1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,500 Second Samuel. Chapter 16. 2 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:11,600 This storm might make this Bible study little bit more special 3 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:14,600 right? You made it tonight and we'll 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,600 trust that will endure it tonight as well. 5 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:19,800 Can we pray again? Yes. 6 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,600 Lord. Oh Lord, we love you. 7 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:32,200 You are everything to us. Lord. 8 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:37,200 We thank you for the Saints in this land and whom is all our 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,700 Delight. We thank you Lord because the 10 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:42,800 Saints of the land or the excellent ones. 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,800 O Lord O. We are imperfect though. 12 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,900 We missed the mark many times because of Jesus Christ. 13 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:55,200 We are excellent and your gentleness has made us great. 14 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:01,100 Your blood has made us clean Your spirit has sealed us 15 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:04,000 forever as adopted Sons and Daughters. 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,200 Lord, we are more detached from this world than ever. 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:14,500 We say, come Lord, Jesus, bring your rule and your rain, 18 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:19,500 establish your throne in Jerusalem, and stretch, out your 19 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:23,800 scepter. And bring righteousness and let 20 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:29,200 your glory cover the Earth as the sea covers this world until 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:35,000 then make us ready. Lord, make us ready for your 22 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,600 return to not shrink from shame but to be brought before your 23 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,000 presence with ultimate joy and confidence that we have served 24 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,800 you. Well I thank you for my brothers 25 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:49,500 and sisters who are able to be here tonight. 26 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,700 We bless those who curse. Couldn't for any other reason. 27 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:56,200 We ask Lord that this night would be sanctifying and 28 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,200 glorifying onto you in the precious name of the true king. 29 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,700 Amen. Amen. 30 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,900 Tonight, I want to speak to you about. 31 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:11,200 We're going to study about 22 interactions that David had with 32 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:16,200 two different individuals at a moment of Crisis and his life, 33 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,600 remember where David is at at this moment, David is wandering 34 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,900 through the Wilderness Again, David has fled his home, his 35 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:31,600 throne, his City and his now, Escaping The Wrath of his son 36 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,000 and his with Some of his family and some of his loyal 37 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:40,500 supporters, but on his way to a safe haven, there are two 38 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:45,000 different characters who enter into the scene, two different 39 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,900 characters who arrived where David is and engage with David 40 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:54,500 and pretty staggering ways. The first one is someone you are 41 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:57,700 familiar with if you are familiar with this book of the 42 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:06,300 Bible, his name is ziba, ziba is the chief servant of who fetish 43 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:09,400 ethe, correct. He was assigned by David to 44 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,500 exercise oversight over mephibosheth land. 45 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:18,700 His property his Harvest since mephibosheth was lame, Ziva is 46 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:23,300 going to approach David with supposed kindness and 47 00:03:23,300 --> 00:03:25,000 generosity. That's what you're going to 48 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,200 anticipate and see from the first few verses unlike ziba, we 49 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,300 have a different individual who will now appear on the scene and 50 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:35,500 we are not familiar with him for, he's introduced to us for 51 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:41,000 the first time and we see here that is name, is shammai that I 52 00:03:41,008 --> 00:03:43,800 say that right? Pastor, Daniel, correct, I 53 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,600 passed the Hebrew, test that bible study. 54 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,900 Chimay. And on the other hand, when it 55 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:56,100 comes to shh by, he will not approach David with Charity. 56 00:03:56,100 --> 00:04:01,200 He will come with a vicious and disgraceful spirit. 57 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:04,900 And we're going to examine each of these interactions more 58 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:08,400 carefully and trust that as we look at these two, the spirit of 59 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,900 God has prepared something for us to learn in our own Walk With 60 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:15,200 Jesus and our own walk in this path of faith that we are 61 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,000 embarking on. Each of us are, are walking in 62 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 this journey of obedience until we are called to Glory so let's 63 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 do that. Read the first few verses of 64 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,100 chapter 16 with me and let's pause and reflect further verse 65 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:31,700 1 when David had passed a little Beyond The Summit. 66 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:35,500 Ziba the the servant of mephibosheth met him with a 67 00:04:35,508 --> 00:04:39,400 couple of donkey saddled bearing, 200 loaves of bread, 68 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:45,100 100, Bunches of raisins 100 of Summer, fruits and a skin of 69 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:52,900 wine and the King set to ziba why have you brought these Z by 70 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:57,100 answered the donkeys are for the Kings household to ride on the 71 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:00,200 bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat and the wine 72 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,800 for those who faint in the wilderness to drink. 73 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,400 And the King said, and where is your master son? 74 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:16,700 Ziba said to the king behold he remains in Jerusalem for he said 75 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:21,400 today, the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my 76 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,000 father. The king said to zieba, behold 77 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,400 all that belonged to my fetish f is now yours. 78 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,800 And ziba said, I pay homage. Let me ever find favor in your 79 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,100 sight. My Lord the king. 80 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:43,300 Fascinating, we see here in verse 1, when David had passed a 81 00:05:43,308 --> 00:05:45,800 little Beyond The Summit, a piece of information that helps 82 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,400 us recall. The treacherous Journey that 83 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,100 David was on. Let us not forget that. 84 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:55,800 He is Barefoot, empty-handed, emotionally exhausted. 85 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,900 And I bring that up to you because those set of 86 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:03,900 circumstances that an individual does not necessarily set up that 87 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:10,600 individual for the best kind of discernment or Making abilities. 88 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,300 We're going to discover that as we look further into David 89 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:17,900 situation, it's not hard to imagine how David is in great 90 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:22,000 need. He is in want, he is desperate 91 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:24,700 and providentially. We see this wonderful Act of 92 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:27,400 Grace coming from a surprising guest. 93 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,700 Verse one. Tells us who it is, zebra the 94 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:37,400 servant of mephibosheth met him Now he comes with this abundant 95 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:42,000 Supply and we're even told the exact receipt of this care 96 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,400 package, but David has his suspicions. 97 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,700 David has his reservations and you get that impression based on 98 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:53,700 his initial question to the arrival of ziba, he says it why 99 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,100 have you brought these the first thing? 100 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:02,100 The king wants to do is pull out of ziba and honest reason his 101 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:06,000 true motive and being risky with his kindness. 102 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,400 This is not just charity without a cost. 103 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,000 There was a high cost to this knowing that there is a civil 104 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,500 war that's about to break out. And Ziva gives the answer, 105 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:19,500 right. And he convincingly tells David 106 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,100 that he has compassionately loyal to him, and his men and 107 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:27,100 his family. I've come all this way to help 108 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:29,400 you. I've come all this way because 109 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,700 you were on my mind and this is where things get interesting. 110 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,600 Once David hears that he responds with yet. 111 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,100 Another question with all of this presented, before I'm 112 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:47,100 understanding ziva's position, where he came from, naturally, 113 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:50,000 he demands for an answer concerning mephibosheth. 114 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,600 Where is he? I see that you brought this, but 115 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:59,900 where is your master son? And this is how he answers, you 116 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:03,200 know? I knew that you would bring that 117 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,200 up. And so I have to let you know 118 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:10,500 that unfortunately, he is very excited about your exit. 119 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:16,700 And he quotes him saying today, the Kingdom of Israel will give 120 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:20,500 back to me what belong to my father. 121 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,400 Now, before we move forward, can I ask you something? 122 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:28,000 My fellow students of the Bible and I trust that your 123 00:08:28,008 --> 00:08:30,100 Discerning. I trust that we will grow in 124 00:08:30,100 --> 00:08:33,700 discernment. Are there red flags with this 125 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:38,100 presentation and explanation that came forth from ziba? 126 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,200 I see some heads nodding but I'm going to ask you what it is. 127 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:46,700 Why is this concern is this? Just seems like love this seems 128 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:48,400 like loyalty. This seems like Allegiance. 129 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:51,100 This seems simple. It seems odd and it doesn't seem 130 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:55,400 surprising that yet another person at the right opportunity, 131 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:00,700 shows his true colors and says yeah this is good for me. 132 00:09:01,100 --> 00:09:03,800 What's happening to David? He deserves it. 133 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:06,900 David's already heard that many times before, so this is not 134 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:11,300 something that shocks us and it probably doesn't shot David but 135 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:14,200 are their Flags now you're nodding your head so I'm going 136 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:19,800 to ask you what are the flags Okay, so he is from Saul's 137 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,200 lineage. But why is that suspicious? 138 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,200 We know that. And he experienced Grace from 139 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,300 David, he experienced favor and he even expressed early on in 140 00:09:26,300 --> 00:09:29,200 David's reign of his love for him and how he's undeserving an 141 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:30,900 unworthy to be treated in such a way. 142 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:36,200 But what more about this again, the presentation may be more 143 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,200 specific, what he brought and what he said when he quoted his 144 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:48,900 master, let me ask you this question. 145 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,900 Is ziba here inferring that he is the one to be credited. 146 00:09:55,900 --> 00:09:59,100 For these resources he is, is he not? 147 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,000 He is posturing himself in such a way where it seems like he is. 148 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,100 The benefactor he is the one who conjured up this whole thing and 149 00:10:09,500 --> 00:10:12,100 was the loyal friend when everybody else is abandoning 150 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:15,100 him, that's the Persona that he is projecting. 151 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:21,600 Why is that suspicious? Think back to what he was called 152 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,900 to do for the rest of his life when he was when David was 153 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:26,600 trying to show Grace to mephibosheth. 154 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:31,300 Okay, go back now to 2nd Samuel 9 and you'll see what I'm 155 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:35,000 talking about here. We should be alarmed. 156 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:39,200 By ziva's attitude here with what he is, bringing to David, 157 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:42,600 and I'll tell you why. And second Samuel, 9 look at 158 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,600 verse 9. Then the king called ziba, Saul 159 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:50,400 servant, and set them all that belonged to Saul and to all his 160 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,000 house, I have given to your Masters grandson. 161 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,800 Is it clicking yet and you and your sons and your servants 162 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,600 shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce that 163 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,800 your Masters grandson may have bread to eat, but mephibosheth, 164 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,200 your Masters grandson. She always eat at my table now 165 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:14,600 ziba had 15 sons and 20 servants, David commanded that 166 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:20,200 ziba would be in charge of the property that belonged to saw 167 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,500 and was transferred all together over to mephibosheth. 168 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,100 He did. Not own a thing. 169 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:31,600 He just managed it. He had no right to one acre. 170 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:35,000 One inch of an acre. He was simply supposed to 171 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,700 supervise and come to the aid of mephibosheth if that is true. 172 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Where did this stuff come from? Do you understand the question, 173 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,600 the understand the, the correlation here if this, none 174 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,700 of this belonged to Ziva because he obviously had no right to 175 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:55,300 this stuff. Then the discerning. 176 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:00,000 In person would say, well either mephibosheth sent you, these 177 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:07,600 things to me or you stole them. Whatever option you go with it. 178 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:14,700 Puts a bad light on ziba. Secondly, look back at his 179 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,500 allegation like think and Ponder deeply about what he's actually 180 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:23,400 saying about mephibosheth. He's saying what mephibosheth, 181 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:27,000 that now today, the house of Israel, give me back the kingdom 182 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,600 of my father. Does that really make sense? 183 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:34,400 This is a really makes sense from a fetish F to interpret 184 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,800 what just happened as an opportunity for the dynasty of 185 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,000 salt to be revived. David didn't just abandon the 186 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,200 throne and leave it vacant Absalom sabotaged it, the son of 187 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:52,500 David has taken over Furthermore, even if that is the 188 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:57,000 case, to think that a crippled man has the confidence to 189 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,900 believe that he can have and gain a following to then fight 190 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:04,700 against Absalom is just daydreaming, it's silly, its 191 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:08,600 outlandish. So there's something about this 192 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,100 statement concerning mephibosheth, mephibosheth 193 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:15,100 character, David knew him, right that can be debated because 194 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:17,500 David knew a lot of guys and they turned their backs on him 195 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:20,500 but his condition like he's lame. 196 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:23,800 He couldn't even receive the produce from his own land and 197 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,800 he's going to lead a revolt and he's going to try to win the 198 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:32,000 throne from Absalom. It just it's absurd. 199 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,800 It doesn't make sense. At least to us because you're 200 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,500 sober minded. You're reading this with a 201 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:38,900 clear. Understanding, a clear 202 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:42,500 perspective, David is not in the best place here. 203 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:44,700 So put yourself in the Kings shoes. 204 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:46,800 Although these things are flags there. 205 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:52,900 Blinking warning signs, you have a man. who has experienced a 206 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:58,900 series of rapid betrayals It doesn't seem too far-fetched 207 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:02,100 that yet another person who has received an experience, the 208 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:04,600 kindness of David is now turning his back on him. 209 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:09,500 But the problem is, you can't believe everything you hear. 210 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:16,900 And I believe hear that zieba was very aware of David's 211 00:14:16,900 --> 00:14:20,200 condition his plight and he took advantage of it. 212 00:14:21,700 --> 00:14:24,300 And this is the lesson for us as followers of Jesus Christ. 213 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,700 This is a reminder that Temptation and deception often 214 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:34,400 rears its ugly head at strategic moments that most of us are 215 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,400 unaware of and are not very Vigilant in. 216 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:44,700 David here it is in a very very poor state of mind. 217 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:50,900 And that's when Z becomes And brings about this idea about 218 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:54,300 mephibosheth with an ulterior motive, of course. 219 00:14:54,900 --> 00:14:57,400 So let me let me present this to based on, looking at David. 220 00:14:57,500 --> 00:15:01,300 May I warn you, my brother, and my sister, number one, that you 221 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:05,500 and I are very susceptible to making poor judgments. 222 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:11,200 When we are emotionally wounded. Or overwhelmed. 223 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:15,800 I've seen it throughout my sojourning throughout my 224 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:21,600 pilgrimage in Christ, that there is a certain attraction to sin 225 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:28,700 or false Notions when a person responds to pain of any kind in 226 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:32,400 order to medicate it or search for some kind of immediate 227 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,900 relief happens in so many scenarios. 228 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,400 I've seen it in so many cases. I've seen young men have their 229 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,600 heart broken and so, they flee to print Geography, I've seen 230 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,200 people who have been traumatized and their child and so they 231 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,700 justify destructive Behavior to themselves and toward others. 232 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:56,600 It's a common trait of Sons. And Daughters of Adam that when 233 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:01,500 we are emotionally shattered, we tend to be drawn to certain 234 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:07,400 frames of mind that invites sin and harm on so many levels. 235 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:10,900 But not just when we are emotionally worn out, consider 236 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:16,300 this that David here is in danger because he's physically 237 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:20,000 worn out. Physically worn out. 238 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,100 You know, we tend to tell people not to make commitments when 239 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:27,100 they're overly excited, even with our gospel presentations, 240 00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:29,900 people say that right? Consider the cost count, the 241 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:32,600 cost don't get whipped up in your emotions here and make 242 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,800 these vows that you're not going to keep when you're sober and 243 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,200 your emotions. And yet, we tell that the people 244 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,100 who are excited and we don't tell them that when they're 245 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,300 exhausted. Exhausted. 246 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,300 You saying, brother, are you preaching psychology and on 247 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:51,100 preaching Bible to you? There's so many examples of 248 00:16:51,100 --> 00:16:53,400 this, let me give you the most prominent one, Elijah. 249 00:16:54,500 --> 00:17:00,100 Elijah was so fatigued. So mentally drained, that he 250 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:03,300 interpreted so many events out of its place. 251 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:07,599 He magnified things beyond what they were and what I find so 252 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:12,000 fascinating is that when God is ready to instruct his servant, 253 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,300 he doesn't give him any kind of any kind of charge concerning 254 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:19,500 his spiritual State before. He lets him sleep, drink and 255 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:23,400 eat. Before he addresses, Elijah, he 256 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,900 ensures that his body is replenished that his mind is 257 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:32,800 nourished, and that he is in a normal State of Mind. 258 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,900 Even before he speaks spiritual. Truth them, in some cases, that 259 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:40,800 is true. And some cases before a person 260 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,400 even receives some instruction from the word, they need to go 261 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,300 through all these other things beforehand. 262 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:49,300 I know that doesn't sound very spiritual, but look at Elijah as 263 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:51,800 an example and there's so many other cases of that. 264 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:56,900 The Bible wants you to be wise, Bible wants me to be wise, 265 00:17:56,900 --> 00:17:58,700 right? Can I give you some Word of 266 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:02,000 Wisdom? Don't make major decisions when 267 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:08,000 you are not feeling well. I know that's not a tweetable 268 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,000 quota from a Bible study, but I want to help you in Practical 269 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,100 life. So does the bible? 270 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,300 You're a representative Christ and and life is determined Often 271 00:18:16,300 --> 00:18:18,100 by our decisions. So let me give you a word of 272 00:18:18,108 --> 00:18:21,800 caution. When your body is tired, when 273 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:26,500 your mind is overwhelmed refrain from making judgments refrain 274 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:30,100 from making serious decisions that you might regret later on. 275 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,000 I tried to make that a discipline of mine especially 276 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,700 being in Ministry. There are texts that I am not 277 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:42,500 going to answer until tomorrow. There are situations that arise 278 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:46,900 and I just absorb it and I process it and attempt not to 279 00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:50,600 make some kind of committed decision or choice. 280 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,300 That I might look back and say, I wish I had waited on Do the 281 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:59,100 same in your own life exercise. The discipline to pull yourself 282 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:03,400 away before you're pulled into something because of your flesh, 283 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,800 not being in accordance with the will of God because it is weak 284 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,000 in one way or another. David is going to make a very 285 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,600 silly conclusion out of all of this. 286 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:14,300 He's actually going to make a very rash decision and I believe 287 00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:18,200 it on some of us because he's flustered, he's flustered and he 288 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,700 just wants to deal with it immediately and he wants to kind 289 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:23,600 of find some some reprieve some relief. 290 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:26,100 Leaf. And what does he do? 291 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:28,200 You read it in verse 4. Then the king said, the zebra 292 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,500 behold all that belonged to my fetish at the is now yours. 293 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:33,500 Now, you can tell the frustration there so you know 294 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,600 what whatever, whatever was given him, it's just now yours. 295 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:41,800 Unwise. Not good. 296 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,000 Sometimes the decisions that we make are irreversible. 297 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,700 The best he could have done is just hear what Zeba had said. 298 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,600 Thank them for it. And then process all that is 299 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,000 happening, including that updated news about mephibosheth 300 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:00,000 statement, the parents statement, you know what, 301 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,500 Proverbs 18 17 says, right? Proverbs? 302 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:07,600 1870 says the one who states his case first seems, right. 303 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:12,700 The one who states his case first seems right until another 304 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:17,200 comes and examines him. Until another comes and examines 305 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,100 him. Learn not to believe everything 306 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,000 at face value when it comes to a complicated situation. 307 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:28,500 Understand that it takes complex process in order to understand 308 00:20:28,700 --> 00:20:31,000 the truth of the matter. At least to come close as close 309 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,700 as possible to the truth of the matter. 310 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:37,700 With all that being said, I probably gave it away, but maybe 311 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:40,000 there is somebody here who's skeptical? 312 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:44,600 Is he telling the truth? After all that, how can you say? 313 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,700 Yeah, right is ziba telling the truth. 314 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,300 We don't have to guess because the facts of the matter will 315 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:55,800 surface don't they even will return to Jerusalem after they 316 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,500 have victory over Absalom. And who comes to me David 317 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,800 fetishes? Look at chapter 19 and I want 318 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,100 you to see how we are introduced to this man. 319 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,100 Who wasn't there to speak for himself when Zeeb approached 320 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:14,500 David and in second, Samuel 1924, What do we read? 321 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,600 And my fab bichette, the son of Saul came down to meet the king. 322 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,700 He had neither taken care of his feet, nor trimmed his beard. 323 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,800 Nor washed his clothes from the day, the king departed until the 324 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:33,300 day he came back and safety. So the sight of mephibosheth as 325 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:38,100 he approached the Vindicated King is one of morning. 326 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:42,400 He's grieving and we're told that since the day David was 327 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:47,900 made a fugitive that he endeavored to be such a man one 328 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:52,800 who is lamenting the loss of a friend of his king of his ruler 329 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:55,100 of the one? He believed to be God's anointed 330 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,000 that why is that more than just a Sentimental Act? 331 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:03,000 Why is what mephibosheth doing or what he had done more than 332 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,600 just an emotional appeal or statement about his love for 333 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:13,800 David, and he idea Who was raining while mephibosheth was 334 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,900 doing this. Absolutely. 335 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:23,100 Why would a man like me, fetish us, being a state of mourning 336 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,500 and lamenting when a new King has come to the throne? 337 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:30,600 I don't know about you, but if there was an Absalom supporter 338 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,600 who saw mephibosheth acting like this, could have put him in a 339 00:22:34,608 --> 00:22:37,000 lot of trouble. If it was just come here. 340 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,600 Why are you not trimmed? Why are you not clean? 341 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:43,600 Could have been treason, could have been the problem. 342 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:49,400 And yet he was willing to risk his own life in order to just 343 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,300 communicate his great and deep allegiance to David. 344 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:57,900 That's a statement. Moreover David now engages with 345 00:22:57,900 --> 00:22:59,200 him. He says why didn't you come with 346 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:00,400 me? He tells them, honestly, why 347 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,700 didn't you come with me? Mephibosheth explains ziba is a 348 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:05,400 liar. He slandered me. 349 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:07,900 He said something about me. That is not true, David. 350 00:23:07,900 --> 00:23:10,600 And this is what David does. This is, this is how he judges 351 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,900 the whole thing. So, you know what, fine, half of 352 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:15,700 it goes to ziba, half of it. Goes to you. 353 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,500 We'll split it down the middle, it belongs to both of you now, 354 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:21,200 and some might question David judgment. 355 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,000 You have every right to question it because when we come to that 356 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,900 chapter, you'll realize that with David did was in connection 357 00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:31,300 to a lawn Deuteronomy. That will determine what his 358 00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:33,600 judgment whether he was right, or it was off. 359 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,600 But more than that, I want you to see for the sake of this 360 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:43,400 chapter, how mephibosheth responded to that misdirected 361 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,900 settlement. What is his reaction look down 362 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:48,200 at verse 30. And mephibosheth said to the 363 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:54,600 king o, let him take it all. Since my Lord, the King has come 364 00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:58,800 safely home. What a response. 365 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,600 Okay, fine. Mephibosheth I know it all 366 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,800 belong to you at first, but we have a complicated story, your 367 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,600 half of it goes to Z behalf of it, goes to you and fetish with 368 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:13,200 with his beard and his smell, and his clothes. 369 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:17,700 And his untrimmed features says let him take it all. 370 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,600 He can have it all because my king is back. 371 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,300 You know, I was meditating on this and I thought to myself, I 372 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:32,700 wonder if Solomon borrowed this tactic when it came to his first 373 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:34,700 major judgment that made national news. 374 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:38,400 You remember that two women making an argument a case that 375 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,800 the baby and one of the woman's arms belonged to one or the 376 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,300 other. And eventually Solomon says 377 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:47,500 bring me a sword. Bring me a sword, says, cut the 378 00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:51,700 baby in half the living child in half and give each half to these 379 00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:54,600 women. And what is the true mother say? 380 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,500 Oh let the Child live. Let the Child live. 381 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:03,500 She can have the baby. They and Psalm says, you're the 382 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:08,000 right one. I wonder if he knew this story 383 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,000 and borrowed that tactic in wisdom and applied it to that 384 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,700 situation. Food for thought. 385 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,100 But what's more and more powerful to consider. 386 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:21,700 Now at this point is to see that mephibosheth proved his 387 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:24,600 innocence. I believe, I mean, how much more 388 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,900 do you need than this? Because nothing mattered to this 389 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:31,100 man, more, this revealed that nothing mattered to him more 390 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,400 than knowing that the king that he loved was exalted. 391 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,700 And that his kingdom is now established. 392 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,700 I don't care about anything else. 393 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,500 This is this is what it's all about and this is all I need and 394 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:46,800 this is this is here and so forget about everything else. 395 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:50,100 It doesn't move me. Doesn't change anything about me 396 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:53,300 because the object of my desire, My Affection is before me. 397 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:55,700 It's not in land. It's not a gnomes, it's not an 398 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:57,700 opportunity. It's not an any experience. 399 00:25:57,700 --> 00:26:01,800 And I looked this eyes, man. I have something to learn from a 400 00:26:01,808 --> 00:26:04,500 famous chef. God, help me. 401 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,800 God help you. Here's what we can learn the 402 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,000 secret to overcoming the irreversible. 403 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:20,200 The irreversible and unjust damage that is caused by others 404 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,200 is to be so enamored. By the king. 405 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:33,500 That when things are even taken from you or added to you, you 406 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:36,800 won't be shaken. Because your treasure is in 407 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,000 someone already. And everything about your 408 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,200 treasure is in him and so whatever comes or goes does not 409 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,700 make a difference. You know I when I looked at what 410 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:53,000 happened to mephibosheth it confirms to us just how heinous 411 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,200 and Despicable the sin of slander really is think about it 412 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,400 because life and death is in the power of the tongue. 413 00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:06,200 Somebody's own words a false witness can literally Alter 414 00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:08,400 somebody else's future in dramatic ways. 415 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,700 And if it's not like in mephibosheth case where 416 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:17,900 somebody's false report steals, possessions or position, what it 417 00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:21,700 tends to regularly do is taint the reputation of certain 418 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:25,100 individuals in the minds of others, often permanently. 419 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:31,700 No wonder why God hates the sin. And that happens to mephibosheth 420 00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:35,600 his life Naturally. Speaking will never be the same. 421 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,200 The king ordered that half of what he had on. 422 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,700 His estate is gone, and there's no indication that it was fully 423 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:47,500 recovered slander can do that. That's why people who do 424 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:49,700 slander, who lie, who are very loose with their tongue will be 425 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:53,300 held accountable to God. It has severe consequences. 426 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:55,900 Be very careful how you handle people's names. 427 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,400 Be very careful of your suspicions, though. 428 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,900 They should be there sometimes. Let it remain internal as long 429 00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:04,900 as possible before they come out because it can do damage to 430 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:07,400 people that you never intended to do and unfortunately for 431 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:14,400 Slanders they intend to do it. and yet this man is so unmoved 432 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,900 because the king is here, the king is before me. 433 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,300 And I thought to myself, that is the secret, is it not? 434 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:25,600 Is that not an indication of what it is? 435 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,700 That is required of me. If I want to know true, 436 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:32,200 spiritual success and even soar above, all the slurs and all the 437 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,000 lies. And all the vomit that comes 438 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,200 from people who don't fear God. Lord help me be like Mary of 439 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,300 Bethany who was silent in the presence of her critics and 440 00:28:43,300 --> 00:28:45,100 accusers. Why? 441 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:48,900 Because she was so caught up in worshipping Jesus Christ. 442 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:54,100 Be so consumed in that moment of realizing with the limited 443 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:57,300 Revelation that she had, I'm going to anoint him with all 444 00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:59,800 that I have. I'm going to break it with no 445 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,200 thought of getting anything back, porting out all in Christ. 446 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,000 And when people saw that and were offended by that, there is 447 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,900 no indication that married defended herself She didn't 448 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:13,200 speak up, she wasn't at the feet of Jesus and looked up to Judas 449 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,500 and the boys is a. Don't you guys realize that I 450 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:17,800 love the master? She didn't say anything of the 451 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,200 sort. She did not defend herself one. 452 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,300 But you know, we did though. Jesus. 453 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,000 Jesus defended her. She was busy worshipping. 454 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:34,000 And she left her cause her character in the hands of the 455 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:42,300 master. Maybe I love you, I love you. 456 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:47,900 So bear with me. Maybe the reason why you are so 457 00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:51,200 consumed with what people do or say is because you're not 458 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:56,500 consumed with Christ enough. Have you ever thought about that 459 00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:59,600 solution? Have you ever thought that these 460 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,600 flares and these reactions and these sleepless nights is 461 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:08,600 indicative of something deeper? Maybe maybe I'm too busy and I 462 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,400 put too much value in what people say and I'm not sitting 463 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,100 at the feet of Jesus long enough. 464 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:16,100 Sure. That woke up some of you. 465 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,200 It's good. So those are the lessons from 466 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,000 ziba but let's move over to our next character here in verse 5. 467 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:29,300 When King David came to Behold Him? 468 00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:33,500 There came out of a man of the family of the House of Saul 469 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:36,800 whose name was shammai the son of Gera. 470 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:42,300 And as he came, he cursed continually and he threw stones 471 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:45,800 at David and all the Servants of King, David and all the people, 472 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,200 and all the mighty men who are on his right hand and on his 473 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:54,000 left and shammai said as he cursed, get out, get out you men 474 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,100 of blood. You worthless, man. 475 00:30:57,100 --> 00:31:00,600 The Lord has Avenged on you all the blood of the House of Saul 476 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,900 and whose place you have rained. And the Lord has given the 477 00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:06,000 kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. 478 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,900 See your evil is on you for you are a man of blood seems like a 479 00:31:10,908 --> 00:31:17,600 nice guy. Ziva might even subtle with his 480 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,400 scheme to try to manipulate the situation for personal gain. 481 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,900 But this attack in is here is everything but subtle. 482 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:29,200 You can't get any more of an obvious and direct demonstration 483 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,500 of someone's hatred for someone else. 484 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:33,700 It's right here. It's public. 485 00:31:33,700 --> 00:31:36,000 It's clear. It's loud. 486 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,200 It is accompanied with objects being thrown in the air. 487 00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:44,200 This is the kind of meant to Maya's. and when you look at 488 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:49,100 ziba and shamima, you kind of get though, they are different 489 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:52,900 in their schemes. You get a clue of how the enemy 490 00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:56,200 Works in our own battle with him. 491 00:31:57,900 --> 00:32:00,100 All right, this isn't like zebra, the enemy work 492 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:04,700 deceitfully sometimes. He has a presentation when in 493 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:09,200 fact there's a different goal he's deceptive and yet at the 494 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:14,200 same time like shammai he often attacks openly and clearly and 495 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,700 you know exactly who you are facing and dealing with. 496 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,800 Ziba is a liar. So is Satan shammai is an 497 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,500 accuser. So is Satan a wonderful picture 498 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:25,800 of a natural thing that's happening at points of spiritual 499 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,600 truth. And do these two different in 500 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,000 their approach to David. They have one thing in common, 501 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,400 they're both connected to the house of Saul and this is a 502 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,300 direct descendant from Saul. So we see here that shammai is 503 00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:43,600 very angry, very hostile, very aggressive why we heard it 504 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,200 because he really believed that David unjustly took the throne 505 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:53,800 from Saul. And even killed for it. 506 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:57,100 This is how he proceeded. This is how we understood, why 507 00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:59,800 David was promoted the way he was promoted question. 508 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,000 Is it true? It's not true. 509 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:05,900 David didn't touch the Lord. Anoint the Lord's anointed. 510 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:07,700 Who touch the Lord's. Anointed The Lord. 511 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,400 The Lord touched the Lord's anointed, David had nothing to 512 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,300 do with this. And I look at shamya and I think 513 00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:18,700 to myself, that's a bitter guy. I mean, that's a guy with 514 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:22,600 pent-up anger that just waited for the right opportunity to 515 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,900 speak up and let it all out. When the man, like, David is at 516 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:29,700 his weakest. Shh my comes up and he makes his 517 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:33,800 his true feelings known and and when we re here that David came 518 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,100 to bahurim, it's believed that this is in the region of 519 00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:39,900 Benjamin, The Tribe of Benjamin. And it was a city that hosted 520 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:43,000 very strong, Saul supporters, even during David's Reign. 521 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,000 So you still had people who believe that the throne belonged 522 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,500 to Saul and here's a strong obvious case of that. 523 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,100 But imagine being a person. So embittered, so filled with 524 00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:57,600 anger and wrath and unforgiveness. 525 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,900 Based on something that doesn't have any. 526 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:07,400 Genuine proof and could have been easily misinterpreted. 527 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,699 Here's what I'm trying to say, you have very troubled people, 528 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,199 even in the church very disturbed Souls that are 529 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:21,800 harboring, hideous feelings that are being absolutely destroyed 530 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:28,300 from within, Because they have mishandled misinterpreted 531 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:32,900 misjudged actions or events either from people or even from 532 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:37,199 God himself. And they're just living with 533 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:43,400 that. Erosion that poison of hatred 534 00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:47,800 and disgust based on something that doesn't even validate it. 535 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:51,400 That doesn't even have proof for it that has been, again, 536 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,100 magnified to be something Beyond of what it really was. 537 00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:57,200 You have people like that. And this is what we see here. 538 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,000 A man who is angry about something that's not even really 539 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,600 true. That's not true at all. 540 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:04,300 When I saw this, I thought to myself, this is unfortunately, 541 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:06,700 the case of many people who claim to be Christians. 542 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,300 But here's what we see us, look at his words and I want you to, 543 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:14,800 I want you to say what stands out to, you look here at verse 544 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:17,900 8, the Lord has Avenged on you all the blood of the House of 545 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:20,400 Saul and whose place you have rained and the Lord has given 546 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:21,700 the kingdom into the hand of your son. 547 00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:23,800 Absalom, what stands out to you from that? 548 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:42,600 What stands out to you? It's okay gentleman, don't worry 549 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:47,400 about it, don't worry about it. Nothing stands out to you. 550 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,500 Okay. Absalom was a man of blood, 551 00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:54,800 sure. But look at the words that 552 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,900 shamai is using, that's what I am pointing to. 553 00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:59,100 That's what I'm trying to bring your attention to. 554 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,400 Thank you. He's invoking. 555 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:09,100 The name of the Lord twice, the Lord. 556 00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:13,200 The Lord. I mean look, you might know the 557 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:14,800 name of the Lord but the way you're acting. 558 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:18,600 Makes me question, why you would use the name of the Lord? 559 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,800 Isn't it amazing that you have somebody? 560 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,000 So filled with this kind of anger and bitterness who can 561 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:31,100 comfortably and freely, attach the name of God to their claims 562 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:37,300 to their statements. Moreover You have a man who is 563 00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:41,100 invoking the name of the Lord while breaking the law of the 564 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:43,200 Lord? How is he breaking the law of 565 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:48,400 God in this? I'm saying he is actually 566 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:54,800 violating a specific law in his attitude towards David in 567 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,900 Exodus, 20 to 28. We are told that you and I will 568 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:03,100 namely Israel, but it applies to us in some way should never 569 00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:08,300 curse a ruler of the people. That's exercise 2228. 570 00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:13,800 You should not revile God and you shall not curse a ruler of 571 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,400 the people. And that's exactly what he's 572 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,600 doing cursing continually. So here's a man who's invoking 573 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,100 the name of the lore while breaking the law of the Lord? 574 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,300 And it's apocryphally at its finest. 575 00:37:24,900 --> 00:37:27,900 But have you ever wondered? Why is it that unsanctified 576 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:31,600 Unholy carnal? People have the strange 577 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,600 comfortability and confidence to invoke the name of the Lord. 578 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:39,100 I dealt with it. So many times, I've gotten in 579 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:41,400 emails, I've gotten in letters, I've gotten in face-to-face, 580 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,500 encounters, where you have people who invoked the name of 581 00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:47,300 the Lord and they have no right to invoke the name of the Lord. 582 00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:52,100 Can I tell you why? Because it adds authority to 583 00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:56,300 their claims even though they are false and makes their case 584 00:37:56,300 --> 00:38:02,700 more and compelling. When in fact it is dangerous. 585 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,300 It is one of the most prominent ways that the name of our 586 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:10,200 precious and blessed God is blasphemed. 587 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,200 In order for an argument to see more Winsome and more 588 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:20,500 convincing, God's name is, is brought into something that it 589 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:24,600 shouldn't be brought into. And that's what we see God's 590 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,400 name. Wielded as a weapon not to 591 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,300 strike down that, which is false not to strike down that which is 592 00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:33,600 false. But to do what but to confuse 593 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:39,500 and mislead those who are in the truth, You know, this, but it's 594 00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:42,000 worth saying again, be aware of that kind of form of 595 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,700 manipulation. Be aware of that kind of form of 596 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:46,900 manipulation. Just because somebody is 597 00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:50,900 Godless, say, Godless and a strong language Godless, and 598 00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:56,300 careless enough to attach God's name to ridiculous arguments or 599 00:38:56,300 --> 00:39:01,000 statements does not make it credible at all, even in the 600 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,800 slightest, This is this is psychological tactics to take 601 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,800 the name of the Lord to invoke fear in David and you have 602 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,300 people who do the same today in 2023. 603 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,300 The Lord told me to tell you, the Lord said this to you, the 604 00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:24,100 Lord is warning. You Okay. 605 00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:26,600 So based on my experience with the what the Lord told people to 606 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,900 tell me, there's, there's a to conclusions either. 607 00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:31,100 The Lord is Unfaithful and doesn't mean what he says, or 608 00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:35,200 people are liars. I'm going to go with the ladder. 609 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,000 And so be careful of that, right? 610 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,400 We're seeing this is, this is, this is an attack in. 611 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,300 God's name is involved in it in the same way that we saw David 612 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:48,400 respond to the onslaught of his son, Absalom. 613 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:54,400 His his beautiful is beautiful and humble attitude, we have 614 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,700 additional wisdom given to us, and how you? 615 00:39:56,700 --> 00:40:01,400 And I can properly pivot persecution when it comes our 616 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:02,800 way. Okay, let's look at that in 617 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,200 closing very soon. Look here in verse 9. 618 00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:09,800 Then abishai the son of Zechariah said to the king. 619 00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:14,000 Why should this dead dog curse? My Lord, the king. 620 00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:16,900 Let me go over and take off his head. 621 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:22,100 Noble. You see a man who is passionate 622 00:40:22,100 --> 00:40:23,900 about the reputation of his King? 623 00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:28,100 Probably not the best solution to dealing with this. 624 00:40:28,100 --> 00:40:30,800 You're not going to find this kind of example, instruction in 625 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:35,300 the sermon of the mount. Do you think abishai meant it? 626 00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:40,200 Yeah, if David gave the word shammai would have no mouth to 627 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:45,000 say anything. And David doesn't allow him to 628 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:49,300 as much as we can sympathize with a boucher's feelings. 629 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,300 What strikes me is how David interprets. 630 00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:56,800 And comprehends, what's taking place? 631 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,300 Look here, in verse 10. But the king said, what have I 632 00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:03,800 to do with you? You sons of Zechariah if he is 633 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,400 cursing? Because the Lord has said to him 634 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,000 curse David, who, then shall say, why have you done so? 635 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,000 I wish. I what am I gonna do with you 636 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,600 guys? Honestly, every solution for you 637 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:20,400 is to kill somebody. What if God told him to curse 638 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,900 me? What are you gonna do about it? 639 00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:26,300 Can you do about it? If God told him to curse me, let 640 00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:32,100 him curse me. Now, it's obvious to us, I hope. 641 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,300 That David didn't have the theology where God in some 642 00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:39,700 instances encourages somebody to break his law. 643 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:42,400 We already established that. What chemise doing is breaking 644 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:44,800 the law. You do not curse the ruler of 645 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,900 the people. So what is David doing here? 646 00:41:47,900 --> 00:41:50,700 David is doing what he did when he understood. 647 00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:54,600 What I was taking place with Absalom totally seeing God's 648 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:59,300 sovereignty in this and that that just ministers to me that 649 00:41:59,300 --> 00:42:04,600 when you have something as gigantic as absalom's treason. 650 00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:10,100 Down to a pesky individual who can't keep his mouth shut. 651 00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:13,300 David was able to see the umbrella of God's sovereignty 652 00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:18,000 over at all when I lost my Throne, when I lost my home, I 653 00:42:18,008 --> 00:42:21,400 see God's sovereignty when I have this person at work that 654 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,900 doesn't seem to stop annoying me and persecuting me, I see God's 655 00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:33,500 hand at work. saying how well in some cases, The Lord uses not 656 00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:41,300 inspires, but uses the heart of evil vile despicable brutal men 657 00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:44,300 to bring about some kind of maturity in US. 658 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,700 That's what's Happening Here. David is walking hearing the 659 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:54,800 echoing voice of this madman on a hill while dust is flying in 660 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,400 the air and stones are being thrown, David is understanding 661 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,200 that he is under God's discipline and perhaps this is 662 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:05,900 part of it, perhaps this is part of it and if that is true, then 663 00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:08,800 David could embrace it and absorb it and say, okay this is 664 00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:10,700 if this is what God has a lying then let it be. 665 00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:16,600 So and think about it, Although this is a false accusation, is 666 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,600 there some truth in it? Why. 667 00:43:31,900 --> 00:43:34,600 Yeah, so that's one example of what David had done and that's a 668 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,000 different scenario but I think we can look back and just say 669 00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:39,900 David is a man of blood, not concerning the house of Saul. 670 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:50,200 because of Uriah, even Exactly. You cannot build me a house 671 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,300 because you are what man of blood, right? 672 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,200 So there is some level of Truth in what shammai saying those 673 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:02,100 shamaya is unaware of it and is misguided in his Judgment of Who 674 00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:07,300 David is. So what is happening here? 675 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:11,600 I believe God is allowing this to happen. 676 00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:18,500 To keep David humble. Only David only David can know 677 00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:22,500 what what was being translated here and David under the 678 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:25,000 discipline of God is willing to undergo it. 679 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:33,500 Is it a strange idea that God would allow a thorn in the flesh 680 00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:38,400 to remain for the sake of the preservation or the growth of 681 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:43,000 one of his servants? No, it's not strange. 682 00:44:43,900 --> 00:44:46,500 What did Paul say about the thorn in his flesh? 683 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,700 There is much debate about the thorn of the flesh. 684 00:44:50,900 --> 00:44:55,300 But he elaborates when he says a thorn in the flesh, a messenger 685 00:44:55,300 --> 00:44:59,500 of who. okay, second Corinthians, let's go there 686 00:45:00,100 --> 00:45:05,900 verse 12, excuse me, chapter 12, verse 7. 687 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:14,100 Second Corinthians 12:7. Paul says. 688 00:45:15,300 --> 00:45:18,900 So to keep me from being conceited because of the 689 00:45:18,900 --> 00:45:22,100 surpassing greatness of the revelations, pause, you want 690 00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:25,600 greater revelation of God and his word, be careful. 691 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,400 Be careful that you want to be used mightily by God. 692 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,000 You want these encounters with God. 693 00:45:32,500 --> 00:45:36,700 Be careful to keep me from becoming conceited because of 694 00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:38,800 the surpassing greatness of the revelations. 695 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:44,000 A thorn was what? Given me. 696 00:45:45,300 --> 00:45:54,200 Given me something was given. It was granted by who By God, a 697 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:58,000 thorn was given me, and it was authored and permitted by God 698 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,100 Almighty last time. I checked a thorn is not the 699 00:46:01,100 --> 00:46:06,600 most demanded gift out there. In fact it's one of the most 700 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,200 irritating things you can have though. 701 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,500 It's a small instrument. It can actually affect your 702 00:46:11,500 --> 00:46:15,800 whole being if your conscience and aware of that thorn and Paul 703 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:20,700 confessed, it was given me that thorn was placed in me. 704 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:26,000 A messenger of Satan to what harass me. 705 00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:30,600 Was that a physical ailment? Some say yes? 706 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,500 Was it? The persecution of the Jews? 707 00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:36,100 That might be more convincing, but to keep me from becoming 708 00:46:36,100 --> 00:46:39,400 Conceited. The key phrase, there is the 709 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,700 storm was given me. God, put it in Me. 710 00:46:44,300 --> 00:46:48,300 God, granted it to me for a Sanctified purpose, though. 711 00:46:48,300 --> 00:46:52,800 The instrument was a messenger of Satan, and though, the means 712 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,400 was harassment. It was uncomfortable and 713 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,000 somebody that I pleaded with the Lord three times. 714 00:46:58,100 --> 00:47:02,000 Times to remove. But God in his wisdom knew that 715 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,600 this harassment would make you holy. 716 00:47:04,900 --> 00:47:08,600 If you responded to it correctly and here you have shammai who's 717 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,700 harassing David and David, I'm sure had the same frame of mind 718 00:47:12,700 --> 00:47:15,100 as Paul. Let It Be. 719 00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:20,100 Let It Be side note, side note, my brother. 720 00:47:20,100 --> 00:47:26,000 My sister side note. David here, receiving this kind 721 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:31,800 of treatment is also a nudge for us to consider the criticism of 722 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:41,200 others, even your own enemies. Consider the criticism of 723 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:47,100 people, even those who hate you. Why? 724 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,200 Can I tell you, one reason why pay attention to this, it might 725 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:53,600 help you with what you're enduring. 726 00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:59,100 Because your enemies are often more willing to point out 727 00:47:59,100 --> 00:48:00,800 something in you than your closest friends are. 728 00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:07,300 Yeah, or no. Yeah, very bold. 729 00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,500 Sometimes I'll make it public sometimes. 730 00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:13,100 There are courageous enough to attach their name to the letter. 731 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,300 Not as courageous enough to go beyond that, though. 732 00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:22,800 When criticism comes your way when, when you hear something 733 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,300 about you, that's unpleasant. What do you do? 734 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,700 You know what most people do? They throw it away, they don't 735 00:48:28,700 --> 00:48:31,800 even look at it. They think this is this is meant 736 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,600 to discourage me into to destroy me and to derail Me. 737 00:48:36,100 --> 00:48:38,600 Maybe maybe that's the intent. Maybe that's the mode and maybe 738 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,400 there is an ingredient of Truth in it. 739 00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,600 That you should consider for yourself and prayerfully bring 740 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,700 you before the Lord. And see if God is using an enemy 741 00:48:47,700 --> 00:48:51,300 to actually bring something to your knowledge that your friends 742 00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:57,800 don't want to say to you. And so I can tell you from 743 00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:59,900 experience that, I've heard many things from different people and 744 00:48:59,900 --> 00:49:01,400 they're not. Usually amens. 745 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:10,200 God bless you, brother. And I've had to learn to say the 746 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,100 a lot of this is off. Lord. 747 00:49:14,100 --> 00:49:17,200 Is there anything here? That might be true though and if 748 00:49:17,207 --> 00:49:19,700 there is, can you show me? Confirm it to me so that I can 749 00:49:19,700 --> 00:49:22,300 be more Sanctified in your sight and before the people that 750 00:49:22,300 --> 00:49:30,900 you've called me to serve with. This is a call to wisdom, but we 751 00:49:30,900 --> 00:49:32,700 don't see him just doing that. And I would come here to verse 752 00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:35,600 11 and David said, abishai, and to all his servants behold my 753 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,900 own son, seeks my life. How much more now may this 754 00:49:38,900 --> 00:49:42,000 Benjamin night, leave him alone and let him curse for the Lord 755 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:47,000 has told them to just leave them alone and here's what's so great 756 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,500 about David. I'm telling you, if you apply 757 00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:52,800 this to your life you will know much relief, much much relief, 758 00:49:53,100 --> 00:49:57,400 here's what happens here. David looks at a greater Problem 759 00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,200 at hand and that enables him to ignore smaller ones. 760 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,600 He'll be hold my own son. Seeks my life. 761 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,100 How much more now made this Benjamin? 762 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:08,500 I have a bigger thing to deal with here. 763 00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:11,800 My son now is after me and you want me to worry about some guy 764 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,700 up there in the Hills yelling, my name and throwing dust in his 765 00:50:14,700 --> 00:50:18,200 own face. I'm not I don't have time for 766 00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,400 that issue. Here I have a bigger fish to 767 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,700 fry. And so let me reserve my energy, 768 00:50:23,700 --> 00:50:29,600 my focus on this, something that really matters now and David 769 00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,700 situation. He's turning his perspective to 770 00:50:32,700 --> 00:50:37,500 a greater problem to overshadow, lesser ones you're a Christian 771 00:50:38,300 --> 00:50:41,200 and God calls you to look above and look even higher than 772 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,600 looking at something more monstrous and threatening in 773 00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:46,400 order to relieve you from Lester thing. 774 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,400 Things. God calls you to look at other 775 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,400 things, hopeful things, glorious things, permanent things. 776 00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,900 As we heard last week, he calls you to look at the greater 777 00:50:55,900 --> 00:50:58,100 cause. So give up the right to give up 778 00:50:58,100 --> 00:51:01,200 the throne. You have a Great Commission. 779 00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:05,700 You have a purpose in this life, turn your eyes on eternity. 780 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,500 Turn your eyes to the reward. That will come with the soon. 781 00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:12,500 Returning King, turn your eyes to the permanence of the glories 782 00:51:12,500 --> 00:51:15,200 of the Resurrection. Turn your eyes to understand 783 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,200 that there is a Jesus who will vindicate. 784 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,200 You one day, turn your eyes and understand that there is 785 00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,200 something bigger than this life and more powerful than what 786 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,900 people can do to you. Turn your eyes there, see what 787 00:51:26,900 --> 00:51:31,800 we're seeing here in principles that David's Was the very means 788 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,800 by which he would know, longevity and his purpose in 789 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:34,900 life. And if you don't have the right 790 00:51:34,900 --> 00:51:38,000 perspective, you will not last long. 791 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,400 I guarantee it. You won't. 792 00:51:41,100 --> 00:51:43,400 And every little thing that comes your way and every little 793 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:48,400 problem and every little peep of persecution will just be added 794 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:52,100 on to you until you finally collapse the way in which arrows 795 00:51:52,100 --> 00:51:55,600 bounce off of you, is when you have the shield of faith on you 796 00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,200 and part of that Shield of faith is looking beyond, what is seen 797 00:51:59,500 --> 00:52:01,800 the things that are unseen for the things that are seen are 798 00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:06,000 transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal Look 799 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:11,300 Beyond. Look Beyond David did that and 800 00:52:11,308 --> 00:52:13,800 it gave him enough fuel to move forward and I guess you can say 801 00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,900 he did that to some Regard in verse 12. 802 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,600 It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me 803 00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,900 that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today. 804 00:52:24,900 --> 00:52:28,700 You have to cultivate a prospective and train your eyes 805 00:52:28,700 --> 00:52:31,500 to be set on the realities that Outlast. 806 00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:34,500 The temporary harassments of today. 807 00:52:37,700 --> 00:52:41,600 Verse 13. What did that perspective do? 808 00:52:43,300 --> 00:52:46,100 So David and his men went on the road while shamaya went along on 809 00:52:46,100 --> 00:52:49,100 the hillside, opposite him and cursed as you went and threw 810 00:52:49,100 --> 00:52:52,200 stones at him in flung dust, didn't change a thing about his 811 00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,400 circumstance. If anything, you have an 812 00:52:55,400 --> 00:53:01,600 emboldened shammai who sees a week limping, man, and decides 813 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:06,900 to just continue in his embarrassing Behavior. 814 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:11,800 Nothing changed around him, but David had the fortitude to move 815 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,000 forward because of what you just learned. 816 00:53:15,300 --> 00:53:18,000 The Lord will deal with it. The Lord might reward me. 817 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,700 I have bigger things to deal with in life. 818 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,900 One of the ways in which you'll be able to in your service to 819 00:53:25,900 --> 00:53:29,300 God. Dust off the things that try to 820 00:53:29,300 --> 00:53:32,000 cling to. You is realize that people who 821 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:36,400 tend to cause problems, often do not have an eternal perspective, 822 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,600 just you deal with people in a different different grid of 823 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:45,400 life, just move forward. And I love how this section of 824 00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:50,700 scripture ends verse 14. And the king and all the people 825 00:53:50,700 --> 00:53:54,900 who were with them, arrived Weary at the Jordan and there, 826 00:53:54,900 --> 00:54:02,600 he refreshed himself. As much as I recall to be 827 00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,700 comforted, by the Grandeur of our perspective and that 828 00:54:05,700 --> 00:54:11,000 perspective, reaching to the point where it touches an Unseen 829 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:15,300 World, that doesn't mean that your only source of comfort in 830 00:54:15,300 --> 00:54:20,600 this life is a future. Is a future promise that is yet 831 00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,800 to be realized. What I see here is that the Lord 832 00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:29,400 is capable and able to provide tangible comfort and refreshment 833 00:54:30,300 --> 00:54:35,200 in the affliction Not just beyond the Affliction but in it 834 00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:39,900 during it he knows how to prescribe the right amount of 835 00:54:39,900 --> 00:54:45,300 support so that you can continue to move forward and that which 836 00:54:45,300 --> 00:54:48,800 he called you to do. And the first that came to mind, 837 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,700 I'll and I really mean it here. This is actually my last verse 838 00:54:52,600 --> 00:55:01,800 his second Corinthians 1. 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 and verse 839 00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:03,800 3. Blessed. 840 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,100 Be the God and father of our Lord. 841 00:55:06,100 --> 00:55:11,800 Jesus Christ, the father of mercies and God of All Comfort, 842 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:15,200 what a title to get from God about God? 843 00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:20,000 The God of all comfort, you know what it means for God, to be the 844 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,400 God of All Comfort. It means that he has comfort for 845 00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:27,600 every situation that requires comfort. 846 00:55:28,300 --> 00:55:32,000 That's what we see in verse 4, who comforts Us in all our 847 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:35,000 reflection. It doesn't say Who Will Comfort 848 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:41,200 us one day from our affliction, Says who comforts Us in all our 849 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:47,000 Affliction during it, he's able to supply and extend a helping 850 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:52,200 hand in which you can actually know the surging Grace. 851 00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:56,800 That is able to energize you it faithfulness and worship to the 852 00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,700 Lord here. You have David who is living in 853 00:55:59,700 --> 00:56:04,700 the shadow of a man. Opposite of him, hurling, at 854 00:56:04,700 --> 00:56:08,600 him, with the thoughts of betrayal and people with 855 00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,500 ulterior motives who are opportunist and take advantage 856 00:56:11,500 --> 00:56:13,600 of crises to have their own agenda moving for. 857 00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:18,900 He is just surrounded by chaos. And yet, verse 14 tells us that 858 00:56:18,900 --> 00:56:21,700 he was brought to a place where God providentially allowed him 859 00:56:21,700 --> 00:56:25,600 to be refreshed, God opened a window for a cool breeze to come 860 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,500 by and for this meant to take in a deep breath. 861 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:35,100 After enduring the heat of people's evil and God can 862 00:56:35,100 --> 00:56:38,300 Comfort us in many, many ways, and even in mysterious ways, did 863 00:56:38,300 --> 00:56:41,500 you consider this? The thought crossed your mind 864 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,300 that while David as we heard was weary and exhausted. 865 00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:52,400 That the Lord used a man who brought all this stuff for the 866 00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,700 sake of trying to get what he knew. 867 00:56:54,700 --> 00:56:56,700 He would get if he convinced David. 868 00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:02,400 And though this man had a very evil and self-centered goal, the 869 00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:06,400 Lord used that kind of a man to nourish his own man. 870 00:57:08,100 --> 00:57:10,900 Just incredible reminds me of the unclean bird that came and 871 00:57:10,900 --> 00:57:15,700 fed Elijah unclean sometimes. And often times God uses 872 00:57:15,700 --> 00:57:21,500 mysterious and unpredictable instruments to help us and to 873 00:57:21,500 --> 00:57:24,600 guide us and to empower us and to strengthen us. 874 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:49,800 Let's pray. Lord, we love you again. 875 00:57:51,100 --> 00:57:54,900 We love you more than when we told you, we loved you before we 876 00:57:54,900 --> 00:57:58,300 started, because we have been Sanctified by the truth. 877 00:57:58,300 --> 00:58:04,300 Your word is truth. We feel richer than when we 878 00:58:04,300 --> 00:58:08,800 entered into this place. We feel more equipped than when 879 00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,800 we entered into this place. We feel more blessed than we 880 00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:18,200 entered into this place. So, we ask that you would help 881 00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:21,800 us. Be lovers of your word doers of 882 00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,400 your word. Strengthen us. 883 00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:31,800 To be discerning. To be mindful of your 884 00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:36,700 sovereignty. In larger perspective of what 885 00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,200 really matters. What is true and Lasting. 886 00:58:41,700 --> 00:58:42,900 And help us. Oh, Lord. 887 00:58:44,300 --> 00:58:47,400 Be so overwhelmed by our knowledge of the glory of Jesus 888 00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,300 Christ. That even when dogs surround us 889 00:58:51,300 --> 00:58:55,700 and lies. Our targeted toward us that we 890 00:58:55,700 --> 00:58:59,200 can. We can silently embrace it 891 00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,900 because we are already in a murdered by who is before us. 892 00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:08,800 May that be the the quality of faith that this church has in 893 00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,000 Jesus name, we pray. Amen. 894 00:59:12,100 --> 00:59:06,100 Let's Stand Together. May that be the the quality of 895 00:59:06,100 --> 00:59:10,000 faith that this church has in Jesus name, we pray. 896 00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,000 Amen. Let's Stand Together.