1 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:14,500 I believe, you know, where we are in our Bibles. 2 00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:17,500 So meet me in the book of 1st Samuel chapter 26. 3 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:43,800 First Samuel chapter 26. Lord, we love your word. 4 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,400 It is our sustenance. It is the wisdom of God for 5 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,500 salvation. Lord, we need you to help us 6 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:55,200 understand all that. You have to say. 7 00:00:56,900 --> 00:00:59,200 And on a Friday night, Lord were many have worked. 8 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,800 Many might be exhausted, and tired, Quicken us to be 9 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,800 students. And to receive all that you have 10 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:12,300 to say speak to our hearts illuminate, our minds show us 11 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:15,900 where in our lives, exactly. We need to be challenged or 12 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:19,400 where we need to be comforted. And so Lord, May the Holy Spirit 13 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,900 rest upon the ministry of the word, it may we leave here, 14 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:27,700 blessed, knowing that our savior has spoken to us We cherish all 15 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:30,900 that you have in this book. We long to understand that so 16 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:34,000 that we can apply it and then you would be blessed to see your 17 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,500 reflection, all the more clear in our hearts. 18 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:41,600 We ask these things in the precious name, Of Jesus Christ. 19 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:46,800 Amen. Over the last few chapters. 20 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:53,100 We've been exploring in our study David and particular, 21 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:58,800 overcoming One Challenge, after the next and those challenges 22 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,900 being overcome should challenge us. 23 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,400 It should challenge us in our personal Reliance upon God and 24 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,400 various circumstances. And it should also challenged us 25 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,700 to develop in our christ-like character within the complexity 26 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:19,100 of Human Relationships. And after we looked into each 27 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:22,800 situation with with great depth you and I get the impression 28 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,700 that the rhythm of this man's trials has left them. 29 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:29,700 Almost out of breath. This man did not even have the 30 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:35,000 time to just breathe because one thing after the other surface 31 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,900 before him and demanded so much faith, and so much love, and so 32 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:43,100 much of the power of the spirit, to produce a righteousness, that 33 00:02:43,100 --> 00:02:47,300 would glorify God. And as we come to this chapter, 34 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,700 we will realize that the Relentless Pursuit and 35 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:56,500 persecution and pressure will only continue. 36 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,300 We would think that as we come closer to the end of this book, 37 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:03,300 that David's tests, and is tribulations, would be on the 38 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:07,400 decline, but we would think wrongly if that's the case, 39 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:09,700 because that is quite the opposite. 40 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:13,800 Even though God seems to be plucking one enemy out of his 41 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,400 life after the other. As we approach this chapter, 42 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:21,400 even though Saul has been silenced for a time, even though 43 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,500 a man like Nable and a ball has been put to death. 44 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:31,600 We will see here that things And Times of difficulty have not 45 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,400 been put to rest just yet. Join me in verse 1. 46 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:43,400 Then the zip fights came to Saul at Gibby has saying, is not 47 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,000 David hiding himself, on the hill of Hela, which is on the 48 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,900 east of Yeshua mom. Sews all arose and went down to 49 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:58,100 the Wilderness of ziff with 3,000 chosen, men of Israel to 50 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:01,200 seek David in the wilderness of ziv. 51 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:06,400 And Saul and can't on the hill of Hela, which is beside the 52 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,600 road of the east of. Yes, Yuma. 53 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,800 But David remained in the wilderness when he saw that Saul 54 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,000 came after him into the Wilderness David sent out spies 55 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:24,800 and learned that Saul had indeed come This is quite fascinating. 56 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,400 As we come to these first two verses they sound very familiar, 57 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,200 don't they? Why do they sound familiar? 58 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:38,400 Can somebody share? Why Let me ask you this. 59 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,000 Have you heard of the zip fights before? 60 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,200 Yes, I hope maybe you weren't there that week if you don't 61 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,700 know the answer to that. And have you heard the words of 62 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:51,600 these zip fights before? Yes. 63 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:52,900 Yes. I mean, you're looking at me. 64 00:04:52,907 --> 00:04:54,600 I hope it's a. Yes, yes. 65 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:59,700 We have almost identical to the words that we see in first 66 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:04,500 Samuel chapter 23, these if fights are resurfacing, again, 67 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,600 if you go to chapter 23, look at verse 19, very quickly in your 68 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,200 Bibles. And this is, it fights went up 69 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,400 to Salt Lake. If you are saying is not David 70 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,600 hiding, Among Us in the strongholds of at horesh, on the 71 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,500 hill of Hela, which is south of yes, Yuma. 72 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:24,300 This same group of people are informing Saul again about 73 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:28,200 David's whereabouts with almost exact same wording. 74 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:32,500 And as we reflect upon this, this copy paste, betrayal of 75 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:35,000 David. And this repetitive reporting to 76 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,400 Saul actually gives us insight about the Christian Life. 77 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,200 It does. First consider this, as you look 78 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,700 at these two verses in chapter 26, we learn about the 79 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:51,500 viciousness of man. The the possibility of 80 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:56,400 wickedness, the extent of evil that can be known and reached. 81 00:05:56,700 --> 00:06:00,300 If the Holy Spirit does not restrain a human heart consider 82 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:04,600 this that as Believers we are actively seeking out how we can 83 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,600 do good, that's what the Holy Spirit does he changes your 84 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,800 desires and you are if you're filled with him to look out for 85 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,200 ways that you can make Christ known, or you can share Christ 86 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:17,400 but those who are empty of of him, those who do not have this 87 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,400 transformed heart. If they Continue to resist. 88 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:25,100 Their conscience are actually capable of looking for evil to 89 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:29,200 perform in the world and that makes our world dark and makes 90 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:33,400 it dangerous and makes it cruel and makes the believer cry out 91 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,000 for a total Redemption over the whole universe, not just the 92 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,800 human race. And as we come to these men, we 93 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:44,000 see a perfect example of that. That's so, so dark in the human 94 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,900 heart. Get that even those who are 95 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:48,800 closest to, you are willing to betray. 96 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,400 You can I ask this question which tribe were the zip fights 97 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,600 from Judah. Good. 98 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:01,700 And where's David from Judah? So, the closest people to him 99 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:05,700 concerning tribe are the ones that are betraying him. 100 00:07:05,700 --> 00:07:08,600 Almost the most. This is painful, this is not 101 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,500 easy. It's one thing for it to happen 102 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:14,200 at one time, but for it to happen again at a different 103 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,100 time, it's painful, it's not easy. 104 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,200 And we wonder how is it that those who are supposed to be 105 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,300 called to love us and serve us and protect us are willing to do 106 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:27,000 one thing after The other to do, just the opposite. 107 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,500 Well, if you think it's foreign, it's not David experienced, it 108 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:34,800 David is going through just that, not just one act of 109 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,800 betrayal, but a continual Act of betrayal. 110 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:42,100 And so it's just another thrust into the soul. 111 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:46,600 This is extremely difficult to grasp and such disappointments 112 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,000 should cause us to rejoice. In the fact that there is one 113 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,200 person who is perfect, and that's Christ and Christ Alone. 114 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,900 The most loving person in your life pails. 115 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,600 In comparison to the perfect brimming love of Jesus Christ. 116 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:02,400 So if somebody has failed you in life even it's somebody who 117 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,700 shares your own blood realize there's there is blood that is 118 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:10,300 more precious than that. You don't just learn about the 119 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:12,300 viciousness of man. We learn about something 120 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:14,800 concerning as we heard about persistence. 121 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,000 The Persistence of sin. The zip fights here. 122 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,900 Give us an illustration. Of the determination of 123 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:27,500 Temptation in our lives. Sin is not going to give up on 124 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:31,100 you so easily. Sin is not going to let you live 125 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:34,200 peaceably. Without interruption, without 126 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,100 invitation the last that we heard of saw before coming to 127 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:39,600 this chapter, is that he apparently repented? 128 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:42,200 He stood in the shadow of David's righteousness. 129 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:47,000 He was so struck by the response of a man who deserved to do much 130 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,200 more damage than good and he ends his quest to kill David and 131 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,200 he goes home. He sits in his living room and 132 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,900 we don't hear from him until this very chapter. 133 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:02,500 And you know what awaken Saul again to what he had apparently. 134 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:09,700 Turn from the zip fights. A familiar voice, familiar, 135 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:14,200 whisper, and you, and I need to understand that this return of 136 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:19,200 salt, to his vomit as horrific as it is, as disappointing as it 137 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,900 is, is a great reflection upon the common backsliding of many, 138 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:28,000 many people. Who are in a type of cycle in 139 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,400 their Holiness and you makes you wonder how to solve forget, how 140 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:37,000 do you forget King Saul that? The last time you brought three 141 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,700 thousand men, just like in chapter 23, the last time you 142 00:09:39,700 --> 00:09:42,900 try to do that, didn't you recognize the questionable? 143 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:46,200 Interruption to your plans? Then you see God's Providence 144 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,600 interrupt? Did you forget the feeling that 145 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:55,100 you knew when you are faced with a man who's shown the the 146 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:58,700 righteousness of God and it's so exposed your wickedness? 147 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,200 Did you forget the piercing feeling there? 148 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,700 It seems like all of that was totally dismissed, totally 149 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:09,900 forgot about by the suggestion of this group of people. 150 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:15,000 And it's important for us to realize that the actions of the 151 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,900 zip fights. Our picture of old sins 152 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:19,600 revisiting us. They are. 153 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 The determination of Temptation. Listen, the World, the Flesh, 154 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,200 the devil will not sit back quietly while you pursue 155 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,300 holiness. Though we are called to daily 156 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:34,600 die to ourselves. Satan has a mission for your 157 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,600 life as you crucify, your flesh. You know what Satan wants to do, 158 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,500 Resurrect The Old Man in you and he has different ways of doing 159 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:44,400 it. So that means we got to Be 160 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,000 watchful at all times. We got to be careful especially 161 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 when we believe we have overcome a certain habit or a certain 162 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,600 certain sin or trespass or iniquity in the past such sins 163 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,500 are ready to entice us again, such sins have no shame of 164 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:07,700 reintroducing themselves to you and I And draws back to what we 165 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:09,600 promised. We would never do again. 166 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,200 Can I can I tell you personally, how I've seen this happen in 167 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:20,000 people's lives, more than ever friendships, friendships at a 168 00:11:20,008 --> 00:11:22,000 moment. Somebody determines to live 169 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,800 wholeheartedly, for Christ. It's amazing. 170 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:30,300 How even after season a long season of just pursuing Christ 171 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:34,200 on that narrow road. People that were once with you 172 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,200 on that Broad, Road, reintroduce themselves on the side of the 173 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,700 narrow to say, we miss you, man. Why don't you come back? 174 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:42,600 Why don't you join us again? There's a lot of room here. 175 00:11:42,700 --> 00:11:47,200 Remember our memories and often many likes all here. 176 00:11:47,900 --> 00:11:53,300 Fall victim to it. Like this advice familiar 177 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:57,000 companions revisit us to tempt us and unfortunately this man 178 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,600 didn't show much hesitation he jump right to it. 179 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:05,800 Saul's response in verse 2. Echoes the same response to the 180 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,900 initial invitation of the device as they were trying to help Saul 181 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,100 satisfy his desires. And as we come to this point and 182 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:17,300 makes you also think as we reflect upon the last chapter, 183 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,900 David faced a challenge with a different person, they Mabel and 184 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:26,000 what's so interesting there is when you contrast, when you 185 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,000 contrast Saul and the ball when you contrast eats too many, You 186 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,600 have to have to meditate upon God's treatment of these two men 187 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:37,300 and why they differ so much. Because here's my question, as I 188 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:41,200 read verse to solve a rose, got why do you just kill them right 189 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,900 there on the spot? After all that? 190 00:12:43,900 --> 00:12:46,900 He's done. The, the man that he's caused. 191 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 I mean, you are willing to intervene when the ball just 192 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,600 said a word. But this man has killed your 193 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,500 priest. He has driven your anointed one 194 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:58,900 Into the Wilderness into caves, he has caused so many of those 195 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:02,600 who belong to your people. Suffer under his Reign and 196 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,900 you're letting him live to see another day. 197 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,000 And so I was reading verse 2 and I thought to myself this is the 198 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,400 question that rush through my mind. 199 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:16,800 Why did he why did the Lord swiftly, discipline the ball? 200 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,300 But he's allowing Saul to continue on with his quest? 201 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:22,900 Is that is that a legitimate question? 202 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:24,400 I think. So. 203 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,300 Why don't you just put an end to end once and for all? 204 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,600 When it came to the one man, he was paralyzed with a stroke and 205 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,900 you killed them there. And here's another man who again 206 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,100 is trying to make the person that you were trying to put on 207 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:41,000 the throne be eradicated from the face of the Earth. 208 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,500 I think there are many possible answers to why this is the case. 209 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:47,800 And let me give you one tonight to consider. 210 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,500 I believe. It's because God still had more 211 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:53,100 for David to learn through Saul's evil. 212 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:56,400 That has not yet been accomplished. 213 00:13:58,100 --> 00:14:02,100 There was still a character for David to develop. 214 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,700 There were still manifestations of God's presence and power and 215 00:14:05,700 --> 00:14:09,300 love to be known through the actions of a wicked man like 216 00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:11,900 Saul. And when you think about the 217 00:14:11,908 --> 00:14:17,000 bomb, Whatever God wanted to do through him was was was done it 218 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,000 sufficed, but there was still a curriculum for David to be 219 00:14:21,300 --> 00:14:24,000 completing in his relationship with Saul. 220 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:27,900 You know what that tells me? I hope it comforts you that the 221 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:35,000 Lord is very precise. He's very involved with not just 222 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,300 who not just what, but how long in terms of our suffering. 223 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:42,000 I want to prove that to you. In the New Testament, go to the 224 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,100 Book of Revelation chapter 2 The Lord Jesus himself, addresses a 225 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:48,900 church that is undergoing suffering. 226 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:52,700 And when you come to chapter 2, he addresses the, the Church of 227 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:59,300 Smyrna, a small Church, a pure Church, a poor Church. 228 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,700 And I want you to see what the Lord says. 229 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:09,100 To this church. And in verse 9 of chapter 2, I 230 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:13,400 know your tribulation and your poverty but you are rich and the 231 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,200 slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not but 232 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,100 are the synagogue of Satan. Now, look at verse 10, do not 233 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:23,800 fear what you are about to suffer behold, the devil is 234 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,900 about to throw, some of you into prison that you may be tested. 235 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:31,500 And for 10 days, you will have tribulation. 236 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,500 For 10 days, you will have tribulation, you know, what? 237 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:38,700 That tells me that God is Not Just Sovereign over the 238 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:40,200 suffering. He is Sovereign over the 239 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,800 duration of it. I'm telling you that this is 240 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,900 going to last for 10 days and if you are faithful during those 241 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:50,700 ten days, you will be rewarded. I praise God. 242 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:54,200 That he is so involved. He's so particular. 243 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:59,100 He is so precise that he even knows the endurance of what I am 244 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:03,900 going through. He has a calendar set. 245 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,300 Just like you receive a syllabus for your school and God has a 246 00:16:08,308 --> 00:16:10,400 syllabus for your sanctification. 247 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:15,300 He knows exactly what and how long you must go through 248 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:17,800 something in order for you to be more complete and 249 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,900 christlikeness. And that should give us a 250 00:16:19,908 --> 00:16:23,800 profound rest and trust that the Lord knows exactly on what 251 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,700 morning. I will wake up and everything 252 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:30,800 will change and that morning might be the morning of the 253 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,600 Eternal Bliss of heaven where you come into His presence 254 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,200 forever and ever and it might be in this life. 255 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,400 And so, as you come to realize why God does something different 256 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,200 within the bond does something different with with Saul 257 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,300 understand this. He knows exactly what he's doing 258 00:16:45,300 --> 00:16:47,600 with each of those men in David's life. 259 00:16:49,100 --> 00:16:52,200 And so as you perceive and as you look out into this world as 260 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,300 you look back into your own life and think why did God make that 261 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:58,500 last so long and then another instance he was so short. 262 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:00,500 Why is God? So short with somebody else's 263 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:03,000 sickness here but with my sickness it seems to go on 264 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,200 forever and ever and ever, God knows. 265 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:10,500 He knows exactly what he's doing and you have to trust the timing 266 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:14,099 not just his sovereignty. In general this the timing of 267 00:17:14,099 --> 00:17:18,900 it. Every second is determined by 268 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:22,800 calendar of a loving God who is established from eternity past. 269 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:26,000 And that might worry some and that might cause some people to 270 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,400 be philosophical. I choose to rest in that. 271 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:33,100 I choose to know that this God is loving and no matter how long 272 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:36,700 he let something happen, it's because it's going to be for my 273 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:40,600 good and His glory. That's the case here with Saul. 274 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:45,800 And so we come back that as he arises with his choices, met 275 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:50,400 choice of men and he comes with strength with seemingly. 276 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,300 No Interruption from Heaven, God knows what he is doing with his 277 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:56,300 man. God knows what he is doing with 278 00:17:56,300 --> 00:18:01,300 us and we come to verse 3. Sawing camps on the hill. 279 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,400 David remains in the wilderness. Now, look at the second part of 280 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,500 verse 3, when he saw that saw came after him into the 281 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:14,500 Wilderness David sent out spies and learned that Saul had indeed 282 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:18,800 come In these verses you. And I discover yet another 283 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,800 distinctive of christ-like character that must be developed 284 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,600 in our lives. Where after this, right? 285 00:18:24,700 --> 00:18:27,000 We're after sanctification, we're after Holiness. 286 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:28,900 Lord, what is it in my life and needs to be changed. 287 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:31,700 So I can be more like your son. Well, here's another thing to 288 00:18:31,708 --> 00:18:33,800 look into. This was not a difficult 289 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,400 conclusion for David to make. He has seen three thousand men 290 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,900 in a Wilderness before. He's been in this land before, 291 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:44,500 he's seen the site before. And so, as he looks out into the 292 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:48,800 Horizon and he sees the Same band of men in the same area 293 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:53,400 that he has been in before he realizes, this is happening. 294 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,500 This is actually happening but what he chooses to do in verse 4 295 00:18:57,500 --> 00:19:02,600 is extremely important, he wants to confirm what his eyes have 296 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,700 seen or whatever report he has received. 297 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,200 He is going to Great Lengths to make sure through this 298 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,700 investigation that what he perceives as actually true. 299 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:20,900 He sends out spies why? I think every church needs a 300 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:22,500 series on what I'm about to say, man. 301 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:25,000 Like a series not like one message every few months, I'm 302 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,400 more convinced as you do church, that you really, really need 303 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,900 this to be a series. Why? 304 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:33,500 Why is David sending out spies to learn. 305 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:38,400 If saw, had indeed come because wisdom teaches us to reserve our 306 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,000 accusations until there is proof. 307 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,600 Until there is proof provided. No accusation, should be made, 308 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:54,600 not even in your own thoughts. A person who makes a judgment 309 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,200 before doing his part to get as much clarity as possible. 310 00:19:58,500 --> 00:20:03,100 Is what the Bible calls. I'm sorry, a fool, a fool. 311 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:07,000 Can I show you? An example of an adverse market 312 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,800 up my brother and my sister, it's in the Book of Proverbs and 313 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:21,300 18:13 A very general. Very general thought that has 314 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:26,900 many applications. If one gives an answer before he 315 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:34,200 hears it is his folly and shame Proverbs 18:13 if one gives an 316 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:39,800 answer before he hears it is his folly and shame now now so 317 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,000 listen I said fool, you know the Bible says not only are you 318 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,300 foolish it's actually a shameful thing. 319 00:20:47,700 --> 00:20:51,000 You should blush, you should be embarrassed. 320 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,300 That's what the Bible says, if one gives an answer so you can 321 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:56,500 apply this. As I said, it's a very, it is a 322 00:20:56,500 --> 00:21:00,100 specific kind of insight, but it's very Broad in its 323 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:02,100 application. Let me give you one application 324 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:07,000 if you, if you give an answer or an assumption about someone or 325 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,500 something without without doing your part to receive as much 326 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:15,800 answers as possible to make the best judgment, you're a fool. 327 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:19,500 And you should be embarrassed about yourself. 328 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,600 That's the Bible's language. And for good reason. 329 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,000 And I know that there are many people here, who are studying, 330 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,300 counseling, can I officer can offer a tip if you're pursuing 331 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:35,100 that kind of ministry? if you're going to be pursuing 332 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:38,800 counseling, you're going to learn many things, but here's 333 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:43,500 one thing that I've seen work And that's to ask as many 334 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:47,000 questions as possible, so that you can make the best. 335 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:53,100 Conclusion. In someone's life, concerning a 336 00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:58,600 circumstance or situation, wisdom is proven in many ways. 337 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,900 And one way that it manifests in a person's life is that they 338 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:08,100 know how to ask the right questions. fools, don't ask 339 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:12,600 questions, fools go quick to answers because they think the 340 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:18,500 quicker I get to the answer, the smarter I may appear to be It's 341 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:21,200 not about speed, it's about substance. 342 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:25,300 It's not about seeming to be clever, it's about being 343 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:27,600 careful. When you're dealing with what 344 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,900 you hear and what you even see with your own eyes. 345 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:34,100 If you're truly a wise person, you will do your part to 346 00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:38,200 calculate things before you have an answer. 347 00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:43,600 And that's what this man is doing because no good doctor. 348 00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:48,300 Dares to give a prescription without first doing a process of 349 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:51,000 elimination and asking for the symptoms. 350 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,900 So they didn't know what kind of diagnosis to make. 351 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,000 And no healthy Christian or no healthy leader. 352 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,100 In a Ministry makes quick answers or judgments. 353 00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:06,000 Upon things without first inquiring and investigating 354 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:09,100 because you're dealing with people's lives here. 355 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:13,400 And as you come to this, you see it. 356 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:16,200 You see it laid out. So obviously, and if we're not 357 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,000 careful with this, you might put people's lives in danger on a 358 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,400 one-to-one basis. But I believe it's one of the 359 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,500 root causes for all the trouble that we see in many churches. 360 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:30,600 Because many people in churches, make decisions and judgements 361 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,900 simply based off hearsay, that's it. 362 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:36,100 All they need is for, like one or two persons to say one thing, 363 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,000 and that's it for them, they're convinced. 364 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,400 You're going to destroy your life. 365 00:23:40,900 --> 00:23:43,500 Listen, you're going to destroy relationships. 366 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:44,800 That shouldn't have been destroyed. 367 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:49,600 You will for certain Satan is so clever. 368 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,000 And if he can find somebody, who can believe something. 369 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,700 So easily, just based on one or two things, You're going to be 370 00:23:56,700 --> 00:24:03,700 swallowed up in no, no time. They don't exercise wisdom when 371 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:06,900 they fail to do this. But listen, when people fail to 372 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:09,900 investigate like David as they don't just fail in wisdom, you 373 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:11,800 know what else they fail in love. 374 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,800 Love hear me carefully a person who makes quick, judgments, a 375 00:24:18,808 --> 00:24:24,600 person who presumes a person who makes commentary without 376 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,000 inquiring is not just a foolish person. 377 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,700 The Bible says, they are an unloving person. 378 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:38,300 I was thinking about this and I thought to myself in that famous 379 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:41,900 chapter of First Corinthians 13. There are many manifestations of 380 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:46,800 how love lives in and through a person and if I were to ask you 381 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,900 what's the most difficult thing about loving like Godly love. 382 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:53,000 What would you say giving your time forgiving? 383 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,700 I mean, I'd like to hear it. What's the hardest thing about 384 00:24:56,700 --> 00:25:00,300 love, patience. Love is patient. 385 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:03,800 Love is kind. What else is hard about love? 386 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:14,400 Selfishness. You beat me to Agra geese. 387 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:17,700 Can I tell you what? I believe one of the hardest 388 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:21,400 things about love is it's not about having to help somebody 389 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,100 move out of their house on a Saturday. 390 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:30,200 It's not having to have to do the Dirty Work in the church 391 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,900 when nobody else wants to do it. That's easy. 392 00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:34,300 Compared to what I'm about to show you. 393 00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:36,800 I want to show you what I believe is one of the most 394 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,600 difficult things. One of the one of the Menifee 395 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,500 stations of love that is lacking the most in the world. 396 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:44,900 And even especially among Believers. 397 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:59,300 First Corinthians chapter 13 verse 7. 1st Corinthians. 398 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:05,700 Chapter 13 verse 7. Love. 399 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:12,200 Bears, all things, and here it is believes all things. 400 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:17,200 Hopes, all things. Endures. 401 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,200 All things. Love. 402 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:25,800 Beliefs all things you just told us not to believe everything and 403 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,200 to do investigation. I know. 404 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,700 But let's look at a different Paradigm here. 405 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,200 What does it mean for love to believe all things? 406 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,800 Anybody have an answer to that? If you think it means to believe 407 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,200 everything you hear, I'll give you a heads up. 408 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,400 That's not the answer. That's not love. 409 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:47,900 That's being irresponsible. And that's actually being 410 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:49,900 destructive to yourself and to others. 411 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Love is not being gullible. Love is not being naive, so we 412 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,400 eliminated that. What is it mean? 413 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:59,500 Then for love to believe all things. 414 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,700 Okay. So it has a hopeful 415 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:15,400 interpretation of people's words and actions that was that is 416 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,600 that way of saying it it has a hopeful interpretation of 417 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,900 people's words and actions I think that pretty much sums it 418 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:23,900 up and maybe there are other answers to it. 419 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:26,200 What does it mean for love to believe all things? 420 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:35,100 Very good love will believe the best about someone until they 421 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:39,700 prove otherwise very good. Any other answers. 422 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:45,400 These are wonderful answers. Love believes all things. 423 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:54,500 Love believes all things. Well, I can assure you again 424 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:56,700 that it doesn't mean that you trust everything that you see or 425 00:27:56,700 --> 00:28:00,500 hear, that's not love. But what it does mean here is 426 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:06,700 that as a Believer you war with the thoughts in your mind that 427 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:09,600 wants to assume the worst about somebody else. 428 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:18,900 Love that believes all things does not condemn someone so 429 00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:23,300 quickly in the heart, even this kind of love is not cynical. 430 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:31,400 This kind of love, doesn't allow you to assume that everybody is 431 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:37,500 is wicked and evil. And wants to do harm and has ill 432 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:40,800 intent. This kind of love doesn't 433 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,900 automatically say your motives are this this this and that 434 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:51,400 without any proof. It's a very, very specific way 435 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,900 of love and I believe it is very much lacking. 436 00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:57,600 You know why? Because all of us are prone to 437 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,700 immediately question people. All of us are prone to making 438 00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:06,300 judgments about people. And I know what you're thinking, 439 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:08,400 as I'm saying these things but what about discernment? 440 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,200 What about discernment or do? We tolerate things? 441 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:14,500 Are we not supposed to be careful? 442 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,700 We'll get there. But this is important to 443 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:23,300 understand. This kind of love isn't safe for 444 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:25,800 certain. This person is doing this for 445 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,100 this reason and it's always wrong reason. 446 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,800 This kind of love doesn't interpret some of these words 447 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,000 that are not clear and assume that it is because they are 448 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,000 trying to do something for self or trying to attack or trying to 449 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,700 harm or trying to plan something. 450 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:42,900 This is what this kind of love is. 451 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,300 I think a Biblical example of that is job and his friends job 452 00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:49,200 was suffering and his friends came on the scene and they 453 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,800 assumed your suffering is because of a personal sin. 454 00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:54,000 Was there any proof of sin? No. 455 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,700 And so those friends as wise as they may have been in their own 456 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:02,700 eyes lack, this kind of love, they would not believe the best. 457 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:05,200 They would not believe about the most righteous out. 458 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,100 Come out of this situation. They assume they presume you 459 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:12,400 must have done something evil. And if you think that this is 460 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,300 not a common Temptation with, in church life, you haven't been in 461 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:16,300 church. Long enough. 462 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,700 Let me give you a very simple. I can give you a bib example for 463 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:21,000 liking. Yes, job and his friends. 464 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,600 Okay. Let's let's make it very, very 465 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,200 real. All right. 466 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,300 Here you are in the basement of this church after service, and 467 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:30,100 it's busy. And people are walking by and 468 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:33,100 talking and here you are standing alone for a moment and 469 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:37,600 somebody that, you know, walks right by you and they don't look 470 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,500 at you. They don't even say hi to you. 471 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:43,900 In fact, they exit the room without acknowledging your 472 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:48,900 presence. The failure of this kind of 473 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:50,800 love, you know what? It sounds like in the heart. 474 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:56,100 How rude. What's this person's deal? 475 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,000 Not going to say hi to me. Or do they think I have to say 476 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,200 hi if they want to talk? So I have to always come up to 477 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,700 them. She must struggle with pride. 478 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,500 She probably she probably thinks she's better than everybody 479 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:13,000 else. So so she has to, she has to 480 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,100 wait for me to tap her on the shoulder and say hi. 481 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,100 She didn't even say if I was, if I was that person and I walked 482 00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:21,300 by I would definitely say hi every single time. 483 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:26,300 There's Giggles here because you probably felt that right? 484 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:29,900 Or what do we do when a new person comes to church? 485 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:36,700 We never seen them before. And they're trying to adjust 486 00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:38,600 themselves and they're trying to get to know people. 487 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,400 And we automatically assume what, what do we assume what? 488 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,500 What goes through our minds? Probably here to try to find a 489 00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:50,300 wife. Probably your to try to find a 490 00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:53,400 husband. It could be true. 491 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:54,400 But why do we presume it all the time? 492 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:55,600 What if they're here to find God? 493 00:31:57,100 --> 00:31:59,200 You see what I'm saying? Yeah, really just got it. 494 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,500 Got really real in this Bible study tonight. 495 00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:05,300 Let's go back to the illustration of being in the 496 00:32:05,308 --> 00:32:07,900 basement and that person walks by you. 497 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:12,400 What is love? Believing all things sound like 498 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:15,600 When that friend that usually says, hi to you in that moment. 499 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,300 Doesn't say hi to you and walks right by you. 500 00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:23,400 Also, and so must be very busy. They must have a lot on their 501 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:29,700 mind. I hope they're okay. you know 502 00:32:29,708 --> 00:32:31,600 what next time, if they do that they walk by, they come back 503 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,200 into this room and make sure to say hi, love believes all 504 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,100 things. And, you know, the consequences 505 00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:41,100 of failing to Love in This Way. Can I tell you like, what's the 506 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:42,400 big deal? I'll tell you the big deal. 507 00:32:42,700 --> 00:32:46,900 If you fail, if I fail to love in this way, you will never know 508 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:52,500 possible, friendships that can blossom with much fruit and 509 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:57,000 fragrance and testimony, you will never open your heart up to 510 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,500 another. You will always be cynical. 511 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:04,600 Always be analytical, always assuming the worst And if we're 512 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,200 not careful, if we make this broad application towards 513 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,400 everybody, we are indirectly accusing. 514 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,000 God of his inability to sanctify somebody. 515 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:15,600 In the innermost parts of who they are. 516 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,800 We're almost saying God you are unable to do a work in 517 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,600 somebody's heart where I can actually take them at their 518 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,900 word. I know what you're thinking. 519 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,200 I know it. I know it. 520 00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:30,900 So what are you saying? She's believe everybody. 521 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,300 No, just hope for the best. When things are unclear. 522 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:40,200 I'm not talking about when it's like clear, evil when it's clear 523 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,900 sin, when it's clear wrong, when it's clear rudeness. 524 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:45,900 When it's when it's clear anger, I'm talking about things that 525 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:49,100 are not clear things that are up for interpretation. 526 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:54,600 When is ambiguous fight your thoughts to go for the best. 527 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,600 Now, for the worst that will protect your relationships. 528 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:01,400 That will not cause you to be unnecessarily distant from 529 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,700 somebody else. It will nourish. 530 00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:12,800 And it will give God glory. David is loving Saul here. 531 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,900 You know, how he's loving Saul? Because the last time David 532 00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:20,100 encountered saw saw had apparently repented, and David 533 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:21,900 wants to believe that he really repented. 534 00:34:22,900 --> 00:34:26,300 And so, he's going to have these spies investigate to make sure 535 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,300 that what he had heard was not true. 536 00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:33,900 And before him making any plan or conclusion, or response to 537 00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:36,000 what he had seen with his own eyes or even heard from other 538 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,600 reports, he wants to do all that he can to ensure. 539 00:34:40,699 --> 00:34:43,199 I hope he really did repent because I believe it. 540 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:49,300 I want to believe that he really repented This love tolerate 541 00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:53,800 abuse. This love allows somebody who is 542 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,100 constantly using such a truth to manipulate people into abuse 543 00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:01,700 people's love. That's, that's not how that's 544 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:04,000 not how it works. And you have to come next week 545 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,800 to realize how David wisely though. 546 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,900 He is loving Saul distance himself from the man. 547 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,100 We'll get to that. That means you have to come next 548 00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:17,000 week. So he sent spies love believes 549 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,600 all things you believe and hope for the best and verse 5, then 550 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,200 David Rose and came to the place where saw had encamped. 551 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,700 And David saw the place where Saul a with Abner, the son of 552 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:30,900 Nur, the commander of his army saw was lying within the 553 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:36,400 encampment, while the Army was encamped around him. so now this 554 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:42,400 man Now this man himself goes into the scene while the 555 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:48,100 Midnight Hour cloaks the Wilderness while the stars in 556 00:35:48,100 --> 00:35:50,800 the sky, bring about a hint of Illumination. 557 00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:56,800 This man comes to see it for himself and he's trying to 558 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,700 figure out what is the most appropriate way to deal with 559 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:03,000 this? And it seems like he figure 560 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,900 something out because we read in verse 6, then David said to a 561 00:36:05,900 --> 00:36:10,600 female like the hittite have two jobs brother abishai, the son of 562 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:15,300 Zechariah, who will go down with me into the camp to Saul. 563 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,000 And ibish I said I will go down with you. 564 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,400 So he invites these two men. Not, I don't know if you wanted 565 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,000 both, maybe he was just asking for one or the other, but 566 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:31,200 abishai is the one who answers and he is introduced to us for 567 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,400 the first time here though is not the the last time we're 568 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,700 going to see of him. We're going to see him down down 569 00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:39,600 the road and the story of David and first and second Samuel, but 570 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,500 he outshines. And his courage compared to a, 571 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:44,400 he Malik, he does. This is a very Noble thing, 572 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,900 because David is not giving clear. 573 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:47,800 Instructions of what's about to happen, he just makes the 574 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,600 invitation and I wish I said, let's do this. 575 00:36:49,900 --> 00:36:52,500 I'm by your side, whatever you ask, I will do it. 576 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,600 Wonderful picture of when Jesus tells us to do something, we 577 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,600 don't know the outcome. We just trust and Obey for 578 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,600 there's no other way. But to be happy in Jesus, trust 579 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,100 and obey. He'll go, and we don't know what 580 00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:08,600 David has in mind at this point, but we trust that he is going to 581 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,200 righteously respond. That's what we're hoping for. 582 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,300 You're going to righteously respond, you're going to do what 583 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:15,400 you did in the cave. I didn't get e. 584 00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:18,700 You're going to figure out a way to convict this man. 585 00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:21,300 Again, you're not going to give in to the pressure of slaying 586 00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:24,000 him, because he took back his word, that's what we're hoping 587 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,800 for. But at the same time, as David 588 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,100 makes this invitation to abishai, David is about to, in 589 00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:33,800 his pursuit of good. Be invited in a different way 590 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,200 himself. What do I mean by that? 591 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:41,100 In this moment we're about to see two powerful pulls to 592 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:45,800 temptation. To do wrong to do the opposite 593 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,000 of what he was planning to do. And as you look at, these 594 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,100 components surrounding these Temptations, you and I will 595 00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:55,200 understand something about Temptation and our own lives and 596 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,100 that's important. We want to expose the strategies 597 00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:02,600 of Satan and sin in our lives so that we know how to better 598 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:07,400 respond to them. And temptation to us is just 599 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,800 just this invitation in the hardest suggestion to do 600 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,900 something wrong but it's more complicated than that. 601 00:38:13,700 --> 00:38:16,500 Because there are certain context and there are certain 602 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:19,900 sources that make Temptation so much stronger. 603 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:24,200 And that's what we see here. And verse 7. 604 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:29,100 So, David and abishai went to the Army by night and their 605 00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:33,900 lace, all sleeping within the equipment, with his spear stuck 606 00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:39,600 in the ground at his head and Abner the Army lay around him. 607 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:41,300 What? Sticks out. 608 00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:43,700 What I mean, this is a very detailed scene. 609 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,300 But what sticks out about the scene? 610 00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:50,400 Why is the Bible giving us this description of what's about to 611 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,400 take place? What, what, what is highlighted 612 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,500 in your eyes? Sleep. 613 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,200 Yeah, so there's a vulnerability here, right? 614 00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:03,200 Saw a sleeping and your, I don't think of anything more 615 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,900 vulnerable than being asleep. He's asleep. 616 00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:07,700 And his spear is right by his head. 617 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,600 Very vulnerable, which also means very great opportunity. 618 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,900 What other things? The Army around him. 619 00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:17,700 So there is there is a great protection there. 620 00:39:17,700 --> 00:39:20,000 Yes. So there's a suspense element to 621 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,400 this. What else? 622 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:30,700 The sleep is an important thing. And another thing, They went to 623 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:34,100 the Army by what? It's nighttime. 624 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,200 The fact that it's night, the fact that Saul is asleep. 625 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:43,300 The fact that all the men are around are also asleep. 626 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:48,700 Suggest something to us. It suggests that As David is 627 00:39:48,707 --> 00:39:52,600 about to receive an invitation to sin, it is done within the 628 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:58,100 context of secrecy. The fact that again that it's 629 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:00,700 not day Sinners love to Sinha at night by the way. 630 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,100 The fact that there is no light, the fact that there are no 631 00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:08,800 Witnesses makes this all the more difficult to resist. 632 00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:14,800 And the Insight from verse 7 in our own lives is that secrecy is 633 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:19,100 a great encouragement to sin against God and others. 634 00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:23,600 When we, when we believe that our actions, in our words and 635 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:28,600 our Deeds are not being witnessed are not being heard, 636 00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:32,000 when there's no surveillance, then we are all the more 637 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,600 emboldened to do wrong. And that's what we see here with 638 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:41,900 this description David here. Possibly could sense that Miss 639 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:46,400 fear itself. Arousing, the desire to do wrong 640 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,200 because this is different than the cave. 641 00:40:49,300 --> 00:40:52,000 This is way different. I want you to think about, as 642 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,100 he's here, right here. He can actually take that spear, 643 00:40:55,100 --> 00:40:59,200 that same spear. That's all throughout him so 644 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,900 many times. You can take that very, how, how 645 00:41:01,900 --> 00:41:05,500 fulfilling would that be and to thrust it in his Temple and to 646 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:10,100 pin him to the Earth and he could have escaped as easily as 647 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:13,600 he entered in and to add on top of it. 648 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,200 He could have caught a cause of great confusion. 649 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:20,600 Among the army of Saul say who did This and it would just add a 650 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:24,600 cherry on top of all the Revenge that he had just executed. 651 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:30,600 And so we see here that there is a great opportunity and secrecy, 652 00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:33,300 it's always an enticement to do wrong. 653 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,900 Temptation doesn't only suggest to you and I the pleasure or the 654 00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:45,200 prophet of sin Temptation, also Whispers to you, A plan of 655 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:50,400 Escape. Temptation, also suggest to you. 656 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,500 You can get away with it. Nobody will know. 657 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,700 Did you ever hear that when you're tempted? 658 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,900 You can get away with it, it's dark. 659 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:10,200 Everybody's sleeping. but even though David could have kept his 660 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:15,100 murder a mystery, I wonder if the words of his new wife 661 00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:19,000 resounded in his conscience. Remember what Abigail said to 662 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,700 David when he was on his way to assassinate nabal, If you don't 663 00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:28,900 remember, go back to 25:31. When Abigail speaks to this, 664 00:42:28,900 --> 00:42:31,400 man. David. 665 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:37,800 My Lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for 666 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,200 having shed blood without cause, or from my Lord, working 667 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,800 salvation himself. And when the Lord has dealt well 668 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,100 with my Lord, then remember your servant. 669 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,400 Oh, you might be able to get away with a David. 670 00:42:50,500 --> 00:42:53,900 You might be able to have killed Saul and on your way back to 671 00:42:53,900 --> 00:42:56,100 your own man. Look over to abishai says this 672 00:42:56,100 --> 00:42:59,000 is a secret between you and me but I'll tell you something you 673 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,600 can't run away from and that's Nying conscience. 674 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,400 Where you will forever look back at such an atrocious thing and 675 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,400 be haunted. Especially if you have the Holy 676 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,800 Spirit living in you, And there are many people who are living 677 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,200 in Daily torment because of his secrets and many years ago. 678 00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:23,100 And Abigail because of her discernment wanted to protect 679 00:43:23,100 --> 00:43:25,600 David from such a tormenting future. 680 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,200 Why would you do something that you would regret for the rest of 681 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:32,400 your life? And so, we have to understand 682 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,000 that, although, there might be peace externally, although 683 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,300 you'll never be sentence. Although your pastors would 684 00:43:37,300 --> 00:43:40,200 never find out, although you would stay in the ministry team, 685 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,300 although people would think you're the holiest person in 686 00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:46,500 town when you go to bed at night and you layer it, pillow your 687 00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:49,000 head on your pillow. What's in the thoughts? 688 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,900 How's that conscious going to testify that? 689 00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:57,000 Inner peace will be lacking? And if you want to see how that 690 00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,600 looks like go to Salt, you don't have to turn there but I'm 691 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,800 saying in your own time go to Psalm 32 and see, just how much 692 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,700 David describes the inner turmoil of unconfessed sin. 693 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,600 And there is great relief when we confess him, even though it's 694 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,600 been pent up for years, when you release it in the presence of 695 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,400 God and those who have harmed and hurt, that same solemn 696 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:22,100 promises us comfort and balm and a release. 697 00:44:22,100 --> 00:44:24,300 So if you're in this place and your conscience has been 698 00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:27,500 tormented for years, you can put it to an end by just humbling 699 00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:29,500 yourself before God. And before those who you have 700 00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:33,100 offended, But David won't even enter into that. 701 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:38,800 And so the secrecy of this moment could very well been a 702 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,900 greater appeal to do evil, but look at verse 8. 703 00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:43,800 Now you got another Dynamic to this. 704 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:49,400 Then abishai said to David, God has given your enemy into your 705 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:54,500 hand this day. Now, please let me pin him to 706 00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:56,400 the Earth with one stroke of the spear. 707 00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:01,100 And I will not strike him twice. I just want to I wish I can see 708 00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:02,600 that site. Like, where did they say it was 709 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,900 Saul right at their feet with you? 710 00:45:04,900 --> 00:45:06,300 Just like a meter. I don't know. 711 00:45:06,700 --> 00:45:08,800 But he must have whispered it with intensity in his ear. 712 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,200 Let me do this. This is God. 713 00:45:13,100 --> 00:45:16,800 What are some elements in verse 8 that give us insight about the 714 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,700 nature of Temptation. There are many things in here. 715 00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:23,000 I want to hear from you. If you have any idea, look at 716 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,500 look at verse a very carefully. Look at look at what is being 717 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:32,300 said, look at, who is saying it. And we will understand some 718 00:45:32,300 --> 00:45:38,400 things about temptation. Very good one element to this is 719 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,200 that there is apparently Divine approval upon this act is not 720 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,300 our culture decaying wood such lies. 721 00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:50,400 Is there not a cushioning to perversion and to Rebellion by 722 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:55,800 assuming that God God approves or how about the believer who 723 00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:59,300 attempts to convince themselves that God will understand. 724 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:06,100 So Temptation always tries to convince us that God sees it 725 00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:08,700 differently than how the Bible says he sees it. 726 00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:14,500 Or that God has some special treatment towards you because 727 00:46:14,700 --> 00:46:17,600 you've been serving him for so long and surely you need some 728 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,900 kind of relief and surely you need some kind of quick answer 729 00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:24,200 and surely you need some kind of satisfaction to the flesh. 730 00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:25,800 So just send a little bit. He'll understand. 731 00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:28,700 You think that's ridiculous. You'd be amazed to know what 732 00:46:28,700 --> 00:46:31,400 runs through people's minds when they are premeditating sin. 733 00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:35,500 Divine approval, very good observation, anything else. 734 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:45,200 Look at verse 8 carefully again, oh, you're back there. 735 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,300 I was looking for. You say that again? 736 00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:54,600 Yeah. So there's an element of 737 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,900 personal reward. Something that we you will take 738 00:46:56,900 --> 00:46:57,700 out of this. Absolutely. 739 00:46:57,700 --> 00:47:00,700 That's every time or else. We wouldn't be tempted to sin. 740 00:47:09,900 --> 00:47:12,800 Did you notice it? He didn't say, please strike 741 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,900 him. He said, let me pin him to the 742 00:47:14,900 --> 00:47:18,200 Earth. Let me pin him to the Earth. 743 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:20,800 That makes it much more easier to swallow. 744 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,500 Well, okay, fine. You do it. 745 00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:27,300 I didn't do it. And if anybody asked abishai, 746 00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:28,900 did it? And here's the thing, here's 747 00:47:28,900 --> 00:47:31,400 what happens to us. We think we can be so 748 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,500 sophisticated with our sin that we can trick God and see me to 749 00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:36,200 be Guiltless when we are in fact guilty. 750 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,600 Right? We tried to let well, was it me? 751 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,400 Lord and we try to we try to manipulate the Lord, who knows 752 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,900 our hearts, who knows, our motives, who knows the extent of 753 00:47:47,900 --> 00:47:49,700 our involvement in the wrong. That's done. 754 00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,700 Whether it is Corporate, whether it's between you and another. 755 00:47:54,300 --> 00:47:59,100 And so there is always the temptation to blame somebody 756 00:47:59,100 --> 00:48:01,800 else for a wrong that you're doing or that you have 757 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,300 committed. And sometimes in premeditated 758 00:48:05,300 --> 00:48:06,700 sin, we already convinced ourselves. 759 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,000 I can blame this on somebody else. 760 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,500 We're Wicked, we are wicked creatures. 761 00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:14,600 We're not even done yet. There's so much more in verse 8. 762 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:19,900 Yes, Right? And so it's a trust in man. 763 00:48:19,900 --> 00:48:23,400 It's not a trust in God. So quick, easy answer to 764 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,500 something as we're about to find out in David's answer, that 765 00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:29,300 should be relied upon God in his perfect timing. 766 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,300 Very good. You guys got it. 767 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,800 You guys touch on. Many of them abishai. 768 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,300 Assures him. Look, let me pin him to the 769 00:48:43,300 --> 00:48:45,000 Earth with one stroke of the spirit. 770 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,900 And I will not strike him twice. What is he trying to say there? 771 00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:54,000 David? This will be very quick. 772 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,000 It won't be ugly. I won't Massacre. 773 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:03,600 The guy it'll be clean. It'll be one time and it will be 774 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,800 over. Isn't Temptation? 775 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:10,900 Sound the same just one time. Just once never again, just one 776 00:49:10,900 --> 00:49:14,400 time. I will I will I won't go 777 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:18,500 overboard. I'll just do the bare minimum of 778 00:49:18,500 --> 00:49:22,600 my sinning and just satisfy and scratch this itch a little bit 779 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:26,600 and then I'll pull back. It's the same idea here. 780 00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:31,700 He's trying to doll up the sin. He's trying to put flowers on 781 00:49:31,700 --> 00:49:33,900 it. He's trying to say it's not that 782 00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:38,500 big of a deal and let me add one more, you guys did wonderful. 783 00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:40,800 Let me add one more. The source of the temptation. 784 00:49:41,900 --> 00:49:48,100 Abishai. when we got abishai is first impression, we saw a 785 00:49:48,100 --> 00:49:50,700 faithful man, a man of Courage, but this is where he is in a 786 00:49:50,707 --> 00:49:54,700 lesser light, he has fallen short, very quickly, and if you 787 00:49:54,700 --> 00:49:57,500 read later on, you'll realize that abishai is in fact, a 788 00:49:57,500 --> 00:50:02,300 relative to David So the source of Temptation is somebody who is 789 00:50:02,300 --> 00:50:07,200 respected and loved by David and it is often the case that you 790 00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:11,300 and I find it more difficult to resist when we somebody that we 791 00:50:11,300 --> 00:50:14,700 respect doing wrong or enticing us to do wrong. 792 00:50:15,900 --> 00:50:18,200 Right. Have you been there? 793 00:50:18,700 --> 00:50:21,100 You look at somebody who's living in a certain way who's 794 00:50:21,100 --> 00:50:25,100 posting in a certain way, who dresses in a certain way, who 795 00:50:25,100 --> 00:50:28,300 talks in a certain way, who spends their money in a certain 796 00:50:28,300 --> 00:50:34,100 way who jokes and a certain way. And they have a position in the 797 00:50:34,100 --> 00:50:39,100 church or they respected in society or their famous worship, 798 00:50:39,100 --> 00:50:40,400 leader author, whatever the case. 799 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:45,100 Well if they are doing it, surely I can If they can get 800 00:50:45,100 --> 00:50:49,800 away with it and surely I can and here's the problem, you will 801 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,300 get into a lot of trouble when you measure up your Holiness to 802 00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:55,500 anybody else. Except the Lord, Jesus Christ. 803 00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,900 Your duty and mind is to allow the standard being the Savior, 804 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,600 anything less, and you'll get into a lot of trouble. 805 00:51:02,900 --> 00:51:05,600 So it doesn't matter if the person is well respected in 806 00:51:05,607 --> 00:51:06,500 church. It doesn't matter what their 807 00:51:06,500 --> 00:51:09,900 spiritual gifts are if it goes against your conscience and it 808 00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:11,900 goes against God's word. It's a no no. 809 00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,300 Abishai is suggesting it and the source makes it that much more 810 00:51:16,300 --> 00:51:19,800 seductive and so we see all these things. 811 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,200 Just piling up upon David and you add on top of it, the 812 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:28,500 element of secrecy. What is he going to do? 813 00:51:29,900 --> 00:51:37,100 What we see here in verse 9. But David said to abishai, do 814 00:51:37,100 --> 00:51:40,300 not destroy him for who can put out his hand against the Lord's 815 00:51:40,300 --> 00:51:46,800 anointed and be Guiltless. If you think about it, there is 816 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,500 so much opportunity. This is a golden chance to 817 00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:54,500 satisfy something in the man's heart and this is more of an 818 00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:57,300 opportunity than being in the cave because this time you can 819 00:51:57,300 --> 00:52:01,800 actually get away with it. This time he can actually just 820 00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:07,100 disappear into the Horizon and people would be confounded and 821 00:52:07,100 --> 00:52:09,300 there could have been a conspiracy within that somebody 822 00:52:09,300 --> 00:52:12,400 within the camp, Musta killed Saul and with all that taken 823 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:17,300 into consideration. How does somebody overcome this 824 00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:22,000 compelling urge? And I was reflecting upon it 825 00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:27,500 because David does and like him, you and I cannot relieve 826 00:52:27,500 --> 00:52:30,700 ourselves with the false promises of Temptation. 827 00:52:31,100 --> 00:52:33,900 Especially the one that says you can get away with the 828 00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:38,900 consequences you can escape. You can evade, you can avoid, 829 00:52:38,900 --> 00:52:44,800 you can come out, untouched. Because when you and I believe 830 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,900 that false promise, we will see that it lied to us. 831 00:52:47,900 --> 00:52:50,400 But how we're supposed to deal with? 832 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,900 Those lies is to counter it with a better and truer promise. 833 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,800 And that better ensure promise in the midst of Temptation, 834 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:03,100 while it says, you can escape the consequences of this sin is 835 00:53:03,100 --> 00:53:06,800 found in the New Testament. And if there is a verse to 836 00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:12,300 memorize, if you have not memorized this verse yet, can I 837 00:53:12,308 --> 00:53:16,200 give you homework for next week? Memorize, this reference. 838 00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:20,100 It's not complicated. And it could very well save you 839 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,500 from much heartache. First Corinthians 10:13. 840 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:32,100 No temptation has overtaken. You that is not common to man, 841 00:53:32,900 --> 00:53:36,400 God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyond your 842 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,200 ability. But with the Temptation, he will 843 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:46,000 also provide the way of Escape. He will also provide the way of 844 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:47,700 Escape. That's the real Escape that we 845 00:53:47,700 --> 00:53:52,300 want in temptation. That's the real Escape that we 846 00:53:52,300 --> 00:53:55,600 want. As we face in that, you may be 847 00:53:55,600 --> 00:54:00,100 able to endure it to endure it. That's a very important part 848 00:54:00,100 --> 00:54:04,000 when you're in Temptation, it doesn't mean that God is going 849 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,600 to immediately deliver you from that temptation, but he will 850 00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:11,700 give you the strength necessary to do, what endure it that as it 851 00:54:11,700 --> 00:54:15,500 comes to you day after day like Joseph, in that house, you're 852 00:54:15,500 --> 00:54:21,000 able to endure and endure and resist and resist and Because 853 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:25,100 here's the idea. When sin says to you, you can 854 00:54:25,100 --> 00:54:29,200 get away with me. God says, at the same time I can 855 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:35,400 help you get away from this sin. When sin says to you, you can 856 00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,300 get away with me. God says to you, I can get you 857 00:54:38,300 --> 00:54:44,100 out of this sin. Both are promises one is true. 858 00:54:44,900 --> 00:54:47,500 One is a lie. One will lead you to pain and 859 00:54:47,500 --> 00:54:51,000 regret the other to life and peace. 860 00:54:54,900 --> 00:54:58,400 David chose to believe that he can overcome this temptation, no 861 00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,900 matter how strong it was. Do you know what that means? 862 00:55:02,100 --> 00:55:05,000 This is what it means. There is not one Temptation in 863 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:09,000 your life by God's sovereignty that has the right or the 864 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,700 ability to overtake. You meaning, not one person can 865 00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:15,500 ever say as they sit in that office with their Pastor or sit 866 00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:18,500 across a coffee table with their good friend at church, not one 867 00:55:18,500 --> 00:55:23,400 person can ever say It was too tempting for me and I couldn't 868 00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,400 overcome it. Because to say that was to say 869 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:32,200 that God is a liar. To say it was just too strong of 870 00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,200 a nerds, that opportunity was too great. 871 00:55:34,300 --> 00:55:37,700 The money was too big. The person was too beautiful. 872 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:42,900 To say that you could not overcome as to say that, God 873 00:55:42,900 --> 00:55:47,100 could not help you. So, we have to realize what's at 874 00:55:47,100 --> 00:55:51,100 stake here when we make such claims to seem to justify our 875 00:55:51,100 --> 00:55:55,000 shortcomings. We come back as we conclude 876 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,800 these verses. Verse 9. 877 00:55:57,900 --> 00:56:01,200 David says, how can you put out your hand against the Lord's 878 00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,100 anointed and be Guiltless? There's consequences. 879 00:56:03,300 --> 00:56:07,200 He immediately combated these these thoughts with the very 880 00:56:07,300 --> 00:56:11,100 idea that you will not get away. Be sure your sin will find you 881 00:56:11,100 --> 00:56:13,200 out. Saw might not know his army. 882 00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:16,700 Might not know. My men might not know, my wife 883 00:56:16,700 --> 00:56:18,800 might not know, but God will know. 884 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:20,700 And that's enough for me to say no. 885 00:56:21,500 --> 00:56:27,400 And then look at verse 10. And David said, as the Lord 886 00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:32,800 lives, the Lord will strike him or his day will come to die or 887 00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,500 he will go down into battle and perish. 888 00:56:38,100 --> 00:56:39,600 Notice what he's saying to abishai? 889 00:56:39,900 --> 00:56:43,600 Listen God will deal with him, God will strike him or God will 890 00:56:43,900 --> 00:56:47,000 allow him to die as natural Death Or there's a time where 891 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,600 you might even die in war but we're not going to do it now, 892 00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,900 here's my question, how did David come to such a conclusion? 893 00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,000 What convince them of this truth that he is sharing with abishai? 894 00:56:57,700 --> 00:57:02,300 Just think back. What he experienced with nabel, 895 00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:09,300 he saw it with his own eyes that God can intervene in a moment 896 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:11,600 and deal with a person or a situation. 897 00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:15,600 If he chooses, and that testimony was enough to realize 898 00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:18,200 that if God did it, then he can do it here. 899 00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,800 And now and here's what we have to understand you and I must 900 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:26,700 console our souls by being able to look back at how God has led 901 00:57:26,700 --> 00:57:30,500 you to this point and be able to apply that for tomorrow. 902 00:57:31,900 --> 00:57:35,100 It's very important to even within our souls are even on 903 00:57:35,100 --> 00:57:39,200 paper because your brain will forget, but paper won't to 904 00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:42,200 record and rehearse the faithfulness of God, and 905 00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:45,900 particular ways in your life, so that you were able to look back 906 00:57:45,900 --> 00:57:48,600 at those memorials and save, God, did it, then he can do it 907 00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,600 now. But the most important reference 908 00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:55,100 book is not your Journal. It's the word of God that when 909 00:57:55,100 --> 00:57:58,200 you come to the scriptures and you see how God is dealing with 910 00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:02,000 people and situations, I mean that's why you For Samuel, for 911 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:06,300 example, that's why the Bible is not just a systematic book of 912 00:58:06,300 --> 00:58:08,900 theology, it's not justification. 913 00:58:08,900 --> 00:58:12,500 Means this and sanctification means this, there's narrative 914 00:58:12,500 --> 00:58:14,700 their stories, there's examples. Why? 915 00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:20,000 To make it more engaging no, to show us how God has dealt with 916 00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,200 people throughout human history and to say, well if God did it 917 00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:26,600 then surely he can do it. Now, here's the trouble that 918 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:28,000 people get into. When they apply that, 919 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:32,000 hermeneutic that interpretation of the text is, when you see God 920 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,900 doing something and then you think that God has to do it that 921 00:58:34,900 --> 00:58:36,900 way, in your particular situation, that's where people 922 00:58:36,900 --> 00:58:41,900 get in trouble. And David doesn't even apply 923 00:58:41,900 --> 00:58:44,000 that. David didn't say. 924 00:58:44,100 --> 00:58:46,100 Abishai member enable. God killed him. 925 00:58:46,100 --> 00:58:48,200 God will kill Saul to. He didn't say that. 926 00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:53,100 He says God May strike him. God made you that or god named. 927 00:58:53,100 --> 00:58:56,200 I, and a different way, or maybe made me die in war. 928 00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,200 The principal is there. God is faithful. 929 00:59:00,300 --> 00:59:03,200 Vengeance is mine. I don't know how God is going to 930 00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,800 do it. I just know that he will, I 931 00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:09,800 don't know his methods, but I know the end. 932 00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,500 I know his promise and I trust that he is Sovereign enough to 933 00:59:12,500 --> 00:59:15,300 deal with it in his own way. And I can rest in that truth 934 00:59:15,300 --> 00:59:19,000 alone, God will figure it out on my behalf. 935 00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:23,500 That is extremely important to understand or else you and I can 936 00:59:23,500 --> 00:59:27,200 take scriptures and Miss apply them to our lives, and then be 937 00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,200 disappointed because we put an expectation on God. 938 00:59:30,300 --> 00:59:34,100 The Bible says, to never put on God, you can't just go to a 939 00:59:34,107 --> 00:59:36,800 particular story in the Bible and say this is how God has to 940 00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,300 do it. No. 941 00:59:39,100 --> 00:59:42,700 Well, you can't hear somebody else's testimony of how they met 942 00:59:42,700 --> 00:59:45,200 their wife. They met their husband, how God 943 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,700 LED them into Ministry and say, if God doesn't do it that way. 944 00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:51,800 And surely I am not going to be led who do not know, God is 945 00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:55,200 creative, his vast in his wisdom and in his application and is 946 00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,100 leading. And David himself understands 947 00:59:58,100 --> 01:00:01,300 that he is God will do it in his perfect way. 948 01:00:02,500 --> 01:00:06,100 And we read in verse 11 as we close in these next two verses 949 01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:08,700 the Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the 950 01:00:08,700 --> 01:00:12,300 Lord's anointed but take now the spear that is at his head take 951 01:00:12,300 --> 01:00:17,300 the jar of water and let us go. So David took the spear and the 952 01:00:17,300 --> 01:00:21,200 jar of water and Saul's at Sol's head and they went away. 953 01:00:21,300 --> 01:00:27,000 Now, look at this, no man saw it or knew it nor did any awake for 954 01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:29,600 they were all asleep because a deep sleep from the Lord had 955 01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:33,500 fallen upon them. Now I know that last part is 956 01:00:33,500 --> 01:00:36,000 very intriguing but let's Reserve that and our concluding 957 01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,300 thoughts. And that clock is not my friend 958 01:00:38,300 --> 01:00:43,400 tonight. David took the spear and the jar 959 01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,800 of water from Saul's head and they went away. 960 01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:49,900 So In This Moment he knew what he was going to do. 961 01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,700 He had a different plan and we're going to find out next 962 01:00:53,700 --> 01:00:55,400 week that he's going to do something very similar to what 963 01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,700 he did with the corner of Saul's robe in that cave at engedi. 964 01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,100 So we ask for these props that he's going to use for a sermon 965 01:01:02,100 --> 01:01:04,700 the next day. It's amazing. 966 01:01:04,700 --> 01:01:07,600 Here is that as he asked for these instruments, we are told 967 01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:11,100 here that no, man, saw it or knew it Northern any awake. 968 01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:15,600 Now we already knew that We already seen that that 969 01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,800 description is already been given to us, but I like to think 970 01:01:19,300 --> 01:01:21,700 that although the main application is because there was 971 01:01:21,700 --> 01:01:26,600 a sovereign Act of God on that. Seen that David innocence is 972 01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:32,000 doing good by not striking Saul, he is going to take these props 973 01:01:32,500 --> 01:01:34,200 and the next day is going to make a public. 974 01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,200 But in this moment, if we can apply this in any way, it's 975 01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:40,800 this, that David is doing good in secret. 976 01:01:42,100 --> 01:01:45,200 Nobody is aware of what he is doing at this moment and if 977 01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,300 there's anything that you and I, as Christians should be 978 01:01:47,300 --> 01:01:50,300 occupying ourselves in the dark. It's not to sin in a way where 979 01:01:50,300 --> 01:01:54,400 we can preserve our reputation, its to do good, even though 980 01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:58,400 nobody else knows her season. Do that if you're going to do 981 01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:03,800 anything in secret, do that. Treat others when nobody can see 982 01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:06,300 it and record it and praise you for it. 983 01:02:07,100 --> 01:02:11,400 Do when everybody's asleep? Do and nobody sees you or 984 01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,700 recognizes you or can Pat you on the back? 985 01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:17,500 David is doing something righteous. 986 01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,600 Without anybody being able to say you are righteous. 987 01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:22,500 You are wonderful. You are Godly. 988 01:02:23,500 --> 01:02:27,300 And I think that should be what you and I as Believers should be 989 01:02:27,300 --> 01:02:31,500 doing in the dark. Loving God, loving people, 990 01:02:32,300 --> 01:02:37,100 honoring his name because true character is known when nobody 991 01:02:37,100 --> 01:02:40,500 else is watching. That's true character. 992 01:02:41,100 --> 01:02:43,200 It's not. I mean, as much as the pulpit is 993 01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:46,000 important. True character is what the 994 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:51,000 pastor does out of the pulpit. And many examples as such. 995 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:57,200 Because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them. 996 01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,600 So the holy spirit gives us commentary to how it is that out 997 01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,300 of 3,000, men. David. 998 01:03:03,300 --> 01:03:07,300 And I wish I were able to in stealth hop over these bodies 999 01:03:07,500 --> 01:03:10,100 and be able to climb back into wherever they were hiding 1000 01:03:10,700 --> 01:03:13,000 without anybody being alarmed or awakened. 1001 01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:17,300 And all of that, that this, this Slumber was accredited to a 1002 01:03:17,300 --> 01:03:23,000 sovereign Act of God. God, put this wonderful blanket 1003 01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:27,900 over these people and let them rest with a soundness and a 1004 01:03:27,900 --> 01:03:30,200 richness. That I'm sure you would like. 1005 01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:36,100 and I would like, Why is the Bible telling us this? 1006 01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,800 I can give you one reason. Because the Bible wants to show 1007 01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:45,200 us that God is Sovereign even over things that we don't think 1008 01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:50,900 he is Sovereign over. the things that we think that God is not 1009 01:03:50,900 --> 01:03:54,700 involved with, he is very much involved with Things that we 1010 01:03:54,700 --> 01:03:57,100 don't think God cares about God. Very much cares about. 1011 01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,300 And guess what? God is Not Just Sovereign over 1012 01:04:00,300 --> 01:04:01,900 the nation's. God is Not Just Sovereign over 1013 01:04:01,900 --> 01:04:04,200 politicians, God is Sovereign over sleep. 1014 01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,500 Yes. He can keep you asleep. 1015 01:04:10,500 --> 01:04:14,400 He can keep you awake. And this case, he makes sure 1016 01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,000 that the king stays asleep. So that his servant would be 1017 01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:20,700 able to respond appropriately to the evil that he is 1018 01:04:20,700 --> 01:04:24,000 experiencing. And can you tell me of another 1019 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,000 story where? Another king was not put to 1020 01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,500 sleep but was kept awake because of providential Act of God. 1021 01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:35,800 Very good. Anybody hear him? 1022 01:04:37,300 --> 01:04:39,200 The Book of Esther chapter 6, verse 1. 1023 01:04:40,300 --> 01:04:44,100 With a King of Persia, we are told could not sleep that night. 1024 01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:48,500 He could not sleep that night and he asked for a record in a 1025 01:04:48,500 --> 01:04:52,900 book with the Deeds of men in, his kingdom were kept. 1026 01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:57,900 And in that record, we're told about, Mordecai's great 1027 01:04:57,900 --> 01:05:01,100 deliverance from assassins who are going to kill the king and 1028 01:05:01,100 --> 01:05:05,600 that set off a series of events, that would not only save a 1029 01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:10,300 particular few, but with saved the entire nation of Your who 1030 01:05:10,300 --> 01:05:13,000 were exiled in that land from genocide. 1031 01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:15,900 What's amazing about the Book of Esther is that The Mention Of 1032 01:05:15,900 --> 01:05:19,400 God is Not brought up once but that's done by Divine Design. 1033 01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,800 When you read Esther and you realize and you have you have 1034 01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:23,300 academics. You say Esther shouldn't be in 1035 01:05:23,300 --> 01:05:25,100 our Bibles because God is not mentioned there. 1036 01:05:25,500 --> 01:05:27,400 Well I would say to those academics, have you heard of the 1037 01:05:27,408 --> 01:05:31,700 doctrine of Providence? Because when you read Esther, 1038 01:05:31,700 --> 01:05:35,000 the whole idea is God, is working in the background, and 1039 01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,000 you just see one providential episode. 1040 01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:39,100 After the next, here's my main point. 1041 01:05:39,100 --> 01:05:43,200 God kept Saul asleep here. And God kept another king awake. 1042 01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:46,500 And another time, God is Sovereign even oversleep. 1043 01:05:47,700 --> 01:05:51,000 And sometimes it's for an individual to experience a test 1044 01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,300 so that they can prove themselves before God, and 1045 01:05:53,300 --> 01:05:57,000 sometimes it's to preserve an entire race in humanity. 1046 01:05:59,100 --> 01:06:02,400 So verse like this should cause us to worship The God, Who is 1047 01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:05,700 Sovereign over sleep, The God, Who can say, you're going to 1048 01:06:05,707 --> 01:06:08,000 stay asleep a little longer than usual. 1049 01:06:08,900 --> 01:06:12,000 That's going to happen. This God is powerful. 1050 01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:16,600 Our God is powerful. And God always does his 1051 01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:23,200 Sovereign work for men's good. And His glory, let's pray. 1052 01:06:42,700 --> 01:06:46,300 Lord, we thank you for this Bible study, thank you for the 1053 01:06:46,300 --> 01:06:50,800 wonderful answers in the engagement tonight. well, we 1054 01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:55,200 pray that these truths would be reserved in our hearts and that 1055 01:06:55,200 --> 01:07:01,100 God you would be Empowering us until obedience with these 1056 01:07:01,100 --> 01:07:03,100 things that we've heard. Lord, if there's anything that 1057 01:07:03,100 --> 01:07:05,800 sticks out tonight. Surely there are many things for 1058 01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,100 different people but Lord help us to love in the way you've 1059 01:07:08,100 --> 01:07:11,800 called this to love. Help us to love in a way that 1060 01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:15,400 believes all things and to know the wise way of going about 1061 01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:19,400 that. But Lord if our hearts are bent 1062 01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:23,300 on being negative towards people, if our hearts never 1063 01:07:23,300 --> 01:07:31,500 opens up to others because we are always cynical Lord open our 1064 01:07:31,500 --> 01:07:34,500 hearts, teach us how to love in this way. 1065 01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,000 Lord of anybody's experiencing temptation. 1066 01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:41,900 Perhaps it's been this past week. 1067 01:07:41,900 --> 01:07:44,800 Perhaps, it was this afternoon. Perhaps it's been a much longer 1068 01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:46,400 than that. Lord. 1069 01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:49,900 Would you have trumpeted the truths of Temptation by exposing 1070 01:07:49,900 --> 01:07:53,600 the lies of sin? And Lord in those moments where 1071 01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:56,500 we feel as though we can escape the consequences? 1072 01:07:56,500 --> 01:07:59,500 Like, David help us believe the better promise of escaping this. 1073 01:07:59,500 --> 01:08:03,500 In itself that we don't have to do this, because you promised 1074 01:08:03,500 --> 01:08:06,800 that there is not even one Temptation that can overtake us, 1075 01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:11,800 apart from our will. Lord, we want to be holy and we 1076 01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:13,700 want to love you. And we went on our, you and 1077 01:08:13,700 --> 01:08:16,399 worship you. Thank you for these truth. 1078 01:08:16,399 --> 01:08:21,000 Be glorified. Be glorified in song As we sing 1079 01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:24,700 to you in, Thanksgiving. In Jesus name, we pray. 1080 01:08:25,300 --> 01:08:26,200 Amen. And amen. 1081 01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:29,399 Let's stand as we conclude tonight and Worship the Lord.