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Second Samuel. 
Chapter 19 is where we are 

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meeting tonight. 
You might be wondering if you've

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been with us, especially if you 
were here last week, why are we 

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going to chapter 19? 
We still have half of 18 to 

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complete and the main reason, 
why is because when you look at 

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the first few verses of chapter 
19, you get the sense that it 

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belongs with the end of chapter 
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What I mean by that is that 
there is an awkward chapter 

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break here and I'm allowed to 
say that because Cuz the 

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references in our Bible are not 
inspired by the Holy Spirit. 

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Those numbers were added much 
much, much much later after the 

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scriptures were recorded. 
And so you kind of feel like 

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there's this break that should 
have happened maybe after the 

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first nine verses or so. 
But instead of instead of just 

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stopping and starting with a new
thought, we're going to honor 

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the context honor the way it was
originally written, zoom out and

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look at the complete picture 
that is before us because what 

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And last. 
Where did we stop? 

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Well where we stop whiz with the
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Life Absalom was tragically 
killed and was buried in a 

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Dishonored way because of his 
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And we know that David's wishes 
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spared in battle and those 
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specifically by joab. 
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from chapter. 19 on word are the
Ramekin ramifications of war or 

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the aftermath of this battle 
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And before we look at the 
national consequences, we're 

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going to actually take our time 
because the Holy Spirit invites 

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us to look at the personal 
effects that this dark moment 

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had on David. 
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to study this is by separating 
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categories. 
The first thing that you and I 

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are going to look into is the 
report of the news of absalom's 

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death, the report following the 
report, we're going to look at 

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the remorse. 
The remorse that David had over 

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the news and finally, and 
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the rebuke. 
The rebuke concerning the 

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reaction that David had about 
the death of his son, a brother 

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prayed, but let's pray again. 
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gathered like-minded Christians 
in this place and Lord, we pray 

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that you would protect this 
service from becoming a 

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powerless lecture of moral 
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Let us feel the weight of the 
authority of the word of God and

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let us by your grace, since the 
stirring of the heart. 

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Our affections being revived 
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Christ. 
May, we believe that, as we look

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at these verses, it is your very
voice speaking and so we pray 

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that nothing would be added That
you did not intend to add, 

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nothing would be subtracted that
you intended to keep we. 

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Pray that there would be no 
man-made interpretation or 

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application, May everything be 
delivered the way you intended 

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it to be delivered. 
We want to honor you primarily 

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and Lord. 
We trust that as we honor your 

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word the way it was designed to 
be honored that we will benefit 

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much and we trust that this will
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In Jesus name we pray, amen. 
We're not starting a chapter 19,

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I just told you to go there, 
because we want to begin in 

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verse 19 of chapter, 18 and 
connected the chapter 19. 

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So, scroll back a few verses go 
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We're looking at the report of 
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and what you're going to realize
as I'm reading, this is how it 

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is intriguing to me, at least of
the great detail that is given 

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with the background of how this 
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going to arrive to King David. 
David could have received this 

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news and the Holy Spirit could 
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two, right? 
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about a dozen versus clearly. 
There is something that the Holy

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Spirit wants to convey to us 
concerning how it is who it is 

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that brought about the delivery 
of this news to the king there's

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instruction here there's 
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It could have been just and 
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absalom's that And he grieved, 
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instead we get a, we get a 
really rich look into how this 

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came about and I want you to see
it with me to see God's mind for

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us in it. 
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said, let me run and carry news 
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At the Lord has delivered him 
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And job said to him, you are not
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You may carry news another day. 
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news because the King's son is 
dead, then job said to the 

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kushite, go tell the king. 
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The could shite bowed before 
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son of zadok again said to Job. 
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Let me run also after the crash 
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run my son seeing that? 
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news verse 23, come what may? 
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to him, run And I'm as ran by 
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the kushite. 
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messengers of to faithful 
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The first being a man named I'm 
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who was a kushite. 
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He was a foreigner that 
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the King James was a cushy but 
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translators that this was more 
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ethnicity more than a name. 
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cushion here before us. 
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learn from these verses the 
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of zadok was a messenger in this
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We were told that King, David 
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The son of zedekiah man has with
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what Absalom was up to, and to 
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with what was to come to pass. 
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a messenger. 
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excited and even presumptuous to
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king. 
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he was not called by job and 
volunteers himself to bring this

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news to his beloved master. 
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read and see that there is a man
who is very excited, but job 

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does not seem to be sharing that
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In fact job is very hesitant 
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I am as I don't think you want 
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king. 
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Why do you think job is very 
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For, I am as the participate in 
this endeavor, any idea, all you

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have to do is think back to 
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Messengers in the past, right? 
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Messengers? 
Who brought him news that he did

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not like you killed them? 
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and he doesn't want imma has to 
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frustration in a moment of great
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him and so he Looks at a cushy. 
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go instead? 
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more than jobs concern is, the 
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Why is he so determined to do 
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We are not explicitly. 
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a friend of David, Who Loved 
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prepared for the bad news, 
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And so he wanted to in his in 
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this would happen. 
Let somebody just come in guns 

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a-blazing and David is just in a
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You know why? 
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encounter, David. 
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happened to Absalom. 
What is what is ionized do he 

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appeals to ignorance? 
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just saw some kind of commotion 
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obvious that he's not willing to
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Maybe Joe has an inside that we 
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I verse 17, excuse me. 
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Then I'm as the son of zadok 
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let me also run after the 
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you run my son seeing that? 
You will have no reward for the 

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news. could it be that job had 
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wants to do this so that you can
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being the person that brought 
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Triumph, this news of success 
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sobering reality. 
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You're not going to get anything
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this. 
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It's not definitive, it's not 
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dogmatically. what if it's just 
because I'm as has a pure love 

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for David and he wants to 
speedily, let him know that he 

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can be alleviated of any angst 
and concerned because this dark 

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cloud has now passed. 
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eliminated and his rain will 
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Maybe he's just like what any 
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another friend to just let him 
know with excitement of the good

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news, concerning his life. 
His future the hope, the 

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faithfulness of God. 
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motive is, but one thing is for 
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excited for something that he is
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And we're going to see that near
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can learn something from that 
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as is a picture of many people 
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but don't understand what it 
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Now, I'm fully aware that I 
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is to get people to be like I am
as and get excited to serve God,

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right? 
I think that's more of a 

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challenge than anything else but
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You have some people who are 
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Or who are very much invested 
emotionally into the idea of 

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serving God at a certain 
capacity and they are not yet 

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informed nor are they yet 
equipped to do that which they 

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desire to do. 
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They want to run and they don't 
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They don't care about what it 
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want to run, it seems that my 
herbal but it's actually 

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dangerous. 
It's dangerous for many reasons.

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And I am has proves that he's 
going to show that in a moment 

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and the reasons in which why God
would not allow us to move 

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forward in a certain directions,
very, and some of those reasons 

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include character deficiency 
that the Lord wants to develop 

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you and your personality and 
your attitude and your 

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convictions before he places you
on any platform, it can be many 

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reasons. 
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this simple mysterious timing of
the Lord where he knows. 

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But opportunity is fitting for 
you and he knows what's 

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appropriate and what should be 
either delay, or postpone for 

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your good. 
And for his glory, And in the 

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case of this man he did not 
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But look at the words of job. 
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to him you are not to carry news
today. 

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You may carry news another day. 
But today, you shall not carry 

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no news because this King's son 
is Dead. 

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Sea job wasn't discouraging. 
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he was just encouraging him to 
not take this particular 

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opportunity because he had 
Insight that I am as did. 

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Not have. 
Joe, I've had an understanding 

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of this situation, the potential
outcome of the situation that I 

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am as did not have. 
And unfortunately evidently 

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could not care about because he 
was willing to run for it 

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anyway, and it's really again, a
strong picture of how many 

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people relate to the Lord. 
The Lord knows our future. 

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He knows our tomorrow's, he 
knows what decisions you make 

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will bring about certain 
outcomes even if they're 

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dangerous outcomes. 
And so he and his love and his 

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Providence and his power puts 
obstacles. 

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Al's closes doors does not allow
things to go the way you desire 

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for them to go because he knows 
something you and I don't you 

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know I have to learn how to 
trust in. 

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God's leading eager believer. 
Eager servant of God, learn to 

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trust God's nose and his delays.
If not, you might be running 

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into trouble, even know what you
think you're running into, is 

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the call of God. 
God's going to call using to 

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call. 
You don't self appoint yourself 

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and don't force yourself and 
don't push doors kicking and 

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screaming and manipulating, it's
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And it's not going to help the 
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Because as we will see shortly I
am as will prove to be lacking 

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in a very important area as a 
messenger, but for now let's 

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compare them to the cushy to 
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Joab looks to the could shite 
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king everything that you have 
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nameless. 
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response. he bounds, and he runs
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What has been given to him, and 
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Faithfully as possible, not 
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going back and forth, debating 
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for an answer from The Authority
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life. 
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the crew. 
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the could shite. 
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to call him. 
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I did is what you're called to 
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being used by the Lord. 
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willing? 
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If you want to be used by the 
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moment is to be ready. 
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servant and whatever capacity 
was a servant and whenever there

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was a promotion given he was 
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Was An Open Door that was 
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He was ready to do it. 
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way, be ready, be willing be 
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Express your desires to be used 
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nothing wrong with that. 
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am as you start to twist things 
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And so this could shot here was 
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It says here in verse 23, look 
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Come what may? 
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I will run so he said to him, 
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you're obviously you're very 
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So he runs and then look at 
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23, then I am a has ran by the 
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Kush a'ight. 
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Why is that important for me to 
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outran? 
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something, right? 
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I'm a has runs and outruns him. 
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in this teaching, in this 
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that I am as was clearly gifted.
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He was a good runner, a better 
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where the kushite outshined I'm 
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character Giftedness was there. 
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where are you seeing that? 
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You'll see in a moment. 
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inside about house leaders face,
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often feel the Temptation in the
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people or to appoint People 
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desperate need. 
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void or two because somebody 
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That leaders can foresee might 
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they were willing to overlook 
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from a person's god-given 
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And the point that we see here 
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with a slower, but more faithful
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inadequate Hamas. 
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faithfulness to the clear will 
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the time all the time. 
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that immediately, you only see 
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here as predicted. 
I am. 

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As gets to the king first and 
scroll down with me to verse 29,

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actually, let's read verse 28, 
then I am a has Cried Out To The

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He's very excited and he bowed 
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the Earth and said, blessed, be 
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delivered up the man who raised 
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Against my Lord, the king. 
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the king good news. 
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The conquest is yours. 
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right away. 
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Forefront of his mind? 
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Verse 29, the king said, is it 
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Like the victory, didn't even 
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What happens to Israel? 
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That is not even a thoughts, not
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And I get the hunch that I am as
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question. 
Or maybe he was and he gave this

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answer. 
But look at this, I am as 

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answered when joab sent the 
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saw a great commotion but I do 
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Who here thinks that I am as 
being honest. 

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Who here is? 
He's just like, look, I don't 

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know what happened. 
I saw something and I don't I 

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can't give you a clearer report.
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something, but, hey, good news, 
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want, is he being honest? 
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he's just utilizing the 
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How do we know that's not the 
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Thank you. 
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Tell him the King's son is dead.
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dead, so what explanation are 
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And I left with, with Hamas is 
generalization of what took 

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place, he's unwilling to tell 
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He's unwilling to deliver the 
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am as fell short as a messenger.
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how many reflect the very same 
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they're asked about different 
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Believers me as a Believer. 
Culturally sensitive issues, 

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right? 
Clear doctrines, there's no 

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confusion about it though. 
It may be difficult to apply and

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exhort is undeniably obvious. 
Like I'm as many people in their

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explanation of these things are 
thinking they're saying 

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something. 
When the reality do not really 

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seeing anything you've heard it,
right? 

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I've heard it over the years, 
famous Christian musicians, on 

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radio stations being interviewed
theology, professors preachers 

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evangelist people pack out 
stadiums and they're interviewed

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by secularist. 
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certain things, they dance 
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They remain as ambiguous and as 
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indicating here. 
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unfaithful Messengers, they 
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a platform. 
I hate my eyes. 

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As you read earlier was actually
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Watchman saw him running. 
He goes his running is like the 

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running of a Hamas like imagine 
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So, he was not just a son of a 
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He was athletic. 
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did, but he was unfaithful There
are many people like that today 

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and they disqualify themselves, 
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And what's interesting here is 
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giftedness not being enough 
position or platform, not being 

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enough, being promoted by the 
people not being enough, God has

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given those who are called to 
serve him and to honor him with 

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rules. 
There are rules in the realm of 

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serving the lord and your main 
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knowing those rules and honoring
those rules, no matter what, it 

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reminds me of a verse. 
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Testament, it's in 2nd Timothy 
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Paul is speaking about Christian
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You know, what he says in that 
verse he says, this an athlete 

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is not crowned, unless he 
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rules. 
What is he talking about? 

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Is he talking about the Olympics
of his day? 

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Now, he's talking about 
Christian Duty. 

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There are many people who are 
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But at the end they're going to 
be encountering, a very shocking

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report and evaluation they will 
not be rewarded. 

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You know, you look at some 
people and you wonder and you 

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even figure some Scandal out or 
you realize that there's some 

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inconsistency in their behavior.
Their one thing up on there on 

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the platform there. 
Another thing on their social 

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media there, another thing out 
there in the world and you think

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like why doesn't God just strike
them down? 

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Why doesn't God just remove them
immediately sometimes he does? 

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But here's the reality for those
who remain that look like 

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they're Still running at the 
end. 

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They will not be crowned. 
They will not be rewarded. 

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This verse brought so much 
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the realm of ministry you look 
around and you meet people and 

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you hear things and you even see
things for yourself and it seems

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to be no intervention from 
Heaven. 

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It seemed like they just go on 
with their Ministry and and 

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they're so big nobody can touch 
them almost and Hollow people 

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are afraid to correct them. 
And you think how is God going 

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to do this? 
And then you wonder, are they 

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legitimate shade? 
And some are not or maybe they 

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are saved but they could be 
saved but they're not running. 

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To the rules. 
So just because you're running 

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doesn't mean you're running. 
Well it's because you're serving

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this mean you're serving. 
Well, what all matters to God is

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if the rules are being honored 
and that is what we see with the

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kushite. 
What a contrast, right? 

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Come here to the kushite he 
arrives and he comes with that 

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news in verse 31 and behold the 
Kush, I'd cane and the Kush I 

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said, good news. 
For my Lord, the king for the 

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Lord has delivered you this day 
from the hand of all Who Rose up

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against you. 
The king said that the cushion, 

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he isn't well with the young 
man, Absalom, it's like, wow. 

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And the kushite answered May the
enemies of my Lord, the king and

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all who rise up against you for 
evil, be like that young man. 

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That's not an easy pill to 
swallow, but that's what 

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Messengers do. 
They honor the message, no 

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matter who Their audience is, 
the message is the message, 

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right? 
And this man fearlessly 

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courageously, but also wisely 
knows how to deliver hard truth.

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Notice what he didn't say, it's 
a yeah, your son Absalom was 

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hanging by his neck between an 
oak tree. 

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And there is three javelins that
job through into his heart and 

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there is all his armor bears 
that finished him off, 

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unnecessary delivery, right? 
So he's aware of his audience. 

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Still, this is, yes, this is a 
king, but this is the father of 

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the son who died. 
So I'm going to tell him the 

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truth. 
But I'm going to say, in a way 

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that I make it the least 
offensive as possible. 

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While also honoring my duty as a
messenger. 

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Makes you wonder why the Holy 
Spirit put this? 

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I think those are the reasons 
why at least some of the 

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reasons. 
And so you see here in the first

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part the report of the news but 
now we come to the remorse over 

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the news. 
We read here in verse 33 and the

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King was deeply moved and went 
up to the chamber over the gate 

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and wept and as he went he said 
o my son Absalom my son, my son 

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Absalom would iodide and Of you.
Oh Absalom. 

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My son. 
My son. 

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Your heart goes out to him. 
And some way, right? 

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David sorrow, you can sympathize
with it but we have to say right

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from the beginning that it is 
unwarranted. 

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It's unwarranted and it's 
excessive because when you bleed

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over into chapter 19, look what 
we see, it was told Joe. 

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I behold the king is weeping and
mourning for Absalom. 

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So the victory that day was 
turned into mourning for all the

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people for the people heard that
they the king is grieving for 

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his son and the people stole 
into the city, like they were 

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embarrassed of what they had 
done. 

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They stole it. 
Into the city that day as people

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steal and who are ashamed. 
When they flee in battle the 

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king covered his face and the 
King cried with a loud voice. 

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Oh my son, Absalom, oh Absalom, 
my son, my son. 

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This is this is a little 
awkward, at least for the 

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people. 
They risked their lives, for the

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king, they're willing to die for
the king. 

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They opposed the popular vote 
for the king, and when they 

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fought for the king and came 
back with a victory, for the 

448
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,900
king, the king, tucks, his face 
away hides up in the chamber and

449
00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:50,200
just weeps and the news in the 
city is the king is actually 

450
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,400
very upset. 
With the people should have 

451
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,000
expected as the king waiting at 
the gate and giving them his 

452
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,600
praise and his Commendation. 
But instead, they are met with 

453
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:05,300
grief and a broken heart. 
There are some good hearted, 

454
00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:10,400
Believers, Some solid followers 
of Jesus Christ that are 

455
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,700
vulnerable and susceptible to 
excessive sadness. 

456
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,000
They are given over to prolonged
misery. 

457
00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:21,900
This is it not a Temptation for 
everybody, but it is a 

458
00:27:21,908 --> 00:27:24,900
Temptation for some. 
And there are some who would say

459
00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:28,500
that the cause of David's pain. 
Here is the death of his son. 

460
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,700
Yes. 
And part but the longevity of 

461
00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:35,400
it, the reason why I went so far
Far is not because of the death 

462
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,300
of his son. 
There's a deeper issue here that

463
00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:41,200
we have to address. 
Think back to the two initial 

464
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,900
responses that David had when 
those two Messengers came with 

465
00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:49,600
the news for his kingdom and his
position as a king, what was, 

466
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,800
what was on his mind? 
was that the kingdom was that 

467
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,200
Israel was a future was of the 
Covenant that God made with him 

468
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,700
that being preserved by his 
faithfulness know, it was his 

469
00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:03,500
son, his son, his son, his son, 
his son, and it's clear that 

470
00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:08,800
David has come to the point that
his personal feelings and 

471
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,100
relationships and his own world 
eclipsed. 

472
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,200
His duty as a king and he lost 
sight. 

473
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,500
This is so crucial. 
He lost sight of God's agenda, 

474
00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:25,200
his responsibility and his 
partnership with God's agenda to

475
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,700
be a leader over God's people. 
Do you want to know why there's 

476
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,900
more dick dejection among the 
people of God than is necessary?

477
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,700
I'll give you one reason because
they have lost sight of the 

478
00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:40,400
kingdom of God. 
What do I mean by that? 

479
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,600
Well, they got so distracted, or
they've, prioritize things that 

480
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,700
they should not have 
prioritized, and they lost 

481
00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:49,500
sight. 
Lost grip on eternity. 

482
00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:55,000
On their blood bought gifts that
God has deposited in them of 

483
00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:01,400
their unique role that they play
in the greatest institution that

484
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,000
this world will ever known. 
That's the church, And they've 

485
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,900
put their identity, they put 
their priority and that which is

486
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,200
under the most important thing 
and if it's not God's kingdom, 

487
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,300
if it's not God's purposes, then
it's something temporal. 

488
00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:19,300
And if its temporal then it's 
subject to loss and because you 

489
00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:22,200
put all of yourself into those 
temporal things. 

490
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,200
When you lose it, you were in 
danger of losing yourself. 

491
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:32,200
This grief and great part is 
caused because David was 

492
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:38,000
consumed by his father leanness 
and he totally missed his 

493
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,100
identity as a king called by the
Lord is being a father 

494
00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:45,200
important. 
Yes, is the loss of a child 

495
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,600
painful. 
I can't even imagine. 

496
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,500
That's why I want to be very 
careful with my tone and 

497
00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:55,200
criticizing this man. 
It is, but we can save ourselves

498
00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:00,500
from much undoing if we know how
to put things in its proper 

499
00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:03,700
perspective. 
A lot of Believers don't know 

500
00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:06,300
how to deal with persecution 
with pain, whether it's 

501
00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:10,600
self-inflicted or caused by 
others, because they have not 

502
00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:13,300
kept the bigger picture in front
of them. 

503
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,500
And it reminds me of another 
story of a man who also was a 

504
00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:20,900
man of God. 
One of my favorite men of God, 

505
00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:23,800
in all of the Bible, one of my 
favorite profits, actually. 

506
00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:30,300
Who also got caught up in grief.
And it came to the point where 

507
00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:33,800
he himself was rebuked by the 
Lord, who is that? 

508
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,300
Man that I'm referring to. 
I heard four different guys. 

509
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,100
Well, a lot of those sounded, 
right, but I have one in 

510
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,400
particular and he's a neighbor 
to the book of second. 

511
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,200
Samuel. 
Gays in first Samuel. 

512
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,900
What's his name? 
Somebody whispered, it Samuel 

513
00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:57,200
you remember when Samuel was 
caught up in grief. 

514
00:30:57,300 --> 00:30:59,800
Maybe you don't go to 1st 
Samuel. 16 with me. 

515
00:30:59,808 --> 00:31:02,700
I want you to see this first 
Samuel 16. 

516
00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:05,900
This is why review is necessary.
I'm going to bring something to 

517
00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:09,500
you that I've taught before but 
we are, we are creatures who 

518
00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:12,900
need repetition to learn. 
First name is 16 1. 

519
00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:16,800
This is after Saul was rejected 
as king and I want you to see 

520
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,800
how this chapter opens up. 
And it's going to teach you 

521
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,200
something very important about 
grief first. 

522
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,000
Samuel 61 reads, the Lord said 
to Samuel, how long, will you 

523
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,600
grieve over Saul since? 
I have rejected him before from 

524
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,900
being King over Israel, fill 
your horn with oil and go, I 

525
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:36,400
will send you the Jesse the 
Bethel might fry. 

526
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:41,200
I've provided for myself a king 
among his sons God is not 

527
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,900
against grief. 
God is not against your tears. 

528
00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:49,300
God does not think your pain or 
your sorrow is a sign of 

529
00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:53,100
unbelief, it can be, but it's 
not necessarily always the case.

530
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,700
What God is opposed to is 
exactly what we read here. 

531
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:02,900
The duration of our lament, how 
long will you grieve over saw? 

532
00:32:02,900 --> 00:32:05,000
That's the problem. 
How long not The Grieving, the 

533
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,500
how long you're grieving for? 
But here's the thing, I want to 

534
00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:14,200
know when I've crossed the line.
I want to know when my sorrow 

535
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:19,400
become sinful. 
How can I be able to identify 

536
00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:24,600
when I've exceeded the righteous
boundaries of those feelings 

537
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,800
that eat me up inside. 
And I believe there are two, I 

538
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:34,000
believe there are two strong 
marks of knowing when my pain my

539
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,500
sorrow, my misery. 
Is becoming an offense. 

540
00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:41,000
The first one is this. 
This is important. 

541
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,600
When we begin to accuse the 
character of God, when we begin 

542
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,300
to accuse the character of God 
Samuel here, had reason to 

543
00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:52,600
grieve over sauce in but as Paul
to the Thessalonians you know 

544
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,900
this that we as Christians 
grieve differently, we don't 

545
00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:57,700
grieve as the world Grieves. 
Your inheritance in Christ. 

546
00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:01,700
Jesus is a hopeful grievance. 
Right? 

547
00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:05,200
The faith that you and I have is
so profound and so powerful that

548
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,700
it is able to carry you through 
that storm where you are able to

549
00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:13,200
honor God, obey, God and worship
God in the midst of it. 

550
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,400
That is what we have because of 
the holy spirit, because of the 

551
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:21,000
word of God and it makes me 
wonder if Samuel here is 

552
00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:25,400
wallowing at this point, because
he is lost and forgotten what 

553
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,800
God has done in the past which 
is common with most of us, how 

554
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,600
was Samuel even called to begin 
with? 

555
00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:34,500
He was called as a boy. 
And in first Samuel chapter 3, 

556
00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:38,600
there's this interesting detail 
given before Samuel is called. 

557
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,600
We are told that he was sleeping
there in the Tabernacle and that

558
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,500
the lamp of the Lord. 
Still had a little light though.

559
00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:47,900
It was not completely snuffed 
out. 

560
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,600
Now, we know that that, that 
lamp that was ordained to be 

561
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,800
designed by God, in Exodus was 
designed to give illumination to

562
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,200
the entire house of worship. 
If you didn't have the lamp, You

563
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,700
didn't have light, there is no 
windows, there is no ceiling 

564
00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:08,900
light, it was just that lamp and
you're thinking, well, why does 

565
00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:12,100
the Lord want to let us know 
that the light was barely there?

566
00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:15,400
And the point is this it was a 
reflection on the leadership of 

567
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:21,500
Israel's day At that time 
earlier, we're told that Eli's 

568
00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:24,900
Vision was almost gone. 
And then we're told about the 

569
00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:27,900
lamp in verse 34 saying the 
chapter 3 and so there's a 

570
00:34:27,908 --> 00:34:31,699
correlation there that the 
dimming lights spoke of the the 

571
00:34:31,699 --> 00:34:35,800
dimming of the discernment and 
the Holiness and the 

572
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:40,300
god-honoring leaders of that 
time, it was almost gone but 

573
00:34:40,300 --> 00:34:42,900
wasn't completely gone. 
And it was setting the stage for

574
00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:46,500
us to realize that Samuel was 
going to be promoted at the 

575
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:49,600
right time that when it seemed 
absolutely hopeless. 

576
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,699
God would raise up another man 
and it would be actually a young

577
00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:57,400
boy, who would be a Offit. 
That Samuel forget that it's 

578
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,000
Samuel. 
Forget that even though Eli. 

579
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,900
Who is the leader of the picture
of God's leadership before King 

580
00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:08,300
came onto the scene that when he
was condemned by God, he raised 

581
00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:10,100
up another. 
Would it be any different for 

582
00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:11,600
Saul? 
Okay? 

583
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,700
This man is going to be removed 
from the throne, okay? 

584
00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:16,800
He's the first king. 
Okay, he Dishonored God. 

585
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,900
Yes, that's hurtful. 
That's painful but God's agenda 

586
00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:23,200
has not been thwarted. 
But he didn't, he didn't know 

587
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,600
that. 
He should have known that but he

588
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,800
didn't. 
He lost grip with what God has 

589
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,000
done before and that that caused
them not to believe God for the 

590
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,500
future. 
And so in some sense here, 

591
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,400
Samuel should have known better 
better. 

592
00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:37,000
And his grievance here is a sign
of unbelief. 

593
00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:41,500
Because of his history with God 
because of what God has done in 

594
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:44,800
his life through his life. 
He should have known better but 

595
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,500
he didn't And that's where we 
have to be careful because we 

596
00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:53,100
can look to God. 
And we can be broken before God,

597
00:35:53,100 --> 00:35:57,600
but if our tears blind us from 
his sovereignty and his 

598
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,300
providential ways, then we have 
to understand that we are now in

599
00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:05,700
worldly grief. 
We're not in the grief, that 

600
00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:09,300
Jesus allows us to agree with. 
How does David do that here? 

601
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,200
How does David show that his 
grief was actually a worldly 

602
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,300
grief? 
Not just a worldly grief, but a 

603
00:36:15,308 --> 00:36:19,300
grief that accuses the character
of God Here's where I believe it

604
00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:21,300
is. 
Go back to 18:33. 

605
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,600
Look what he says here. 
And the King was deeply moved 

606
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,500
and went up to the chamber over 
the gate and wept. 

607
00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:32,800
And as he went, he said, o my 
son Absalom, my son Absalom, my 

608
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,600
son Absalom right. 
Would I had died instead of you?

609
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:43,600
Oh Absalom, my son, my son. 
What I've died inside. 

610
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,300
Again, you want to feel the pain
with him, you want to be 

611
00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:53,100
sympathetic here but that's a 
terrible wish. 

612
00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:58,100
What would happen if you died 
instead of Absalom, what would 

613
00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:00,800
have become of the Kingdom? 
What would become of the 

614
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,500
nation's future? 
What would it become of God's 

615
00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:06,100
program? 
No, in fact, you and I learned 

616
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:12,300
in chapter 17 that God intended 
and designed to bring harm upon 

617
00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:15,500
absolutely. 
By defeating the council that he

618
00:37:15,508 --> 00:37:19,400
TOEFL. 
And so, the death of Absalom was

619
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,500
perfectly designated by A 
Perfect God. 

620
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,100
And what you have here is a man 
who didn't believe. 

621
00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:29,100
So I wish I had died. 
Instead are you kidding me? 

622
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,500
What are you saying about God's 
Sovereign? 

623
00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:34,800
Will what do you think about 
God's perfect? 

624
00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:40,500
Dealings with Affairs in life. 
So when your heart begins to 

625
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:43,900
accuse, God's faithfulness, 
God's wisdom, God's power. 

626
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,600
Then you know that your grief is
illegal and it's crossed the 

627
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,700
boundary that it shouldn't have 
crossed but there's a second 

628
00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:56,000
Mark, it's not when you begin to
accuse God in your grief but 

629
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,700
it's when begin. 
You begin to lose the grip of 

630
00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:03,100
your service to God? 
When you begin to lose your grip

631
00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:06,600
on your service to God, that's 
another flag that indicates our 

632
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,300
morning crossed, the boundaries 
that God has designed and not 

633
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,000
not physically, of course, not 
being able to move forward. 

634
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,900
I'm speaking about mentally not 
being able to say I can move on 

635
00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:22,100
from this garbage. 
Still worthy of my service. 

636
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,600
You know he failed as a King 
Saul did, right? 

637
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:28,100
But we see here that Samuel was 
still a prophet, saw was no 

638
00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:32,700
longer King, but Samuel, you're 
still a man of God and why you 

639
00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:35,700
need to understand here is that 
you cannot afford to be so 

640
00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:39,200
overwhelmed that you are 
paralyzed in your position, and 

641
00:38:39,207 --> 00:38:42,700
that's what Greek can do. 
It can paralyze you, it can keep

642
00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:44,800
you in place. 
It can keep you in place until 

643
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,100
your dying day. 
There are mothers who are like 

644
00:38:49,100 --> 00:38:51,100
that. 
They're our sons were like that.

645
00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:54,600
There are pastors who are like 
that that they never seem to 

646
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,500
recover after a severe blow, 
whether it was from their own 

647
00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:02,100
failure, or failure of another 
or something that is 

648
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,200
unexplainable. 
And what we see here is that 

649
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,400
David was morning as a father 
but just like Samuel, he had a 

650
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,500
position, he had a calling, he 
was a king and as a king, he 

651
00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:16,300
needed to still serve God's 
people and he's allowing his 

652
00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:18,900
personal grievances to it. 
Fear with that calling. 

653
00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:22,100
And here's the thing. 
Maybe none of this is relatable 

654
00:39:22,100 --> 00:39:24,600
to you because you're not in a 
leadership position, but let me 

655
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,900
tell you how grief is has a wide
spectrum. 

656
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,400
There are people today who not? 
Because of a loss of a loved one

657
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:37,800
or because of a tragic incident,
but because more like Saul and 

658
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,500
Samuel, you've been failed by 
someone, someone has 

659
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:44,400
disappointed you. 
That can be a pastor or leader 

660
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,500
from a former church, that can 
be because of spiritual abuse. 

661
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,300
Zeus and you can never read your
Bible the same way again, right?

662
00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:53,900
You come here and you worship, 
but as your worship, you're 

663
00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:56,200
thinking, maybe all those people
in the worship, team are 

664
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,900
absolute Hypocrites, just like 
the last church I was a part of 

665
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:02,500
maybe that Pastor is not really 
a true man of God. 

666
00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:06,200
Just like the last Pastor that 
destroyed me and my family or my

667
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:10,700
friends. 
So you look at hypocrisy, you 

668
00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:13,200
look at others, you look at 
inconsistencies and you allow it

669
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,800
to affect you. 
As a man of God, as a woman of 

670
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,500
God, you have some people who 
just don't want to deal with 

671
00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:21,700
Ministry because there are 
people who make more mess than 

672
00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:23,500
blessing in Ministry. 
So you don't want to be 

673
00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:25,700
disappointed again. 
So you're very distant. 

674
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,600
Your body is here but you left 
your heart at home. 

675
00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:35,700
You have some people who just 
are skeptical. 

676
00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:38,800
And they live in that 
skepticism. 

677
00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:42,900
And that skepticism has so 
affected them because of serious

678
00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:44,500
things. 
Maybe not so serious things it 

679
00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:46,000
so they don't even come to 
church anymore. 

680
00:40:46,300 --> 00:40:50,500
They do there's no intensity. 
There's no participation that 

681
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:56,100
Zeal died That Zeal died with 
your disappointment and now 

682
00:40:56,100 --> 00:41:00,000
you're just a hollow shell. 
That wants to try to live your 

683
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,500
Christian Life without 
disappointment from others, 

684
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,600
right? 
You're wrong. 

685
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:13,000
Your grief has led you to 
grieving the heart of God. 

686
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,400
And what's amazing here is what 
God says to Samuel. 

687
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:23,000
He says how long, how long will 
you grieve over Saul? 

688
00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:27,000
And then he moves forward by 
saying, fill your horn with oil 

689
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:32,000
and go I will send you to Jesse 
the bethlem light What is he 

690
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,100
trying to say there? 
Hey Samuel, you still have a 

691
00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:38,600
purpose to fulfill. 
I still have a call for you. 

692
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:44,800
You're still my man and I need 
you to understand that, and I 

693
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,800
need you to walk in that. 
And here's what I think is so 

694
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:52,600
insightful, I think and I 
believe That God giving this 

695
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,300
instruction to Samuel was not 
just because it was his 

696
00:41:56,300 --> 00:41:58,300
responsibility. 
But because in that was a 

697
00:41:58,308 --> 00:42:02,300
remedy. 
One of the greatest remedies to 

698
00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:07,600
seeing healing is serving God. 
What do I mean by that? 

699
00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:10,000
Here's the thing. 
When you because what Ministry 

700
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,200
really is, is coming to the aid 
of people's needs. 

701
00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:17,300
When you surround yourself and 
put yourself before people who 

702
00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:20,800
have needs, it takes your eyes 
off of you. 

703
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,300
And so you're not wallowing as 
much because you're distracted 

704
00:42:25,300 --> 00:42:28,000
in a way. 
In a holy way, in a good way, 

705
00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:32,900
service is a sanctifying shield 
and that Shield can protect you 

706
00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:34,900
from being swallowed up by 
yours. 

707
00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:39,000
Your sadness or even protecting 
you from sexual Temptation. 

708
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,400
Listen, Samuel was not going to 
do any good for himself by 

709
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,700
staying in his room and crying 
day after day after day. 

710
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,500
And that's proven even in 
David's life when he chose to 

711
00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:52,900
stay home with his thoughts. 
Stead of being out in the 

712
00:42:52,900 --> 00:42:54,500
battlefield, like, God called 
them to be. 

713
00:42:56,100 --> 00:43:00,100
And so, the Lord tells Samuel 
get up, fill your horn with oil 

714
00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:03,500
and go and anoint, the men that 
I have prepared to take salts 

715
00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:06,700
place. 
In other words, get busy, get 

716
00:43:06,700 --> 00:43:11,300
busy serving the lord You're not
going to heal by laying there 

717
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,900
and just letting time wash Over 
You, Without You Walking In the 

718
00:43:16,900 --> 00:43:20,300
purpose that God has for you. 
And that happens actually with 

719
00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:21,800
David, this is just happening 
with sauce. 

720
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,300
I'm trying to prove this that 
this is not just an isolated 

721
00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:25,600
incident. 
This is something that we see as

722
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,300
a principle throughout the word 
of God, you haven't read it. 

723
00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:30,400
So I'm not going to ask you the 
question, but here's where we 

724
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,500
see that same idea being 
articulated. 

725
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,600
Go to chapter 19 again and look 
at verse 7. 

726
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:44,600
This is joab. 
Joab is the agent of Correction,

727
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,400
not the Lord himself, but job 
is. 

728
00:43:46,700 --> 00:43:50,500
And he says to David now, 
therefore arise go out and speak

729
00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:54,000
kindly to your servants. 
For I, swear by the Lord, if you

730
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,400
do not go, not a man will stay 
with you this night and this 

731
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,000
will be worse for you than all 
the evil that has come upon you 

732
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,100
from your youth. 
Until now, then the king arose 

733
00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:06,800
and took his seat in the gate. 
And the people were all told. 

734
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,000
Behold the king is sitting in 
the gate and All the people came

735
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,700
before The King, right? 
You know, a job is saying, get 

736
00:44:12,700 --> 00:44:17,000
up. 
Stop sitting here in your room. 

737
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:21,500
Pounding your fist. 
And go do what you're supposed 

738
00:44:21,500 --> 00:44:25,500
to do as a king. 
I get very nervous when sad 

739
00:44:25,500 --> 00:44:27,900
Christians don't show up 
anymore. 

740
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,400
I get very nervous. 
You should get nervous too. 

741
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,300
The Lord's words to Samuel. 
You can safely translate them in

742
00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:43,900
the following way. 
Why are you still acting like 

743
00:44:43,900 --> 00:44:48,100
this sauce? 
Failures have not affected my 

744
00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:52,600
plans for the nation and you 
still have a calling that I gave

745
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:58,500
you so, get going. 
David gives the same advice. 

746
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,700
The remorse over the death. 
Now we come to the rebuke the 

747
00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:10,700
rebuke We come to chapter 19. 
Right job was told, behold the 

748
00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:15,800
king is weeping he's devastated 
and job would not tolerate this 

749
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,700
for one moment further. 
He's going to confront David and

750
00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:25,600
so he comes to David. 
And job has messed up a lot and 

751
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,200
he's actually going to mess up 
even more after this chapter. 

752
00:45:29,700 --> 00:45:36,800
But what job does here is 
instructive He comes to the king

753
00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:42,000
and he rebukes him. 
He rebukes this man and it might

754
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,100
seem a little intense, but 
here's what I want to tell you 

755
00:45:45,100 --> 00:45:50,600
rebuke. 
Is very necessary at times and 

756
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,500
sometimes intensity in that 
rebuke is just as necessary. 

757
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,400
What woke up? 
Samuel rebuke. 

758
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:05,000
What woke up David rebuked. 
I'm going to get to a little 

759
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,000
teaching on rebuke because we're
intimidated by that word and we 

760
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,300
kind of put that Christian 
instruction in a vault. 

761
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,500
And we try not to touch it ever 
in our lives. 

762
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,400
And so we like exhortation, we 
like instruction, we like 

763
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,300
encouragement, but also rebuked 
know. 

764
00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:26,000
We can be doing rebuke stuff. 
That's on Godly. 

765
00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:29,100
It can be, but it's absolutely 
necessary. 

766
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,600
I want you to see something 
here, a few insights with what 

767
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,800
job does with his friend verse 
5. 

768
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:42,900
We told that he receives a news 
about Absalom or his father's 

769
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,700
grief over. 
Have some verse 5, then job came

770
00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:50,800
into the house to the king and 
said I liked that job came to 

771
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,000
his house. 
You know what that tells me? 

772
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:58,100
David went to his house and 
David stayed in his house when 

773
00:46:58,100 --> 00:47:00,700
David was supposed to be around.
Of people. 

774
00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:06,800
He was supposed to be before the
people celebrating rejoicing 

775
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,700
giving, thanks to God. 
And instead he goes up to his 

776
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:17,300
chamber sticks, his hand in his 
face and drenches his fingers 

777
00:47:17,300 --> 00:47:23,100
with his tears. 
Isolation is so common for those

778
00:47:23,100 --> 00:47:25,600
who are sorrowful. 
Can I tell you something? 

779
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,600
It's very unwise to do that for 
too long. 

780
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:35,500
You might need some time alone 
to process your grievances, but 

781
00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:39,500
to stay there. 
Is suicide for the soul. 

782
00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:44,000
And job comes here with 
intervention. 

783
00:47:44,700 --> 00:47:47,600
He comes here. 
He comes to this man in his very

784
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,000
home, and what do you find David
doing? 

785
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,900
From what he learned in 18:33 to
chapter 19, he still singing the

786
00:47:55,900 --> 00:48:00,600
same song. 
My son, my son, all the same. 

787
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,800
Tune, the same song. 
The same problem. 

788
00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:07,400
Nothing's changed even though he
became isolated. 

789
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,900
Isolation can be deceptive and 
again being surrounded by 

790
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:14,400
people. 
Even people who have needs can 

791
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,000
bring your healing faster. 
This is God's wisdom. 

792
00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:21,800
And additionally for those who 
lean towards isolation, may add 

793
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,100
something okay? 
Because some of us are more 

794
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,200
introverted Like being around 
like being here. 

795
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,900
Right now is like it's difficult
for you and it's only going to 

796
00:48:30,908 --> 00:48:33,100
get more difficult when people 
stand up and they might shake 

797
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:34,700
your hand. 
You just want to zoom out of 

798
00:48:34,700 --> 00:48:37,000
here as soon as possible. 
I get it. 

799
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,900
I know people like that and 
doesn't mean you're any less 

800
00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:41,400
Godly than a person who is an 
extrovert. 

801
00:48:42,300 --> 00:48:46,900
But for those who tend to have 
leniencies towards pulling away 

802
00:48:46,900 --> 00:48:50,100
from others, especially when 
your heart is heavy, you have to

803
00:48:50,100 --> 00:48:53,100
understand that. 
Do you think you are healing 

804
00:48:53,100 --> 00:48:59,500
from hurt the very Act and the 
Very cessation of your presence 

805
00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:02,300
is actually most likely hurting 
others. 

806
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,400
Look at the words here of job in
verse six because you love those

807
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,000
who hate you and hate those who 
love you. 

808
00:49:12,500 --> 00:49:14,500
For you have made it clear 
today. 

809
00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:19,500
That commanders and servants are
nothing to you for today. 

810
00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:22,200
I know that if Absalom were 
alive and all of us were dead 

811
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:23,800
today, then you would be 
pleased. 

812
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:25,500
That seems a little intense, 
right? 

813
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,100
It's again sometimes rebuke is 
necessary and sometimes a little

814
00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:31,500
dose of intensity is needed in 
that rebuke. 

815
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,200
What's he trying to say here is 
like, look the fact that you're 

816
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:39,300
pulling away from everybody with
with your tears and your 

817
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:41,800
Brokenness, you're actually 
communicating something. 

818
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,200
They're not valuable to you. 
They have nothing to offer you 

819
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,100
their not important to you 
especially when these people 

820
00:49:47,100 --> 00:49:49,000
have given so much of themselves
to you. 

821
00:49:50,100 --> 00:49:52,500
So it can be a very selfish 
thing and it can actually cause 

822
00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:56,400
others to hurt, see the body of 
Christ. 

823
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,200
Listen, you're a member of the 
body and when the body's hurting

824
00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:03,600
scripture tells us, we all hurt 
meaning that we hurt together. 

825
00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:08,200
And so if you're if you're 
hurting and you're temptation is

826
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,300
to pull away your like a finger 
that wants to disconnect from 

827
00:50:11,300 --> 00:50:13,900
the hand. 
Yeah. 

828
00:50:13,900 --> 00:50:17,200
You think that being isolated 
will help you write? 

829
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,900
But in fact you've severed 
something and you're causing 

830
00:50:19,900 --> 00:50:23,400
others to bleed at the same 
time, this is a place where you 

831
00:50:23,408 --> 00:50:25,700
receive your healing, the people
of God. 

832
00:50:25,700 --> 00:50:28,600
If this is truly Godly place 
with people who love the Lord 

833
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,100
and love his word, this is where
you receive your wholeness 

834
00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:33,200
again. 
God designed it that way. 

835
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,600
And Satan would love for you. 
Even not just in your sin 

836
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,100
people. 
People always think somebody's 

837
00:50:39,100 --> 00:50:40,800
isolating themselves because of 
their sin. 

838
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,300
No, it can be because of their 
sadness and that sadness will 

839
00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:46,600
lead to sin. 
That's the whole idea. 

840
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,900
It's to learn discipline 
yourself, to throw yourself at 

841
00:50:52,900 --> 00:50:55,300
the feet of the hands and feet 
of Jesus. 

842
00:50:55,300 --> 00:50:57,900
The people of God, pour out your
heart. 

843
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,300
Am I saying that you can't be 
along? 

844
00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:02,000
Just saying don't be alone too 
long. 

845
00:51:02,900 --> 00:51:05,900
And so we see here that job 
comes to this man's Rescue by 

846
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,900
appearing and showing up and 
dealing with him and what does 

847
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:11,600
he do? 
You've heard me say, he rebukes 

848
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,900
and I wanted to take advantage 
of talking about rebuke, just a 

849
00:51:13,900 --> 00:51:15,200
little bit. 
What does it mean to rebuke? 

850
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,200
Does anybody have an idea? 
Like what's a Christian word? 

851
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,200
Rights are in a Christian 
vocabulary, I don't know if you 

852
00:51:20,207 --> 00:51:21,500
know what it means. 
What does rebuke mean? 

853
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:24,300
To correct. 
I would say it's even more than 

854
00:51:24,300 --> 00:51:25,300
that. 
It's that's the essence of it 

855
00:51:25,308 --> 00:51:27,900
but what does it mean to rebuke?
Because I can be teaching and 

856
00:51:27,900 --> 00:51:34,000
it's correcting. 
Better a firm correction. 

857
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:40,300
I would even go more than that. 
It's a confrontation. 

858
00:51:42,100 --> 00:51:49,100
That seeks to criticize a wrong.
For the sake of restoring, 

859
00:51:49,100 --> 00:51:52,900
someone from sinful Behavior. 
That's what it means to rebuke. 

860
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,800
And the scripture in the New 
Testament encourages us to 

861
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,500
rebuke, especially for those who
are in leadership positions, 

862
00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:07,000
they are commanded to rebuke, 
right? 

863
00:52:07,100 --> 00:52:09,600
But as Believers in Luke 17, it 
says, when a brother sin against

864
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,600
you rebuke him. 
So even as Believers, you might 

865
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,800
not have a position of teaching 
or preaching, but your call to 

866
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:21,200
in day-to-day life at times to 
rebuke, Now I'm fully aware that

867
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,200
there are some who have a 
strange satisfaction and 

868
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,300
gratification of confronting 
people. 

869
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,800
There's some relief there for 
them, they just vent and they 

870
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,600
just, they send superiority by 
reprimand. 

871
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,200
I don't know how they do that. 
I think rebuking is one of the 

872
00:52:37,207 --> 00:52:41,700
most uncomfortable experiences 
for the Christian for anybody 

873
00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:44,700
who has a delight in it. 
There needs to be some 

874
00:52:44,700 --> 00:52:46,500
counseling there. 
Okay. 

875
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,100
It's difficult to do, it's 
difficult to do that. 

876
00:52:50,100 --> 00:52:52,700
So I think it's comanded because
it's not something that 

877
00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:57,100
naturally we want to do at least
for some But nonetheless, it is 

878
00:52:57,100 --> 00:52:59,500
a command. 
You see that second Timothy 4:2,

879
00:52:59,500 --> 00:53:03,200
you see that in Titus 2:15 where
these pastors are commanded by 

880
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,500
God to know how to confront 
people in their sin. 

881
00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:08,800
Now, with that being said, I 
mentioned how we kind of put 

882
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,500
that in a vault and we put a 
very, very strict code on it, so

883
00:53:11,500 --> 00:53:13,800
we never open that Vault ever 
again, because who wants to 

884
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:17,000
rebuke, right? 
No, you're supposed to rebuke, 

885
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:22,300
but cautiously Very cautiously 
because that kind of 

886
00:53:22,300 --> 00:53:26,800
Confrontation can do very much 
more damage than it can good. 

887
00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:32,400
And I think the best way to know
how to be like Christ in your 

888
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:37,300
rebuking is to ask a series of 
questions to self-reflect to 

889
00:53:37,300 --> 00:53:41,800
pause and to be more confident 
in your motive. 

890
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,800
And in your reason before you 
make that move, some people are 

891
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,100
trigger happy with their rebuke,
right? 

892
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:51,300
And I think in some cases, 
Rebuke is necessary immediately 

893
00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:55,100
and even publicly. 
When Paul rebuked Peter, he 

894
00:53:55,100 --> 00:53:57,800
didn't send him an email after 
the whole thing, galatia? 

895
00:53:57,900 --> 00:54:00,100
Right. 
He rebuked them publicly in 

896
00:54:00,100 --> 00:54:02,900
front of everybody, and I think 
the rule for that is, if the sin

897
00:54:02,900 --> 00:54:07,200
is public, it deserves public 
correction If the sin is 

898
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,500
private, then it warns private 
confrontation, right? 

899
00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:14,200
Just like your confession of 
sin, by the way, let me just 

900
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:18,800
give a word of counsel. 
If your sin is private and it 

901
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,700
deals with very intimate 
details, it's not necessary for 

902
00:54:22,700 --> 00:54:25,500
your testimony to share and to 
spill all the guts. 

903
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,500
Okay, there's wisdom and even 
how you share your testimony. 

904
00:54:30,700 --> 00:54:34,000
Coming back to this. 
So he I'm just I'm curious 

905
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,200
because we want to be equipped. 
What questions do you think are 

906
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:39,600
necessary to ask yourself before
you come to a point where you 

907
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,200
deal with a person and criticize
them for their sin? 

908
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,200
Not them as a person but 
criticized, their sin. 

909
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,800
And the way they're living for 
the sake of restoring them unto 

910
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:47,900
Holiness. 
Any ideas? 

911
00:54:47,900 --> 00:54:51,000
What questions? 
Very good. 

912
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,900
What is my intention in this? 
Am I just angry at them? 

913
00:54:54,500 --> 00:54:56,800
Do I just want to spill over my 
emotions on them? 

914
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,200
Because they did something that 
I didn't like, or why do I want 

915
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,600
to see them restore? 
Do I really want to see them 

916
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,200
rescued? 
And the means by which I will 

917
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,900
see that at least closer. 
Into realities through this 

918
00:55:08,900 --> 00:55:09,600
rebuke. 
Yeah. 

919
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:12,300
Do I love them? 
And I think that correlates with

920
00:55:12,300 --> 00:55:13,800
that. 
Do I love them and doing this 

921
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,300
and in loving them you want to 
see them restore. 

922
00:55:16,300 --> 00:55:18,400
And so you're willing to rebuke 
them as uncomfortable as that 

923
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:19,700
may be for you. 
Any other idea? 

924
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,500
Is it biblical I love that 
point. 

925
00:55:23,900 --> 00:55:30,500
Am I confronting someone because
of a personal preference Am I 

926
00:55:30,500 --> 00:55:33,500
confronting someone? 
Because of something that might 

927
00:55:33,500 --> 00:55:36,100
be right for their conscious but
not as right for my conscience, 

928
00:55:36,300 --> 00:55:40,200
or is this black and white in 
the Bible, very important. 

929
00:55:40,300 --> 00:55:43,000
A lot of Confrontation is done 
because you're doing something 

930
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,100
that I don't like, well, where's
the verse in chapter it? 

931
00:55:45,100 --> 00:55:47,000
Well, it's because I don't like 
it. 

932
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,400
So that doesn't work. 
You're gonna cause more Civil 

933
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:50,800
War than anything with that kind
of attitude. 

934
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:56,700
Yes, Is it the right time? 
That's very important, too. 

935
00:55:57,700 --> 00:55:59,400
Right? 
We need to know that timing is 

936
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:04,600
important, context is important.
Place is important Peterson 

937
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,300
publicly. 
It deserved public correction. 

938
00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:10,600
If you saw brother sitting 
somewhere and you're in charge 

939
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,400
of worship, and you get on 
before we sing this song, 

940
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,800
Brother so-and-so. 
I saw at the mall and brother, I

941
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:22,300
did tell you something you're 
wrong for what you did to that 

942
00:56:22,300 --> 00:56:25,300
Clerk and your attitude that 
wasn't Christ like no, no no. 

943
00:56:26,300 --> 00:56:28,600
Extreme example, but you'd be 
surprised. 

944
00:56:29,500 --> 00:56:36,700
Yes. 
You guys are doing so good. 

945
00:56:37,300 --> 00:56:41,900
Am I rebuking somebody for a sin
that I'm entertaining myself? 

946
00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:47,600
Whoo, there's the spec but 
here's the log, And what we do 

947
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,100
is when we confront people with 
that log we tend to walk them 

948
00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:55,300
over the head, right? 
So pulled along out, do some 

949
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:59,500
self surgery first and then you 
will see clearly to know how to 

950
00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:01,000
deal with somebody else. 
We have a log in your eye, you 

951
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,000
don't tell you don't tend to see
clearly not from experience. 

952
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:08,500
I just assumed log in your eye 
doesn't help very good, very 

953
00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:12,600
good, anything else How do I 
know if my rebuke is legitimate?

954
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:19,100
Okay, good. 
So when it comes to confronting,

955
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:22,200
especially with sensitive 
matters, or when the accusation 

956
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,800
is severe, it helps to have 
witnesses. 

957
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:26,900
Now I'm not, that's not always 
the case, because scripture 

958
00:57:26,900 --> 00:57:29,900
tells us in Matthew 18 that if a
brother has sinned that you 

959
00:57:29,900 --> 00:57:33,000
approach him privately, right? 
You bring in two or three other 

960
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,200
Witnesses when he doesn't 
repent. 

961
00:57:35,500 --> 00:57:37,900
But when it comes to certain 
situations and you're right 

962
00:57:37,900 --> 00:57:40,300
brother, when you see somebody 
especially in a leadership 

963
00:57:40,300 --> 00:57:43,200
position, where told you got to 
have more than one witness here,

964
00:57:43,900 --> 00:57:46,200
they can't just be something 
that comes from your perspective

965
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,900
or your ideas. 
It's good to have more than one 

966
00:57:48,900 --> 00:57:51,700
individual who can validate what
your concerns are. 

967
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:58,600
Yes. 
And I think that comes back to 

968
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,700
the timing thing, right? 
And my ready is my heart in the 

969
00:58:00,700 --> 00:58:03,300
right place for me to approach 
this brother or the sister with 

970
00:58:03,300 --> 00:58:04,500
my concerns. 
Yes. 

971
00:58:08,100 --> 00:58:10,200
Yeah so am I judging them with 
the right calculation? 

972
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,600
Again by scripture so we're kind
of revisiting some of the points

973
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,900
that we already made. 
Somebody hasn't made one point 

974
00:58:15,900 --> 00:58:18,200
that I think is crucial. 
I'm going to give it a couple 

975
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:25,800
more tries before I make it. 
Okay, so restoration, right? 

976
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:30,200
So it's interesting, right? 
We rebuke, but Timothy was told 

977
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:37,400
by Paul you rebuke and you 
exhort Reprove rebuke exhort. 

978
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,100
So Our intention, there isn't a 
blow things up and leave things 

979
00:58:40,100 --> 00:58:43,000
in pieces. 
We come, we deal with that 

980
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,500
thing, but we also come with a 
solution and I think part of 

981
00:58:46,500 --> 00:58:48,800
that solution to and if you, if 
you're a person that wants to 

982
00:58:48,808 --> 00:58:50,300
know if you're ready for that 
solution, I think. 

983
00:58:50,300 --> 00:58:53,600
One thing that can help is if 
you're praying for that person, 

984
00:58:54,500 --> 00:58:56,800
not just willing to confront 
the, but if you're praying for 

985
00:58:56,800 --> 00:59:00,100
them and prepared to pray for 
them after the matter, right? 

986
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,000
But more than that brother. 
Look, you're in the wrong. 

987
00:59:03,500 --> 00:59:07,100
And I've Seen this as a pattern.
It's not right it's breaking my 

988
00:59:07,100 --> 00:59:09,300
heart is breaking others 
people's heart but here's the 

989
00:59:09,300 --> 00:59:13,100
thing, how can I help you? 
What can I do? 

990
00:59:13,500 --> 00:59:17,000
What can I offer you to see you 
overcome this? 

991
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:19,900
That's something that will win. 
A person's heart. 

992
00:59:19,900 --> 00:59:21,200
At least it should. 
Yes. 

993
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:28,900
Yeah, you're in it. 
How to bring up the matter of 

994
00:59:28,900 --> 00:59:29,600
rebuke. 
Yeah. 

995
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:30,900
So how are you going to watch 
your tone? 

996
00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:32,700
What's your voice? 
If you're going to premeditate 

997
00:59:32,700 --> 00:59:35,700
it make sure that you have it 
planned out, at least the best 

998
00:59:35,700 --> 00:59:37,600
that you can. 
I'll give you what I think. 

999
00:59:38,900 --> 00:59:40,600
Everything you said I agree with
100%. 

1000
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:42,200
Here's one that we also have to 
consider. 

1001
00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:48,300
Am I willing to receive the 
rebuke that I'm about to give 

1002
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,400
That's huge, right? 
How would I feel if I was 

1003
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:56,300
sitting at the other end of that
coffee table? 

1004
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:04,100
Hearing what I'm planning to say
to that brother or sister, most 

1005
01:00:04,100 --> 01:00:06,500
of the time, if you're ready to 
rebuke somebody, you're going to

1006
01:00:06,508 --> 01:00:09,300
revisit your script. 
When you ask that question, you 

1007
01:00:09,300 --> 01:00:15,100
will probably 99.9% of the time 
you at least revisit it and 

1008
01:00:15,100 --> 01:00:17,300
maybe Council somebody else to 
help you. 

1009
01:00:17,700 --> 01:00:21,200
Put it together in a certain way
to make it airtight from any. 

1010
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,500
Any cardinality or unnecessary 
offense? 

1011
01:00:24,700 --> 01:00:28,800
Am I will, how would I would 
Should I be convinced that this 

1012
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:33,700
person really loves me wants to 
see Christ formed in me, the way

1013
01:00:33,700 --> 01:00:40,100
I am prepared to say what I'm 
about to say. and if you can 

1014
01:00:40,100 --> 01:00:46,300
say, yes, then you're ready for 
that rebuke, and the Lord needs 

1015
01:00:46,300 --> 01:00:48,700
to give us wisdom, right? 
Lord doesn't need to give us 

1016
01:00:48,700 --> 01:00:52,200
wisdom because sometimes that 
rebuke will be something we have

1017
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:54,500
to be ready to do at that very 
moment. 

1018
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:59,300
And the way that we are ready, 
is when we remain prayerful, we 

1019
01:00:59,300 --> 01:01:04,000
remain watchful. 
When we remain continually in a 

1020
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:08,800
place of self-examination, so 
we're continually clean vessels.

1021
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,600
So that when we are taken by 
surprise, will be more 

1022
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:16,000
christ-like than ever. 
There's so much more to say. 

1023
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:18,200
I'm not going to continue to say
anything, but here's what I want

1024
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:23,900
to say, and enclosing If you're 
a person who is sorrowful today,

1025
01:01:24,100 --> 01:01:27,300
you did the right thing in 
coming to this place, but I want

1026
01:01:27,300 --> 01:01:32,300
to let you know that the Lord 
has Mercy toward you even in 

1027
01:01:32,300 --> 01:01:35,500
your grief. 
And sometimes his Mercy comes in

1028
01:01:35,508 --> 01:01:40,400
the form of a rebuke. 
So maybe today you are you have 

1029
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,000
been enduring pain and it's been
paralyzing. 

1030
01:01:44,100 --> 01:01:47,200
Hear God's voice in this study 
today and realize that if you 

1031
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:51,300
have been accusing God, even 
slightly or your walk with the 

1032
01:01:51,308 --> 01:01:53,800
Lord, has been altered in any 
shape or form because of that 

1033
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:56,800
grief. 
Realize that the Lord wants to 

1034
01:01:56,808 --> 01:01:59,600
heal you today. 
Realize that he has a purpose 

1035
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:02,100
for you. 
Realize that his program is 

1036
01:02:02,100 --> 01:02:05,700
bigger than your personal life 
and your part of that program in

1037
01:02:05,900 --> 01:02:08,100
your life is beyond your son. 
Your daughter. 

1038
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:11,500
Your life is beyond your job. 
Your life is beyond what others 

1039
01:02:11,500 --> 01:02:12,900
have done. 
It's bigger than that and you're

1040
01:02:12,900 --> 01:02:16,300
part of that bigger picture. 
You know what's so sad, is how 

1041
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,100
David's grief here? 
Cause other people to be to be 

1042
01:02:20,100 --> 01:02:24,100
sad? 
And to really even caused 

1043
01:02:24,100 --> 01:02:27,400
themselves to reflect on their 
own ways and their own 

1044
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,500
decisions, you know, you have 
parents who when they go 

1045
01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:34,300
through, grieving things 
specifically with one specific 

1046
01:02:34,300 --> 01:02:37,400
child, they isolate themselves 
with other children. 

1047
01:02:38,700 --> 01:02:40,700
They don't give any love any 
attention to the children, they 

1048
01:02:40,700 --> 01:02:42,800
just keep remembering what about
that once on whether their 

1049
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:45,500
Wayward or even altogether loss 
from this life. 

1050
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:50,000
And what happens to those kids, 
they get bitter, they get 

1051
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,600
broken. 
They pull away they Rebel and so

1052
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:56,900
we need God's wisdom, Even in 
our pain, we need the Lord's 

1053
01:02:56,900 --> 01:02:58,200
help. 
We can do a whole series on 

1054
01:02:58,200 --> 01:02:59,000
that. 
Can we not? 

1055
01:03:00,100 --> 01:03:03,500
But it's 935 so you're not 
getting a Series tonight. 

1056
01:03:03,500 --> 01:03:19,800
At least let's pray. 
Lord words. 

1057
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:24,000
Can't express how how full my 
heart feels to see a room filled

1058
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:27,500
with people who are eager to 
hear from your word. 

1059
01:03:27,500 --> 01:03:31,200
Thank you for this Bible study. 
Thank you that on a Friday 

1060
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,000
night. 
People want to be under the word

1061
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:38,300
of God, or we asked conveyed 
today would have been beneficial

1062
01:03:38,300 --> 01:03:41,600
to our walk with you. 
We pray, Lord that you would 

1063
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:46,000
help us be. 
Believers who know how to grieve

1064
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:49,000
with hope. 
We pray that you would help us 

1065
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:53,400
to be faithful Messengers, not 
like I amaz who get excited, but

1066
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:57,100
don't understand the 
responsibility of running this 

1067
01:03:57,100 --> 01:03:59,600
race. 
Help us be like cush site. 

1068
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:04,600
Help us be like that man who may
not have had the fastest feet, 

1069
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,900
but was obedient and faithful to
what you asked of him. 

1070
01:04:08,900 --> 01:04:11,600
Well we pray that in those 
uncomfortable moments where we 

1071
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:15,300
might have to correct a brother 
or we might have to criticize 

1072
01:04:15,300 --> 01:04:17,800
even for the sake of seeing them
restored. 

1073
01:04:18,900 --> 01:04:23,800
We won't have to call them out. 
Lord maybe we not be unwilling 

1074
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:27,700
to wield that but when we also 
be cautious to do so in the most

1075
01:04:27,700 --> 01:04:30,400
christ-like manner as possible, 
help us believe that. 

1076
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:33,600
Like with Samuel and David 
rebuke was the means by which 

1077
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:37,800
you revived their concern for 
you and your purpose for them. 

1078
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:42,300
And Lord for those who attempted
to isolate, for those who might 

1079
01:04:42,300 --> 01:04:45,200
be in isolation, this very 
moment, maybe they're not here 

1080
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:49,400
because they are isolating. 
Go, where we can't go. 

1081
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,300
Help us know what to do. 
But also Lord, if we've done all

1082
01:04:53,300 --> 01:04:57,200
that we can do, would you be 
merciful and speak to them? 

1083
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:01,200
As you spoke to Samuel, open 
their eyes, let your voice be 

1084
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:04,000
loud and clear rescue them from 
their despair. 

1085
01:05:04,100 --> 01:05:07,900
Pull them out of that pit so 
they can operate the way you've 

1086
01:05:08,100 --> 01:05:11,700
called them to be with their 
gifting and their presence and 

1087
01:05:11,700 --> 01:05:14,700
their involvement in the 
advancement of your purpose. 

1088
01:05:14,700 --> 01:05:17,600
Lord, we look to you and we 
trust you and we sing to you 

1089
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:20,300
with gladness of heart. 
In Jesus name we pray. 

1090
01:05:20,700 --> 01:05:23,500
Amen. 
Let's stand Worship the Lord.