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And so meet me in Second Samuel 
Chapter 23. 

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Second Samuel Chapter 23 is our 
text tonight that we will 

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explore. 
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this chapter is exciting, 
because if you just flip one 

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page over, you'll notice that we
are near the end. 

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I was telling somebody last 
Wednesday that I feel sad in a 

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way, and I always feel this way 
when we come near and end. 

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Have a Bible study in a specific
book. 

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Because I, I and you have been 
so familiar with a person or 

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subject or a theme or these 
texts and it seems like we're 

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saying goodbye to a friend. 
Although it's always there, the 

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text is always there. 
Our engagement with it will 

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cease for a little bit as we 
transition to the next part of 

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our study. 
On these Friday nights, are you 

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at 2nd? 
Same? 

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You're 23. 
Good. 

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Let's read the first few verses 
together Now. 

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These are the last words of 
David, the Oracle of David, the 

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son of Jesse, the Oracle of the 
man who was raised on high, the 

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anointed of the God of Jacob, 
the sweet psalmist of Israel. 

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The Spirit of the Lord speaks by
me. 

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His word is on my tongue. 
The God of Israel has spoken. 

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The rock of Israel has said to 
me, When one rules justly over 

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men, ruling in the fear of God, 
He dawns on them like the 

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morning light, like the sun 
shining forth on a cloudless 

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morning, like the rain that 
makes grass to sprout from the 

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earth. 
For does not my house stand so 

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with God. 
For He has made with me an 

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everlasting covenant, ordered in
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For will he not cause to prosper
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But worthless men are like 
thorns that are thrown away, for

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they cannot be taken with the 
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But the man who touches them 
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shaft of a spear, and they are 
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Precious Lord, help us to 
understand this segment of 

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sacred Scripture. 
Empower us by the Holy Spirit to

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be faithful to this text, and 
not just faithful in our 

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interpretation of it, but in our
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And so, Lord, guide us by Your 
grace as we are here, because we

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hunger for righteousness. 
We bless your name, Lord, and we

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ask that you would bless our 
time as a family, Your children.

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In Jesus name we pray. 
Amen. 

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Look at the first line with me 
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Now these are the last words of 
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That's what makes this session 
extra special, because the Holy 

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Spirit has preserved for us some
of the final statements that 

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this wonderful man of God has 
ever uttered. 

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Now, it would be wrong to 
understand this statement as 

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David's final words in general 
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know that there are still a few 
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next book where David says much 
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More accurately, we have to 
understand these final words as 

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David's final words in the form 
of a song, in the form of a 

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hymn, a song. 
This is David giving, in a 

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sense, his final penmanship of 
worship and Thanksgiving to God,

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at least publicly. 
And more than that, we see in 

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the second line that this is the
Oracle of David. 

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And we know that all scriptures 
breathed out by God. 

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But this is explicitly telling 
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word from God. 
This is coming from God's heart,

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God's mind, through David. 
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It contains that kind of 
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And it's not just a journal 
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It's meant for the people to 
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themselves. 
There's instruction here. 

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There's insight here. 
There's application here, not 

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just an observation of a man's 
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And so this is an Oracle. 
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So essentially what makes the 
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are looking at the final Psalm 
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you would think that would be in
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No, it's in the book of Second 
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God has placed it here. 
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words that David has said on his
deathbed, we have every reason 

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to believe that this is possibly
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end of his life. 
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chronologically will help you 
frame your application of what 

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we're about to read. 
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end of his life helps us see 
what these truths have to say 

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concerning him, concerning God, 
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And so place it there in your 
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different expressions and 
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they are a reflection upon 
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This is David looking back. 
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looking for. 
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end of his existence, at the 
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rehearsing what the Lord has 
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And when you see that, you 
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these things are. 
Look what David says about 

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himself, the Oracle, David, 
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David says in in identifying who
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What do you make of that? 
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make of that? 
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I'm the son of Jesse. 
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But why the son of Jesse to 
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Because he wants to make clear. 
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utilized that identity, the son 
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David, right? 
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An unimpressive, insignificant 
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himself. 
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Because what in one man's mouth 
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instrument. 
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humility. 
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the son of Jesse, what he is 
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God over his life. 
And remember, this is in the 

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context of of praise. 
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worship. 
And if you want one way, one way

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to calibrate your heart into 
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you were and who you were when 
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That will help a lot, no matter 
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I know that's for you. 
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for some than others because you
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safety of a sanctified home, 
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So you don't have much to look 
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And yet I say no, you have much 
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Do I have to explain why? 
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For the preservation from all 
the problems that you could have

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made for yourself, for the 
privilege of being acquainted 

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with the ways of God from an 
early age, from understanding 

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that God and his goodness to the
faithfulness of your parents has

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preserved your strength in your 
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of your life. 
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realize that you were someone 
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dark past, you still experience 
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And David here does just that. 
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Who am I? 
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Who am I? 
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has led me. 
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the Oracle of David, the son of 
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was raised on high. 
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raised himself on high? 
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enough to realize that David was
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who exalted him over and over 
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If you want to know a deeper 
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deeper devotion, if you want to 
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motivation to love and worship 
God from your heart, be like 

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David in this Yield to the Lord 
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Yield to the Lord throughout 
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Commit your cause to Lord, your 
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over, and allow your life, in a 
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verbiage without theological 
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Open your life up. 
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to move and and create 
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That's what David did. 
He He trusted his enemies to the

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Lord. 
He trusted his exaltation to the

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throne, to the Lord. 
He trusted all his problems, 

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great and small, to the Lord. 
He gave it all to the Lord. 

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In some parts he didn't. 
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But when he did, he saw the Lord
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And when he was able to look 
back at life, he can say, oh, he

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raised me, He raised me, He 
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He did this. 
He did that. 

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He did this. 
God wants that for you and me as

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well. 
But what requires is humility. 

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What it requires is dependency 
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What I love about this. 
This chapter is how David kind 

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of concludes his introduction. 
You're going to give me that? 

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Yeah, that's OK. 
I thought so. 

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Thank you. 
Look at this wonderful title at 

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the end of verse one, The sweet 
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We're talking about worship, 
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Look at this, the sweet psalmist
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We know David to be a Psalmist. 
We know that a majority of the 

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Psalms were penned by him, 
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But what makes this even more 
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David identifies himself as such
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I'm still the sweet psalmist of 
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You know what I take from that? 
David was a worshipper until the

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end. 
David was a worshipper until the

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end. 
And we we studied in chapter 22,

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right? 
That lengthier song, how it's 

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also found in Psalm 18. 
And many believe that Psalm 18 

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was David's writing of that same
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in Second Samuel 22 when he 
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He added some adjustments, but 
it's technically almost word for

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He was able to sing the same 
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adulthood. 
He was he had the same fervency,

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joy, love for the Lord as He did
when he first was introduced to 

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the grace of God. 
And that's possible for you and 

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I to be to to be a worshipper 
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The last words of David was 
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Unfortunately, that's not the 
case for many, right where they 

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end up is far from where they 
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And unfortunately for some the 
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their devotion decreases and 
their heart becomes more distant

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to that fervency and that zeal 
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knew. 
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And you can hear this and be 
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You can hear this and think to 
yourself, well, it's been, it's 

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been. 
Honestly, I haven't even got to 

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the end of my life. 
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life. 
I'm in my 30s or 20s. 

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Maybe you're older and you think
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been a decline. 
It's been weeks, it's been 

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months, it's been years, and I 
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lost that sweetness in my 
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It's it's become dull and for 
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You understand that the Bible 
not only commends men and women 

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who've held on to the faith 
throughout their journey. 

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God even praises those who might
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lot of the time, but finished 
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Give me a character in the Bible
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I'm thinking left side of your 
Bible. 

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Give me a character who might 
have not started well but 

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finished very well. 
OK. 

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That's on the right side of the 
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But Paul is 1. 
Sure. 

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Old Testament. 
Samson. 

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I don't know if. 
Sam. 

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Yeah. 
Samson. 

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Yeah. 
You can say that. 

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He finished while he was in the 
Hall of Faith. 

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I'm sorry. 
I was thinking of somebody else 

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when you said Samson. 
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Samson's right. 
Yeah. 

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Rehab. 
Sure. 

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I'm thinking about one who 
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Genesis, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, 
Jacob, the God of Abraham, Isaac

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and Jacob. 
That's an interesting title that

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God gives himself. 
Abraham was an idolature when 

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God found him right and made him
into a man of faith, made him to

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the father of faith. 
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Isaac grew up in a household of 
faith. 

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Isaac had a out of all three. 
The less turbulent in is his 

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faith, right? 
And then you have Jacob. 

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Jacob grew up in a household of 
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and a lot of the times in his 
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adulthood, in the latter 
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very special, especially near 
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in that hall of faith. 
I want you to see this verse in 

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Hebrews 11/21. 
This isn't context of worship. 

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This isn't context of finishing 
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Look at what the Holy Spirit 
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great feats of faith, all the 
great testimonies, all the great

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demonstrations of trust. 
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and I believe it's to inspire 
people who might have stumbled a

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lot. 
Hebrews 11/21. 

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Here's what the Bible says. 
By faith, Jacob, when dying, 

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blessed each of the sons of 
Joseph, bowing in worship over 

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the head of his staff. 
Wow, two things the Holy Spirit 

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associates with Jacob in his 
dying days. 

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One, he blessed others. 
Two, he worshiped God. 

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Is that how Jacob was in the 
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Is that how we were introduced 
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Did he bless others or did he 
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He tricked others. 
He was a manipulator. 

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He deceived. 
Did he worship God? 

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Well if you equate worship with 
trust, no. 

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And he he learned from his 
mother. 

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Unfortunately, God gave his 
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nations in his womb and when it 
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his wife didn't trust in the 
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father and took matters into 
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That's not, that's not worship, 
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And yet when it comes to his 
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Holy Spirit tells us he blessed 
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worshipped God and not just any 
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He was he was what? 
Bowing on the head of his staff 

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that tells me he was old. 
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He was frail. 
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falling apart, but this man's 
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He worshipped God. 
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than just an indication of his 
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If this staff was used in light 
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life, there was a very, very 
monumental moment in Jacob's 

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life when he wrestled with God. 
What did God do in that 

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wrestling match? 
He broke his hip. 

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And when you read that account 
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night fight, we were told that 
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He limped and I believe he had a
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I wonder if he had a staff 
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He needed some assistance. 
If that is true, then that's 

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that Staff means something else.
It means that Jacob died with an

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awareness of his dependence on 
God. 

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God in that moment, broke his 
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He actually altered his life 
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I mean, if you break your hip, 
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indication that it was ever 
healed. 

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though, God in a sense made him 
a different person in a way that

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we would think was a hindrance. 
In a way, we think that this is,

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this is not the way you would 
want to live the rest of your 

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life, and yet Jacob can still 
worship God. 

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God, you broke me. 
You smashed something of me. 

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But not to destroy me, to heal 
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And Jacob, in light of that, 
that suffering, that episode 

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that altered his future, could 
still worship God. 

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That's how this man ended. 
And God took that of him and 

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made it a memorial for All 
Saints to see. 

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It's not how you start, it's how
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And though you've started and 
maybe you have continued in a 

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very horrible way, it can all 
change. 

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And God is more than willing to 
recognize it. 

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OK, let's keep breathing here. 
What do we see? 

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In verse two of chapter 23, the 
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His word is on my tongue. 
The God of Israel has spoken. 

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The Rock of Israel has said to 
me now, if you want Old 

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Testament evidence for the 
divine personhood of the Holy 

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Trinity, or rather the Holy 
Spirit, you got it right there. 

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You got it right there. 
Look at what it says. 

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The Spirit of the Lord speaks by
me. 

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Does it say its word was on my 
tongue? 

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No, it says His word. 
His word is on my tongue. 

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The Holy Spirit is not an 
impersonal force. 

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He's not some power. 
He's a person. 

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His word is on my tongue and in 
common Hebrew. 

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Parallelism. 
What do you have in the line of 

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verse 2? 
The Spirit of Lord speaks by me.

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And then what do you have in the
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3? 
The God of Israel has spoken. 

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That was common, right? 
That was common in their in in 

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their Psalms and their writings 
and their poetry. 

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You would repeat the same 
thought in the next line to 

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emphasize it or to clarify the 
preceding. 1 And So what you 

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have here is the Spirit of the 
Lord is linked to the God of 

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Israel. 
He is the God of Israel. 

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That's important. 
You're going to engage with 

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people who don't believe in the 
treaty. 

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You're going to. 
You're going to engage with 

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people who are going to say, 
yeah, this Trinity thing is, is 

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New Testament. 
And some will say it's not 

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biblical at all. 
And So what are you going to do?

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Yeah, you can go to the. 
You can go to the New Testament 

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to prove the treaty, but you can
go to better than that. 

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You go to the Old Testament and 
prove the Trinity. 

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Let's, that's Bible study. 
Why not give me some other text 

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in the Old Testament that would 
prove or point to the Trinity? 

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Any ideas? 
Destruction of Sodom and 

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Gomorrah? 
Right. 

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The Lord sent fire from heaven, 
right from the Lord. 

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Yes. 
Genesis 19. 

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Any other text? 
Genesis 126 led us, right? 

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Make man in our image. 
Any other text? 

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It's good. 
Let's refresh our memory here. 

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Any indication in the Old 
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plurality of the personhood of 
God? 

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OK, yes. 
And Isaiah. 

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There's so many indications in 
Isaiah of there being more than 

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one persons in our God. 
Yes, maybe a couple more. 

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Psalm 110. 
Yes, the Lord said to my Lord. 

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Right. 
Jesus quoted that text. 

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Any other ones? 
Yeah. 

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So you see the Spirit there, 
right at creation? 

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Absolutely. 
One more. 

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Yes, very good. 
Psalm 45. 

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Well, I want to add another one 
to your collection of truths. 

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It's found in in Isaiah 63 and I
want you to see it with your own

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eyes. 
This will not only highlight and

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under score the divine 
personhood of the Holy Spirit, 

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it will also show you the 
Trinity, believe it or not. 

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And so go there to Isaiah and go
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recounts the wilderness journey 
of the nation saved from 

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slavery. 
And notice here let's begin in 

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verse seven. 
Are you there? 

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It's going to be a little bit 
more theological, but that's 

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important. 
Still, I will recount the 

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steadfast love of the Lord, the 
praises of the Lord, according 

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to all that the Lord has granted
us, and the great goodness to 

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the House of Israel that He has 
granted them according to His 

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compassion, according to the 
abundance of His steadfast love.

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Who are we speaking about here? 
Let's just make that clear. 

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Who's the object of these 
descriptions? 

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Yahweh, capital Lord. 
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covenantal name of God, Yahweh. 
Now we're told about His 

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goodness, we're told about His 
compassion. 

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We're told about His abundance 
of steadfast love. 

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And now the Prophet will define 
why it is he was good, why it is

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he was compassionate. 
Verse 8. 

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Pay attention for He said Surely
they are my people, children who

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will not deal falsely. 
And He became their what? 

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Their savior. 
That's number one. 

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Who became their savior. 
What we heard of verse 7. 

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Yahweh became their savior, 
right? 

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So Yahweh is the savior of the 
nation of Israel. 

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Now look what we hear. 
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In all their affliction, he was 
afflicted. 

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And who the Angel of his 
presence saved them. 

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This is a different character 
now, the Angel of whose presence

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Yahweh's presence. 
Right. 

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The Angel of his presence saved 
them. 

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Well, we just read that Yahweh 
was their savior. 

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Now we're told another person, 
the Angel of his presence. 

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Now get the cartoon version of 
an Angel out of your mind right 

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your mind's eye. 
Angels were not creatures with 

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long and strong wide wings. 
In fact, the word Angel simply 

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means messenger in the Hebrew 
and in the Greek. 

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So what we have here is the 
messenger of His presence, the 

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messenger of His presence. 
This is a different person than 

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the Savior that we saw in verse 
7. 

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This is the messenger of His 
presence. 

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And that word presence even 
means in Hebrew His face. 

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The messenger of Yahweh's face, 
so to speak. 

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So we have the Savior who is 
Yahweh. 

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In verse eight we have the Angel
of his presence who also saved 

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the nation of Israel in verse 9.
In his love and in his pity he 

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redeemed them. 
Wow, he even redeemed them. 

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He lifted them up and carried 
them all the days of old. 

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Well we have two. 
Now where's the third? 

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Well, here He is, verse 10. 
But they rebelled and grieved. 

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Who? 
His Holy Spirit, do you grieve? 

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A force is an impersonal power. 
Feel anything. 

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If I kick that piano, which I 
won't, will it express woe and 

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sorrow and pain? 
No, it's an object. 

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If you do that to me, it's a 
different story, right? 

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But they rebelled and grieved 
His Holy Spirit. 

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So you have the Savior in verse 
eight. 

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You have the Angel of His 
presence in verse 9, and now you

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have His Holy Spirit. 
Therefore he, we're still 

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speaking about the Holy Spirit 
turned to be their enemy, and 

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himself fought against them. 
Then he remembered the days of 

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old of Moses and his people. 
Where is he who brought them up 

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out of the sea with the 
shepherds of his flock? 

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Where is he? 
Put him in the put, in the midst

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of them His Holy Spirit? 
Here's the point that I'm trying

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to get across. 
You have the Savior, who is 

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Yahweh in verse eight. 
You have the Angel of His 

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presence in verse nine. 
You have the Holy Spirit in 

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verse 10, and each of these 
persons played a role in the 

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redemption of the nation of 
Israel from Egypt. 

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And you see equally these 
persons work in creation. 

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You can make a case for it in 
salvation. 

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You have a case for it in your 
sanctification. 

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In your resurrection. 
They're all there. 

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Not one, not 2, not 6, not 733. 
This is good. 

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You're get. 
You might bump into a Jew where 

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they do not regard the New 
Testament. 

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Can you prove the Trinity from 
the old? 

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You'll bump into a Muslim and 
they'll say that this is Pagan. 

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You worship. 
You worship three different 

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gods. 
Can you show them? 

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Though you may not be able to 
elaborately and eloquently 

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explain what the trainee is, can
you at least say we're not 

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getting this out of thin air? 
We're showing you in our 

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scriptures that there are three 
persons though our God is one in

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essence. 
And can you show them that 

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they're coequal? 
Can you show them that they're 

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coexisting? 
They are in harmony with one 

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another and everything. 
Heard a Muslim say the other day

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to another person on the streets
saying if if the father wants 

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the sky to be blue and Jesus 
wants the sky to be red and the 

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Holy Spirit wants the sky to be 
green, how do they just This is 

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just bad argumentation and what 
was worse is the the believer I 

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guess didn't even know how to 
argue against. 

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It's so easy when you understand
how unbreakable their unity is, 

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how they do everything in 
concert with one another. 

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And so I just want to give you a
little taste of how if you just,

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if you look and you read and you
study, you'll find gems, gems of

455
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,920
things that you would think is 
only New Testament. 

456
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,040
No, no, no, no. 
It's been testified of before. 

457
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,200
Let's go back. 
Right. 

458
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,720
So we see here that he says the 
spirit of the Lord speaks by me.

459
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,720
His word is on my tongue. 
Oh, what are you doing here, 

460
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,040
David? 
You know what he's doing is 

461
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,650
confirming what Peter said, that
the prophets of old did not 

462
00:26:14,650 --> 00:26:17,370
speak out of their own will, but
they were carried along by the 

463
00:26:17,450 --> 00:26:21,410
Holy Spirit. 
They spoke from God, carried 

464
00:26:21,410 --> 00:26:27,050
along by the Holy Spirit. 
And what you see here is a hint 

465
00:26:27,050 --> 00:26:30,850
that though we may not be able 
to explain the experience, the 

466
00:26:30,850 --> 00:26:34,610
prophets of all these vessels of
truth, the ones who translated 

467
00:26:35,050 --> 00:26:39,560
divine revelation in some way, 
realized that some of the 

468
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,920
writings under certain moments 
were from God. 

469
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,320
David was fully aware of that. 
David was fully aware of that. 

470
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,040
And not only did Peter say that 
they were carried along by the 

471
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,640
Holy Spirit, that's in Second 
Peter, but in First Peter 110, 

472
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,440
they went beyond that. 
Once those utterances were 

473
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,880
given, they were so interested 
that they began to explore the 

474
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,760
meaning of their very own 
prophecies. 

475
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,400
That's fascinating to me. 
They were instruments of these 

476
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,600
truths and and whenever those 
prophecies especially dealt with

477
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,080
the grace that was to come 
through the sufferings of Christ

478
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,560
and the subsequent glories, oh, 
their hearts were moving. 

479
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:23,200
They intensely investigated when
and when and who. 

480
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,840
What's this all about? 
Every time I read First Peter 

481
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,560
one time I get convicted. 
Every single time. 

482
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,880
You know why? 
Because what you realize is 

483
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,720
these these men, they had only 
pieces and they were told of 

484
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,480
these mysteries, right? 
It wasn't. 

485
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,040
It was clear, but not completely
obviously. 

486
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,000
And so they tried to put this 
all together out of a great 

487
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,760
desire to know what this New 
Covenant would entail, Who would

488
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,920
enjoy it when it would happen? 
And here you and I are in 2023. 

489
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,000
We have all that God needs to 
say to us. 

490
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,520
We have all the pieces. 
We have all the tools. 

491
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,760
And yet, how moved are we to 
know the greater depths of the 

492
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,000
gospel? 
So there they are in the old 

493
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,080
covenant, looking forward to 
something that hasn't been 

494
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,200
compiled yet, that has been 
materialized or manifested. 

495
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,880
And here we are with everything 
and we have the invitation from 

496
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,600
God to go to the old and find 
Christ, to find the gospel, to 

497
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,840
find the cross, to find what you
just saw in Isaiah 63, the 

498
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:33,030
Godhead there spelled out plain 
and clear and there isn't much 

499
00:28:33,030 --> 00:28:38,190
motivation right? 
We're over fed, over saturated, 

500
00:28:38,190 --> 00:28:41,270
and instead of taking advantage 
of it, we tend to walk away from

501
00:28:41,270 --> 00:28:45,550
the opportunity. 
Notice what Elsie says. 

502
00:28:46,990 --> 00:28:49,230
Actually notice carefully this. 
Check this out. 

503
00:28:49,550 --> 00:28:51,470
Look at verse two of Second 
Samuel 23. 

504
00:28:52,430 --> 00:28:57,790
Read your Bible closely. 
The spirit of the Lord speaks. 

505
00:28:57,790 --> 00:29:03,300
What are those two words by me? 
Now look at verse 3. 

506
00:29:03,740 --> 00:29:08,300
The God of Israel has spoken. 
The rock of Israel has said by 

507
00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:15,820
me to me. 
The Lord speaks by me. 

508
00:29:16,220 --> 00:29:20,500
But He doesn't just speak by me,
He speaks to me. 

509
00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:25,140
There's a difference. 
And here lies practical 

510
00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:27,420
instruction, especially for 
those who have the gift of 

511
00:29:27,420 --> 00:29:31,410
preaching and teaching. 
Anybody who disciples, even 

512
00:29:31,490 --> 00:29:36,290
anybody who dispenses and 
explains truth on any capacity, 

513
00:29:36,290 --> 00:29:39,010
right in any capacity, 
understand that there is 

514
00:29:39,010 --> 00:29:42,210
something beautiful here about a
principle concerning how the 

515
00:29:42,210 --> 00:29:44,170
word of God should work in and 
through us. 

516
00:29:44,570 --> 00:29:48,530
There are many people who are 
completely satisfied with seeing

517
00:29:48,530 --> 00:29:51,650
the word of God work through 
them in somebody else's life, 

518
00:29:52,170 --> 00:29:56,250
with no desire or ambition to 
see those same truths apply to 

519
00:29:56,250 --> 00:29:59,800
them. 
It's a very popular way of 

520
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,960
ministry. 
It's a very popular way of 

521
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,960
engaging with the word of God, 
where you come to the word of 

522
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:10,320
God and what you see in the word
of God bounces off of you and 

523
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,920
totally and almost every time 
seeks to stick to somebody else 

524
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:19,320
that you might impress or win a 
debate with or seek convicted 

525
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,320
change comforted again. 
There are some people who are 

526
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,240
not motivated to come to the 
word of God at all. 

527
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:32,030
I mean, even paying them will 
not get them to open this Bible 

528
00:30:32,030 --> 00:30:34,390
up consistently. 
You have others who are 

529
00:30:34,390 --> 00:30:38,310
motivated but with this purpose,
as I just explained, to find 

530
00:30:38,670 --> 00:30:42,510
some clever insights to put 
things together to seem crafty 

531
00:30:42,510 --> 00:30:46,590
and intelligent and insightful. 
And that's that's how they let 

532
00:30:46,590 --> 00:30:47,790
the word of God work through 
them. 

533
00:30:47,790 --> 00:30:50,910
Hear what I have to say, whether
you want to hear it or not. 

534
00:30:52,390 --> 00:30:56,540
God has something higher, as 
good as it is to have equipment,

535
00:30:56,540 --> 00:30:59,700
as good as it is to have data, 
divine data, to know how to 

536
00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:01,940
engage with the Jew, Muslim, 
atheist, shore, that's all 

537
00:31:01,940 --> 00:31:06,500
great. 
God wants the word of his mouth 

538
00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:11,460
and his mind to work in you. 
He wants to speak to you. 

539
00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:17,610
He wants to speak to me. 
And if we don't allow the word 

540
00:31:17,610 --> 00:31:19,930
of God, if we don't approach the
word of God with that kind of an

541
00:31:19,930 --> 00:31:21,970
attitude, we're in danger in 
many ways. 

542
00:31:21,970 --> 00:31:23,970
We're in danger of hypocrisy, 
we're in danger of self 

543
00:31:23,970 --> 00:31:29,330
righteousness, we're in danger 
of being talking heads with no 

544
00:31:29,330 --> 00:31:34,210
power. 
If it doesn't speak to me and 

545
00:31:34,210 --> 00:31:37,210
change me and challenge me, I 
shouldn't expect it to do the 

546
00:31:37,210 --> 00:31:41,250
same in you if I'm going to be a
vessel of truth, right? 

547
00:31:42,380 --> 00:31:45,580
And I I think there is an order 
that God has given us in a very 

548
00:31:45,580 --> 00:31:47,340
subtle verse that maybe you 
haven't noticed. 

549
00:31:47,340 --> 00:31:49,700
I've mentioned this before, but 
it's good to remind ourselves 

550
00:31:50,060 --> 00:31:52,420
it's concerning Ezra on Ezra 
710. 

551
00:31:52,420 --> 00:31:56,620
And look at the order of Ezra's 
relationship with the word of 

552
00:31:56,620 --> 00:32:06,380
God and Ezra 710. 
It says here for Ezra set his 

553
00:32:06,380 --> 00:32:14,220
heart to study the law of the 
Lord and to do it and to teach 

554
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:16,780
his statutes and rules in 
Israel. 

555
00:32:17,940 --> 00:32:20,500
What's the order? 
He said his heart to study it. 

556
00:32:21,060 --> 00:32:23,380
He said his heart to study. 
And this is what most people do.

557
00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:25,860
He said his heart to study so he
can teach it. 

558
00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:29,940
No, it doesn't say that There's 
something in the middle, he 

559
00:32:29,940 --> 00:32:32,060
said. 
It's hard to study it, to first 

560
00:32:32,060 --> 00:32:37,460
do it, to first do it. 
What does it say about me? 

561
00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:39,980
What is this exposed and 
revealed about me? 

562
00:32:40,580 --> 00:32:44,300
What is this convict challenge 
in me before I seek it to do 

563
00:32:44,300 --> 00:32:47,500
something in somebody else? 
That's what made him such a man 

564
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:49,820
of God. 
That's what made him a man with 

565
00:32:49,820 --> 00:32:53,820
authority because he prioritized
the application of God's Word. 

566
00:32:54,060 --> 00:32:55,620
And this is the applicant. 
This is the priority. 

567
00:32:55,620 --> 00:33:01,220
Me than others, me than others. 
The Spirit of the Lord spoke by 

568
00:33:01,220 --> 00:33:02,780
me. 
Yes, that's true, but he also 

569
00:33:02,780 --> 00:33:05,860
spoke to me. 
And when you come to the Word 

570
00:33:05,860 --> 00:33:08,620
like that, you will, you will 
know life changing 

571
00:33:08,620 --> 00:33:14,320
transformation and it will 
actually translate in the way 

572
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,240
others receive from you. 
You can tell, can you not? 

573
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,800
I can tell. 
I'm sure you can. 

574
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,720
You talk to people and when you 
talk about the Bible, you know 

575
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,680
when the Bible's touch their 
hearts and you know when it's 

576
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:29,520
only touched their head, it's 
it's all about, again, just 

577
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,360
knowing something to prove 
something. 

578
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,840
But you don't sense in the 
texture of their voice that 

579
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,920
there's there's worship. 
There's something personal 

580
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:40,850
there. 
There's something that's moved 

581
00:33:40,850 --> 00:33:42,970
your soul when you came to that 
text. 

582
00:33:42,970 --> 00:33:45,770
It's just, you know, I saw this 
and I shared it and this is what

583
00:33:45,770 --> 00:33:47,650
it did. 
And I I used that when I was 

584
00:33:47,650 --> 00:33:50,370
talking and and it just like, 
OK, it's nice. 

585
00:33:50,370 --> 00:33:52,970
I never saw that verse before. 
Maybe I skipped over when I read

586
00:33:52,970 --> 00:33:57,890
through Isaiah or whatever the 
text may be, but there it didn't

587
00:33:57,890 --> 00:34:01,130
do something to that person. 
You can just tell. 

588
00:34:02,410 --> 00:34:03,490
I don't know. 
Maybe it's just me. 

589
00:34:03,490 --> 00:34:05,250
I don't know. 
You could just tell, right? 

590
00:34:06,650 --> 00:34:08,770
And the way that all changes is 
when you come to the Word and 

591
00:34:08,770 --> 00:34:10,889
you say, what is it, Lord, that 
you're saying to me through 

592
00:34:10,889 --> 00:34:13,449
this? 
And you will know true blessing 

593
00:34:13,449 --> 00:34:15,449
from the word of God, and others
will be truly blessed. 

594
00:34:15,449 --> 00:34:19,050
Well, what is? 
What does David have to say 

595
00:34:19,050 --> 00:34:21,370
about what the Lord said by him 
and to him? 

596
00:34:21,530 --> 00:34:25,250
It has to do with leadership. 
And this is what he says in the 

597
00:34:25,250 --> 00:34:28,090
second part of verse three. 
When one rules justly over men 

598
00:34:28,969 --> 00:34:34,150
ruling in the fear of God, 
that's what the Holy Spirit 

599
00:34:34,150 --> 00:34:36,310
reveals them at the end of his 
life and reflection of his life.

600
00:34:36,310 --> 00:34:38,870
He was a leader for a lot of his
life, different levels, but he 

601
00:34:38,870 --> 00:34:41,550
was a leader. 
And what the the Spirit of God 

602
00:34:41,550 --> 00:34:46,469
brings to his attention is how 
one can rule effectively and 

603
00:34:46,469 --> 00:34:48,270
it's through and in the fear of 
God. 

604
00:34:49,270 --> 00:34:53,150
Justice, true justice, true 
integrity, true compassion. 

605
00:34:54,350 --> 00:34:59,510
Transparency can only come an 
issue from a heart that has the 

606
00:34:59,510 --> 00:35:01,710
fear of God occupying that same 
heart. 

607
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,120
And this is what comes to 
David's mind. 

608
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,480
And it's as though he's giving 
instruction to those who would 

609
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,120
read and hear this as he is 
about to leave this world and 

610
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:15,000
hand off his position to his 
successor and future successors 

611
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,560
who would also come to this. 
If you want to be an effective 

612
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,360
leader, you need to know how to 
fear him. 

613
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,440
I love the doctrine of the fear 
of God, and one of the reasons 

614
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,240
why I absolutely adore that 
doctrine is because of all the 

615
00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:32,270
blessings and promises that are 
the outcome of it being applied 

616
00:35:32,270 --> 00:35:34,830
appropriately. 
When you really understand the 

617
00:35:34,830 --> 00:35:37,510
fear of God, you will really 
know spiritual riches in this 

618
00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:39,950
life. 
And not only will the person who

619
00:35:40,030 --> 00:35:43,110
lives in the fear of God be 
rewarded, those who are in 

620
00:35:43,110 --> 00:35:47,590
contact with that person will 
also be enriched in many ways. 

621
00:35:47,590 --> 00:35:48,950
And that's what he does 
poetically. 

622
00:35:48,950 --> 00:35:50,830
You poetically explains that in 
verse four. 

623
00:35:50,990 --> 00:35:53,670
Look at this. 
He dawns on them like the 

624
00:35:53,670 --> 00:35:57,550
morning light, like the sun 
shining forth on a cloud this 

625
00:35:57,550 --> 00:36:01,790
morning, like rain that makes 
grass to sprout from the earth. 

626
00:36:01,830 --> 00:36:05,190
I mean, visualize that. 
A sunny day, no clouds. 

627
00:36:05,990 --> 00:36:10,710
The sun rising up in the morning
with its light and rain that 

628
00:36:10,710 --> 00:36:13,110
makes grass to sprout from the 
earth. 

629
00:36:13,630 --> 00:36:16,910
That is what you are like to 
other people when you live in 

630
00:36:16,910 --> 00:36:20,510
the fear of God. 
This is what he's saying Here, 

631
00:36:21,030 --> 00:36:25,030
when you walk in the fear of 
God, you're a pleasant person. 

632
00:36:26,110 --> 00:36:30,970
You're delightful. 
You're energizing spiritually. 

633
00:36:31,450 --> 00:36:37,130
There's life giving force there.
There's inspiration, There's 

634
00:36:37,130 --> 00:36:39,850
joy, right? 
That's that. 

635
00:36:39,850 --> 00:36:42,250
When you know somebody who 
really walks in, that kind of 

636
00:36:42,250 --> 00:36:44,490
fear of him, that all of who he 
is. 

637
00:36:45,210 --> 00:36:47,330
And if you're truly a person 
who's sensitive to the spirit, 

638
00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:49,890
then you're attracted to that. 
Such like a sunny day. 

639
00:36:50,290 --> 00:36:51,850
You want to be around that 
person. 

640
00:36:52,050 --> 00:36:54,090
You want to live your life. 
You want to do business with 

641
00:36:54,090 --> 00:36:56,690
that person. 
You want to marry that kind of a

642
00:36:56,690 --> 00:37:00,810
person. 
And how true is it that the 

643
00:37:00,810 --> 00:37:04,370
opposite is an effect for those 
who don't fear God? 

644
00:37:05,410 --> 00:37:07,450
I don't know how I would 
describe the opposite of what we

645
00:37:07,450 --> 00:37:09,890
just read here in verse 4. 
But I can tell you, people who 

646
00:37:09,890 --> 00:37:12,490
don't fear God, they're not 
pleasant. 

647
00:37:13,530 --> 00:37:18,650
They incite trouble, They're 
agitating in the community, 

648
00:37:18,970 --> 00:37:21,170
They're unpredictable in their 
behavior. 

649
00:37:21,410 --> 00:37:24,750
You question their integrity. 
You don't know if they're the 

650
00:37:24,750 --> 00:37:28,430
same person that you see on 
Sunday morning, on Wednesday 

651
00:37:28,430 --> 00:37:31,190
night, or we have Wednesday 
night, Thursday morning. 

652
00:37:33,830 --> 00:37:37,030
And so the secret to success, 
not just in leadership, but to 

653
00:37:37,030 --> 00:37:39,790
be a blessing to those around 
you, like the sun, like the 

654
00:37:39,790 --> 00:37:41,590
rain. 
It's the fear of the Lord. 

655
00:37:41,830 --> 00:37:45,310
Let me show you just one example
of the extent of the fear of God

656
00:37:45,510 --> 00:37:46,870
living in your life and what it 
will do. 

657
00:37:46,990 --> 00:37:50,830
This is actually one of my 
favorite consequences of fearing

658
00:37:50,830 --> 00:37:54,260
God. 
Guess what book is in Leviticus?

659
00:37:55,140 --> 00:37:58,980
Leviticus. 
Who reads Leviticus anymore? 

660
00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:05,460
We do Leviticus 1914. 
It's it's a it's an inside by 

661
00:38:05,460 --> 00:38:08,540
inference, right? 
This is what the Lord says. 

662
00:38:08,540 --> 00:38:10,580
This is His Holiness code to his
people. 

663
00:38:12,580 --> 00:38:14,700
This is what he says. 
In this particular instruction 

664
00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:19,180
you shall not curse the death or
put a stumbling block before the

665
00:38:19,180 --> 00:38:22,350
blind, but you shall fear your 
God. 

666
00:38:22,350 --> 00:38:26,870
I am the Lord. 
Now how would we on a surface 

667
00:38:26,870 --> 00:38:28,510
level reading interpret that 
verse? 

668
00:38:29,590 --> 00:38:33,110
Well, if you fear God, you won't
be cruel to people who are 

669
00:38:33,110 --> 00:38:35,550
disabled or handicapped. 
That's what we would most of us 

670
00:38:35,550 --> 00:38:39,070
probably would take out of that.
If a person's A person's blind, 

671
00:38:39,070 --> 00:38:41,030
you won't play tricks on him, 
you won't tease him. 

672
00:38:41,030 --> 00:38:43,030
If person's deaf, likewise you 
won't do the same. 

673
00:38:43,230 --> 00:38:47,910
So this is God's code to 
treating those who are 

674
00:38:48,070 --> 00:38:52,240
unfortunate, who are limited 
with the same kindness and grace

675
00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:54,480
that he does. 
But think deeper. 

676
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,920
Think deeper. 
If somebody's before me, we're 

677
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,720
in the room by ourselves and 
he's blind and he has all this 

678
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:01,520
stuff around me. 
And I take his wallet. 

679
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:02,960
Does he see that I took his 
wallet? 

680
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,040
No. 
He's blind. 

681
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,720
If there's somebody's deaf 
there, right? 

682
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,400
Just me and that person and I do
something else. 

683
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,240
I won't give another example, 
but do something else. 

684
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,720
Say something. 
Will he hear it? 

685
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:17,320
Answers. 
Obviously. 

686
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,290
No, what I believe the Lord is 
speaking here on a deeper level 

687
00:39:20,290 --> 00:39:27,210
is that the fear of God will 
invoke a sense of integrity in 

688
00:39:27,210 --> 00:39:32,970
private. 
When no one sees you, when no 

689
00:39:32,970 --> 00:39:37,130
one hears you, that is the real 
you. 

690
00:39:37,930 --> 00:39:42,730
Yeah, it's true. 
When no one sees you and no one 

691
00:39:42,730 --> 00:39:50,670
hears you, that is the real you.
And what the fear of God does is

692
00:39:52,670 --> 00:39:57,510
it's it's it inspires A devotion
to God, despite the fact that 

693
00:39:57,510 --> 00:39:59,670
there are those who might not 
see or hear you. 

694
00:39:59,670 --> 00:40:01,630
Why? 
Because the fear of God reminds 

695
00:40:01,630 --> 00:40:05,310
you. 
God sees you and God hears you. 

696
00:40:05,670 --> 00:40:09,190
I love the story of Joseph when 
he resisted that temptation with

697
00:40:09,190 --> 00:40:13,440
that wicked woman. 
Here she is, and the scene was 

698
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,040
just right. 
There's nobody else. 

699
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,600
She was a woman of power that 
could have gotten away with it. 

700
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,680
And this is Joseph Premount 
Sinai before the law. 

701
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,080
This is Joseph before the 
indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 

702
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:30,040
This is Joseph. 
Far from his church in Canaan, 

703
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:34,480
far from his family, far from 
Jacob and his brothers. 

704
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,840
Far from any kind of sanctified 
surrounding. 

705
00:40:39,620 --> 00:40:41,780
Yeah, you can say. 
How can I do this great evil 

706
00:40:41,780 --> 00:40:43,740
against who? 
My dad, My pastor? 

707
00:40:43,740 --> 00:40:44,900
My elder? 
My Deacon? 

708
00:40:44,940 --> 00:40:45,820
No. 
God. 

709
00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:48,020
That's what the fear of God 
does. 

710
00:40:48,020 --> 00:40:49,900
It goes with you on that 
business trip when your wife 

711
00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:54,260
doesn't. 
It helps you resist the 

712
00:40:54,260 --> 00:40:57,700
temptation of punching in 
different numbers when you when 

713
00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:01,100
you do your taxes. 
Why? 

714
00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:03,500
Because you fear him. 
You want to honor him. 

715
00:41:03,540 --> 00:41:06,060
You stand in awe of him, not 
just before the great 

716
00:41:06,060 --> 00:41:10,560
congregation, but even before 
the blind and before the death. 

717
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,600
I've said it 1000 times. 
Let me say it 1001 times. 

718
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,400
The fear of God is your greatest
accountability partner. 

719
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,080
The fear of God is your greatest
accountability partner. 

720
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,480
It will go where no man can go. 
It will be where no man can see.

721
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,760
It will touch you where no man 
can hear you. 

722
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,840
That's what we were doing in 
Canada. 

723
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:32,720
We're talking about the fear of 
God. 

724
00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:34,880
So I got to mention something 
that I didn't mention there. 

725
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,200
OK. 
Can I show you another blessing 

726
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,940
of the fear of God in leadership
or anybody of anybody's life? 

727
00:41:40,940 --> 00:41:42,620
Not just leadership. 
This is one that you may not 

728
00:41:42,620 --> 00:41:44,900
have considered. 
Do you realize that the fear of 

729
00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:47,660
God actually prevents you from 
being legalistic? 

730
00:41:49,820 --> 00:41:50,780
Have you ever thought about 
that? 

731
00:41:50,780 --> 00:41:51,940
I didn't. 
I didn't pull that out of the 

732
00:41:51,940 --> 00:41:52,740
way. 
Let me show it to you. 

733
00:41:53,020 --> 00:41:56,260
Ecclesiastes Chapter 7. 
Ecclesiastes, chapter seven. 

734
00:41:56,260 --> 00:42:05,200
Look at here in verse 16. 
Leadership in churches. 

735
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,120
Leadership in homes. 
Leadership in marriages. 

736
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,200
Leadership in employment. 
This is good. 

737
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,950
This is good stuff. 
Look what the fear of God can do

738
00:42:13,950 --> 00:42:17,150
in a man. 
Ecclesiastes 716. 

739
00:42:17,150 --> 00:42:22,590
Be not overly righteous, and do 
not make yourself too wise. 

740
00:42:23,150 --> 00:42:28,550
Why should you destroy yourself?
Be not overly wicked, neither be

741
00:42:28,550 --> 00:42:31,190
a fool. 
Why should you die before your 

742
00:42:31,190 --> 00:42:34,350
time? 
It is good that you should take 

743
00:42:34,350 --> 00:42:37,950
hold of this and from that 
withhold not your hand for the 

744
00:42:37,950 --> 00:42:42,820
one who does what or the one who
fears God shall come out from 

745
00:42:42,820 --> 00:42:47,180
both of them. 
Now we we usually understand the

746
00:42:47,180 --> 00:42:52,100
fear of God as the escape from 
spiritual suicide, from a 

747
00:42:52,100 --> 00:42:56,420
hedonistic, pleasure seeking way
of life in which you destroy 

748
00:42:56,420 --> 00:42:58,660
yourself even prematurely. 
That's what he's talking about. 

749
00:42:58,660 --> 00:43:01,820
In the second part, that's what 
we we have that one-dimensional 

750
00:43:01,820 --> 00:43:05,980
view of the fear of God. 
You sin and you're lawless and 

751
00:43:05,980 --> 00:43:07,620
you're loose because you don't 
fear God. 

752
00:43:07,620 --> 00:43:10,320
Hey, that's true. 
But look at the other extreme 

753
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:14,360
that you can also evade. 
Do not be overly righteous. 

754
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,960
Do not be too wise. 
There's a lot of confusion in 

755
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,640
understanding that that 
statement. 

756
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,360
He's not talking about true 
righteousness. 

757
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,840
Clearly, if you pin that with 
the rest of Scripture, you 

758
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,160
understand that the Bible is not
trying to hint at you. 

759
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,140
Hey, you can be moderately holy,
right? 

760
00:43:31,340 --> 00:43:34,540
You can cuss a little bit. 
You can, you can watch a little 

761
00:43:34,540 --> 00:43:36,460
bit of that, like don't and 
listen. 

762
00:43:36,460 --> 00:43:39,380
There are people who use that 
verse to to to justify that kind

763
00:43:39,380 --> 00:43:41,980
of behavior. 
You don't want to be too too 

764
00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:45,540
much, brother. 
You don't want to go overboard. 

765
00:43:46,820 --> 00:43:50,420
Really be holy as I am holy. 
So God's the standard of my 

766
00:43:50,420 --> 00:43:53,740
holiness. 
This is not what what Solomon is

767
00:43:53,740 --> 00:43:56,540
talking about. 
There is another kind of 

768
00:43:56,540 --> 00:44:01,170
righteousness that destroys. 
It's a form of righteousness. 

769
00:44:01,330 --> 00:44:05,130
It's a superficial spirituality.
It's one that takes your 

770
00:44:05,130 --> 00:44:10,010
personal convictions, your man 
made laws and rules and elevates

771
00:44:10,010 --> 00:44:13,050
them and even eclipsing what God
has made clear and what God 

772
00:44:13,050 --> 00:44:16,810
demands of you and me. 
And you know what the Bible 

773
00:44:16,810 --> 00:44:20,010
says? 
The fear of God keeps you from 

774
00:44:20,010 --> 00:44:23,770
going there. 
What's the association? 

775
00:44:24,170 --> 00:44:27,490
Well, when you fear God, you 
fear His word. 

776
00:44:28,420 --> 00:44:32,100
When you fear God in standing 
awe of Him, you also stand in 

777
00:44:32,100 --> 00:44:35,940
reverence of His word. 
And part of that reverence will 

778
00:44:35,940 --> 00:44:39,620
make you realize, I do not want 
to take away from that word. 

779
00:44:40,940 --> 00:44:44,100
I don't want to make light of 
His commands, nor do I want to 

780
00:44:44,140 --> 00:44:51,260
add to them, nor do I want to 
unnecessarily demand more where 

781
00:44:51,260 --> 00:44:54,220
God has not made something 
essential or clear. 

782
00:44:55,630 --> 00:44:57,750
Who would have ever thought that
the fear of God will actually 

783
00:44:57,750 --> 00:45:02,910
keep you and I for legal from 
legalism, the Scripture I just 

784
00:45:02,910 --> 00:45:04,990
want. 
No wonder the scripture says in 

785
00:45:04,990 --> 00:45:08,710
Isaiah 33 Six that the fear of 
the Lord is Zion's treasure. 

786
00:45:08,790 --> 00:45:11,310
You open up that treasure box 
and it's much deeper than you 

787
00:45:11,310 --> 00:45:13,830
can imagine. 
Protects me from this. 

788
00:45:14,270 --> 00:45:19,030
It produces this. 
It creates this, yes, everything

789
00:45:19,030 --> 00:45:22,670
from ruling justly to you being 
a person who walks in true 

790
00:45:22,670 --> 00:45:27,650
spirituality, escaping 
destructive lawlessness and 

791
00:45:27,650 --> 00:45:31,810
destructive legalism. 
And he says here you're going to

792
00:45:31,810 --> 00:45:34,130
be that kind of a person when 
you fear God. 

793
00:45:35,970 --> 00:45:39,730
And then he says something quite
interesting here in verse 5. 

794
00:45:39,930 --> 00:45:49,380
Come back to second saying that 
23 verse 5 for Does not my house

795
00:45:49,380 --> 00:45:51,420
stand? 
So with God, who has the new 

796
00:45:51,420 --> 00:45:53,820
King James and the King James 
Version, Does it read like that?

797
00:45:58,020 --> 00:46:00,540
Yeah, although my house be not 
so with God. 

798
00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:05,220
And so when you have the ESV and
the NASV, which come from a 

799
00:46:05,220 --> 00:46:10,620
different family of manuscripts,
they gave the same point but in 

800
00:46:10,620 --> 00:46:14,260
a more rhetorical question way. 
Whereas the King James, the new 

801
00:46:14,260 --> 00:46:17,140
King James from a different 
source of family manuscripts 

802
00:46:18,020 --> 00:46:22,420
explicitly state that 
unfortunately David did not see 

803
00:46:22,420 --> 00:46:25,820
the fruition of the blessings 
that he describes in verse four 

804
00:46:25,820 --> 00:46:29,840
in his own household. 
So he's painfully and honestly 

805
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:33,520
saying, look, I just told you 
that when you rule justly, it's 

806
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,920
because you will fear God or you
fear God and it will dawn and it

807
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:40,160
will be shining and it will 
create in a sprout life. 

808
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,160
But that wasn't the case with my
own house. 

809
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,000
And that's true. 
You see, David, there is an 

810
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,080
episode of his life where he 
didn't fear the Lord and there 

811
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,160
was repercussions, 
generationally speaking. 

812
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,010
But no matter what translation 
you have, the the main point is 

813
00:46:56,010 --> 00:46:58,170
still being made the essence of 
what he is saying. 

814
00:46:58,170 --> 00:47:01,970
Is this so in the ESP for does 
not my house stand so with God 

815
00:47:02,130 --> 00:47:05,250
Then he says, for he has made 
with me an everlasting covenant.

816
00:47:06,130 --> 00:47:09,210
What he's explaining is the 
success of my house, the 

817
00:47:09,210 --> 00:47:14,170
security of my home, my lineage,
my seed does not depend upon the

818
00:47:14,170 --> 00:47:18,130
failures of me as a father, the 
rebellion of my children. 

819
00:47:18,370 --> 00:47:21,770
It all comes down to this. 
God made a promise to me. 

820
00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:27,660
God made a promise to me and my 
future, my house. 

821
00:47:28,420 --> 00:47:31,620
And although there were, there 
were car wrecks, spiritually 

822
00:47:31,620 --> 00:47:36,380
speaking, leading up to this 
point, it's not dependent upon 

823
00:47:36,380 --> 00:47:38,580
the performance, it's dependent 
upon the promise. 

824
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:45,620
Free has made it with me in 
everlasting covenant, ordered in

825
00:47:45,620 --> 00:47:48,700
all things insecure, for he will
not cause to prosper. 

826
00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:52,940
All my help and all my desire 
zoom out again. 

827
00:47:53,460 --> 00:47:56,900
What's the context of this text?
It's a Psalm. 

828
00:47:57,580 --> 00:47:59,420
It's a hymn. 
It's worship. 

829
00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:05,380
Based on that, what's another 
stimulant that you can you can 

830
00:48:05,380 --> 00:48:07,780
retrieve in terms of your 
worship and mine? 

831
00:48:11,460 --> 00:48:13,060
Is it to look at your 
performance? 

832
00:48:14,020 --> 00:48:19,800
Look at the promises of God. 
Look at the promises of God in 

833
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,160
this life. 
Look at the promises of God in 

834
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,560
the next life. 
Look at the promises of God and 

835
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,240
forgiving your actions in the 
past. 

836
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,960
Look at the promises of God that
encourage your strength and your

837
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,880
hope for tomorrow. 
Look at the promises of God that

838
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,840
protect your status for 
eternity. 

839
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,720
Look at those promises and 
you'll have another reason to 

840
00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:44,730
sing. 
You look at your performance. 

841
00:48:44,770 --> 00:48:48,450
You'll have more reason to groan
and moan than anything else. 

842
00:48:49,570 --> 00:48:51,090
And you should consider your 
performance. 

843
00:48:51,090 --> 00:48:53,050
You should consider where you're
at with the Lord. 

844
00:48:53,050 --> 00:48:55,930
You should work out your 
salvation. 

845
00:48:55,930 --> 00:48:57,930
With what? 
Fear and trembling. 

846
00:48:57,930 --> 00:48:59,810
It doesn't say work for your 
salvation. 

847
00:49:01,690 --> 00:49:04,370
There's a big difference there. 
Work out your salvation, not 

848
00:49:04,370 --> 00:49:06,210
work for your salvation. 
I don't even know how that's 

849
00:49:06,210 --> 00:49:08,850
even used as a proof text that 
you can lose your salvation. 

850
00:49:09,530 --> 00:49:15,860
Work it out, not work for. 
And here's David in the same 

851
00:49:15,860 --> 00:49:18,900
breath saying, yeah, my house 
was not in the best condition 

852
00:49:19,020 --> 00:49:22,620
and I didn't rule in the fear of
God at some point. 

853
00:49:22,620 --> 00:49:25,460
And that was enough for there to
be havoc and chaos. 

854
00:49:26,180 --> 00:49:28,660
But oh, there was an everlasting
promise that he made to me. 

855
00:49:30,100 --> 00:49:32,140
And that's what the Holy Spirit 
brings to mind. 

856
00:49:32,900 --> 00:49:35,100
That's what the Holy Spirit 
brings to him so that he can pen

857
00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:36,620
it. 
And it's an instruction for you 

858
00:49:36,620 --> 00:49:38,780
and I. 
You got to keep the promises of 

859
00:49:38,780 --> 00:49:44,580
God at the forefront of your 
meditation and your exercise and

860
00:49:44,580 --> 00:49:47,580
your spiritual service. 
It's not about the performance, 

861
00:49:47,580 --> 00:49:51,580
it's about His promises. 
And when I do good, I praise 

862
00:49:51,580 --> 00:49:56,380
Him, and when I fail him, I come
to him and I remind myself of 

863
00:49:56,780 --> 00:50:02,140
His everlasting covenant. 
And then He describes here in 

864
00:50:02,140 --> 00:50:03,700
verse 6-7. 
Those who are outside of His 

865
00:50:03,700 --> 00:50:09,020
covenant, their faith, their 
future, but worthless men, are 

866
00:50:09,020 --> 00:50:12,460
all like thorns that are thrown 
away, for they cannot be taken 

867
00:50:12,460 --> 00:50:15,020
with the hand. 
But the man who touches them 

868
00:50:15,020 --> 00:50:18,060
arms himself with iron in the 
shaft of the spear, and they are

869
00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:24,340
utterly consumed with fire, the 
song ends. 

870
00:50:27,100 --> 00:50:29,700
David is saying these things as 
his last words. 

871
00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:32,300
And then, interesting enough, 
the text transitions not to 

872
00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:37,340
another song, but to a catalog 
of other men. 

873
00:50:39,010 --> 00:50:43,530
This is gallery, if you will, of
other faithful men known as the 

874
00:50:43,530 --> 00:50:47,330
30 mighty men of David. 
And we read here in verse 8, 

875
00:50:47,330 --> 00:50:51,130
these are the names of the 
mighty man whom David had, whom 

876
00:50:51,130 --> 00:50:53,930
David had. 
And then the rest of the chapter

877
00:50:53,930 --> 00:50:55,290
is about them. 
And that's why I don't want it. 

878
00:50:55,290 --> 00:50:58,570
I don't want to even necessarily
begin here without pausing. 

879
00:50:59,530 --> 00:51:02,490
But I won't make this link. 
What's so fascinating as we've 

880
00:51:02,490 --> 00:51:06,310
been studying David's life is 
that we've seen his ups and 

881
00:51:06,310 --> 00:51:08,310
downs. 
We've seen him develop, we've 

882
00:51:08,310 --> 00:51:14,910
seen him fail, stall, excel. 
And as we come to the reflection

883
00:51:14,910 --> 00:51:18,270
of his life, the Holy Spirit 
connects his life to the life of

884
00:51:18,270 --> 00:51:22,950
other men. 
David wasn't who David was 

885
00:51:22,950 --> 00:51:24,590
without. 
David's mighty men in some way, 

886
00:51:27,270 --> 00:51:33,390
whom David had these mighty 
glorious rugged warriors. 

887
00:51:35,530 --> 00:51:38,170
And one of the things that we'll
touch on in in greater detail is

888
00:51:38,170 --> 00:51:41,170
that these mighty men were not 
mighty when they first were 

889
00:51:41,170 --> 00:51:44,290
introduced to David, were they? 
Do you remember when they found 

890
00:51:44,290 --> 00:51:48,850
David in that cave, The Cave of 
Adalim, And it says that they 

891
00:51:48,850 --> 00:51:52,290
were in distress, they were 
bitter and soul and they were in

892
00:51:52,290 --> 00:51:54,970
debt. 
That's how these same guys 

893
00:51:54,970 --> 00:51:59,930
started. 
And David saw these ragtag guys 

894
00:52:01,250 --> 00:52:03,210
and they said, we know you're 
the king. 

895
00:52:03,900 --> 00:52:07,940
We want to follow you. 
And in David's mind, I mean, at 

896
00:52:07,940 --> 00:52:11,820
least if I was in David's 
Pozanci, these are the guys I 

897
00:52:11,820 --> 00:52:16,660
have to work with. 
But there is no such commentary 

898
00:52:16,660 --> 00:52:18,180
from David. 
He takes them in. 

899
00:52:19,220 --> 00:52:23,500
And throughout the years, they 
watched him, they slept with 

900
00:52:23,500 --> 00:52:27,580
him, they fought with him, 
They've heard him pray, They've 

901
00:52:27,580 --> 00:52:31,140
seen God come through. 
They've seen his enemies 

902
00:52:31,180 --> 00:52:36,230
vanquished, and these same guys 
became mighty men. 

903
00:52:37,030 --> 00:52:40,110
Mighty men. 
It's the same If you give your 

904
00:52:40,110 --> 00:52:43,950
life to Christ, he will not 
reject if you come broken and 

905
00:52:43,950 --> 00:52:46,830
wounded. 
And that. 

906
00:52:46,910 --> 00:52:49,510
And you have some believers who 
can't help but look at a 

907
00:52:49,510 --> 00:52:53,070
person's past, or look at a 
person's personality, or look at

908
00:52:53,070 --> 00:52:57,870
their lack of social skills and 
look at their report card and 

909
00:52:57,870 --> 00:53:01,390
think you can get in. 
But I don't think God can do 

910
00:53:01,390 --> 00:53:04,080
much with you. 
You would never say that, right?

911
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,880
But we feel that we're very 
reluctant to believe that this 

912
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:13,440
clay, this lump of dirt, God can
make it to something mighty and 

913
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,960
glorious. 
We'll get to that more. 

914
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:18,280
But the point I want to make is 
this. 

915
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,640
David could not be David. 
Without his mighty man, you 

916
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,160
cannot know the full extent of 
your sanctification. 

917
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:28,760
Without the Saints, you can't. 
And if you want another reason 

918
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,890
to sing so this isn't directly 
and explicitly said that we can 

919
00:53:33,330 --> 00:53:35,050
find different scriptural 
precedent for it. 

920
00:53:35,930 --> 00:53:41,690
Find some Christians in life who
also fear God, who see Jesus for

921
00:53:41,690 --> 00:53:44,450
who really is, who's willing to 
do anything to serve Jesus is 

922
00:53:44,450 --> 00:53:45,490
what you're going to discover 
here. 

923
00:53:45,490 --> 00:53:47,170
These mighty men didn't just 
kill giants. 

924
00:53:47,170 --> 00:53:50,130
They grabbed a glass of water 
when their king said, oh, that I

925
00:53:50,130 --> 00:53:52,010
would have that water from the 
well of Bethlehem. 

926
00:53:52,850 --> 00:53:57,890
You find those kind of believers
in life like what we did today, 

927
00:54:00,350 --> 00:54:02,390
and you will know a strength to 
your song. 

928
00:54:03,270 --> 00:54:04,870
Realizing what God can do in 
others. 

929
00:54:04,870 --> 00:54:07,270
Realizing that there are other 
brothers and sisters who love 

930
00:54:07,270 --> 00:54:10,870
the Jesus you love and you will 
be motivated to worship him 

931
00:54:10,870 --> 00:54:13,190
until the end. 
May God keep us until the end. 

932
00:54:13,950 --> 00:54:15,870
May God keep us fighting 
together to the end. 

933
00:54:15,910 --> 00:54:19,510
May God continue to mold us and 
make us into mighty warriors for

934
00:54:19,510 --> 00:54:21,030
His glory. 
Amen. 

935
00:54:21,710 --> 00:54:30,410
Amen. 
Let's pray Saints, Father in 

936
00:54:30,410 --> 00:54:34,090
heaven, words cannot describe 
the gratitude we have in being 

937
00:54:34,090 --> 00:54:35,850
able to study your word 
together. 

938
00:54:38,210 --> 00:54:42,490
Time does not permit to excavate
all that you have to say in 

939
00:54:42,490 --> 00:54:48,690
these verses. 
Thank you for the church. 

940
00:54:49,090 --> 00:54:52,010
Thank you for this church. 
Thank you for the churches that 

941
00:54:52,010 --> 00:54:55,250
are represented here. 
Thank you for the believers that

942
00:54:55,250 --> 00:54:58,650
love your word. 
Lord, would you help us fear 

943
00:54:58,650 --> 00:55:01,350
you? 
Would you help us look to your 

944
00:55:01,350 --> 00:55:04,790
word not just so that we can be 
equipped for the Spirit to speak

945
00:55:04,790 --> 00:55:09,310
by us, but to us? 
Lord, we believe you've spoken 

946
00:55:09,310 --> 00:55:15,550
to us, and we ask, oh God, that 
what's been spoken to us like 

947
00:55:15,550 --> 00:55:19,510
Ezra, would be applied before it
is even taught to others. 

948
00:55:22,150 --> 00:55:26,310
Lord, another Bible study will 
come to an end. 

949
00:55:26,350 --> 00:55:33,210
Another book in your sacred 
library is coming to a 

950
00:55:33,210 --> 00:55:38,610
conclusion. 
Time flies. 

951
00:55:38,610 --> 00:55:43,850
Lord, we cannot believe that two
years in one study has already 

952
00:55:45,490 --> 00:55:48,770
come to this point. 
Help us, Lord. 

953
00:55:49,530 --> 00:55:53,370
Help us finish well. 
Help us be worshippers. 

954
00:55:53,370 --> 00:56:01,110
Help us be sweet, Psalmist, even
in our last moments. 

955
00:56:02,070 --> 00:56:05,670
Help us be like Jacob, no matter
what our performance has been up

956
00:56:05,670 --> 00:56:11,190
to this point, to finish by 
blessing others and worshipping 

957
00:56:11,190 --> 00:56:14,750
you upon the staff of dependency
on you. 

958
00:56:15,790 --> 00:56:19,590
Help us live until the end with 
that kind of staff in our hand, 

959
00:56:20,510 --> 00:56:24,110
not leaning on our own wisdom or
strength or resources, but upon 

960
00:56:24,110 --> 00:56:27,970
your faithfulness in all things.
We worship you now. 

961
00:56:29,170 --> 00:56:34,250
We worship you now because we've
sensed your voice, the person of

962
00:56:34,250 --> 00:56:39,050
the Holy Spirit, in our midst. 
In Jesus name, Amen. 

963
00:56:39,410 --> 00:56:41,290
Amen. 
Why don't we stand and worship 

964
00:56:41,290 --> 00:56:41,930
the Lord together?