rest come from in your mind?
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  Where's your emphasis in this time of history?
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  Is that money? Is that weapons?
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  Is it possessions? What is it?
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  Now it would be unwise to say that.
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  We're so Heavenly minded were floating through this world and
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  we don't touch anything on Earth.
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  He didn't say don't acquire horses, completely, not many
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  horses important. In other words, don't let the
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  weight of your trust fall into these things.
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  But in all things, keep your eyes on me and realize that I'm
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  the very thing that can take care of the very limited things
• 44:04
  that you have and move you where exactly you need to be that's
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  the attitude of the believer. And so you and I have to
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  understand that though this was for Kings as Sons and Daughters
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  of the king is still true for us as well.
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  And David understood that he obeyed.
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  And he moved forward. Now, let's come to verse 5.
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  Verse 5, he deals with the syrians, right?
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  And when the syrians of Damascus came to help out at had as their
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  king of Zaba. David struck, 22,000 of them.
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  The connection between David's Warfare with the syrians, has to
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  do with the syrians in Alliance with Joe Buck tried to help them
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  and David's like bad move and he kills them.
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  Now I'm not going to elaborate on that because it's going to
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  complement the next, the next nation that he deals with.
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  So let's just move to verse 9. Out of all the list of enemies.
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  This one stands out the most. Tall.
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  I king of hamath heard that David had defeated the whole
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  Army of had it as her. And what does he do?
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  He sent his son. Joe.
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  I'm the king of the tooth King David to ask about his health
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  and to bless him because he fought against had it as, ER,
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  and defeated him. The reason why this king is
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  unique, why? Because there's no Warfare here,
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  there's no battle. There's no retaliation.
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  Toy realizes, Who David is what he's capable of doing?
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  And he pledges his allegiance to him by expressing gratitude, and
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  a desire for Peace by supplying these resources.
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  Wise man. Very wise man.
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  And he possesses a wisdom that many Unfortunately today, lack
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  to their own detriment. And the wisdom that he had was
• 45:51
  the ability to recognize that no one can resist God's program.
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  That's what he realized. No one can resist God's purposes
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  on the earth, so I will surrender.
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  Now, I'm not going to be as silly as the syrians who thought
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  that they can actually put up a fight against the anointed one.
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  The foolishness of the syrians as we just read was that after
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  seeing how did Ezra fall apart and seeing that their
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  Confederacy was week, instead of falling on their face, he puts
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  up a fight and he still is Williams to actually resist
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  something that is in conquerable.
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  That is a picture of the stubbornness of Sinners today,
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  right? They see how the world does.
• 46:39
  In fact, fail them how their their plans, their ideas, leave
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  them dry, and always lie to them.
• 46:46
  And yet still, they're willing to fight against the truth and
• 46:51
  they're willing to put their hand up against the Lord say, I
• 46:54
  want nothing to do with you. You are my enemy.
• 46:59
  And what they will realize is, they should have done what this
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  King did. Two, why didn't necessarily give
• 47:06
  himself over to David out of fear?
• 47:10
  The motivating factor was that he saw, what David was able to
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  do against his enemy. How did Heather was told eyes
• 47:17
  enemy and he saw what he was able to do and he goes It's
• 47:23
  incredible. You are the true king.
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  No one can actually come close to what you're capable of doing.
• 47:31
  You were able to solve what I had a lifetime to deal with.
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  Take it all, that's what he's doing here.
• 47:39
  How much more, right? Look at verse 9.
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  When he heard that David had defeated a whole Army.
• 47:46
  When he heard that news, his heart was stirred to joyfully
• 47:51
  surrender to King David, okay? That is a gospel.
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  Truth tucked into a war archive in the Old Testament.
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  That when the World Hears that the son of David in the person
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  of Jesus Christ has defeated the enemy of all of humanity,
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  namely, the king of Terrors death, the appropriate response
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  is this, there is no one like you.
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  You have the power to overcome sin and the grave.
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  You have my allegiance. Take all that.
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  I have it belongs to you. I want to be at peace with the
• 48:30
  Prince of Peace. And so he does surrender out of
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  a joy and an understanding in a revelation that he is good, and
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  he is powerful, and he is able to subdue that which seems
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  impossible to us. That is the drawing power of the
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  Gospel. That is, it's not just you, you
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  want to go to hell, get out of hell here, part of it, part of
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  it, some do need to escape with fear from the Flames.
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  That's what Jew tells us. But generally it's the goodness
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  of God. That leads us to repentance.
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  It's when we realize that we are sick and broken and defeated and
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  here's the great physician who comes to put his foot on the
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  neck that seems to have their hand on our neck.
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  And people say, I want to worship this King, I want to
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  give tribute to this King and it says he blessed David.
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  And we should bless the Lord. All the days of her life.
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  Look at verse 11 and 12 quickly. We're almost there.
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  These also King David dedicated to the Lord, And then verse 12,
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  we read from Edom, Moab the ammonites the Philistines
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  amalek. and from the spoil of had it, as of the sun, Ivory
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  hope, king of Zorba, we know enough about amalek To
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  comprehend how significant this is right.
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  Another ancient enemy to the people of Israel, but more
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  importantly, David's predecessor failed to do what David did here
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  and that was to subdue amalek. And to have dominion over this
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  enemy. And when you look at him like
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  listed here, you have to understand.
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  That there is something. To say in light of Believers
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  comparably. What do I mean by that?
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  You have two kings David and Saul who serve the same God And
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  went up against the same. Enemy with two totally different
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  outcomes in life. Right.
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  Two kings. Same God, same enemy to
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  different outcomes. In fact, do you want to know how
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  close? Saul had it to David's life
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  quickly stopped there? But go.
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  To First Samuel 14. I want you to see some.
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  It's quite amazing first. Samuel 14 and look at verse 47.
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  This is, this is Saul's catalog of the enemies that he went up
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  against, you're going to notice something.
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  In 1st, Samuel 1447. When saw had taken the kingship
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  over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side,
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  every side, right against Moab against the ammonites against
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  Edom, against the kings of soba, and against the Philistines.
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  Wherever he turned here out of them, are those the same?
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  Are they not the same? They're the same.
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  So, let's not get into this. David had it easier.
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  David hat was more of a warrior than same enemies.
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  Same God, same promises. Same assignment.
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  Different outcomes. You can have two Believers
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  professing Christians born again at the same time they have the
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  same Bible. They come to the same church.
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  They hear the same teaching. They have the same devil to
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  fight against their living in the same corrupt World in
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  journeying through it. They have the same Holy Spirit
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  and yet two different outcomes throughout the years.
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  Not true. It is true, right?
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  It is true. What's the difference?
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  Was amalek stronger with Saul weaker, would know.
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  David had a hunger, a faith, a drive, a humility.
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  That opened his life up to less tragedy and more treasure in
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  God, Saul clogged. Self-absorbed.
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  So busy fighting with his own Brethren.
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  He had little to no strength and mindfulness to fight against his
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  real enemy. And the trajectory of his life
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  was a disaster. He exited this world in a
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  humiliating way and it's nobody's fault except Sol's.
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  And I think when I look at this, as I read it even during the
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  break, you can have the same congregation.
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  They hear the same sermons. They have access to the elders
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  in the same way. They have the same loving,
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  family and yet. Over the years, two different
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  directions. Guess whose fault.
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  I say this in love. Not your leaders.
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  Do they have responsibility? Not God.
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  Not because you have a different Bible.
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  It's yours. You can have as much of God as
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  you want. You can actually grow from glory
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  to glory. But you have to make that
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  choice. And that's what I take from
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  this. David was able to overcome
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  amalek when Saul couldn't, and it's not because David had
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  something special. The only thing you had was a
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  heart that was split open and Brokenness before the Lord day
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  by day. That's it.
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  That's it. Now, we come to the final enemy.
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  verse 13 and 14 David made a name for himself when he
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  returned from striking down 18,000 edomites in the valley of
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  salt Then he put Garrison's and Edom through all eat him, he put
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  garrisons and all the edomites became David's servants and the
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  lord gave Victory to David wherever he went, who's Edom.
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  Yeah, he's so who's Esau? Jacob's brother, twin brothers.
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  And Esau unfortunately though he was a brother to Jacob
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  throughout the generations, only grew in bitterness instead of
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  Brotherhood. Esau Eden was known for his
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  pride, the prophets revealed that and that was really, his
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  downfall, his arrogance. And Edom was a little cruel, not
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  little, but actually cruel to Jacob because he was one of
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  those areas when the the the ones that came out of Exile,
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  want to pass through eating said, no way brothers and no
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  way. When we come here at this point,
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  it seems as though Edom, the reason why David goes to war
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  with Edom, you get a hint of why when you go to Psalm 16 you'd
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  have to turn there, you can read that on your own.
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  You get the impression that the edomites had the boldness to
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  actually occupy, what was promised to the sons of Jacob at
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  least in part. And so now they are, they're
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  trying to take up the regions that really Esau gave up to
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  Jacob. Remember he sold it all for a
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  bowl of Of soup. He despised his Birthright.
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  Jacob later, deceived him in terms of the father's blessing.
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  And Jacob is enjoying what God gave to him, Esau?
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  Perhaps because of that history, is looking at what Jacob is
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  enjoying and is now Crossing his own lines.
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  And David has a duty to protect what God had promised.
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  So he goes to war with Edom but what stands out from verse 14 is
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  the garrisons. He sets up Garrison's in Edom
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  but not just in Edom throughout all Edom.
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  So he plants these posts throughout where Edom was For
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  what purpose, what did Garrison's do?
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  And idea, what's the purpose of them?
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  Garrison's are really post with soldiers in it.
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  That's all they are. And for David to do this is for
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  his men to monitor supervise and ensure that there's no Revolt
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  that there's no Revival among the edomites to try to overthrow
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  David again and it keeps them in.
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  Check When it came to the edomites, David felt because he
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  was a master military genius. He knew that there was something
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  about the attitude and there was a feistiness with the edomites
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  that I have to plant my men in this region to keep watch on
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  them less, they turn around in a moment's time.
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  And we have a big issue on our hands.
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  The principal here in light of our spiritual warfare is the
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  call to watchfulness. It's the call to be aware and
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  alert, not just when you are are dealing with temptation.
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  You should be awake long before that, but even in times where
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  you feel like you're on cloud nine spiritually.
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  And to understand that, even though you might be enjoying,
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  what seems to be Rejoice. Always pray without ceasing
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  give, thanks in all circumstances.
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  Nothing can touch me. Nothing, can bring me down.
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  Even in those moments spiritually speaking.
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  Am I on guard? Because you have to be at all
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  times again. You have many Christians who
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  with the Philistines, they look at their sin, they're defeated.
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  And they come to church, and they come to talk to the
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  brothers. As, you know, I just it's
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  another day. I'm just struggling.
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  Pray for you. Don't really want to be set
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  free. It's clear.
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  It's obvious, right? But then you also have another
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  danger where somebody might be walking in growth and hunger of
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  the things of God, but they are not also.
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  In the place of strategy. And alertness and surveillance.
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  And that's a dangerous place to be as well.
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  And let me show you a verse and I think it's a wonderful place
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  to end. It's not in third, John, it's in
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  2nd John and it's in one verse and I think this is this is a
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  verse that I cherish in the category of my mind of warnings
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  of the Bible. Warnings are good, right?
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  Love warns. Some people say, love wins.
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  Have you heard of it? No, good.
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  Good love wins. There's no hell love wins.
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  Yeah, love wins. Love warns.
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  Love warns and into John 8. Pastor, John has a warning for
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  his readers. I like the way the ESV puts it.
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  What are the first? Two words?
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  Watch yourselves. Watch who Satan watch?
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  What your algorithm on tick-tock?
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  Watch yourselves, watch yourselves.
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  Why? So that you may not lose what we
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  have worked for. You know why?
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  David said of Garrison's? He didn't want to lose what he
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  worked for. Bo may win a full reward.
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  You have some Believers that want to just like yes sneak into
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  the gates. And you have other believers and
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  I believe, God wants every believer to come in.
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  Expecting a full reward. I don't want to go in with smoke
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  on my white garments because everything I did for the Lord
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  came to Ash when it was tested Through Fire.
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  I want to have something to bring to his feet.
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  At the end of it all you know what it's going to require watch
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  yourself, watch yourself. Watch yourself Timothy, keep a
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  close watch on your life, and your Doctrine, your life first,
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  and your Doctrine. Hey, if you're in this place and
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  you feel called to the ministry, you don't want Ministry.
• 1:00:03
  Really is. Do you want to know what
• 1:00:05
  full-time Ministry is? I'll give you a hint.
• 1:00:06
  It's a very if there's like a summary statement.
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  Is this ministry is the extension of your personal life.
• 1:00:13
  If I'm not real in real life, that what am I doing?
• 1:00:15
  Is a waste of time, right? Ministry is just an extension of
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  your life, being put on display as example to others.
• 1:00:24
  Watch yourself. What does that mean?
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  Let's end by conversation. How do you watch yourself?
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  Meditate day and night helps and the word be rude in The Witcher.
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  How do I watch myself? Pride.
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  Sure of Prides their but practically speaking.
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  What do I do to ensure that I am continually on watch Beautiful.
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  Measure your life in light of scripture.
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  Don't compare it to the other guy that's struggling all the
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  time, you're not going to get very far.
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  Who am I surrounded with? Who am I surrounded with?
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  Watch yourself, you know? Another way I watch myself I
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  always watch. My affections.
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  I always check Daniel. Where is your where are your
• 1:01:20
  affections for the things of God.
• 1:01:23
  I always check myself and my am I starting to get more excited
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  more, passionate more consumed with trivial things or am I
• 1:01:31
  growing and becoming warmer and warmer to the things of the
• 1:01:35
  spirit. I always that's how I always
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  watch myself. Watch - you know, another way.
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  This is just hopefully this helps.
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  I watch How I spend my time. I watch How I spend my time, I
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  look at my day-to-day schedule and from time to time, I do some
• 1:01:52
  inventory. And I think to myself how much
• 1:01:55
  time was I on this and how much time did I give to this?
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  The whole week and I actually, I watch myself you saying brother,
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  is that a way to live? It's a beautiful way to live.
• 1:02:07
  It's a beautiful way to live. If you're walking down, I don't
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  know why you would be there by on the south side of Chicago.
• 1:02:13
  Are you going to watch yourself? You're going to watch your
• 1:02:15
  environment, you just going to stick around on your phone and
• 1:02:17
  look around. No, you're going to watch,
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  you're going to be on alert. And this world is a terrible
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  place. It's filled with evil and
• 1:02:24
  Temptation and deception. Watch yourself.
• 1:02:27
  Watch yourself. Here's your assignment.
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  It's a very short one saying, when did we do assignments?
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  From time to time to spontaneous.
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  And your little Fellowship, ask yourself and ask others.
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  How do you watch yourself? And if you don't do it tonight,
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  maybe a part of your fellowship from time to time, I think.
• 1:02:47
  One way we watch ourselves as our brother said, is we have
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  others watch over us? Brother.
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  Keep a watch on me. Hold me accountable.
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  I said I would end there but let me end it and let me end here
• 1:03:01
  actually. There are two verses and our
• 1:03:03
  sister brought up earlier verse 6 and verse 14 and they both say
• 1:03:08
  the same thing and whenever we see repetition it's because the
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  Holy Spirit really wants to make a point clear?
• 1:03:13
  And here it is at the end of verse 6 and the lord gave
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  Victory to David wherever he went verse 14, the same thing at
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  the end and the lord gave Victory to David wherever he
• 1:03:21
  went. What's he trying to say don't be
• 1:03:24
  too impressed with David. This is God.
• 1:03:26
  This is God, all that David was able to do is because of God and
• 1:03:30
  all the things that you just heard watching yourself
• 1:03:33
  Garrison's. All these things that you all
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  these things that seem overwhelming know this God will
• 1:03:39
  help you. God will help me, God is with us
• 1:03:45
  and David was so aware of the supplying mercies of the Lord
• 1:03:50
  that he could not help. But return with praise and
• 1:03:53
  turned to say, Lord every spoil has your name on it.
• 1:03:58
  Has your name on it. We can know such a Grace from
• 1:04:02
  God in our victories, that it would be a means by which we
• 1:04:06
  worship him. And I hope you believe that,
• 1:04:09
  I'll be believe that we're in a war.
• 1:04:12
  I'm happy that I'm in the trenches with you.
• 1:04:16
  And I hope we can do that for life.
• 1:04:17
  Let's pray. Lord, we are overwhelmed by the
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  gems. that had been uncovered today, we are Moved by how your
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  work can speak. with surgical precision and Lord tonight, our
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  flesh may be weak, but we long to still give you praise with
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  whatever is left and we asked, oh Lord, That you would help us
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  know all that you have for us. all the Great Heights and the
• 1:05:09
  depths, and the breaths that have been made possible because
• 1:05:15
  of the cross of Jesus Christ, And Lord, when we see those
• 1:05:20
  commands that seem to be too good to be true.
• 1:05:22
  Like Rejoice, always pray without ceasing give, thanks in
• 1:05:25
  all circumstances. May not meet skepticism but
• 1:05:30
  faith faith in our hearts to say, oh Lord, I want that.
• 1:05:35
  I want to know what it means to pray for my enemies.
• 1:05:40
  I want to know what it means to love.
• 1:05:42
  Those who curse me. Lord, help us know these great
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  areas that seem foreign to us but are possible to explore.
• 1:05:53
  We worship you tonight, as a church in love with your word
• 1:05:57
  and love with the word. The person of Jesus.
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  Amen. Let's stand together and Worship
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  the Lord. The person of Jesus.
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  Amen. Let's stand together and Worship
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  the Lord.