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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 
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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 
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He has turned back from 
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performed my Commandments and 
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And he cried to the Lord all 
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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
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I meant for himself and turned 
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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 
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Lord and Samuel said, what then,
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my ears and the lowing of The 
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have brought them from the 
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Spared the best of the sheep and
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Lord, your God and the rest. 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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Not just in this life and the 
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Shirley Determines the 
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before men. 
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And what we see here is a man 
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really obey. 
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the failures of a man who claims
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And as we continue in this 
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man who was blatant in his 
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But a man who responded to his 
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confirms that he was not truly 
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to be because it's one thing to 
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But also, it reveals much of who
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When we do send, how we respond 
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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
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word of the Lord came 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. 
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Maybe he was laying in bed. 
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we don't know where he was at, 
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said, I regret that I've made 
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I regret that I made Saul King. 
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here who have the King James 
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What word is used in the King 
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I repented it. 
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Saul King correct. 
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other modern translations and 
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How do we reconcile the 
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The nature of God being 
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And this concept presented to us
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He apparently regretted making a
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perhaps did not know what saw 
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moment. 
Anointing him as king and 

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realizing. 
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How do we reconcile that? 
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King James understanding 
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We know God is perfect. 
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are being told. 
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deeper meaning of it, that maybe
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electing Saul as king. 
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How can God regret? 
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Any ideas? 
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Very good. 
Did you guys catch that? 

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It's God's way of revealing and 
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What he feels with, anybody 
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Would anybody be an agreement to
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I see some heads. 
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descriptions used for God in the
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's. 
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Before that term simply means 
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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. 
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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. 
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category of Personality terms 
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regretting. 
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this is not that God actually 
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coming, what we see is, God, 
opening himself to us and 

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providing a frame of reference 
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something of who Is and what 
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regret invites us into what he 
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About saw in his actions, we 
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of emotion. 
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evaluating and and he's stoic. 
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just determines things without 
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He has great feelings, deep 
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And in this place, he feels the 
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He feels the pain and he wants 
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him to understand that the 
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heart of God. 
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James rendering that, it 
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Now when you hear repentance 
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are we telling people to do? 
Turn from what sin now. 

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Repentance in the Greek, who 
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Metanoia doesn't just mean 
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So, we do believe repentance is 
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begins in a changing of way of 
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to repentance what we're saying 
is change the way you think 

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about Sin. 
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your sin and as a result of 
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Sin, then you will turn from 
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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 
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about Sin. 
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attitude about a man and what he
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God, never repent of sin. 
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God does repent. 
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when man chooses to sin and how 
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woman. 
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would read it in Genesis 6:1 
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going on on the earth with all 
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and Noah's day it says, and it 
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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. 
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I made a mistake by making these
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Know he changed his thoughts, he
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He changed his heart posture 
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Not about Sin in his own heart. 
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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. 
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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?
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I believe that, yes, we got it 
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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 
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Good, I passed. 
To be hot to be furious to burn 

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with anger. 
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How many people today respond to
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How many people today, do you 
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angry about Sin? 
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Disobedience than be upset about
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And when somebody gets upset 
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them. 
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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. 
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people get angry and they say 
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really unjustified anger. 
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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. 
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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 
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So blatantly He was angry. 
Why do you think Samuel was 

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angry? 
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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 
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Samuel proves knowing god is, is
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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
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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As a leader? 
Because he knew God's heart, his

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feelings were filtered by God's 
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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
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Okay, let's go with Jeremiah 
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Here's a prophet. 
And look what Jeremiah says in 

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that amazing chapter in Jeremiah
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I did not sin in the company. 
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sat alone because your hand was 
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with indignation, Satan filled 
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My Flesh filled me with, 
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You filled me with indignation, 
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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 
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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 
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with God, you sit alone with 
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You go to the mountain and sit 
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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 
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You will sense things that the 
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On top of that, you might be 
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But I'm telling you this, a man 
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what he says, he knows what he 
feels. 

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Does wickedness bother you 
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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 
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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. 
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also knew how to cry out to God 
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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 
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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, 
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saw, seems like somebody wants 
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and for all seems like these not
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we're going to deal with this 
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He rises showcasing his 
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to try to confront this and deal
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And it was told Samuel salt came
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find about where the whereabouts
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questions that somebody comes up
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before he went to gilgal and he 
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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 
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before he even goes back to 
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Go back is to set up a permanent
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So that the rest of the nation 
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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 
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And so this man from chapter 13,
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willing to take the credit for 
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Garrison of the Philistines and 
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Saul has defeated the Garrison 
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We now come to the place, we now
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Saul is ready to make a statue 
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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 
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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
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Yes, and who was over Joshua? 
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Go to Exodus 17. 
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with the amalekites even began. 
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were the first people to attack 
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Egypt. 
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a great blow against the 
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an Is 17 the response of Moses 
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the response of Saul in this 
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And Joshua overwhelmed amalek 
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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. 
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15 and Moses built what an altar
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The Lord is my banner. 
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The Lord is my banner saying a 
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Lord. 
The Lord will have war with 

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amalek from generation to 
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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. 
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into a monument. 
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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 
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opportunity to use God for his 
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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. 
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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
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share it with no one saw was 
playing a very dangerous game 

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How dangerous it is? 
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the contrast between solid 
Samuel, what was Samuel doing 

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the night before, when 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. 
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Shows us the impression that 
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because of his own pride. 
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next would actually perhaps 
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What he's about to say now, when
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trick. 
Those who don't understand that.

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Just because you say the right 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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. 

452
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,400
To like our Lord and Savior. 
Jesus Christ used Parables and 

453
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:55,100
questions to allow the person 
who is in the wrong, whether in 

454
00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:57,600
judgment or indeed to come to 
the conclusion of where they 

455
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,200
stand on their own, there's 
great wisdom in that. 

456
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,800
So what is this, you're telling 
me blessed me that I obey the 

457
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,100
Commandment of the Lord. 
Then why am I seeing what I'm 

458
00:29:07,108 --> 00:29:08,900
not supposed to be seeing? 
Why am I hearing what? 

459
00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:12,300
I'm not supposed to be hearing. 
I just offer you that advice 

460
00:29:12,300 --> 00:29:15,500
when you ever have to counsel 
someone or have a conversation 

461
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:18,200
with someone that might be. 
Her uncomfortable ask questions 

462
00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:21,000
and let them Discover it if 
they're honest enough. 

463
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,800
But the principal here of Samuel
confronting Saul's far greater 

464
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:29,000
than giving us, some kind of 
guidance and how we confront 

465
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,900
people in their sin. 
You ready for this? 

466
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:36,400
I hear the Sheep. 
I hear The Oxen this teaches us 

467
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,500
that, no matter how much you try
to hide your sin, your sin will 

468
00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:41,200
always find a way to tell on 
you. 

469
00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:52,600
Always. 
Always. and I'll tell you this, 

470
00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:57,400
I don't want to give credit to 
sin, but sin has a creative way 

471
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,700
of exposing people. 
There are many things that 

472
00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:04,400
professing Christians claim to 
believe, I don't really believe 

473
00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:07,200
a lot. 
And here's one of the things 

474
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,700
that many people don't actually 
believe about the word of God 

475
00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:18,300
that when you try to Concealed 
unrepentant sin and hold on to 

476
00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:24,100
it while bearing the testimony 
of Christ that God will expose 

477
00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:26,200
you. 
You will. 

478
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,200
People don't believe that though
people really don't believe 

479
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,400
that. 
I'm not talking about those who 

480
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,700
know that they're wrong and they
want to confess. 

481
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,200
I'm not talking about those who 
are in wrong and eventually they

482
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,100
confess, I'm talking about those
who do not want to confess and 

483
00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:44,700
are trying to navigate through 
life in a way that they can 

484
00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:46,000
Harbor. 
Something that God says, that 

485
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,400
shouldn't be in your life. 
You want me to prove how I know 

486
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,800
that most Christians. 
Don't believe that this is true 

487
00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:58,700
that God will pull the sheets. 
And expose somebody who claims 

488
00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:01,300
to serve him go to Ecclesiastes,
chapter 10. 

489
00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:05,200
And look at verse 20 just as one
example. 

490
00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:19,200
Can you please remember this? 
If you do not confess your sin, 

491
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,100
whether it's a private sin 
before God or public sin before 

492
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:24,100
the ones that you've sinned 
against or send with. 

493
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:30,700
If you do not confess your sin, 
hear me sin will confess you. 

494
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:39,900
Ecclesiastes. 10:20 Even in your
thoughts, do not curse the king.

495
00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:45,700
Nor in your bedroom, cursed, the
rich for a bird of the air will 

496
00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:48,300
carry your voice or some winged 
creature. 

497
00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:51,100
Tell the matter. 
That's how I know most 

498
00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:53,000
Christians, don't believe that 
God can actually reveal your 

499
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,200
sin. 
Because Solomon in his wisdom in

500
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,500
his observation but more 
importantly inspired by the Holy

501
00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:01,900
Spirit. 
He warns about speaking evil 

502
00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:05,100
against those who are in 
Authority namely Kings or those 

503
00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:07,200
who are wealthy. 
But the truth extends to all 

504
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,400
people. 
And what he's saying here is 

505
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,000
that the slanderous and 
viciousness of our words though 

506
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,800
expressed in secret or perhaps 
through agreement of 

507
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,800
confidentiality when it is 
wicked in nature it will find 

508
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,200
its way to the ears of those 
that you did not. and to hear, 

509
00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:31,800
And the hyperbolic language of 
birds and winged creatures. 

510
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:37,200
That's that's being used to say 
that there is mysterious and 

511
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,900
unforeseen means by which that 
is accomplished. 

512
00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:45,300
We, you think to yourself? 
How did that get from here to 

513
00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:47,400
there? 
Let me tell you how the walls 

514
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,600
have ears. 
And I'm using just one example 

515
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,700
of speech. 
I'm not talking about great sins

516
00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:56,500
that we would categorize, as 
gross sense. 

517
00:32:56,500 --> 00:33:00,300
I'm talking about things like 
speaking in a way of which you 

518
00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:05,900
plan to assault or degrade or 
destroy someone else. 

519
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:12,000
The Bible says the little birdie
will hear what you say and we'll

520
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,100
find a way to be able to pass it
on to the person or persons that

521
00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:21,400
you did not intend to hear. 
I wonder if we really believe 

522
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,100
that how our conversations and 
private would be different. 

523
00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:29,400
I wonder what personal Holiness 
would look like. 

524
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:34,300
I wonder what my time in my 
bedroom with the computer or my 

525
00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:36,700
phone would look like if I 
really believe that. 

526
00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:41,400
I wonder what my handling of 
money would look like when 

527
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,800
nobody else is watching. 
I wonder what my taxes would 

528
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,100
look like. 
I wonder what how wonder what 

529
00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:50,800
Holiness would be if I really 
believe that God was everywhere.

530
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:57,600
I was If you don't confess sin, 
God gives chances. 

531
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,900
I believe that God is a God who 
gives so many chances and and we

532
00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:06,600
can debate this But even when 
you when you hear these great 

533
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,000
scandals of great ministers, I 
believe before that fall or 

534
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
that, that exposure. 
There have been warning after 

535
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,900
warning after warning. 
Given to that person before. 

536
00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:21,300
God said enough is enough. 
You cannot continue doing this 

537
00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:23,900
in private. 
My name is at stake, you are 

538
00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:26,300
hurting people and you're 
claiming to be my follower, my 

539
00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:35,000
servant. 
Your sin will always tell on you

540
00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:38,000
when you try to Harbor it or 
justify it. 

541
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,900
And that's true in Proverbs 
28:13. 

542
00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:44,699
If you want a verse for Life 
years, one of them, whoever 

543
00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:47,400
conceals his transgression will 
not prosper. 

544
00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:52,500
But he who confesses and 
forsakes them will, obtain 

545
00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:57,300
Mercy, whoever conceals his 
transgression, he try to take 

546
00:34:57,300 --> 00:34:59,800
that beach ball and you try to 
stuff it into the water and 

547
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,600
you're saying I could keep it 
and relaxing you know you lose 

548
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,600
grip and it just shows up on the
other end will not Prosper. 

549
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,700
You won't succeed. 
This is a law that no Sinner and

550
00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:13,800
secret has been able to overcome
especially when that sin has to 

551
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,000
deal with someone else that 
you're sinning with or sinning 

552
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,400
against. 
Covering. 

553
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,300
Our sin has been woven in the 
fabric of our nature, since the 

554
00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:28,600
fall. 
The first respond, one of the 

555
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,300
first response of Adam and Eve 
was to do what create clothing 

556
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,100
with fig leaves. 
And we've been trying to do it 

557
00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:37,500
ever since We're trying to 
cover. 

558
00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:40,700
We're trying to Shield were 
trying to hide and one of the 

559
00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:43,500
ways that you can know if you're
having victory over the old 

560
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:46,200
Adam, the old man in your life. 
One of the ways you can measure 

561
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:51,100
that is that you have a greater 
trust that you can't hide your 

562
00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:53,200
sin. 
You have a greater Revelation 

563
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,400
that I can't actually. 
I can't build anything trick 

564
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,500
anyone. 
I can't do anything to maintain 

565
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:03,400
private iniquity in my life 
without God, doing something 

566
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,500
about it. 
That's one of the ways you know 

567
00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:08,400
that you are growing in 
Holiness. 

568
00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:13,500
Private sin becomes less of a 
reality, the notion that that 

569
00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:18,200
can actually be true without any
consequences dies and dies more 

570
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:26,300
and more Sal didn't have that. 
So what do we see here verse 15?

571
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:32,500
Saul said, they have brought 
them from the amalekites for the

572
00:36:32,500 --> 00:36:34,900
people, spread the best of the 
sheep and of the rest, and of 

573
00:36:34,908 --> 00:36:37,600
The Oxen to sacrifice to the 
Lord, your God, and the rest, we

574
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:43,600
have devoted to destruction. 
And this man is now providing 

575
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:44,900
for us and we won't get into all
of it. 

576
00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:50,100
This this Friday, a series of 
ways of not dealing with sin 

577
00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:55,100
that has been exposed. again, 
it's one thing for Holiness to 

578
00:36:55,100 --> 00:37:01,000
be known in avoiding sin, but if
we do sin, If we do sin, notice 

579
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,700
I said if not when, but if we do
sin, those are the words of John

580
00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:09,500
and first John 2. 
How we respond to that sin also 

581
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:17,400
reveals where we stand with God?
and when Samuel exposes him, And

582
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,300
Samuel points out, the evidence 
saw gives this answer, isn't it 

583
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:25,000
sad? 
That's all interpreted the 

584
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,800
bleeding of the sheep much 
differently and Samuel did. 

585
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:35,700
Samuel heard it as Disobedience,
solved that in. 

586
00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:38,000
See it as that. 
Do you know why? 

587
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,900
Because that's what Pride does. 
Pride so deceives. 

588
00:37:41,900 --> 00:37:45,300
You that even when the evidence 
of your wrongdoing through the 

589
00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:48,100
word of God is brought before 
you, you don't see it. 

590
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,400
You're like, what's wrong with 
it? 

591
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,900
What's wrong with it? 
And pride is so ugly and strong 

592
00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:59,000
in a person's life. 
They can never come to terms 

593
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,200
when they've done something 
wrong. 

594
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,300
They will go to all these 
different Avenues, before you 

595
00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:07,000
get to the heart of the matter. 
And then actually saying, you 

596
00:38:07,008 --> 00:38:08,700
know what? 
I have fallen short. 

597
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:14,100
That's what Pride does very 
difficult to deal with pride 

598
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,200
from Christian to Christian on a
horizontal level and that's why 

599
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,800
God has to do with pride 
himself. 

600
00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:23,900
God has to deal with a person 
who is so deceived that he 

601
00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:26,300
cannot even see the wrong that 
he has committed. 

602
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,400
And so God will find a way to 
Humble him. 

603
00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:34,000
The arrogance of Saul and his 
response shows that he can't 

604
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,100
even see sin as Sin. 
He can't even see it as a 

605
00:38:38,107 --> 00:38:41,900
trespass. 
And look how he answers. 

606
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:46,300
I want you to see three points. 
Three highlighted insights to 

607
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:50,300
how he responds to Saul Samuel. 
Rather notice the first thing 

608
00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:52,400
that he does. 
Number one, he blames others for

609
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,700
his Disobedience. 
They have brought them from the 

610
00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:57,100
amalekites. 
He's talking to his men were 

611
00:38:57,100 --> 00:38:59,600
under him. 
As though he's not the 

612
00:38:59,607 --> 00:39:02,400
commander-in-chief as though 
he's not the king who can rule 

613
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:07,700
over them and direct them as he 
wishes they have done it. 

614
00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:11,600
Saul had no problem. 
Listen, Saul had no problem 

615
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,300
taking the credit from someone 
else when it didn't belong to 

616
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:19,000
him and he also had no problem 
giving the credit to someone who

617
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,200
has done wrong or rather, when 
he's done wrong. 

618
00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:24,800
He has no problem taking credit 
from somebody when he hasn't 

619
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,800
done right, and they have and he
has no issue bouncing that 

620
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,100
credit to someone, when He's 
done wrong, not amazing. 

621
00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:35,000
This man doesn't care that his 
sin has affected his 

622
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000
relationship with God. 
All this man cares about is, how

623
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,700
his performance is before men. 
That's all he cares about what 

624
00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:43,900
his track record looks like on 
paper. 

625
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,800
And so he can easily say they 
have done it. 

626
00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:50,300
He can easily say, I have done 
it when he hasn't done something

627
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:52,900
good and can easily say they 
have done it when he's done 

628
00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:55,800
something wrong. 
And that amazing, you want to 

629
00:39:55,808 --> 00:40:00,000
know how this man is, exposing 
himself about how he has no 

630
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,600
relationship with God, keep 
reading look carefully. 

631
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,200
He says, they brought them from 
the amalekites for the people 

632
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,700
spared, the best of the sheep, 
and The Oxen, to the sacrifice 

633
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:19,000
to the Lord, who your God. 
Not my God. 

634
00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:25,300
Your God, Samuel. 
See, we're doing this for your 

635
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:27,300
god. 
Oh, really? 

636
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,800
He's not your God. 
See through all the spiritual 

637
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:34,300
language. 
Something slipped out. 

638
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,300
Because eventually out of the 
abundance of the heart, the 

639
00:40:37,308 --> 00:40:41,700
mouth speaks eventually you can 
close that and spray spiritual 

640
00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:44,000
perfume all over. 
You can do whatever you want. 

641
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,300
Eventually the true you is going
to come out your own heart will 

642
00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:53,500
deceive you. 
And that's what's happening 

643
00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:55,500
here. 
You're a God. 

644
00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:59,300
I wonder if he caught it. 
I wonder what Samuel looked like

645
00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:01,000
when he said oh yeah my God, 
that is right. 

646
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,800
He is my God, it's definitely 
not yours. 

647
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,200
So what about all that spiritual
talk? 

648
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:14,700
It was fake Hollow empty, it 
stunk had no value had nothing 

649
00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:18,800
to offer. 
You're a God, blaming it on 

650
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,400
others, having no concern about 
how this is affecting his 

651
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,600
vertical. 
Only concern was how are men 

652
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,300
going to see me? 
I can't let people know that 

653
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:28,800
I've sinned against God. 
You think it was really that, 

654
00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:33,500
number two, not just blaming 
others for this would be nice, 

655
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:37,300
but justifying the Disobedience.
What does he say here? 

656
00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:40,700
He says, they have brought them 
from the amalekites for the 

657
00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:43,700
people spared, the best of the 
sheep and The Oxen to do, what 

658
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,200
to sacrifice to the Lord, your 
God. 

659
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Here's a man who has framed his 
actions the way that many do. 

660
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,900
And unfortunately, some of the 
church that the, that the end 

661
00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:58,800
justifies the means That The end
justifies the means. 

662
00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:02,400
And so if the goal is religious,
it doesn't matter how we get 

663
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,700
there. 
If the goal is a spiritual goal,

664
00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:09,300
it doesn't matter what we have 
to, what we have to do and trick

665
00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:13,900
and kind of deceive, and it 
doesn't matter, because that's 

666
00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:17,900
the goal. 
God does care about the means. 

667
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:22,600
God does care about the means. 
In fact, if the end is a 

668
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,500
righteous end and the means are 
wicked, that spoils the end. 

669
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:30,500
Anyway, And so let's look at 
this on a grander level. 

670
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,000
We can't preach on certain 
things because we want to bring 

671
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,400
people in. 
And when we bring them, then 

672
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:35,600
we'll talk about the hard 
subject. 

673
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,400
Let's just reel em in. 
Oh, really? 

674
00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:40,200
You really think that once you 
fill the place in, then you're 

675
00:42:40,207 --> 00:42:42,100
going to speak about the things 
that you weren't willing to 

676
00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:46,800
speak about in the beginning. 
Do you see any person who tries 

677
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,200
to live their life in a way in 
which the end justifies? 

678
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,400
The means that is breeding 
ground for compromise, whether 

679
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,500
on a macro level or a Minor 
level. 

680
00:42:56,700 --> 00:42:58,600
Here's proof. 
I'm going to marry her anyway. 

681
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,900
Babe, we're going to get we're 
going to get married. 

682
00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:03,900
Anyway. 
So who cares? 

683
00:43:03,900 --> 00:43:05,700
I mean, I'm going to put a ring 
on your finger. 

684
00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:08,100
We're going to go to the altar. 
I got already revealed to me 

685
00:43:08,107 --> 00:43:09,800
that you're the ones. 
Who, why don't we just mess 

686
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:10,900
around? 
Who cares? 

687
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:20,800
The end justify the means. 
We're going to sacrifice this to

688
00:43:20,808 --> 00:43:23,500
God. 
We're going to give this to the 

689
00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:25,400
Lord, then it asks you to 
sacrifice it. 

690
00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:33,700
The Lord asks you to kill it. 
And not only do people justify 

691
00:43:34,700 --> 00:43:37,000
their Disobedience. 
Look, what's all does here? 

692
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,300
He actually distracts he 
attempts to distract Samuel from

693
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:45,900
the Disobedience because what 
does he say in the end and the 

694
00:43:45,900 --> 00:43:48,700
rest, we have devoted to 
destruction. 

695
00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:53,300
See how he puts a exclamation 
mark, at the end of all this 

696
00:43:53,300 --> 00:43:56,800
thing. 
So, yeah, Samuel look. 

697
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,400
We did keep his, but it's to 
sacrifice and say, did you 

698
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,200
notice that we destroyed 
everything else? 

699
00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:06,600
Do you notice that that in the 
midst of all this, I know it's 

700
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,700
weird and it's confusing and 
it's chaotic. 

701
00:44:08,700 --> 00:44:11,700
I know that it looks kind of 
looks kind of shady. 

702
00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:15,600
But look at the good. 
Look at the good that we did. 

703
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:19,900
People are like that. 
People, when they are caught in 

704
00:44:19,900 --> 00:44:25,700
sin and they are proud, will 
fish back to the past and try to

705
00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:29,400
resurface the good that they've 
done, thinking that that will, 

706
00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:32,600
that will soften the seriousness
of the present moment. 

707
00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:36,500
Do you realize what I've done? 
For God, do you realize who I am

708
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:37,800
do? 
You realize what you realize my 

709
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,900
history. 
So how can you, how can you do 

710
00:44:39,900 --> 00:44:42,300
this to me? 
Now, how can you say that I'm 

711
00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:43,500
wrong? 
Now, how can you say that? 

712
00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:49,200
I'm in danger of discipline now?
And so this is a distraction 

713
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,800
this is an attempt to say don't 
look at the wrong that I've 

714
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,200
committed. 
Look at the right that I've 

715
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:54,700
done. 
And yeah this is wrong but let's

716
00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:57,000
get over it. 
Come on. 

717
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,400
And you learned last week, you 
learned last week that God does 

718
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,300
not esteem obedience the same 
way a man does. 

719
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,700
If the man and his flesh was 
here. 

720
00:45:06,700 --> 00:45:08,100
This, some would say, you know 
what? 

721
00:45:08,100 --> 00:45:11,500
Yeah, it is one guy, a gag. 
I mean, you killed an entire 

722
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:14,600
people group. 
You left one guy. 

723
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,500
What's one guy really? 
What's one guy? 

724
00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:19,400
You're right. 
Where's that Memorial? 

725
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:20,600
By the way I want to go see what
you did. 

726
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,800
Let's go check it out. 
That's how men would see it. 

727
00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:25,400
God says everything. 
And when God says everything, 

728
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,400
it's everything period. 
Full stop. 

729
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:37,300
By the way, notice what he said.
He says in the beginning they 

730
00:45:37,300 --> 00:45:39,100
have brought them from the 
amalekites, right? 

731
00:45:39,100 --> 00:45:41,200
He blames the people. 
They brought them from the 

732
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,400
amalekites and how does he end 
it? 

733
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,600
But we have devoted them to 
destruction. 

734
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:55,000
Wow, this guy has issues. 
They have done the wrong but we 

735
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,700
have devoted them to 
destruction. 

736
00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:08,000
Did they really? 
Do they actually destroy all the

737
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:12,500
amalekites? 
How do you know? 

738
00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:17,500
Somebody said something? 
The king, not just the king. 

739
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,300
I'm not talking about the king, 
because Samuel is about to kill 

740
00:46:19,300 --> 00:46:21,600
The King, and I would have been 
mission accomplished. 

741
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:30,300
How do you know that Saul's even
telling the truth here that he 

742
00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:32,800
killed every single? 
Cuz, look at verse 20, come down

743
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:38,300
to verse 20 with me And Saul 
said to Samuel, I have obeyed 

744
00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:40,800
the voice of the Lord, I have 
gone on the mission on which the

745
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,600
Lord sent me. 
I have brought a gag, the king 

746
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,800
of amalek and I have devoted the
amalekites to destruction. 

747
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,900
So he's even claiming I have 
devoted every other amalekite to

748
00:46:51,900 --> 00:46:59,800
destruction, really Did he? 
Go few chapters later. 

749
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:12,300
Go to chapter 27. this is when 
David shows up on the scene. 

750
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:21,100
And what do we read in verse 8. 
Now, David and his men went up 

751
00:47:21,100 --> 00:47:22,900
and made raids against the 
guess. 

752
00:47:22,900 --> 00:47:27,900
She writes the girls Ides and 
who the amalekites for. 

753
00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:30,700
These were the inhabitants of 
the land from of old as far as 

754
00:47:30,700 --> 00:47:39,000
Shore to the land of Egypt. 
Well, while well, Looks like 

755
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,100
somebody didn't destroy all the 
amalekites. 

756
00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:47,100
Even when he claimed to say I 
did because Samuel is going to 

757
00:47:47,107 --> 00:47:49,400
kill the king and if he's the 
last of the last, how do they 

758
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,600
show up again, just in a few 
chapters? 

759
00:47:52,900 --> 00:47:58,900
Somebody didn't do his job. 
So now we get an extra layer and

760
00:47:58,900 --> 00:48:02,200
understanding of how great this 
Disobedience was and God's eyes.

761
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,600
It wasn't just that he left one,
he lied about killing the 

762
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:11,100
others. 
This is serious and God is going

763
00:48:11,100 --> 00:48:13,100
to bring Swift discipline 
because of it. 

764
00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:17,900
And notice what Samuel says in 
verse 16, that Samuel said to 

765
00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:20,700
Saul stop enough. 
Enough is enough, man. 

766
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,500
The new King James says, be 
quiet. 

767
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,200
Because the tendency of those 
who are caught in sin and 

768
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:28,800
they're in the wrong and they 
don't want to confess his that 

769
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,800
they ramble on, they keep 
talking and they try to bring in

770
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,500
all these different things to 
either manipulate the situation 

771
00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:39,800
or convince you otherwise or 
deflate a tense moment. 

772
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,300
So I can just imagine it based 
on this word stop. 

773
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,900
I can just imagine Saul saying, 
well you know what? 

774
00:48:46,900 --> 00:48:49,300
They have done it, they've sent 
the amalekites and and we even 

775
00:48:49,300 --> 00:48:52,400
brought them out so that they 
can dedicated to the Lord and we

776
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,200
have devoted to this Russia and 
it's the same adjusted enough. 

777
00:48:56,300 --> 00:49:01,900
Stop it. 
He says, I will tell you what 

778
00:49:01,900 --> 00:49:09,400
the Lord said to me this night. 
If he asks him to be quiet, he 

779
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,700
asked them to stop okay? 
Because she's revealed enough 

780
00:49:12,700 --> 00:49:17,400
your excuses, do not work. 
There's no way of justifying 

781
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,000
your Disobedience. 
Now what was the command? 

782
00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:23,600
What was the command? 
Stop new King. 

783
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,300
James be quiet. 
Did he obey the command? 

784
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:34,100
No. because what he said at the 
end and he said them speak You 

785
00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:37,900
couldn't even obey that command.
Do you think the prophet needed 

786
00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:40,100
your permission to say something
he already told you? 

787
00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:42,900
I'm going to say something. 
He didn't need you to say speak.

788
00:49:42,900 --> 00:49:45,400
He didn't need your Authority. 
He didn't need your green light.

789
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:50,600
But what he needs the last word.
What his pride wouldn't let him.

790
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,300
I can't let Samuel get the last 
word. 

791
00:49:55,300 --> 00:49:57,200
So when I say mrs. 
Enough stop. 

792
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:01,100
I will tell you what God Said 
Saul's like speak. 

793
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:08,800
Speak. 
And then he's going to tell him 

794
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,500
what God Said. 
Because true men of God. 

795
00:50:13,500 --> 00:50:15,300
Are not afraid of confronting 
sin. 

796
00:50:17,100 --> 00:50:20,000
True. 
Men of God are not afraid of 

797
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,700
confronting sin. 
No matter what the cost is true,

798
00:50:23,700 --> 00:50:26,800
men of God are not afraid to 
confront sin. 

799
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:32,000
No matter who the person is that
is in the wrong true men of God,

800
00:50:32,500 --> 00:50:36,600
only care about one thing. 
I am the Messenger of the Lord, 

801
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:41,200
I stand with him and for his 
word, do you realize that this 

802
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,900
King had the authority? 
Like King David that with Nathan

803
00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:46,600
to at one word have his neck 
slit? 

804
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,700
And you're going to see next 
week, Saul's aggression, when he

805
00:50:51,700 --> 00:50:54,500
grabs, Samuel by the Garmin and 
rips it. 

806
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,600
But true men of God Don't Fear 
men. 

807
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,800
When you stand in the presence 
of God, you can stand before 

808
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:07,800
Kings when you sit at the feet 
of the master, you can without 

809
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:13,200
even your voice shaking stand 
before, Myriad of princes, and 

810
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,700
evildoers. 
And those who have power and 

811
00:51:15,700 --> 00:51:20,400
position, when you stand for 
righteousness, God will bless 

812
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,800
you. 
When you for the sake of your 

813
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:28,000
safety, or your reputation, or 
whatever else Do not stand for 

814
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,800
what's, right? 
I don't care who stands with 

815
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,700
you. 
I'd rather stand alone with God 

816
00:51:34,300 --> 00:51:37,400
before the world, then stand 
with the world and stand against

817
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:43,000
God any day. 
And he day and true men of God. 

818
00:51:44,100 --> 00:51:49,000
They speak what God says, they 
say, What God Says, whether men 

819
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:54,100
say you can or you can't true. 
Men and women of God are so 

820
00:51:54,100 --> 00:51:56,900
close to God. 
That their hearts are filled 

821
00:51:56,900 --> 00:52:01,700
with the feelings of God that no
matter what men do say, it 

822
00:52:01,700 --> 00:52:04,300
doesn't matter. 
My heart is brimming with the 

823
00:52:04,300 --> 00:52:06,600
knowledge of what my God asked 
me to do. 

824
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,700
And I only care about how he 
feels, so I will say what he 

825
00:52:09,700 --> 00:52:11,800
tells. 
Me to say, where are those men 

826
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,800
of God today? 
Huh. 

827
00:52:16,300 --> 00:52:19,500
You know what we have today in 
majority cowards. 

828
00:52:22,300 --> 00:52:26,800
Men Pleasers. 
People who don't really believe 

829
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:30,400
the promises of God. 
People who don't really believe 

830
00:52:30,500 --> 00:52:33,800
that when you are in Integrity, 
God will be your shield and he 

831
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,000
will defend you and he will step
in for you. 

832
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,100
Where are those men? 
Where are those women? 

833
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,600
You know what we have? 
We have a bunch of people 

834
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,200
building monuments for 
themselves. 

835
00:52:47,900 --> 00:52:50,200
We have a bunch of people that 
are so concerned about the 

836
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,600
reputation before other. 
So they have done this and I 

837
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,300
have done this and that the 
spiritual talk and exchange all 

838
00:52:55,300 --> 00:52:57,600
this craziness, where are the 
prophets? 

839
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,400
Do we have any prophets left in 
America? 

840
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,000
Do we have any profits coming 
out of our seminaries? 

841
00:53:05,700 --> 00:53:07,700
Do we have any prophetic voices 
anymore? 

842
00:53:07,700 --> 00:53:11,100
Are we all just pair it? 
Where are the men that will 

843
00:53:11,100 --> 00:53:13,700
stand in the wilderness by 
themselves and speak the word of

844
00:53:13,700 --> 00:53:16,100
God? 
No matter how much comes in? 

845
00:53:16,300 --> 00:53:18,500
No matter who comes in, where 
are those men? 

846
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:19,900
Can? 
Someone say, where are those 

847
00:53:19,900 --> 00:53:23,800
men? 
You can't get those men from 

848
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,100
seminaries seminars in our, I 
went to Summer but those men are

849
00:53:27,100 --> 00:53:33,000
birthed in the prayer closet. 
Those men are Heavenly born. 

850
00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:37,600
Those men have come into contact
with God, not with a degree now 

851
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:45,500
with a textbook, The real book. 
And I believe in this day, where

852
00:53:45,500 --> 00:53:48,900
there's a famine in the land, 
what this nation needs more than

853
00:53:48,900 --> 00:53:51,800
ever is not bigger, buildings, 
is not nicer lights. 

854
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,000
It's not cooler hipster. 
Looking people on the pulpit, 

855
00:53:56,100 --> 00:53:58,000
What this nation needs our 
profits. 

856
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:00,800
I'm not talking about prophets 
predicted future. 

857
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,100
I'm talking about prophets, who 
point to the word of God and say

858
00:54:03,100 --> 00:54:06,900
thus says the Lord. 
Those projects Samuel was such a

859
00:54:06,908 --> 00:54:11,900
man, I love profits because 
Samuel was willing to do this 

860
00:54:11,900 --> 00:54:15,900
with Saul and Nathan was willing
to do it with David. 

861
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,200
Prophets feel what the average 
person doesn't feel? 

862
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,300
They get angry, they cry when 
people are still sleeping. 

863
00:54:27,500 --> 00:54:30,000
They wake up early so that they 
can obey God. 

864
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,800
And they're willing to stand 
before any man who stands 

865
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,500
against God. 
Where are those men? 

866
00:54:36,300 --> 00:54:42,300
Hmm. 
Cowards, and it's infecting, the

867
00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:46,700
churches. 
But God will raise him up 

868
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,300
because he never leaves a 
generation without a witness. 

869
00:54:51,900 --> 00:54:55,700
God is too good. 
To leave a generation without a 

870
00:54:55,707 --> 00:55:01,000
voice. and I pray that through 
these Bible studies and through 

871
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,400
the Sunday morning, and through 
this church, That wouldn't just 

872
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:09,800
be one voice, but voices. 
The voice of Elijah prepared the

873
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,100
world. 
For the first coming of the 

874
00:55:11,100 --> 00:55:13,900
Messiah, and we need the voice 
of Elijah to prepare the world 

875
00:55:13,900 --> 00:55:17,400
for his second coming. 
And God is willing to raise up 

876
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,700
those voices. 
Can we pray together? 

877
00:55:43,900 --> 00:55:47,500
Heavenly Father. 
We ask and pray. 

878
00:55:48,900 --> 00:55:51,500
That these truths concerning 
saws life. 

879
00:55:52,900 --> 00:55:58,600
Would permeate in our souls. 
We pray Lord that we would not 

880
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:04,000
be those who think we can trick 
you and trick our fellow man. 

881
00:56:04,500 --> 00:56:08,400
Help us live in Holiness. 
Help us live in a way in which 

882
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:16,100
we sense your presence in all 
things. that you see us and you 

883
00:56:16,100 --> 00:56:22,700
hear us and always, Do we pray? 
That you would keep us. 

884
00:56:24,100 --> 00:56:28,400
Sensitive to your heart that we 
would not only know what you 

885
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,900
say. 
But feel what you feel and Lord 

886
00:56:31,900 --> 00:56:34,900
that can be conjured up. 
That can't be provoked by our 

887
00:56:34,900 --> 00:56:38,100
own self and or strength. 
It has to come from walking 

888
00:56:38,100 --> 00:56:40,100
with. 
You pray that we would all have 

889
00:56:40,100 --> 00:56:47,000
a closed walk with you. 
Lord, we ask that in this house,

890
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:52,200
we wouldn't fierce in Not in the
sense in which we fear 

891
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:56,100
condemnation, but realizing that
it is so destructive. 

892
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,500
And if we do not confess our sin
to you and when necessary 

893
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:03,700
confess it to one, another sin 
will find a way to confess us. 

894
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:10,300
Lord, revive your church in the 
fear of the Lord. 

895
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,600
Revive your church in the fear 
of God. 

896
00:57:18,700 --> 00:57:24,700
Thank you that those who confess
and forsake their sin will 

897
00:57:24,700 --> 00:57:29,200
obtain Mercy. 
Lord, when you highlight that 

898
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,800
sin when you convict us of that 
sin and we run to you, you have 

899
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:36,500
nothing but Mercy, forgiveness 
restoration. 

900
00:57:36,900 --> 00:57:41,200
But when we hide it and hide it,
and think we can live with it, 

901
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:51,000
you love us too much to keep it.
Lord, we pray. but the chief 

902
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:55,000
ambition of every person in this
church, With the build an altar 

903
00:57:55,000 --> 00:58:01,100
to you and not a monument. 
To give you glory for every 

904
00:58:01,100 --> 00:58:05,100
Victory. 
Every gift we experience every 

905
00:58:05,100 --> 00:58:09,300
open door every blessing whether
great or small, they say, the 

906
00:58:09,300 --> 00:58:12,000
Lord is my banner. 
The Lord is my provider, the 

907
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:16,000
Lord is my protector. 
The Lord is my shepherd. 

908
00:58:17,700 --> 00:58:19,700
Lord, we want nothing with our 
name on it. 

909
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,800
We want your name to be known 
for Generations. 

910
00:58:23,700 --> 00:58:26,500
Well, we thank you for a church 
that does love the word. 

911
00:58:27,500 --> 00:58:33,700
That is not afraid. 
Of thus, says the Lord God your 

912
00:58:33,700 --> 00:58:38,400
word. 
Your word is like honey to us. 

913
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,900
It cleanses us. 
It heals us. 

914
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,800
It, corrects us it molds us. 
Do we embrace the whole counsel 

915
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,800
of God? 
We embrace it. 

916
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:54,400
Oh God. 
Make us like Samuel. 

917
00:58:55,800 --> 00:59:00,400
Who stood for what was right? 
who stood before the King of 

918
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:06,700
Kings before he stood before, 
King Saul, Who had the armies of

919
00:59:06,700 --> 00:59:10,000
heaven with him as he stood 
before the army of a man. 

920
00:59:11,100 --> 00:59:12,400
Blessed. 
Be Your Name. 

921
00:59:12,900 --> 00:59:16,300
We believe this book is true. 
We believe you are for us and 

922
00:59:16,300 --> 00:59:19,000
not against us, we believe, oh 
God. 

923
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:24,500
That when we walk in your ways, 
No one can snatch us. 

924
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:29,300
No one can push us. 
No one can destroy us. 

925
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:34,300
You are with us in the Lions, 
then you're with us in the fiery

926
00:59:34,300 --> 00:59:40,900
furnace. you are with us when 
armies stand before us, You are 

927
00:59:40,900 --> 00:59:44,100
with us when we feel like 
everyone else is left us. 

928
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,000
We love you. 
There is no friend like you. 

929
00:59:48,300 --> 00:59:51,600
There is no Lord like you Lord. 
How can we not walk in 

930
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:53,800
righteousness? 
How can we not walk in your 

931
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:55,300
ways? 
There's too many blessings 

932
00:59:55,300 --> 00:59:59,700
reserved for the righteous. 
We run in your Commandments, we 

933
00:59:59,700 --> 01:00:02,400
embrace you. 
God for all that you are and 

934
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,200
Lord we pray for strength for 
any person in here that feels 

935
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:08,400
like giving up the feels like 
I'm, this is just too tiring, 

936
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:10,500
I'm not sure if this is worth 
it. 

937
01:00:10,500 --> 01:00:13,500
I'm not sure I signed up for 
this but God you are worthy. 

938
01:00:14,300 --> 01:00:18,200
You are worthy. 
And Lord help us remember. 

939
01:00:19,300 --> 01:00:22,800
That Paul, he had Revelation, he
had Revival, he had miraculous 

940
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:26,500
abilities at sometimes, he had 
great understanding, but he also

941
01:00:26,500 --> 01:00:31,900
had shipwrecks and stonings. 
And nights without food or 

942
01:00:31,900 --> 01:00:35,200
sleep. 
And whips on his back. 

943
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:41,100
And the daily anxiety of how the
churches he planted are doing. 

944
01:00:42,300 --> 01:00:46,100
Lord. 
You are worth the suffering. 

945
01:00:46,900 --> 01:00:50,900
You're worth it all God, you are
wonderful and Lord. 

946
01:00:50,900 --> 01:00:55,200
We know that you have suffered 
more than all of us combined it.

947
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:59,800
You went to the cross with joy, 
help us endure with joy. 

948
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:03,300
God, we want to worship you in 
light of these truths your 

949
01:01:03,300 --> 01:01:06,300
wisdom. 
Your wisdom is perfect. 

950
01:01:07,300 --> 01:01:10,600
And we celebrate you in your 
house tonight. 

951
01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:13,600
In Jesus name, we pray, I'm an 
animal. 

952
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:15,500
Can we stand and Worship the 
Lord together, please?