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1 Samuel 15 (Part 2) Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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Meet me in first Samuel chapter 15, please.
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I thank God that there are writers that are going back to
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the deep end of the Bible to write songs with Rich truths.
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I'm sure you agree with that. Men for Samuel 15.
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And I spray one more time together.
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Father, we thank you for this Bible study.
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We thank you that your word is true.
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Every promise every command Every fact, every every portion
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is true. Lord, we ask now that by the
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power of your Holy Spirit, you would teach us You would help
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us, not just understand, but retain and not just retained,
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but translated into action in our lives, Lord, we pray for an
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unusual sense of your presence unusual sense of your glory
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Lord, make everything else disappear Even in our own lives
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and let us Feast at the table. We ask God that you would lead
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us in our hearts and our emotions in our thoughts and all
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things to see the glory majesty and the wisdom of God.
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In this Bible study, we give you all the glory in Hence, we thank
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you Lord that we can come here freely and receive from you.
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We pray that the ministry of the word would be assisted by the
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power of the spirit, nothing of the flesh.
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Nothing of self Christ, and Christ alone, and Jesus name, we
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pray. Amen.
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First Samuel 15. This chapter is just way too
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dense to covered and in one sitting.
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So we are part 2 and we only covering six verses in this
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Bible study and so let's read from verse 10 down to 16.
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The word of the Lord came to Samuel.
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I regret that I have made Saul King for.
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He has turned back from following me and has not
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performed my Commandments and Samuel was angry.
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And he cried to the Lord all night and Samuel Rose early to
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meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel saw came
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to Carmel and behold he set up a monument.
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I meant for himself and turned and passed on and went down to
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gilgal and Samuel came to Saul and Saul said, to him blessed be
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you to the Lord, I have performed the Commandment of the
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Lord and Samuel said, what then, is this bleeding of the sheep in
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my ears and the lowing of The Oxen that I hear, saws said they
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have brought them from the amalekites for the people.
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Spared the best of the sheep and The Oxen to sacrifice to the
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Lord, your God and the rest. We have devoted to destruction.
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Then Samuel said to Saul stop, I will tell you what the Lord said
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to me this night and he said to him, speak a reminder for us
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tonight in this Bible study that this chapter illustrates for us,
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one of the strongest illustrations, one of the
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greatest examples, In The Narrative of the Old Testament
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and the new even for that matter of what true obedience is and
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what obedience is not. And that is given to us through
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the life of this man named King Saul.
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Obedience is not an optional or a suggestive way of life for the
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Christian. Obedience is what frames our
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relationship with God? After we put our trust in Christ
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obedience, qualifies our service for God, obedience is what will,
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determine whether we will experience certain rewards.
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Not just in this life and the life to come and obedience.
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Shirley Determines the effectiveness of Our Testimony
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before men. Obedience is crucial.
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And what we see here is a man who thought he obeyed but didn't
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really obey. In fact, we're learning here of
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the failures of a man who claims to obey God.
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And as we continue in this chapter, we will not only see a
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man who was blatant in his Rebellion.
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But a man who responded to his sin in a way in which further
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confirms that he was not truly the man of God that he claimed
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to be because it's one thing to not sin.
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But also, it reveals much of who you are.
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When we do send, how we respond to it and saw Will demonstrate
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the wrong way of doing. So there will be many, other
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lessons tucked into these verses, but this is Bible study.
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So we want to study and take our time, notice in verse 10, the
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word of the Lord came to Samuel, meaning God, spoke to Samuel,
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because God was the one who saw saws Disobedience when Samuel
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didn't see it. And this is what Samuel heard.
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Maybe he was laying in bed. Maybe he was in his living room,
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we don't know where he was at, but he heard from God and God
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said, I regret that I've made saw King.
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I regret that I made Saul King. Probably have a couple people in
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here who have the King James instead of the word regret.
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What word is used in the King James.
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I repented it. Repenteth me that I have made
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Saul King correct. Now, let's go with the ESV and
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other modern translations and the King James.
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How do we reconcile the character of God?
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The nature of God being omniscient, all-knowing.
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And this concept presented to us in this verse that.
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He apparently regretted making a decision implying that he
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perhaps did not know what saw was going to do before this
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moment. Anointing him as king and
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realizing. Maybe I made the wrong choice.
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How do we reconcile that? And how do we reconcile with the
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King James understanding repenteth?
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We know God is perfect. He doesn't make mistakes, but we
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are being told. If we don't understand the
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deeper meaning of it, that maybe he did make a mistake by
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electing Saul as king. How would you answer that?
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How can God regret? How can God regret?
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Any ideas? Say that again.
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Very good. Did you guys catch that?
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It's God's way of revealing and expressing to us.
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What he feels with, anybody being disagreement with that.
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Would anybody be an agreement to that?
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I see some heads. Nodding there are certain
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descriptions used for God in the Bible called anthropomorphism
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's. Have you heard that fancy term?
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Before that term simply means that the Holy Spirit uses.
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Human language to Define God's expressions in order for us as
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limited creatures to be able to relate to him through those
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words and those terms. So these anthropomorphisms, our
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bodily The eyes of the Lord. The arm of the Lord, these
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things are languages to help us understand something, the, the
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visual of his actions. And they're also under the
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category of Personality terms emotions and things like this
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regretting. And so what we understand from
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this is not that God actually regret, like I didn't see this,
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coming, what we see is, God, opening himself to us and
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providing a frame of reference so that we can understand
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something of who Is and what he's like, for God to say, I
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regret invites us into what he felt In This Moment.
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About saw in his actions, we don't serve a god that is void
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of emotion. He's not in heaven, just
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evaluating and and he's stoic. And he stiff and he just, he
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just determines things without any any pulse, any feeling know.
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He has great feelings, deep feelings.
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And in this place, he feels the pain.
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He feels the pain and he wants us to share in that pain with
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him to understand that the actions of men actually hurt the
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heart of God. Now, if we go with the King
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James rendering that, it repenteth me.
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Now when you hear repentance when we preach repentance, what
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are we telling people to do? Turn from what sin now.
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Repentance in the Greek, who knows the word?
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Metanoia doesn't just mean change of action.
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It actually means what change of mind.
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So, we do believe repentance is a turning of action, but it
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begins in a changing of way of thinking, well, we call people
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to repentance what we're saying is change the way you think
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about Sin. Change the way you think about
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your sin and as a result of changing the way you think about
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Sin, then you will turn from your sin and begin to walk in
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accordance to God's ways in his will but man repents differently
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than God repents when man repents he changes his attitude
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about Sin. When God repents he changes his
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attitude about a man and what he feels about a man.
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God, never repent of sin. We know that he's perfect but
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God does repent. He does have a change of mind
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when man chooses to sin and how God feels about that man or that
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woman. And so in the King James, you
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would read it in Genesis 6:1 when he describes the situation
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going on on the earth with all the violence and the perversion,
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and Noah's day it says, and it repented the Lord that he had
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made man on the Earth. It repented the Lord that he had
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made man on the earth. Meaning what?
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I made a mistake by making these humans.
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Know he changed his thoughts, he changed his attitude.
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He changed his heart posture about, man.
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Not about Sin in his own heart. So that's what we see here, we
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see it. Clear, but what's interesting
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about this verse is that we don't just learn about how God
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feels about Sin. Listen, we learn about how
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Samuel feels about Sin. I regret that I made Saul King
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for his turn, back from following me and has not
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performed my Commandments. And then it says here and Samuel
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was angry. And Samuel was angry and he
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cried to the Lord all night. Other translations would say
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what Samuel was what grieved? An ASB, who has an ESB word.
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What's the word used distressed? ESV angry.
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I believe that, yes, we got it right.
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When you go to the Hebrew Cara. I believe is the word of for not
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Daniel Bennett will rebuke me later if I got it wrong.
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Good, I passed. To be hot to be furious to burn
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with anger. Now let me ask you this.
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How many people today respond to sin, in like manner?
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How many people today, do you think in the church and get
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angry about Sin? We are more willing to tolerate
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Disobedience than be upset about it.
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And when somebody gets upset about it, we get upset with
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them. Samuel was angry, he was mad.
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I'm sure his face turned red. I'm sure he paced back and forth
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in his room. I'm sure he expressed himself in
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the presence of God. It's okay to be angry if it's
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righteous anger. Now, I know the other side where
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people get angry and they say it's righteous anger, when it's
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really unjustified anger. And we see a balance here with
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Samuel. Samuel was angry, but here's the
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other side and he cried to the Lord all night, there's the
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compassionate side, there's a humility.
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There's the Brokenness. There's a realization that sin
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can affect all of us. Even a king.
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There is his intercession for the very man that he was angry
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with because he had sinned against God.
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So blatantly He was angry. Why do you think Samuel was
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angry? You know, the foundational
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framework for knowing god is by being biblically sound.
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And feel a logically accurate. There is no debate about that.
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You can't claim to know God, if you don't know his word, But
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Samuel proves knowing god is, is greater than that.
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It's not just knowing the word, there's another factor that
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measures. How a man or woman knows.
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God, not just knowing what he says, but you feel what he
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feels. You feel what he feels and what
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angers him angers you and what Grieves him will grieve you.
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And what pleases him will excite you?
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And Samuel here is proving that when you are close to God and
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this man was close to God. He had a prayer life, unlike
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very few When Samuel was angry, it was a reflection that he
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shared God's pain and frustration and it was
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completely righteous. Would you like proof to know
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that when you get to know God, you will feel what he feels.
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Here's a couple scriptures, Moses a man who's spent time
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with God as a man who spoke to someone face to face when Moses
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was up on that mountain getting the law of God.
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The Israelites were like, Pastor.
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Moses is taking a while. Let's have a party.
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They make it an idol and they dance around naked and they
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commit gross sexual acts with one another.
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While Moses is getting the next steps for the people of God, and
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is programmed for this nation. God brings it up to Moses and it
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says, clearly that he burned with anger got burned with
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anger, and then we read in Exodus. 32.
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And as soon as he came near verse 19, the camp and saw the
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calf and the dancing Moses anger burned hot.
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And he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the
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foot of the mountain. Why was Moses angry?
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Because God was angry. Why was Moses so frustrated?
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Why was he ready to discipline and a righteous way?
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As a leader? Because he knew God's heart, his
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feelings were filtered by God's feelings.
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I don't know. Brother anger anger is not is
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not right? I don't think you're, I think
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you're digging too much into the text.
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Okay, let's go with Jeremiah 1517.
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Here's a prophet. And look what Jeremiah says in
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that amazing chapter in Jeremiah 1517.
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I did not sin in the company. Revelers, nor did I Rejoice, I
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sat alone because your hand was upon me for you had filled me
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with indignation, Satan filled me with indignation.
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My Flesh filled me with, indignation know.
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You filled me with indignation, oh, you want God's hand on your
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life? Yeah.
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God, lay your hand on my life. Used me fill me.
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Clothe me. You might just get angry.
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You might get angry at all the perversion in the world.
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You won't sit back lightly. See why the world is
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desensitized by the media, and by the Casual approach of not
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just the world, but even those in the church you spend time
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with God, you sit alone with God.
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You go to the mountain and sit at God's feet.
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And you opened this word, you get a prayer life and you will
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feel things that the average person will not feel.
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You will sense things that the average person will not Sense.
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On top of that, you might be criticized for it.
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But I'm telling you this, a man who knows, God doesn't just know
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what he says, he knows what he feels.
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Does wickedness bother you tonight?
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This compromising Christianity. Eat at your soul.
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When you know, somebody likes, all who has had so many chances,
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yet continues to rebel against God, with such an influence in
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such a platform. Does it ruin your day?
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At least in part? Do you feel the weight of it?
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These men did these men did. But remember the balance, they
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also knew how to cry out to God for them.
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Have mercy. Lord, knew something about this
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intervene. Heal them convict them.
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They didn't go out and whip people into their place, but
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they did feel something. Samuel was angry and he cried to
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the Lord, all night, verse 12, and Samuel Rose early to meet
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saw, seems like somebody wants to deal with the sin issue once
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and for all seems like these not waiting, he's not delaying,
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we're going to deal with this right here right now.
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He rises showcasing his willingness, and his eagerness
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to try to confront this and deal with it.
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And it was told Samuel salt came to caramel so he's trying to
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find about where the whereabouts of Saul is, he's asking
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questions that somebody comes up says, you know, he was in Carmel
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before he went to gilgal and he actually set up a monument for
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himself. I mean there's something wrong
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with this guy. Here he is claiming victory over
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the amalekites, and the first thing that comes to his mind
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before he even goes back to where he needs to.
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Go back is to set up a permanent plaque with his name.
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So that the rest of the nation for generations to come would
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realize saw was the one who had this Victory saw was the one who
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conquered the amalekites, the ancient enemy of Israel.
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And so this man from chapter 13, we read that not only is he
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willing to take the credit for his own son for defeating the
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Garrison of the Philistines and trumpet to the whole nation,
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Saul has defeated the Garrison of the Philistines.
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We now come to the place, we now come to such a low place, where
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Saul is ready to make a statue in his own name.
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And not take credit from his son.
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Take credit from God himself. Think about Bible study tonight,
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when was the last time we saw a man of God Performing a great
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victory over the same people group The amalekites think think
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when you're ready answer, if you feel confident Joshua?
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Yes, and who was over Joshua? Moses very good.
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Go to Exodus 17. This is where the whole issue
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with the amalekites even began. We remember that the amalekites
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were the first people to attack Israel, when they came out of
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Egypt. But we also know that there was
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a great blow against the amalekites and I want you to see
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an Is 17 the response of Moses to this victory in comparison to
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the response of Saul in this place, Exodus 17 verse 13.
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And Joshua overwhelmed amalek and his people with the sword.
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Then the Lord said to Moses, write this as a memorial and a
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book and recited in the ears of Joshua that I will surely blot
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out. Utterly blot out the memory of
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amalek from under heaven. Now look at the reaction verse
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15 and Moses built what an altar and called the name of it.
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The Lord is my banner. Wow.
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The Lord is my banner saying a hand upon the throne of the
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Lord. The Lord will have war with
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amalek from generation to generation.
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What did Moses built? And Altar and he called it, the
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Lord is my banner. What, it's all built a monument
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and he put his name on it. And the man turned his ministry
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into a monument. You see the difference?
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You see the difference between a man of God on a man who claims
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to be a man of God, one yearns and longs to make every
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opportunity to be about God being glorified and exalted in
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his life. What's the difference?
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The other, who claims to be a man of God takes every
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opportunity to use God for his own Glory.
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That's the difference. And that's what's Happening
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Here. Saul is using God for his own
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Glory. Moses was used by God for God's
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glory. And listen, if you will take,
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you're willing to take from God. What solely belongs to him, you
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are stealing. And you know what God says about
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thieves? And you know what God says about
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those who try to try to take his glory, when Isaiah tells us, I
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share it with no one saw was playing a very dangerous game
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and he's about to find out very quickly.
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How dangerous it is? But what's amazing here is that
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the contrast between solid Samuel, what was Samuel doing
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the night before, when he realized Saul sinned, he
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grieved, he cried. He was broken, he was shattered.
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What was Saul doing? Building a monument for his own
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name? See the response to this sin.
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Here's a man of God, that is broken over, someone else's sin
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and here's the man who's in sin, that is taking this opportunity
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to actually magnify himself. And what we see next year?
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Shows us the impression that this man was really deceived
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because of his own pride. In fact, what he's about to do
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next would actually perhaps impress the gullible.
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What he's about to say now, when Samuel confronts them might even
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trick. Those who don't understand that.
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Just because you say the right things, doesn't mean your heart
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is right before, God Verse 12 and Samuel Rose early to meet
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Saul. In the morning, we are told in
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verse 13 and Samuel came to Solly finally found him.
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I wonder what was going on through Sol's mine when he saw
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this old Prophet coming up the hill and I have a feeling that
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he didn't have a smile on his face.
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Samuel came to Saul and Saul said to him, this bug me when I
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read it It's bugging me. Blessed Be You To The Lord.
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I have performed the Commandment of the Lord good things.
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Samuel was praying all night before he met with this man. and
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that's important to actually highlight, because we're about
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to see how Samuel confront sin, and it provides wonderful
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lessons for us confronting sin. But before that, notice his
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greeting. Do such words hold any weight
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for someone who deliberately Rebels against God's word?
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There's someone here proved to be sincere.
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Do you read this and take this seriously?
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I hope not. Because this is flattery and not
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only, is it flattery. It's a an attempt to try to use
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spiritual phraseology to try to convince someone else of their
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personal spiritual condition, and worse than that trying to
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advance their personal agenda. Have you ever met somebody that
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talks like that? you see, when you try to talk
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like a spiritual person and you are not a spiritual person,
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person It doesn't fit you it's like you wearing a small shirt
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when everyone knows you're supposed to be wearing extra
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large. Stop doing that.
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And you think it's actually working to your purpose when all
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the while people can see right through it.
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Blessed Be You To The Lord, I have obeyed the Commandment of
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the Lord. What's all is doing here is what
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people try to do when they get around the pasture.
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Oh, it's spiritual people that are sincere followers of Christ.
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They just turn on the spiritual kind of attitude and they bring
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this vocabulary and they bring scripture references and
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everyone knows you're not that person.
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If you're discerning. And they try to persuade others
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of their purity and their passion for God.
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And let me tell you this, if you ever feel that Temptation, I
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want to help you overcome that Temptation once.
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And for all you will, you will never have to deal with that
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Temptation. If you just listen to this, you
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ready, get a real relationship with God.
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That's it. So, once a frog, get to his
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word, be broken in his presence, spent time with him.
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And guess what? You won't even have to think
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about how you're going to speak. You know what?
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In fact, let me tell you this, the truly spiritual Person is
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known as a spiritual person, when they're all the more
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natural. The most spiritual people.
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I know are very, very normal. And natural.
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They don't put on a face. They don't turn on the
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vocabulary. No, no, they are just them and
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even if they don't bring up scriptural references all the
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time and they don't quote things to them.
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They don't tell you about what they've done for God.
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It's amazing that you can sense this person truly Walks With
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God. One of my friends used to say
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this when I first got saved he goes, everybody usually has a
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realness detector in them. Not everybody.
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There's some people that are easily fooled, but anybody that
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spends time in the word of God, that knows God.
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That praised as a prayer life that walks in Holiness, he
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develop a discernment and I would recommend never trying to
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do this with a profit, by the way.
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But unfortunately, likes all people use the word of God and
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try to put on a spiritual mask to achieve a personal fleshly
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agenda. And there are times when people
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who greet you in the name of the Lord blessed be to the Lord and
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they even boast of their own Devotion to Lord, I have obeyed
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the Commandment of the Lord, when last night, they just send
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with no problem. Why are we still doing this?
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Because he thought that he could hide his Disobedience and he
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thought that he could cover it. in front of a prophet and you
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might You might be good at tricking.
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A pastor. You might fool your
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congregation. I promise you.
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You can't trick God, ever. And that's what we see here in
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verse 14. and Samuel said what then is this bleeding of the
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sheep in my ears and the lowing of The Oxen that I here, I love
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Prophets. See profits not just profits.
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Men of God, woman of God. Don't look at somebody's words
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only that's not the some evidence of who they are as a
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person, they evaluate your life. They look at the actions.
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They look at your social media. They look how you talk in
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different settings. They want to see consistency.
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And this man didn't buy it. This man wasn't persuaded.
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He wasn't flattered, he was looking at the evidence that was
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provided him. and what he does is quite incredible because he
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He questions him and he says, what, what is it that?
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I'm hearing them, I hear sheep and I hear ox.
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And why is that concerning? Because the commitment was
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Slaughter, every living thing among the citizens of men alike,
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Here is a man who is prayed up. And here is a man as I said
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earlier, who knew how to confront someone in their sin.
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You know what, so wise about what he's doing here is that he
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doesn't point and accuse immediately?
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He asked questions? And he allows the individual if
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they're honest enough to come to that conclusion for themselves,
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there are times in which the prophet or the Christian must
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call outs in immediately less that person put himself, or
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others in danger. But there is also a great
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wisdom, if we're trying to win somebody back to repentance.
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To like our Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ used Parables and
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questions to allow the person who is in the wrong, whether in
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judgment or indeed to come to the conclusion of where they
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stand on their own, there's great wisdom in that.
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So what is this, you're telling me blessed me that I obey the
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Commandment of the Lord. Then why am I seeing what I'm
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not supposed to be seeing? Why am I hearing what?
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I'm not supposed to be hearing. I just offer you that advice
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when you ever have to counsel someone or have a conversation
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with someone that might be. Her uncomfortable ask questions
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and let them Discover it if they're honest enough.
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But the principal here of Samuel confronting Saul's far greater
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than giving us, some kind of guidance and how we confront
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people in their sin. You ready for this?
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I hear the Sheep. I hear The Oxen this teaches us
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that, no matter how much you try to hide your sin, your sin will
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always find a way to tell on you.
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Always. Always. and I'll tell you this,
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I don't want to give credit to sin, but sin has a creative way
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of exposing people. There are many things that
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professing Christians claim to believe, I don't really believe
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a lot. And here's one of the things
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that many people don't actually believe about the word of God
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that when you try to Concealed unrepentant sin and hold on to
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it while bearing the testimony of Christ that God will expose
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you. You will.
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People don't believe that though people really don't believe
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that. I'm not talking about those who
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know that they're wrong and they want to confess.
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I'm not talking about those who are in wrong and eventually they
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confess, I'm talking about those who do not want to confess and
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are trying to navigate through life in a way that they can
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Harbor. Something that God says, that
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shouldn't be in your life. You want me to prove how I know
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that most Christians. Don't believe that this is true
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that God will pull the sheets. And expose somebody who claims
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to serve him go to Ecclesiastes, chapter 10.
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And look at verse 20 just as one example.
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Can you please remember this? If you do not confess your sin,
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whether it's a private sin before God or public sin before
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the ones that you've sinned against or send with.
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If you do not confess your sin, hear me sin will confess you.
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Ecclesiastes. 10:20 Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king.
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Nor in your bedroom, cursed, the rich for a bird of the air will
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carry your voice or some winged creature.
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Tell the matter. That's how I know most
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Christians, don't believe that God can actually reveal your
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sin. Because Solomon in his wisdom in
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his observation but more importantly inspired by the Holy
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Spirit. He warns about speaking evil
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against those who are in Authority namely Kings or those
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who are wealthy. But the truth extends to all
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people. And what he's saying here is
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that the slanderous and viciousness of our words though
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expressed in secret or perhaps through agreement of
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confidentiality when it is wicked in nature it will find
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its way to the ears of those that you did not. and to hear,
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And the hyperbolic language of birds and winged creatures.
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That's that's being used to say that there is mysterious and
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unforeseen means by which that is accomplished.
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We, you think to yourself? How did that get from here to
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there? Let me tell you how the walls
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have ears. And I'm using just one example
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of speech. I'm not talking about great sins
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that we would categorize, as gross sense.
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I'm talking about things like speaking in a way of which you
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plan to assault or degrade or destroy someone else.
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The Bible says the little birdie will hear what you say and we'll
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find a way to be able to pass it on to the person or persons that
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you did not intend to hear. I wonder if we really believe
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that how our conversations and private would be different.
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I wonder what personal Holiness would look like.
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I wonder what my time in my bedroom with the computer or my
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phone would look like if I really believe that.
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I wonder what my handling of money would look like when
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nobody else is watching. I wonder what my taxes would
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look like. I wonder what how wonder what
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Holiness would be if I really believe that God was everywhere.
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I was If you don't confess sin, God gives chances.
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I believe that God is a God who gives so many chances and and we
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can debate this But even when you when you hear these great
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scandals of great ministers, I believe before that fall or
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that, that exposure. There have been warning after
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warning after warning. Given to that person before.
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God said enough is enough. You cannot continue doing this
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in private. My name is at stake, you are
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hurting people and you're claiming to be my follower, my
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servant. Your sin will always tell on you
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when you try to Harbor it or justify it.
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And that's true in Proverbs 28:13.
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If you want a verse for Life years, one of them, whoever
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conceals his transgression will not prosper.
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But he who confesses and forsakes them will, obtain
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Mercy, whoever conceals his transgression, he try to take
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that beach ball and you try to stuff it into the water and
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you're saying I could keep it and relaxing you know you lose
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grip and it just shows up on the other end will not Prosper.
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You won't succeed. This is a law that no Sinner and
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secret has been able to overcome especially when that sin has to
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deal with someone else that you're sinning with or sinning
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against. Covering.
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Our sin has been woven in the fabric of our nature, since the
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fall. The first respond, one of the
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first response of Adam and Eve was to do what create clothing
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with fig leaves. And we've been trying to do it
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ever since We're trying to cover.
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We're trying to Shield were trying to hide and one of the
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ways that you can know if you're having victory over the old
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Adam, the old man in your life. One of the ways you can measure
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that is that you have a greater trust that you can't hide your
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sin. You have a greater Revelation
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that I can't actually. I can't build anything trick
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anyone. I can't do anything to maintain
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private iniquity in my life without God, doing something
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about it. That's one of the ways you know
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that you are growing in Holiness.
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Private sin becomes less of a reality, the notion that that
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can actually be true without any consequences dies and dies more
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and more Sal didn't have that. So what do we see here verse 15?
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Saul said, they have brought them from the amalekites for the
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people, spread the best of the sheep and of the rest, and of
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The Oxen to sacrifice to the Lord, your God, and the rest, we
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have devoted to destruction. And this man is now providing
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for us and we won't get into all of it.
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This this Friday, a series of ways of not dealing with sin
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that has been exposed. again, it's one thing for Holiness to
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be known in avoiding sin, but if we do sin, If we do sin, notice
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I said if not when, but if we do sin, those are the words of John
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and first John 2. How we respond to that sin also
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reveals where we stand with God? and when Samuel exposes him, And
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Samuel points out, the evidence saw gives this answer, isn't it
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sad? That's all interpreted the
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bleeding of the sheep much differently and Samuel did.
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Samuel heard it as Disobedience, solved that in.
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See it as that. Do you know why?
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Because that's what Pride does. Pride so deceives.
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You that even when the evidence of your wrongdoing through the
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word of God is brought before you, you don't see it.
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You're like, what's wrong with it?
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What's wrong with it? And pride is so ugly and strong
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in a person's life. They can never come to terms
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when they've done something wrong.
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They will go to all these different Avenues, before you
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get to the heart of the matter. And then actually saying, you
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know what? I have fallen short.
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That's what Pride does very difficult to deal with pride
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from Christian to Christian on a horizontal level and that's why
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God has to do with pride himself.
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God has to deal with a person who is so deceived that he
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cannot even see the wrong that he has committed.
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And so God will find a way to Humble him.
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The arrogance of Saul and his response shows that he can't
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even see sin as Sin. He can't even see it as a
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trespass. And look how he answers.
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I want you to see three points. Three highlighted insights to
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how he responds to Saul Samuel. Rather notice the first thing
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that he does. Number one, he blames others for
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his Disobedience. They have brought them from the
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amalekites. He's talking to his men were
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under him. As though he's not the
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commander-in-chief as though he's not the king who can rule
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over them and direct them as he wishes they have done it.
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Saul had no problem. Listen, Saul had no problem
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taking the credit from someone else when it didn't belong to
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him and he also had no problem giving the credit to someone who
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has done wrong or rather, when he's done wrong.
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He has no problem taking credit from somebody when he hasn't
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done right, and they have and he has no issue bouncing that
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credit to someone, when He's done wrong, not amazing.
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This man doesn't care that his sin has affected his
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relationship with God. All this man cares about is, how
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his performance is before men. That's all he cares about what
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his track record looks like on paper.
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And so he can easily say they have done it.
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He can easily say, I have done it when he hasn't done something
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good and can easily say they have done it when he's done
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something wrong. And that amazing, you want to
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know how this man is, exposing himself about how he has no
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relationship with God, keep reading look carefully.
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He says, they brought them from the amalekites for the people
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spared, the best of the sheep, and The Oxen, to the sacrifice
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to the Lord, who your God. Not my God.
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Your God, Samuel. See, we're doing this for your
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god. Oh, really?
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He's not your God. See through all the spiritual
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language. Something slipped out.
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Because eventually out of the abundance of the heart, the
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mouth speaks eventually you can close that and spray spiritual
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perfume all over. You can do whatever you want.
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Eventually the true you is going to come out your own heart will
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deceive you. And that's what's happening
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here. You're a God.
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I wonder if he caught it. I wonder what Samuel looked like
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when he said oh yeah my God, that is right.
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He is my God, it's definitely not yours.
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So what about all that spiritual talk?
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It was fake Hollow empty, it stunk had no value had nothing
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to offer. You're a God, blaming it on
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others, having no concern about how this is affecting his
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vertical. Only concern was how are men
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going to see me? I can't let people know that
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I've sinned against God. You think it was really that,
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number two, not just blaming others for this would be nice,
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but justifying the Disobedience. What does he say here?
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He says, they have brought them from the amalekites for the
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people spared, the best of the sheep and The Oxen to do, what
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to sacrifice to the Lord, your God.
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Here's a man who has framed his actions the way that many do.
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And unfortunately, some of the church that the, that the end
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justifies the means That The end justifies the means.
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And so if the goal is religious, it doesn't matter how we get
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there. If the goal is a spiritual goal,
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it doesn't matter what we have to, what we have to do and trick
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and kind of deceive, and it doesn't matter, because that's
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the goal. God does care about the means.
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God does care about the means. In fact, if the end is a
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righteous end and the means are wicked, that spoils the end.
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Anyway, And so let's look at this on a grander level.
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We can't preach on certain things because we want to bring
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people in. And when we bring them, then
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we'll talk about the hard subject.
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Let's just reel em in. Oh, really?
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You really think that once you fill the place in, then you're
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going to speak about the things that you weren't willing to
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speak about in the beginning. Do you see any person who tries
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to live their life in a way in which the end justifies?
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The means that is breeding ground for compromise, whether
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on a macro level or a Minor level.
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Here's proof. I'm going to marry her anyway.
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Babe, we're going to get we're going to get married.
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Anyway. So who cares?
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I mean, I'm going to put a ring on your finger.
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We're going to go to the altar. I got already revealed to me
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that you're the ones. Who, why don't we just mess
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around? Who cares?
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The end justify the means. We're going to sacrifice this to
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God. We're going to give this to the
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Lord, then it asks you to sacrifice it.
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The Lord asks you to kill it. And not only do people justify
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their Disobedience. Look, what's all does here?
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He actually distracts he attempts to distract Samuel from
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the Disobedience because what does he say in the end and the
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rest, we have devoted to destruction.
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See how he puts a exclamation mark, at the end of all this
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thing. So, yeah, Samuel look.
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We did keep his, but it's to sacrifice and say, did you
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notice that we destroyed everything else?
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Do you notice that that in the midst of all this, I know it's
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weird and it's confusing and it's chaotic.
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I know that it looks kind of looks kind of shady.
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But look at the good. Look at the good that we did.
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People are like that. People, when they are caught in
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sin and they are proud, will fish back to the past and try to
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resurface the good that they've done, thinking that that will,
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that will soften the seriousness of the present moment.
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Do you realize what I've done? For God, do you realize who I am
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do? You realize what you realize my
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history. So how can you, how can you do
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this to me? Now, how can you say that I'm
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wrong? Now, how can you say that?
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I'm in danger of discipline now? And so this is a distraction
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this is an attempt to say don't look at the wrong that I've
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committed. Look at the right that I've
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done. And yeah this is wrong but let's
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get over it. Come on.
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And you learned last week, you learned last week that God does
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not esteem obedience the same way a man does.
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If the man and his flesh was here.
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This, some would say, you know what?
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Yeah, it is one guy, a gag. I mean, you killed an entire
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people group. You left one guy.
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What's one guy really? What's one guy?
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You're right. Where's that Memorial?
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By the way I want to go see what you did.
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Let's go check it out. That's how men would see it.
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God says everything. And when God says everything,
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it's everything period. Full stop.
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By the way, notice what he said. He says in the beginning they
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have brought them from the amalekites, right?
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He blames the people. They brought them from the
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amalekites and how does he end it?
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But we have devoted them to destruction.
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Wow, this guy has issues. They have done the wrong but we
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have devoted them to destruction.
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Did they really? Do they actually destroy all the
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amalekites? How do you know?
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Somebody said something? The king, not just the king.
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I'm not talking about the king, because Samuel is about to kill
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The King, and I would have been mission accomplished.
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How do you know that Saul's even telling the truth here that he
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killed every single? Cuz, look at verse 20, come down
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to verse 20 with me And Saul said to Samuel, I have obeyed
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the voice of the Lord, I have gone on the mission on which the
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Lord sent me. I have brought a gag, the king
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of amalek and I have devoted the amalekites to destruction.
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So he's even claiming I have devoted every other amalekite to
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destruction, really Did he? Go few chapters later.
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Go to chapter 27. this is when David shows up on the scene.
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And what do we read in verse 8. Now, David and his men went up
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and made raids against the guess.
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She writes the girls Ides and who the amalekites for.
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These were the inhabitants of the land from of old as far as
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Shore to the land of Egypt. Well, while well, Looks like
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somebody didn't destroy all the amalekites.
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Even when he claimed to say I did because Samuel is going to
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kill the king and if he's the last of the last, how do they
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show up again, just in a few chapters?
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Somebody didn't do his job. So now we get an extra layer and
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understanding of how great this Disobedience was and God's eyes.
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It wasn't just that he left one, he lied about killing the
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others. This is serious and God is going
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to bring Swift discipline because of it.
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And notice what Samuel says in verse 16, that Samuel said to
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Saul stop enough. Enough is enough, man.
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The new King James says, be quiet.
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Because the tendency of those who are caught in sin and
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they're in the wrong and they don't want to confess his that
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they ramble on, they keep talking and they try to bring in
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all these different things to either manipulate the situation
48:35
or convince you otherwise or deflate a tense moment.
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So I can just imagine it based on this word stop.
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I can just imagine Saul saying, well you know what?
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They have done it, they've sent the amalekites and and we even
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brought them out so that they can dedicated to the Lord and we
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have devoted to this Russia and it's the same adjusted enough.
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Stop it. He says, I will tell you what
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the Lord said to me this night. If he asks him to be quiet, he
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asked them to stop okay? Because she's revealed enough
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your excuses, do not work. There's no way of justifying
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your Disobedience. Now what was the command?
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What was the command? Stop new King.
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James be quiet. Did he obey the command?
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No. because what he said at the end and he said them speak You
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couldn't even obey that command. Do you think the prophet needed
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your permission to say something he already told you?
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I'm going to say something. He didn't need you to say speak.
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He didn't need your Authority. He didn't need your green light.
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But what he needs the last word. What his pride wouldn't let him.
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I can't let Samuel get the last word.
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So when I say mrs. Enough stop.
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I will tell you what God Said Saul's like speak.
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Speak. And then he's going to tell him
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what God Said. Because true men of God.
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Are not afraid of confronting sin.
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True. Men of God are not afraid of
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confronting sin. No matter what the cost is true,
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men of God are not afraid to confront sin.
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No matter who the person is that is in the wrong true men of God,
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only care about one thing. I am the Messenger of the Lord,
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I stand with him and for his word, do you realize that this
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King had the authority? Like King David that with Nathan
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to at one word have his neck slit?
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And you're going to see next week, Saul's aggression, when he
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grabs, Samuel by the Garmin and rips it.
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But true men of God Don't Fear men.
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When you stand in the presence of God, you can stand before
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Kings when you sit at the feet of the master, you can without
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even your voice shaking stand before, Myriad of princes, and
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evildoers. And those who have power and
51:15
position, when you stand for righteousness, God will bless
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you. When you for the sake of your
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safety, or your reputation, or whatever else Do not stand for
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what's, right? I don't care who stands with
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you. I'd rather stand alone with God
51:34
before the world, then stand with the world and stand against
51:37
God any day. And he day and true men of God.
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They speak what God says, they say, What God Says, whether men
51:49
say you can or you can't true. Men and women of God are so
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close to God. That their hearts are filled
51:56
with the feelings of God that no matter what men do say, it
52:01
doesn't matter. My heart is brimming with the
52:04
knowledge of what my God asked me to do.
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And I only care about how he feels, so I will say what he
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tells. Me to say, where are those men
52:11
of God today? Huh.
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You know what we have today in majority cowards.
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Men Pleasers. People who don't really believe
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the promises of God. People who don't really believe
52:30
that when you are in Integrity, God will be your shield and he
52:33
will defend you and he will step in for you.
52:36
Where are those men? Where are those women?
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You know what we have? We have a bunch of people
52:44
building monuments for themselves.
52:47
We have a bunch of people that are so concerned about the
52:50
reputation before other. So they have done this and I
52:52
have done this and that the spiritual talk and exchange all
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this craziness, where are the prophets?
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Do we have any prophets left in America?
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Do we have any profits coming out of our seminaries?
53:05
Do we have any prophetic voices anymore?
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Are we all just pair it? Where are the men that will
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stand in the wilderness by themselves and speak the word of
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God? No matter how much comes in?
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No matter who comes in, where are those men?
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Can? Someone say, where are those
53:19
men? You can't get those men from
53:23
seminaries seminars in our, I went to Summer but those men are
53:27
birthed in the prayer closet. Those men are Heavenly born.
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Those men have come into contact with God, not with a degree now
53:37
with a textbook, The real book. And I believe in this day, where
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there's a famine in the land, what this nation needs more than
53:48
ever is not bigger, buildings, is not nicer lights.
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It's not cooler hipster. Looking people on the pulpit,
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What this nation needs our profits.
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I'm not talking about prophets predicted future.
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I'm talking about prophets, who point to the word of God and say
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thus says the Lord. Those projects Samuel was such a
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man, I love profits because Samuel was willing to do this
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with Saul and Nathan was willing to do it with David.
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Prophets feel what the average person doesn't feel?
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They get angry, they cry when people are still sleeping.
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They wake up early so that they can obey God.
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And they're willing to stand before any man who stands
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against God. Where are those men?
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Hmm. Cowards, and it's infecting, the
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churches. But God will raise him up
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because he never leaves a generation without a witness.
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God is too good. To leave a generation without a
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voice. and I pray that through these Bible studies and through
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the Sunday morning, and through this church, That wouldn't just
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be one voice, but voices. The voice of Elijah prepared the
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world. For the first coming of the
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Messiah, and we need the voice of Elijah to prepare the world
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for his second coming. And God is willing to raise up
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those voices. Can we pray together?
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Heavenly Father. We ask and pray.
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That these truths concerning saws life.
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Would permeate in our souls. We pray Lord that we would not
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be those who think we can trick you and trick our fellow man.
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Help us live in Holiness. Help us live in a way in which
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we sense your presence in all things. that you see us and you
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hear us and always, Do we pray? That you would keep us.
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Sensitive to your heart that we would not only know what you
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say. But feel what you feel and Lord
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that can be conjured up. That can't be provoked by our
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own self and or strength. It has to come from walking
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with. You pray that we would all have
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a closed walk with you. Lord, we ask that in this house,
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we wouldn't fierce in Not in the sense in which we fear
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condemnation, but realizing that it is so destructive.
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And if we do not confess our sin to you and when necessary
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confess it to one, another sin will find a way to confess us.
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Lord, revive your church in the fear of the Lord.
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Revive your church in the fear of God.
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Thank you that those who confess and forsake their sin will
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obtain Mercy. Lord, when you highlight that
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sin when you convict us of that sin and we run to you, you have
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nothing but Mercy, forgiveness restoration.
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But when we hide it and hide it, and think we can live with it,
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you love us too much to keep it. Lord, we pray. but the chief
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ambition of every person in this church, With the build an altar
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to you and not a monument. To give you glory for every
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Victory. Every gift we experience every
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open door every blessing whether great or small, they say, the
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Lord is my banner. The Lord is my provider, the
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Lord is my protector. The Lord is my shepherd.
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Lord, we want nothing with our name on it.
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We want your name to be known for Generations.
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Well, we thank you for a church that does love the word.
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That is not afraid. Of thus, says the Lord God your
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word. Your word is like honey to us.
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It cleanses us. It heals us.
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It, corrects us it molds us. Do we embrace the whole counsel
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of God? We embrace it.
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Oh God. Make us like Samuel.
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Who stood for what was right? who stood before the King of
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Kings before he stood before, King Saul, Who had the armies of
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heaven with him as he stood before the army of a man.
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Blessed. Be Your Name.
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We believe this book is true. We believe you are for us and
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not against us, we believe, oh God.
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That when we walk in your ways, No one can snatch us.
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No one can push us. No one can destroy us.
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You are with us in the Lions, then you're with us in the fiery
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furnace. you are with us when armies stand before us, You are
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with us when we feel like everyone else is left us.
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We love you. There is no friend like you.
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There is no Lord like you Lord. How can we not walk in
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righteousness? How can we not walk in your
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ways? There's too many blessings
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reserved for the righteous. We run in your Commandments, we
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embrace you. God for all that you are and
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Lord we pray for strength for any person in here that feels
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like giving up the feels like I'm, this is just too tiring,
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I'm not sure if this is worth it.
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I'm not sure I signed up for this but God you are worthy.
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You are worthy. And Lord help us remember.
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That Paul, he had Revelation, he had Revival, he had miraculous
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abilities at sometimes, he had great understanding, but he also
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had shipwrecks and stonings. And nights without food or
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sleep. And whips on his back.
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And the daily anxiety of how the churches he planted are doing.
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Lord. You are worth the suffering.
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You're worth it all God, you are wonderful and Lord.
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We know that you have suffered more than all of us combined it.
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You went to the cross with joy, help us endure with joy.
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God, we want to worship you in light of these truths your
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wisdom. Your wisdom is perfect.
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And we celebrate you in your house tonight.
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In Jesus name, we pray, I'm an animal.
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Can we stand and Worship the Lord together, please?