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First Samuel 24 meet me, there, 
please. 

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As many of the chapters, in 
Samuel have proved this is not 

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going to be settled in one 
session. 

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At least this chapter, there is 
just too much for us to quickly 

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glance over these verses and you
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the reason why in this chapter 
as you have in the past few 

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chapters, there's so much meat 
for us to Feast on, but I would 

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like for us to pray. 
One more time. 

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Before we open up God's word 
together. 

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Louis thank you. 
Written word. 

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We thank you o God, that it is 
through this word that you speak

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to your people. 
It is through the word that we 

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not only have your mind. 
Not only have your hearts Lord, 

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it is where we have life. 
It is where we know as we just 

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heard satisfaction and we just 
pray, oh God, that this would 

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not be a transfer of information
to the Mind merely, but that 

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Lord you would Revive Our Hearts
and that we would long for you 

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personally as a result of This 
study and so Lord. 

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We pray that every voice would 
be silence apart from the voice 

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of God, we pray O. 
Lord that no man would be seen 

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apart from the man Christ Jesus.
And we pray O Lord, that there 

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would be a sanctifying effect of
tonight's meeting on our lives. 

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We trust that by the power of 
the holy spirit, this will be 

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the case. 
And we give you glory in advance

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for it. 
In Jesus name we pray. 

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Amen, and amen. 
Let's just read this chapter the

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first seven verses together and 
it will expound beginning in 

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verse 1 of 1st Samuel 24. 
When Saul returned from 

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following the Philistines he was
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wilderness of in Getty. 
Then Saul took 3,000 chosen men 

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out of all Israel and went to 
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of the wild goats rocks. 
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the way where there was a 
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himself. 
Now David and his men were 

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sitting in the innermost parts 
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said to him. 
Here is the day of which the 

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Lord said to you behold, I will 
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and you shall do to him as it 
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Then David arose and stealthily 
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and afterward, David's heart. 
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corner of Saul's robe. 
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forbid that I should do this 
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anointed to put out my hand 
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Lord's anointed. 
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these words and did not permit 
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rose up and left the cave and 
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Fascinating fascinating. 
In fact, if you come to verse 

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one with me, you will see at 
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verse alone. 
If you remember, and this is the

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beauty of being in touch with 
the weekly Bible study because 

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it connects and you don't, you 
don't feel like you're missing 

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missing the whole context, but 
for the sake of just reminding 

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ourselves Saul had pursued David
and he was so close of capturing

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him in the previous chapter, but
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Providence, a messenger from 
Saul's Camp, came to tell him 

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that the Philistines are 
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And so Saul turned back and went
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While David escaped, one more 
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And we are told here. 
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that when Saul returned from 
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was told behold David is in the 
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Now we would read past that just
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but verse 1 tells us at least 
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Among other things, notice here,
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from following the Philistines, 
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the Philistines or that the 
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Saul actually saw victory over 
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And that should cause us to 
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I mean you're talking about a 
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against God. 
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is in an unrepentant State. 
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has already killed, so many 
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to kill God's next king in line.
And yet with all of that into 

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consideration, he sees success. 
He sees Victory and to the 

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Natural mind, we would say 
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Like this only no defeat failure
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Should not this man's Faith, be 
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his fate is accomplishment. 
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And we say how how is this the 
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Is this really fair? 
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reading this reminded me of so 
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that tell us to never Envy or 
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apparent success of sinners. 
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Prosper, we should not question 
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with them. 
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is not fair, but may, I remind 
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things. 
Number one, God is much slower 

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to judge, and we are much 
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And what's all is experiencing 
here in verse one is undeserved,

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there's no question about that, 
but can you reflect upon your 

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own life especially before you 
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Especially you who grew up in a 
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heard the word preached ever 
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and how much is God been 
merciful over you and forgiving 

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with all the things that you've 
done and secret all the things 

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that you've done to others, all 
the things mainly that you've 

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done against God. 
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after you got saved? 
How many times has he forgiven 

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you when he should have 
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You and me dead for representing
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hypocrite to others for causing 
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remain in unbelief and yet, God 
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And so, when you look at how saw
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getting away with something. 
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I didn't say contradictory, I 
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deals with his wisdom. 
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for the sake of the good of 
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those who don't deserve to be 
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Especially for those who serve 
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leaders. 
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use that as an example that in 
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twice. 
And yet God still let water come

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from that rock so that he can 
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were were parched, and who 
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wilderness. 
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later, but for the sake of his 
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Disobedience, he provided a 
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Thirdly when you look at 
something like this whatever 

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peace and prosperity they may be
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There is an appointment that God
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with him. 
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person whether it's in this life
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the road is going to prove that 
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with everything. 
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It is long and though it 
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eventually and we're going to 
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As you look at Saul seeing 
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He deserves to be embarrassed. 
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though. 
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Rejoice in God's mercy. 
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something else when he returned 
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he was told behold David is in 
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Now this is amazing because he's
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you would think that after you 
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So clearly from God, that you 
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that you would have been sobered
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questioned if what you were 
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You see every time that God 
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rescue David. 
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Right after his own Glory but it
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Saul. 
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David, you're fighting against 
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And yet, still the way he 
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new Hideout is no different than
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And before we get upset with 
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this news realized that men is 
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Sinners are no different today. 
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Saul here to His providential 
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persist, in their evil still. 
And I've seen it, you've seen 

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it, you're probably one person 
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What do I mean by that? 
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despite his common Grace, 
despite the sermons, despite the

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conviction, despite the people 
telling you and warning, you and

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trying to shake you up despite 
near-death experiences, despite 

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evil on large scales, despite 
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these things yet still man will 
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the Rebellion. 
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His stubbornness is a commentary
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Now we read in verse two, then 
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He takes 3,000 of his finest men
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pursued David. 
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learn here from David's 
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Okay. 
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here and you've walked with the 
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is not dogmatic. 
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Lord long enough and serving him
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about to say something you can 
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at least in this whole chapter, 
we are going to learn a rhythm 

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that is very common and shared 
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There's a frequency here of saws
attacks that speaks so 

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accurately of how the believer 
experiences great trials in his 

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life. 
The Bible Asher's you and I that

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our destination to Heaven is not
free from turbulence, there is 

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going to be great shaking. 
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sometimes they're shorter, 
sometimes they're great seasons 

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of pain and suffering. 
Yet one thing is for certain you

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are not going to go into heaven 
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You're going to get in there 
because of Jesus scars but 

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you're also going to get in 
there with your own scars for 

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living for Jesus. 
And what we see here is David 

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though, he has evaded saw and 
such a beautiful and 

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providential way in just a 
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He's about to experience yet. 
Another attack from Saul 

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believe, it's no different for 
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Is it not again? 
This is for those who are 

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familiar and serving God 
long-term, there are moments of 

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great trial. 
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of great peace. 
And if you've walked with God 

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long enough, even in those 
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every Christian is walking in 
the spirit and there's no 

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commotion and community and it 
seems like Ministry is 

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flourishing and flowing without 
any any resistance or 

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persecution, you know, down deep
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It's not going to be like this 
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That's not supposed to be a 
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It's a realistic mindset. 
It's a realistic mindset because

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if things are quiet in here 
among the Believers, you know 

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that there's something outside 
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And if there's no persecution 
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piece promotes a type of 
indifference and laziness within

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and and now people start acting 
up with in because they neglect 

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their own spiritual disciplines 
and other matters. and so, with 

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David here, he's showing us, God
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different times in the 
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be a consistent posture 
throughout at all and it is 

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demonstrated here with David and
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Believer you and I always have 
to be on guard. 

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In times of trouble, in times of
persecution, especially in times

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of Peace. 
When you've not, you have no 

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nothing other than laughter and 
memories and great success in 

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your spiritual walk. 
That is not a time to be 

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distracted. 
That is not a time to not be 

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disciplined David here after he 
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you know, guys, let's go on 
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Nothing wrong against vacation 
of talking about a spiritual 

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vacation because no matter where
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always in the Why don't we just 
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I mean, just no. 
No, they were still vigilant. 

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It got us helped us here, but we
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Here, we have to be careful. 
The enemy can come from any 

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place, we have to remain sharp. 
We have to remain sensitive. 

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We have to remain nourished. 
We have to remain strengthened. 

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That is a soldier mindset in the
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Because oftentimes what happens 
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are things that happen from 
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have so neglected, their 
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He remained smart, though, he 
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So listen to this. 
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the same posture? 
Listen, your nourish continually

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by God's word. 
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Bible. 
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you get fed with the word of 
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So that nothing shakes you You 
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You don't just pray when things 
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come. 
You don't just come to church 

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when you're in trouble, you 
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So that when Trouble Comes, you 
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wisdom and counsel and love and 
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David here is proving that And 
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3000 chosen men just like how 
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He amps up. 
He becomes more fierce when he 

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realizes. 
He didn't get you the way he 

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could get you last time. 
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Oh he doesn't love money. 
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and he tries to come from 
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All those this seems like a 
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Saul and David. 
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this chapter and you already 
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close. 
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approaching him and he was able 
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But this time Saul and David are
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ever been physically. 
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that's saw to the Sheepfold by 
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cave-in, Saul went in to relieve
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of the cave. 
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Here's this man. 
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unknowingly he just has to go 
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And he goes into a random cave, 
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knowing that the person he was 
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room. 
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depth of the KB Can. 
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experience. 
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new kind of test to his faith. 
David has had many Divine 

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Many, we've seen David outshine 
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sole person that would face a 
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We seen David fail and grow and 
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we've seen David clearly, 
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dependency on the Lord. 
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he didn't know the direction, he
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give me an answer. 
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has enrolled in in this chapter,
in the school of God, David is 

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about to now face, something 
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new kind of Temptation. 
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If you've never read the story 
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Imagine that you verse 3 was its
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what happens afterwards. 
How many Believers would think 

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or be tempted to believe that 
David is about to take out Saul?

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Saul is finally going to get 
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this point saw has outnumbered 
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David was the mouse. 
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Saul is outnumbered 602 one. 
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of those men to come and Jab him
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And this is done, it's over with
how many people When innocently 

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think that this is not just an 
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It's a god-given opportunity for
David to kill Saul. 

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This is God, giving this you on 
a silver platter just do it end 

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your suffering and your misery 
and this Chase and in fact move 

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forward with your life and 
become the next king. 

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Just kill the guy. 
And if you and I are tempted to 

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believe that or if we didn't 
know the story and we did come 

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to that thought, believing that 
was the case, then it would not 

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be the first time. 
That many followers of Jesus 

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have misinterpreted, what God 
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the lives of other people. 
remember when Jesus was walking 

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with his that his disciples in 
John chapter 9 and there was a 

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man there, born blind, and you 
know what, they ask their Rabbi 

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rabbi Was it this man sins or 
his parents sins that caused him

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to be to be born this way? 
And Jesus says, neither it 

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wasn't because of his sins. 
It wasn't because of his parents

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sins, but it's because this is 
going to set up a way for me to 

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reveal my glory. and I want to 
say to you today that many 

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followers of Jesus Christ, Put a
wrong commentary. 

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On people on situations on 
circumstances, whether it's 

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their own or it's others, you 
have people today, who still 

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think with the retribution 
principle, if you're suffering, 

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if there's Misfortune, if you 
have a disease, you might have 

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done something to make God. 
Angry must have been some 

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secrets in for your life, to 
turn out this way. 

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You're no different than the 
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And yet you have people also who
look at their own lives and they

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see their Misfortune and they 
put commentary on what God is 

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doing because they don't have an
understanding of the word of God

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and they don't understand the 
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times and so they are quick to 
say and even accuse God of his 

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goodness, they're quick to 
question God's love because of 

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delays in life. 
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children of God they think we'll
why isn't it happening to me 

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when it's happening to them? 
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not just give personal 
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others about what God is doing. 
When in fact, he is ways are not

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your ways and his thoughts are 
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And that is exemplified here by 
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Are giving a commentary what's 
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That is totally wrong, totally 
wrong. 

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Look what they say here at the 
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And the men of David said to 
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the Lord said to you behold, I 
will give your enemy into your 

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hand and you shall do to them as
I shall seem good to you. 

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I'm opening it up to ask. 
Can anybody find where God said 

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this to David? 
You've been here week after 

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week, where's this prophecy? 
If you can find it, I will 

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reward you. 
What's my point? 

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You can't find it. 
Why? 

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Because God didn't say it. 
God never told it was never 

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recorded here and and some would
say well just because it's not 

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recorded doesn't mean that it 
didn't happen, maybe it did 

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happen and it's just not it's 
not in the scriptures. 

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David's response to these men 
and verse 6 proves that God 

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never said it. 
In fact, what they were 

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suggesting was totally wrong So,
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These many are misinterpreting 
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And because they're excited. 
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themselves. 
And because they love their 

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leader and they have the best 
interest in mind for him. 

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They're encouraging him to do 
something that God didn't say to

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do. 
But in their enthusiasm, listen 

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to this. 
They know that David is such a 

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godly man that he only takes his
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And so what do they do? 
They formulate this in a way it 

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as though God is encouraging to 
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more relaxed and moving forward 
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It could be either that or they 
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This Moment. 
Like no way the most protected 

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man in Israel is using the 
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Just a few feet from us right 
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No, bodyguard, no. 
Nothing. 

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This has to be God. 
This has to be God. 

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So they whisper, can you imagine
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here? 
This is it. 

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Are you kidding me? 
David? 

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This is your shot. 
This is God. 

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Clearly doing this. 
Who knows what else? 

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They added the scripture 
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I don't want to add to the 
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those soldiers in the flesh, I 
probably said you could be king 

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right now. 
We don't have to hide in caves 

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anymore. 
We can establish godliness and 

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Israel again. 
This is it this is the new 

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chapter. 
That God had been prophesying 

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over you. 
This is why we're supporting you

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and look, God is making a way. 
So let's just do it. 

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Go kill him. 
You want to use my sword? 

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I don't know. 
Regardless of their excitement 

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regardless of how they Justified
it even if they included God's 

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name in it. 
The question is simple is a 

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right? 
Is it right? 

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And the answer is obviously not,
it's not right. 

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It's not right to kill a man. 
There is no justification for 

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him to assassinate the leader of
Israel. 

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And here's the point that you 
want to take out of this that no

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matter how we feel about 
something, no matter how 

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convinced we may be, what you 
and I have to come to is asking,

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is this an alignment with God's 
word? 

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After having a balanced 
understanding of God's word is 

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this, right? 
If you want to know how to 

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interpret, God's mind about a 
person. 

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Listen carefully, now about a 
situation, About a circumstance 

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about a decision. 
All you have to do the main way 

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of being safe is ask yourself 
this. 

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Does this line up with the 
balance comprehension of God's 

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word and I emphasize balanced 
because anybody can pretty much 

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Justified just about anything 
with one or two verses in the 

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Bible. 
Cults have started with one or 

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two verses in the Bible. 
Is fascinating, how people can 

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justify just about anything and 
have a verse to back it up? 

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And that's what these guys are 
essentially doing. 

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Was it God's will for David to 
become king? 

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It was God's will. 
You can say it was God's word, 

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God's word, declared that David 
would become king. 

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But was it God's will for David 
to kill him to arrive to the 

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throne? 
No. 

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And so you have to have a 
balance. 

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If you just have, it's God's 
will for you to be king. 

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You could think. 
All right, then this is the way 

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to do it, but when you 
understand the totality of 

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scripture, you realize, yeah, 
that sounds right, and it seems,

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right? 
But there's also this, that's 

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how Jesus combated, Satan's lies
with the scriptures. 

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Satan said it is written and 
Jesus said what it is also 

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written. 
Not just it is written. 

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He says yeah but you got it. 
You got to balance that verse 

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with this verse How do you 
explain this story with this 

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commentary in the Bible of that 
story? 

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This is where many Christians 
get themselves in trouble. 

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David being King was God's will.
But David killing King Saul to 

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get. 
There was was evil. 

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It was sin and I want to take 
this verse and I want you, and I

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to see just how clever sin is 
Let me put it this way. 

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I want you to see how Temptation
works, and David here is 

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experiencing a heavyweight of 
Temptation. 

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This wasn't just a, like a light
thing. 

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There were so many layers that 
made this extremely attractive 

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to David. 
So, look at verse 3 and I want 

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you to look at verse 3 in your 
Bibles and and you can, you can 

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answer give me some elements 
that would make this very 

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appealing to David. 
What are some Elements about 

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this temptation, that would 
persuade David more than usual 

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to move forward and 
assassinating Saul. 

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Say that again. 
Saul's alone. 

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Sure. 
So it's easy. 

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We just covered one part of it. 
Whose name was invoked into 

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this. 
We just we just read it. 

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Who got brought into the 
situation, God. 

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God, number one. 
Temptation. 

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00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:38,600
Is stronger. 
When God's words? 

453
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:45,300
Supposedly justifies it one of 
the ways that men Try to silence

454
00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:49,100
their conscience is if they have
enough understanding of God's 

455
00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:52,100
word, if they've grown up in a 
Christian home even if they are 

456
00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:57,700
genuine believers, they will try
to come to God's word and either

457
00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:01,700
intentionally try to twist it or
they are doing something wrong 

458
00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:05,100
because they have received a 
twisted word and have believed 

459
00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:08,500
it. 
So there is something that helps

460
00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:14,600
the the inner alarm by knowing 
that God's word apparently gives

461
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,000
the green light on it or he 
silent about it. 

462
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,100
And so so it's okay for me to 
continue in this. 

463
00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:23,600
Let me give you an example. 
I know of a young man many, many

464
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,200
years ago that before he was 
born again and though he grew up

465
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,000
in a Christian household. 
He went to Sunday school here at

466
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,700
the sermons, he had Christian 
parents but he was not born 

467
00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:34,500
again. 
He was living in the world and 

468
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:37,200
he was living at one point and 
great sexual sin. 

469
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,900
And his conscience was so 
alarmed and Disturbed that at 

470
00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:45,700
one point, he came to the Bible 
itself. 

471
00:29:46,700 --> 00:29:50,800
To try to find out if he could 
justify his behavior. 

472
00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:54,700
And this is how he was doing it,
he was looking for specifics. 

473
00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:57,900
That was the standard. 
I have to find specifics to my 

474
00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:01,500
immorality and if God is silent 
about those specifics and sure 

475
00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:07,600
enough he can give me some Grace
here. so you see how men tried 

476
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,700
to invoke God's name or go to 
compromising Christians to get 

477
00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:16,300
their Council and they try to 
ease the disturbance within 

478
00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:20,000
their soul by either silencing 
God's word altogether or 

479
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,600
manipulating God's word in order
to try to comfort them with a 

480
00:30:24,608 --> 00:30:28,500
false peace, peace, peace, that 
the false prophets, speak on 

481
00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:32,900
behalf of God, that gave those 
men of Israel, some comfort in 

482
00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:37,100
their sin So God's name is 
invoked though. 

483
00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:40,900
God never said it. 
And God's attributes today are 

484
00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:43,600
being used, manipulated Twisted 
to justify sin. 

485
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:44,900
God is love. 
Love is love. 

486
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,000
God is forgiving. 
He'll forgive, you know, any 

487
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,200
Christians, use that. 
I'll tell you it's garbage. 

488
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,400
Your theology brother is 
garbage. 

489
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,900
When you try to plan to sleep 
with somebody and you say God is

490
00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:02,300
merciful, he'll forgive us. 
That's an abuse of the grace of 

491
00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:07,500
God. 
And so men, try to come to God's

492
00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:10,600
word and manipulate in twist, in
order to bring themselves to it 

493
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,000
and he's in their conscience. 
But let me ask you this 

494
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,900
question, who is suggesting it 
to David? 

495
00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:23,300
His friends. 
His closest friends, his devout 

496
00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:27,200
followers. 
Those that have sacrificed so 

497
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,700
much for him, those that have 
surrendered everything to 

498
00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:33,300
support him. 
And here's the problem. 

499
00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:37,200
This is not the first time that 
David's friends have suggested 

500
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,100
something contrary to God's 
word. 

501
00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:42,800
Remember When God says go and 
defend kiella, remember that? 

502
00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:45,000
What did all the rest say we're 
afraid? 

503
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,700
We're already afraid here in 
Judah. 

504
00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:48,600
Now you want us to go fight 
against the Philistines. 

505
00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:52,900
And so, David's friends though 
they were good-hearted, they 

506
00:31:52,908 --> 00:31:56,600
were not mature and faith and 
so, they were an obstacle to 

507
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,300
David. 
I one point and now they're an 

508
00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:03,200
obstacle again, They're now 
suggesting to David encouraging,

509
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:08,200
David to kill the king. 
And here's the point that I want

510
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,000
to make this may shock you this 
this point may shock you, but 

511
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,300
it's true. 
Nonetheless, and I want to give 

512
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:16,000
you a biblical biblical evidence
for that. 

513
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,700
Listen to this. 
Satan knows that there are 

514
00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:23,400
certain people in our lives. 
That carry more influence than 

515
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,400
others. 
Satan knows that there are 

516
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,700
relationships in our lives that 
hold more weight than others and

517
00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:38,400
because of that, Satan will find
a way to lie to them so that 

518
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:45,600
they can lie to you. 
You thinking brother, you're 

519
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,500
reading way too much into this, 
this is extra biblical. 

520
00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:54,600
Is it really What did Jesus tell
his closest friend when he 

521
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,000
suggested to him? 
Not to go to the Cross, get 

522
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,700
behind me, Peter No, get behind 
me. 

523
00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:04,700
Satan, you know what's 
interesting about that. 

524
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:12,000
Peter though, he was a follower 
of Jesus Jesus, criticize 

525
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,800
rebuked. 
The representative of the 

526
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:19,000
Apostles because afterwards, he 
says, for you have set your mind

527
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,400
as a man does and not on the 
things of God. 

528
00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:27,400
In other words, you're thinking 
worldly and because of Peters 

529
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,200
worldly mindset, Satan's lies 
were believable and then he 

530
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,600
began to now cause Jesus to be 
tempted and it all started with 

531
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,900
an Open Door from a follower of 
Jesus Christ. 

532
00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:43,200
I know this is, this is like, 
what, what are you suggesting? 

533
00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:47,600
I'm suggesting this, that when 
Satan tempted, Jesus directly, 

534
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,200
he failed. 
So, what did he do? 

535
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,100
The next thing was this. 
Well, if I couldn't do it 

536
00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:54,300
directly, let me go through one 
of his closest followers. 

537
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,800
All satan wanted. 
Jesus to do, was not get to the 

538
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,400
Cross. 
You want the world? 

539
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:05,000
I'll give you the world. 
It just just take a shortcut. 

540
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Don't go to the cross. 
Jesus with the scriptures 

541
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
defeated Satan and that moment. 
So what I say to do is the 

542
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:18,000
clever devil that he is, he 
whispers into a man's mind who 

543
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,300
was worldly and is thinking and 
through Peter, try to convince 

544
00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:29,199
Jesus, not to go to the cross. 
So here's what I want to tell 

545
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:35,900
you today. 
No matter how much you love 

546
00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:39,100
somebody, no matter how much 
somebody claims to love you, no 

547
00:34:39,107 --> 00:34:40,800
matter the history of your 
relationship with that 

548
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,600
individual, people are 
susceptible to get into the 

549
00:34:43,607 --> 00:34:46,800
flesh, even followers of Jesus 
Christ. 

550
00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:48,199
Here's the point that I want to 
make. 

551
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,900
It doesn't matter. 
Who says it? 

552
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,300
What they say doesn't matter. 
Your history with that person 

553
00:34:53,699 --> 00:34:56,800
God's word Trump's over man's 
word. 

554
00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:04,300
Every time, every time. 
And David here is going to prove

555
00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:07,000
that that even though 600 
unanimously are trying to 

556
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,800
convince him a go one way, God's
word was more important and more

557
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,400
authoritative than the word of 
600 men. 

558
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,900
And I'm telling you not to 
condemn others, not to think 

559
00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:22,100
that people are demon possessed,
who have the Holy Spirit and I'm

560
00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:25,300
not saying that. 
What I am saying is this that we

561
00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:28,900
have to be so wise and 
Discerning that even people that

562
00:35:28,900 --> 00:35:32,600
love you. 
Even people that claim to love 

563
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:37,700
God, like these men like Peter. 
If what they say doesn't line up

564
00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:41,600
with God's word, you always 
stand by God's Eternal, 

565
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:48,600
unchanging Council always And 
that's what David's about to do.

566
00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:53,600
That's what our lord Jesus did. 
That is what you and I have to 

567
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,200
do. 
Lastly, there's something else 

568
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,400
here. 
We consider the fact that God's 

569
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,000
name was invoked. 
Now as you're hearing this, 

570
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,100
think about David was a man, 
think about the weightiness of 

571
00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:07,700
this God's name you have 600 
people saying. 

572
00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:14,000
God is telling you to do this. 
Wow, it wasn't even like 90/10 

573
00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:17,900
100%. 
You have 600 people who have 

574
00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:21,300
your best interests in mind who 
are giving you advice. 

575
00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:24,000
We're giving you counsel but it 
contradicts God's word. 

576
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,100
What are you gonna do? 
And lastly, you have the 

577
00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:34,500
personal interest, the ends that
can be achieved if you do this, 

578
00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:39,500
imagine what can be finished 
once and for all if David just 

579
00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:44,200
kills Saul Imagine that peace. 
The harmony. 

580
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:48,000
Imagine you can arrive to the 
throne much earlier. 

581
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,800
This is taking forever. 
And this is the Temptation. 

582
00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:57,700
David knew he was going to be 
king and sometimes she needed to

583
00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:01,100
be reminded of that. 
But the thing that was tricky 

584
00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:05,200
here was that there was a an 
offer for an early fulfillment 

585
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:10,900
of that. 
There is no doubt that David was

586
00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:14,100
going to arrive. 
But in this moment, he can have 

587
00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:16,100
it now. 
Much sooner. 

588
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:23,000
Suffering can be spared. 
Seems like all of this is done 

589
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,700
for his favor and for his 
benefit. 

590
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,400
But let me say this, just 
because an ambition is good, it 

591
00:37:30,408 --> 00:37:33,200
does not permit us to use, 
sinful means to get there. 

592
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:39,000
Just because the end might be 
good, it will never justify sin 

593
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,100
to obtain it. 
Never forget this no matter how 

594
00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:45,800
profitable something is. 
No matter how much good you 

595
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,800
think that you can promote, and 
accomplish if you get there, if 

596
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,700
it is not done. 
According to God's ways, you 

597
00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:55,000
will not have God's ultimate 
blessing on it. 

598
00:37:57,100 --> 00:37:58,500
Is this not true among 
Believers? 

599
00:37:58,500 --> 00:38:03,400
How many Believers are 
constantly tempted with a less 

600
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:09,100
costly way of doing something? 
How many Believers are tempted 

601
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:14,300
to shortcuts in life and those 
shortcuts are sin? 

602
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Sinful ways of arriving 
somewhere. 

603
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,500
So I think of Christian 
businessmen. 

604
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,600
Who want a quicker way to make 
money. 

605
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,600
And so they will lie, they will 
cheat. 

606
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,800
They might even justify and say 
I have more to give to the 

607
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,100
church if I make more if I have 
more property and so they 

608
00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:34,500
deceive and they write false 
information and they tell their 

609
00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:39,500
employees to not, be honest, how
many single Christians can't 

610
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:41,600
imagine living another year 
being single. 

611
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,700
So they'll take a shortcut and 
they will justify marrying 

612
00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:50,500
somebody who's not saved because
that's how much they longed for 

613
00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:54,100
companionship and for a family. 
So, so we'll take a shortcut to 

614
00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:59,400
arrive to God's desire for them.
How many people in lust for 

615
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,600
something as holy as a Ministry.
Position will manipulate 

616
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,600
people's minds and make politics
within the church. 

617
00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:09,100
So they can poison people 
because somebody's in the way of

618
00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:10,600
what they want and they want to 
do it. 

619
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,800
Apparently, in the name of God, 
do you see Do you see how this 

620
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,600
temptation is very relevant to 
many people's lives today? 

621
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:21,900
Temptation is much more 
desirable when it offers a 

622
00:39:21,900 --> 00:39:25,900
shortcut to things. 
When it can bring things. 

623
00:39:25,900 --> 00:39:28,400
Now when it could bring things 
quicker, when there's more 

624
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,100
fulfillment that can be known. 
And yet I will tell you this 

625
00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:35,800
that a Spirit-filled Christian 
will be much more satisfied and 

626
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,100
knowing that they are pleasing 
God. 

627
00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:39,600
Even though there is a delay on 
whatever blessing they are 

628
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:46,200
hoping for So now David has a 
mountain. 

629
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,500
Of Temptations on his shoulders.
Apparently you have God's name, 

630
00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:55,000
invoked in it, you have your 
friends telling you to do it and

631
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,300
now you have even your personal 
interest freedom from suffering,

632
00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:04,000
you can now govern, you can be 
king, you can see, God's will 

633
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,900
performed and you're thinking, 
what is he going to do? 

634
00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:11,700
And with suspense in our hearts,
as we're reading it, David 

635
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:16,700
doesn't answer them at all and 
with the Assassin abilities that

636
00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:21,000
he As a mighty warrior as saw, 
there is taking care of his 

637
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,900
personal business. 
Most likely facing away from 

638
00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:27,200
David and his men. 
He stopped, Ali comes to this 

639
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,500
King. 
And like any King in that day 

640
00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:33,800
would have a long robe that 
would symbolize their Authority.

641
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,900
David pulls out his dagger and 
the men behind watching from the

642
00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:42,200
womb of that cave or probably 
celebrating inwardly. 

643
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,000
Like this is it man we're 
getting out of this thing. 

644
00:40:45,100 --> 00:40:46,600
I'm getting one room in the 
palace. 

645
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,500
I'm getting that and there 
they're just here it is. 

646
00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:55,500
He pulls out that dagger he 
approaches saw saw has no clue. 

647
00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:58,400
He's probably whistling himself 
to his death in a moment. 

648
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,600
And as he lifts up his hand, men
are thinking, maybe he's going 

649
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:07,700
to go right for the jugular, he 
brings it low and he cuts a 

650
00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:11,900
piece of fabric. 
Off of Saul's rope. 

651
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:16,900
And he back, pedals into the 
shadows of that cave. 

652
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:26,100
And then we read verse 5. 
And afterward. 

653
00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:31,200
David's heart, struck him. 
Because he had cut off a corner 

654
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:37,500
of saws rope. 
So, David Cuts, just a piece. 

655
00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:38,900
I wonder if it was the color 
red. 

656
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:41,900
He had a piece of the robe in 
his hand. 

657
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,800
And he comes back to his men and
I don't know what the response 

658
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,200
of the men were like, probably 
like, what are you doing? 

659
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,000
Get back there and kill him. 
And we're about to find out, 

660
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000
maybe there were like, I'm gonna
do it myself because it says 

661
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,700
that he restrains them. 
In that moment, David wasn't 

662
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:01,800
concerned about anything else 
other than his conscience. 

663
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:08,400
His heart struck him. 
That word struck is a very 

664
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,400
powerful word. 
It's the same word that is used 

665
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:15,700
in Exodus to 12, where Moses 
saw, an Egyptian mistreating, a 

666
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:18,200
Jewish slave and he looked 
around to see if there is 

667
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:24,200
anybody watching and he slew 
That Egyptian Soldier and he 

668
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,400
buried them, it's the same word 
for kill. 

669
00:42:28,100 --> 00:42:34,600
His heart was smitten, it was 
stricken it exploded with 

670
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:41,300
conviction, imagine that just 
for cutting a piece of Saul's 

671
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:43,800
robe. 
What would have become of the 

672
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:48,100
man? 
If you actually killed Saul, I 

673
00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:52,700
read this verse verse 5 first, 
Samuel chapter 22, 24 verse 5, 

674
00:42:53,100 --> 00:42:56,800
many years ago and it has 
greatly impacted. 

675
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,400
My walk with the Lord, 
particularly in my fight against

676
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,600
sin. 
Why? 

677
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:08,700
Because what you have here is a 
man with a very, very sensitive 

678
00:43:08,700 --> 00:43:12,500
conscience. 
I mean David is proving much 

679
00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:15,100
already. 
He has proven that he will not 

680
00:43:15,100 --> 00:43:21,400
get to the throne knowing that I
got here because I killed Saul, 

681
00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:24,500
he subtle with himself. 
If I'm going to go where God 

682
00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:26,600
tells me, I'm gonna go, God's 
gonna have to do it. 

683
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,200
Secondly, we learned that this 
man did not have bitterness 

684
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,700
against Saul when he had the 
opportunity to do more harm to 

685
00:43:32,707 --> 00:43:35,600
the one who is creating much 
misery in his life. 

686
00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:41,100
He did not take vengeance. 
But more than that, more than 

687
00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:42,100
that. 
More than that. 

688
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:48,200
This man here, it's incredible. 
The purity of his soul is on 

689
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,400
Full display here. 
He could not handle the fact 

690
00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:57,600
that he actually, he actually 
did something to him those so 

691
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:03,100
insignificant and small. and 
here's the point that I want to 

692
00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:09,100
make, This is a great thing to 
have in life. 

693
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,600
It is a great thing to feel 
great pain, for small sins. 

694
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,600
Listen, God has instituted many 
restraints and creation. 

695
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:26,800
He has provided institutions and
he has even provided an inner 

696
00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:30,200
faculty. 
It's called a conscience. 

697
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:35,500
And what a conscience does is 
that it accuses you when you do 

698
00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:42,600
wrong and it rewards you, when 
you do write it celebrates, when

699
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:47,700
you are walking righteously. 
And it condemns you, when you 

700
00:44:47,700 --> 00:44:51,000
are doing something that is, 
contrary to the sense of 

701
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,900
morality that God is established
in the universe. 

702
00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:58,700
And here's the thing. 
That restraint that God has put 

703
00:44:58,700 --> 00:45:01,800
in every single human being by 
the way. 

704
00:45:03,100 --> 00:45:05,500
What is that? 
By the way, what is that? 

705
00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:08,200
How do humans have that I often?
Say? 

706
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,900
Those who believe that? 
They've come from animals. 

707
00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:13,800
Don't you ever wonder how 
monkeys don't have a Judicial 

708
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,700
System? 
Humans do. 

709
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:23,900
Do cats and dogs have a prison 
system humans do. 

710
00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:27,100
There is something that we've 
been wired with. 

711
00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:32,000
That knows right from wrong and 
people are trying to explain it 

712
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:37,700
away and for a reason schools 
are trying to teach the media is

713
00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:40,200
trying to do something with 
man's conscience. 

714
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:45,500
Have you noticed they are trying
to blur as much as possible this

715
00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:50,200
concept of right and wrong. 
They want to eliminate this, 

716
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,800
this idea which is God's doing 
that. 

717
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,900
There is objective morality in 
the world. 

718
00:45:57,700 --> 00:46:02,600
And so, what's happening here is
that the enemy wants to wants to

719
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,100
silence people's consciences? 
Because that is one of God's 

720
00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:11,500
restraints in society when you 
silence people's consciences 

721
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:18,000
evil, becomes more accessible. 
And people are more willing to 

722
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,900
sin without hesitation or a 
second thought. 

723
00:46:23,500 --> 00:46:26,500
So there's no right and wrong. 
Hey, if your shirt is black and 

724
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:28,300
you want it to be green, let it 
be green. 

725
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:33,700
Hey if it feels good, do it. 
If if you want it you can have 

726
00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:35,500
it. 
What is that? 

727
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:40,500
That is training the conscience 
to not listen to the voice. 

728
00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:44,000
That says this is wrong. 
This is right. 

729
00:46:47,300 --> 00:46:50,700
And I want to show you how that 
is the case I want to show you 

730
00:46:50,700 --> 00:46:55,200
how this conscience that God has
given every man, you can either 

731
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,000
train it to become more 
sensitive and that preserves you

732
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:04,200
for much trouble or you can. 
So damaged it That's in. 

733
00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:10,000
Is a reality in your life. 
As breathing is go to. 

734
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,000
First Timothy, I want you to see
this. 

735
00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:30,100
In chapter 4. 
Here's what the scripture says 

736
00:47:30,100 --> 00:47:32,300
in verse 12 1st Timothy 4 verse 
1. 

737
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,200
Now the spirit expressly says 
that in later times some will 

738
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,900
depart from the Faith by 
devoting themselves to 

739
00:47:38,900 --> 00:47:42,300
deceitful, spirits and teachings
of demons through the 

740
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:46,800
insincerity of liars, whose 
consciences are seared. 

741
00:47:48,100 --> 00:47:52,100
Notice the equation here, Paul, 
by the spirit is warning that in

742
00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:54,500
the last days you're going to 
have more and more people 

743
00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:58,700
teaching, things contrary to the
Bible or twisting the Bible. 

744
00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:01,200
It's going to become more and 
more Uncommon and here's the 

745
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,800
cause how is it that you're 
going to have people behind 

746
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:05,300
pulpits? 
How is it that you going to 

747
00:48:05,308 --> 00:48:10,300
people in popular TV shows and 
podcasts teaching others demonic

748
00:48:10,300 --> 00:48:14,900
things the cause is here? 
Their consciences are seared. 

749
00:48:16,700 --> 00:48:21,300
Meaning it's burned and just 
like how if you burn your nerve 

750
00:48:21,300 --> 00:48:23,600
endings? 
Severely enough you lose 

751
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,700
sensation in them. 
What Paul is saying here is that

752
00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:32,200
these men have so callous, their
souls, that they have no issue, 

753
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,600
spewing lies, it doesn't bother 
them or keep them awake at 

754
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:40,400
night. 
One bit, So how could they lie 

755
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,600
in a way that would damn people?
Well, it started with the fact 

756
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,600
that they've silenced their 
conscience, They have sold 

757
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,900
burned. 
Their inner alarm system that 

758
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:53,200
they are capable of doing this 
knowing that it can destroy 

759
00:48:53,200 --> 00:49:00,200
people. 
And that is a dangerous thing 

760
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:06,200
when you no longer able to feel 
guilt, shame, hesitation 

761
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:12,000
discomfort, fear, a healthy fear
regret, especially those who are

762
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,100
outside of Christ. 
I'll get to the how we should 

763
00:49:14,100 --> 00:49:18,600
feel outside inside of Christ. 
But when man, fails to feel 

764
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:23,200
these things, Sin will become 
more rampant. 

765
00:49:24,900 --> 00:49:26,700
Devious schemes will become 
more. 

766
00:49:26,700 --> 00:49:33,000
Common people will be destroyed.
and so one of Satan's strategies

767
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,900
as we're seeing them full 
display is to make sure that 

768
00:49:35,900 --> 00:49:41,000
this thing that restrains man 
from going too far, Would be 

769
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:45,300
muted as much as possible. 
It's the same idea as pain pain,

770
00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:52,200
physically is good. 
Is good. because when I put my 

771
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:59,000
hand on top of a heated stove, 
it's pain that goes, ah, and we 

772
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,900
can liken that to the conscience
when a conscience is sensitive 

773
00:50:02,900 --> 00:50:07,100
and it's doing something right, 
it promotes you to retract and 

774
00:50:07,100 --> 00:50:12,700
from continuing in that sin But 
my question is this, how does a 

775
00:50:12,700 --> 00:50:15,800
man come to the point where they
see her their conscience? 

776
00:50:17,100 --> 00:50:20,500
How does it may come to a point 
where they so burn up that part 

777
00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:23,600
of their inner faculty? 
That there are willing to live 

778
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,700
in sin to their own 
self-destruction and the 

779
00:50:25,707 --> 00:50:28,400
destruction of others, isn't it?
Relieving to know that the 

780
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:29,900
answer is found in the same 
book. 

781
00:50:30,700 --> 00:50:33,100
Go to chapter 12, First Timothy,
and verse 19. 

782
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:42,500
There's a little phrase that we 
might Overlook first Samuel 119,

783
00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:45,800
and here's what we're told. 
Holding faith and a good 

784
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:53,400
conscience by rejecting this. 
Some have made shipwreck of 

785
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,100
their faith. 
Rejecting, what? 

786
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,900
Not just the faith, but a good 
conscience. 

787
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,700
The word rejecting means to 
repel. 

788
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:11,100
It means to push away. 
It means to continually reject. 

789
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,100
T'. 
What we are being told here is 

790
00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:18,500
that the way a person arrives to
a seared conscience is they 

791
00:51:18,500 --> 00:51:21,400
weren't born that way. 
Though, they might have 

792
00:51:21,700 --> 00:51:25,900
developed early on, they've 
learned to ignore it. 

793
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:29,800
So this is what happens, you 
ready? 

794
00:51:30,100 --> 00:51:32,800
And it could be possible that 
somebody listening today is in 

795
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:34,900
the very process of what I'm 
about to describe. 

796
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,800
You do it the first time and you
feel intense guilt. 

797
00:51:39,300 --> 00:51:42,600
You lose sleep that night. 
You can't believe that you've 

798
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:44,100
brought yourself to do such a 
thing. 

799
00:51:45,900 --> 00:51:49,400
There's no repentance, not least
heartfelt repentance. 

800
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,600
So you do it again and you 
still, you still feel that Rush 

801
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,400
of disgust of embarrassment, 
Maybe. 

802
00:52:02,500 --> 00:52:05,000
And your conscience tells you 
don't you ever do that again. 

803
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:12,200
You do it again, the fourth 
time, the tenth time, and that 

804
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,000
voice that was trying to 
negotiate with you before doing,

805
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:19,600
it is getting quieter and 
quieter and that feeling of 

806
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:24,200
disturbance. 
It's like a whisper now. 

807
00:52:25,700 --> 00:52:29,000
And now for something you find 
yourself, not only in it, but 

808
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,000
doing things that you never 
thought you would do watching 

809
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,200
things, you thought you never 
watch handling things. 

810
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:34,700
The way you never thought you 
would handle it. 

811
00:52:35,700 --> 00:52:39,400
And how a person arrives there 
is that they have trained to 

812
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:46,500
ignore their conscience. and it 
can come to a point where it 

813
00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:54,000
becomes so insensitive that the 
feeling is gone, And that's why 

814
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:59,500
you can have people who kill. 
they're serial murders and it's 

815
00:52:59,500 --> 00:53:03,900
like, And then you watch him in 
interviews and you think they 

816
00:53:03,900 --> 00:53:05,600
look. 
So they talk normal. 

817
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:08,100
They look like a guy that would 
live down my street. 

818
00:53:08,100 --> 00:53:10,200
Yeah, they have seared their 
conscience though. 

819
00:53:11,900 --> 00:53:15,900
And that's why there are people 
who are liars and they don't 

820
00:53:15,900 --> 00:53:18,300
even realize that they're like 
sometimes there's there's 

821
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,800
there's so they're so used to 
doing that and ignoring it. 

822
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:23,900
And perhaps, they've even 
thought themselves, I've gotten 

823
00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:27,200
away with it, I've gotten much 
from it, I've made much great 

824
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:29,400
moves because of it and so now 
they lie. 

825
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,000
They don't even realize they're 
lying is just like them talking,

826
00:53:32,100 --> 00:53:34,900
what happened? 
They've seared their conscience.

827
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,500
By rejecting this. 
Look at the result. 

828
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:43,700
They have made shipwreck like a 
boat crashing into rocks. 

829
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,400
Is what happened to their 
relationship with the Lord? 

830
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:52,200
By rejecting, not just their 
faith, but their conscience and 

831
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,600
I read that I go. 
Well, now I know how to silence 

832
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:56,300
my conscious, but that's not my 
concern. 

833
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,200
That's not my concern. 
My concern is, how can I make it

834
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:05,400
sensitive? 
My desire is I want to be like 

835
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,200
David and that's what I was 
alluding to earlier. 

836
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,600
I read this many years ago and I
thought to myself, I want that 

837
00:54:13,300 --> 00:54:18,700
Lord, I so want my soul to be in
tune with you, because remember,

838
00:54:18,700 --> 00:54:22,700
the robe symbolize saws 
Authority, and in David's, Mind 

839
00:54:22,700 --> 00:54:27,500
by cutting a piece of the robe, 
he assaulted to a degree saws 

840
00:54:27,500 --> 00:54:34,300
Authority, How do I get there? 
How do I arrive there? 

841
00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:37,300
How do I keep it tender? 
How do I keep it soft? 

842
00:54:37,700 --> 00:54:39,600
How do I keep it in tune with 
God? 

843
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,800
How do I keep it from taking me 
places that I don't want to go 

844
00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:45,100
go back to 1st Samuel, 24, and 
you'll find out. 

845
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,900
It's in verse 6 of first Samuel,
24. 

846
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:56,000
He said to his men being David. 
The Lord forbid that I should do

847
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,000
this thing to my Lord, the 
Lord's anointed to put up my 

848
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,700
hand against them seeing. 
He is the Lord's anointed. 

849
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:03,600
Is there a name that's repeated 
there? 

850
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:09,300
Three times. 
Yahweh is mentioned in one verse

851
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,600
when he says my Lord concerning 
Saul, it's not the same name. 

852
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:16,900
That's just a title Master, 
three times. 

853
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,700
David looks at his men in that 
cave, says God. 

854
00:55:23,900 --> 00:55:26,700
God. 
God God. 

855
00:55:28,900 --> 00:55:34,200
He knew what God's word said 
about unjust killing and he knew

856
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,100
God's Will. 
And he knew that God's will up 

857
00:55:37,100 --> 00:55:43,000
to this point is that saw was 
the appointed Authority. and so 

858
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:48,000
in his mind, what face this 
mountainous layers of 

859
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:54,800
Temptation, Was God's word, 
God's word, God's will the Lord,

860
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,000
the Lord? 
The Lord. 

861
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,200
I didn't tell Daniel was going 
to Pastor Daniel was going to 

862
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,500
reference this verse but he read
in the beginning of the service 

863
00:56:03,900 --> 00:56:06,200
I was thinking to myself. 
Is there a Psalm though? 

864
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,600
We don't know a song for this 
chapter but is there something 

865
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:12,100
that David had said where he can
he can show us that it was 

866
00:56:12,100 --> 00:56:15,500
really God's word that prevented
from doing certain things and it

867
00:56:15,500 --> 00:56:21,600
was in Psalm 17 listen to this. 
Psalm 17 the half of it verse 4 

868
00:56:21,700 --> 00:56:28,100
David says by the word of your 
lips, I have avoided the ways of

869
00:56:28,100 --> 00:56:33,700
the It. 
By the words of your lips, I 

870
00:56:33,700 --> 00:56:37,600
have avoided the way of islands 
because I knew your word. 

871
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:42,100
I didn't kill Saul. 
And I didn't listen to the 600 

872
00:56:42,100 --> 00:56:46,000
who are telling me to kill Saul.
How do you keep a conscience 

873
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,600
soft, you saturated with the 
word of God? 

874
00:56:49,300 --> 00:56:51,300
You wash it with the word of 
God. 

875
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,600
You don't just memorize it. 
You believe it. 

876
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:58,400
You let your life be governed by
it. 

877
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:04,300
You're convinced that this is 
your rule of life that this is 

878
00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:07,300
your Authority. 
That this word is the determiner

879
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:10,800
of not just your decisions for 
big things but even the way you 

880
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:16,200
react to the evil of others, 
like salta David, You know what?

881
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,800
I think that this is convicting 
to me. 

882
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,400
You know what? 
I think of that cutting of the 

883
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,100
robe. 
Can be referenced to in our 

884
00:57:23,100 --> 00:57:27,100
context like speaking ill of 
somebody. 

885
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,500
A trying to ruin the reputation,
whatever it may be, it might not

886
00:57:31,500 --> 00:57:34,100
be, might not be me, hitting 
them with my fist. 

887
00:57:34,100 --> 00:57:39,300
But with my words, And yet, 
David in a sense, felt 

888
00:57:39,300 --> 00:57:40,900
conviction for such a small 
thing. 

889
00:57:40,900 --> 00:57:45,100
But how because he was so 
consumed with the word of God, 

890
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:50,100
That when sins suggested itself 
it had to deal with layers of 

891
00:57:50,100 --> 00:57:55,600
revelation of who God is. 
And what I love about this 

892
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,200
moment is that we don't just 
learn how the word of God keeps 

893
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:02,700
our conscience sensitive. 
But listen to this, it's so 

894
00:58:02,700 --> 00:58:05,800
powerful that it can awaken the 
consciences of others. 

895
00:58:06,700 --> 00:58:10,800
Look at verse 7. 
So David persuaded his men with 

896
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:14,400
these words and did not permit 
them to attack Saul. 

897
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,000
What a contrast to Saul and his 
men when Saul's men with the 

898
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,500
amalekites says, you know, we 
can, we can take some of this 

899
00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:26,300
and make great sacrifices. 
He believed them and he did it. 

900
00:58:26,300 --> 00:58:30,100
He listened, he listened to his 
men and yet David finds itself 

901
00:58:30,100 --> 00:58:34,100
in the same situation where the 
men, his followers are trying to

902
00:58:34,100 --> 00:58:37,700
tell him to do something and yet
he preaches to his men. 

903
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:42,100
What a man of God are wish I was
in that cave. 

904
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,700
I wish I was a fly on that wall 
to see David Whispering this. 

905
00:58:47,700 --> 00:58:50,200
Sermon to his men while Saul is 
out there. 

906
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:54,600
Relieving himself in the same 
room, he's going God, God put 

907
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:59,300
him there and God will not. 
Let me kill him and God and God 

908
00:58:59,300 --> 00:59:02,000
and he's preaching the word. 
And what happens? 

909
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:06,200
Now, their conscience is awake. 
Like all he's right. 

910
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:11,100
That's the power of God's word 
and may I remind you that is why

911
00:59:11,100 --> 00:59:15,200
Satan and America has trying to 
take God's word out of all that 

912
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,200
we do in life. 
You think getting God's word 

913
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,300
being removed from schools? 
You think prayer removed from 

914
00:59:20,300 --> 00:59:25,100
schools is just a list 
separation of church and state. 

915
00:59:25,100 --> 00:59:26,800
You think that's the issue? 
No. 

916
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,900
It's that we don't want children
growing up with an awareness of 

917
00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:33,400
God's holy law. 
And now we're in the day where 

918
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,900
we don't just have the absence 
of God's word, we have the 

919
00:59:35,900 --> 00:59:41,000
promotion of insanity That's 
what's happening. 

920
00:59:42,700 --> 00:59:45,100
Because even a knowledge of 
God's word even. 

921
00:59:45,100 --> 00:59:48,000
And so I don't know if all 
states do it you have to swear 

922
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:51,000
on this book. 
Why? 

923
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,200
Because the presence of God's 
word provides a sense of an 

924
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:57,800
Awakening to the conscience. 
So let's get rid of the Bible, 

925
00:59:57,900 --> 01:00:00,700
get rid of the Ten Commandments 
get rid of prayer. 

926
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:04,300
Let's try to remove God as much 
as possible because here's the 

927
01:00:04,300 --> 01:00:08,700
spiritual strategy, remove God, 
and the conscience becomes more 

928
01:00:08,700 --> 01:00:12,800
susceptible to being seared. 
But we're Americans. 

929
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:14,400
So we're very smart. 
So what do we do? 

930
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:19,700
We put the Bible in prisons. 
And let their Consciousness be 

931
01:00:19,700 --> 01:00:21,700
awakened. 
After the fact that they've done

932
01:00:21,700 --> 01:00:23,900
the crime. 
What do you put in the schools 

933
01:00:23,900 --> 01:00:24,800
for? 
So they don't have to read it in

934
01:00:24,808 --> 01:00:32,100
prison. 
And so we see here, the power of

935
01:00:32,100 --> 01:00:37,000
God's word that even the name of
the Lord was invoked in a right 

936
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,600
way. 
And six hundred men were 

937
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,800
stopped, were restrained from 
doing something that would have 

938
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:46,000
been evil. 
And we can applaud David for 

939
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,100
many things and I'll play this 
David then ago. 

940
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:53,100
Well, Brothers, I can't kill 
Saul. 

941
01:00:54,400 --> 01:01:00,200
I can't do it. 
I can't kill saw, but let you 

942
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:04,300
didn't play that game. 
He didn't play that game. 

943
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:07,400
He feared God. 
Here's what's so encouraging 

944
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,600
about this? 
We often think of David being a 

945
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:14,100
faithful man when he faced 
Goliath and killed him. 

946
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:17,300
How many people considered David
as a faithful man? 

947
01:01:17,300 --> 01:01:18,800
When he faced salt and didn't 
kill him? 

948
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:24,100
When we think of David as the 
hero of faith, we think about 

949
01:01:24,100 --> 01:01:27,100
the one who stood out among all 
the Israelites and all the 

950
01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:29,500
armies of Israel and he killed 
Goliath. 

951
01:01:29,900 --> 01:01:32,700
What about what about the faith 
that he had, when he had an 

952
01:01:32,707 --> 01:01:34,600
opportunity to get to the 
throne? 

953
01:01:34,700 --> 01:01:40,000
But he chose not to kill Saul 
and left him into God's hand. 

954
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:49,000
We learned back in chapter 17. 
that God's Providence, LED David

955
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:52,800
precisely to be on the 
battlefield at the right time to

956
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:57,100
hear two Goliath's taunts and to
make himself available to go to 

957
01:01:57,100 --> 01:02:00,100
war with Goliath and deliver 
Israel is God's Providence, any 

958
01:02:00,100 --> 01:02:06,100
different here Saul having to 
use the bathroom and the exact 

959
01:02:06,100 --> 01:02:09,300
cave where the men were hiding 
in. 

960
01:02:11,500 --> 01:02:15,000
And now a new test presented 
itself for David. 

961
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:22,700
What are you going to do? 
Brothers and sisters, the test 

962
01:02:22,700 --> 01:02:25,400
of your understanding of God's 
word is not going to come and 

963
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:29,600
Bible trivia. 
It's not, it's going to come in 

964
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:33,100
real life. 
Going to come in real life. 

965
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:37,600
And our knowledge, or at least 
our trust in God's word. 

966
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,700
God is such a, wonderful teacher
and discipler. 

967
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:47,800
He will put you in situations. 
Never in a situation to be 

968
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,400
tempted beyond what you can bear
never in a situation to prepare 

969
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:54,400
you to fail, never in a 
situation to tempt you to sin. 

970
01:02:55,500 --> 01:02:57,600
But in life, he puts us in 
moments. 

971
01:02:59,100 --> 01:03:01,600
And he brings us two seasons 
left to see how much do you 

972
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:05,400
really believe me? 
How much do you really want to 

973
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,200
apply this to your life? 
There's some things you want to 

974
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:11,500
apply it for and other things. 
Not David didn't do that David, 

975
01:03:11,500 --> 01:03:13,600
anything to himself when it came
to Glide from me killing. 

976
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:15,700
Yeah, I can trust God for that 
but for this, thank you God. 

977
01:03:15,700 --> 01:03:17,400
I'll handle it myself. 
He didn't do that. 

978
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:23,400
He trusted God all across and 
all season, and this test David 

979
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,700
past. 
David past. 

980
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,400
And then make a final note 
before we pray about how the 

981
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:31,300
Believers should deal with their
conscience. 

982
01:03:31,500 --> 01:03:37,400
Walking With Jesus, When a 
sinner is conscience is 

983
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,700
sensitive, it has the same 
purpose. 

984
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,800
For the saint whose conscience 
is awakened because of his sin, 

985
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,400
they might have committed, both 
ends are the same, you run to 

986
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:51,700
Jesus. 
You run to Jesus. 

987
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:56,700
The conscience given to man is a
general Grace to make life 

988
01:03:56,700 --> 01:03:59,800
livable. 
So that even if a person does 

989
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:03,200
not come to Jesus, that 
conscience can be loud enough to

990
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,900
hold them back from creating 
chaos, in the home and family 

991
01:04:06,100 --> 01:04:07,800
and in the streets, and in 
school at work. 

992
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:12,000
But the ultimate goal is, for 
the people to come to Christ and

993
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:14,500
that's where the gospel Comes. 
The Gospel is good news, it 

994
01:04:14,500 --> 01:04:18,700
heals, it invites people to know
a guilt-free conscience and to 

995
01:04:18,700 --> 01:04:22,700
have the burden of sin, roll off
of them believer, although we 

996
01:04:22,700 --> 01:04:25,100
want to have a sensitive 
conscience. 

997
01:04:25,300 --> 01:04:28,300
We also want to have an 
awareness of the mercy of Jesus 

998
01:04:28,300 --> 01:04:31,900
Christ. 
That when I do wrong, when I do 

999
01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:33,500
something. 
I know I wasn't supposed to do. 

1000
01:04:33,700 --> 01:04:36,000
Yes, you want a sensitive 
conscience, you don't want to 

1001
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,200
ignore it, but you also don't 
want to sit in your guilt. 

1002
01:04:40,700 --> 01:04:44,600
That's not God's will either. 
God's will is for you to come 

1003
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:48,100
with your dirty feet to sit at 
his table and let him wash it. 

1004
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:54,200
That's what he wants to do. 
So I want the most sensitive 

1005
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:58,400
conscious possible, and let me 
also say this, there is a 

1006
01:04:58,408 --> 01:05:01,100
difference between a sensitive 
conscience and our oversensitive

1007
01:05:01,100 --> 01:05:03,200
conscience. 
Let me just make that clear 

1008
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:06,900
because you have people who are 
guilty about just about 

1009
01:05:06,900 --> 01:05:10,100
anything, they do that. 
They think that, if it's in, if 

1010
01:05:10,100 --> 01:05:14,000
it's sin and there are sins with
different magnitude of 

1011
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:17,600
consequence, and what we want is
even for the smallest sins, we 

1012
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:20,300
want to feel that sensitivity 
because listen, when we ignore 

1013
01:05:20,300 --> 01:05:24,700
smaller sin, We tend to then 
ignore bigger ones but I'm not 

1014
01:05:24,700 --> 01:05:27,000
talking about something that's 
not in the word. 

1015
01:05:27,700 --> 01:05:30,100
I'm not talking about something 
that's outrageous and not 

1016
01:05:30,100 --> 01:05:32,500
realistic. 
I'm talking about something that

1017
01:05:32,500 --> 01:05:35,900
we should feel pain for so that 
it can keep us from doing more 

1018
01:05:35,900 --> 01:05:39,000
damage to ourselves and others. 
Let me wrap this up before I 

1019
01:05:39,008 --> 01:05:42,400
continue. 
What's your conscience telling 

1020
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:47,200
you tonight? 
Maybe, I don't know. 

1021
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:49,300
There's a new person here, every
week, at least one new person, 

1022
01:05:49,300 --> 01:05:51,000
Friday, or Sunday. 
So, I don't know what your 

1023
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,100
conscience is telling you, are 
you ignoring it? 

1024
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:58,900
Are you ignoring it? 
And I can tell you this, if you 

1025
01:05:58,900 --> 01:06:01,200
know that you are not in Jesus 
Christ and you know that you're 

1026
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,100
in sin, you know that your 
uncompromising, you're still 

1027
01:06:03,100 --> 01:06:05,000
ignoring it. 
Here is God's way of trying to 

1028
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,900
awaken it again. 
But if you walk out of here, I 

1029
01:06:08,900 --> 01:06:10,900
can tell you confidently that 
you're just going to sear it a 

1030
01:06:10,908 --> 01:06:12,700
little bit more than you did 
before you walked in. 

1031
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:20,900
So come to Christ and surrender.
And no, something that nothing 

1032
01:06:20,900 --> 01:06:23,500
else can offer you in this life 
and that is a liberty to your 

1033
01:06:23,500 --> 01:06:27,600
conscience. 
There's nothing that feels 

1034
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:31,300
better than to know that you're 
forgiven, nothing, nothing 

1035
01:06:31,300 --> 01:06:35,000
compared to it. 
Nothing can compare to knowing 

1036
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:39,400
that you've been reconciled to 
God and you have peace with God,

1037
01:06:40,100 --> 01:06:43,900
nothing. 
Believer. 

1038
01:06:43,900 --> 01:06:47,100
What's your conscience telling 
you have you been have? 

1039
01:06:47,100 --> 01:06:49,600
You been doing what these men 
have been doing with God's word,

1040
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:51,700
twisting? 
It adding to it subtracting from

1041
01:06:51,700 --> 01:06:54,300
it, to try to justify something,
for your personal gain. 

1042
01:06:57,200 --> 01:07:01,400
It's not worth it. 
Because you're his child and 

1043
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:02,900
guess what? 
You're not going to get away 

1044
01:07:02,900 --> 01:07:06,000
with it. 
I've seen God's children trying 

1045
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:09,000
to run and do something outside 
of God's Will, and God is a good

1046
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:13,100
good father. 
He will discipline that's not 

1047
01:07:13,100 --> 01:07:15,800
going to be in that famous song.
Good good. 

1048
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:18,100
Father a good good father. 
Yeah he'll discipline you. 

1049
01:07:18,100 --> 01:07:23,700
He's a good good father. 
And so you're not going to get 

1050
01:07:23,700 --> 01:07:25,900
away with it either and you're 
just listen, save yourself from 

1051
01:07:25,900 --> 01:07:27,900
the trouble of same. 
Your sit save yourself from the 

1052
01:07:27,900 --> 01:07:30,100
shame. 
Save yourself from the save 

1053
01:07:30,100 --> 01:07:35,300
yourself and just respond to the
word of God as it is been given.

1054
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:39,800
And you will know life and peace
and whatever that sin is trying 

1055
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:44,000
to convince you with it's a lie.
It's a lie, take it from a 

1056
01:07:44,008 --> 01:07:47,100
brother who loves you, who cares
for you? 

1057
01:07:48,700 --> 01:07:53,100
Isn't Bible study amazing. 
I study this by myself and I get

1058
01:07:53,100 --> 01:07:56,300
excited and I'm glad that you 
love God's word as well but 

1059
01:07:56,300 --> 01:07:58,300
let's apply and ask God to help 
us apply. 

1060
01:07:58,700 --> 01:07:59,600
Amen. 
Let's pray. 

1061
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:23,800
Lord your word amazes us. 
It moves us. 

1062
01:08:25,300 --> 01:08:30,100
To the core, it moves us. 
What wisdom, what treasure? 

1063
01:08:30,100 --> 01:08:35,700
What jewels, what life. 
That in seven verses, you can 

1064
01:08:36,399 --> 01:08:41,200
change us so dramatically. 
Oh Lord. 

1065
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:47,300
We are we are amazed that you 
What a wonderful God. 

1066
01:08:47,300 --> 01:08:51,500
You are what an amazing text for
us tonight. 

1067
01:08:53,899 --> 01:08:57,200
And Lord. 
We hear what you're saying in 

1068
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:58,600
these verses? 
Oh God. 

1069
01:08:58,899 --> 01:09:01,300
Make us tender in our 
conscience. 

1070
01:09:04,100 --> 01:09:06,399
What a man of God David was in 
this moment. 

1071
01:09:06,399 --> 01:09:09,899
O, Lord may we reflect that 
posture of heart when it comes 

1072
01:09:09,899 --> 01:09:18,000
to sin that even a sliver of 
wrong would cause great turmoil 

1073
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:23,700
within Not so that we can live 
feeling that we are not accepted

1074
01:09:23,700 --> 01:09:26,800
by you, not so that we can think
that we are condemned but oh 

1075
01:09:26,808 --> 01:09:30,399
Lord to know that we have broken
your heart. 

1076
01:09:31,500 --> 01:09:33,700
It's a know that we've done 
something that doesn't represent

1077
01:09:33,700 --> 01:09:35,600
the Lord. 
That we said we would serve and 

1078
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:41,200
follow. and so Lord by the 
spirit of God, through the word 

1079
01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:47,100
of God, may you tenderize our 
hearts, We are attracted to what

1080
01:09:47,100 --> 01:09:51,700
David displayed before us. 
We are not, we are not afraid of

1081
01:09:51,700 --> 01:09:53,399
that. 
Lord, we long for it, but Lord 

1082
01:09:53,399 --> 01:09:55,700
also protect us from a 
misunderstanding of these 

1083
01:09:55,700 --> 01:09:59,900
things. 
And so father, we just praise 

1084
01:09:59,900 --> 01:10:03,500
you, we praise you that and this
in this moment as a family, 

1085
01:10:03,500 --> 01:10:07,300
we've feasted on your word, we 
sat at your table and you have 

1086
01:10:07,300 --> 01:10:10,500
not left us hungry and God. 
We worship you. 

1087
01:10:10,500 --> 01:10:14,400
We worship you. 
And Thanksgiving for your 

1088
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:18,100
provision for our spiritual 
nourishment in this place in 

1089
01:10:18,100 --> 01:10:20,700
Jesus name, we pray. 
Amen, and amen. 

1090
01:10:22,100 --> 01:10:24,100
Why don't we with joy in our 
hearts? 

1091
01:10:24,100 --> 01:10:26,300
Thank God for his word and 
celebrate. 

1092
01:10:26,300 --> 01:10:28,400
His goodness. 
Hey man, can you stand with me?