Thank you, priest him for that powerful worship, and now we
worship in the hearing of God's word.
Meet me in first Samuel 22 please.
As we conclude this chapter together.
It never fails. That when I personally study the
word, it's almost overwhelming of how much God can say and some
obscure passages. And I hope you've learned that
over the years that surely all of God's word is god-breathed.
It is not wasted, it is not just historical data.
It is God's voice that the man of God, may be complete and
furnished and Polished unto righteousness and reflection of
the person of Jesus Christ. And we come here in 1st Samuel,
22. We are at verse 6 as we heard
last week, the first five verses focused on David's point of view
as a fugitive as an outcast it was completely dedicated to his
experience in this in the scene. But now as we come to verse 6,
there is a shift that's about to take place, but before we come
to this shift, we've learned Just in five verses about how
the righteous are a direct blessing from God.
To his righteous that as they are surrounded and supported by
those who fear, God, that is surely a gift from God.
And if you have people that you can identify as those who love
Christ, and are there for you and are praying for you, in our
counseling, you know, that you have something of a gift from
God himself. And we also saw David suffering
personally in a very overwhelming fashion, but at the
same time we learned that this man honored Duties in the midst
of his difficulties and he exemplified that by taking care
of his parents, when he was looking over his own shoulder
because he could have been killed at any moment.
And we also saw David graduate in his faith.
The man was consumed with fear and chapter 21 and a very
dishonorable way. But we see here in chapter 22
that is repentance in those psalms proved, to be genuine
because he is now showing Owing more trust in God.
It's going to find it. So encouraging, that God can
tell us that. David was a man after his own
heart, even though David wasn't totally mature in his faith, God
can declare that over somebody while they're learning while
they're growing, while they're being stretched.
Surely he's merciful. but what we've learned from David, Is
sufficient in this chapter because now we come to learn
from Saul and will still learn from David, but we're going to
see mainly what the Holy Spirit has to say about not the prey
but the Predator the unruly King named Saul.
And if David graduated in his faith, in this chapter, we're
going to see Saul intensify in his rage and his jealousy, and
his Envy. See you and I are either growing
in One Direction or the other. We either growing in Christ or a
growing in the flesh. We're either maturing
spiritually or we are maturing in our old man.
There is no Center, there's no neutrality and unfortunately
Saul is consumed with sin and it's going to show as we read
here in verse 6. Now, Saul heard that David was
discovered and the men who were with him saw was sitting at
gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in
his hand. And all his servants were
standing about him and saw said, to his servants, who stood about
him here. Now, people of Benjamin, will
the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and Vineyards.
Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of
hundreds that all of you have conspired against me?
No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the
son of Jesse none of you is sorry for me or discloses to me
that my Son has stirred up. My servant against me to lie in.
Wait, As at this day. Will continue to read in a
moment, but there's so much already here.
We read. Now, as the scene turns over to
Saul that Saul is now surrounded with his servants contrasting.
David as we heard last week who was supported by four hundred
men in a cave and it's in this verse that we read.
The reason for this conference Saul calls his servants because
he learned the whereabouts of David and he also learned surely
the piercing news that 400 of his own have abandoned him and
I've joined his enemy and indirectly are saying, we
believe that David is King, not, you saw And this is clearly
disturbing to the man. And so we read now Vision it and
vision. It, he's sitting there
underneath a tree. But he has something in his
hand. What is it?
A spear that should raise a flag because this is not the first
time that we've seen this madman in such a position.
You. And I have studied saw long
enough to realize that whenever this person has a weapon in his
hand, and he's in a bad mood, something is not going to be
pleasant in a moment. This is disturbing.
Because he is thrown that spear at David many times.
He's even thrown a spear at his own son, and here he is.
In the presence of his other servants.
Clearly shaken and he has a spear in his hand.
I think that we can read that and realize that saw was as a
particular type of leader. He was a leader that rained and
controlled with fear and intimidation He bullied people
he caused him to have an unhealthy sense of reverence
towards him so that he can get them to do what he wanted them
to do. And that is a leadership that
will never be honored by men and will not have longevity as
you're going to find out about Saul.
But this verse already teaches us something.
The first verse verse 6, already teaches us something.
So wonderful about God as it connects to our concluding
thought from last week. Last week, we concluded with the
observation that as David is hiding in a stronghold.
God sends a prophet named God. And this man, God tells David
get up and go and not just continue to flee, but I'm
telling you to go into the territory of Judah.
Now, why? Is that a concerning command?
Does anybody remember Saul is governing that land.
So God is asking Saul rather David to come into a territory
where he's more vulnerable to solve spies and to Saul himself.
It seems like a contradiction, it doesn't seem reasonable.
But when you come to verse 6, we now see by the holy spirit's
commentary, why it is that God sent God to David and told him
to get up and go. Why is it Because Saul, what?
He discovered where he was saw, learned the location of David
and these men and God seen what saw learn speaks to his prophet
and the Prophet. This messenger comes and tells
David get up and go in a certain direction.
And here's the wonderful thing David obeyed, even though he
didn't have all the answers because he knew that God had the
answer. It's as simple as that.
You read verse six. And you and I are supposed to
understand that, we as the people of God, do not need all
of the answers to his leadership in our lives.
If you and I think that we inherit a supernatural peace,
because we have this unlimited access to every answer to every
step in our lives. We are setting ourselves up for
disappointment, the piece and the trust that you.
And I have as God navigates and leads and Shepherd us through
life, is not the fact that we have every answer before it
comes. It comes by the truth of his
character. It comes in a knowledge of who
he is and based on the knowledge of who he is, regardless of how
he leads us. If you are rightly walking with
him, you can trust his Direction.
So why be flustered with with delays in life?
And why be consumed with anxiety.
When you are now being directed to a destination that you didn't
plan for in your life when you and I are supposed to just trust
him and trust that he has the answers, and if it's in his
wisdom to reveal that answer in this lifetime or not, it's not
up to us. It's not up to us.
There are many times as we're going to see that, God tells
David specifically why he's about to do something.
And there are other times, like, what we just see here, where he
doesn't And we just got to trust that when God keeps us in the
dark, it is more profitable for us than if he had given us every
answer. And David shows that as you
departed and went toward Judah and it's you, and I who have the
opportunity to read, verse 6, & Co look at the wisdom of God.
David didn't understand and God didn't find the need to explain.
And you and I have the word of God that must be applied in so
many situations that might be unique.
But at the same time, though they may not make sense in a
moment. God is calling us to trust his
wisdom and not our own ideas. And when Providence leads us in
a certain way, that might cause turbulence to our comfort or to
our plans and our desires, what will we do?
We must trust trust and Obey for.
There's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey,
David does this? because David had a revelation
I'm sure that you and I must have on a basic level and it's
this that no matter how God orchestrates, our life, he has
his glory primarily in mind And the good of his people that
every season of life, even if you're Afflicted, God is doing
many things, he is providing for us, he is protecting us and
surely his polishing us. To reflect the image of his son,
which is his Ultimate Will for your life, no matter what kind
of 925 you have. No matter what kind of spouse
you have, if you're in Christ, you're predestined to Christ
likeness in this life. And so we read that in verse 6.
So encouraging, but much more to learn.
And verse 7, we see something else.
Saul said to his servants who stood about him here?
Now people have Benjamin, will the son of Jesse give everyone
of you fields and Vineyards and he goes on Bible study questions
examinations do you have your Bibles tonight?
I hope so. Look at your Bibles and verse 7.
And would you share what stands out to you with the details of
Paul a rather Saul's conversation with these men?
What stands out to you? What are some details?
That should be highlighted. Causing the son of Jesse.
That's one that's really good. Yes.
Again he refers to him as a son of Jesse.
There's something even before that though.
Yes, the people of Benjamin are those who are surrounding him,
there's 11 tribes missing, but why is this interesting where
was Saul from that same tribe. And so saw as being very
political here, this is tribalism.
This is Saul trying to win the support of those who share his
lineage, because he thinks it will be more likely remember the
whole nation, adored David. And so he's playing.
He's playing tricks here by wooing.
Those from his own race, though, it's the same race.
His own tribe better word winning those, from those who
share his same background and he's trying to convince him to
be on his side. It's a sad, reminder of how many
people will pledge allegiance to family to culture.
To nationality to safety to opportunity over that, which is
right. And that's not just things that
happen in the world. That happens within Christendom
that, you have people who will Elevate these things over that,
which is true, and holy, And saw is that kind of, man.
But secondly, we see, as our sister said that he is further
proving his political manipulation by referring to
David in a certain way. We heard this before, but this
man calls him, the son of Jesse, he would not dare attribute, any
kind of success to David or anything of his faithful
character? What he's trying to do is
highlight the lowliest part of who he is. in the presence of
these men that he's trying to woo and convince Proving to us
that this men's jealousy is still at a feverish pitch, this
man is consumed. This man can't even mention his
name because bitterness and envy and unforgiveness can reach such
a height in the soul. That even the mere mention of
someone's name, whether they've offended us or they are the
object of our Envy can surge when that us all these evil
emotions. The guys, so sensitive, he's so
Infected with this sin that he can't even say David.
So, he calls him, the son of Jesse, and it's a reminder of
how jealousy can manifest itself jealousy, when it reaches a
certain point can be so ferocious, and so ugly that it
attempts to belittle and humiliate the person that we
might have these things towards so that we can, at least plant
the seed of Suspicion and their hearts.
And that's what he's trying to do.
Now let's examine his speech, Let's examine examine what he's
trying to say to these people. He realizes that 400 of his men
just left, right? And he doesn't want that to
continue to happen. He's now feeling what he is
feared that people will join David and David will become
king. Nevermind, God said that it
would happen. He will even fight against God.
And so what he's trying to do here is discredit David To these
men. And the summary of the verses
that we read is simply this, who is the son of Jesse?
What can he actually offer you? For you to even consider joining
him. What, what does he have?
What, look at him hiding in a cave.
Is this someone that you really want to to join and to link arms
with it's pathetic. It's so sad, it's so low.
But this is a carnal man that uses carnal means to persuade
people. And so he's doing it here and
you heard it last week that the enemy of souls uses, very
similar Persuasions when there are people who are standing Are
standing at the gap between the decision of joining, the kingdom
of God, or choosing to stay with the kingdom of darkness.
And people here all the time. Who is Jesus Christ?
What does this Jesus actually have to offer you in this life?
What is a life surrender to this Messiah actually benefit for you
in this life? Are you sure that you want to
put your promotion in life at risk?
Because you'll be recognized as a bible-believing, Christian in
this kind of society, are you sure you really, would?
You really want to make that public?
What kind of possessions can you really claim as your own?
What kind of things can you grow in?
If you are going to now pledge yourself to a sacrificial life
for Jesus Christ, you really want to do that.
And here's the point, I read this and I thought to myself, if
there's anyone who should question the incentives of
anybody else, it's the child of God when he is tempted with
worldliness. Can I show you one of my
personal favorite verses concerning sin?
Yes, Jesus Christ died for sin. That's wonderful.
That is the nothing can triumph over that, but I want to show
you a practical verse a practical verse that will
transform the way you face Temptation.
If you just apply it by faith, it's found in the book of
Romans, it's in chapter 6, and it's in verse 21.
Look how Paul calls the Christians to put sin into
question to put their old life into question.
But, what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of
which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is
death. I love that.
Is it a Roman Christians?
Just pause for a moment and think about your former life and
asked, what benefit, what fruit was I really getting from me
pursuing, the desires of My Flesh to me submitting to every
impulse of my body and my thoughts are my fantasies.
What actually came out of that? And if you really think long and
hard, if you actually discipline yourself because what Temptation
does is it presents to you? The Sensation that satisfies and
the Bible is very honest. The Bible doesn't lie to us and
say sin doesn't feel good. Or else, where's the power and
Temptation? Scripture tells us in Hebrews
that sin has pleasure, but it's fleeting pleasure, so examine
your life. Now, this will be extremely
difficult if you've never been truly converted, If you've never
tasted the goodness of Jesus Christ, if you've never, if
you've never known what it's like to experientially, be
satisfied in your salvation. You know why?
Because you have nothing to compare it to, you have nothing
to compare your sin, which which is the Ecstasy of those who are
outside of Christ, you have nothing to say.
This is the contrast But if you're in Christ, this verse
gives you license to say, where was I before this?
What I'm houses even a persuasion, how is this, even a
suggestion? Okay, so you live out in your
flesh, do you remember the shame?
The remember the guilt. Do you remember the regret?
The remember, the hollowness. Do you remember laying at night
wondering, why you even exist? What's your purpose in life?
You remember that kind of Torment.
Think Beyond The Mirage of the Oasis of sin and realized that
you were actually eating sand before you came to the living
water in Christ. And so if there's anybody that's
going to question anything, if there's anybody that's going to
say, what is, what is what have to offer?
It's the believer, when Satan and the flesh.
Say Hey you really want to move forward, you have nothing to
offer me. I've been there done that.
Got the t-shirt and in Christ clothed me with his
righteousness, I'm done. I'm done.
And I believe the reason why you have people within the church
that are so defeated by sin at least in part is because they
have not tasted that. The Lord is good, they've not
seen that the Lord is good. They got some emotional thing
that happened at one point in their lives.
What you're going to hear this Sunday by the way?
And they weren't really born again.
And so they just they live in this defeated Christian Life and
and partly many of the cases because they haven't come from
Death to life to even begin with.
But for the converted, for those who have truly been born again,
they can say compared to this. I'm not going back to that so we
come back to the first Samuel 22 now.
Look at verse 8. This is amazing. like, if you
are frustrated with Saul up to now, get ready for another level
of frustration, Look what he says that all of you have
conspired against me. No one discloses it to me.
When my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse.
None of you sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has
stirred up. My servant against me to lie in,
wait, as is this day? So this is what Sol is doing.
He moves to win his affections from the place of false promises
because as he's criticizing David, he's implying I have
these things to offer you He goes from false promises to
self-pity. I'm sure we are all convinced
about saw that. He is a person who is completely
consumed with selfish ambition. Like Everett ever since near his
introduction, this man has proven to be totally motivated
by self. And it's in this verse that some
of the properties of a selfish attitude show themselves if you
want to see how a selfish or self-centered person.
Can climax in their attitude towards others.
Here are some ingredients first. They manipulate the emotions of
others to get what they want. And so another way of putting it
is that they Heap guilt on those who are not in wrong in order to
steer them to satisfy. Usually sinful means in simple
goals and that's what he's doing here.
He's not righteously rebuking these men.
He has now taken his imagination and placed it on them and he's
saying you guys are all conspiring against me.
You guys are all playing against me.
That's what's really going on here.
These are baseless claims, they makes no sense whatsoever.
He's saying that you've concealed, what Jesse and the
son of Jesse and my son are doing.
You've concealed the plan that they're trying to kill me.
The guy's lying. The guy's lying and that it
should be no surprise he's lied before but it can also mean that
his jealousy became so obsessive that.
He's now hallucinating. He's now reading into things
that don't exist. He's now coming up with ideas
that are not real. And that's what selfish is can
do in a person, they begin to now.
Try to put strings on people and make them puppets in order to
satisfy their selfish goals and sometimes that selfish girl can
simply be for praise for recognition for affection, but a
second trait of a person who is dominated by selfishness not
selflessness. Selfishness is that they have
this wonderful ability? They have the art Of coming off
as the victim and everything. Even when the mess that they're
in was caused by them, none of you is sorry for me, are you
serious? Have you lost it?
After all the trouble that you've caused in the Kingdom up
to this point. After all, the trouble, you've
caused in the family, after all the trouble, you caused for your
son, for your most faithful servant you were still able to
make this about you. And this individual here is
exemplifying to us that a selfish person can barely admit
that they are ever wrong. No way.
Because in their mind, this is what they think.
If I admit that, I'm wrong. Then I forfeit my right to
demand. If I, if I confess that I've
done something that might have been off, then I discredit
myself from having the authority.
To make baseless and shameful request.
This is pride and in their pride, like saw as long as they
are in the right or believe that they're in the right or convince
others that they are in the right.
They maintain the prerogative to make claims on others or to
behave in a certain way. That's why I'm very careful
though. People have gone through
traumatic past. I'm very careful.
And you should be as well because there are people who can
use their past trauma as an excuse to be a certain way.
If you're a Christian filled with the Holy Spirit, if you're
a Christian has been born again. Yeah, you might have had some
past experience but Christ in you dominates the flesh.
And so there are people that know how to say it, right?
And two. Point at everything and
everybody else. That's what modern you've heard
me say before. And I'm telling you for a reason
over and over again. Modern counseling especially out
there in the world that doesn't use the scriptures to counsel
the issue with modern counseling and modern psychology is that
they will blame everything. But the person who is receiving
help, it's everybody else's fault except the person who's
wounded and whatever patterns are habits that have been
adopted, that might be self-destructive or destructive
as it has to be the way you grew up.
It has to be your parents. It has to be this and can it
contribute sure. But if we're Christians Christ
has the power to overcome all wounds and to lead you into,
he'll you. It might not be instantaneous
though, it could be but we cannot stop at.
Well, that's just the way they are because that's what they
experienced in the past. Where is the gospel?
Where's the power? The healing power of Jesus
Christ. What I'm afraid of is that if we
introduce too much counseling within the church, we can strip
the supernatural from the gospel.
And we make everything about this and that and nurture versus
nature. No, no, do not forget that.
We have a supernatural God. Who can Doom wonderful things in
people's lives. Is he practical?
Yes. Is their wisdom?
Sure. Is there things that we have to
give instruction for it? Yes.
Do we have to talk through things up from the past?
Absolutely but the solution comes down to the spirit.
You might disagree with me. But just go to the book and see
for yourself. So this is what this man is
doing. He's, it's so childish and after
his childish Spiel, The Silence of the crowd is all for sudden
broken because somebody speaks up.
And that man is found in verse 9.
Look in your Bibles, with me then.
Answer doeg the Edomite who stood by the Servants of Saul.
I saw the son of Jesse coming to Knob to Hema, like the son of a
table and he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him
provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath.
The Philistine. Oh, This is the first time that
we've seen doeg in our Bibles know, we have.
We seen it before. 21:7. Now look what it says in chapter
21 verse 7. This is when David went to the
Tabernacle. He went to the priest and he
says here, now, a certain man of the Servants of Saul was there
that day detained before the Lord, his name was doe, eyed the
eat of my, the chief of Saul's herdsman.
Now I'm going to ask you, what are some things that should be
noted from this verse? What are some details?
About doeg. Detained before the Lord.
Now we don't know why he was detained before the Lord.
There are some different speculations.
It's not told. And really the reason given is
not important. If there was a reason, it would
be there but it could be that he was, he was ceremonially unclean
and he was going through a purification process.
Some say that he was being converted to the Jewish faith.
So he was going through a process and not as well.
We don't know, but he was detained.
All we do know is He was in proximity of God's house being
ministered to by God's priests, which is more important than the
reason. Good observation any other
observation. Edomite.
Not an Israelite Edomite. Who are the edomites?
Esau, brother of who Jacob, Jacob assu Israel, very good.
So Esau who is also known as Edom.
The edomites are descendants of Esau question where they
friendly towards the Israelites. Were they were they favorable
towards them with a gracious towards them or is their
hostility and animosity? Yes, absolutely.
So generally speaking, anybody from Edom had a certain kind of
feeling and mindset toward the chosen people of God.
So the fact that we're told that dog was an Edomite.
Should raise a flag, it should raise a flag.
What else concerning do? Egg?
Very good. He was the chief of Saul's
herdsman. That is not a lowly position,
that's a manager position. That's a position of authority.
That is something that's all. Allowed him to operate in.
Which shows us not just a concern.
Concerning do egg. But a concern towards Saul's
deficient character. What do I mean by that?
How is Saul able to have within his inner circle?
Someone who comes from a people who do not honor, God and do not
honor the people of God. How's that possible?
And if you're not convinced that dog has that disposition, you're
going to see it very, very soon. You want to know the simple
answer? Because Saul himself was someone
who did not honor, God and did not honor Those whom God has
chosen. And so saw easily could have
fellowship with somebody who is from Edom, because Saul share
the same values. The same attitudes, And the
absence of the things that would make somebody righteous are in
Saul and therefore he can easily commune with somebody like doeg,
you know what I find? So disturbing.
Isn't it strange that Saul was able to attack David?
Who is a true worshiper of God? But at the same time he was able
to maintain a relationship with do a who is an enemy of God.
Really. I have to tell you this and I've
said it and many different instances before but I'll say it
again who you fellowship with him with who you have
relationships with reveals where you stand with God to a certain
degree they're just no ifs and ands about.
If you fellowship with a certain type of people that reveals
something about you, the psalmist said in the first song
that he does not walk in the counsel of the wicked.
And he does not stand among the scoffers.
Does not sit with sinners. I don't walk with them, I don't
stand with them, I don't sit with them.
That's the first thing you read from the book of Psalms.
So the whole book which is about worship, it starts out with.
I want to tell you who I don't fellowship with and that's
fascinating. And notice as we come back here
that do I Echoes Saul in the way that he refers to David.
What does he say? In verse 9, I saw who the son of
Jesse Hey, David rather saw how you feel about David.
I feel about David. I saw the son of Jesse and what
he tells them is, I was there that day where I saw him come to
the Tabernacle and the priest helped him the priest.
Help David. Now here's a question and you
can answer it. If you have, if you feel like
you have the answer, why is, do I doing this?
Why, why is he stepping up? And why is he calling saw to the
attention of the Betrayal of David and the priest?
I am a lake. Any idea.
To make it worse. But and that's true.
But why, why is he trying to make it worse?
What does that have to do with him?
Okay, so promotion in mind, that's one reason.
So just finished saying, can he give you Vineyards?
And can he make you commanders and dogs going?
so, Let me tell you where David and what David did actually, let
me tell you who is conspiring with David.
Because clearly he is persuaded by some kind of indirect promise
from Saul. And this is, this is doeg
proving that this man cared so much about his comfort and his
safety and his Prosperity that he was willing to throw anybody
under the bus. In order to arrive there, he was
willing to step on anything even the truth itself in order for
him to advance in this life and it's a sad sight, indeed.
That's one reason any Reason. Very good point.
Could it? Be that what he had learned all
his life as an Edomite? Of how that inheritance was
taken from Jacob, from Esau, from Jake by Jacob and all these
things, all these deep-rooted thoughts and hatred are.
Now, here's my chance to bring division within Israel.
Absolutely. That could be one reason as
well, which is scary. But it's possible any other
reasons. Why is do I doing this?
Why is he stepping up? And why is he pointing Saul's
attention towards a? He melek?
And Alive a conspiracy. Well, let me let me help you
remember what it's all doing at this point.
He's sitting and what does he have in his hand?
Okay. so at any moment, I'm sure do.
I felt it in his bones and sold the other men at any moment
that's pure can go flying at any moment.
As he's just finished accusing these men of conspiring against
him. Things can become very, very
dangerous. So this is not just about
promotions about preservation. This is what a man saying I want
to avoid my life being lost and I want to now turn any
conspiracy away from us to the Ministers of God.
And so he's diverting Saul's anger and his blind jealousy and
his Insanity in a completely different direction.
Hey Saul look over there and not only is he going to preserve
himself, but he's also potentially going to be promoted
out of this. All in all it's really a sad
side of a person who is motivated by self and how
they're willing to do harm to others, even those who Minister
and serve God as the priest did. And this is sad.
This is sad. Concerning the character of
Dwight, but you know what's amazing?
David wasn't surprised when he heard about it.
David was not surprised one bit when he heard about it.
How do you know go down to verse 22 at the author.
One of the priests escapes. And told tells David and David
said, the Abbe, Arthur I knew on that day.
When doeg the Edomite was there? That he would surely tell Saul?
I have occasion to death of all the persons of your father's
house. What a statement So when David
came in chapter 21 to the priest and in his peripheral, he sees,
dog, they're detained. I don't know how he looked his
somewhere. They're detained.
He goes on. This guy's going to cause
trouble. He knew it.
Here's our question. How did he know it?
Anybody have an idea of how he knew it.
Uh-huh. Very good point David.
Before he was a fugitive was top-ranked in the palace.
Even in the early stages, he was the worshipper that was
counseling Saul. He was the armour-bearer of
Saul. So he was not only familiar with
the courts, he was familiar with the employees with the people
and so surely he came into contact with.
Do I got some point but David was Discerning enough to know
something about doeg, then that would lead to this before.
There is any personal attack against David, David studied
dog. Enough to know, I'm not
surprised. I'm not surprised.
Isn't it sad? That someone's evil can be
predicted because of a present lack of the fear of God.
Isn't it a sad thing that somebody can be.
So, so void of spirituality? That in their language and their
in the way they do things that they're predictable.
In the evil that they can do. That was doeg.
He was a Godless man, an Unholy man and David when he heard
about it, long enough, after even a period of time, studying
him long enough rather said, I'm not surprised that dog did this.
So notice what do I tell? Saul and verse 10?
He inquired of the Lord foreman gave him provisions and gave him
the sword of Goliath. The Philistine.
What's problematic about this report in verse 10.
What's problematic here? What's that?
Glides, sure, but even before that, there's three charges
here. What's concerning about these
charges? It has to do with one of them.
Yes, very good. He tells Saul that the priest
sought God on his behalf. We learned that that was in the
case. We saw in chapter 21 that when
David comes to the priest, he does everything.
But inquire of God, In fact, when he had the chance to he
instead put his trust in Goliath's sword and runs off and
we saw the fruit of a man who did not stop and ask God for
guidance and Direction. So doeg lies.
Doh, egg is not observing something that actually occurred
and if there's any doubt within us that do, I might be telling
the truth and he's adding more light to the story.
All you have to do is go to a portion of scripture where David
dedicates an entire Psalm to do egg.
Did you know that there's an entire Psalm dedicated to do
egg? Would you like to know where it
is? Go to Psalm 52 And it's in this
scripture that you will see that.
Do I in fact was lying. Was lying.
Psalm 50 to look at verse 12, the choirmaster mass scale of
David. When doeg the Edomite came and
told saw David as come to the house of I'm Alec.
So this Psalm, can you imagine a worship song?
Written in light of somebody's betrayal and their deception.
And look at the first four, verses why do you boast of evil
Almighty, man? The steadfast love of God
indoors all the day. Your tongue plots destruction.
Like a sharp razor you worker of Deceit.
You love evil more than good and lying more than speaking what is
right? Say la.
You love all words that devour old deceitful tongue?
So, there's no truth. And what he's saying to solve,
but is there. Is there truth in what he said
to Saul? Yeah, two-thirds of the charges
were legitimate. But you see the song doesn't say
that dog was a liar. Remember what I said earlier?
Do you want to protect yourself from much harm in this life?
I would I would highly recommend paying attention right now.
It doesn't say that dog was a liar.
What did he say? He was a what a deceiver?
That's different. The severs are much more crafty.
They're much more much more tricky.
And dog was a master of deception.
And what was the deception? That one third of his charge was
a lie whereas two-thirds of it was actually right.
I want you to realize how deception works because we live
this life with someone who is a Great Deceiver. and if you can
find someone or some people to deceive, that is one of his main
tools to Bringing pain in your life and praying in the body of
Christ, I want you and I to grow in our discernment.
And here's how you and I can grow in our discernment and to
be shielded to protect your heart and to protect you from
doing damage to other people's lives of understanding how
deceivers operate here. It is do I didn't completely
lie. But his lie was blended with
truth because when a targeted audience is presented with
something that can be agreed upon as valid that disarms them.
that disarms them and a once they have let their guard down
then Ally can slip in and also be digested.
Do I hear reflects the character of Satan?
Because Satan doesn't just go around in this world lying to
people about the word of God. Satan goes around lying to
people with the word of God. There's a difference.
There are some that he's convincing to not even entertain
believing that this is truth and there are others who believe
that this is to be true. And so he will use the truth.
With a pill of the LIE. And he'll let you swallow,
whatever is true while also indulging in poison.
And those who do the devil's work, those who are deceivers,
they will come to present a lie, but they know, they know that
will be more effective. Is that if they can believe, if
they can win your trust, if they can win your agreement upon
something, so that when you come and receive the LIE, there will
be less suspicion about it. We need the holy spirit of God.
I am astounded by the lack of the sermon with people.
It's, it's dumbfounding actually.
When you have the scriptures, you have prayer, you have Godly
men and women in your life and you have the Holy Spirit living
inside of you. We should be a people who are
shielded from deception the most. an unfortunate that is not
the case because Many a fall in the Trap that do a presents
year. Some truth enough to convince
you of a lie that is slipped in there and that lie is powerful
enough to bring so much destruction as we're going to
see in a moment. So look at here in verse 12,
rather verse 11, then the king sent to summon.
He met like the priest, the son of a, hey, tub and all his
father's house, the priests who were at knob and all of them
came to the king. And saw said here, now, son of a
hijab and he answered Here, I Am My Lord like your heart breaks.
This guy has no idea what he's walking into.
He is pure and heart. Remember, David did not disclose
why, he was really running away. So he just thinks he's being
called in for some, maybe he's going to be summoned to
something here, I am my Lord. And Saul said to him, why have
you conspired against me? You and the son of Jesse and
that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of
God for him, so that he has risen against me to lie in wait
as that this day. So you had hope that when saw
called the priest to come, that he was going to exercise in some
kind of wisdom and do some examination and some
investigation before laying any kind of charge, but he just goes
right for the jugular, why have you not is this true but why
have you and really we don't have time to get into the priest
answer to this, but all you need to know is that no matter how he
answered, which is quite fascinating, because he defends
David, And then he defends himself, but none of that
mattered because Saul was out for blood and that thirst was
going to be quenched, no matter what.
And so, he makes the charge after the priest declares his
innocence. In verse 16 and the King said,
You shall surely die. Hey Malik, you and all your
father's house. And the King said to the guard
who stood about him turn and killed the priests of the Lord,
because their hand also is with David and they knew that he fled
and did not disclose it to me. This is like obsessive language.
Like, he keeps repeating himself.
Kill him. Imagine here's the high priest
with 84 others and he looks at his servants, the service that
have been quiet this whole time and he goes kill them now, get
rid of them. What's going to happen?
And it says here, but the Servants of the king would not
put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord.
I love that. Like how embarrassing for this
King? Here's a man who's supposed to
have authority and win the respect of those who claim to
serve him and he can't even get him to do this one thing.
But it's because the servants have something that he doesn't
have. And that's the fear of God.
These servants, though, they are servants, though.
In society, they are lesser than the king.
They are higher because they have something that the king
lacks and that's wisdom. Would you rather be a king?
Who lacks sense? Or would you rather be a servant
who possesses knowledge? There's an amazing verse that
touched my life that inspired my life.
Among many verses I want to read it to you.
In fact, I would highlight it in my Bible.
If you do that with your Bible, it's in the book of Ecclesiastes
that wonderful book of wisdom and it's in 4:13.
It's an observation that Solomon makes and he says, this better
is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish King.
Who will no more be admonished another transition, say who will
no longer take advice? You want to know if somebody
lacks wisdom? You want to know if you lack
wisdom? Here's one evidence of it.
You don't ask people for advice. That's what the Bible says.
A person who refuses to be admonished to be corrected to
receive some kind of consultation that person.
According to this verse lacks wisdom or is moved away from the
way of wisdom. You know what I see in this
verse that it's possible to be a child and to possess wisdom
wisdom is not limited to. The Aged wisdom is not only
acquired by experience. You can be a young person and be
wiser than a seasoned person. And it says, in fact, you're
better to be poor, you're better to be young, you're better to be
a servant. With wisdom than a king who
doesn't know how to take advice. So I look at these men and I
admire them even though they don't have a throne to their
name, there's something better and you and I will do really
really, really well in life for the glory of God, if we put more
energy in seeking wisdom that in seeking status wealth or power.
because the Bible tells you, so, and when it comes to situations
like this, that's when we see the benefit of wisdom, they
would not dare to do it. They were willing to die
themselves. I'm sure.
So what is saw do? Well, there is one who is
already proven that he is like him.
So, in verse 18, the king said to do, I turn you turn and
strike the priest and doeg the Edomite turn and struck down the
priest, and he killed on that day. 85 persons who wore the
linen, ephod, 85 priest, man, And you know what, some 52 tells
us. It doesn't tell us that the
sharpness of his sword brought about destruction.
It says the sharp razor of his tongue.
Do you know people can use their tongue in the same way?
Someone would use a sword? Oh, you only think that swords
can kill 85 people. Now, I can tell you about people
who use their tongues to create massacres.
You don't need a bomb. James says that this tongue can
cause wildfires. You don't need a gun.
All you have to do is whisper one thing to the wrong person
who has the right Authority and things can get ugly really
quick. No man can tame the tongue.
The Bible says, except the God man.
And so the only way that this thing, this unruly thing, this
thing that can lead to chaos into Havoc, is of the Holy
Spirit, guards, your mouth and mind.
But it doesn't just do that. This, when I read this, I read
this tonight in verse 19. I was like, I was going to fall
out of my seat. Look at verse 19.
And knob the city of the priest, he put to the sword, both, man
and woman, child and infant Ox donkey and sheep.
He put to the sword. So it wasn't enough that he
killed the priest. And remember, if there's anybody
who was at fault here, who's not really at fault, but if there's
anybody who's being accused, it was just the high priest.
It was a hey Malik, why kill the other priests?
They weren't involved. And not only that.
Do I get to the green light to go to Knob the city of the
priests, at the slaughter, the children, and the ox, and the
farms, and the houses, and to create a mini genocide.
For those who represent the kingdom of God at that time in
that Covenant. That's disturbing and itself,
but read deeper, can you tell me why?
This is even more disturbing than on the surface level?
Anybody see it the only way you're going to see this, if you
remember, A Bible study a few chapters ago.
I'm going to read it again. Yeah, go ahead.
Do you have the answer? Yes, did you guys hear the
answer when it came to God. Instructing Saul to destroy all
the amalekites. He disobeyed.
To go into that region and to destroy all the amalekites and
their ox and their sheep. Because of their generational
sin, Saul did not come through. But when it came to killing all
the priests, he exterminated them That's disturbing.
That's actually frightening. so when God says, to do something,
You hesitate. But when your flesh says to do
something, You do it without hesitation.
And the point is this, that if he hasn't proven to already saw
has shown us here that satisfying self is worthy of
more diligence than pleasing God.
The greater sacrifices were made for selfish Pursuits than for
God's purposes and many are like that today.
They don't make, they might not be killing cities, but they're
pursuing their ambition, they're building their Kingdom, and
they're putting their sweat, and they're putting their tears.
And when you compare that to how they are participating with
God's program for the ages. Yeah.
This is so heartbreaking to see. I wonder how God felt about this
as you looked from heaven. And saw a king who is willing to
destroy his servants without cause.
But when it came to the unrighteous who were supposed to
be punished and him being the agent, he did not obey.
Surely, the judge of the earth will do.
Right? I'm surprised.
God didn't strike him down here. I mean Lord, we just started
with this Exile and he's already killing priests and their
families and you haven't intervened yet, behold the mercy
of God. Behold the mercy of God.
Whenever I come to text like this and I learned something new
about the mercy of God, I get more and more offended when
people come up to me and say, why is the god of the Old
Testament? So angry?
And Jesus is so nice. That when somebody says I say
this, with all due respect, when somebody says that proves that
they have not read their Bibles, it's as simple as that.
And that's maybe you're not there yet, maybe you haven't
Journey Through It. But what offends me something
when somebody comes arrogantly, like, as though they have
studied the Old Testament can make such an accusation.
I'm thinking here Lord. Why have the heavens not opened?
It's because he's merciful. And we read here in verse 20,
the one of the sons of Adam Alec this son of a he tub named.
Abby, Arthur escaped and fled after David.
And I be author told David that solid killed the priests of the
Lord. And David said, the Abbe, Arthur
I knew on that day. When do I get the Edomite?
Was there that he would surely tell Saul?
I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's
house. Stay with me.
Do not be afraid for he. Who seeks my life.
Seeks your life with me. You shall be in safe.
Keeping what an interesting statement that that David makes.
He says this is my fault. This is my fault.
Now you can read that one and two ways you can read it in this
way, where this is self-imposed guilt of something that is
outside of David's control because David showed up that day
and asked for help. He makes the connection if I had
not gone that gone that day and have not said anything without
ask for help, then this probably wouldn't have happened.
And you have many believers who live in guilt even today.
Who hold things against themselves though?
It doesn't make sense. And there are more people prone
to that than others that that have this introspection about
themselves in which they they easily gravitate towards shame
and regret though. There's no evidence for it.
And that's a tactic of the enemy.
He can really, really cause people to be paralyzed because
of thoughts like this. But is there another possibility
of why David said this? Any idea.
Yeah. Yeah.
And so this can be pure humility.
This can be pure humility and saying, you know.
Yeah, there's something about my participation in this and he
admits, he admits some wrong done.
This is, this is what's really hard about narratives in the old
test and because it's not like there's a commentary with every
verse. You see what I'm saying?
It's not like and what David said here was because of this
and it was wrong, he shouldn't have thought like that.
It does not as clear in the office.
Would be very careful being dogmatic when it comes to
narratives and that's why some people are scared to teach from
the Old Testament all together because it's hard to distinct.
Why is he saying this? Unless you have another verse or
verses to back it up I'll give you one more conclusion before
we closed. some would say that the reason why David is as
confessing this Is because he lied.
To the priest. Do you remember that?
Remember, when he came before I came out.
Like, and I am Alex, is what are you doing here alone?
Yeah, the Kings is called me to do something, but I got it's a
hasty thing. So can you help me out here and
he lies again? And I wonder if David's
conscience is pricked thinking to himself.
If I had just told the truth maybe I could have helped the
priest be on guard to be careful of Sol's rage and his blind
anger and rage if that is true. The new and I've been presented
another illustration among so many illustrations of how our
personal sins that we think we can conceal.
We can conceal them can reach people in ways and affect
people's lives that we could never have imagined. if I just
told the truth, right? If that is the case here, then
what would have hurt more for David to say the truth or for
him to lied? And the moment he probably
thought Mi I worked, he probably thought Mi I was harmless.
Mi, I helped me a just evade a situation that that could have
caused me to be in trouble. And when he looks back, he
realizes, if that is the interpretation.
My like killed this guy. I had a duty to warn him.
And you know, this that in the New Testament, there is place
for us to warn people about other people when they are of
great danger and threats. I hope today that on this Friday
night, you've acquired greater wisdom from the word of God.
Wisdom for you, not just to have a better life, a life free from
pain, but a life that would glorify Jesus Christ by avoiding
pitfalls that the undiscerning fall into or avoiding decisions
that we think. In our own wisdom can work.
When in fact the word of God says do not trust in the arm of
the flesh. You and I have come to an
important part of the Bible. Because things are really going
to take another turn in chapter 23.
Let's pray. Louis, thank you.
That today, we had school. Today, we felt as though we were
students sitting at the feet. Of you being an ultimate
teacher. And this word being the book of
books. This word being the blueprint
for salvation and for a life. That can help us live in a way
in which we most glorify Our God and no much more joy and safety
and prosperity. But we just ask that you would
help us be wise. Lord.
If there's any application that we've heard is that there are
different scenarios that beg us as the Book of Proverbs, does to
acquire wisdom. Lord, make us a wise people Help
us trust in your word. And Lord, perhaps even tonight
there are many who are hearing The Whispers of the enemy that
is trying to convince him, that there's something better out
there maybe even Lord tonight, there is even one soul that
cannot seem to give their whole heart to Christ.
Because they've heard the same Persuasions, that's all brought
to his men, who is the son of Jesse.
What's the big deal of Jesus? Will you really give up your One
Life to serve a God that you cannot see?
But oh God we pray that you would blast through every lie
and that you would clear the fog and that even this Bible study
tonight would present a facet of your beauty.
And at the heart that is not given themselves to Christ with
surrender at this moment. Lord, may your Holy Spirit do
what only he can do. Invicta world of
unrighteousness. Lord tonight, we feel rich.
We feel privileged that our eyes have been opened.
But we thank you that this Friday night.
We have gone that much deeper in the knowledge of who you are.
And for this we are grateful and so Heavenly.
Father, we Rejoice, Lord. We rejoice and we asked, oh,
God, that as we have, studied the ugliness of being selfish of
being self-centered, oh, Lord, we die to ourselves.
And we ask that Christ would live in us and that we would
live for his interests and the good of other.
Word kill South tonight in a deeper way.
Lord, we worship you because we have access to the truth and we
can fellowship with you in a deeper way because of these
truths. Blessed.
Be the name of the Lord, in Jesus name, we pray.
Amen. Let's stand and Worship the Lord
Of Glory together.