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We're doing something a little 
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I hope you're okay with it. 
We did this in the past where I 

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was in so elevated and we'll see
how this goes. 

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If it's more distracting that 
I'm going to go back up there if

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it's more engaging than I'm 
going to stay right here. 

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Okay. 
Meet me in the book of second. 

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Samuel chapter five in your 
Bibles. 

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Second, Samuel chapter five. 
I hope me coming down here. 

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Doesn't mean more people going 
to move back. 

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Because we already have that 
issue. 

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So if you want to come forward, 
I won't bite. 

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I might yell but I won't buy. 
There you go. 

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Thank you one person did it 
actually. 

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There you go. 
If you want that close I mean 

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that's that's those are that's 
really close okay. 

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Great second, Samuel chapter 
five, are you there? 

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Let's pray one more time. 
My brother pray but I think it's

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worth praying one more time as 
we come to the text. 

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Lord indeed, we thank you that 
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together in your house on a 
Friday night. 

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We don't take it for granted. 
Hello, we know that when we come

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in the name of Jesus Christ, you
were in the midst, you the Risen

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Christ are here with us and 
Lord, more than that, you are in

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us and we pray that you would 
illuminate these words and where

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that we would sense your voice. 
We would realize your 

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fellowship, Your Love toward us 
in providing this portion of 

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sacred scripture, but we ask for
your anointing in the delivery 

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of this word. 
We pray for your anointing as 

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first John 2 and understanding 
this word. 

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So that we can be centered in 
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elevated in our worship and our 
glorifying of you. 

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We ask these things in the 
precious name of Jesus, who 

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purchased who purchased our 
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We pray. 
Amen. 

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This is different and I'm going 
to do something else. 

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Different, here's what's going 
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I'm going to read this tax, the 
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going to ask you. 
I'm gonna ask everyone here to 

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participate in, including your 
observations of this text. 

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There's going to be a lot more 
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And so, pay attention as I read,
follow along in your Bibles, we 

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are here in verse 17. 
This is our third installment in

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this chapter, And I'm just going
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And then I'm going to ask what 
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of this text first 17, when the 
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been anointed king over Israel, 
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search for David but David heard
of it and went down to the 

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stronghold. 
Now, the Philistines had come 

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and spread out in the valley of 
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And David inquired of the Lord. 
Shall I go up against the 

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Philistines? 
Will you give them into my hand?

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And the Lord said to David go up
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Philistines it into your hand 
and David came to Baal perazim 

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and David defeated them there. 
And he said, the Lord has broken

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through my enemies before me 
like a breaking flood. 

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Therefore, the name of that 
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And the Philistines left their 
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men carried them away and the 
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and spread out in the valley of 
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the Lord, he said You shall not 
go up go around to their rear 

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and come against them opposite, 
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And when you hear the sound of 
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balsam trees, then Rouse 
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The Lord has gone out before you
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Philistines, and David did As 
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struck down the Philistines from
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Initial observations. 
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Yes, he inquired of the Lord of 
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Good. 
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The confirmation that this will.
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Yes, John. 
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this is this is an important 
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This is serious to the 
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Yes, very good. 
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inquired of the Lord and Barrett
observed. 

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I'm sure you did as well that he
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matter that was so similar to 
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Interesting. 
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Yes, he followed, he obeyed. 
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David did. 
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The Lord commanded him? 
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Amen. 
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And the Lord has broken through 
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Absolutely Laurie. 
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So he goes directly to the Lord.
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priest was there, but we're not 
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So we just gonna have to go with
what we see hear and say from an

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initial observation, he's going 
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Very good David and his men 
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significant will get to that. 
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about David obviously so they 
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very, very good. 
What prompted the Philistines to

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come up against David when they 
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So the timing of the attack is 
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Very good, this is great. 
Any other observations Pastor 

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Brown. 
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So David went down to the 
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That's an interesting 
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Where do we go? 
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overwhelmed, David Goes Down, 
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The Philistines were Relentless.
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a crushing defeat, the first 
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attack its audacious. 
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So in the, in the new King 
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King James, it reads, that that 
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Breaking of water, like a flood 
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That's a great detail. 
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So, the second time, the victory
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extends. 
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more than what happened 
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Awesome, wonderful observations,
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Yes. 
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Once you hear the rustling of 
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that's the signal for you to go 
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Very significant of course 
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Marching. 
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Well, it's an invisible Army. 
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Any other observations, 
wonderful? 

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The reason why I'm doing this 
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time, maybe we'll do it every 
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I don't know, but the reason why
I'm doing this is because I want

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us to be able to practice the 
tools that we should be 

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implementing when we seek to 
excavate from God's word, right?

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And those tools are simply 
reflective questions that we 

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should be engaging with the 
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And so I want to offer you 
questions that I have whenever I

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read any portion of scripture, 
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matter what text I come to 
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It doesn't matter. 
I'm always asking this, what is 

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this teach me about? 
God, what is this? 

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Say about God, his nature, his 
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Secondly, what does this tell 
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And teach me about, man about me
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Christ, man. 
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walking in Disobedience. 
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What does it teach me? 
What is this text teach me about

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about that? 
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then you can get their sub 
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What does this teach me about 
worship? 

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What is this? 
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with the world. 
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level, what is this? 
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relationship with God. 
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what do I know from the 
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That will help me understand the
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So I'm always looking just prior
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reading. 
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before this. 
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well, the wider context. 
So the book now, what is it? 

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What's the themes of the book, 
your house, the flow of thought?

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How is this happening? 
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connected bring about? 
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Revelation, then I'm going 
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I'm saying, okay, I'm looking at
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And the way I visualize reading 
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It's as though you're digging 
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So you read again, and then you 
read again and it seems like 

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you're just getting any. 
You find one nugget here and you

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could keep digging, you find 
another Jewel here. 

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That's how you should look at 
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So then after that, I'll ask 
something along and it's not 

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even in this particular order, 
but I'll ask, do I see any 

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repetitions? 
Do I see any emphasis in this 

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text? 
Do I see any names? 

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Or places. 
That might help me understand a 

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deeper meaning, like we read 
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pair azim rephaim, what are 
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And when you go, when you go the
extra mile, it's always worth it

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because you will indeed find 
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Pursuit. 
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read and say, what new 
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I always do this and you're the 
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consistently and carefully. 
Apply the Old Testament is, if, 

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you know, the new, which I don't
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But the way I go about engaging 
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testament principles or truths? 
Do I see Illustrated, especially

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in the narratives of the old? 
So, I look, we look David 

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inquired of the Lord. 
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prayer. 
Do I see anything in the New 

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Testament that I can see being 
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the story, very simple tools. 
But if you, if you just, if you 

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go beyond just, oh, I read my 
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Okay, I paid my dues. 
That's where you're going to get

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Revelation. 
That's where your Bible. 

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The Bible gets exciting, and 
when you come to a new text or a

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new book, whenever I come to a 
new book, like what, I just 

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finished acts, right? 
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I'm coming in to First 
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because I've lost count, how 
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But as I come to First 
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mind at all, what am I going to 
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Now, what am I going to see this
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Because, you know, over the 
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here's the thing with the word 
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endless so you keep digging it. 
Does you don't like Kink and you

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don't come to a place where the,
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I think I figured it out. 
It's endless and so have that 

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Faith as you approach the word 
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So here we are in second, Samuel
chapter 5, and what's happening 

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here in the context is David as 
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Israel. 
And we know here that a familiar

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foe to the Israelites have now 
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And now their attention is up. 
There are learn about what's 

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happening in this shift, in 
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And so they are ready now to 
attack, and David here is not 

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unfamiliar with the Philistines,
his own personal history, he's 

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dealt with them before, he's 
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He has ransacked and he's 
defeated them more than that. 

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Remember when David was back 
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A little bit over a year, he was
with who these guys. 

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And so I'm sure David was a 
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He gathered Intel and he 
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he probably heard conversations 
and so he was even more equipped

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at this point and understanding 
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But what's interesting here is 
that David and choirs of the 

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Lord and he does it again and 
with his General, contextual 

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frame of I now we're going to 
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is. 
That the Holy Spirit has 

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prepared the meeting details in 
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I'm telling you I was on verse 
14. 

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So long, I was scared we were 
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for. 
So I had to force myself a 

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little bit, not that I want to, 
but in order to cover the 

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context, look at verse 17, when 
the Philistines heard that David

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had been anointed king over 
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up to search for David, okay, 
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timing of the attack personally 
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lessons out of you. 
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When the Philistines came, what 
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of the Philistines that you can 
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lives? 
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progression in the will of God 
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a graduation in godliness that 
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his troops. 
He would gather his schemes and 

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he will launch them towards you 
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He's very aware and he is 
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alert and he preemptively seeks 
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whether it's individually, or 
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We become discouraged for no 
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will be prepared in those 
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times where you put your mind to
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on putting your hand to the plow
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habit, or a conviction know that
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to put it to a stop as early as 
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have so many people who don't 
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back into where they started 
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something for God in God's name,
the enemy is not just going to 

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sit back and that includes so 
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2, I just want to read the 
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He says in verse 18 because we 
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the desire. 
We we wanted to come to you. 

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I Paul again and again but Satan
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and Satan is putting one 
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next. 
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hates you coming here with the 
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Sunday morning. 
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You got to be kidding me and 
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because there's a special Grace,
a special protection from Satan 

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himself. 
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There's a special protection 
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That's why excommunication is 
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As what being given over to who 
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special that this the enemy 
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how I'm going to put up a fight.
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something for the little one and
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centered and to go out and 
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The enemy will show up, the 
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it as early as possible. 
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most in my personal life, pre 
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people decide to get baptized. 
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that they're going to make that 
Monumental step and actually get

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in the water die to self. 
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As a symbol. 
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the Lord, Jesus Christ and that 
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It never fails. 
It never fails to see spiritual 

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warfare, come like a flood and 
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where it's so common. 
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they're serious about getting 
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I say to them is, hey, watch the
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It's coming your way and the 
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And warfare, blows up at home, 
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minds. 
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night before. 
True Born Again. 

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Spirit-filled people call me 
brother. 

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I can't do this. 
There's no way. 

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I don't know why. 
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I don't know, I just, I can't 
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happens all the time, because 
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in obedience and it does not 
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anything else from the the 
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I was kind of like to mention 
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David and the Philistines 
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Russia, okay. 
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the Ukraine now and the Ukraine 
people Taking all the weaponry 

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and the reclaiming, the land 
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It's almost like what he is. 
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So I see what you're saying and 
I think I want to do something 

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else with this text. 
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principle. 
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interpretation of it, but look 
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though this is the devil, you 
know, it's revealing his tactics

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towards the children of God. 
There's something here about a 

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strategy that we should apply as
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Warfare on our end. 
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It's our Warfare concerning sin,
So the same way that Satan came 

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as early as possible to put a 
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God's Will, and God's purpose 
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You and I should look at sin as 
a threat as early as possible 

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and do everything that we can to
extinguish its influence in our 

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lives, okay? 
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because many strongholds that 
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today, could have been dealt 
with much earlier when they were

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just but seed All right, so much
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have in their lives today is 
because they refuse to see the 

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Hazardous danger of sin when it 
was just a thought pattern. when

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when they saw their emotions 
begin to Cloud their judgment 

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and they began to be reactionary
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flesh towards things towards 
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they failed to realize that 
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actions, And so in the same way,
the Philistines came to David 

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Wright when he was anointed 
right when when he was beginning

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to gain strength you and I 
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approach and attitude when we 
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Not just not just in full force,
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in its embryo state. 
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this. 
Now right here right now let's 

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this become something that will 
be overwhelming. 

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It's like extinguishing a spark,
you don't wait for the bushel to

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burn up. 
You don't wait for a tree to 

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combust in Flames it requires 
much more energy and much more 

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counseling and much more 
conversation if you had just 

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dealt with it. 
When it was there in the 

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beginning, things could change. 
And here's the thing, if you and

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I want Avoid dealing with sin 
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Then you and I by the wisdom of 
God in the pursuit of true 

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Holiness deal with sin and its 
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its destructive deal with it, 
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And so, where do I get that idea
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Well, James tells us, James 
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developing its strength in our 
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If you don't know the passages 
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chapter 1, we read in verse 14, 
but each person is tempted, when

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he is Lord and enticed by what 
his own desire eyes are looking 

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up. 
So I'm assuming is behind me 

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yes. 
By his own desire. 

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Then desire when it has 
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and sin when it is fully grown, 
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the thing that I want to say 
that if you and I just deal with

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sin while it's a desire, We 
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come. 
And and what I want to help you 

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see, is that unchecked desires 
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Untold devastation. 
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James is telling us you don't 
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conceive. 
You don't have to wait till 

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Decay comes in when it is just a
desire, then you can go to war 

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with it. 
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say. 
Just give me one moment. 

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Just here's what I want to say. 
When you look at something like 

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this, go to God with your 
imaginations, when you see them 

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going in the wrong direction, 
don't wait till they manifest 

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into Deeds. 
The moment you begin to see it 

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become a pattern and an Unholy 
highlight reel. 

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Do something about it then don't
wait for that. 

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Friction to turn it to faction 
when you know that there's 

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something off with a brother or 
sister and you don't understand 

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what it is. 
Communicate early on, don't wait

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until divisions happen deal with
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As early as you can. 
Bring that brother. 

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Bring your wife. 
Bring your husband. 

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Bring your children. 
Bring your parents before you 

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and communicate. 
If you think about it, even in 

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different ways ways that you 
don't even perhaps perceive when

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your heart begins to feel the 
chill. 

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Of worldliness cooling off your 
Zeal for God don't wait until 

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it's completely crystallized. 
Go to God right away. 

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Say Lord, this frost on my 
heart. 

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I can't be like I don't want to 
stay like I see where this is 

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going. 
Would you do something with my 

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heart now? 
Would you rekindle a fire and me

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now? 
And so if there's anything to 

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learn from the enemy, if there's
anything to relate to our own 

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lives is go at it as soon as you
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Don't wait till it matures. 
Don't wait till takes root. 

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Squeeze the life out of it while
it's still a seed. 

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I want to give you a third one. 
So there's two right there. 

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There's a third one. 
When the Philistines in verse 

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17, heard that David had been 
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And here's the thing, what 
happened to Israel when David 

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was anointed king? 
Very good. 

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Unity prior to this, you had 
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you had the kingdom of ishka 
Chef the son of Saul. 

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And there was division for how 
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During those seven years, there 
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the Philistines. 
Not one. 

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We don't see the Philistines 
Gathering their troops in their 

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armies. 
To come against David why 

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they're fighting themselves. 
There's internal strife right 

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there. 
Let them just go out as long as 

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possible of anything. 
What was happening for seven 

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years? 
Were serving the purposes of the

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enemy? 
What a horrific illustration? 

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For what happens when Believers 
turn on one another. 

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If you need any motivation, if 
you have any sense of the fear 

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of God in you, if you if it 
shouldn't be the greatest moment

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as you. 
But if you need any motivation 

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realize that in those moments, 
when you fail to forgive, when 

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you fail to reconcile, when you 
fail to communicate, if somebody

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is offended, you, if you're 
offended, somebody else the way 

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Jesus that you are an ally in 
the eyes of Satan, And I'll lie,

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they're just killing themselves,
they're biting each other, we 

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don't deal with them. 
And we'll go on to the next 

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church that has a little bit 
more wisdom in the things of 

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God. 
So imagine that the Philistines 

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did not interfere, but the 
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and all the tribes are now 
unified. 

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This is trouble, this is now 
there's something serious here 

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and so the Philistines now come 
against David, they seek to do 

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something. 
Before becomes too strong for 

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them to even handle how much 
more for the Church of Jesus 

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Christ. 
Unity is such a like it's such a

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it's again it's in the 
christianese language, but we 

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don't understand how important 
Unity is one. 

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Many people do understand what 
true Unity is. 

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So the unify just because people
use the name Jesus, they have a 

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cross in front of their 
building. 

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That's dangerous. 
We don't unify with those who 

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have false Doctrine. 
Do they claim a Christ? 

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That's not right Unity. 
But true. 

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Unity among Believers is 
absolutely. 

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If you just look at the Bible 
and study Unity New Testament, 

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presents to us, how Unity is 
absolutely foundational to 

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effective gospel. 
Witness It is. 

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What did Jesus say in John 17:21
that they may be what one just 

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00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:54,000
as you father and I are in me 
and I in you rather that they 

455
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,800
also may be in us so that the 
world may believe that you have 

456
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,100
sent me. 
Let me let me just repeat this 

457
00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:01,400
one more time, pay attention. 
I'm going to ask you a question 

458
00:26:01,900 --> 00:26:07,200
that they may all be one just as
you father are in me and I in 

459
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,900
you that they also may be in us 
so that the world may believe 

460
00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:15,300
that you have sent Meet John 
17:21. 

461
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,000
Here's my question. 
What is the relationship between

462
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,200
unity in the church and the 
world? 

463
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:27,300
Realizing Jesus was sent by the 
father and to the world we had 

464
00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:30,200
asked questions, what's the 
relationship there? 

465
00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:35,100
Because according to the prayer 
Jesus, in this text, there is an

466
00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:39,300
effective witness, a gospel 
witness to a watching, 

467
00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:44,000
cold-hearted divisive 
unforgiving world that when they

468
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:49,200
behold how Believers treat one 
another, it will actually direct

469
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,700
them to the gospel. 
Any ideas? 

470
00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:00,300
It's not very complicated. 
Yes, corgis Okay. 

471
00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:01,800
Amen. 
You need apart from Christ is 

472
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,300
impossible. 
Some people unify for evil 

473
00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:09,700
things. 
And a lot of those times they 

474
00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:14,700
eat each other eventually. 
They devour one another but true

475
00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:18,400
Unity of course is not possible 
apart from Christ but what else 

476
00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:24,000
how it is. 
Believers becoming one lead 

477
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,400
people to the conclusion. 
Jesus was sent by the father. 

478
00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:41,000
He must have been sent by the 
father The tangible evidence of 

479
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:47,300
Christ's redeeming power, which 
also includes the indwelling. 

480
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,300
Holy Spirit. 
Is that you and I from different

481
00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:54,400
tribes, different tongues, 
different, cultures different 

482
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,600
backgrounds, different sin. 
Histories can actually come 

483
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,300
Together live together. 
Get along. 

484
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,800
And such a way that a watching 
world would say how is it that 

485
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,300
you have Chinese and you have 
Arabs and Assyrians and you have

486
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,500
you have Romanians and you have 
African-Americans and you have 

487
00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:19,500
Mexicans all coming together. 
How is it that you have 85 year 

488
00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:23,200
olds and 15 year olds, 20 year 
olds and six-year-old all coming

489
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,800
together, consistently loving 
each other, embracing one, 

490
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,100
another serving one, another 
upholding one. 

491
00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:31,800
Another, what's the secret? 
And then they would realize 

492
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:37,100
That's the power of the Gospel. 
That's the power of the Gospel. 

493
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,200
So we're saying, let's be 
missional, okay? 

494
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,000
You want to be missional, 
forgive You want to be 

495
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,400
missional, listen to Jesus when 
he says, if a brother offends, 

496
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,900
you deal with it. 
And Paul gets very, very 

497
00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:53,000
specific with these instructions
and Paul understood the prayer 

498
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,900
of Jesus when he spoke to the 
Corinthian Church because news 

499
00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,400
comes to Paul, that one 
Corinthian is taking another to 

500
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,400
court. 
They're actually going before 

501
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,400
unbelievers and suing one. 
Another. 

502
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,200
And I love what Paul says 
because I Revisited today, 

503
00:29:07,300 --> 00:29:09,800
listen to what he says just hear
the language and First 

504
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:15,000
Corinthians 6 verse 6, but 
brother goes to law against 

505
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,900
brother. 
And that before unbelievers, 

506
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,900
then he goes on to say in verse 
7 to have lawsuits at all with 

507
00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:25,500
one. 
Another is already a defeat for 

508
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:26,500
you. 
I love Paul. 

509
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,500
It was the fact that you're even
the suggestion that you're going

510
00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:31,800
to take your brother to court, 
you already lost. 

511
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,700
Like you already lost your 
testimony is gone. 

512
00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:38,000
Look what he says, why not 
rather suffer wrong? 

513
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:46,100
Why not rather be defrauded? 
Here's what he's saying, so a 

514
00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:47,700
Believer wants to take you to 
court. 

515
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,000
Why not? 
For the sake of your testimony? 

516
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,800
Just give the guy what he wants,
if he wants to be in the flesh, 

517
00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:58,000
give him what he wants. 
Why don't you suffer Rock for 

518
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,300
what sake, for the sake of the 
testimony of Christ? 

519
00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:03,800
For the sake of the Gospel. 
See you want to be a serious 

520
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,600
Christian, huh? 
This is what it means to die to 

521
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,700
self because everything in you 
would say you want to take me to

522
00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:08,900
court. 
I'll hire a better lawyer. 

523
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,000
You want to do this? 
Let's fight. 

524
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,500
You want to go for it. 
Let's go for it. 

525
00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:17,000
Paul saying, why don't you just 
lose just loose? 

526
00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:19,100
Why? 
Because you're going to 

527
00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:22,400
ultimately lose if you go before
the world and show, what Jesus 

528
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,600
said that he would want from us,
there's something greater here 

529
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,100
than your house, your car, more 
money, your business 

530
00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:31,800
flourishing, there's something 
more and here's the I read this 

531
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,400
in a came to this conclusion, 
that people who continually 

532
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,300
strive, who can't forgive, who 
don't want to have conversation 

533
00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:42,800
to, don't want to seek 
reconciliation, those people do 

534
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,400
not care about the lost. 
Have you ever thought of it like

535
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,300
that? 
We always think that they're 

536
00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:50,500
just in the flesh that they're 
selfish, that they're proud. 

537
00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:51,200
No. 
No. 

538
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,700
According to what Paul is 
saying, here, they don't 

539
00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:57,700
actually care about winning 
those who are perishing Because 

540
00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:01,300
what Paul is using here, as a 
motivation to bring matters to 

541
00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:05,000
an end to settle things. 
Is, there is a world that is 

542
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,800
perishing and desperately needs 
to see the power of the Gospel 

543
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,600
at work. 
So, for Christ's name, and for 

544
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,100
his message, sake, would you not
die? 

545
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,300
And people who can't people, who
remain in the flesh, in terms of

546
00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:22,300
relationship, with other people,
those people don't have a sense 

547
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,100
of the Gospel. 
That's what I take out of it. 

548
00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:29,300
Any of us claim to be serious 
about winning people to Christ, 

549
00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:33,000
then you and I will be serious 
about dealing with our offenses.

550
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:40,000
And seeking to put things in 
total Clarity and even willing 

551
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,200
to do what Paul says I'm willing
to actually suffer wrong. 

552
00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:48,000
So people always criticize, the 
gospel is not the solution to 

553
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,600
everything. 
Well, read the New Testament. 

554
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,600
The gospel is the motivation for
a lot of things. 

555
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,500
Even in your marriage, what does
Paul uses a motivation? 

556
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,800
The gospel go to court. 
What's the motivation? 

557
00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:05,100
The gospel witness, the message 
of Christianity, our faith. 

558
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000
And so the deeper understanding 
that you have a gospel, the 

559
00:32:08,008 --> 00:32:11,200
moral impact your practical 
day-to-day life. 

560
00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:16,300
And so, if you see anybody 
acting out and one specific way 

561
00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:18,100
or another, you can know one 
thing. 

562
00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:21,000
The fundamental issue there is 
that there is not understanding 

563
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,300
of the depth of the love of 
Jesus Christ and the witness 

564
00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:26,100
that we should have out in the 
world. 

565
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,200
So notice once Unity came. 
Then the Philistines came, 

566
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,200
we're, I don't know how we're 
going to finish this tonight. 

567
00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:34,200
We're still half of verse 17 
can. 

568
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,900
Now, let's come down to verse 
18. 

569
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,700
Now, the Philistines had come 
and spread out in the valley of 

570
00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:43,200
rephaim and David inquired. 
Of the Lord. 

571
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,500
Shall I go up against the 
Philistines? 

572
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,600
Will you give them into my hand?
And the Lord said to David go up

573
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,000
for I will certainly give the 
Philistines into your hand. 

574
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,600
Here's what makes us so special 
and so exciting. 

575
00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:02,200
David wasn't an expert at War 
David understood how to war 

576
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:07,200
against the Philistines. 
Especially, and for many, when 

577
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,800
it comes to prayer, it's usually
engage with when they enter into

578
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,200
the unknown. 
Or when they feel like there is 

579
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,500
no other option, there's no 
other Solutions. 

580
00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:17,900
And so might as well just pray 
because we're desperate and 

581
00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:19,900
there's there seems to be 
nothing that I can do or anybody

582
00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:22,300
else they can do for me. 
But here's the thing, true 

583
00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:26,800
prayer, as David demonstrates. 
Is that even though you think, 

584
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,800
you know what to do, even though
you may have strategy, you may 

585
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,800
have gifting, you may have 
knowledge. 

586
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,900
You still want to invite God's 
intervention into the matter. 

587
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,300
That's true. 
That's like true prayer. 

588
00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:40,800
People say if you pray your 
humble. 

589
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:42,400
Yeah. 
But if you really want to pray, 

590
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,200
you pray like this man who in 
essence is confessing Lord. 

591
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,000
This may seem right. 
I may seem to know what to do, 

592
00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:50,800
but you see what? 
I don't see. 

593
00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:54,700
You know what, I don't know. 
You understand what? 

594
00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:58,400
I Can't comprehend and totality.
And so I'm asking you Lord that 

595
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,700
you would bring about the best 
possible outcome and that you 

596
00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:05,200
would protect me from the worst 
because I live for your name, I 

597
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,700
represent your name and I want 
to glorify you in all that I do 

598
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,600
I want all that you can offer in
this. 

599
00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:13,400
I'm not going to presume. 
I'm not going to assume. 

600
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,300
Yes, I have a history defeating 
these people. 

601
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,100
Yes, I am Fearless. 
Yes I'm educated. 

602
00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:22,500
But Lord, I come before you and 
I say, would you would you Would

603
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:26,800
you be with me in this? 
That's true prayer and the 

604
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,100
principle behind David's prayer 
here. 

605
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,300
Although we may not receive 
verbal step-by-step instruction 

606
00:34:32,300 --> 00:34:35,500
like he gets, we get to 
experience what he experienced 

607
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:38,300
and what he experienced was, 
ultimately confidence, he was 

608
00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:41,000
looking for answers. 
Yes, but the core of it, he was 

609
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,199
looking for courage to get 
confirmation from God and he 

610
00:34:44,207 --> 00:34:47,400
received that courage. 
And here's the thing, you and I 

611
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,300
whenever we pray, we can expect 
the same thing. 

612
00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:53,100
That's your inheritance in mind 
because here's the thing, 

613
00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:57,400
whenever you bring Matter before
God, there is absolutely no 

614
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,800
reason to fear the outcome, no 
matter what it is. 

615
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,100
Because you've done your part 
and you brought it before the 

616
00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:05,100
Lord. 
And so the outcome is favorable 

617
00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:08,100
in the moment or not. 
You can rest assured. 

618
00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:13,200
I've done my part, I've brought 
it before the Lord and God 

619
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,200
understands that I want his will
so God will honor that. 

620
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,500
So you may not get an audible 
voice. 

621
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:23,100
That will tell you, go here go 
there. 

622
00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:26,800
But the scriptures are 
absolutely filled with promises 

623
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,800
about what you get when you do 
one simple thing. 

624
00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:32,600
Dang, can I read you one 
promise? 

625
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,000
Psalm 91, precious song verse 
15. 

626
00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:40,900
I want you to notice, if you 
want to turn that you can about 

627
00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:46,600
all the, I Wills that God 
declares as a result of one 

628
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,900
decision that you. 
And I make one simple posture 

629
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,200
will open a world of divine, I 
Wills for you. 

630
00:35:55,200 --> 00:36:03,400
And I Psalm 91 verse 15 when he 
calls to me. 

631
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,800
So as a result of that, when he 
calls to me, look at all the I 

632
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,500
Wills, I will answer him. 
I will be with him in trouble. 

633
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:18,800
I will rescue him and honor him 
with long life. 

634
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,800
I will satisfy him and show him.
My steadfast love. 

635
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,100
I will answer him. 
I will be with them. 

636
00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:30,400
I will rescue him, I will honor 
him, I will satisfy him. 

637
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:34,400
I will show him. 
Direction. 

638
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,300
Presence. 
Deliverance and even in some 

639
00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:40,800
cases promotion, I will honor 
him. 

640
00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:43,800
Here's the point, in David's 
case he had all those things 

641
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:48,100
happen in this situation, And 
here's the guarantee for you and

642
00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:56,700
I when you call to him, he will 
is a simple as that he will do 

643
00:36:56,700 --> 00:37:00,100
something with that prayer every
single time. 

644
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,000
That's what makes prayer so 
exciting. 

645
00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,300
That's what gets me giddy even 
when a situation comes my way 

646
00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:11,700
and it does not seem possible. 
By any human means to solve, oh,

647
00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:15,400
I'm going to bring you before a 
God, who can, who will? 

648
00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:18,700
And I want to see what he's 
going to do with this. 

649
00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:23,700
A prayer of this person has no 
hope they have no guarantee you 

650
00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:27,000
have every reason to fear you 
have every reason to run around 

651
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,400
and waste your energy. 
If you do not take the time to 

652
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:34,100
pray, just one simple thing, 
it's amazing. 

653
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,700
It didn't say you will, you will
you will. 

654
00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:38,100
And I will do. 
He goes, you do? 

655
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:39,800
And I will not, I will not. 
I will not. 

656
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:40,800
I will not. 
I will. 

657
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:43,600
What more how much easier do you
want it to be? 

658
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,100
It would make sense as Mortals 
and creatures. 

659
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,600
You do you do you do fill out 
Step 1. 

660
00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:53,700
When you're done with that form,
go to form a b and then fill 

661
00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:56,300
that one out and then I will do.
Maybe if I feel like it. 

662
00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:59,600
No no you do I will, I will, I 
will. 

663
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,800
I will You can't find the 
motivation, the pray, yo, mama. 

664
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,100
So you praise. 
Now look what happens in verse 

665
00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:09,900
20. 
And David came to Baal perazim 

666
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:13,800
and David defeated them there. 
And he said, the Lord has broken

667
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,100
through my enemies before me 
like a breaking flood. 

668
00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:18,600
Therefore, the name of that 
place is called mph azim. 

669
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,400
So something happened with this.
David has seen victories in his 

670
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,400
life but something spectacular 
happened at this moment in such 

671
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,800
a way where he wanted to 
memorialize it and he want to 

672
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,500
have a testimony for generations
to come Come to recall an aspect

673
00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:36,300
of God's faithfulness that is 
unique to this text. 

674
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,000
That it's a title that you and I
have not really heard often 

675
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,800
about who God is and what he's 
able to do. 

676
00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,200
So what was it here? 
That impressed David so much. 

677
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,600
I mean, read verse 20, there was
something that he saw God, do 

678
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,300
that marked him for life and our
brother read it earlier. 

679
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,600
It's the way in which God came 
How did he come like a what? 

680
00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:02,800
Breaking flood. 
If you want a visual, it's like 

681
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,700
the tsunami that crashes through
a crack. 

682
00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:10,000
Damn without notice with David 
observed in God's dealing with 

683
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,500
his enemies is that he 
overwhelmingly. 

684
00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:18,900
And without without any ability 
to stop it was Unstoppable swept

685
00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:21,200
up the Enemy Within the blink of
an eye. 

686
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,700
That's what he saw before him 
and goes. 

687
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,900
But I'll pair azim. 
I mean if you have an advanced 

688
00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:32,000
Bible you will see that the 
definition, there's in the 

689
00:39:32,008 --> 00:39:34,000
bottom of the page. 
What does Baal perazim mean? 

690
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,500
What was it? 
Okay. 

691
00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:42,400
There's by all means what? 
Anybody understand what by all 

692
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,100
means. 
Not God. 

693
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:53,500
Lord or master. 
A azim is generally translated 

694
00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:57,200
as breakings fourth or break 
through even. 

695
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,000
So when you can read, this is 
the Lord of breakthrough. 

696
00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:07,300
The Lord of breaking forth, 
breakings forth and that is what

697
00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:09,000
he's on the visual. 
There again is like, it's just 

698
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,100
like a flood that comes out of 
nowhere without without notice 

699
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,800
without any update, just 
suddenly happens and this is how

700
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,700
David renames the region. 
He goes this area for will be 

701
00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:23,000
known to our people as Baal 
perazim. 

702
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,600
And when you put all the pieces 
together with the context, what 

703
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,600
you see here is that David comes
to this conclusion that he is, 

704
00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:35,000
he is able to Suddenly shift a 
situation. 

705
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:40,900
Despite the obstacles that would
make such a dramatic change in 

706
00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:45,400
possible in the natural. 
Here's my question to you, Bible

707
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:50,700
study Friday night Have you ever
viewed? 

708
00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:55,800
God is the god of breakthrough. 
Have you ever heard him referred

709
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,800
to in such a way? 
I've heard, I've heard him 

710
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,900
referred to as the god of 
breakthrough but in a very 

711
00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:04,400
shallow way. 
But when you see the context, 

712
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,500
when you understand that, this 
is actually a Biblical title, I 

713
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:10,700
wonder how many of us perceive 
the Lord in such a way. 

714
00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:15,300
Because the way David Psalm was 
God has the ability to 

715
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:19,800
miraculously change the course 
of action in a moment. 

716
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:22,800
So, what does that look like in 
our context? 

717
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,400
Because we're not going to war 
with Philistines? 

718
00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:30,500
What that can look like is? 
You have an enemy one day, who 

719
00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:33,000
threatens? 
You may be friends you to go to 

720
00:41:33,008 --> 00:41:35,200
court the next day, they just 
disappear. 

721
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,300
Where do they go? 
It looks like not having 

722
00:41:38,300 --> 00:41:40,800
groceries and not having food to
eat and not knowing where you're

723
00:41:40,808 --> 00:41:43,900
going to get your next meal and 
all for a sudden grocery show up

724
00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:45,600
at your front step enough to 
feed you. 

725
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:50,500
For the next three weeks, it 
looks like not having a church 

726
00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:54,700
building. 
And before your next meeting a 

727
00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:58,000
church building shows up, that's
what it looks like. 

728
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:06,200
Baba, a Azeem, the Lord of 
breakthrough all for sudden. 

729
00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:11,500
God just did it. 
And there's no way to explain in

730
00:42:11,500 --> 00:42:15,200
human terminology or human 
explanation. 

731
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,000
This was God himself and 
although God doesn't always work

732
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,200
that way he does. 
And he's able to work in this 

733
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,500
way and you and I should have 
that faith and you and I should 

734
00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:27,800
trust God to be able to do that.
And do you know how you can open

735
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,900
your life for Baal perazim to 
make his way in your life? 

736
00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:33,600
Do what David did? 
He pray. 

737
00:42:35,700 --> 00:42:39,500
He brought it before, God, he 
sought the Lord. 

738
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,500
The only way of Baal perazim was
be able to manifest himself was 

739
00:42:43,100 --> 00:42:45,600
because of a man who humble 
themselves before this kind of 

740
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,800
God, I don't know how this is 
going to happen. 

741
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,500
Lord, and God said just watch. 
Watch How I will break through. 

742
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,600
That excites me, but I would 
caution you to not ask for that.

743
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,900
If you're not ready for what it 
will require, you want you want 

744
00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:03,100
to see the Lord break through? 
You want to see the Lord do that

745
00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:06,100
and create memorials in your 
life, then expect to be placed 

746
00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:09,100
in positions that will make you 
extremely uncomfortable. 

747
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,000
Sometimes in oftentimes for a 
season grueling testing, 

748
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,300
pressing X that will leave you 
in a place where you have 

749
00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:19,900
literally, no, hope unless 
Heaven comes to your help. 

750
00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:23,500
So, people ask for this, they 
want this, they want the 

751
00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:25,500
testimonies they don't. 
Just they do, they don't want 

752
00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:28,500
the test for the testimonies 
though they begin to squeal. 

753
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:30,500
Where is god? 
Well. 

754
00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:33,600
You wanted to see him do what he
can only do. 

755
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,000
Yes, and hold on. 
Keep praying stay before the 

756
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,100
Lord seek him. 
He was here's what's amazing, 

757
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:44,700
the beauty of that. 
Is that God will do something 

758
00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:46,700
and he's able to do something to
such a degree that you will 

759
00:43:46,700 --> 00:43:48,100
never forget it. 
What was this? 

760
00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:52,500
What was this Valley called? 
Because he renames it. 

761
00:43:53,900 --> 00:43:57,800
Valley of what somebody said 
that Ruffian, does anybody know 

762
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,500
she again here's the tool belt. 
What is r? 

763
00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:04,100
Fa e mean because that's not in 
my English vocabulary so you do 

764
00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:06,700
a little bit of research and you
realize that Refugee means while

765
00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:12,000
Giants. 
Valley of giants. 

766
00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:16,900
So put the pieces together. 
Now, your morning, devotions are

767
00:44:16,900 --> 00:44:19,800
getting exciting now, you're not
even concerned about your cup of

768
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,500
coffee. 
Now you're in it and now you're 

769
00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:28,500
engaged, hold on the Lord of 
breakthroughs comes into the 

770
00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:32,500
valley of giants. 
And the understanding is so 

771
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:36,200
simple without over 
spiritualizing, it is that God 

772
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:41,100
is able to suddenly remove the 
most fierce and intimidating 

773
00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:46,700
enemies in my life. 
The most overwhelming as I stand

774
00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:51,100
in the shadow of things that 
would easily swallow me up. 

775
00:44:51,100 --> 00:44:54,600
If I didn't have God on my side 
and God can do something about 

776
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,700
it. 
Not in stages, he can do it 

777
00:44:58,700 --> 00:45:04,600
suddenly suddenly you and I 
should see God in such a way, 

778
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,700
because then you don't fear any 
man, no matter what kind of a 

779
00:45:07,700 --> 00:45:14,500
giant he is physically political
Giants, giant businessmen, Giant

780
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:19,200
gangs gang leaders, gang Lords. 
You're dealing with the God who 

781
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,200
looks at Giants like 
grasshoppers. 

782
00:45:23,300 --> 00:45:25,600
And in a moment, he can come and
deal with you. 

783
00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:30,800
I'm glad to be on his side but I
also see secondary thing here. 

784
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,400
The Philistines were defeated 
and our brother brought it up to

785
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,700
us earlier verse 21 and the 
Philistines left their Idols. 

786
00:45:39,700 --> 00:45:43,200
There And David and his men 
carried them away. 

787
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,800
So why do you think the 
Philistines brought their Idols 

788
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,500
to the battle? 
Oh yeah. 

789
00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:52,600
There are God's going to deliver
us. 

790
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,600
You're always in trouble. 
If you can carry your God and 

791
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,000
your pocket, all right, if you 
can put your little got on a 

792
00:46:00,008 --> 00:46:03,100
cart and bring them, along with 
you, and put some fruit in front

793
00:46:03,100 --> 00:46:06,100
of him, because it's going to 
whatever you're probably in 

794
00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:09,300
trouble, all right? 
And so the these guys, they 

795
00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:11,900
bring their gods and then all 
four sudden they realize in a 

796
00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:15,800
very dramatic way. 
Our God's failed us. 

797
00:46:17,900 --> 00:46:20,400
And they were so disappointed 
that it was such a rude. 

798
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,700
Awakening that they did even, 
they didn't care to bring their 

799
00:46:22,700 --> 00:46:25,400
gods, under the backpacks, and 
their shoulders and run back. 

800
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,800
They just left them on the field
useless. 

801
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,200
And I read this and I thought to
myself because I know some 

802
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,500
Prosperity people who love to 
use the Lord of breakthroughs. 

803
00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:40,500
And what they mean by that is 
sudden prosperity. 

804
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,500
That banking I'll give you 
filled, just give us a seed. 

805
00:46:44,500 --> 00:46:48,100
You want the psalm 91 blessing 
sow a seed of $91 and watch how 

806
00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:50,900
the Lord of breakthrough will 
come in that sound nice. 

807
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,500
What a load of breakthrough 
suddenly will bring recovery to 

808
00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:56,100
your body. 
All you have to do is buy our 

809
00:46:56,100 --> 00:46:59,200
anointing oil by my 
handkerchief, the Paul go around

810
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,400
selling his handkerchief. 
And they stop there. 

811
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,000
Why don't you honor the context 
and understand what the lord of 

812
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,800
breakthrough did if there's any 
suddenly that God will and is 

813
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:15,400
able to bring its to tear down 
idols and render them powerless?

814
00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:20,300
I See You gospel truth here, 
maybe you don't, I do here's the

815
00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:23,200
gospel truth that when God by 
the power of His holy spirit 

816
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:29,700
enters into a life, he brings 
Idols down He brings sin down 

817
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,600
and the law of Grace brings 
about dominion over that, which 

818
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:39,000
the flesh could not see victory 
in. and so if there's anything 

819
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,300
that got can do suddenly in 
believe it is that when he truly

820
00:47:43,300 --> 00:47:46,100
enters into your life, in the 
power of the regenerating work 

821
00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:51,900
of the Holy Spirit, he can bring
about your Idols to be as 

822
00:47:51,900 --> 00:47:56,400
nothing. 
And that's the gospel I believe 

823
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,600
in. 
I don't believe in the gospel 

824
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,900
that saves you but doesn't save 
you from the power of sin. 

825
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,100
That's not the gospel of the 
Bible. 

826
00:48:04,100 --> 00:48:06,200
And so you have to understand 
here that this is a wonderful 

827
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,800
picture of these Idols 
submitting to the Lord who can 

828
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:15,000
come and suddenly change how 
Idols operate, how Idols worked 

829
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,500
in your life. 
The power that they might have 

830
00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:20,100
had in your life and some might 
object and say, well, brother, I

831
00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:24,300
believe in the gospel, but I am 
honest with you, I can't seem to

832
00:48:24,300 --> 00:48:26,700
shake off. 
What Idols do in my life, what 

833
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,000
sin does in my life? 
It seems to just have total 

834
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,000
control over my will and then, I
would answer in this way as much

835
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,700
as God can and will and purchase
the ability for you to know 

836
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,900
victory over sin, you have a 
role to play in it. 

837
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,600
I hope that didn't sound 
blasphemous. because here again,

838
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,200
we see, and if you want another 
question to put in your tool 

839
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:54,900
belt, is there a paralleling 
passage to this text? 

840
00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:57,200
And if there is what other 
details Does it include, that is

841
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,800
not here. 
We see here that the Philistines

842
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,200
left their Idols, there and 
David and his men carried him 

843
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,200
away to do what with them, put 
them in their homes. 

844
00:49:06,700 --> 00:49:09,200
Somebody said it, what how do 
you know? 

845
00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:17,200
Close. 
Yes. 

846
00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:20,800
What John know Deuteronomy is a 
passage though. 

847
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:22,000
You're right Deuteronomy. 
Chapter 7. 

848
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,700
So I'm not discrediting you 
because God told him to cleanse 

849
00:49:24,700 --> 00:49:27,700
the land from Idols. 
But in the exact same passage 

850
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:32,800
and a paralleling text we have 
exactly what it is that they did

851
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,100
with these items. 
You want to see it first 

852
00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:44,300
Chronicles chapter 14, verse 12.
And they left their gods, their 

853
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:49,000
and David gave command. 
And they did what and they were 

854
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,400
burnt. 
Yes. 

855
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:58,900
So these Idols felt powerless 
before God who intervened and 

856
00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:02,100
now they were able to carry 
these Idols in their hands. 

857
00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:05,600
And let me tell you in the 
gospel, God puts the weapon of 

858
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:09,500
Grace in your hands but you have
a choice in what you're going to

859
00:50:09,500 --> 00:50:13,400
do with that Idol. 
That's what. 

860
00:50:13,408 --> 00:50:16,400
Yeah. 
Unfortunately for some people 

861
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,600
they just they're still 
infatuated with certain sins. 

862
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,500
They still love certain says 
they still can't let go of 

863
00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:23,400
certain since they can't let go 
of the pleasure or the benefit 

864
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:27,600
or whatever it is that a certain
sin offer so they can't fully 

865
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,700
get rid of it. 
Well, God did what he can. 

866
00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:32,900
Now you got to do your part and 
your part is to burn it. 

867
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,600
Your part is to willingly say, I
want to see this turn to Ash, I 

868
00:50:36,607 --> 00:50:38,300
never want to see it. 
Resurrected ever again in my 

869
00:50:38,300 --> 00:50:40,200
life? 
That's the kind of hard posture 

870
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:44,000
that she's complete victory over
sin and so if you really want to

871
00:50:44,008 --> 00:50:46,500
see it, it's not God's fault. 
He did all that he can on 

872
00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:49,400
Calvary. 
It's now with the grace that 

873
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:53,000
he's purchased play, sitting in 
your hand, so that you can now. 

874
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,700
Look at those things that in the
law, you could not do to say. 

875
00:50:56,700 --> 00:50:59,300
Now I will put you to 
Extinction. 

876
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,400
I do not tell you about sinless 
perfectionism because look what 

877
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,100
happens. 
Next verse 22 and the 

878
00:51:05,100 --> 00:51:09,700
Philistines came up yet again. 
And spread out in the valley of 

879
00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:13,300
rephaim. 
Our brother said, it sin is 

880
00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:15,900
Relentless. 
The flesh is ambitious. 

881
00:51:15,900 --> 00:51:19,000
Satan is a fighter. 
And so let us encourage the 

882
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,200
people of God who go to war with
her sin who want to grow in the 

883
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,600
will of God. 
No, this you are not going to 

884
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,100
see total relief until the 
resurrection. 

885
00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:32,200
Okay, you're not going to seek. 
It's not going to ever. 

886
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,000
I promise you be a vacation in 
this life. 

887
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,900
That's awaiting us, when were 
clothed with white robes. 

888
00:51:37,900 --> 00:51:40,700
And we're In our minds and our 
bodies in every way possible. 

889
00:51:41,700 --> 00:51:43,400
Why do I bring that up? 
Don't be weary. 

890
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:47,700
Don't, don't be discouraged. 
If Satan's going to do anything.

891
00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:52,200
He might remove himself for a 
season but not for very long. 

892
00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:53,600
Unless you're not doing anything
to advance. 

893
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,000
The will of God. 
He will come again, he will show

894
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,800
up. 
He is again very, very 

895
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:04,100
ambitious. so the Philistines 
show up and look what David does

896
00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:09,100
in verse 23 and when David 
inquired of the Lord, What a 

897
00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:12,300
wonderful example. 
I mean, God put this story here 

898
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:16,500
for us for a reason, David 
inquired of the Lord and here's 

899
00:52:16,500 --> 00:52:20,000
what's so special. 
He does not implement the same 

900
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,100
strategy. 
Although the situation is the 

901
00:52:22,100 --> 00:52:25,200
same, the same guys, in the same
Valley. 

902
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,800
Okay, let's just do what we did 
the first time. 

903
00:52:30,100 --> 00:52:32,700
And he doesn't do that. 
He pauses again. 

904
00:52:34,300 --> 00:52:37,100
And he comes before the Lord and
He inquires? 

905
00:52:38,300 --> 00:52:43,100
What a reflex, what an attitude?
What humility? 

906
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,700
Can I encourage you to do 
something, please believer. 

907
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,900
Talk to God about everything. 
Talk to the Lord about 

908
00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:57,000
everything, bring it all before 
him, just just let your humility

909
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:01,500
shine before him. 
As you say, oh God I need you 

910
00:53:01,500 --> 00:53:04,100
again. 
There's trouble in my marriage 

911
00:53:04,100 --> 00:53:08,600
again, I need you again, right? 
And I think there's a lesson you

912
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,600
learn is that just don't give up
seeking the Lord. 

913
00:53:12,700 --> 00:53:15,800
Oftentimes it is the testimony. 
Many Believers were prayer was 

914
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,700
so fervent in those beginning 
phases and you really saw God do

915
00:53:19,700 --> 00:53:23,800
things and if for some reason 
maybe because we get jaded or 

916
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,700
you come familiar or we just 
feel like we could figure things

917
00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:30,100
out and maybe we've tried things
without prayer and it seemed to 

918
00:53:30,107 --> 00:53:32,100
be okay. 
So we just remove ourselves from

919
00:53:32,100 --> 00:53:33,800
that place. 
No stay there. 

920
00:53:34,500 --> 00:53:38,000
Stay there. 
He inquires of the Lord, he 

921
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,300
seeks the Lord again. 
And here's what's so incredible?

922
00:53:41,900 --> 00:53:43,200
God's going to answer 
differently. 

923
00:53:45,300 --> 00:53:47,500
Here's what I take out of this. 
What you shouldn't take out of 

924
00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:51,500
this is maybe we should explore 
unbiblical methods to deal with 

925
00:53:51,500 --> 00:53:55,100
certain situations because maybe
the Bible, doesn't prescribe to 

926
00:53:55,100 --> 00:53:59,600
every dilemma wrong wrong, know 
what you do? 

927
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,800
See out of this is that we must 
learn how to be dependent upon 

928
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:06,100
the Lord, even in the 
application of the wisdom and 

929
00:54:06,100 --> 00:54:08,000
precepts that he has provided 
us. 

930
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,500
So with the truths that we have,
we should be, we should still be

931
00:54:12,500 --> 00:54:14,600
able to say. 
Lord, how do I go about this? 

932
00:54:15,100 --> 00:54:18,600
How do I implement this truth? 
How do I how do I deal with 

933
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,100
this, with what you have given 
me? 

934
00:54:20,100 --> 00:54:23,600
Let me give you an example. 
Let's say, for example, a dear 

935
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,500
servant of God approaches you 
and or they call you in this a 

936
00:54:26,500 --> 00:54:30,400
brother. 
I'm so sad. 

937
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:33,100
I'm my mind is so cloudy. 
I'm even. 

938
00:54:33,300 --> 00:54:35,300
I'm even entertaining. 
Thoughts that? 

939
00:54:35,300 --> 00:54:36,800
I never thought I would, I want 
to just give up. 

940
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,300
I'm going to pull away. 
I think I'm done with this. 

941
00:54:38,300 --> 00:54:39,800
I'm just going to. 
I don't know what to do with 

942
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,700
myself anymore. 
I'm just overwhelmed. 

943
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:43,600
I almost feel like I just want 
to go to heaven now. 

944
00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:46,400
Okay. 
Now stop don't answer out loud. 

945
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,300
I know it's tempting to but just
think about it. 

946
00:54:48,300 --> 00:54:51,300
How would you prescribe a remedy
to that person? 

947
00:54:52,100 --> 00:54:53,600
Can I give you the general, 
answer it read and pray, the 

948
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,700
read the Bible and pray, right? 
Read the Bible and pray now that

949
00:54:57,700 --> 00:55:04,100
is wonderful and that is that is
a core action to everything. 

950
00:55:05,500 --> 00:55:08,400
But Elijah had that problem. 
What did God do? 

951
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,100
Did he say read your Bible and 
pray? 

952
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,000
That he know the man was 
suicidal. 

953
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,300
You know what? 
God did eat drink. 

954
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,400
Take a nap. 
This is how very spiritual 

955
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:23,400
that's it. 
It was God wakes up. 

956
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,300
Okay here eat again during a go 
back to sleep. 

957
00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:35,100
What's the Great Commission? 
Go into all the world and preach

958
00:55:35,100 --> 00:55:39,000
the gospel right Make Disciples 
of all Nations, baptizing them, 

959
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,700
and teaching them everything 
that I've taught you. 

960
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,900
Pulsar to preach the gospel when
he, when he wants to go to free 

961
00:55:44,900 --> 00:55:46,300
gun. 
When he went to go to galatian 

962
00:55:46,300 --> 00:55:50,300
acts 16 and we're told in Acts 
16 that the Holy Spirit forbade 

963
00:55:50,300 --> 00:55:52,700
him. 
Okay. 

964
00:55:53,300 --> 00:55:54,400
So what does he do? 
He thinks. 

965
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,200
Okay, maybe I'll go to my jie. 
So he goes up north and it says,

966
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,700
the spirit of Jesus did not 
allow him. 

967
00:56:00,500 --> 00:56:02,200
Well, I thought the Great 
Commission was go out to all the

968
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,400
world and preach the Gospel. 
Holy Spirit says, not here wants

969
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,100
to go that not there. 
So he goes south and he comes 

970
00:56:09,100 --> 00:56:12,900
down to troas and there he 
receives a vision of a 

971
00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:15,600
Macedonian man says come here 
and help us but it was also 

972
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:19,400
there when he met dr. 
Luke Because if you read acts 

973
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:25,500
carefully, the narrative changes
from an outsider writing to, now

974
00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:28,900
the word we being introduced and
Luke wrote the Gospel out so 

975
00:56:28,900 --> 00:56:31,300
must have been there at that 
location where Luke joined the 

976
00:56:31,300 --> 00:56:34,700
missionary team, so God didn't 
want to go there. 

977
00:56:34,700 --> 00:56:37,300
Got there, want to go there. 
God wanted to go where he would 

978
00:56:37,300 --> 00:56:40,800
meet dr. 
Luke And in dr. 

979
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:42,800
Luke would join the team and 
what a blessing dr. 

980
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,100
Luke was. 
So you see, even though things 

981
00:56:46,100 --> 00:56:48,600
are clear and they're black and 
white in the scripture and there

982
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,300
are things that people say I'm 
praying about, it's like, you 

983
00:56:51,300 --> 00:56:53,000
don't have to pray about 
forgiving your brother. 

984
00:56:53,900 --> 00:56:57,200
Okay, you know how to fasten ask
people to help you you forgive, 

985
00:56:57,500 --> 00:57:01,400
but there are some things that 
require timing and action and 

986
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:06,500
and even just just the way you 
do, things that we must seek the

987
00:57:06,500 --> 00:57:09,000
Lord for Lord help me. 
I don't know what to do with 

988
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,400
this. 
I know what I'm supposed to do 

989
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,900
to certain degree but I need 
your grace and and doing it in 

990
00:57:13,900 --> 00:57:16,600
your absolute wisdom. 
I hope that makes sense. 

991
00:57:16,900 --> 00:57:19,500
But here's the thing I believe, 
and we're closing in a moment 

992
00:57:19,500 --> 00:57:23,300
that these two battles were put 
side by side to teach us. 

993
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:27,400
Thing about a balanced view of 
the ways of God in our lives. 

994
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:34,000
Because we see here that when 
David sought the Lord, the first

995
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:39,400
time, it was extraordinary, it 
was like credible. 

996
00:57:40,700 --> 00:57:45,400
And then when you see him coming
to this same situation, look how

997
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:49,600
the Lord answers him. 
He says in verse 23, you shall 

998
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,700
not go up, go around to their 
rear and come against some 

999
00:57:52,700 --> 00:57:55,800
opposite. 
The balsam trees the first time.

1000
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,000
He said, go up What Davidson, 
what do I do? 

1001
00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:00,000
Are you gonna give it to my 
hand? 

1002
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,400
So you can just go up right now.
It's time to move forward when 

1003
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,400
you seek some again, he says 
don't move. 

1004
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:13,300
Until you get this sign. 
So we just heard about the Lord 

1005
00:58:13,300 --> 00:58:17,100
of breakthrough who can suddenly
do things and then the same 

1006
00:58:17,100 --> 00:58:19,200
passage, we have the Lord who 
makes you wait. 

1007
00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:25,900
The Lord will makes you wait. 
And here's here's where we have 

1008
00:58:25,900 --> 00:58:29,500
to be careful, especially 
because we can Harbor 

1009
00:58:29,500 --> 00:58:34,700
discouragement and we can invite
even bitterness. when we look at

1010
00:58:34,700 --> 00:58:38,200
how God is moving in, somebody 
else's life in the same area of 

1011
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:43,100
your life and it's not the same 
If we're not careful, look, this

1012
00:58:43,100 --> 00:58:45,900
is the same situation and two 
different approaches 

1013
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:49,700
orchestrated by God. 
And if you just widen that 

1014
00:58:49,700 --> 00:58:54,300
application to our lives, facing
a same situation or enduring a 

1015
00:58:54,300 --> 00:58:56,800
similar season and then you look
around and you see how God's 

1016
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,500
doing it for brother so-and-so 
or sister. 

1017
00:58:59,500 --> 00:59:03,400
So, and so, and it does, it's 
very sudden, it's very glorious.

1018
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,600
It can go viral, they do the 
testimony on YouTube. 

1019
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:12,400
You can get discouraged easily. 
and God was no less glorified in

1020
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:16,200
the second way that he answered 
that he was in the first And so 

1021
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:18,200
you have people who discouraged 
in Ministry, they don't see 

1022
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,600
that, they're they're years our 
ranking up and they're not 

1023
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,600
accelerating at, they're not 
seeing the numbers that they 

1024
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,200
thought they would. 
And, I mean, I would say this to

1025
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,500
ministers, especially, but you 
can apply in any way. 

1026
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:28,500
You have people in 
relationships, we're looking for

1027
00:59:28,500 --> 00:59:30,600
a relationship. 
They look at people, their age 

1028
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:31,900
range, and they say they're 
getting married. 

1029
00:59:31,900 --> 00:59:34,900
And why didn't happen to me so 
quickly, and why is my story? 

1030
00:59:34,900 --> 00:59:37,600
So Bland, it's not as exciting 
and riveting. 

1031
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:43,500
Well, hold on, it's the same 
God, Here's a different script 

1032
00:59:43,500 --> 00:59:47,100
for each of our sanctification. 
It's not going to be the same 

1033
00:59:47,100 --> 00:59:50,800
script. 
So don't envy don't be worried 

1034
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,700
the same God who answered David 
and two different ways for the 

1035
00:59:54,700 --> 00:59:58,500
same situation will very likely 
do the same in your life as you 

1036
00:59:58,500 --> 01:00:01,700
contrast it to the. 
Next person's all you need to do

1037
01:00:01,700 --> 01:00:04,000
is seek Him and trust them as 
David did. 

1038
01:00:04,700 --> 01:00:10,100
So be encouraged timing is much 
different, no less glorified and

1039
01:00:10,100 --> 01:00:13,300
David saw victory. 
When you hear the sound of 

1040
01:00:13,300 --> 01:00:15,700
Marching In the tops of the 
balsam trees, then Rouse 

1041
01:00:15,700 --> 01:00:17,800
yourself for then. 
The Lord has gone out before you

1042
01:00:17,808 --> 01:00:21,300
to strike down the army of the 
Philistines. 

1043
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,900
Oh, I wonder what that was like 
for them to wait and all for a 

1044
01:00:24,908 --> 01:00:27,200
sudden. 
They may be heard a wind or 

1045
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,800
maybe they heard something in 
the distance, but there was it 

1046
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,800
was obvious that these trees 
were moving and God went out 

1047
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:35,500
before them and that was their 
confidence and really that's 

1048
01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:36,900
what prayer. 
Is it not? 

1049
01:00:39,100 --> 01:00:41,200
It's inviting God's intervention
in the matter. 

1050
01:00:41,900 --> 01:00:46,800
God go before me God do this. 
I don't want to do it without 

1051
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,500
you. 
I just call upon your name and 

1052
01:00:49,500 --> 01:00:51,800
let me know that you are indeed 
in this. 

1053
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:53,400
Let me know. 
Your hand is out of want to do 

1054
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,000
this. 
If your hand is not in it, I 

1055
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:56,400
don't want to pursue this any 
further. 

1056
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,300
If you're not going to go before
me, that's what it looks like. 

1057
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,600
That's what it looks like. 
Moses had that same cry. 

1058
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:04,700
If your presence does not go 
with me. 

1059
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:07,700
I don't want the land. 
I don't want the angel that you 

1060
01:01:07,700 --> 01:01:08,700
promised. 
I don't. 

1061
01:01:08,900 --> 01:01:13,500
Victory over the enemies. 
I want your presence. and if you

1062
01:01:13,500 --> 01:01:17,600
really want to know true joy in 
this life, it's when you know 

1063
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:22,000
that God goes before you That's 
where you will know true, 

1064
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:26,200
sincere satisfaction. 
And all we can say so much more,

1065
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:28,100
can we not? 
But I trust that. 

1066
01:01:28,100 --> 01:01:30,300
As you have these tools, maybe 
you can say something about this

1067
01:01:30,300 --> 01:01:33,300
passage, maybe we could talk 
about it over Fellowship. 

1068
01:01:33,500 --> 01:01:55,400
Let's pray. 
Lori. 

1069
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:57,900
Tell you from the bottom of our 
hearts. 

1070
01:01:58,700 --> 01:01:59,900
What? 
A mighty God. 

1071
01:01:59,900 --> 01:02:04,200
We serve You are indeed the Lord
of breakthrough. 

1072
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:11,500
You can come crashing in. 
You can come and deal with it 

1073
01:02:12,500 --> 01:02:18,500
within the blink of an eye. 
And Lord by faith. 

1074
01:02:18,700 --> 01:02:23,800
We ask that if there is a need 
in this house, That you would 

1075
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:27,200
break through. 
And it would heal. 

1076
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:32,100
You would provide, you would 
bring an answer, you would 

1077
01:02:32,100 --> 01:02:35,200
subdue. 
The enemy who seeks to devour 

1078
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,600
our faith. 
But Lord, you're also The God 

1079
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:44,900
Who says wait. 
It's a lord teach us to wait and

1080
01:02:44,900 --> 01:02:48,600
teach us that if you do not come
suddenly you were still in 

1081
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:52,300
control and you know exactly 
what you're doing with our 

1082
01:02:52,300 --> 01:02:54,900
lives. 
You know exactly what kind of 

1083
01:02:54,900 --> 01:02:58,700
testimony you are preparing for 
your namesake through us as your

1084
01:02:58,700 --> 01:03:01,700
vessels. 
Lord, we pray that if there 

1085
01:03:01,700 --> 01:03:03,900
would be any suddenly, he's in 
our lives, it would be the 

1086
01:03:03,900 --> 01:03:08,200
gospel work of sanctification. 
That would shatter the work of 

1087
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:12,100
sin that has eroded and 
destroyed us prior to coming and

1088
01:03:12,100 --> 01:03:16,100
knowing you destroy it. 
Lord, we believe you. 

1089
01:03:16,100 --> 01:03:19,600
Not just for our justification, 
we place our faith in you. 

1090
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:23,200
Sanctifying us that the holy 
spirit in US. 

1091
01:03:24,500 --> 01:03:32,100
Can resurrect and bring to life 
Holiness and strength to soar 

1092
01:03:32,100 --> 01:03:34,700
above that, which seeks to have 
dominion over us. 

1093
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:38,800
Lord, we pray that we would be 
so serious. 

1094
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:45,700
About gospel, work and gospel 
witness that we would nurture 

1095
01:03:45,700 --> 01:03:50,700
and protect the unity of this 
ministry and that Lord, we would

1096
01:03:50,700 --> 01:03:54,300
trust in the words that you said
that in our Unity, the world 

1097
01:03:54,300 --> 01:03:57,800
would say surely the father has 
sent Jesus into this world to 

1098
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,700
die for Sinners. 
Look at that church. 

1099
01:04:01,300 --> 01:04:05,300
They are unified and it has to 
be a supernatural source. 

1100
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,700
Lord may we with our short 
lives. 

1101
01:04:07,900 --> 01:04:11,200
Glorify you in such a way we 
bless you for this study. 

1102
01:04:11,300 --> 01:04:13,100
We bless you for the 
interaction. 

1103
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,000
We pray that our hearts would be
edified and Lord, we just give 

1104
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:17,900
you. 
Thanks and song tonight in Jesus

1105
01:04:17,900 --> 01:04:19,000
name. 
Amen. 

1106
01:04:19,300 --> 01:04:20,400
Let's stand and Worship the 
Lord.