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Thank you, priest him for that 
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worship in the hearing of God's 
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Meet me in first Samuel 22 
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As we conclude this chapter 
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It never fails. 
That when I personally study the

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word, it's almost overwhelming 
of how much God can say and some

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obscure passages. 
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over the years that surely all 
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It is not wasted, it is not just
historical data. 

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It is God's voice that the man 
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furnished and Polished unto 
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the person of Jesus Christ. 
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22. 
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last week, the first five verses
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as a fugitive as an outcast it 
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experience in this in the scene.
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there is a shift that's about to
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to this shift, we've learned 
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the righteous are a direct 
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To his righteous that as they 
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those who fear, God, that is 
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And if you have people that you 
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Christ, and are there for you 
and are praying for you, in our 

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counseling, you know, that you 
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God himself. 
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personally in a very 
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same time we learned that this 
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of his difficulties and he 
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of his parents, when he was 
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because he could have been 
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The man was consumed with fear 
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dishonorable way. 
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that is repentance in those 
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because he is now showing Owing 
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It's going to find it. 
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tell us that. 
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heart, even though David wasn't 
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can declare that over somebody 
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they're growing, while they're 
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Surely he's merciful. but what 
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sufficient in this chapter 
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from Saul and will still learn 
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see mainly what the Holy Spirit 
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but the Predator the unruly King
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And if David graduated in his 
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going to see Saul intensify in 
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his Envy. 
See you and I are either growing

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in One Direction or the other. 
We either growing in Christ or a

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growing in the flesh. 
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spiritually or we are maturing 
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There is no Center, there's no 
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Saul is consumed with sin and 
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here in verse 6. 
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discovered and the men who were 
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gibeah under the tamarisk tree 
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his hand. 
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standing about him and saw said,
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him here. 
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the son of Jesse give everyone 
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hundreds that all of you have 
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No one discloses to me when my 
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son of Jesse none of you is 
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that my Son has stirred up. 
My servant against me to lie in.

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Wait, As at this day. 
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moment, but there's so much 
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Saul that Saul is now surrounded
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David as we heard last week who 
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men in a cave and it's in this 
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The reason for this conference 
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he learned the whereabouts of 
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the piercing news that 400 of 
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I've joined his enemy and 
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believe that David is King, not,
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disturbing to the man. 
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vision. 
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underneath a tree. 
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A spear that should raise a flag
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time that we've seen this madman
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You. 
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enough to realize that whenever 
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hand, and he's in a bad mood, 
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pleasant in a moment. 
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He's even thrown a spear at his 
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Clearly shaken and he has a 
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particular type of leader. 
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controlled with fear and 
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he caused him to have an 
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towards him so that he can get 
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to do. 
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will never be honored by men and
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you're going to find out about 
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The first verse verse 6, already
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So wonderful about God as it 
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thought from last week. 
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observation that as David is 
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God sends a prophet named God. 
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get up and go and not just 
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where he's more vulnerable to 
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But when you come to verse 6, we
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commentary, why it is that God 
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to get up and go. 
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and these men and God seen what 
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and the Prophet. 
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David get up and go in a certain
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didn't have all the answers 
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answer. 
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You read verse six. 
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understand that, we as the 
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of the answers to his leadership
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because we have this unlimited 
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step in our lives. 
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disappointment, the piece and 
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life, is not the fact that we 
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comes. 
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character. 
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he is and based on the knowledge
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he leads us. 
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him, you can trust his 
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When you are now being directed 
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plan for in your life when you 
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him and trust that he has the 
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wisdom to reveal that answer in 
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up to us. 
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doesn't And we just got to trust
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dark, it is more profitable for 
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answer. 
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departed and went toward Judah 
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opportunity to read, verse 6, & 
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David didn't understand and God 
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And you and I have the word of 
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many situations that might be 
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moment. 
God is calling us to trust his 

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wisdom and not our own ideas. 
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a certain way, that might cause 
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We must trust trust and Obey 
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There's no other way to be happy
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David does this? 
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I'm sure that you and I must 
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this that no matter how God 
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his glory primarily in mind And 
the good of his people that 

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every season of life, even if 
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many things, he is providing for
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surely his polishing us. 
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which is his Ultimate Will for 
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of 925 you have. 
No matter what kind of spouse 

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you have, if you're in Christ, 
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likeness in this life. 
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So encouraging, but much more to
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Saul said to his servants who 
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Now people have Benjamin, will 
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of you fields and Vineyards and 
he goes on Bible study questions

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examinations do you have your 
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I hope so. 
Look at your Bibles and verse 7.

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Paul a rather Saul's 
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What stands out to you? 
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That should be highlighted. 
Causing the son of Jesse. 

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Again he refers to him as a son 
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there's 11 tribes missing, but 
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was Saul from that same tribe. 
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political here, this is 
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This is Saul trying to win the 
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lineage, because he thinks it 
will be more likely remember the

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whole nation, adored David. 
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He's playing tricks here by 
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Those from his own race, though,
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His own tribe better word 
winning those, from those who 

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share his same background and 
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be on his side. 
It's a sad, reminder of how many

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To nationality to safety to 
opportunity over that, which is 

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right. 
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happen in the world. 
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that, you have people who will 
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which is true, and holy, And saw
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proving his political 
manipulation by referring to 

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David in a certain way. 
We heard this before, but this 

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man calls him, the son of Jesse,
he would not dare attribute, any

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kind of success to David or 
anything of his faithful 

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character? 
What he's trying to do is 

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highlight the lowliest part of 
who he is. in the presence of 

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these men that he's trying to 
woo and convince Proving to us 

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that this men's jealousy is 
still at a feverish pitch, this 

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man is consumed. 
This man can't even mention his 

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name because bitterness and envy
and unforgiveness can reach such

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a height in the soul. 
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someone's name, whether they've 
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object of our Envy can surge 
when that us all these evil 

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emotions. 
The guys, so sensitive, he's so 

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Infected with this sin that he 
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So, he calls him, the son of 
Jesse, and it's a reminder of 

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how jealousy can manifest itself
jealousy, when it reaches a 

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certain point can be so 
ferocious, and so ugly that it 

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attempts to belittle and 
humiliate the person that we 

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might have these things towards 
so that we can, at least plant 

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the seed of Suspicion and their 
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Now let's examine his speech, 
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trying to say to these people. 
He realizes that 400 of his men 

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just left, right? 
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continue to happen. 
He's now feeling what he is 

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feared that people will join 
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king. 
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And so what he's trying to do 
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men. 
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that we read is simply this, who
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What can he actually offer you? 
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What, look at him hiding in a 
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Is this someone that you really 
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with it's pathetic. 
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But this is a carnal man that 
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people. 
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you heard it last week that the 
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similar Persuasions when there 
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standing at the gap between the 
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of God, or choosing to stay with
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And people here all the time. 
Who is Jesus Christ? 

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What does this Jesus actually 
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What is a life surrender to this
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in this life? 
Are you sure that you want to 

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put your promotion in life at 
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Because you'll be recognized as 
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this kind of society, are you 
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You really want to make that 
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What kind of possessions can you
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What kind of things can you grow
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for Jesus Christ, you really 
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And here's the point, I read 
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there's anyone who should 
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anybody else, it's the child of 
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worldliness. 
Can I show you one of my 

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personal favorite verses 
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Yes, Jesus Christ died for sin. 
That's wonderful. 

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That is the nothing can triumph 
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you a practical verse a 
practical verse that will 

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transform the way you face 
Temptation. 

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If you just apply it by faith, 
it's found in the book of 

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Romans, it's in chapter 6, and 
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Look how Paul calls the 
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question to put their old life 
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But, what fruit were you getting
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which you are now ashamed? 
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death. 
I love that. 

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I love that. 
Is it a Roman Christians? 

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Just pause for a moment and 
think about your former life and

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asked, what benefit, what fruit 
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pursuing, the desires of My 
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impulse of my body and my 
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What actually came out of that? 
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hard, if you actually discipline
yourself because what Temptation

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does is it presents to you? 
The Sensation that satisfies and

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the Bible is very honest. 
The Bible doesn't lie to us and 

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say sin doesn't feel good. 
Or else, where's the power and 

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Temptation? 
Scripture tells us in Hebrews 

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that sin has pleasure, but it's 
fleeting pleasure, so examine 

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your life. 
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difficult if you've never been 
truly converted, If you've never

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tasted the goodness of Jesus 
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you've never known what it's 
like to experientially, be 

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satisfied in your salvation. 
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Because you have nothing to 
compare it to, you have nothing 

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to compare your sin, which which
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outside of Christ, you have 
nothing to say. 

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This is the contrast But if 
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gives you license to say, where 
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What I'm houses even a 
persuasion, how is this, even a 

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suggestion? 
Okay, so you live out in your 

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flesh, do you remember the 
shame? 

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The remember the guilt. 
Do you remember the regret? 

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The remember, the hollowness. 
Do you remember laying at night 

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wondering, why you even exist? 
What's your purpose in life? 

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You remember that kind of 
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Think Beyond The Mirage of the 
Oasis of sin and realized that 

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you were actually eating sand 
before you came to the living 

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water in Christ. 
And so if there's anybody that's

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going to question anything, if 
there's anybody that's going to 

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say, what is, what is what have 
to offer? 

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It's the believer, when Satan 
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Say Hey you really want to move 
forward, you have nothing to 

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offer me. 
I've been there done that. 

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Got the t-shirt and in Christ 
clothed me with his 

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righteousness, I'm done. 
I'm done. 

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And I believe the reason why you
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that are so defeated by sin at 
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have not tasted that. 
The Lord is good, they've not 

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seen that the Lord is good. 
They got some emotional thing 

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that happened at one point in 
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What you're going to hear this 
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And they weren't really born 
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And so they just they live in 
this defeated Christian Life and

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and partly many of the cases 
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Death to life to even begin 
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But for the converted, for those
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they can say compared to this. 
I'm not going back to that so we

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come back to the first Samuel 22
now. 

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Look at verse 8. 
This is amazing. like, if you 

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are frustrated with Saul up to 
now, get ready for another level

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of frustration, Look what he 
says that all of you have 

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conspired against me. 
No one discloses it to me. 

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When my son makes a covenant 
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None of you sorry for me or 
discloses to me that my son has 

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stirred up. 
My servant against me to lie in,

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wait, as is this day? 
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He moves to win his affections 
from the place of false promises

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because as he's criticizing 
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these things to offer you He 
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self-pity. 
I'm sure we are all convinced 

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about saw that. 
He is a person who is completely

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consumed with selfish ambition. 
Like Everett ever since near his

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introduction, this man has 
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by self. 
And it's in this verse that some

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of the properties of a selfish 
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want to see how a selfish or 
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Can climax in their attitude 
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Here are some ingredients first.
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others to get what they want. 
And so another way of putting it

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is that they Heap guilt on those
who are not in wrong in order to

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steer them to satisfy. 
Usually sinful means in simple 

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goals and that's what he's doing
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He's not righteously rebuking 
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He has now taken his imagination
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saying you guys are all 
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You guys are all playing against
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That's what's really going on 
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These are baseless claims, they 
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He's saying that you've 
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son of Jesse and my son are 
doing. 

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You've concealed the plan that 
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The guy's lying. 
The guy's lying and that it 

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should be no surprise he's lied 
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his jealousy became so obsessive
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He's now hallucinating. 
He's now reading into things 

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that don't exist. 
He's now coming up with ideas 

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that are not real. 
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do in a person, they begin to 
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Try to put strings on people and
make them puppets in order to 

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satisfy their selfish goals and 
sometimes that selfish girl can 

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simply be for praise for 
recognition for affection, but a

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second trait of a person who is 
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selflessness. 
Selfishness is that they have 

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this wonderful ability? 
They have the art Of coming off 

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as the victim and everything. 
Even when the mess that they're 

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in was caused by them, none of 
you is sorry for me, are you 

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serious? 
Have you lost it? 

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After all the trouble that 
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to this point. 
After all, the trouble, you've 

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caused in the family, after all 
the trouble, you caused for your

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son, for your most faithful 
servant you were still able to 

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make this about you. 
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exemplifying to us that a 
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that they are ever wrong. 
No way. 

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Because in their mind, this is 
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If I admit that, I'm wrong. 
Then I forfeit my right to 

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demand. 
If I, if I confess that I've 

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done something that might have 
been off, then I discredit 

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myself from having the 
authority. 

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To make baseless and shameful 
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This is pride and in their 
pride, like saw as long as they 

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are in the right or believe that
they're in the right or convince

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others that they are in the 
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They maintain the prerogative to
make claims on others or to 

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behave in a certain way. 
That's why I'm very careful 

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though. 
People have gone through 

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traumatic past. 
I'm very careful. 

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And you should be as well 
because there are people who can

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use their past trauma as an 
excuse to be a certain way. 

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If you're a Christian filled 
with the Holy Spirit, if you're 

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a Christian has been born again.
Yeah, you might have had some 

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past experience but Christ in 
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And so there are people that 
know how to say it, right? 

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And two. 
Point at everything and 

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everybody else. 
That's what modern you've heard 

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me say before. 
And I'm telling you for a reason

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over and over again. 
Modern counseling especially out

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there in the world that doesn't 
use the scriptures to counsel 

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the issue with modern counseling
and modern psychology is that 

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they will blame everything. 
But the person who is receiving 

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help, it's everybody else's 
fault except the person who's 

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wounded and whatever patterns 
are habits that have been 

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adopted, that might be 
self-destructive or destructive 

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as it has to be the way you grew
up. 

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It has to be your parents. 
It has to be this and can it 

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contribute sure. 
But if we're Christians Christ 

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has the power to overcome all 
wounds and to lead you into, 

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he'll you. 
It might not be instantaneous 

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though, it could be but we 
cannot stop at. 

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Well, that's just the way they 
are because that's what they 

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experienced in the past. 
Where is the gospel? 

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Where's the power? 
The healing power of Jesus 

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Christ. 
What I'm afraid of is that if we

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introduce too much counseling 
within the church, we can strip 

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the supernatural from the 
gospel. 

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And we make everything about 
this and that and nurture versus

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nature. 
No, no, do not forget that. 

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We have a supernatural God. 
Who can Doom wonderful things in

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people's lives. 
Is he practical? 

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Yes. 
Is their wisdom? 

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Sure. 
Is there things that we have to 

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give instruction for it? 
Yes. 

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Do we have to talk through 
things up from the past? 

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Absolutely but the solution 
comes down to the spirit. 

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You might disagree with me. 
But just go to the book and see 

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for yourself. 
So this is what this man is 

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doing. 
He's, it's so childish and after

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his childish Spiel, The Silence 
of the crowd is all for sudden 

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broken because somebody speaks 
up. 

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And that man is found in verse 
9. 

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Look in your Bibles, with me 
then. 

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Answer doeg the Edomite who 
stood by the Servants of Saul. 

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I saw the son of Jesse coming to
Knob to Hema, like the son of a 

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table and he inquired of the 
Lord for him and gave him 

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provisions and gave him the 
sword of Goliath. 

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The Philistine. 
Oh, This is the first time that 

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we've seen doeg in our Bibles 
know, we have. 

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We seen it before. 21:7. 
Now look what it says in chapter

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21 verse 7. 
This is when David went to the 

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Tabernacle. 
He went to the priest and he 

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says here, now, a certain man of
the Servants of Saul was there 

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that day detained before the 
Lord, his name was doe, eyed the

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eat of my, the chief of Saul's 
herdsman. 

453
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,600
Now I'm going to ask you, what 
are some things that should be 

454
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,700
noted from this verse? 
What are some details? 

455
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:40,100
About doeg. 
Detained before the Lord. 

456
00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:43,100
Now we don't know why he was 
detained before the Lord. 

457
00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:44,600
There are some different 
speculations. 

458
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,400
It's not told. 
And really the reason given is 

459
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,000
not important. 
If there was a reason, it would 

460
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:57,000
be there but it could be that he
was, he was ceremonially unclean

461
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000
and he was going through a 
purification process. 

462
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,300
Some say that he was being 
converted to the Jewish faith. 

463
00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:04,800
So he was going through a 
process and not as well. 

464
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,400
We don't know, but he was 
detained. 

465
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,900
All we do know is He was in 
proximity of God's house being 

466
00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:14,500
ministered to by God's priests, 
which is more important than the

467
00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:17,200
reason. 
Good observation any other 

468
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,400
observation. 
Edomite. 

469
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,400
Not an Israelite Edomite. 
Who are the edomites? 

470
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:32,900
Esau, brother of who Jacob, 
Jacob assu Israel, very good. 

471
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:36,600
So Esau who is also known as 
Edom. 

472
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,900
The edomites are descendants of 
Esau question where they 

473
00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:46,300
friendly towards the Israelites.
Were they were they favorable 

474
00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:49,100
towards them with a gracious 
towards them or is their 

475
00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:53,500
hostility and animosity? 
Yes, absolutely. 

476
00:30:54,700 --> 00:31:00,600
So generally speaking, anybody 
from Edom had a certain kind of 

477
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,800
feeling and mindset toward the 
chosen people of God. 

478
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,900
So the fact that we're told that
dog was an Edomite. 

479
00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:11,800
Should raise a flag, it should 
raise a flag. 

480
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,600
What else concerning do? 
Egg? 

481
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,200
Very good. 
He was the chief of Saul's 

482
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,800
herdsman. 
That is not a lowly position, 

483
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,700
that's a manager position. 
That's a position of authority. 

484
00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:34,600
That is something that's all. 
Allowed him to operate in. 

485
00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,400
Which shows us not just a 
concern. 

486
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,500
Concerning do egg. 
But a concern towards Saul's 

487
00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:46,000
deficient character. 
What do I mean by that? 

488
00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:50,400
How is Saul able to have within 
his inner circle? 

489
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:56,800
Someone who comes from a people 
who do not honor, God and do not

490
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,500
honor the people of God. 
How's that possible? 

491
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,500
And if you're not convinced that
dog has that disposition, you're

492
00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:09,400
going to see it very, very soon.
You want to know the simple 

493
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,700
answer? 
Because Saul himself was someone

494
00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:16,600
who did not honor, God and did 
not honor Those whom God has 

495
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:22,500
chosen. 
And so saw easily could have 

496
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:26,200
fellowship with somebody who is 
from Edom, because Saul share 

497
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:31,500
the same values. 
The same attitudes, And the 

498
00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:35,800
absence of the things that would
make somebody righteous are in 

499
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,700
Saul and therefore he can easily
commune with somebody like doeg,

500
00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:42,000
you know what I find? 
So disturbing. 

501
00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,700
Isn't it strange that Saul was 
able to attack David? 

502
00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:50,400
Who is a true worshiper of God? 
But at the same time he was able

503
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,300
to maintain a relationship with 
do a who is an enemy of God. 

504
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,600
Really. 
I have to tell you this and I've

505
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,400
said it and many different 
instances before but I'll say it

506
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,100
again who you fellowship with 
him with who you have 

507
00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:09,100
relationships with reveals where
you stand with God to a certain 

508
00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:12,000
degree they're just no ifs and 
ands about. 

509
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,000
If you fellowship with a certain
type of people that reveals 

510
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,800
something about you, the 
psalmist said in the first song 

511
00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:21,800
that he does not walk in the 
counsel of the wicked. 

512
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,100
And he does not stand among the 
scoffers. 

513
00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:29,100
Does not sit with sinners. 
I don't walk with them, I don't 

514
00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:31,200
stand with them, I don't sit 
with them. 

515
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,700
That's the first thing you read 
from the book of Psalms. 

516
00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:38,300
So the whole book which is about
worship, it starts out with. 

517
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:42,700
I want to tell you who I don't 
fellowship with and that's 

518
00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:46,900
fascinating. 
And notice as we come back here 

519
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:53,000
that do I Echoes Saul in the way
that he refers to David. 

520
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,000
What does he say? 
In verse 9, I saw who the son of

521
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:02,100
Jesse Hey, David rather saw how 
you feel about David. 

522
00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:07,600
I feel about David. 
I saw the son of Jesse and what 

523
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:12,300
he tells them is, I was there 
that day where I saw him come to

524
00:34:12,308 --> 00:34:16,300
the Tabernacle and the priest 
helped him the priest. 

525
00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:19,400
Help David. 
Now here's a question and you 

526
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,300
can answer it. 
If you have, if you feel like 

527
00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:23,400
you have the answer, why is, do 
I doing this? 

528
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:29,400
Why, why is he stepping up? 
And why is he calling saw to the

529
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,500
attention of the Betrayal of 
David and the priest? 

530
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:35,100
I am a lake. 
Any idea. 

531
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,500
To make it worse. 
But and that's true. 

532
00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:42,199
But why, why is he trying to 
make it worse? 

533
00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:44,500
What does that have to do with 
him? 

534
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,600
Okay, so promotion in mind, 
that's one reason. 

535
00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:56,600
So just finished saying, can he 
give you Vineyards? 

536
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,700
And can he make you commanders 
and dogs going? 

537
00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:08,900
so, Let me tell you where David 
and what David did actually, let

538
00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:12,700
me tell you who is conspiring 
with David. 

539
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:18,400
Because clearly he is persuaded 
by some kind of indirect promise

540
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,500
from Saul. 
And this is, this is doeg 

541
00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:25,800
proving that this man cared so 
much about his comfort and his 

542
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:30,700
safety and his Prosperity that 
he was willing to throw anybody 

543
00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:33,300
under the bus. 
In order to arrive there, he was

544
00:35:33,300 --> 00:35:37,000
willing to step on anything even
the truth itself in order for 

545
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,700
him to advance in this life and 
it's a sad sight, indeed. 

546
00:35:41,800 --> 00:36:05,600
That's one reason any Reason. 
Very good point. 

547
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,400
Could it? 
Be that what he had learned all 

548
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,900
his life as an Edomite? 
Of how that inheritance was 

549
00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:16,100
taken from Jacob, from Esau, 
from Jake by Jacob and all these

550
00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:19,700
things, all these deep-rooted 
thoughts and hatred are. 

551
00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:22,400
Now, here's my chance to bring 
division within Israel. 

552
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:23,800
Absolutely. 
That could be one reason as 

553
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:28,600
well, which is scary. 
But it's possible any other 

554
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:38,200
reasons. 
Why is do I doing this? 

555
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,400
Why is he stepping up? 
And why is he pointing Saul's 

556
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,000
attention towards a? 
He melek? 

557
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:48,300
And Alive a conspiracy. 
Well, let me let me help you 

558
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,800
remember what it's all doing at 
this point. 

559
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,600
He's sitting and what does he 
have in his hand? 

560
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:59,100
Okay. so at any moment, I'm sure
do. 

561
00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:01,900
I felt it in his bones and sold 
the other men at any moment 

562
00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:05,400
that's pure can go flying at any
moment. 

563
00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:09,500
As he's just finished accusing 
these men of conspiring against 

564
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:12,300
him. 
Things can become very, very 

565
00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:13,700
dangerous. 
So this is not just about 

566
00:37:13,700 --> 00:37:18,200
promotions about preservation. 
This is what a man saying I want

567
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:24,400
to avoid my life being lost and 
I want to now turn any 

568
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,600
conspiracy away from us to the 
Ministers of God. 

569
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:34,200
And so he's diverting Saul's 
anger and his blind jealousy and

570
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,400
his Insanity in a completely 
different direction. 

571
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:42,400
Hey Saul look over there and not
only is he going to preserve 

572
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,000
himself, but he's also 
potentially going to be promoted

573
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,700
out of this. 
All in all it's really a sad 

574
00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:52,100
side of a person who is 
motivated by self and how 

575
00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:55,100
they're willing to do harm to 
others, even those who Minister 

576
00:37:55,100 --> 00:38:00,100
and serve God as the priest did.
And this is sad. 

577
00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:02,600
This is sad. 
Concerning the character of 

578
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,000
Dwight, but you know what's 
amazing? 

579
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
David wasn't surprised when he 
heard about it. 

580
00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:10,400
David was not surprised one bit 
when he heard about it. 

581
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,600
How do you know go down to verse
22 at the author. 

582
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,500
One of the priests escapes. 
And told tells David and David 

583
00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:21,000
said, the Abbe, Arthur I knew on
that day. 

584
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,900
When doeg the Edomite was there?
That he would surely tell Saul? 

585
00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:28,700
I have occasion to death of all 
the persons of your father's 

586
00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:32,400
house. 
What a statement So when David 

587
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,000
came in chapter 21 to the priest
and in his peripheral, he sees, 

588
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,800
dog, they're detained. 
I don't know how he looked his 

589
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,000
somewhere. 
They're detained. 

590
00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:41,100
He goes on. 
This guy's going to cause 

591
00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:43,000
trouble. 
He knew it. 

592
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,300
Here's our question. 
How did he know it? 

593
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,300
Anybody have an idea of how he 
knew it. 

594
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,600
Uh-huh. 
Very good point David. 

595
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,300
Before he was a fugitive was 
top-ranked in the palace. 

596
00:38:58,700 --> 00:39:01,900
Even in the early stages, he was
the worshipper that was 

597
00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:05,000
counseling Saul. 
He was the armour-bearer of 

598
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,200
Saul. 
So he was not only familiar with

599
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,400
the courts, he was familiar with
the employees with the people 

600
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,500
and so surely he came into 
contact with. 

601
00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:17,100
Do I got some point but David 
was Discerning enough to know 

602
00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:20,900
something about doeg, then that 
would lead to this before. 

603
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:24,600
There is any personal attack 
against David, David studied 

604
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,300
dog. 
Enough to know, I'm not 

605
00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:29,000
surprised. 
I'm not surprised. 

606
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,200
Isn't it sad? 
That someone's evil can be 

607
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,900
predicted because of a present 
lack of the fear of God. 

608
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,700
Isn't it a sad thing that 
somebody can be. 

609
00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:49,100
So, so void of spirituality? 
That in their language and their

610
00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:52,300
in the way they do things that 
they're predictable. 

611
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:58,200
In the evil that they can do. 
That was doeg. 

612
00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:04,000
He was a Godless man, an Unholy 
man and David when he heard 

613
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,600
about it, long enough, after 
even a period of time, studying 

614
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,500
him long enough rather said, I'm
not surprised that dog did this.

615
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,900
So notice what do I tell? 
Saul and verse 10? 

616
00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:21,400
He inquired of the Lord foreman 
gave him provisions and gave him

617
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,300
the sword of Goliath. 
The Philistine. 

618
00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:26,300
What's problematic about this 
report in verse 10. 

619
00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:34,700
What's problematic here? 
What's that? 

620
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,700
Glides, sure, but even before 
that, there's three charges 

621
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:41,200
here. 
What's concerning about these 

622
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,100
charges? 
It has to do with one of them. 

623
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:53,900
Yes, very good. 
He tells Saul that the priest 

624
00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:56,600
sought God on his behalf. 
We learned that that was in the 

625
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,800
case. 
We saw in chapter 21 that when 

626
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,900
David comes to the priest, he 
does everything. 

627
00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:07,400
But inquire of God, In fact, 
when he had the chance to he 

628
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,200
instead put his trust in 
Goliath's sword and runs off and

629
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,300
we saw the fruit of a man who 
did not stop and ask God for 

630
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:21,500
guidance and Direction. 
So doeg lies. 

631
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,000
Doh, egg is not observing 
something that actually occurred

632
00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:30,200
and if there's any doubt within 
us that do, I might be telling 

633
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,400
the truth and he's adding more 
light to the story. 

634
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,900
All you have to do is go to a 
portion of scripture where David

635
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:39,400
dedicates an entire Psalm to do 
egg. 

636
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,000
Did you know that there's an 
entire Psalm dedicated to do 

637
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,800
egg? 
Would you like to know where it 

638
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:50,200
is? 
Go to Psalm 52 And it's in this 

639
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,000
scripture that you will see 
that. 

640
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,800
Do I in fact was lying. 
Was lying. 

641
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:03,700
Psalm 50 to look at verse 12, 
the choirmaster mass scale of 

642
00:42:03,700 --> 00:42:07,100
David. 
When doeg the Edomite came and 

643
00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:10,100
told saw David as come to the 
house of I'm Alec. 

644
00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:12,900
So this Psalm, can you imagine a
worship song? 

645
00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:16,600
Written in light of somebody's 
betrayal and their deception. 

646
00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:22,100
And look at the first four, 
verses why do you boast of evil 

647
00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:25,300
Almighty, man? 
The steadfast love of God 

648
00:42:25,300 --> 00:42:30,200
indoors all the day. 
Your tongue plots destruction. 

649
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,400
Like a sharp razor you worker of
Deceit. 

650
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,000
You love evil more than good and
lying more than speaking what is

651
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,000
right? 
Say la. 

652
00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:45,900
You love all words that devour 
old deceitful tongue? 

653
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:52,000
So, there's no truth. 
And what he's saying to solve, 

654
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,800
but is there. 
Is there truth in what he said 

655
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:02,300
to Saul? 
Yeah, two-thirds of the charges 

656
00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:07,300
were legitimate. 
But you see the song doesn't say

657
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:12,100
that dog was a liar. 
Remember what I said earlier? 

658
00:43:12,300 --> 00:43:14,900
Do you want to protect yourself 
from much harm in this life? 

659
00:43:15,100 --> 00:43:17,900
I would I would highly recommend
paying attention right now. 

660
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,000
It doesn't say that dog was a 
liar. 

661
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,200
What did he say? 
He was a what a deceiver? 

662
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:30,400
That's different. 
The severs are much more crafty.

663
00:43:31,900 --> 00:43:34,900
They're much more much more 
tricky. 

664
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,000
And dog was a master of 
deception. 

665
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:45,100
And what was the deception? 
That one third of his charge was

666
00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:48,700
a lie whereas two-thirds of it 
was actually right. 

667
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,400
I want you to realize how 
deception works because we live 

668
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:04,200
this life with someone who is a 
Great Deceiver. and if you can 

669
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,700
find someone or some people to 
deceive, that is one of his main

670
00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:13,200
tools to Bringing pain in your 
life and praying in the body of 

671
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:20,000
Christ, I want you and I to grow
in our discernment. 

672
00:44:21,100 --> 00:44:24,400
And here's how you and I can 
grow in our discernment and to 

673
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,600
be shielded to protect your 
heart and to protect you from 

674
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,800
doing damage to other people's 
lives of understanding how 

675
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:36,400
deceivers operate here. 
It is do I didn't completely 

676
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,100
lie. 
But his lie was blended with 

677
00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:45,000
truth because when a targeted 
audience is presented with 

678
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,700
something that can be agreed 
upon as valid that disarms them.

679
00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:55,100
that disarms them and a once 
they have let their guard down 

680
00:44:55,100 --> 00:45:00,500
then Ally can slip in and also 
be digested. 

681
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:05,100
Do I hear reflects the character
of Satan? 

682
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,300
Because Satan doesn't just go 
around in this world lying to 

683
00:45:10,300 --> 00:45:13,600
people about the word of God. 
Satan goes around lying to 

684
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,000
people with the word of God. 
There's a difference. 

685
00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:20,800
There are some that he's 
convincing to not even entertain

686
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,500
believing that this is truth and
there are others who believe 

687
00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:26,800
that this is to be true. 
And so he will use the truth. 

688
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,700
With a pill of the LIE. 
And he'll let you swallow, 

689
00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:36,500
whatever is true while also 
indulging in poison. 

690
00:45:38,100 --> 00:45:41,900
And those who do the devil's 
work, those who are deceivers, 

691
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,500
they will come to present a lie,
but they know, they know that 

692
00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:50,800
will be more effective. 
Is that if they can believe, if 

693
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,600
they can win your trust, if they
can win your agreement upon 

694
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,500
something, so that when you come
and receive the LIE, there will 

695
00:45:58,500 --> 00:46:04,600
be less suspicion about it. 
We need the holy spirit of God. 

696
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,000
I am astounded by the lack of 
the sermon with people. 

697
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:15,400
It's, it's dumbfounding 
actually. 

698
00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:19,200
When you have the scriptures, 
you have prayer, you have Godly 

699
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,600
men and women in your life and 
you have the Holy Spirit living 

700
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,300
inside of you. 
We should be a people who are 

701
00:46:25,300 --> 00:46:29,800
shielded from deception the 
most. an unfortunate that is not

702
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,900
the case because Many a fall in 
the Trap that do a presents 

703
00:46:34,900 --> 00:46:41,600
year. 
Some truth enough to convince 

704
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:46,200
you of a lie that is slipped in 
there and that lie is powerful 

705
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,200
enough to bring so much 
destruction as we're going to 

706
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,200
see in a moment. 
So look at here in verse 12, 

707
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,200
rather verse 11, then the king 
sent to summon. 

708
00:46:56,300 --> 00:46:59,200
He met like the priest, the son 
of a, hey, tub and all his 

709
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,800
father's house, the priests who 
were at knob and all of them 

710
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:07,100
came to the king. 
And saw said here, now, son of a

711
00:47:07,107 --> 00:47:10,700
hijab and he answered Here, I Am
My Lord like your heart breaks. 

712
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:12,500
This guy has no idea what he's 
walking into. 

713
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:17,200
He is pure and heart. 
Remember, David did not disclose

714
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,400
why, he was really running away.
So he just thinks he's being 

715
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,500
called in for some, maybe he's 
going to be summoned to 

716
00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:28,100
something here, I am my Lord. 
And Saul said to him, why have 

717
00:47:28,100 --> 00:47:31,900
you conspired against me? 
You and the son of Jesse and 

718
00:47:31,900 --> 00:47:34,500
that you have given him bread 
and a sword and have inquired of

719
00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:38,400
God for him, so that he has 
risen against me to lie in wait 

720
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,500
as that this day. 
So you had hope that when saw 

721
00:47:43,500 --> 00:47:46,900
called the priest to come, that 
he was going to exercise in some

722
00:47:46,900 --> 00:47:50,200
kind of wisdom and do some 
examination and some 

723
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,600
investigation before laying any 
kind of charge, but he just goes

724
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:58,700
right for the jugular, why have 
you not is this true but why 

725
00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:03,500
have you and really we don't 
have time to get into the priest

726
00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:07,700
answer to this, but all you need
to know is that no matter how he

727
00:48:07,700 --> 00:48:10,100
answered, which is quite 
fascinating, because he defends 

728
00:48:10,100 --> 00:48:14,800
David, And then he defends 
himself, but none of that 

729
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,400
mattered because Saul was out 
for blood and that thirst was 

730
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,300
going to be quenched, no matter 
what. 

731
00:48:21,500 --> 00:48:25,500
And so, he makes the charge 
after the priest declares his 

732
00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:30,000
innocence. 
In verse 16 and the King said, 

733
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,300
You shall surely die. 
Hey Malik, you and all your 

734
00:48:34,300 --> 00:48:38,100
father's house. 
And the King said to the guard 

735
00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:42,200
who stood about him turn and 
killed the priests of the Lord, 

736
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,700
because their hand also is with 
David and they knew that he fled

737
00:48:45,700 --> 00:48:48,700
and did not disclose it to me. 
This is like obsessive language.

738
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:51,500
Like, he keeps repeating 
himself. 

739
00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:57,300
Kill him. 
Imagine here's the high priest 

740
00:48:57,700 --> 00:49:01,700
with 84 others and he looks at 
his servants, the service that 

741
00:49:01,700 --> 00:49:05,400
have been quiet this whole time 
and he goes kill them now, get 

742
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,500
rid of them. 
What's going to happen? 

743
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,600
And it says here, but the 
Servants of the king would not 

744
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,200
put out their hand to strike the
priests of the Lord. 

745
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:22,400
I love that. 
Like how embarrassing for this 

746
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:26,400
King? 
Here's a man who's supposed to 

747
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,000
have authority and win the 
respect of those who claim to 

748
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,000
serve him and he can't even get 
him to do this one thing. 

749
00:49:32,300 --> 00:49:34,600
But it's because the servants 
have something that he doesn't 

750
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:35,900
have. 
And that's the fear of God. 

751
00:49:37,100 --> 00:49:40,300
These servants, though, they are
servants, though. 

752
00:49:40,300 --> 00:49:42,700
In society, they are lesser than
the king. 

753
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,500
They are higher because they 
have something that the king 

754
00:49:45,500 --> 00:49:50,200
lacks and that's wisdom. 
Would you rather be a king? 

755
00:49:50,300 --> 00:49:52,800
Who lacks sense? 
Or would you rather be a servant

756
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:57,000
who possesses knowledge? 
There's an amazing verse that 

757
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,000
touched my life that inspired my
life. 

758
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,800
Among many verses I want to read
it to you. 

759
00:50:01,100 --> 00:50:04,000
In fact, I would highlight it in
my Bible. 

760
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,500
If you do that with your Bible, 
it's in the book of Ecclesiastes

761
00:50:07,500 --> 00:50:11,300
that wonderful book of wisdom 
and it's in 4:13. 

762
00:50:11,300 --> 00:50:15,300
It's an observation that Solomon
makes and he says, this better 

763
00:50:15,300 --> 00:50:19,400
is a poor and wise child than an
old and foolish King. 

764
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:26,200
Who will no more be admonished 
another transition, say who will

765
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,900
no longer take advice? 
You want to know if somebody 

766
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:31,400
lacks wisdom? 
You want to know if you lack 

767
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,100
wisdom? 
Here's one evidence of it. 

768
00:50:34,100 --> 00:50:38,600
You don't ask people for advice.
That's what the Bible says. 

769
00:50:39,900 --> 00:50:43,300
A person who refuses to be 
admonished to be corrected to 

770
00:50:43,300 --> 00:50:46,200
receive some kind of 
consultation that person. 

771
00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:51,300
According to this verse lacks 
wisdom or is moved away from the

772
00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:54,000
way of wisdom. 
You know what I see in this 

773
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,000
verse that it's possible to be a
child and to possess wisdom 

774
00:50:58,500 --> 00:51:02,500
wisdom is not limited to. 
The Aged wisdom is not only 

775
00:51:02,500 --> 00:51:07,400
acquired by experience. 
You can be a young person and be

776
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:13,400
wiser than a seasoned person. 
And it says, in fact, you're 

777
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:18,900
better to be poor, you're better
to be young, you're better to be

778
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:23,400
a servant. 
With wisdom than a king who 

779
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:30,600
doesn't know how to take advice.
So I look at these men and I 

780
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,100
admire them even though they 
don't have a throne to their 

781
00:51:33,100 --> 00:51:39,100
name, there's something better 
and you and I will do really 

782
00:51:39,100 --> 00:51:45,500
really, really well in life for 
the glory of God, if we put more

783
00:51:45,500 --> 00:51:51,300
energy in seeking wisdom that in
seeking status wealth or power. 

784
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:57,100
because the Bible tells you, so,
and when it comes to situations 

785
00:51:57,100 --> 00:52:00,800
like this, that's when we see 
the benefit of wisdom, they 

786
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,800
would not dare to do it. 
They were willing to die 

787
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,000
themselves. 
I'm sure. 

788
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,600
So what is saw do? 
Well, there is one who is 

789
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:07,900
already proven that he is like 
him. 

790
00:52:07,900 --> 00:52:11,300
So, in verse 18, the king said 
to do, I turn you turn and 

791
00:52:11,300 --> 00:52:15,300
strike the priest and doeg the 
Edomite turn and struck down the

792
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:19,900
priest, and he killed on that 
day. 85 persons who wore the 

793
00:52:19,908 --> 00:52:28,800
linen, ephod, 85 priest, man, 
And you know what, some 52 tells

794
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,700
us. 
It doesn't tell us that the 

795
00:52:31,700 --> 00:52:33,900
sharpness of his sword brought 
about destruction. 

796
00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:36,000
It says the sharp razor of his 
tongue. 

797
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,300
Do you know people can use their
tongue in the same way? 

798
00:52:41,300 --> 00:52:45,100
Someone would use a sword? 
Oh, you only think that swords 

799
00:52:45,100 --> 00:52:47,800
can kill 85 people. 
Now, I can tell you about people

800
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:49,900
who use their tongues to create 
massacres. 

801
00:52:51,900 --> 00:52:55,600
You don't need a bomb. 
James says that this tongue can 

802
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,300
cause wildfires. 
You don't need a gun. 

803
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,600
All you have to do is whisper 
one thing to the wrong person 

804
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,100
who has the right Authority and 
things can get ugly really 

805
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:10,500
quick. 
No man can tame the tongue. 

806
00:53:10,500 --> 00:53:12,300
The Bible says, except the God 
man. 

807
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,500
And so the only way that this 
thing, this unruly thing, this 

808
00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:19,900
thing that can lead to chaos 
into Havoc, is of the Holy 

809
00:53:19,900 --> 00:53:22,300
Spirit, guards, your mouth and 
mind. 

810
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,100
But it doesn't just do that. 
This, when I read this, I read 

811
00:53:28,100 --> 00:53:30,900
this tonight in verse 19. 
I was like, I was going to fall 

812
00:53:30,900 --> 00:53:33,400
out of my seat. 
Look at verse 19. 

813
00:53:34,500 --> 00:53:39,700
And knob the city of the priest,
he put to the sword, both, man 

814
00:53:39,700 --> 00:53:43,600
and woman, child and infant Ox 
donkey and sheep. 

815
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,800
He put to the sword. 
So it wasn't enough that he 

816
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,800
killed the priest. 
And remember, if there's anybody

817
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:53,100
who was at fault here, who's not
really at fault, but if there's 

818
00:53:53,100 --> 00:53:55,400
anybody who's being accused, it 
was just the high priest. 

819
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,600
It was a hey Malik, why kill the
other priests? 

820
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,300
They weren't involved. 
And not only that. 

821
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,600
Do I get to the green light to 
go to Knob the city of the 

822
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,800
priests, at the slaughter, the 
children, and the ox, and the 

823
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,900
farms, and the houses, and to 
create a mini genocide. 

824
00:54:11,900 --> 00:54:14,500
For those who represent the 
kingdom of God at that time in 

825
00:54:14,500 --> 00:54:19,900
that Covenant. 
That's disturbing and itself, 

826
00:54:19,900 --> 00:54:23,100
but read deeper, can you tell me
why? 

827
00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:25,900
This is even more disturbing 
than on the surface level? 

828
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,100
Anybody see it the only way 
you're going to see this, if you

829
00:54:30,100 --> 00:54:34,100
remember, A Bible study a few 
chapters ago. 

830
00:54:37,700 --> 00:54:39,500
I'm going to read it again. 
Yeah, go ahead. 

831
00:54:39,500 --> 00:54:47,700
Do you have the answer? 
Yes, did you guys hear the 

832
00:54:47,700 --> 00:54:51,700
answer when it came to God. 
Instructing Saul to destroy all 

833
00:54:51,700 --> 00:54:53,300
the amalekites. 
He disobeyed. 

834
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,700
To go into that region and to 
destroy all the amalekites and 

835
00:54:59,700 --> 00:55:04,300
their ox and their sheep. 
Because of their generational 

836
00:55:04,300 --> 00:55:09,800
sin, Saul did not come through. 
But when it came to killing all 

837
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:14,300
the priests, he exterminated 
them That's disturbing. 

838
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:19,500
That's actually frightening. so 
when God says, to do something, 

839
00:55:20,700 --> 00:55:23,700
You hesitate. 
But when your flesh says to do 

840
00:55:23,700 --> 00:55:28,000
something, You do it without 
hesitation. 

841
00:55:29,300 --> 00:55:33,200
And the point is this, that if 
he hasn't proven to already saw 

842
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:37,900
has shown us here that 
satisfying self is worthy of 

843
00:55:37,900 --> 00:55:40,000
more diligence than pleasing 
God. 

844
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:46,500
The greater sacrifices were made
for selfish Pursuits than for 

845
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:50,400
God's purposes and many are like
that today. 

846
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,600
They don't make, they might not 
be killing cities, but they're 

847
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,900
pursuing their ambition, they're
building their Kingdom, and 

848
00:55:57,900 --> 00:56:00,700
they're putting their sweat, and
they're putting their tears. 

849
00:56:00,900 --> 00:56:05,600
And when you compare that to how
they are participating with 

850
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,900
God's program for the ages. 
Yeah. 

851
00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:15,200
This is so heartbreaking to see.
I wonder how God felt about this

852
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:20,100
as you looked from heaven. 
And saw a king who is willing to

853
00:56:20,100 --> 00:56:22,100
destroy his servants without 
cause. 

854
00:56:22,100 --> 00:56:24,300
But when it came to the 
unrighteous who were supposed to

855
00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:27,500
be punished and him being the 
agent, he did not obey. 

856
00:56:28,900 --> 00:56:30,400
Surely, the judge of the earth 
will do. 

857
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:32,000
Right? 
I'm surprised. 

858
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,700
God didn't strike him down here.
I mean Lord, we just started 

859
00:56:36,700 --> 00:56:40,900
with this Exile and he's already
killing priests and their 

860
00:56:40,900 --> 00:56:43,500
families and you haven't 
intervened yet, behold the mercy

861
00:56:43,500 --> 00:56:47,000
of God. 
Behold the mercy of God. 

862
00:56:48,900 --> 00:56:52,100
Whenever I come to text like 
this and I learned something new

863
00:56:52,100 --> 00:56:56,000
about the mercy of God, I get 
more and more offended when 

864
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,000
people come up to me and say, 
why is the god of the Old 

865
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,500
Testament? 
So angry? 

866
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:06,000
And Jesus is so nice. 
That when somebody says I say 

867
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,900
this, with all due respect, when
somebody says that proves that 

868
00:57:08,900 --> 00:57:11,600
they have not read their Bibles,
it's as simple as that. 

869
00:57:11,700 --> 00:57:13,400
And that's maybe you're not 
there yet, maybe you haven't 

870
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,300
Journey Through It. 
But what offends me something 

871
00:57:16,300 --> 00:57:18,100
when somebody comes arrogantly, 
like, as though they have 

872
00:57:18,100 --> 00:57:20,500
studied the Old Testament can 
make such an accusation. 

873
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,400
I'm thinking here Lord. 
Why have the heavens not opened?

874
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,800
It's because he's merciful. 
And we read here in verse 20, 

875
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,900
the one of the sons of Adam Alec
this son of a he tub named. 

876
00:57:34,900 --> 00:57:37,300
Abby, Arthur escaped and fled 
after David. 

877
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,400
And I be author told David that 
solid killed the priests of the 

878
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,100
Lord. 
And David said, the Abbe, Arthur

879
00:57:43,700 --> 00:57:45,900
I knew on that day. 
When do I get the Edomite? 

880
00:57:45,900 --> 00:57:48,500
Was there that he would surely 
tell Saul? 

881
00:57:48,500 --> 00:57:51,900
I have occasioned the death of 
all the persons of your father's

882
00:57:51,900 --> 00:57:55,500
house. 
Stay with me. 

883
00:57:55,500 --> 00:57:57,600
Do not be afraid for he. 
Who seeks my life. 

884
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,000
Seeks your life with me. 
You shall be in safe. 

885
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,800
Keeping what an interesting 
statement that that David makes.

886
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:10,000
He says this is my fault. 
This is my fault. 

887
00:58:10,500 --> 00:58:12,900
Now you can read that one and 
two ways you can read it in this

888
00:58:12,900 --> 00:58:16,200
way, where this is self-imposed 
guilt of something that is 

889
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:20,300
outside of David's control 
because David showed up that day

890
00:58:20,300 --> 00:58:22,500
and asked for help. 
He makes the connection if I had

891
00:58:22,500 --> 00:58:25,400
not gone that gone that day and 
have not said anything without 

892
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,000
ask for help, then this probably
wouldn't have happened. 

893
00:58:29,500 --> 00:58:33,800
And you have many believers who 
live in guilt even today. 

894
00:58:36,100 --> 00:58:37,900
Who hold things against 
themselves though? 

895
00:58:37,900 --> 00:58:40,600
It doesn't make sense. 
And there are more people prone 

896
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,000
to that than others that that 
have this introspection about 

897
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:49,500
themselves in which they they 
easily gravitate towards shame 

898
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:53,200
and regret though. 
There's no evidence for it. 

899
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:54,600
And that's a tactic of the 
enemy. 

900
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:58,100
He can really, really cause 
people to be paralyzed because 

901
00:58:58,100 --> 00:59:03,200
of thoughts like this. 
But is there another possibility

902
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,300
of why David said this? 
Any idea. 

903
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,800
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

904
00:59:20,100 --> 00:59:22,200
And so this can be pure 
humility. 

905
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,200
This can be pure humility and 
saying, you know. 

906
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:29,600
Yeah, there's something about my
participation in this and he 

907
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,700
admits, he admits some wrong 
done. 

908
00:59:32,900 --> 00:59:35,500
This is, this is what's really 
hard about narratives in the old

909
00:59:35,500 --> 00:59:38,300
test and because it's not like 
there's a commentary with every 

910
00:59:38,300 --> 00:59:39,900
verse. 
You see what I'm saying? 

911
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,500
It's not like and what David 
said here was because of this 

912
00:59:42,500 --> 00:59:44,400
and it was wrong, he shouldn't 
have thought like that. 

913
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:46,400
It does not as clear in the 
office. 

914
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,100
Would be very careful being 
dogmatic when it comes to 

915
00:59:49,100 --> 00:59:51,600
narratives and that's why some 
people are scared to teach from 

916
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,700
the Old Testament all together 
because it's hard to distinct. 

917
00:59:54,700 --> 00:59:57,000
Why is he saying this? 
Unless you have another verse or

918
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,200
verses to back it up I'll give 
you one more conclusion before 

919
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,800
we closed. some would say that 
the reason why David is as 

920
01:00:03,900 --> 01:00:08,500
confessing this Is because he 
lied. 

921
01:00:09,500 --> 01:00:12,700
To the priest. 
Do you remember that? 

922
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:15,400
Remember, when he came before I 
came out. 

923
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:17,800
Like, and I am Alex, is what are
you doing here alone? 

924
01:00:18,100 --> 01:00:22,100
Yeah, the Kings is called me to 
do something, but I got it's a 

925
01:00:22,100 --> 01:00:24,300
hasty thing. 
So can you help me out here and 

926
01:00:24,300 --> 01:00:27,700
he lies again? 
And I wonder if David's 

927
01:00:27,700 --> 01:00:32,300
conscience is pricked thinking 
to himself. 

928
01:00:32,300 --> 01:00:35,800
If I had just told the truth 
maybe I could have helped the 

929
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:41,500
priest be on guard to be careful
of Sol's rage and his blind 

930
01:00:41,500 --> 01:00:48,100
anger and rage if that is true. 
The new and I've been presented 

931
01:00:48,100 --> 01:00:52,000
another illustration among so 
many illustrations of how our 

932
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,900
personal sins that we think we 
can conceal. 

933
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:59,500
We can conceal them can reach 
people in ways and affect 

934
01:00:59,500 --> 01:01:03,600
people's lives that we could 
never have imagined. if I just 

935
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:10,300
told the truth, right? 
If that is the case here, then 

936
01:01:10,300 --> 01:01:14,500
what would have hurt more for 
David to say the truth or for 

937
01:01:14,500 --> 01:01:17,200
him to lied? 
And the moment he probably 

938
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:22,600
thought Mi I worked, he probably
thought Mi I was harmless. 

939
01:01:23,700 --> 01:01:28,000
Mi, I helped me a just evade a 
situation that that could have 

940
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:31,400
caused me to be in trouble. 
And when he looks back, he 

941
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,000
realizes, if that is the 
interpretation. 

942
01:01:35,100 --> 01:01:39,600
My like killed this guy. 
I had a duty to warn him. 

943
01:01:41,100 --> 01:01:43,900
And you know, this that in the 
New Testament, there is place 

944
01:01:43,900 --> 01:01:47,400
for us to warn people about 
other people when they are of 

945
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:52,500
great danger and threats. 
I hope today that on this Friday

946
01:01:52,500 --> 01:01:55,600
night, you've acquired greater 
wisdom from the word of God. 

947
01:01:56,300 --> 01:01:59,700
Wisdom for you, not just to have
a better life, a life free from 

948
01:01:59,700 --> 01:02:04,500
pain, but a life that would 
glorify Jesus Christ by avoiding

949
01:02:04,500 --> 01:02:09,200
pitfalls that the undiscerning 
fall into or avoiding decisions 

950
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:13,100
that we think. 
In our own wisdom can work. 

951
01:02:13,100 --> 01:02:15,700
When in fact the word of God 
says do not trust in the arm of 

952
01:02:15,707 --> 01:02:18,800
the flesh. 
You and I have come to an 

953
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:24,400
important part of the Bible. 
Because things are really going 

954
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:27,400
to take another turn in chapter 
23. 

955
01:02:28,300 --> 01:02:48,300
Let's pray. 
Louis, thank you. 

956
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:54,900
That today, we had school. 
Today, we felt as though we were

957
01:02:54,900 --> 01:03:02,400
students sitting at the feet. 
Of you being an ultimate 

958
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:06,600
teacher. 
And this word being the book of 

959
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:12,600
books. 
This word being the blueprint 

960
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:19,500
for salvation and for a life. 
That can help us live in a way 

961
01:03:19,500 --> 01:03:25,100
in which we most glorify Our God
and no much more joy and safety 

962
01:03:25,500 --> 01:03:30,000
and prosperity. 
But we just ask that you would 

963
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:32,200
help us be wise. 
Lord. 

964
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,900
If there's any application that 
we've heard is that there are 

965
01:03:34,900 --> 01:03:39,200
different scenarios that beg us 
as the Book of Proverbs, does to

966
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:45,100
acquire wisdom. 
Lord, make us a wise people Help

967
01:03:45,100 --> 01:03:50,700
us trust in your word. 
And Lord, perhaps even tonight 

968
01:03:50,700 --> 01:03:53,800
there are many who are hearing 
The Whispers of the enemy that 

969
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:56,700
is trying to convince him, that 
there's something better out 

970
01:03:56,700 --> 01:04:00,900
there maybe even Lord tonight, 
there is even one soul that 

971
01:04:00,900 --> 01:04:04,000
cannot seem to give their whole 
heart to Christ. 

972
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,900
Because they've heard the same 
Persuasions, that's all brought 

973
01:04:07,900 --> 01:04:10,600
to his men, who is the son of 
Jesse. 

974
01:04:11,700 --> 01:04:16,100
What's the big deal of Jesus? 
Will you really give up your One

975
01:04:16,100 --> 01:04:19,900
Life to serve a God that you 
cannot see? 

976
01:04:21,300 --> 01:04:24,700
But oh God we pray that you 
would blast through every lie 

977
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:29,800
and that you would clear the fog
and that even this Bible study 

978
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:32,200
tonight would present a facet of
your beauty. 

979
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,700
And at the heart that is not 
given themselves to Christ with 

980
01:04:35,700 --> 01:04:39,400
surrender at this moment. 
Lord, may your Holy Spirit do 

981
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:43,900
what only he can do. 
Invicta world of 

982
01:04:43,900 --> 01:04:48,500
unrighteousness. 
Lord tonight, we feel rich. 

983
01:04:48,500 --> 01:04:50,700
We feel privileged that our eyes
have been opened. 

984
01:04:51,300 --> 01:04:53,300
But we thank you that this 
Friday night. 

985
01:04:53,300 --> 01:04:56,200
We have gone that much deeper in
the knowledge of who you are. 

986
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:59,200
And for this we are grateful and
so Heavenly. 

987
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:02,800
Father, we Rejoice, Lord. 
We rejoice and we asked, oh, 

988
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:06,900
God, that as we have, studied 
the ugliness of being selfish of

989
01:05:06,900 --> 01:05:10,400
being self-centered, oh, Lord, 
we die to ourselves. 

990
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,700
And we ask that Christ would 
live in us and that we would 

991
01:05:13,700 --> 01:05:16,400
live for his interests and the 
good of other. 

992
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:20,800
Word kill South tonight in a 
deeper way. 

993
01:05:22,300 --> 01:05:26,100
Lord, we worship you because we 
have access to the truth and we 

994
01:05:26,107 --> 01:05:28,900
can fellowship with you in a 
deeper way because of these 

995
01:05:28,900 --> 01:05:30,400
truths. 
Blessed. 

996
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,200
Be the name of the Lord, in 
Jesus name, we pray. 

997
01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:35,700
Amen. 
Let's stand and Worship the Lord

998
01:05:35,700 --> 01:05:36,600
Of Glory together.