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I'm excited to be here tonight. 
I can't recall the time where I 

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wasn't excited to come before 
people who want to be with God's

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people and to be before God's 
word, but this particular study 

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stirred, my heart in many ways 
and I trust that it will stir 

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yours as well. 
If you were here last week, we 

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took the first six verses of 
this chapter, to look at a 

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teaching on how division occurs 
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It's not exhaustive, but it is 
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That there can be a severing 
among even the spiritual among 

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God's chosen among those who are
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And the way we did that, as we 
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Absalom, the son of David who 
had a conspiracy against his 

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father, and who brought about 
successfully a Chasm between him

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and his father. 
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Among the nation of Israel, and 
the three things That were 

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recognized as ingredients for 
division was number one division

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begins in the heart of Unholy 
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If you have a person who is 
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division is very likely. 
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possible, but secondly, we 
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requires deception and 
accusation division requires 

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deception accusation. 
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division is strength Thousand by
naive Hearts who are not 

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Discerning, who do not take 
their time to investigate and we

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just receive anything from 
anybody that is very dangerous 

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and you realize that we just 
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we didn't even cover anything 
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We looked at the first six 
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this terrain to deal with. 
But instead of looking at each 

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verse carefully and commenting 
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continue in that theme. 
I want us to continue with the 

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theme that we began last Friday 
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Look at David's response to 
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see how David reacted when he 
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relational treason. 
When there was a person in his 

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life who went beyond the point 
of reconciliation, like you 

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can't even talk to this person 
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You can't reason you can do 
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but this person is determined to
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life your ministry, this is 
where David is at, he's crossed 

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the line. 
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regardless of what he has done 
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And we want to see how to 
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serve God long enough, you will 
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hurt from another and maybe 
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And I praise God for that. 
I pray that you would never know

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that bitterness, but it does 
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those who serve God in some 
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And so I think it's incredibly 
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responded. 
What will that require of us? 

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Well, again, we have to just 
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versus rather than take 
everything that this chapter has

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to offer. 
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well, there's that I want. 
What about this? 

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This, in this point to Christ, 
there is a lot in here, for the 

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sake of honoring, the theme and 
being consistent with what we 

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learned last week. 
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Holy Spirit has much to say in 
consideration of what we will 

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read. 
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remember though, as we move. 
Forward. 

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Everything that David is about 
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reason and the primary lesson of
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that he is reaping what he has 
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Every single ache, every pain, 
every single update of some new 

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crisis, is all the result of his
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Nathan told him that this was 
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need to take away anything, it's
that sin produces sorrow, it 

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will hurt you and it will 
inevitably disturb others that 

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you did not intend to disturb. 
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here, nonetheless. 
Even in this example, we see 

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practical steps offered to us, 
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servant of God. 
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into a season of life that is 
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agonizing situation, a painful 
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That are applicable to us the 
suffering that we want to keep 

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Betrayal. 
Treason collusion and even 

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conspiracy. 
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being the target, what do you 
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And tonight, you're going to 
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the life of David at this point,
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that will equip you When 
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somebody else that is completely
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What do you do with betrayal? 
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loyalty? 
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beginning in verse 13. 
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To David saying, the hearts of 
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after Absalom, then David said 
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with him at Jerusalem, arise, 
and let us flee or else, there 

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will be no Escape for us. 
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the overtake us quickly, and 
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strike the city with the edge of
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The first thing that you, and I 
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to pain caused by another person
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Avoid more bloodshed Avoid more 
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verses here. 
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absalom's conspiracy and the 
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his Shepherds heart. 
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servants to follow him from the 
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Wilderness and environment, that
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If you remember his time with 
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We see that he realizes that the
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enough to overtake and overwhelm
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They're outnumbered, they're not
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stay but that's not the main 
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Necessarily that is one of them 
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is what he says. 
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strike the city with the edge of
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David is concerned not only for 
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family. 
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innocent inhabitants of Israel. 
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what can happen at a cost? 
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casualties? 
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that there are some if not many,
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crossfire Of Absalom selfishness
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his own throne and his own 
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He is willing to surrender. 
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Rightfully belongs to him. 
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for the sake of peace. 
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experiencing the blunt and the 
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from a feud between him and his 
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that there are times in your 
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kind of conflict that will 
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What you believe, rightfully 
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greater cause And I hope you 
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believe that. 
There are going to be times that

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in conflict in Warfare 
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Where you have to make the 
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what you believe to be your 
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cause. 
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that not just in the old, but in
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this example. 
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the Corinthian Christians. 
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were suing each other Christians
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trying to to to win a case over 
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Why not be defrauded? 
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Why don't you just just let that
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offense and what is his 
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want the internal strife of the 
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block for the watching 
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That's your greater cause and so
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preservation of your property. 
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somebody might have caused 
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the sake of the greater cause 
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And that's not the only example,
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rule to himself personally as an
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Christians. 
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as an apostle in the apostles 
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right that he is speaking about 
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In chapter 9, is the right to be
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spiritual service. 
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They're in First Corinthians 
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any portion of his time or 
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God. 
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one way or another. 
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to prove that case. 
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12, of First Corinthians, nice. 
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that, right? 
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Put an obstacle in the way of 
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And what is Paul trying to say? 
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instruct about. 
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fresh territory. 
I refused to implement this 

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right less. 
I Cloud your judgment unless I 

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give the potential persuasion 
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I'm actually going to reserve 
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The right for you to give me my 
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there's a greater cause I have 
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understand. 
My pure intentions, then I'm not

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doing this for any selfish 
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I want your soul saved. 
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so, I will put aside this right 
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and what we see in David as he's
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as the promise anointed king, 
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lives of people who can get 
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him and his son, and there is a 
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to go about this. 
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Spirit to help us understand in.
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This rule will supersede any 
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again, you might say Okay, I 
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offended, whatever was taken, 
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being defended. 
For what purpose, considering 

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the possibility of the harm that
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can cause to the cause of 
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As I said that is not always the
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Because Paul instructed the 
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suffer loss. 
Just Let It Go, the gospel. 

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The gospel is more important 
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Your what you lost or what 
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church and my right, my right as
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going to work as a tent maker 
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support for myself and actually 
see that he's supported even 

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others? 
And I'm going to preach the 

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gospel freely to you. 
I'm going to teach you freely 

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because I know the Temptation 
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people are saying about my 
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So I'm gonna I'm not going to 
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but there was times where Paul 
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moments where Paul utilized his 
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And made a defense for himself. 
But for no different reason than

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if he had not used his rights 
for a cause for specific, cause 

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can I show you one go to Acts 
chapter 16 and I want you to see

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in your Bibles at this point of 
Paul's Ministry where he is in, 

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Philippi Phillipi with his 
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And as they are, they're 
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They are instead in prison 
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And then that famous scene as 
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and blistered, they sing hymns 
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they pray and they pray and an 
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And when the earthquake comes, 
they can run off, they don't run

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off because this Jailer is there
he pleads with them asking how 

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he can be saved? 
He gets saved his family gets 

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saved. 
His whole household gets 

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baptized and then something 
interesting happens. 

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It would have been great if 
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transition to Paul's next 
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Ever, but it doesn't something 
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And what happens here is in 
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Jailer who is just freshly saved
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to Paul saying the magistrates 
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therefore come out now and go 
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Pause here the same magistrates 
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Rip Paul's closed and threw him 
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realizing that they were wrong 
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Jailer, who was hosting them and
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we made a mistake with these two
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Let them know that they can. 
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not in prison anymore. 
There's no case against them 

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just let them. 
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we can just forget this ever 
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I'll praise God. 
Okay? 

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And just sweep it under the rug 
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That's that's that's wonderful. 
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look here and see what Paul 
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But Paul said to them, verse 37,
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uncondensed and men who are 
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us into prison and do they now 
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Secretly know, let them come 
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And here's what some passes 
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very christ-like. 
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just go about peaceably and 
ignore this. 

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And there's no need to cause 
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They want this to end smoothly. 
Why don't you just move on and 

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not cause a stir and Paul says, 
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If they want us to go, let them 
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the police. 
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arrive here, and they do that. 
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Bible study tonight. 
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Very good. 
Did you hear it? 

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Paul's a little bitter here that
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where he wants some kind of 
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one way or another that he's not
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of a nudge. 
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in the gut before they can just 
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That is not what Paul is doing 
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Paul appeals to his Roman 
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For a greater cause. 
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he's not doing this because he 
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because he was embarrassed, he's
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happened earlier in the chapter,
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he was beaten publicly. 
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of many witnesses. 
He was shamed, and he was 

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imprisoned. 
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entered into this region as 
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They came Paul cast out a devil 
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Girl, there is an obvious sense 
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They came with some kind of 
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put away, they were in essence, 
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And this is how Paul's think 
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What a brilliant man. 
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Is thinking he's saying the last
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of us, is that we were some sort
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Silas hear me out. 
Hear these police that 

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wrongfully treated us in this 
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They have to rectify. 
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they were condemned publicly, 
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innocent publicly and it would 
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magistrates in these police that
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And that would show that they 
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against these missionaries for 
what for what, cause for the 

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sake of the unbelieving to 
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Scandal here. 
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to realize that these men are 
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are not questionable in their 
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Their innocent men, they are 
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And if they are good men, the 
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There's something about their 
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when Paul exercises his right 
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when Injustice has been caused 
to you it's still gospel 

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focused. 
It's still gospel-centered. 

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It's still Soul. 
Winning driven motivation. 

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And so I understand that when he
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the sake of the Gospel. 
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was for the sake of the gospel. 
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spirit. 
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investigation of our own Hearts.
Whenever we have to determine, 

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how do I go about what is 
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David is not going to cause more
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embarrassment more chaos by 
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what belonged to him, which will
require. 

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What when you experience some 
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of another Point. 
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avoid much Bloodshed or more 
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in the conflict as arrows are 
flying by and bullets are 

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whizzing through. 
Trusting the sovereignty of God.

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trust to the sovereignty of God 
and you're going to know how 

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important that is when you do 
surrender or write that, you 

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know, you can really fight for 
make a case for Where do I see 

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that? 
I scroll down in first Samuel. 

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Excuse me. 
Second Samuel chapter 15 verse 

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25. 
Look at verse 25 of second 

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Samuel. 15. 
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understand what's happening. 
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24 came up and behold zadok 
came. 

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Also with all the Levites 
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of God, and they set down the 
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all passed out of the city. 
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carry the Ark of God back into 
the city. 

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If I find favor in the eyes of 
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and let me see. 
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But if he says, I Have no 
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Behold here. 
I am. 

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Let him do to me. 
What seems good to him. 

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Here's what David is admitting 
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Uncontrollable situation is 
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By God, this is all in the hands
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Absalom is not the one calling 
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And if God wants me to go back 
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Tabernacle, he will bring me 
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wisdom says, you're not going 
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here as a fugitive forever. 
Then so be it, the understanding

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here of David is I completely 
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is controlling this whole thing 
and determining, how we're going

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about this? 
God is still Supervising the 

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situation. 
He is still Sovereign over all 

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of this. 
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This was his comfort. 
This was his assurance and it's 

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true here. 
That David's confession is an 

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awareness of the discipline of 
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The reason why he can humbly 
receive this. 

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As he knows that this is tied 
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And so he just he just Embraces 
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Lord is, is disciplining me 
then? 

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So be it. 
But more than that, his attitude

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here applies even to the 
faithful servant of God. 

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Not just the one under Going 
God's discipline, the faithful 

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servant of God, who is now 
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what's happening to them. 
It is one of the greatest 

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secrets to successfully enduring
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including the suffering of 
betrayal. 

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When you can't control, what 
people say about you do to you 

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plot against you. 
Here's the Glorious thought. 

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No matter how strong someone 
selfishness is, it will never be

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able to overpower The Sovereign 
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Never. 
That's what David Is Anchored In

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and the extent of his trust is 
so inspiring. 

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You see that at? 
You see it in subtle ways. 

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You see that David here is very 
realistic about this whole 

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ordeal. 
He's not pretending here he's 

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he's not he's not playing these 
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dismissing the severity of it. 
No, he's very honest. 

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Look at verse 19. 
Then the king said to a tie that

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get tight. 
Why do you also go with us? 

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Go back and stay with the King 
for you are a foreigner and also

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in Exile from your home, what 
stands out to you from that 

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verse When he instructs it tie 
to head back. 

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The king. who is he referring to
not him Absalom, David calls 

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Absalom, the king David 
acknowledges that absalom's 

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conspiracy succeeded. 
And he was willing to humbly 

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receive how things were playing 
out. 

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And at this point, he was 
completely convinced that 

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Absalom gain the throne and 
gained the title and gain the 

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crown. 
He's not saying that 

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sarcastically. 
He's saying this with complete 

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honesty saying just go back to 
the King right now, I'm not the 

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king. 
I look at that and I think to 

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myself, this is a man who knew 
and trusted in the wisdom of 

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God, no matter what was taken 
from him, no matter where he was

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headed. 
He didn't try to console his 

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soul Again by playing pretend 
and imagining things not to be 

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what they are. 
He just received it and he 

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rehearsed he rehearsed, not what
he wanted, necessarily he 

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rehearsed that God was in 
complete control and it was 

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difficult. it was not easy for 
David to confess this the 

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description of him and his men 
as they walked away from their 

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homes, their family, the palace,
the temple was one of great 

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honesty as well, look here verse
30, second, Samuel, 15, 30, but 

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David went up the ascent of the 
Mount of Olives weeping as he 

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went weeping as he went Barefoot
and with his head covered and 

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all the people who are with Him,
cover their heads and they went 

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up weeping as they went Here's 
what you can take out. 

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As here's what I can take out of
this. 

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I can weep while I trust I can 
weep. 

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While I believe. 
I can be broken in my faith. 

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David's confidence in the 
sovereignty of God, not only 

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caused him to be unrealistic 
about the situation. 

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Also did not encourage him to 
deny how he really felt This is 

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painful. 
My son, the son, that I gave so 

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much Mercy to the Sun that I was
willing to return and to restore

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the Sun that I kissed. 
When he deserved an axe to the 

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neck that same son. 
Now has taken everything that 

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I've ever had everything that 
God has promised me and is now 

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even out to kill me to ensure 
that I would not get it back 

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again. 
He's a king. 

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And so he's weeping and what you
see with David's weeping is 

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this, that genuine faith in God 
does not require the 

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accompaniment of positive 
feelings to make it legitimate. 

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Okay, let me put it this way. 
The presence of Sorrow, the 

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presence of pain, the presence 
of a sense, Of grief. 

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Does not indicate the absence of
faith in God. 

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Remember that for yourself. 
You can't you can know truth. 

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You can say it, you can rehearse
it and you can memorize it. 

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You can you can share it with 
others. 

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And at the same time, when you 
lay your head, on your pillow 

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that night, feel the coldness, 
Of all that is happening around 

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you. 
Don't lie, remember that for 

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yourself. 
Please remember that. 

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When you counsel another 
believer, please remember that, 

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as you look at another believer 
who's come to you and is broken 

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about a situation And don't 
disqualify their faith. 

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Just because their voice is 
cracking and their eyes are 

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swelled up because they couldn't
sleep the night before. 

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You can weep while you trust you
can trust and still weep. 

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That's what's happening with 
this man. 

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And that's what's happening with
these Warriors who are with him,

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you know what I find? 
So encouraging about this. 

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Not only that, you're not 
supposed to misinterpret. 

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Someone's Brokenness as a lack 
of confidence of God. 

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No. 
Look at the amount of times, I 

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wish I could read the rest of 
this chapter, because you would 

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be overwhelmed by certain word. 
In this chapter, especially 

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Beyond verse 13. 
You would see a slight 

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exaggeration of an emphasis. 
And I can't read the rest of 

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these verses. 
So I'll read 23 verses and 

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you'll pick up on it. 
Look what the narrator does. 

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Look what the author does. 
By the guidance of the spirit in

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verse 15, the verse 17, just 
listen carefully. 

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And the King's servants said to 
the king behold, your servants 

455
00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:22,400
are ready to do whatever my 
Lord, the king, the sides. 

456
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,400
So the king went out and all his
household after him and the King

457
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,600
left Hancock device to keep the 
house, and the King went out and

458
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,900
all the people after him. 
And Halted at the last house. 

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00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:39,600
Do I have to tell you what? 
Word, The King, The King, The 

460
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,100
King, The King, The King, and 
his more, There is almost the 

461
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mention of the king in every 
verse The King, The King, The 

462
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,000
King, The King. 
David said, the king concerning 

463
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,700
Absalom. 
The Holy Spirit through the 

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00:28:51,700 --> 00:28:56,200
author is saying David. 
You're the true king, You're the

465
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,400
king. 
Why is this happening? 

466
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,300
So that the reader as they come 
to this moment where David 

467
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himself even perceives? 
That Absalom is now the king, 

468
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:10,600
you would realize here, that 
know, no one nor anything could 

469
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,700
change. 
What God had already decreed? 

470
00:29:13,900 --> 00:29:16,900
God, had determined David to be 
the king and no matter how 

471
00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:21,500
forceful, or aggressive, or 
devilish Absalom was to try to 

472
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:27,100
take that position from David, 
it's still belonged to David It 

473
00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:30,900
was still his because God said 
it was his and it would remain 

474
00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:35,400
with David if all held belched 
out, every demon possible, it 

475
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,000
would still not alter the 
reality that God had set for his

476
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,500
servant, The King, The King, The
King, The King servants, The 

477
00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:47,900
King, The King, The King to tell
you hey no matter what Absalom 

478
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is doing. 
David will go unscathed. 

479
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,700
And nothing will ultimately 
change in the end. 

480
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,300
David trusted in the sovereignty
of God. 

481
00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:06,700
Yeah, he had tear-stained 
cheeks, but his heart was 

482
00:30:06,700 --> 00:30:10,400
swollen with this trust in the 
sovereignty of God. 

483
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,700
How much the David trust in the 
sovereignty of God so much so 

484
00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:16,500
that he wrote a song In This 
Moment. 

485
00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:21,900
There is actually a psalm. 
You heard it in the beginning. 

486
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,300
This is why you have to show up 
early, you get extra bonus 

487
00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:27,600
scripture. 
But there's Grace, so you're 

488
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:32,100
going to hear it again, right? 
David wrote A Psalm. 

489
00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:36,400
Exactly when he was going 
through this period of Exile and

490
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,100
it's Psalm chapter 3 and I want 
you to see something in the 

491
00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:46,000
psalm that indicates the extent 
of this man's trust in God at 

492
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
this very moment. 
And Beyond this moment, beyond 

493
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:54,200
the day of his exit, this is how
he felt Okay, you're at Psalm 3.

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00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,100
Look at verse 5. 
Now, as I'm reading this Keep in

495
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mind, the background that this 
man is Barefoot ashes weeping. 

496
00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:08,300
Not knowing what tomorrow will 
bring living with the 

497
00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:12,300
realization that. 
At any time, Absalom can say the

498
00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:16,600
word and we will be surrounded 
and swallowed up by his army. 

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00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:25,800
look what he says, Psalm 3 verse
5 I laid down and slept I woke 

500
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:32,700
again for the Lord sustained me.
I will not be afraid of many 

501
00:31:32,700 --> 00:31:37,000
thousands of people. 
Who have set themselves against 

502
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,700
me all around. 
You know how much David trusted 

503
00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:47,900
God, he could sleep. 
He could sleep. 

504
00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:56,500
He could sleep knowing again 
that just a few miles away. 

505
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,100
Just like the Israelites at the 
Red Sea, they can turn around 

506
00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:03,300
and see the smoke of chariot 
wheels. 

507
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,200
As the enemy is headed towards 
them and numerically speaking 

508
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,600
humanly speaking, they would be 
done and here's what David 

509
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,700
saying as an exile, I could 
actually sleep. 

510
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,900
And I can wake up because the 
Lord is sustaining me and even 

511
00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:23,600
though thousands May surround 
me, I will not be afraid. 

512
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,900
That's how much he trusted the 
Lord. 

513
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:30,800
And so this man don't be fooled.
Don't be mistaken. 

514
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,700
Don't misinterpret this man's 
Brokenness here, down deep 

515
00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:37,600
inside, he was on shaken. 
I'm Shakin. 

516
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,600
He really believed that God was 
with him and for him. 

517
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,400
So trust in the sovereignty of 
God and trust this scene in 

518
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,100
faith like this but faith is not
passive. 

519
00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:56,200
It's active. 
Faith isn't just something 

520
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,300
that's there and oh, there it 
is. 

521
00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:00,300
It's I didn't realize I had this
in me. 

522
00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:03,100
Know, that's not the case. 
Faith is active. 

523
00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:06,200
You act on that Faith. 
You exercise that faith. 

524
00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:10,000
You move about with what, you 
know, to see that faith 

525
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,200
strengthened and flourishing in 
your life and then you reap the 

526
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,400
blessings of it, which brings me
to the third point. 

527
00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:18,800
So, the first point was in war, 
for, in betrayal, in the pain 

528
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,300
caused by another person, 
whatever the extent of that 

529
00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:24,700
betrayal is, whether it's an 
attack on your ministry, and 

530
00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:27,500
your church coming from within 
your church or somebody in your 

531
00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:31,100
family. 
That's just downright devilishly

532
00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:36,900
annoying. and harassing, 
whatever, the case may be, Avoid

533
00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:39,900
more Bloodshed know what your 
rights are, sure. 

534
00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:42,600
But know when to use it and know
when to surrender for the sake 

535
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,800
of a greater cause number two, 
trust trust trust in the 

536
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,500
sovereignty of God, especially 
when you realize I have to 

537
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:51,400
surrender this, right? 
Because I want to please my 

538
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,000
master but lastly you're not 
lastly, thirdly commit your 

539
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:01,400
cause to God commit it to God. 
Where do I see that will come 

540
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,000
here at verse 30? 
Verse 31. 

541
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:13,300
And it was told David. 
I Heathrow fell. 

542
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,600
Is among the conspirators with 
Absalom. 

543
00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:25,300
And David said, oh, Lord. 
Please turn the Council of a 

544
00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:32,500
heath, offal into foolishness. 
So, with all the devastation 

545
00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:35,199
that this man is already dealing
with, you have a messenger 

546
00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:38,600
running by and catches up to 
David David. 

547
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,800
There's an update on this whole 
thing, your good friend, your 

548
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,500
counselor, your advisor. 
He's so full. 

549
00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:47,800
He has now joined the cause of 
Absalom and he is, he is with 

550
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:54,100
him on the campaign to have you 
killed And this is what this man

551
00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:56,699
here is on top of all that he's 
already trying to manage in his 

552
00:34:56,699 --> 00:35:00,900
mind and what happens when this 
news comes to him. 

553
00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,100
What comes out of the man? 
A prayer. 

554
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,600
His immediate reflux with this 
news, is to turn toward heaven 

555
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:17,300
and to sigh a supplication. 
Very brief. 

556
00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:21,100
Very direct, very simple, very 
effective. 

557
00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:25,200
See when this man was squeezed, 
when he was pushed further into 

558
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,600
the corner of Despair and 
hopelessness, what really came 

559
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:34,300
out of him was just more trust 
in God, more trust in God, and 

560
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:36,300
he knew how to just throw it at 
the feet of the Lord. 

561
00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:39,200
And you have to understand that 
this is a very painful moment. 

562
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,700
You have your son, you have your
son who now betrays? 

563
00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:43,000
You? 
But now you have one of your 

564
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,800
best friends added to it. okay, 
one betrayal is enough you're 

565
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:54,000
telling me to on top of that, a 
bunch of Naive Israelites who 

566
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,600
love the looks of Absalom, and 
his charm that are swept up with

567
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,600
him, never mind them. 
The one that David said, I walk 

568
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,500
with you in the house of God and
took sweet counsel with you, 

569
00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:07,300
remember that? 
I believe David had a, he 

570
00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:11,900
fulfill and mind when he wrote 
Psalm 41 verse 9 and Psalm 41 

571
00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:16,300
verse 9, he spills his soul and 
he says the following, even my 

572
00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:20,700
close friend in whom, I trusted,
who ate my bread. 

573
00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:22,800
He came over for dinner. 
Many times. 

574
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,200
Who ate my bread, Has Lifted his
heel against me. 

575
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:29,900
More than just turned his back 
on me. 

576
00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:32,900
He lifted his heel against me to
strike me. 

577
00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:36,900
My close friend, not just a 
friend that just do employer, 

578
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:43,200
not just an employee, my close 
friend, And so some of us here, 

579
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,800
have have sipped from that 
bitter cup of betrayal. 

580
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:49,400
And if you haven't yet, don't be
surprised. 

581
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:54,200
If it comes your way and you 
have to sit from it without your

582
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,800
control, no matter how much you 
plead for peace and 

583
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,500
Reconciliation. 
There are some people who have 

584
00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:02,900
unfortunately ulterior motives 
and agendas and who like a he 

585
00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:05,500
fell for bitter and has to do 
something with you. 

586
00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:09,200
And so, they will come against 
you when the opportunity arises 

587
00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:16,800
When David's close friend turned
against him, what did David do? 

588
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,800
He turned to the friend of 
friends and he poured out his 

589
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,600
soul? 
I love that. 

590
00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:26,600
He turns to God. 
And he speaks to him. 

591
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:31,100
Yes, as Lord. 
But also someone who can who can

592
00:37:32,100 --> 00:37:36,100
promise more than just willing 
to hear you and even heal you in

593
00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:41,100
that place of discomfort. 
But David, David reaches out to 

594
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:44,500
God, knowing that he will can 
actually do something about it, 

595
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,600
that's how real God was to 
David. 

596
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,700
He didn't just, you know, Pastor
said that, Bible study, if you 

597
00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:54,800
if you're feeling overwhelmed 
because of somebody's 

598
00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:57,900
Foolishness and selfishness. 
Just pray. 

599
00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:00,500
Not he, that was like his 
reflex, it wasn't some 

600
00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:03,100
premeditated. 
Think he just cried out to God. 

601
00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:04,600
Lord, you got to do something 
here. 

602
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,200
You got to do something about. 
He fell for, you know, I he's 

603
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,200
hopeful, I know, I feel full and
it can get real ugly real fast. 

604
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,200
You see beyond the pain of 
personal history being violated,

605
00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:16,800
what he knew about. 
He felt was that he was a 

606
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,400
strategist. 
He was somebody that he received

607
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,200
counsel from concerning military
Affairs and Internal Affairs. 

608
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,500
And so this is dangerous. 
Is this is more than just you 

609
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:30,500
hurt my feelings. 
This is our future can be gone 

610
00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:35,500
if they listen to a heath offal.
So this is a scary moment. 

611
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,800
A man, with many resources, much
power. 

612
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,900
Much persuasion is now against 
them. 

613
00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:42,400
At one point, he was a partner 
with him and now he's his enemy.

614
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,400
So he turns to the Lord. 
And the Glorious thing about the

615
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,600
Friendship of God is that you 
can turn to him and he is 

616
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,900
trustworthy and reliable and he 
is accessible. 

617
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:56,500
He is accessible at all times. 
I realized. 

618
00:38:56,500 --> 00:39:00,200
In my past with all the shards 
of broken relationships, all 

619
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,500
they have really done is serve 
as a backdrop to portray the 

620
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:09,500
absolute Beauty, and Reliance 
and consistency of my Jesus. 

621
00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:18,000
All the Blackness of people 
failures and disappointments and

622
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:21,000
condemnation whatever. 
All of that just serves as a 

623
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,500
backdrop and it just makes Jesus
look more beautiful. 

624
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,500
He'll never fail you. 
If you walk with him 

625
00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:33,800
consistently you will know 
beyond just Savior and Creator 

626
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,100
and provide you will know him as
friend. 

627
00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:40,100
And you can find it in your 
heart because, you know, how it 

628
00:39:40,100 --> 00:39:42,600
what it's like to spend time 
with them and to love him and to

629
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,500
worship and privately that when 
these things come to you, you 

630
00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:48,900
can turn to him and actually 
believe he hears you, yes, he 

631
00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:52,000
can heal you sure but he can 
actually do something on your 

632
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,500
behalf. 
You touching the apple of God's 

633
00:39:56,500 --> 00:39:59,400
eye. 
When you touch a servant of God,

634
00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:03,200
Servants of God are not just 
pastors anybody here who loves 

635
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,900
God and wants to obey him and so
David turns to the Lord. 

636
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,800
And here's the thing, I want to 
ask you tonight. 

637
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,900
How do you think God would 
answer this prayer? 

638
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,000
Like I'm a, if you don't know 
the story, this will be, 

639
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,800
especially more engaging if you 
do. 

640
00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:22,900
Reserve your answer for now but 
I'm wondering here. 

641
00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:26,500
This is a prayer. 
In your mind, in your 

642
00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:28,700
understanding of how things can 
play out, understand the extent 

643
00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:32,600
of God's power and wisdom. 
How do you think God could? 

644
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,300
Let's put it that way? 
God could answer this prayer and

645
00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:38,200
thwarting, the Council of a 
thief offal. 

646
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,000
I have a couple of things that 
came to my mind. 

647
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:45,900
What's that masterfully. 
Sure. 

648
00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:47,700
But more specifically. 
What can God do? 

649
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:48,800
You know what? 
I think I could have done. 

650
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,300
He could have muted. 
I thoughtful you no longer able 

651
00:40:52,300 --> 00:40:55,400
to speak. 
When that be something I he felt

652
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,500
was there and they saw Council. 
Now I can't talk what's going on

653
00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:02,200
with this man. 
He could have paralyzed them. 

654
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,000
He could have blinded him. 
You could have just outright 

655
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,900
just killed them and got rid of 
him and that very moment, the 

656
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:09,800
moment, David uttered that 
prayer and he felt he could have

657
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:14,800
lost his life. 
Did God answer this prayer? 

658
00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:19,500
Did he okay for you who know 
that he answered this prayer? 

659
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:26,600
How did he do it? 
What's that? 

660
00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:31,500
You're right. 
He did bring in somebody else. 

661
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,700
Who did he bring in? 
Asshai. 

662
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,600
Oh, would you look at it with me
here in verse 32, while David 

663
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,700
was coming to the summit where 
God was worshiped, behold his 

664
00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:47,600
shy, The Arc, I came to meet him
with his coat torn and dirt on 

665
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,300
his head. 
Do you see the word behold 

666
00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:55,300
there? 
That is intended to highlight 

667
00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:58,300
the significance of who shies 
arrival. 

668
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,400
It's almost as though, as you're
reading especially verse 31, you

669
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,600
just learned that David uttered,
his prayer to God, that 

670
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,000
something would happen. 
And what the holy spirit is 

671
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,100
trying to do, is when you come 
to verse 32, hey, pay attention 

672
00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:13,100
to what's about to happen 
behold. 

673
00:42:13,100 --> 00:42:16,300
Look at this. 
See what is now entering into 

674
00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:21,400
the scene, who shy. 
This is important reader, 

675
00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:23,900
recognize the significance of 
this reader. 

676
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,000
This is not disconnected from 
the context reader. 

677
00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:29,600
This is a fact, very much 
associate with what you just 

678
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,000
learned in verse 31, the moment 
David prays this prayer, he 

679
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,400
walks towards the summit. 
And what you see here is that 

680
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:40,100
who shy enters the scene and the
writer is saying behold check 

681
00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:44,500
this out. 
And it's supposed to grab your 

682
00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:46,800
attention and make the 
connection with the previous 

683
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:52,800
thing that you just saw. 
His shy is the answer. 

684
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,100
That God provided for David's 
plea. 

685
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,800
The openness, the humility, the 
position, just all the 

686
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:07,900
providential pieces that fit 
hoosh I would serve a purpose 

687
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:12,800
connected to David's prayer. 
You get to see that in the next 

688
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,100
few chapters, and if you doubt 
that who shy is actually the 

689
00:43:16,100 --> 00:43:18,900
answer to David's prayer. 
This is the person that God 

690
00:43:18,900 --> 00:43:21,400
provided that would bring about 
Deliverance. 

691
00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:25,500
Go to chapter 17 and look at 
verse 14, and I want you to see 

692
00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:29,200
how God confirms that who shies.
In fact, his provision for 

693
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:36,500
David's prayer. 
Second, Samuel 17, verse 14 and 

694
00:43:36,500 --> 00:43:39,900
Absalom and all the men of 
Israel said, the Council of who 

695
00:43:39,900 --> 00:43:42,500
shy. 
The our kite is better than the 

696
00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:46,800
counsel of ahithophel. 
For the Lord, had ordained to 

697
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,900
defeat the Good Counsel of a he 
fell so that the Lord might 

698
00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:54,700
bring harm upon Absalom. 
Do you see it? 

699
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,100
Who shy is going to go back to 
the Palace? 

700
00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:00,900
Who shy is going to interact 
with the king who shine must 

701
00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:03,800
have had some kind of counseling
position even during David's 

702
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,700
Reign Absalom recognizes that. 
And then they receive a hateful 

703
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,800
instruction. 
His advice for this whole thing 

704
00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:13,800
and they turned to his shyah 
shyah says, you know what, I 

705
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,300
thought was usually good. 
But this time he missed the mark

706
00:44:16,300 --> 00:44:19,400
and he gives his advice and the 
advice would suspend and give 

707
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,400
the the men and David more time 
to escape and to establish 

708
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,500
themselves, and God allowed this
to happen. 

709
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,800
So that when they received They 
received who shies advice, it 

710
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,100
would be to their own detriment,
okay? 

711
00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:34,900
When I read this, I thought to 
myself, there's so much in this 

712
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,300
We don't have the time necessary
to unpack each of it in great 

713
00:44:38,300 --> 00:44:40,900
detail. 
So pay attention because we have

714
00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:44,100
incredible insight about prayer.
Your, we have incredible insight

715
00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:46,700
about what we can take for our 
own lives. 

716
00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:48,300
Here's the first thing you have 
to understand. 

717
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,600
When God answers our needs. 
If you're praying person, pay 

718
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,200
attention. 
When God answers your request, 

719
00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,800
it doesn't always come and 
predictable packages. 

720
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,600
Okay, sometimes when we pray, we
don't only pray. 

721
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,600
We imagine and fantasize how God
is going to answer that prayer. 

722
00:45:09,300 --> 00:45:10,500
This is how God's going to do 
it. 

723
00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:12,200
This is how it goes into it, 
right? 

724
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,300
And that's a dangerous thing to 
do. 

725
00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:16,700
Because as much as you need to 
be specific with your prayer, 

726
00:45:16,700 --> 00:45:18,700
you also need to be open with 
how God will answer. 

727
00:45:19,900 --> 00:45:23,100
Or else we can miss, how God 
provides you can fail to see how

728
00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:26,000
God brings about his 
faithfulness in your life. 

729
00:45:26,900 --> 00:45:29,700
And here's the thing, one of the
most overlooked ways in which 

730
00:45:29,700 --> 00:45:34,500
God provides for us. 
Is through friends. 

731
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,800
It's true, friends. 
Look at how David's friend here 

732
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:46,800
is described in verse 37 of 
chapter 15, second Samuel, 1537.

733
00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:54,500
So shy David's friend, David's 
friend. 

734
00:45:55,500 --> 00:45:58,500
Came into the city, just as 
Absalom was entering Jerusalem. 

735
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,500
I think one of the ways in which
you, and I overlooked God's 

736
00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:07,100
faithfulness as when we fail to 
see him working through 

737
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,600
friendships saying, brother, you
might be reading too much into 

738
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,400
this. 
No, I think it's a principle 

739
00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:16,900
that is that is valid what did 
Paul say about the comfort that 

740
00:46:16,900 --> 00:46:22,100
he received from God? 
At the coming of who Titus, it 

741
00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:24,700
was the coming of Titus that God
brought about Comfort to his 

742
00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:29,400
soul. 
The people in your life the very

743
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:33,200
people you're sitting with can 
be God's answer to many things 

744
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,000
in your life. 
And we can Overlook that. 

745
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,700
His answers are not always 
predictable his packages. 

746
00:46:41,700 --> 00:46:46,800
Very they're not always flashy, 
they're not always Supernatural.

747
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,600
Sometimes it's flesh and blood. 
And God just finds a person 

748
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,900
like, who shine was a loyalty 
and our openness in their heart.

749
00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:58,700
To bring about some kind of 
support and it's totally 

750
00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:02,200
directly from God and you just 
need the scriptural insight to 

751
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,300
see that. 
This is one way in which God 

752
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:07,700
extends his hand to you as much 
as through somebody else with 

753
00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:09,600
their personality and their 
history with you. 

754
00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:13,900
It's very much God who moves 
that heart to help yours. 

755
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,400
That's what we see. 
God's answers to our prayers are

756
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,700
not always predictable packages 
but secondly, we see that. 

757
00:47:21,700 --> 00:47:26,700
His grace is so wide. 
That he considers our prayers. 

758
00:47:26,700 --> 00:47:31,200
Even though the duration of that
supplication is no longer than a

759
00:47:31,207 --> 00:47:37,100
single breath. 
Put a put a clock, put a timer 

760
00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:39,500
to that prayer. 
That David prayed in verse 31, 

761
00:47:39,700 --> 00:47:41,400
what? 
Like, half a second, a second 

762
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,400
and still God heard it because 
God is not impressed by 

763
00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:54,800
drawn-out, elaborate painful 
cries. 

764
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,300
And intercessions it's not the 
length of prayer. 

765
00:47:58,300 --> 00:48:00,600
That moves the heart of God is 
the depth of that prayer. 

766
00:48:01,700 --> 00:48:05,200
And you can have a one-sentence 
prayer that is so genuine and 

767
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:09,400
sincere that will win God's 
favor over three hours of 

768
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,700
hypocritical Pharisee, local 
like praying. 

769
00:48:13,700 --> 00:48:15,200
This is the grace of God. 
It's so wide. 

770
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:20,100
David can just say this God I 
need you here and he'll provide 

771
00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:23,200
The provide, that's the grace of
God. 

772
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:28,300
That's how wide it is, that even
and how just our weakness and 

773
00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:31,500
how pathetic our prayers are and
all the intrusive thoughts that 

774
00:48:31,500 --> 00:48:34,900
come when God Zooms in even 
while you're trying to push 

775
00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:37,400
through the laundry idea and 
what you're going to make for 

776
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,000
dinner. 
But you know you need to pray 

777
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,900
and you know that God is the 
only one who can supply and you 

778
00:48:41,900 --> 00:48:44,500
have no other way out. 
God will say, I'll still give 

779
00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:48,500
you this grace. 
That's how wide is Grace's. 

780
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:53,000
But here's the third thing, I 
take out of this, God does more 

781
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,800
than we can ask. 
David's prayer was very simple, 

782
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,200
right? 
He just said please turn the 

783
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,900
Council of a he fulfill into 
foolishness. 

784
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:06,200
That's all he asked of God, very
simple, just confuse him, 

785
00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:09,300
confuse the hearers Lord. 
Whatever it is that you need to 

786
00:49:09,300 --> 00:49:14,300
do to ensure that there will be 
this this missing Mark here from

787
00:49:14,300 --> 00:49:16,300
a. 
He fulfills mind to the hearts 

788
00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:18,600
of these evil men. 
Just please do that. 

789
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,500
You know what God does? 
He goes beyond that? 

790
00:49:21,700 --> 00:49:22,500
You heard it. 
Right. 

791
00:49:22,500 --> 00:49:26,600
And second Samuel 17, 14, when 
we were told that they took the 

792
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,700
advice of who shy Can I remind 
you what else happened? 

793
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,500
It says to defeat the Good 
Counsel that he fell for but it 

794
00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:36,500
didn't end there. 
He goes on to say so that the 

795
00:49:36,500 --> 00:49:40,000
Lord might bring harm upon 
Absalom. 

796
00:49:41,500 --> 00:49:48,200
I'm not only going to make a, he
fulfills Council unconvincing, 

797
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,500
I'm gonna let who shies Council 
be convincing and be the very 

798
00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:56,600
death verdict of Absalom. 
I'm going to take care of 

799
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:00,100
Absalom once and for all. 
I'm not going to let absent 

800
00:50:00,100 --> 00:50:06,300
Advance one more Step, Beyond my
perfect will And so he does more

801
00:50:06,300 --> 00:50:08,800
than what you ask. 
Even if what you ask you think 

802
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,600
is sufficient God, says your 
faith. 

803
00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:15,000
I'm going to take it beyond what
you intended it for and I'm 

804
00:50:15,008 --> 00:50:17,300
going to give you more than you 
thought you needed. 

805
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,100
I'm going to deal with Absalom 
and my answer to your prayer is 

806
00:50:21,100 --> 00:50:23,600
going to be multi-purpose 
manifold. 

807
00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:28,000
Here's my favorite part. 
Here's my favorite part. 

808
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,700
Those are all great Parts, but 
here's my favorite part about 

809
00:50:30,700 --> 00:50:34,900
this lesson of David praying in 
this context, when you think 

810
00:50:34,900 --> 00:50:37,400
about David's prayer, he's 
praying about a specific, man. 

811
00:50:38,300 --> 00:50:41,400
He's praying about a man who had
a brilliant mind. 

812
00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:50,000
A frightening, Lee, sharp mind. 
A man who was praised. 

813
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:55,000
We're told later that the advice
of a he Fofo was like the very 

814
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:59,800
Council of God. 
Imagine knowing somebody that 

815
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:03,500
you can rely on their every word
that there is no doubt that when

816
00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:07,900
they tell you to do something, 
it's the absolute best outcome 

817
00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:09,700
that could come about in your 
predicament. 

818
00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:15,200
That's who I fell for was and 
what you see here is that when 

819
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:23,100
David prays It beats that. 
Prayer is more powerful of a 

820
00:51:23,100 --> 00:51:29,400
weapon than the most brilliant. 
Mind a person can have I love 

821
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:33,000
this point. 
This point excites me, David was

822
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:34,900
not as smart as I felt full. 
They vote. 

823
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,200
David was not as wise as a, he 
thoughtful Deva was not as 

824
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,000
successful and trying to find 
out a practical way to come 

825
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,200
about something. 
But David was a praying man, and

826
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,300
a praying man is more dangerous 
than a smart man. 

827
00:51:47,500 --> 00:51:49,500
Oh, you don't believe it, right?
Because we worship the brain. 

828
00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:51,600
These days, we worship the 
brain. 

829
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,100
So many can get up there and 
just wax eloquence, and have a 

830
00:51:54,100 --> 00:51:56,400
bunch of letters by their name. 
And we just listen to their 

831
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:57,700
every word, listen, up, to be 
honest. 

832
00:51:57,700 --> 00:52:00,800
Some people that people listen 
to their popular and they have 

833
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,500
millions of views, I don't get 
it, I don't get it. 

834
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,900
One not that you can't glean 
some things from the world, but 

835
00:52:08,900 --> 00:52:11,000
one they don't have Christ 
wisdom. 

836
00:52:11,500 --> 00:52:15,300
They don't have God's wisdom and
you have Christian people more 

837
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:20,300
excited about secular philosophy
and psychology than God's word. 

838
00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:25,600
Personally, not not not just 
because I want to defend God's 

839
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,500
word and I want to sound 
simplistic. 

840
00:52:29,300 --> 00:52:31,400
I just, I don't see it, I don't 
understand. 

841
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,200
And that's besides the point, I 
don't want to go down that 

842
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,500
rabbit hole. 
But here you have a man who 

843
00:52:36,500 --> 00:52:41,100
prays and this man who prays is 
that a greater Advantage than 

844
00:52:41,100 --> 00:52:43,900
the man who has a mind unlike 
any other. 

845
00:52:43,900 --> 00:52:48,400
But whose heart is far from God,
give me a man who has a limited 

846
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,400
mind but a heart filled with 
God, over a man who has a great 

847
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:55,900
mind but has no connection to 
the God that I love and serve. a

848
00:52:55,900 --> 00:53:02,300
praying man is more to be feared
is more guaranteed success and 

849
00:53:02,300 --> 00:53:08,100
peace and protection than a man 
who can configure and figure out

850
00:53:08,100 --> 00:53:11,800
all these things with his own 
human, wisdom and reliance 

851
00:53:14,700 --> 00:53:18,800
Believe that about prayer. 
Believe that God backs up a 

852
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,800
praying, man. 
Oh, this got against 

853
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:23,000
intelligence. 
Absolutely. 

854
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,100
Not as God against thinking. 
No is God. 

855
00:53:25,100 --> 00:53:27,700
God against knowledge and 
acquiring knowledge? 

856
00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:30,400
No, I'm sure you read. 
Proverbs and many other places 

857
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,800
to realize, that's not the case.
But God, opposes the man who 

858
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:39,100
relies on the strength of the 
Flesh and the arm of the flesh. 

859
00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:43,600
He backs up the man, they'll 
pathetic in his situation. 

860
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:51,400
But strong in prayer. 
Commit your cause to God. 

861
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,500
Bring that person to God as he 
got. 

862
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,000
I surrendered my right here. 
I'm not going to deal with this.

863
00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,800
You need to come in and deal 
with this. 

864
00:54:00,700 --> 00:54:02,800
You need to step in here. 
I'm not going to do it. 

865
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,300
Lord. 
And watch how God will come 

866
00:54:05,300 --> 00:54:08,000
through. 
Watch how God will defend you, 

867
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:13,400
watch how God will? 
In a scary way. 

868
00:54:14,900 --> 00:54:19,900
Set you up for a future. 
What do I do? 

869
00:54:19,900 --> 00:54:21,100
What do I do? 
What do I do? 

870
00:54:21,100 --> 00:54:24,100
What do I do? 
When something like this is 

871
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:28,400
beyond my control and it's very 
painful and my whole world is 

872
00:54:28,408 --> 00:54:31,800
being flipped upside down. 
Well, avoid avoid more bloodshed

873
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,000
Trust in God's sovereignty, 
commit your cause to God. 

874
00:54:37,300 --> 00:54:43,900
And lastly take the opportunity.
In that season to give special 

875
00:54:43,900 --> 00:54:48,600
worship to the Lord or do I see 
that look again at verse 32. 

876
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:55,900
While David was coming to the 
summit where God was worshiped, 

877
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,400
that's an interesting 
description of where he was 

878
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:03,100
headed, behold who shy The Arc. 
I came to meet him with his coat

879
00:55:03,100 --> 00:55:06,900
torn and dirt on his head who 
has a King James Version. 

880
00:55:08,500 --> 00:55:09,900
Who has a new King James 
Version. 

881
00:55:11,300 --> 00:55:13,400
Who has ESV and all the hands go
up, right? 

882
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:14,700
Okay. 
Yeah. 

883
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,700
If you have the new King James 
of the King James, it will say 

884
00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:21,400
in that part where it says, 
where, what God was worshiped, 

885
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,800
it will say in those versions 
where he worshipped God, right. 

886
00:55:25,900 --> 00:55:28,400
Where he worshipped, God, where 
he worshipped, God, the new King

887
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,700
James in the King James will say
that, I believe, whatever 

888
00:55:30,700 --> 00:55:35,100
transition you're holding. 
They're saying the same thing. 

889
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,100
There's the mention of David 
headed towards somewhere where 

890
00:55:39,100 --> 00:55:45,000
worship was, and I believe where
he went to worship David and his

891
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:51,000
mind in all of this chaos in all
of the development of all this 

892
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:52,800
thing. 
Right, that's happening in his 

893
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:56,100
life and all the fireworks and 
all the bombs that are just 

894
00:55:56,100 --> 00:55:59,000
around him, dropping around the 
Minefield, all these things? 

895
00:55:59,300 --> 00:56:03,600
David purposed in his heart. 
Hey I got to pause at some point

896
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:08,400
here, and give God worship. 
This is just astounding to me. 

897
00:56:09,300 --> 00:56:12,500
He comes to seek the Lord in a 
specific way and give him 

898
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,600
particular recognition. 
Here's the thing, you have to 

899
00:56:16,607 --> 00:56:19,800
understand. 
What does this kind of 

900
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,800
disciplined? 
Adoration to the Lord. 

901
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,100
What is that due to God's heart?
That was my question when I 

902
00:56:26,107 --> 00:56:29,800
looked at that. 
My question was not anything 

903
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,900
else other than Lord, what does 
that mean to you? 

904
00:56:35,300 --> 00:56:39,400
When a man like David at this 
point in his life is choosing to

905
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,700
stop before, moving on to give 
worship to God. 

906
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,700
And to seek God, at the prod, 
his heart to God. 

907
00:56:48,300 --> 00:56:51,400
And when I especially love about
his worship to the Lord, is this

908
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,700
look again at verse 31. 
It was told to David that he 

909
00:56:54,700 --> 00:56:57,600
thoughtful joined absolon, 
right? 

910
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:01,200
David and verse 31. 
He prays to God, he seeks God 

911
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:05,600
for this thing. 
And verse 32, we are told that 

912
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:10,100
he goes where God was worshiped 
or where he worshiped God and 

913
00:57:10,100 --> 00:57:15,400
then after that, we see the 
behold who's shy dark. 

914
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,900
I came to meet him. 
What do I mean by that? 

915
00:57:19,100 --> 00:57:23,100
What I see here is that David 
gave God worship or was headed 

916
00:57:23,100 --> 00:57:26,300
towards the place of worship 
before the answer to his prayer 

917
00:57:26,300 --> 00:57:31,400
came. 
So his worship to God was not 

918
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:35,300
dependent upon a solution that 
was provided him or some kind of

919
00:57:35,300 --> 00:57:38,900
answer, some kind of provision 
that God made his, he was 

920
00:57:38,900 --> 00:57:43,500
totally intended to give God 
glory and honor and praise even 

921
00:57:43,500 --> 00:57:47,600
before a sign of some kind of 
improvement was made known. 

922
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:54,400
That's worship. 
That I believe is the sacrifice 

923
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:58,200
of praise. 
I'm not going to wait to worship

924
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:02,300
God and give thanks to him once.
He answers that prayer, I will 

925
00:58:02,300 --> 00:58:04,900
when it does but I'm going to 
give it to me even before just 

926
00:58:04,900 --> 00:58:09,000
because God is God. 
It's because God is God and he's

927
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,900
worthy. 
And this is what he does. 

928
00:58:11,900 --> 00:58:15,200
Here it is, he not he worshipped
before, and his adoration was 

929
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:19,300
not dependent upon answers. 
His adoration was not dependent 

930
00:58:19,300 --> 00:58:22,500
upon answers, it was totally 
energized. 

931
00:58:24,100 --> 00:58:29,600
By his understanding of how much
God has adorned in his person 

932
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:34,100
with Holiness, and goodness and 
infinite Beauty and power and 

933
00:58:34,100 --> 00:58:36,300
love toward him. 
And even in this, you could say,

934
00:58:36,300 --> 00:58:40,900
I want to worship you. 
And I wonder if this is where 

935
00:58:40,900 --> 00:58:43,000
the beginnings of Psalm 3 were 
birth. 

936
00:58:44,500 --> 00:58:49,000
I wonder if the words of Psalm 3
began when David here says I'm 

937
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:54,000
going to worship God. 
And I wonder if that's not true,

938
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,600
that Psalm 3 was something that 
David. 

939
00:58:57,700 --> 00:59:01,300
David did during this whole 
Exile because he slept, and he 

940
00:59:01,300 --> 00:59:03,400
woke up. 
So there's, there's, there's 

941
00:59:03,500 --> 00:59:05,400
continuous worship through all 
of us. 

942
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:11,600
Not just a moment but continuous
worship. and so I think that 

943
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,900
it's worth ending, this Bible 
study I'm just reading all of 

944
00:59:15,900 --> 00:59:21,200
Psalm 3 again. 
You just got a little glimpse of

945
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:25,500
what David was enduring. 
And we started the service with 

946
00:59:25,500 --> 00:59:28,400
the reading of Psalm 3, now all 
that you've accumulated. 

947
00:59:30,500 --> 00:59:34,000
Maybe it'll bring a different 
light to Psalm 3 as you read it 

948
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:41,900
again. and when we come to it, 
I'm sure it will be a blessing 

949
00:59:41,900 --> 00:59:44,200
to you. 
Psalm 3? 

950
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:50,500
A Psalm of David when he fled 
from Absalom, his son. 

951
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,200
Tired, exhausted. 
Weary. 

952
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:02,800
Dirty. 
Oh, Lord. 

953
01:00:03,900 --> 01:00:08,100
How many are my foes? 
Many are rising against me? 

954
01:00:08,700 --> 01:00:12,500
Many are saying of my soul. 
There is no salvation for him in

955
01:00:12,500 --> 01:00:19,800
God C'est Le But You O Lord, are
a shield about me. 

956
01:00:20,300 --> 01:00:25,600
My glory and the lifter of my 
head, I crowd allowed to the 

957
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:27,800
Lord, and he answered me from 
his Holy Hill. 

958
01:00:28,300 --> 01:00:31,700
I laid down and slept. 
I woke again for the Lord 

959
01:00:31,700 --> 01:00:35,400
sustained me. 
I will not be afraid of many 

960
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:39,100
thousands of people who have set
themselves against me all around

961
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:40,200
arise. 
O. 

962
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:44,400
Lord, save me. 
Oh my God, for you strike all my

963
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:49,000
enemies on the cheek, you you 
break the teeth of the wicked 

964
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:53,500
salvation Belongs to the Lord, 
your blessing, beyond your 

965
01:00:53,500 --> 01:01:04,000
people, say, aloha, Listen, if 
praising God is for God. 

966
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:12,400
Then in those seasons. 
Where nothing is in your favor, 

967
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:16,100
do you understand what an 
opportunity is to give God 

968
01:01:16,100 --> 01:01:20,400
worship? 
Do you interpret that as an 

969
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,900
opportunity to give God worship?
When everything has literally 

970
01:01:24,900 --> 01:01:29,300
been stripped from you, if 
worship is really for God than 

971
01:01:29,300 --> 01:01:33,700
bless him. 
Bless him, even when you don't 

972
01:01:33,700 --> 01:01:36,000
feel like you're being blessed 
that's worship. 

973
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,500
My goal here is not to make you 
feel guilty. 

974
01:01:38,500 --> 01:01:42,900
My goal here is not to just 
break your arm and to convince 

975
01:01:42,900 --> 01:01:45,900
you of something. 
My goal here is to show you how 

976
01:01:45,900 --> 01:01:51,000
worthy God is for you to 
consider blessing him. 

977
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:58,900
When you're being blunted and 
when your soul is blistered, and

978
01:01:58,900 --> 01:02:02,700
when your eyes are blinded with 
tears to in that moment, 

979
01:02:02,700 --> 01:02:08,200
consider, oh God, this is an 
opportunity to worship you when 

980
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:13,600
it really counts, unfortunately,
you have people they disappear 

981
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,300
when they suffer. 
I'm not saying we don't, we 

982
01:02:16,300 --> 01:02:19,300
don't have compassion and 
patience and reach out to the 

983
01:02:19,308 --> 01:02:21,500
people. 
That's part of what the church 

984
01:02:21,500 --> 01:02:26,200
does. 
But what a blessing it is not to

985
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,100
anybody else know, it is a 
blessing to others. 

986
01:02:28,100 --> 01:02:30,700
What a blessing it is to the 
Lord your God. 

987
01:02:30,900 --> 01:02:36,300
I'm sure of it to be like David 
and to say I want to worship 

988
01:02:36,300 --> 01:02:39,800
Him. 
I need to make time in all of 

989
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:43,200
this, while I'm figuring out my 
life and I'm being sued and 

990
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:46,400
people are stealing from me and 
people are tarnishing my name 

991
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:49,500
left, right and center and my 
Ministry might fall apart. 

992
01:02:51,100 --> 01:02:54,900
My family is. 
Threatening me this way or that 

993
01:02:54,900 --> 01:02:56,800
way. 
There's there's a hit list and 

994
01:02:56,800 --> 01:03:00,400
my name is on it, whatever the 
case, maybe I need to find some 

995
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:02,900
time in this place to worship, 
God. 

996
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:09,100
Why brother? 
No other reason not to impress. 

997
01:03:09,100 --> 01:03:12,000
Anybody not for your pastors, 
say what a good Christian just 

998
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,200
to bless him just to bless the 
Lord. 

999
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,500
He's worthy. 
What do you do? 

1000
01:03:18,700 --> 01:03:21,500
Well, just avoid avoid 
bloodshed. 

1001
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,300
Trusting, God's sovereignty, 
commit, your cost to God and 

1002
01:03:26,300 --> 01:03:29,700
interpret this as an opportunity
in your little life. 

1003
01:03:30,900 --> 01:03:34,900
Where everything that you can 
suffer is considered light 

1004
01:03:34,900 --> 01:03:39,000
Affliction to say, I want to 
worship Him. 

1005
01:03:40,300 --> 01:03:44,000
But whatever strength and maybe 
your worship is acai, but it's 

1006
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:49,100
still worship and just bless God
and bless God, let's pray. 

1007
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:26,100
Lord. 
Like a woman from Ethiopia who 

1008
01:04:26,100 --> 01:04:28,200
is astounded by the wisdom of 
Solomon. 

1009
01:04:29,100 --> 01:04:31,900
We recognize the wisdom of the 
one greater than Solomon, and 

1010
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:37,600
there is no more breath in US. 
we have been confronted by the 

1011
01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:44,400
depths of your mind and we 
haven't even we haven't even 

1012
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:47,500
treaded beyond the shallow 
place. 

1013
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:51,100
Lord. 
We just thank you. 

1014
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:56,200
That how in a text like this. 
We can acquire significant. 

1015
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:04,100
Reliable resources. 
To know, great blessing, more 

1016
01:05:04,100 --> 01:05:07,300
importantly, more glory to you. 
And we do. 

1017
01:05:07,300 --> 01:05:12,100
Pray that in this house. 
Our hearts would have been 

1018
01:05:12,100 --> 01:05:15,600
changed in one way or another. 
Our hearts would have been 

1019
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:20,000
changed. 
And Lord, we do worship you 

1020
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,800
tonight. 
Regardless of where we're at, we

1021
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:24,800
want to take this opportunity to
give you glory. 

1022
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:30,100
Help us remember these things. 
In those tumultuous periods, 

1023
01:05:31,100 --> 01:05:34,400
where are our thoughts? 
And our energy are being pulled 

1024
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:36,700
in a thousand, different 
directions when we are being 

1025
01:05:36,700 --> 01:05:42,700
drained? 
By those who have no good in 

1026
01:05:42,700 --> 01:05:46,900
mind toward us, help us Lord to 
be like David. 

1027
01:05:47,100 --> 01:05:49,700
So, prepared through our 
meditation. 

1028
01:05:50,100 --> 01:05:54,600
So invested in you that when the
news comes, and when the updates

1029
01:05:54,600 --> 01:06:00,500
are worse and worse, what comes 
out of us is prayer, is Praise. 

1030
01:06:00,700 --> 01:06:04,100
Is Love is trust even through 
the tears. 

1031
01:06:04,300 --> 01:06:06,100
Even through the exhausted 
voice. 

1032
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:09,300
Even through the sleepless 
nights help us O, Lord, to be 

1033
01:06:09,300 --> 01:06:11,300
Sophie. 
Filled with you that when we are

1034
01:06:11,300 --> 01:06:15,200
crushed by conflict, what comes 
out is Christ. 

1035
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:18,600
That's our prayer. 
You only can make that happen. 

1036
01:06:20,100 --> 01:06:21,300
We want that. 
I want that. 

1037
01:06:21,300 --> 01:06:26,300
I want that more. 
And only, you can provide that 

1038
01:06:26,300 --> 01:06:30,200
reality. 
So tonight we praise you, we 

1039
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:32,300
praise you. 
Because your word is so alive 

1040
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:37,400
and it touches us And we want to
touch your heart by thanking you

1041
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:40,600
in song, in Jesus name. 
Amen. 

1042
01:06:41,300 --> 01:06:42,700
We just stand as we sing.