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Second Samuel, chapter 4 in the 
word of God, is a reference 

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point tonight. 
Last week, we had our Q&A the 

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week before, we had a prayer 
night, and so it has been two 

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weeks. 
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and so there's a special 
excitement for tonight. 

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I hope you feel that same 
excitement Second Samuel, 

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chapter 4. 
And as we come here, I cannot 

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help but feel the need to pray 
before we go to school. 

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Can we pray one more time? 
Father, we are deeply aware that

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without the Holy Spirit. 
This meeting is vain. 

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Lord, we are fully convinced 
that the holy spirit is the 

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Difference Maker. 
He is the factor that brings 

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something that can be deathly 
dull and bring it to life with 

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Vigor. 
And we just ask oh God. 

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That that would be the case 
tonight. 

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You even told your own Apostles 
that they could not even witness

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apart from the gift of God in 
the Holy Spirit and we need him 

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tonight. 
We do not assume that our gifts 

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are enough. 
Do not presume that. 

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We can do this apart from your 
power. 

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We are, we are dependent upon 
your grace. 

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Even for a study, that might not
be as formal as a conference or 

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Sunday morning meeting Lord, be 
in our midst and let us sense 

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your nearness, more importantly,
let us sense the power of your 

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word being driven into our 
hearts in a way that brings life

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to our being. 
And produces the fruit that you 

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desire. 
We commit this study into your 

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hands in Jesus name, we pray. 
Amen. second Samuel chapter 4, 

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it is in this chapter that we 
continue the transition of 

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Israel's monarchy David is very 
close to being rightfully 

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crowned as the king, not just of
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before that will take place, 
there will be a Monumental 

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pivotal moment that will occur, 
which we will read of in chapter

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4, something huge happened 
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And that was the death of Abner.
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Kingdom of Israel? 
Who was ruled by ishka, Chef 

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Abner was assassinated, Abner 
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Earth and David mourn that loss 
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more Injustice performed at a 
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uncertainty and instability in 
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And so as you and I come keep in
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Everything now is being shaken. 
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sending a chill down people's 
spines and that is certainly the

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case for the king of the 
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shot. 
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verses, his response and what is
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result of this man's death verse
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We read when ishka, chefs, all 
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at Hebron, his Courage failed. 
And all Israel was dismayed now,

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Saul son, had two men who were 
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The name of the one was banana 
and the name of the other Rahab 

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son of Sons of Ramona man of 
Benjamin from be wroth for be 

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wroth. 
Also is counted part of Benjamin

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the bureau theit's fled to get I
am and have been sojourners 

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there to this day. 
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Verse 1 is crucial rich with 
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The first thing that we see is 
Ish besets response to the news 

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that report of Abner's death. 
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We're told that his courage had 
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Now that means more than him 
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because someone that he knew and
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from him, this speaks of Hope 
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As Abner was a valuable asset 
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Ishmael Seth realized what this 
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And it's very simple. 
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battle already ich Mich. 
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absolutely no chance before the 
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Now that Abner is not is not 
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And the reason why is because it
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ishka to be the king and any 
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During those seven years was due
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all by himself. 
He's standing alone and you have

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to face these challenges alone 
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for the task. 
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was a puppet ruler. 
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to maintain the position of 
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of his weakness based on this 
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And he's going to realize very 
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But notice the principal here, 
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Why? 
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Like ishka thesz feel like he 
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strength and his confidence? 
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Somebody said it. his Hope was 
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A strongman and accomplished 
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A confident man, a military man.
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And if you and I want to know 
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please do what I'm about to tell
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put your confidence in a mere 
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It is an extremely dangerous 
habit, and the habit of many, to

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be able to think that your faith
is dependent upon somebody else.

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Who is made of dust just like 
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You will know great, great 
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simply keeping your perspective 
and trying to find your 

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salvation. 
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but deliverance from many things
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promised to bring Salvation 
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that ability Belongs to the Lord
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And that is an important word 
for us today and you would be 

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amazed to know that if you just 
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exhortation is found from 
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It makes you wonder how much God
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his own children to lean upon 
Dustin Ash. 

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I want to show you this. 
This is one Psalm and it's 

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encouraging to just read a big 
portion of it because this Psalm

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is literally dedicated to that 
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And if David wrote it, the 
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That it's even more inspiring 
because this man was a king 

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himself, but go to Psalm 146 
very quickly and notice a few 

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verses with me, beginning in 
verse 3 and really you don't 

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even need it. 
Bound on these verses, they're 

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just so self-explanatory. 
Consider these charges in a day 

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where political leaders are 
being seen as Messiah figures in

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2022. 
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even spiritual leaders, and the 
past few years have been falling

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short and disappointing, the 
Evangelical World in different 

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ways. 
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trust in princes. 
In a son of man in whom, there 

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is no salvation. 
When his breath departs, he 

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returns to the Earth on that 
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Perish blessed is. 
He whose help is in the god of 

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Jacob. 
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God who made Heaven and Earth 
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who keeps Faith forever. 
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verse seven, who executes 
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gives food to the hungry. 
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free. 
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trying to say. 
Your confidence. 

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In God can't be a theological 
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It's not something that you put 
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It's not something you put in a 
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should actually be feelable. 
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belief that actually really 
believes that God can intervene 

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in your life at a particular 
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I mean that's why he gives these
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and 7, he executes Justice for 
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So on a day like are they were 
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and corrupt, we are told to put 
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execute True Justice, what else 
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Well, that's comforting to me in
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food shortages and where the 
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how we're gonna be able to fill 
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and all this talk and rumors of 
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Lose what we were Comfortable 
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he can actually put food on your
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He can actually do that. 
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whether or not your faith and 
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upon the Lord, I mean it's 
really by asking yourself a 

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simple question. 
All you have to do examine your 

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own heart and just ask yourself 
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Do I actually believe? 
Do I really, really trust that 

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God is able to supply? 
Fly. do I actually believe that 

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you'd be amazed to know how many
people say it sing it quote it 

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print it wear it but when it 
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true, trusting God and it shows 
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The worrying people. 
And the psalmist is very clear 

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here. 
You can actually rely on God. 

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I'm not talking about like one 
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restore all things. 
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Like right now like tomorrow he 
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your enemies even come and be at
peace with you and provide for 

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you. 
And so you and I have to have 

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that trust constantly and this 
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conviction. 
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the Mighty Men. 
David David, who was able to 

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literally stand alone in a 
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When there is a bunch of 
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their nails and scratching their
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I mean I may not see him but he 
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he will be the force behind this
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Into your face. 
And he will be the one that will

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sustain me and guide me 
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We see a great contrast between 
two kings, who had two different

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levels of understanding of, who 
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able to do. 
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though, is that there is an 
obscure verse a verse that many 

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people often don't quote that 
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even make us like this Brave 
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God is actually able we look at 
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We look at this character and 
were inspired by him and yet God

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wants to assure as there's a 
particular promise that he is 

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able to infuse that same 
courage, that David knew that we

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are inspired by and actually 
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Can I show you that verse? 
It's in Zechariah Chapter 12. 

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Verse 8. 
This is speaking about a future 

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day when Jerusalem will be 
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but this tells me what God is 
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And Zechariah Chapter 12 verse 
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gives the Israel for a future 
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believe is available today. 
Zechariah Chapter 12, the 

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prophet Zechariah Chapter 12 
verse 8. 

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We read on that day. 
The Lord will protect the 

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inhabitants of Jerusalem, so 
that the feeblest among them on 

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that day. 
Shall be like, who David the 

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feeblest? 
The weakest. 

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Those who can't lift their head 
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be like that. 
Mighty warrior David. 

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I take that and I say Lord make 
me like that. 

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Now today, and this time And 
then he goes on to say, in the 

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House of David shall be like 
God, like the angel of the Lord 

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going before them. 
This is not the point of the 

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study, but if you want to Old 
Testament verse that confirms 

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the deity of the Lord Jesus 
Christ, it's there. 

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Did you see it? 
Look at it. 

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And the House of David shall be 
like, God, the like who the 

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angel of the Lord, who is the 
Angel of the Lord, the 

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pre-incarnate Christ. 
So all you need to do is find 

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the verses that prove that the 
angel of the Lord shares the 

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prerogative, 's and the 
abilities that Yahweh himself 

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has. 
And then you could come to a 

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verse like this which is plain 
and clear shall be like God. 

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Like the angel of the Lord, the 
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And Jesus is the Angel of the 
Lord. 

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Going before them. 
It should be Seth here, Saul 

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son. 
His courage failed. 

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Because he put his trust in a 
man. 

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What do you do? 
What do you do when you lose 

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your job? 
What do you do when somebody 

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that you trust? 
That somebody that brought so 

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much encouragement and hope and 
joy into your life is taken from

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you? 
Do you lose courage? 

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Yeah, my sting But we are to be 
like David and we can be like 

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David by the help of the Holy 
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Let's come back to 2nd Samuel 4 
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Now Saul son had two men who 
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okay? 
All for a sudden we are 

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introduced Two two characters we
never heard of them before their

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names. 
Are banned. 

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Nia and Ricotta and their sons 
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specific reason. 
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necessary to give us some 
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characters are. 
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them is one. 
They were sons of a man of 

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Benjamin and to that they were 
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specifically leaders of rating 
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should always be asking when we 
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out of place, would seem to be 
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What we would think is necessary
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Why are we told these things? 
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Just give us the name of these 
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they're about to do know, before
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to do. 
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I present that question to you. 
Why do you believe the Lord? 

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The author of these verses wants
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Which tribe do they represent? 
Ring a bell. 

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Benjamin ring a bell. 
Who's from Benjamin Saul is from

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Benjamin, right? 
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come from the same tribe and 
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believe at least that whoever 
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from the same tribe, they're 
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house. 
There's some Fidelity that there

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is some kind of partnership 
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the blood of Benjamin. 
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not knowing what they're about 
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They will be in partnership with
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from Benjamin. 
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here, and we're going to 
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few verses. 
But read carefully is something 

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else supposed to be conveyed. 
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these words here in parentheses,
for beer off, they came from be 

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Roth. 
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Benjamin, so that there is this 
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be Roth. 
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of Benjamin implying that 
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there that broth actually isn't 
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Says no, no, no, they are 
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Are these men from Benjamin? 
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Yes, or no. 
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students of the Old Testament, 
the holy spirit's expecting us 

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to be students of the Old 
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to a verse like this, we go, 
interesting, interesting, 

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something is about to happen 
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they come from, does anybody 
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Bible quiz, be Roth, you have 
your hand up. 

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So you might know Here habits 
previous two, venti mocha. 

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Okay, say that again their 
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Did you study before tonight? 
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Roth is a specific town that was
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took place. and the mention of 
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that describes the conquest of 
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which is the book of what 
Joshua, it's a turn with me 

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quickly to Joshua chapter 9, and
I want you to see the reference 

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to be Roth. 
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finds itself. 
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And the people of Israel set out
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third day. 
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fira be wroth and curia. 
Theorem, do you see it, there be

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wroth. 
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and his men, they approach these
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didn't attack them. 
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group of people who made a 
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Israel, that's what the whole 
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Do you remember that chapter 
when we had a whole study about 

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which group of people, it's in 
the chapter, you can just peek 

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and see the name early on the 
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made a deal with Israel and that
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being annihilated like the Of 
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Canaan and how did they do that?
What's this whole chapter about 

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it's really about how Israel was
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So these gibeonites were very 
clever that they came with old 

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clothes. 
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wine skins that were broken and 
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they had come from a distant 
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approached Joshua and the 
leadership, they make a covenant

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with them, because they 
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sent by God, to bring about 
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didn't want to be in that 
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And Joshua failed. 
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to seek counsel from the Lord 
and in doing so they make a 

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covenant with somebody that they
were meant to actually destroy 

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and then because of that 
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campaign itself to take over and
they honor that promise and they

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brought into subjection to be 
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And they survived and now the 
holy spirit with that reference,

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the fact that they were part of 
be Rocky came from be rotten and

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later on once they actually 
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of Benjamin occupy, that area is
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affiliation made. 
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deceived Israel. 
Something suspicious on its way.

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Something discrete, something 
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That's exactly what we are being
given with this reference before

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us. 
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are going to actually operate in
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certain goal. 
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here with new characters until 
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If you thought verse 3 was with 
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verse 4, Jonathan the son of 
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and his feet He was five years 
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Jonathan came from Jezreel and 
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And as she fled in her haste, he
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name was mephibosheth. 
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place a little bit. 
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why out of the entire narrative 
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mephibosheth? 
and introducing him and even his

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disability here at this point, 
you have any idea why Because by

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Design, there is a case being 
made here, there's something 

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trying to be communicated, why 
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Why not later? 
He's going to be mentioned 

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later. 
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He's another are very good and 
so he's actually the next male 

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Heir in line after ishka, chef. 
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we are actually being revealed 
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to the feebleness of this 
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Dynasty has become because we're
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be assassinated. 
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apparently, John. 
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crippled at the feet. 
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numbers, if he was five years 
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his dad and his grandfather 
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has passed. 
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This is supposed to be the next 
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being told is this dynasty is 
near Extinction, it's almost 

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completely gone. 
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going to die, David has no worry
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King, who will fight against 
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to actually face if he faces him
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we are being given a description
of just how broken And just how 

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crippled no pun intended, saws 
house has become. 

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But these verses have so much 
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These verses have so much truth 
richness for application, and, 

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and precepts for the people of 
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You know, I read this and I 
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condition, the disability of 
mephibosheth, that he would have

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to live with, for the rest of 
his life was something Beyond 

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his control. 
Somebody who was, who is called 

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to take care of him, nurture 
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Secure him, failed him. 
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So this, this Guardian, this 
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that the Philistines have won 
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And she picked up a 
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I mean, if you have a 
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not necessary. 
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picks up mephibosheth and she 
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And as she runs whether she 
tripped or she lost grip, this 

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young boy Falls, maybe over a 
balcony, made with down some 

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stairs and both his feet were 
broken. 

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Because of failure to heal, 
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He would live with this 
condition where he could not 

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walk for the rest of his life. 
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help but think that this 
physical picture is what happens

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to many people emotionally 
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You can even say spiritually. 
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What do I mean by that? 
You'd be amazed to know how many

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people today are fractured 
because of something that 

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happened to them when they were 
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And many of you perhaps can 
attest to the fact that your 

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parents who were supposed to 
nourish you and love you. 

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And Supply Grace and wisdom and 
strength failed. 

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You In other words, dropped you.
And just like this nurse they 

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didn't operate in. 
Good faith, they didn't have an 

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anchoring trust in the Lord, a 
conviction that he is in 

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control, or they didn't abide by
his word. 

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And instead they operated in 
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self-interest and their failure 
contributed to the Brokenness of

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your development, you'd be 
again, amazed to know how many 

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people who are adults and have 
children today are suffering in 

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their marriage and in the way 
they relate to their children, 

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because when they were children,
They were let down either by the

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action of a father or mother or 
the failure to act in the way 

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that they should have Act. 
So, what do we do? 

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Because I am not in the camp 
that believes just because 

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something happened in your 
developmental years, that you're

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stuck like that for the rest of 
your life. 

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Modern psychologists might say 
that, and then just medicate you

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and call you to just live to 
blame people for the rest of 

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your life and then justify your 
Brokenness. 

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Somebody cleverly said that even
a broken crayon can draw 

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straight. 
It just depends who holds it. 

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And a broken life if it is 
placed in the hands of a perfect

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God. 
Can produce good and see 

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Holiness and wholeness because 
of his goodness, as you've 

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submitted to his lordship and 
his Shepherd like leadership. 

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Again, we offer counsel and we 
sit with people and so much 

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trauma that is come from 
upbringings resurface and 

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manifest in sinful Behavior. 
But I can't find one place in 

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the Bible, where that is 
justifiable. 

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Your father wounds do not permit
you to be broken and cause 

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others to be broken. 
Your mother wounds do not permit

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you to act in a certain way 
because you fail to have an 

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example, I'm not negating. 
The fact that there is an 

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influence there and there is 
some kind of a contribution 

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there but I cannot confidently 
say that you are to be stuck 

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there because my redeemers to 
Great, his gospel is too 

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powerful. 
His love is overwhelming. 

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And that Brokenness in the right
hand, can draw a beautiful 

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picture out of your life. 
If you just trust him and Trust 

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in his word and allow him to 
heal you And I'm not being 

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overly simplistic by saying that
a Wan can be just you know, 

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waved over your head and 
everything will be solved. 

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But what I am saying is that as 
you continue to just be there in

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his presence, in his word 
surrounded by people who can 

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console you and Lead You you 
will know wholeness and healing 

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in Jesus name. 
Unfortunately, you have people 

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who who live pointing to finger 
and even if that finger points 

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to the past and you know what 
Isaiah says in Isaiah 58. 

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God even rebukes the nation for 
many things even though they 

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were fasting and praying because
one of the things that they were

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doing was continually pointing 
the finger. 

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You will not know healing if you
do that, you will not know 

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restoration if you do that. 
God wants you to look up and 

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stretch out your hands to him 
and allow him to wash over you 

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in a way that will transform you
for good. 

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That's possible. 
We have something that modern 

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psychology doesn't. 
We have something that this 

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world cannot figure out any man 
be in Christ. 

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He is a new creation New 
Creation. 

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He doesn't patch you up, he 
renews you Every part of who you

453
00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:56,900
are past trauma, present, 
trauma, and whatever is to come,

454
00:29:56,900 --> 00:30:01,400
he can Shield you and keep you. 
This is a gospel of Hope and 

455
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,900
mercy. 
That's the Practical thing that 

456
00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:05,600
I see. 
But do you see the prophetic? 

457
00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:11,500
Here is mephibosheth who has 
experienced a Brokenness because

458
00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:14,900
of a fall caused by another 
sound familiar. 

459
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,500
You're a son or a daughter of 
Adam as am? 

460
00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:25,500
I And you and I are spiritually 
broken. 

461
00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:28,900
We are disabled. 
We are able to walk in the ways 

462
00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:30,700
of God. 
We are unable to keep in step 

463
00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:35,200
with his commands because of 
because of our forefathers Who 

464
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,600
in essence dropped, the human 
race, and you, and I cannot walk

465
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,400
in our own strength. 
To keep up with his righteous 

466
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:51,600
demands but what we will see, in
a few chapters is David himself.

467
00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:58,200
Asks, for a descendant of Saul 
and he discovers that 

468
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,500
mephibosheth is alive. 
And what does he do? 

469
00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:04,900
He vows to be kind to him and so
he invites this man who could 

470
00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:08,800
not walk on his two feet to sit 
at his table. 

471
00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:11,900
And in second Samuel chapter 9, 
we read there. 

472
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:17,600
That mephibosheth was treated as
one of the king's sons and he 

473
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,400
continually fellowship with 
David and was provided for and 

474
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,500
was treated. 
With unusual kindness because 

475
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:30,600
because legally technically this
man is an enemy to David and his

476
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,300
kingdom. 
And yet he still extends mercy 

477
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,000
and does above and beyond what 
anybody would do with an enemy. 

478
00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:43,100
And you and I though broken 
because of a fall, thousands of 

479
00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:45,900
years ago, Noah greater reward 
than the fetish F. 

480
00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:49,700
Because we have the true king of
Israel, the son of David who 

481
00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:53,900
bids us to come and who doesn't 
just treat us as a son or a 

482
00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:59,200
daughter, but actually adopts us
And cause us as his own and we 

483
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,600
have continual fellowship with 
him, not just now, but forever, 

484
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,300
and ever, and to glory. 
And so, we even see the gospel 

485
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:09,700
here. 
When you partner this verse with

486
00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:13,800
second, Samuel, 9 and Beyond 
you, see that the gospel picture

487
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,600
of a king taking as in the words
of men fetishes a dead dog, like

488
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:23,700
you and me and then crowning us 
with goodness and love and 

489
00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:27,300
mercy. 
So, we come back to our main 

490
00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:33,000
text. and we see in verse 5, 
what these two Scoundrels, these

491
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:38,500
brothers are going to do And 
verse 5, we read now the sons of

492
00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:43,500
Ramon, the bira theit Rahab and 
bana set out and about the heat 

493
00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,300
of the day. 
They came to the house of ishka 

494
00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:51,400
Chef as he was taking his 
Noonday rest and they came into 

495
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,300
the midst of the house, as if to
get wheat and they stab them in 

496
00:32:56,300 --> 00:33:01,600
the stomach, then of a cob and 
Bandai, his brother escaped. 

497
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:10,200
Read the Bible slowly. 
What stands out to you in these 

498
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,200
two verses? 
What details? 

499
00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:15,900
That could provide some kind of 
application in our New Covenant 

500
00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:19,100
Walk With Jesus Christ? 
Can we draw out from these 

501
00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:21,400
things? 
Anything else stands out from 

502
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:33,000
you before you rather? 
If you have something feel free 

503
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,300
to lift your hand and 
contribute. 

504
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:38,700
It's a big classroom. 
I know it's intimidating but 

505
00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:42,200
where he got stabbed in the 
stomach. 

506
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,200
Okay, there's something there to
observe. 

507
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,300
And talk about stab-in-the-back.
That's one thing stabbed in the 

508
00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:48,700
stomach. 
That's pretty cruel. 

509
00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:57,600
Anything else? 
Very good. 

510
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:04,500
Someone is taking a siesta. 
A Noonday rest. 

511
00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:08,500
Seems to be a routine as well. 
Great observation anything else?

512
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:17,300
Very good. 
You guys are wonderful students.

513
00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:22,600
They came in as if to get wheat,
let's just stop there for a 

514
00:34:22,607 --> 00:34:24,699
moment. 
Notice, the first thing we are 

515
00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:29,800
told in verse 5, as he was 
taking his Noonday rest, very 

516
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:34,900
common Middle Eastern heat. 
You would work early hours in 

517
00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:37,600
the day and take a time off. 
People still do this in 

518
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,600
different parts of the world and
I work in the coolness of the 

519
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,600
evening. 
And so, we see that this is some

520
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,800
kind Routine that the King was a
part of and this routine was 

521
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,699
obviously known to his servants 
as men. 

522
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:49,699
And unfortunately, it was known 
to these two men. 

523
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,500
And so they come at a specific 
time where he is, he is sleeping

524
00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:57,000
and that is condemnation to 
them. 

525
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,200
That they came to a man in the 
most vulnerable state that you 

526
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,300
can be in which is in your sleep
and they assassinate him. 

527
00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:08,400
But this is also an indictment 
against ishka chef Because we 

528
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,800
know that Abner has been killed.
We know that the nation is an 

529
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,200
uproar. 
We know that people are 

530
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,700
dismayed, we know that there's 
political upheaval and that's 

531
00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:21,800
when you take a nap. 
What's running through your mind

532
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,400
to give you the ability to even 
lay back and close your eyes and

533
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,400
actually fall asleep. 
No, indication of planning. 

534
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,000
No indication of praying. 
No indication of communicating 

535
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:38,900
your sleeping. 
And it's in that place where he 

536
00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:45,400
is actually killed. 
Listen rest is good, rest is 

537
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,600
necessary, rest is encouraged. 
But there's a difference between

538
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:54,900
race and excessive slumber. 
Because Slumber spiritually 

539
00:35:54,900 --> 00:36:01,100
speaking makes us sitting ducks.
And David will fall into the 

540
00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:04,300
very same trap and just a few 
chapters when he was supposed to

541
00:36:04,308 --> 00:36:08,800
be at War, but instead, he was 
lounging on his couch and not 

542
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,700
just his life, but the life of 
the nation would never be the 

543
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:15,500
same because he chose to be in a
place of rest, when he was, in 

544
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:20,900
fact, supposed to be in a place 
of battle. you and I put our 

545
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:28,600
souls in grave Jeopardy when we 
are idle I fear for Christians 

546
00:36:28,900 --> 00:36:31,200
who do more sitting than 
serving. 

547
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,500
And I am very worried for 
Christians who do more playing 

548
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:43,300
than praying, especially in a 
time where you and I are living 

549
00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:48,500
in great shifts that are 
occurring worldwide, that will 

550
00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:54,900
Usher us into a world and a 
system and a reality of no 

551
00:36:54,900 --> 00:36:58,500
return. 
That will impact even the way 

552
00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:03,600
the church will operate and move
about freely with the gospel in 

553
00:37:03,607 --> 00:37:07,000
the Great Commission. 
You know, you and I may look at 

554
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,600
issue is Seth and think that he 
is crazy for being able to 

555
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,300
sleep. 
But let me tell you something. 

556
00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:14,600
Even in the past two years, with
all the events that took place, 

557
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,300
you still have Christians who 
are asleep. 

558
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,500
I mean, at most, you had 
somebody who just woke up and 

559
00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:22,400
then they just went back to 
sleep because they hit the 

560
00:37:22,408 --> 00:37:24,500
snooze button. 
There are still many many 

561
00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:29,400
believers who do not realize, 
and understand the significance 

562
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:30,900
of the times that we're living 
in. 

563
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,200
And it's no wonder Jesus 
prophesied that he prophesied 

564
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,800
that even need the time. 
In the culmination of the age. 

565
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,900
You're still gonna people 
engaging in business and 

566
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:42,700
marrying and vacationing and 
investing in like at any moment.

567
00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:44,700
The sky is going to split open, 
he's going to come. 

568
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,700
So, even during the tribulation 
period, you're going to have 

569
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:49,500
these activities happening. 
It's not going to be like those 

570
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,500
apocalyptic movies for 
everybody's hiding. 

571
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:53,900
And eating a can of beans with 
an AK-47. 

572
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,500
You're gonna have people 
actually engaging in day-to-day 

573
00:37:56,500 --> 00:38:01,000
life distracted by these things.
Even though at any moment, the 

574
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,200
millennial kingdom is going to 
crash through. 

575
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,100
And set up a world that we 
desperately need. 

576
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,700
And so you and I have to be 
very, very careful, because when

577
00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:15,400
I speak about sleeping, what I'm
speaking about, a spiritual 

578
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,700
Slumber, and spiritual Slumber 
is simply this and inactivity or

579
00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:23,800
an unresponsiveness to the 
things of God or the events that

580
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:28,900
point to the necessity, to be on
alert, the inactivity in the 

581
00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:31,100
unresponsiveness, to the things 
of God. 

582
00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:36,300
When in fact, we should 
heightened our awareness, and 

583
00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:39,000
our involvement, and our 
participation in the things of 

584
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,200
God, because they events around 
his demand, such a posture and 

585
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,400
such a participation Let me read
this verse, you don't have to 

586
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:48,900
turn there. 
Look up, Paul tells the Romans, 

587
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:53,300
just just because people think 
sometimes we go overboard with 

588
00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:57,100
that kind of talk. 
Romans 13:11 besides this, you 

589
00:38:57,100 --> 00:39:01,800
know, the time that the hour has
come for you to wake from sleep.

590
00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:05,300
Paul says, wake up from sleep. 
Don't you realize the hour that 

591
00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:09,200
were in for salvation is nearer 
to us now than when we first 

592
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,600
believed. 
Stay on the Roman Church. 

593
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,400
I mean, even a few years after 
the church was birthdays, they 

594
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,300
fell asleep. 
How much more now wake up. 

595
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,800
Don't you see this? 
Don't you realize this Hebrews 

596
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:27,100
10 says, I'm paraphrasing that 
you should continue to meet and 

597
00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:31,200
encourage one another, all the 
more as you see the day Drawing 

598
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,300
Near, that's why we my heart was
broken that when a global 

599
00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:37,100
pandemic happened, we were 
closing churches down. 

600
00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:40,000
No, no Hebrews. 
Hebrews actually says have more 

601
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,600
meetings. 
Let me remind you, okay? 

602
00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:44,200
Just in case I offended somebody
there. 

603
00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:50,100
The Bible predicts not just one 
pandemic, but pestilence has a 

604
00:39:50,107 --> 00:39:51,800
plural. 
Are we going to shut our church 

605
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,000
down? 
Every time? 

606
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,800
There's a pestilence that breaks
out because more is coming 

607
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,600
according to the words of Jesus.
The church needs to be the 

608
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,800
church and we submit to the Lord
Of Glory. 

609
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,500
Not to the Caesar. 
In the White House. 

610
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,100
We'll see if this study stays on
YouTube after that. 

611
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:18,700
So Christians need a wake-up. 
Christians need to realize that 

612
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:20,700
the moment we become inactive is
the moment. 

613
00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:26,000
Satan is at the advantage. 
Which comes to the next Point as

614
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,200
our sister pointed out. 
What was that? 

615
00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:32,200
That they came in as though they
were grabbing wheat. 

616
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,200
This is deceptive and so we 
understand the relationship 

617
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:41,100
between them being from be Roth 
and their their scheme over 

618
00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:42,300
here. 
It makes total sense. 

619
00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:45,400
Now they came in a certain way. 
They came in Cloak with 

620
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,700
innocence with a different 
agenda when in fact they had a 

621
00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:54,300
murderous plot on their hearts 
and so they come in And they 

622
00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:56,200
look at a certain way. 
They act in a certain way they 

623
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,900
speak in a certain way when in 
fact that a dagger in their 

624
00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:03,600
hands ready to plunge it into 
the stomach of a man who thought

625
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,200
that he was safe enough to sleep
when he should have been on his 

626
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,800
guard. 
And I think that sequence is 

627
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,500
beautiful. 
I think the order of these 

628
00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:16,100
things is quite insightful. 
Because what we see here is that

629
00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:18,600
there is obviously a failure to 
discern who these men were and 

630
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,800
what they were doing, but that 
always follow spiritual 

631
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:26,000
drowsiness. 
He was asleep. 

632
00:41:27,100 --> 00:41:29,700
And it makes you wonder where 
the guards were at. 

633
00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:34,100
And because their guards were 
down literally because he was 

634
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:37,900
asleep unaware to be able to 
comprehend the events around 

635
00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:40,000
him. 
He could not see what was 

636
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,300
coming. 
And so there was a lack of 

637
00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:47,000
discernment there. 
And that cost him. 

638
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:52,000
His life deception is no small 
danger to someone who fails to 

639
00:41:52,008 --> 00:41:54,400
abide in the truth and walk in 
The Fellowship of the Holy 

640
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,500
Spirit. 
And with God's people, but it is

641
00:41:57,500 --> 00:42:03,900
a very small threat to somebody 
who's prayerful And who walks 

642
00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:07,700
with the Lord day by day and who
receives the word of God, on a 

643
00:42:07,707 --> 00:42:12,900
consistent basis. 
Such a person is strong and is 

644
00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:17,700
able even by the grace of God to
see past the things that are 

645
00:42:17,700 --> 00:42:21,500
masked with innocence and Purity
and harmlessness and to be able 

646
00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:24,200
to understand the danger that 
can be in the Horizon. 

647
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,300
Somebody who's walking with the 
Lord consistently is always a 

648
00:42:27,308 --> 00:42:32,800
few steps ahead of Satan. 
But someone who is not and is 

649
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,800
asleep spiritually just, just 
like what we see here there 

650
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:41,100
succumb to the schemes of the 
enemy without even seeing it 

651
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,000
coming their way. 
And I would tell you that the 

652
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,700
only way that you and I are 
going to have discernment and 

653
00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:50,700
these times were deception is 
going to intensify that's going 

654
00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:52,500
to be a major theme of the 
conference. 

655
00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:58,900
The lack of discernment is 
troubling among Christians. 

656
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,700
It is troubling. 
And so, we have to understand 

657
00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:05,900
that if we want to know, a 
heightened discernment and an 

658
00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:10,500
ability to be ahead of the 
enemy's schemes, then it's going

659
00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:15,200
to require to remain awake. 
The lack of discipline here, 

660
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,400
seen a Nishka, Seth can be 
paralleled to the lack of 

661
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:22,400
spiritual discipline and many 
today and that will contribute 

662
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:26,300
to many in filtrations whether 
personally or into the into the 

663
00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:30,900
church at Large. 
And this is why we have to 

664
00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:35,200
understand. 
That remaining awake when 

665
00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:37,500
especially circumstances around 
us. 

666
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:42,600
Are crying out. 
For answers, we got to be ready 

667
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,400
with those answers. 
We read on a verse 7. 

668
00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:50,700
When they came into the house, 
as he lay on his bed in his 

669
00:43:50,700 --> 00:43:53,800
bedroom, they struck him and put
him to death and beheaded him. 

670
00:43:53,900 --> 00:43:56,600
This is gruesome, this is 
vicious. 

671
00:43:57,500 --> 00:44:01,000
They took his head and went by 
the way, of their Arab all night

672
00:44:01,500 --> 00:44:04,200
and brought the head of ish 
bichette to David at Hebron. 

673
00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:07,400
And they said to the king. 
Here is the head of ish bichette

674
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,600
the son of Saul your enemy who 
sought your life. 

675
00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:15,000
The Lord has Avenged my Lord, 
the king this day on Saul and on

676
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:21,500
his offspring. 
Two things stand out here. 

677
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:27,500
One the way they address David. 
They were able to change their 

678
00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:31,400
Alliance very, very swiftly. 
Is this a genuine? 

679
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,600
Is this is genuine conviction. 
Absolutely not. 

680
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,700
They're no different than Abner.
When Abner was able to realize 

681
00:44:39,700 --> 00:44:45,400
we're on the losing team now. 
He changed teams in order to 

682
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,600
secure his position and preserve
his life. 

683
00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:53,400
These men are no different 
Abner's dead, like we're done. 

684
00:44:53,500 --> 00:44:55,800
It's just not going to work 
where a sinking ship time to 

685
00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:00,000
jump off and they attempt to do 
so and they come with the 

686
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,000
verbage and they come even with 
a parent. 

687
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,800
Fidelity and faithfulness and 
loyalty. 

688
00:45:07,900 --> 00:45:09,800
And the fact that this is 
repeated, I thought like this is

689
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,400
repeating a lot. 
This theme is repeating a lot 

690
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:13,900
and it's very very obvious. 
Why? 

691
00:45:13,900 --> 00:45:18,100
Because the holy spirit is 
trying to convey that, those who

692
00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:21,500
stand for nobility and those who
stand for righteousness. 

693
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,600
Often do so, went, it will bring
about some self-gratification 

694
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,700
preservation or promotion but 
when the sign up sheet, comes 

695
00:45:30,700 --> 00:45:38,300
out to stand for the truth. 
When it cost you it knows. 

696
00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:42,200
But very few names. 
And so be reminded of that. 

697
00:45:42,700 --> 00:45:47,300
Don't be surprised if those who 
stand for the truth will not do 

698
00:45:47,300 --> 00:45:50,300
so when it will cost them 
something even those that you 

699
00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:52,900
thought stood for the truth, 
don't be surprised if the 

700
00:45:52,900 --> 00:45:55,200
numbers diminish don't be 
surprised if you see people 

701
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,200
jumping ship. 
And that we have so many Old 

702
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,500
Testament pictures of that 
preparing us to see that this 

703
00:46:02,500 --> 00:46:05,800
will be a possibility in our own
Lifetime and it will because the

704
00:46:05,808 --> 00:46:09,000
Holy Spirit prophesied it but 
notice what else they do. 

705
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,900
Here is the head of is beset? 
The son of Saul your enemy who 

706
00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:17,900
saw your life the Lord. 
Avenged my Lord. 

707
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:25,000
The Lord Avenged my Lord. 
They put God's name with it. 

708
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,000
They attached the lord's name to
it. 

709
00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:34,000
Believers often believe that 
taking the lord's name in vain 

710
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:39,500
means throwing it out there with
Without respect, or as a 

711
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,400
expression of frustration or 
flippantly, that's not what it 

712
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:44,600
means to take the lord's name in
vain. 

713
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,400
That's in part. one of the 
greatest ways that we can take 

714
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,900
the lord's name in vain is when 
we take his name and attribute 

715
00:46:51,900 --> 00:46:57,600
it to a message or a decision or
behavior and say this is because

716
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:03,000
of God That is one of the most 
Blasphemous things to really do.

717
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,200
And this is exactly what they're
doing. 

718
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,000
They committed this murderous 
crime and they said well this is

719
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,800
God, God is behind this God 
encourages us and God is doing 

720
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:16,300
this for you, David and David 
wouldn't buy it. 

721
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,100
But I meditate on this and I 
thought. 

722
00:47:20,100 --> 00:47:23,700
Why do people do that though? 
And this is coming. 

723
00:47:23,700 --> 00:47:26,300
Now, I'm coming in from a 
pastoral lens because over the 

724
00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:28,700
years, I realized that many 
people do this. 

725
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,900
I've personally have been the 
recipient of it on so many 

726
00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:36,500
occasions. 
Somebody will come, somebody 

727
00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:38,600
will write, somebody will send a
message. 

728
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:45,500
God is telling you, God told me 
to tell you. 

729
00:47:46,700 --> 00:47:49,600
Okay. 
Why? 

730
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:54,400
And this I think at best its 
immaturity, it really is its 

731
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,200
spiritual immaturity. 
And there is Grace to be given 

732
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,400
for those especially when they 
first come to the faith. 

733
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,200
Where for some reason they think
that, you know, they're like 

734
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,300
Isaiah or Jeremiah and God is 
speaking to them about 

735
00:48:05,300 --> 00:48:08,300
everything and they want to tell
everybody what God spoke to them

736
00:48:08,300 --> 00:48:15,900
that's at best. but that's not 
the case and that, that Grace 

737
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,000
should be replaced with 
correction and serious 

738
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,300
correction, especially for those
who have matured in years in the

739
00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:27,300
faith And it's going to come off
strong, but it is strong because

740
00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:30,400
this is a very serious thing. 
I believe one of the reasons why

741
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:35,900
people can so easily associate 
God's name again, to message, or

742
00:48:35,900 --> 00:48:39,700
to a behavior or to a decision. 
Ready for this is because they 

743
00:48:39,700 --> 00:48:44,000
believe their name is superior 
to his Say whoa. 

744
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:49,700
What do you mean by that? 
I'll explain because they have a

745
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:54,900
purpose and they have a Pursuit.
Those are tribute God as a 

746
00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:58,800
source of a claim when it is not
true assume. 

747
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,600
That God's name will support The
credibility in the validation of

748
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:08,400
their own name. 
In other words, the reason why 

749
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,600
these men are doing what they're
doing is because they want to 

750
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,500
make it more convincing to 
David. 

751
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,800
And the reason why many people 
today run around and use God's 

752
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,700
name in vain is because they 
want to come off more convincing

753
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:25,400
and they believe that God's name
should serve their name as they 

754
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,800
try to make their name 
something. 

755
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,100
And that is really the ugliness 
of this. 

756
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,300
That's why that's why it's so 
horrendous. 

757
00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:40,600
And that's all it takes for some
people to believe somebody. 

758
00:49:40,700 --> 00:49:41,800
Oh God said it. 
Okay. 

759
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,300
And they submit to that and some
of them live tormented because 

760
00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:47,400
somebody said God said, and God 
told me to get it. 

761
00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:52,600
Listen, it's in the Commandments
God for saw that people would do

762
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,900
this regularly. 
And so don't be easily shaken. 

763
00:49:56,900 --> 00:50:03,400
Because somebody said thus says 
the Lord It's a tragedy and 

764
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:07,300
it's, it has created trainwrecks
throughout the ages. 

765
00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:11,800
But there's another reason why I
believe people do this and they 

766
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:13,800
actually the answer if you want 
to know, if you're interested 

767
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:15,900
and really again, I'm coming 
from pastoral perspective, 

768
00:50:15,900 --> 00:50:19,000
because I've seen I've seen the 
Sheep wounded by this. 

769
00:50:19,500 --> 00:50:22,000
I've seen so many people broken,
and so many people even 

770
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,600
tormented because at one point, 
10 years ago, somebody said God 

771
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:30,700
said When in fact it wasn't God.
Why do people do this? 

772
00:50:30,900 --> 00:50:32,600
Can I give you another strong 
reason. 

773
00:50:32,700 --> 00:50:37,000
It's actually found in a book 
where God often condemned those 

774
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:40,300
who kept saying thus says the 
Lord, the book of Jeremiah look 

775
00:50:40,300 --> 00:50:45,000
at Jeremiah 14:14 very quickly 
just to get an Insight of why 

776
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,000
this Behavior. 
So frequent. 

777
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,600
And why some are in the habit of
doing this. 

778
00:50:55,100 --> 00:50:57,900
Jeremiah 14:14, easy reference 
to remember. 

779
00:50:58,300 --> 00:51:01,700
But look at the look at the 
rebuke that the Lord offers. 

780
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,500
When he looks down from heaven 
and sees all these false 

781
00:51:05,500 --> 00:51:07,600
prophets running around saying, 
thus says the Lord, that says 

782
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,200
the Lord judgment isn't coming 
Invasion isn't coming. 

783
00:51:10,500 --> 00:51:14,300
Peace peace. 
And the Lord said to me, the 

784
00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:18,900
prophets are prophesying lies in
my name, I did not send them, 

785
00:51:19,100 --> 00:51:21,300
nor did I command them or speak 
to them. 

786
00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:26,000
They are prophesying to you a 
lying Vision worthless 

787
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,300
divination. 
And look at us and the deceit of

788
00:51:29,300 --> 00:51:32,100
their own minds that is 
powerful. 

789
00:51:33,100 --> 00:51:35,700
And the deceit of their own 
minds. 

790
00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:38,400
So, do you want to know why even
some today are running around in

791
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,500
churches and the whispering 
people God told me, I'll tell 

792
00:51:41,500 --> 00:51:46,700
you why, at least according to 
this verse, some people are so 

793
00:51:47,500 --> 00:51:51,600
Covetous or so Desiring, 
something to be true. 

794
00:51:54,300 --> 00:51:57,200
That they actually have come to 
a point where they believe God 

795
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:02,100
told them. 
So, it's so overwhelming. 

796
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:08,000
It's so gripping that they've 
come to a point where they 

797
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,900
actually believe that the Lord 
is the one who is behind, 

798
00:52:12,100 --> 00:52:15,000
whatever it is, that is rumbling
in their hearts. 

799
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:21,400
And Jeremiah is told that's the 
deceit in their own minds. so, 

800
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:25,600
they're actually under the 
persuasion that the Lord is the 

801
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:30,000
one behind this because they 
have misinterpreted their 

802
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:36,900
desires with his And so what you
have with many people and this 

803
00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:40,400
can slip and being very 
practical tonight this can slip 

804
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,700
and manifests even in dreams 
that people have. 

805
00:52:44,300 --> 00:52:46,500
So what you have is you want 
something so badly, you think 

806
00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:50,300
about something so often that it
pops up in your sleep because 

807
00:52:50,300 --> 00:52:52,700
it's there in your subconscious,
you've been entertaining it with

808
00:52:52,700 --> 00:52:57,000
much busyness comes, many 
dreams, And what has to be God? 

809
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:01,100
What has to be God? 
Because God spoke to Joseph in a

810
00:53:01,100 --> 00:53:06,000
dream of Anna and and just it's,
it's scary, it's really scary. 

811
00:53:06,900 --> 00:53:08,800
Now, there will be a time God 
willing where we can. 

812
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:16,300
We can spend a study on how God 
or can God speak in a subjective

813
00:53:16,300 --> 00:53:19,500
way. 
But oftentimes that's not the 

814
00:53:19,500 --> 00:53:23,500
case, you know, this and I have 
to say this, just in case people

815
00:53:23,500 --> 00:53:25,000
on YouTube are ready to find 
anything. 

816
00:53:25,700 --> 00:53:27,600
The word of God is God's way of 
speaking to us. 

817
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,700
Yes, but God can actually 
manifest in certain ways. 

818
00:53:31,100 --> 00:53:35,000
My concern is 99% of what people
say is. 

819
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:40,800
God is not God. 
And we see here that the 

820
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,500
contribution too much of God 
said, is the deception in their 

821
00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:48,200
own minds. 
We won't stop there because we 

822
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:49,800
have a few verses but we're 
almost there. 

823
00:53:51,900 --> 00:53:54,800
Let's go to 2nd Samuel for 
again, as we conclude. 

824
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,100
These men says the Lord has 
Avenged, my Lord, the king this 

825
00:53:59,100 --> 00:54:03,000
day on Saul and on his 
offspring, verse 9. 

826
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,800
But David answered with have 
been banned his brother. 

827
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,500
The sons of Ramon, the Beer 
Authority, as the Lord Lives who

828
00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:11,700
has redeemed my life out of 
every adversity. 

829
00:54:11,700 --> 00:54:15,500
I love that. 
As the Lord lives. 

830
00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:19,600
Now he's invoking the name of 
Lord in the right way, who has 

831
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:23,000
redeemed my life out of every 
adversity? 

832
00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:27,300
What's he trying to say there? 
Contrary to you, Brothers. 

833
00:54:28,100 --> 00:54:32,300
I experienced the Lord and the 
way where he delivered me and 

834
00:54:32,300 --> 00:54:36,800
brought me to this point without
the need of deception without 

835
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:40,700
the need of manipulation without
the need of unrighteous 

836
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:45,000
activity. 
God is the one who made a way 

837
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,700
God is one. 
Who brought me to this point. 

838
00:54:46,700 --> 00:54:49,800
God is the one who is behind all
my success, I did not need to 

839
00:54:49,808 --> 00:54:55,300
participate in any sinful manner
to advance the cause he paved 

840
00:54:55,300 --> 00:54:58,200
the path for me and remove every
obstacle without the utilization

841
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:02,700
of shady activity bribery or 
exploitation. 

842
00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:06,800
For you to murder. 
This innocent man. 

843
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,700
Is enough evidence for me to 
realize that God is not behind 

844
00:55:10,700 --> 00:55:14,400
what you're doing. 
The true God actually brought me

845
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:18,000
here without me needing to do 
anything. 

846
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,900
That would grieve him or 
dishonor him to arrive. 

847
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,900
This is a true man of God. 
This is this is a true person 

848
00:55:26,900 --> 00:55:29,900
who believes in God's leadership
in their lives. 

849
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,800
If God really will bring you 
somewhere God will do it and you

850
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:39,000
don't have to do anything. 
That would break his heart or 

851
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:43,700
take his name in vain. 
And then we come to verse 11 as 

852
00:55:43,700 --> 00:55:48,200
we close. 
He essentially says in verse 10,

853
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:50,900
the last time somebody said 
behold saw his dead and that he 

854
00:55:50,900 --> 00:55:55,000
was bringing good news lost his 
life verse 11, how much more 

855
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,600
when wicked men have killed a 
righteous man in his own house 

856
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:01,000
on his bed, shall I? 
Not now require his blood at 

857
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,100
your hand and destroy you from 
the earth and David commanded. 

858
00:56:04,100 --> 00:56:06,500
His young men, and they killed 
them and cut off their hands and

859
00:56:06,500 --> 00:56:10,100
feet, and hang them beside the 
pool at Hebron, but they took 

860
00:56:10,100 --> 00:56:13,100
the head of ishka shot and 
buried it in the Tomb of Abner 

861
00:56:13,100 --> 00:56:17,000
at Hebron. 
So David looks at these 

862
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,200
mayonnaise as you guys set 
yourself up, you exposed 

863
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:25,500
yourself, you're done. 
And as a king, who's supposed to

864
00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:30,000
execute Justice, he has them 
executed kind of breaks my heart

865
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,600
a little bit because we see that
he didn't do this with somebody 

866
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,200
else. 
Who did he not do this with? 

867
00:56:35,100 --> 00:56:37,200
He was supposed to do this with 
somebody else, but because he 

868
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:41,200
had a role that played in his 
success, he chose not to joab 

869
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,100
jaw. 
He didn't do this with joy. 

870
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,300
And so the inconsistency is a 
little disheartening but 

871
00:56:46,300 --> 00:56:48,800
nonetheless there is still 
something to applaud here. 

872
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:50,800
David wants to make it very 
clear. 

873
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,000
I will not condone this sin but 
more than He's doing something 

874
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,500
very, very strategic and 
important by condemning these 

875
00:56:57,500 --> 00:57:01,600
men, these men. 
He is bringing Clarity that he 

876
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:05,300
had no participation in this 
plot to the watching Nation. 

877
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,100
I had nothing to do with this 
man being removed. 

878
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:12,000
I did not, I did not try to 
extinguish saws house. 

879
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,600
This has nothing to do with me 
and I will prove it. 

880
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:18,400
The men who did this, I will 
have killed and so he is 

881
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,500
confirming the righteousness of 
his own testimony. 

882
00:57:21,700 --> 00:57:24,600
Listen to this bike. 
Condemning evil. 

883
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:30,100
And that is important because 
many people believe that our 

884
00:57:30,100 --> 00:57:33,800
relationship to sin as 
Christians is merely to shun it 

885
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:37,400
and not participate in it but 
the Bible actually calls us to 

886
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,300
go further than that. 
And how we deal with sin that is

887
00:57:40,300 --> 00:57:44,300
around us and Ephesians 5:11 is 
our last verse. 

888
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,500
It says very plainly. 
Take no part in the unfruitful 

889
00:57:48,500 --> 00:57:51,200
works of darkness but instead 
does anybody know the rest of 

890
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:52,800
it? 
Expose them. 

891
00:57:54,500 --> 00:57:59,800
Take no participation, no part, 
no affiliation. 

892
00:58:00,100 --> 00:58:03,300
Even to the point where he says,
don't even talk about these 

893
00:58:03,300 --> 00:58:07,200
things, because even mentioning 
certain sins in detail can be 

894
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:12,000
spiritually, harmful. 
But we are to do again. 

895
00:58:12,100 --> 00:58:16,000
Not just, this is yourself. 
Go further than that, expose 

896
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:16,700
them. 
You know what? 

897
00:58:16,700 --> 00:58:20,400
I means expose, confronted 
rebuke it. 

898
00:58:20,900 --> 00:58:26,100
Correct it challenge it, teach 
about it, clarify on it. 

899
00:58:27,700 --> 00:58:31,400
Expose them. 
And that's what David is doing. 

900
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:36,400
Because if the church is not 
careful to address certain 

901
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:40,400
things, then we put ourselves in
a position where we can confuse 

902
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,700
a watching world. 
Whether or not we are for it or 

903
00:58:44,700 --> 00:58:49,500
not for it. 
And I've heard pastors over the 

904
00:58:49,500 --> 00:58:53,300
years growing up as a Believer 
and even being in Ministry in 

905
00:58:53,308 --> 00:58:55,100
the past several years. 
I've heard different pastors 

906
00:58:55,400 --> 00:59:00,800
with with societal issues who 
refused to address these things 

907
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:04,500
publicly because they think that
it is not their job to bring 

908
00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:08,000
about clarification of where 
their Ministry stands on these 

909
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,200
things that are clear in the 
Bible and I agree don't make 

910
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,700
your Pulpit, something a soap 
box where you speak about every 

911
00:59:14,700 --> 00:59:18,000
single issue that comes up on a 
headline, but We are called to 

912
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,800
speak on societal issues when 
they're about Sin. 

913
00:59:23,300 --> 00:59:28,000
We should be. 
Because we want the church to be

914
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,400
informed and we want the 
watching world not to be 

915
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,900
confused of where we stand on 
these things. 

916
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:38,800
And that is how we solidify Our 
Testimony as David did here. 

917
00:59:38,900 --> 00:59:42,800
He made a statement of where he 
stood, according to the law of 

918
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,900
God based on his condemnation 
and not just his lack of 

919
00:59:46,900 --> 00:59:50,100
participation. 
And if we do that, then we will 

920
00:59:50,100 --> 00:59:52,900
know great success and being the
light of the world. 

921
00:59:53,700 --> 00:59:55,700
And that is why the days that 
were living in are so 

922
00:59:55,700 --> 00:59:59,600
significant because if you've 
noticed we've seen one moral 

923
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:04,000
issue Surface after the next, 
right? 

924
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,100
And it is not just shook the 
world, it has been shaking the 

925
01:00:07,100 --> 01:00:11,700
church and if you watch 
carefully what is actually 

926
01:00:11,700 --> 01:00:14,400
happening? 
Is there is a divide taking 

927
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:19,700
place and it's a good division 
what's actually happening Is the

928
01:00:19,700 --> 01:00:25,600
churches. 
Who refuse to expose sin are 

929
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:30,200
being exposed themselves? 
That makes sense the churches 

930
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:36,000
who refused to address and speak
about sin because these things 

931
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:39,700
in society are, pressuring 
people to speak up, they end up 

932
01:00:39,700 --> 01:00:42,900
confessing that they're actually
for these things. 

933
01:00:43,900 --> 01:00:48,600
I could not believe the 
deafening silence in the 

934
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:50,400
Evangelical world. 
When Roe v--, Wade was 

935
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,900
overturned. 
It was quiet. 

936
01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:01,400
It was too quiet. 
And you even had some who 

937
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,500
blatantly said, this is an 
assault on freedom. 

938
01:01:04,500 --> 01:01:07,100
God is about choice and I said 
this is it. 

939
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:10,400
This is it. 
And that's only going to 

940
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:16,000
intensify and it is by God's 
Sovereign, will that in the 

941
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,800
west, there's going to be a 
greater lying drawn between the 

942
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,700
true. 
And the deceived. 

943
01:01:24,100 --> 01:01:29,300
The true and the deceived. 
So these are exciting times may,

944
01:01:29,300 --> 01:01:33,500
I exhort you in closing. 
Stay awake. 

945
01:01:34,900 --> 01:01:38,500
Stay awake. 
Not time for not nap. 

946
01:01:40,100 --> 01:01:44,400
Not time to be asleep. 
Realize the prophetic 

947
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:47,600
significance of the signs of the
time. 

948
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,800
And choose to be a part of what 
God wants to do in a redeeming 

949
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:56,500
way in our generation Lori. 
Thank you for this Bible study. 

950
01:01:57,700 --> 01:02:00,200
But we realize that some things 
were repeated but we are 

951
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:04,400
creatures of repetition. 
We realize that some things were

952
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:06,600
new and we thank you for fresh 
truth. 

953
01:02:07,300 --> 01:02:08,700
The Lord. 
And this time, we just want to 

954
01:02:08,707 --> 01:02:12,400
respond to you in gratitude that
your word, even though thousands

955
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:18,500
of years written in a culture 
that is almost unrecognizable to

956
01:02:18,500 --> 01:02:22,200
our own in terms of how things 
work and technology and 

957
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:25,600
transportation, you still have 
things to tell us through that. 

958
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,500
Through that time in history, in
Israel's monarchy, you have 

959
01:02:29,500 --> 01:02:32,600
things to speak to us today. 
We bless you for that. 

960
01:02:32,700 --> 01:02:35,700
We thank you from everything 
that we heard today. 

961
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:42,900
That it came from your heart. 
Into our own Lord. 

962
01:02:42,900 --> 01:02:47,400
If there's anybody in here, Who 
recognizes that they are 

963
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:52,600
spiritually broken. 
And that they are a son or 

964
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:58,200
daughter of Adam. 
They hear the voice of the king 

965
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:02,300
to come. 
To sit at your table and you 

966
01:03:02,300 --> 01:03:04,800
have made a way through the 
cross of Jesus Christ. 

967
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:09,300
You have made a way through the 
blood of the Lamb to redeem 

968
01:03:09,300 --> 01:03:13,200
them. 
And to adopt them, may they 

969
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:17,400
sense your voice, beckoning 
them, and bidding them to 

970
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:21,700
surrender to your lordship. 
And to see the love of Jesus 

971
01:03:21,700 --> 01:03:24,900
Christ for them. 
Even in their Brokenness. 

972
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:27,200
We ask these things in Jesus 
name. 

973
01:03:27,700 --> 01:03:29,500
Amen. 
Can we stand and worship 

974
01:03:29,500 --> 01:03:30,000
together?