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January 25 - 1 Samuel 19 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, It's Sean here, and it is so good that you have
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  chosen this moment to invite me into your day.
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  I wonder where you're at, what you're up to, how you're going.
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  Are you just starting out the day and this is as your brain
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  wakes up? Or is this as you are in the car
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  driving somewhere? Or perhaps you are going for a
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  job? Good for you if you are
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  currently exercising. I am not.
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  Well, it's hard to read the Bible while exercising, which is
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  the beauty of podcasts, but but wherever you are at the
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  beginning, middle, or end of your day, busy, active, or
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  chilled, great to have your company.
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  As we will read another chapter of God's Word together.
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  And as we read, we will be learning more about this young
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  man named David, and in doing so, learning more about what God
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  has planned for his kingship over our lives and how Jesus
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  wants to be king. In your heart and mine, and over
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  each person who walks the face of this earth, we have a big,
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  loving God and King, my friends, and it is so great that we can
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  come before him this morning. Come, Holy Spirit, Teach us,
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  Shape us. Use your word to bring us closer
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  to you. Well, with all that said, let's
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  read, shall we? First Samuel, Chapter 19.
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  Saul now urged his servants and his son Jonathan to assassinate
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  David. But Jonathan, because of his
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  strong affection for David, told him what his father was planning
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  tomorrow morning. He warned him he must find a
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  hiding place out in the fields. I'll ask my father to go out
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  there with me and I'll talk to him about you.
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  Then I'll tell you everything I can find out.
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  The next morning, Jonathan spoke with his father about David,
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  saying many good things about him.
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  The king must not sin against his servant David, Jonathan
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  said. He's never done anything to harm
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  you. He has always helped you in any
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  way he could. Have you forgotten about the
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  time he risked his life to kill the Philistine giant and how the
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  Lord brought a great victory to all Israel as a result?
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  You were certainly happy about it.
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  Then why should you murder an innocent man like David?
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  There is no reason for it at all.
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  So Saul listened to Jonathan and vowed as surely as the Lord
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  lives, David will not be killed. Afterward, Jonathan called David
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  and told him what had happened. Then he brought David to Saul,
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  and David served in the courts as before.
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  War broke out again after that, and David led his troops against
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  the Philistines. He attacked them with such fury
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  that they all ran away. But one day, when Saul was
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  sitting at home with a spear in hand, a tormenting spirit from
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  the Lord suddenly came upon him again.
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  As David played his harp, Saul hurled his spear at David, but
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  David dodged out of the way and leaving the spear stuck in the
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  wall, he fled and escaped into the night.
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  Then Saul sent troops to watch David's house.
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  They were told to kill David when he came out the next
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  morning. But Michael, David's wife,
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  warned him if you don't escape tonight, you will be dead by
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  morning. So she helped him climb out
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  through a window, and he fled and escaped.
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  Then she took an idol and put it in his bed, covered it with
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  blankets and put a cushion of goat's hair at its head.
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  When the troops came to arrest David, she told them he was sick
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  and couldn't get out of bed. But Saul sent his troops back to
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  get David. He ordered.
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  Bring him to me in his bed so I can kill him.
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  But when they came to carry David out, they discovered that
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  it was only an idol in the bed with a cushion of goats hair at
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  its head. Why have you betrayed me like
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  this and let my enemy escape? Soul demanded of Michael.
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  I had to, Michael replied. He threatened to kill me if I
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  didn't help him, so David escaped and went to Rama to see
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  Samuel and he told him all that Saul had done to him.
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  Then Samuel took David with him to live in Naya off.
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  When the report reached Saul that David was in Naioth in
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  Ramah, he sent troops to capture him.
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  But when they arrived and saw Samuel leading, a group of
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  prophets who were prophesying, the Spirit of God came upon
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  Saul's men, and they also began to prophecy.
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  When Saul heard what had happened, he sent other troops,
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  but they too prophesied the same thing happened a third time.
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  Finally, Saul himself went to Ramah and arrived at the great
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  well in Seco. Where are Samuel and David?
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  He demanded. They are in Neath in Rama,
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  someone told him. But on the way to Naioth in
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  Ramah, the Spirit of God came even upon Saul, and he too began
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  to prophecy. All the way to Nayon, he tore
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  off his clothes and lay naked on the ground all day and all
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  night, prophesying in the presence of Samuel.
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  The people who were watching exclaimed.
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  What Is even Saul a prophet? Jesus, we thank you that you
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  have a plan for us, and that plan is good.
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  And your plan didn't begin when we got out of bed this morning,
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  but your plan began aeons ago. So many generations ago you were
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  preparing the way to come and save us, and that we could live
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  this life in your presence, growing in our relationship with
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  you and in our service of you, our Triune God.
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  You are amazing and our small human minds.
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  As much as we try to understand just how vast your plans are and
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  how deep your love is for us, we just cannot do it.
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  So we just surrender to Your magnificence and enormity, and
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  we love you and we are grateful for you.
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  And it's in your name we pray all of these things.
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  Jesus. Ah man.