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Praise the Lord. 
Amen. 

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First, Samuel chapter 16. 
In our Bible study, You know, 

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there are people who have 
different concepts of what 

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worship should look like in the 
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And I know that there is 
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be like, but one of the 
criticisms is that we shouldn't 

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draw from the Old Testament, 
principles of how we should 

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Worship in the New Covenant, and
I'm sure you can go back and 

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forth and there can be some 
theological sparring there. 

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But I just think very simply 
that I refuse to believe that 

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there is more extravagant 
passionate Worship in the old 

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Covenant, than in the new I 
think we should be whatever we 

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see in Psalms is wonderful, but 
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understanding what we have in 
Christ. 

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Should we not be more explosive 
and passionate and deep and 

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serious about worship? 
Maybe you would disagree, but 

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that's not the point of the 
bible study tonight because 

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we're in first Samuel, chapter 
16. 

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And at this point, We just 
covered in three different weeks

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of the same chapter chapter 15. 
One of the major turning points 

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in the history of Israel's, 
monarchy in chapter 15. 

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It really serves as a landmark 
for how we understand, Israel 

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and its formation concerning 
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And one reason why it is a 
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king of Israel who was anointed 
and chosen by God, I was told 

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that he would no longer occupy 
the throne in the prime of his 

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Rule and Reign. 
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he was canceled if I can use 
that word today. 

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But for the right reason, 
because this man, this king who 

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was supposed to obey God and 
represent God performed a very 

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severe Act of Disobedience. 
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rebellion and the face of a holy
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And as a result of that, he 
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earth and he would lose his 
calling, and the same man who 

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was commissioned by God to 
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him as the King was the same 
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Would give the announcement that
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would no longer be the man that 
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be. 
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confrontation. 
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The prophet and saw the king. 
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that we read. 
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and Saul? 
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again. 
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They would never see each other 
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But more than that, we are told 
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Saul after, he tells them, this,
this tragic news that he grieved

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over, For Saul. 
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and that's where we are leaving 
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We're seeing now Saul continue 
to rather same who continue to 

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grieve and how God is going to 
lead him in that place to not 

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just deliver him from that 
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But but move forward in the 
program that God has for his 

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people. 
And so, when we come to chapter 

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16, we are going to be 
introduced to a very well-known 

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character. 
A real person that existed in 

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history and his name is David, 
Son of Jesse. 

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It's amazing how much the 
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David. 
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the chapters that are given to 
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because of that, we're going to 
learn much about God through his

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life. 
We're going to learn a lot about

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the person of Jesus Christ, 
considering that he came from 

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the line of David. 
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after week are going to draw 
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Holiness because you and I serve
the same God, that David loved. 

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so we read in chapter 16, verse 
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long will you grieve over Saul 
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I have rejected him from being 
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horn with oil and go. 
I will send you to Jesse. 

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The bethlem, might five provided
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A king, among his sons, and 
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If saw hears it, he will kill 
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And the Lord said, take a heifer
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sacrifice to the Lord. 
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sacrifice and I will show you 
what you shall do and you shall 

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anoint for me him, whom I 
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Let's pray. 
Very briefly here. 

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Lord we thank you for the word 
of the Lord, give us the grace 

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and the wisdom. 
Now to receive in the power of 

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the Holy Spirit, take these 
truths and we do embed them, 

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would you stitch them on our 
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That they would not be able to 
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They would not be easily 
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We long Oh God to be molded. 
We long to be formed and shaped 

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into the image of your son. 
Use this chapter to do just that

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in our lives. 
In Jesus name. 

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We pray. 
Amen. 

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And amen. 
And amen. 

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Samuel is still grieving. 
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Heartbroken, Samuel was a true 
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why? 
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Samuel, confront sin, and 
somebody likes all, who falls 

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greatly because of his sin. 
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couple weeks ago, we read that 
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heartbroken over it. 
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man. 
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There was a great sensitivity to
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own life but even over other 
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didn't Them them, but in a way 
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Grace to be broken over them. 
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here. 
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because he realized that his sin
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not just his life that his sins 
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not just the glory of God, but 
his actions potentially would 

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affect the faith. 
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that God had a plan for And so, 
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home meditating being broken 
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But interestingly enough, all 
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doing something that is 
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An exemplary is rebuked by the 
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The Lord said to Samuel, how 
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Notice God is not correcting, 
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there's room for that. 
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is that there was a prolonged 
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Of pain. 
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really had genuine reason to be 
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across the boundary. 
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enough is enough, you got to get
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You can't remain in this place. 
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condition. 
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God lack compassion, but it's 
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It's because God possesses a 
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And what you see here is that 
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borderline dangerous, concerning
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want to ask the question tonight
at what point does being 

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sorrowful or heavy or in pain or
having heart ache at what point 

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does it cross the place of being
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appropriate to being 
inappropriate dangerous and even

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wrong. 
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pain that you're experiencing 
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Very good, both answers are 
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had in mind. 
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comes to the point, not just 
when you, when you stop trusting

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God, but it affects your service
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And that's exactly the two 
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Concerning Samuel notice here 
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grieve over sauce in. 
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we do not grieve as the world. 
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Hope Even in our grief. 
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It's so imparted into us that it
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be able to yes, have the freedom
to shed tears and to take time 

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to consider and meditate. 
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trust God, still and even 
worship God through whatever you

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are enduring. 
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not permit us to come to a place
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assault the character and the 
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And that's important because I 
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And I wonder if if at any point 
Samuel remembered how God called

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him, Remember before King Saul 
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spiritual leader that was 
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What was his name? 
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He was the high priest Eli, Eli 
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go to chapter 3 very carefully 
and quickly to see the condition

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in which the nation was in when 
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you think Samuel. 
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Did you forget how God moves at 
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here and now 3:2? 
At that time Eli whose eyesight 

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had begun to grow dim so that he
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See was lying down in his own 
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Why would the scriptures tell 
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That Eli was borderline blind 
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We are being told about the 
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In verse 3, the lamp of God had 
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lying down to the Temple of the 
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The reason why we are being told
of the eyesight of Eli and the 

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lamp. 
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many weeks ago, many months ago 
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reflection of the spiritual 
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At this time, the leaders did 
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The leaders did not have Clarity
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their lack of concern of God's 
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They could not see, right? 
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This is speaking about a 
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hand a Praying thought she was a
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And condemned her when she was 
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and the lamp of God, which was 
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entire Tabernacle, if that lamp 
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way to see and to perform 
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that lamp though, it was dimming
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again of the lack of light in 
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wasn't completely out. 
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after we were told about Eli's, 
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the Lord almost going out. 
God calls Samuel in that kind of

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condition and that kind of 
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And I wonder if he thought to 
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king. 
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same. 
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disappointment and great concern
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For me. 
I wonder if he thought well 

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that's when God called me. 
We've been through this before, 

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I've seen this before, I was 
called in a very similar 

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predicament, but no, I don't 
think he did. 

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I don't think he did because he 
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It's reached a point now where 
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him because there is a potential
risk where he is now thinking to

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himself. 
How is God going to deliver? 

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How is God going to actually 
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Where we going to go from here 
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If our lament begins to Blind us
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God from seeing his power, his 
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Affairs, concerning your life 
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Then you know that you have 
reached a point with a grief 

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exact, she a worldly grief and 
not the one that Paul speaks 

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about with a hope. 
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Grief becomes dangerous. 
When we lose our grip on our 

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service. 
To God. 

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See this flag is here. 
When you see that, your frame of

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mine is being affected, where 
you, you can't see yourself, 

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even walking in the call that 
God has called you to, in 

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Walking In The Obedience that, 
you know that he's called you 

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to. 
That's when you know, that, 

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whatever you have experienced 
that's hurt, you is doing more 

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than it should in your life. 
This is very important because 

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what Samuel is experiencing is 
the pain from the failure of 

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another person. 
Somebody that he's invested so 

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much in somebody that he is 
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Remember that first time he was 
anointed, he stayed on the 

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rooftop to instruct him all the 
things that he poured into all 

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the chances that he's given and 
it just failure after failure 

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after failure. 
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And I want to tell you this a 
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Christians sabotage their 
callings because of other 

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people's failures. 
You see it all the time and you 

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see it happen all the time. 
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there's just disappointment from
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Whether you're in the leadership
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this appointment, and you don't 
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Ministry. 
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make a mess out of it, instead 
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abuse. 
That's a real thing, by the way.

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And usually comes from leaders 
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your life, and, and you collide 
with hypocritical behavior and a

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knocks, the wind out of you, I'm
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where it knocks the wind out of 
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read their Bible ever the same 
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Some of the don't even step foot
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same passion again. 
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E, ask God with Zeal to be used 
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And so you have to be extremely 
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failure from other people, there
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There is room to step back there
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when it comes to the point where
it paralyzes, you you're 

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allowing Satan to influence you.
This Devil is a very tricky 

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devil and you might think are 
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No, I'll tell you an example. 
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asleep in the garden when there 
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Why? 
Good job. 

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We think they were just tired. 
It was a long day. 

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They were sitting through a lot 
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They just had supper. 
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they just got sleepy and they 
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to condemn ourselves when we get
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When we pray, it wasn't because 
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Would you like to see it and 
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Luke 2245 tells us the main 
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not pray. 
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from prayer, he came to the 
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sleeping. 
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Sorrow. 
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because just a few verses ago 
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know, you guys are going to deny
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And Peter can have fathom and 
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that self-confidence. 
No, we will not, they just heard

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according to John's gospel 
lesson after lesson, in which 

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Jesus even had to console them 
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it's becoming clear, you're 
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We, we thought you were the 
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Assuring your kingdom, what all 
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You're going to just depart and 
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And so they were just overcome 
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misguided disappointment. 
Disappointment in themselves and

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disappointment in the news of 
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And because of the sorrow that 
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It's sabotage, their praying. 
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them in verse 46, he didn't say,
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why are you sleeping? 
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enter into temptation. 
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sorrow, even the Lord himself. 
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You cannot afford not to pray in
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overwhelmed because Satan will 
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you are sorrowful to keep you 
from praying and if you can keep

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you from praying you can't stand
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Do you see how tricky this is? 
Do you see how Discerning we 

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need to be? 
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Just because we feel something 
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It doesn't justify certain 
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Now, you're saying does that 
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All know, you know that, I hope 
I don't have to explain that 

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tonight. 
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even the Lord himself says, 
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You can't stay like this. 
And there's some people who stay

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like that because of trauma in 
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who stay like that because of 
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grief, the loss of a loved one 
because of death because of a 

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trial, that is unexplainable, 
they just overcome. 

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And what you need to understand 
is though you there is room to 

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be able to express your heart. 
Be careful that Satan would use 

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that to sabotage your ministry. 
To keep you from exercising, 

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your gifts. 
To have you stay in that place 

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as long as possible and keep you
in effective because feelings 

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are very real but there's 
something more real Beyond this 

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flesh. 
You have a calling, you have a 

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purpose, you have a mission and 
many people don't realize what 

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sorrow can lead them to whether 
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someone else. 
But if it can move you away from

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serving God, then there needs to
be an alertness even in our 

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sorrow. 
In fact, look at this seems like

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God gives an insight to one of 
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What does he say? 
Fill your horn with oil and go I

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will send you to Jesse. he's 
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is you obeying the way out of 
this is you getting up, it 

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doesn't help you to stay in that
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It doesn't help you to remain in
your house and the dark and just

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rehearse these things. 
Idleness is very dangerous and 

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sorrow can lead to idleness and 
David, the man that we're going 

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to study for the rest of this 
Bible study, David himself knows

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what kind of Temptations can 
creep up when you stay at home 

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when you're supposed to be out 
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way God's called you to serve. 
Could be that Samuel was so 

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paralyzed. 
That he couldn't even move 

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forward in his ministry as a 
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God steps and says, Hey listen, 
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It's as though we can safely 
translate these words in the 

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following way. 
Why are you still sorrowful? 

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Listen sauce, failure didn't 
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you still have a mission to 
accomplish. 

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Go get up. 
And the thing that will help you

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and I Endure and push forward 
and move forward. 

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All those same two truths. 
God is still on his throne. 

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And two, as long as you have 
breath, you still have something

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to do. 
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This prophet got up. 
And he move forward and the same

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truth applies to all of us. 
Be careful how the enemy can 

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tempt. 
You he can do it through sin. 

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Listen, he can even do it 
through sorrow. 

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And so, he hears this news. 
And it's the cure for his 

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morning and I love the 
prophetic, hint about this, I 

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can see it. 
You can you can sense it that 

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this news that there is a new 
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That would be found in. 
Where Bethlehem, from who the 

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line of Jesse? 
I wonder if there was a jolt of 

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excitement. 
I wonder if there was a jolt of,

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there's a sobriety test Spirit, 
there's someone else that you 

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have in mind. 
And now this time it's not the 

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people, it's not the people who 
are choosing the king God 

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himself is Choosing the king. 
I wonder what kind of confidence

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was surgeon to this prophet. 
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not just this kind of morning 
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That there is a king who has 
come from the line of Jesse born

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in Bethlehem. 
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It's a son of David, Jesus 
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And so we see here that Samuel 
is excited, maybe we can't read 

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into it, but whatever exciting 
might have had or matter 

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strength. 
He might have discovered in this

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moment was quickly met by fear 
verse 2 and Samuel said, how can

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I go? 
If saw hears it, he will kill 

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me. 
Doesn't that say something about

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how did generate saw, has become
up to this point. 

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The King has become so reckless,
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So unpredictable, that that this
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Hey, Lord, look, I told them 
what you told me in chapter 15 

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and he was willing to rip my 
coat. 

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If you're going to send me now 
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anointing his successor, I'm a 
dead man. 

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You're setting me up to die. 
Now, I read this and you're 

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going to discover something. 
If you haven't already chapter, 

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16 reveals the humanity of this 
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prolonged morning in verse 2, we
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causing him to be hesitant to 
obey God and later on, he 

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actually cause somebody the king
and his heart when God said 

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you've missed it, the prophet 
missed it of who was supposed to

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be the king, among Jesse Sons. 
Goes to show that even the 

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greatest men of God of still 
sons of Adam. 

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They still make mistakes. 
They still have shortcomings, 

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they get dressed the same way, 
you get dressed. 

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They eat certain amount of 
meals, the same day that you do.

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They have to do normal things 
like laundry and cut their hair.

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Be careful of elevating men who 
are used by God to the point 

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where you think they're 
invincible? 

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I love that the Holy Spirit 
here, shows the transparency of 

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this man's shortcomings. 
He got sad, too long. 

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He got scared when God told him 
to do something and a prophet 

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who hears God, senses, the voice
of got, unlike any of us can 

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experience actually missed it 
when he was trying to find God's

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next king. 
How can I go, how is this the 

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same Samuel that we've been 
studying up to this point? 

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How is this the same Prophet? 
The man that was willing to 

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stand before Eli as a young kid.
Say, you know, you're going to 

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be judged. 
The one who removed his own sons

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from leadership positions. 
When they were compromised, the 

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one who rebuked the whole nation
and the one who even corrected 

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and pointed out the sin of King 
Saul is now afraid. 

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Now you're scared when God 
assured you that you were going 

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to go and you're going to find 
this King, he assured you. 

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Now you're actually worried for 
your life. 

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How did this happen? 
Because of verse 1, the fruit of

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prolonged morning, What do you 
mean? 

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I mean this man came to the 
point where he was so focused on

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the issue and didn't include God
in it or consider God's ways in 

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it that a now made him impaired 
to seeing God in other things. 

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see, when we have faith in God, 
we have faith in all things, and

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for all things, If we just have 
faith for some things, it won't 

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take very long before that lack 
of faith, seeps into other 

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things. 
And this man that couldn't see 

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God. 
And fixing this problem of this 

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King being dethroned. 
Now couldn't see how God can 

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protect him. 
From the same King. 

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And so we're called to have 
faith in all things and trust, 

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God, for all things. 
And he didn't have it, he had 

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the snap out of it. 
He was he was in the flesh for a

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little bit. 
It's quite amazing. 

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It's quite amazing. 
What can happen to even profits?

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Do you think God had mercy on 
him? 

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I think so, and God has much 
more merciful than people are 

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because he brings us concern. 
And God gives them a solution. 

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Here's a solution, take a cow 
with you. 

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If you're scared, take a cow 
with you and tell people when 

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you arrive there, They here to 
make a sacrifice. 

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Interesting. 
Interesting. 

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How does that come off? 
and in the immediate sense, some

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might even say hey that sounds 
like that sounds like being 

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duplicity that sounds. 
Like a lie. 

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You're going to anoint the king 
and God is telling you go and 

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tell them that you're actually 
going to make a sacrifice. 

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You can't argue God out of this.
God said it let's just set that 

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straight God said it. 
This isn't reading into 

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something God commanded this as 
a solution. 

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So let's put that aside. 
Secondly we know that our God 

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does not lie. 
He's not a deceiving God, he's 

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not a God. 
That's afraid of man. 

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So what's going on here? 
What's going on here? 

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Why are you saying this? 
When in reality, the core of the

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matter is that you are sending 
him to anoint, a son of Jesse? 

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Well. 
If he said go and make the 

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sacrifice and tell people along 
the way, if they're saying 

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Samuel, where are you going? 
Well, I'm going to Bethlehem to 

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make a sacrifice. 
That's what I want you to tell 

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people if he went, and he told 
people this and he didn't make a

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sacrifice. 
That is what that's a lie, 

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that's wrong, that's evil, 
that's wicked, that's deceiving,

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but God did Issue it, he says 
go, it's a legitimate ordinance 

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that I want you to perform and 
in that. 

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What's going to happen is it's 
going to lessen the Shouldn't of

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why you were actually there. 
So, if he performs a sacrifice, 

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it's not a lie. 
It's true. 

452
00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:07,000
But what God is asking of 
Samuel, is that he does not 

453
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,700
imprudence. 
Need to share the whole story. 

454
00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:13,900
You don't need to tell you don't
need to tell everybody why? 

455
00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:15,800
Exactly you're here. 
You don't have to tell everybody

456
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,800
the details. 
You don't have to go and 

457
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,400
announce it to everybody, why? 
Because that would produce more 

458
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,100
evil than good. 
Why? 

459
00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:28,700
Because King Saul, if he was 
willing to kill the prophet for 

460
00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:32,800
anointing, the man, then surely 
he would be willing to kill the 

461
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,500
successor to his throne. 
And so, this is not a matter of 

462
00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:42,000
dishonesty. 
This is a matter of Wisdom. 

463
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:48,200
It's a matter of wisdom. 
And for Samuel to be, open about

464
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:53,100
David's anointing would not only
put his life in danger, but the 

465
00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:54,900
future of God's program and 
plan. 

466
00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:59,100
And we might not be convinced 
that this I'm going to show you 

467
00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:00,700
another example in a moment, but
here's the point. 

468
00:29:00,700 --> 00:29:04,300
I want to make concealment of a 
matter is not the same as 

469
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:07,800
falsehood concealment of a 
matter is not the same as 

470
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,800
falsehood, and the secret was 
not to protect a sinful or 

471
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,500
selfish ambition. 
It's not like I'm hiding this 

472
00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:16,600
because there's something that I
don't want people to know 

473
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,800
because I know it's wrong. 
That's not what's being done 

474
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,800
here. 
The secrecy here is actually a 

475
00:29:21,808 --> 00:29:25,500
form of protection and guarding 
from the wrong people. 

476
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,500
Of discovering, something that 
would only introduce more Havoc 

477
00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:33,700
than Harmony. 
And so God in his wisdom says 

478
00:29:34,100 --> 00:29:37,800
Samuel, go perform a sacrifice 
and when people ask tell them 

479
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,000
that you're going to do this but
you know, the real reason why 

480
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,100
you're going do we see this 
anywhere else? 

481
00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:54,600
Rahab potentially. 
Some would say that there is a 

482
00:29:54,608 --> 00:29:58,100
Justified kind of, when we 
talked about this in Exodus, 

483
00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:01,400
it's in the same book and I 
would point to it and maybe you 

484
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,400
guys don't remember, but Rahab 
might be an example in Joshua's 

485
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,200
leadership. 
He did this in a certain way. 

486
00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:09,600
Would you like to see it? 
Go to Joshua? 

487
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,000
Chapter 2, I want you to see it 
for yourself. 

488
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,300
Because why are we doing this? 
Were defending God's integrity 

489
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:22,100
and his holiness? 
And a lot of Believers think, 

490
00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:26,600
black and white. 
They'll realize there are 

491
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,600
nuances. 
And Joshua to look at this in 

492
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,000
verse 1 and Joshua, the son of 
nun. 

493
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,500
Sent to men. 
What's that word? 

494
00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:42,800
There secretly. 
He sent two spies secretly. 

495
00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:45,400
Why would the Holy Spirit? 
Tell us that he sent to spy 

496
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,400
secretly. 
The whole essence of sending 

497
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,200
spies is that they're going 
secretly. 

498
00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:55,700
You going as a spy implies that 
you're not making your identity 

499
00:30:55,700 --> 00:31:00,600
known, you are concealing your 
identity, your coming in and you

500
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,200
are merging amongst those that 
you are trying to find 

501
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,700
information from. 
So why go out of the way to say 

502
00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:11,900
secretly because Joshua didn't 
keep it a secret to the 

503
00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:14,000
Canaanites. 
He kept it a secret from the 

504
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,600
Israelites. 
Do you guys remember this? 

505
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:26,100
Joshua made sure that no one 
from Israel knew that he was 

506
00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:28,900
sending to spies into the land 
of Canaan. 

507
00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:33,800
Why? 
Because the man learn from 

508
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,200
experience, that's why? 
Because in his generation when 

509
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,600
there were spies sent out and he
was a part of that group. 12 of 

510
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:46,600
them, 10 came back with a bad 
report and it brought the, the 

511
00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:52,000
deflation to their faith and 
introduced unbelief among the 

512
00:31:52,008 --> 00:31:56,000
Israelites and it cost them the 
promised land and Joshua. 

513
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,900
As a leader new, I'm not going 
to risk it again. 

514
00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:02,900
I'm going to send to this time. 
Remember the testimony of two or

515
00:32:02,900 --> 00:32:06,700
three. 
I'm going to send to and just in

516
00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:08,700
case they come back with a bad 
report. 

517
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,100
Nobody will know that they went 
even in the first place, the 

518
00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:17,400
deal with me directly. 
Is that deception? 

519
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,400
Is that lying? 
No, it's something called 

520
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,100
wisdom. 
In fact, look at the description

521
00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:31,400
of Joshua in the last chapter of
the book before Joshua before, 

522
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,500
Joshua's leadership, is 
manifested and Deuteronomy. 30 

523
00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:35,300
49. 
Look at this. 

524
00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:38,500
This is the fruit chapter 2 
Joshua is the fruit of 

525
00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:42,600
Deuteronomy 30 49 and Joshua. 
The son of nun, was full of the 

526
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,200
spirit of wisdom. 
Oh here wisdom. 

527
00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:48,500
And you know what? 
Wisdom does brothers and sisters

528
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,400
wisdom doesn't just know what to
say. 

529
00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:55,300
It knows what not to say. 
Wisdom knows who should have 

530
00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:58,100
access to certain information, 
and who can handle that 

531
00:32:58,100 --> 00:33:02,600
information. 
Wisdom knows how to lighten the 

532
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,400
burden on other people, 
especially as a leader and not 

533
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,700
overly burden people with what 
you may know. 

534
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,700
What may be happening behind the
scenes? 

535
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,100
so, Joshua here, is exercising, 
wisdom, wisdom, not just from 

536
00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:20,700
learning from the past, because 
that's the essence of a lot of 

537
00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:26,400
wisdom, but wisdom in knowing 
who his people were I know my 

538
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,700
people, I know what's happened, 
I know what they're susceptible 

539
00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:32,700
to. 
And so I need to protect them. 

540
00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:35,600
This is a righteous thing. 
I need to protect them. 

541
00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:38,800
We have a mission to fulfill, 
and if this goes crazy, we might

542
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,200
have to go through this 
Wilderness Journey once more and

543
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:46,800
I'm not willing to do that. 
So he conceals he hides it not 

544
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,200
he's hiding don't take this and 
say I'm not going to tell people

545
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,900
what I'm doing in secret. 
My sin that's wrong and you 

546
00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:54,900
learn from I believe last week 
or two weeks ago that you can't 

547
00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:57,600
conceal your transgression. 
That's not what it's talking 

548
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,400
about here. 
Sorry to disappoint you. 

549
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,600
There is an application here of 
prudence and that's what's 

550
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,100
happening. 
In first, Samuel 16, God here 

551
00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:12,300
knows his people. 
God here knows the circumstance 

552
00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:13,900
under this particular 
circumstance. 

553
00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:19,100
This was necessary. 
And Samuel had to trust that. 

554
00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:24,199
And so, he obeys. 
And look at the element here of 

555
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:28,199
obedience, another instruction 
to obedience verse 3 and invite 

556
00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,699
Jesse to the sacrifice. 
And I will show you what you 

557
00:34:31,699 --> 00:34:33,699
shall, do. 
I love that. 

558
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:39,400
Invite Jesse. 
And from there, I'll tell you 

559
00:34:39,408 --> 00:34:44,199
what you need to do. 
Well, well well, I look at a man

560
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:49,800
like Samuel, the prophet. 
And I'm encouraged because even 

561
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,800
Samuel, the prophet did not have
the full picture all at once. 

562
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,700
Even Samuel, the prophet was led
by God step-by-step. 

563
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,500
You know why that's so sobering 
to me, not just because he was a

564
00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:04,600
prophet but because he is 
considered one of the greatest 

565
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,700
men of prayer and all of 
Biblical history and this man 

566
00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:13,700
who prayed and cried all night, 
even this man could say, I don't

567
00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:17,800
know. 
Even this man could say, all I 

568
00:35:17,808 --> 00:35:20,800
know is what I'm supposed to do 
now but I have no idea what I'm 

569
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,600
supposed to do tomorrow. 
Oh, really, why? 

570
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,000
Because God chooses to do that 
with his children, that's an 

571
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,500
intentional thing. 
So, if Samuel the Prophet The 

572
00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:35,200
Prayer Warrior, the man who 
heard God's voice heard God's 

573
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,800
voice in the moment, as though, 
you can hear my voice on this 

574
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,000
microphone. 
If such a man did not have the 

575
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,200
full blueprint of his ministry 
and his life and his future. 

576
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,800
Why are you so frustrated with 
yourself? 

577
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,200
Why are you beating your head 
against the wall? 

578
00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:53,400
Why are you questioning of God 
is leading you, you know, many 

579
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,900
people ask brother. 
I don't know when how, where God

580
00:35:55,900 --> 00:35:57,400
is leading me where I'm supposed
to do. 

581
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,800
That's okay. 
I have those questions, too. 

582
00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:03,800
But this is the initial answer 
that I give I try to give to 

583
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,100
myself, and I try to give the 
others. 

584
00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:08,600
Number one, ask and wait on the 
Lord, continually asking, wait 

585
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,300
on the Lord, continually, and 
don't make it a burden, make it 

586
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:16,300
a thing of invitation Lord, I'm 
doing this. 

587
00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:18,300
This is where I'm at. 
Do you have something else in 

588
00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:20,900
mind? 
Lord, if you want me to do 

589
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:22,000
anything other than what I'm 
doing. 

590
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,600
Now, just let me know and I'll 
obey you talk like that. 

591
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,800
And then secondly serve God to 
the capacity in which he has 

592
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,500
given you and reveal to you now,
until he makes the next step 

593
00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:38,800
known, God knows how to speak 
and when God speaks it's not 

594
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,600
muffled with confusion. 
Was that God? 

595
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,600
Was that me? 
That's not how God talks when 

596
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,300
God reveals. 
It is loud and clear and if you 

597
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:49,700
ever question God's Clarity of 
where he wants you to go trust 

598
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:51,800
me he wants you to serve him 
more than you do. 

599
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,500
So, what was he supposed to do 
with, whatever Revelation has 

600
00:36:57,500 --> 00:37:01,100
been given for the moment, you 
go, perform the sacrifice 

601
00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:03,000
invite, Jesse. 
And then, what, I'll tell you 

602
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,200
when it comes, When it comes, 
I'll let I'll let you know. 

603
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,800
And so if you ever felt for a 
moment, I don't know what God's 

604
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,900
10-year plan for me is and I 
don't know where we're supposed 

605
00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:16,400
to go next and maybe I'm not as 
spiritual as that person. 

606
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,800
That's why that person knows. 
Everything Samuel. 

607
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,300
The prophet didn't know Comfort 
yourself with that truth. 

608
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,200
He didn't know, but what he 
needed to know is what you and I

609
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,400
need to know that every step of 
obedience, no matter. 

610
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,800
How long we're in that season, 
we have no idea how God will 

611
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,500
providentially use that step of 
obedience to affect Generations,

612
00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:41,100
even See trusting God at this 
point. 

613
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,900
Not knowing, who God could have 
said, go invite, Jesse and 

614
00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,800
listen, he's not going to bring 
this this one kid, his youngest 

615
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,300
named David. 
That's the one though. 

616
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,900
So when you go just ask for 
David, asked for David, get it 

617
00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:55,500
over with, we have no time to 
waste. 

618
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,000
We need to get the next king 
online. 

619
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,100
He doesn't do that. 
Why does he do that? 

620
00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:02,700
I can come up with maybe some 
reasons. 

621
00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:05,100
But one reason I'm about to find
out is that through that 

622
00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:08,200
silence, Sam is going to learn 
something about himself. 

623
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:14,400
Do not revealing the identity of
David to be the King. 

624
00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:17,600
Samuel would make a choice in 
his heart, that was wrong and he

625
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,400
would be further Sanctified. 
You see why God doesn't tell you

626
00:38:20,408 --> 00:38:24,300
everything all the time. 
Because it's in that silence 

627
00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:27,300
that he wants to do a work in. 
You that only that silence can 

628
00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:31,900
bring about And so he found out 
well, okay? 

629
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,300
I'll go. 
I'll invite him and I'll see 

630
00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:39,100
what Lord, you have next verse 
4. 

631
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,900
Samuel did what the Lord 
commanded. 

632
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,900
You know, I love that. 
I don't know if he still felt 

633
00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:49,000
the fewer not but he still obey.
God Samuel did what the Lord 

634
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,300
commanded. 
He trusted God that this plan 

635
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:54,700
would work. 
And what happens though? 

636
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,600
And came to Bethlehem the Elders
of the city, came to meet him 

637
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,600
trembling and said, do you come 
peaceably? 

638
00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:08,700
So maybe the fear was evaded 
from him but now as he comes to 

639
00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:12,100
Bethlehem, the Elders of the 
city realize, here's the prophet

640
00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:15,000
and he's probably hunched over 
with his staff as an old man 

641
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,500
walking towards them and they're
looking at each other. 

642
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:20,500
Like did anybody invite Samuel 
here for a conference because I 

643
00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:22,500
don't know why he's walking in 
our Direction. 

644
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,700
And they're trembling, why do 
you think they were trembling? 

645
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,200
He's the prophet. 
He's the man of God. 

646
00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:36,600
He speaks the word of the Lord. 
Doesn't tell us why it would be 

647
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,400
a fun discussion. 
Why do you think they were 

648
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:40,000
trembling? 
I read that. 

649
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,400
I said, why were they so scared?
Any ideas? 

650
00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:51,100
Ah, maybe the fear was 
legitimate. 

651
00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:56,300
Why would you be afraid of a man
of God stepping in? 

652
00:39:56,300 --> 00:39:58,600
Close proximity where God tells 
him things? 

653
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,100
Unless you had something worthy 
of being fearful, of 

654
00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:06,400
interesting. 
I wonder if that is that is the 

655
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,100
case. 
Guilt produces fear. 

656
00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:13,400
Guilt produces fear and many 
different things. 

657
00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:17,100
Could be that some would say 
it's because what they learn 

658
00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:19,400
perhaps from chapter 15? 
What did this old man? 

659
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,900
Do to a name? 
A king named a gag. 

660
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:28,000
He hacked them to pieces. 
He brutally slaughtered this, 

661
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,200
unrighteous leader for all the 
wickedness that he did as a 

662
00:40:31,207 --> 00:40:34,900
command by God. 
And imagine that's the last 

663
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:36,700
thing you heard of Samuel and 
he's coming into your 

664
00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:41,800
neighborhood. 
But I think the heart of the 

665
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,200
matter is, is he coming to bring
judgment, whether it's something

666
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:46,700
that they knew of their own 
citizens? 

667
00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:49,500
Bethlehem, we're not the best of
saints in this town, so they 

668
00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:51,300
asked him. 
Do you come peaceably? 

669
00:40:52,100 --> 00:40:56,500
You come peaceably, and Samuel 
says verse 5 peaceably. 

670
00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:59,400
I've come to sacrifice to the 
Lord peaceably. 

671
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,300
I've come in Our Gospel. 
When we go places, we come with 

672
00:41:03,300 --> 00:41:07,700
the message of peace. 
We come to bring good news, the 

673
00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:11,600
gospel is not bad news, it's 
wonderful news and it's so 

674
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,600
wonderful that the mountains on 
which the feet step on, with the

675
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,700
gospel are blessed and called 
Beautiful. 

676
00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:21,900
Along with the feet of those who
carry the gospel. 

677
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:29,300
And so if you ever hesitant to 
preach the gospel, Realize, in 

678
00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:33,900
that moment, sober yourself up. 
I have the best news that any 

679
00:41:33,900 --> 00:41:38,800
human can hear, right? 
I heard I read somewhere forgot 

680
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:44,400
who said it, but they said I 
refuse to let The Greatest 

681
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:50,100
Story, Ever Told become The 
Greatest Secret, that people 

682
00:41:50,100 --> 00:41:53,300
will not hear. 
I will declare it to people. 

683
00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:57,100
I'm not ashamed of the Gospel. 
What's there to be ashamed with 

684
00:41:57,100 --> 00:42:00,700
the gospel that you're a sinner 
that you're bound for judgment? 

685
00:42:00,700 --> 00:42:03,800
But God took care of all your 
judgment not because you did 

686
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,500
anything but because he 
exercised, your righteousness 

687
00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:09,500
and died on the cross for your 
sins, like what can be better 

688
00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:13,600
than that? 
I come peaceably consecrate 

689
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,200
yourselves, come with me to the 
sacrifice because a peace 

690
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,900
offering had an element of 
fellowship and eating after the 

691
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:23,200
sacrifice and he consecrated 
Jesse and his sons and invited 

692
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,600
them to the sacrifice. 
Now look at verse 6. 

693
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:32,900
When they came, he looked on 
Elia band thought, surely the 

694
00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:41,900
Lord's anointed is before him. 
Like in 7 verses you see Samuel 

695
00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:45,200
the human very clearly, don't 
you? 

696
00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:53,200
and then, The Lord speaks verse 
7, but the Lord said to Samuel 

697
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,800
do not look on his appearance or
on the height of his stature 

698
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,200
because I have rejected him for 
the Lord. 

699
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,600
Sees not as man sees man looks 
on the outward appearance, but 

700
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:07,700
the Lord looks on the heart. 
The Lord looks on the heart. 

701
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,100
One of the most popular 
well-known scriptures 

702
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,700
unfortunately butchered by some 
to justify some kind of 

703
00:43:13,707 --> 00:43:16,000
behavior. 
God knows my heart. 

704
00:43:16,900 --> 00:43:20,300
God knows my heart. 
That's why I dress like this 

705
00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:23,100
because God knows my heart. 
Right. 

706
00:43:23,100 --> 00:43:25,600
That's why I do this because God
knows my heart. 

707
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:30,000
He knows why We won't need to go
there tonight, do we? 

708
00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:34,200
I hope not. 
There's a lot of things that we 

709
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,300
can pull out of this and maybe 
we'll touch on more next week 

710
00:43:36,300 --> 00:43:38,800
because there's no way we can 
cover this in one sitting this 

711
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,000
chapter. 
It's too dense. but I learn at 

712
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,300
least two things concerning 
Samuel, maybe you have something

713
00:43:44,300 --> 00:43:46,900
to add to that, but I learn at 
least two things concerning this

714
00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:52,400
man of God In This Moment, where
he falls short, Number one, it 

715
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,200
shows that we are capable of not
learning from the past. 

716
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,200
It shows that we are capable of 
not learning from the past. 

717
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,400
This man made a judgment. 
Surely this. 

718
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,300
The eldest of Jesse says shirt. 
Look at him. 

719
00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:07,100
Look how tall he is. 
Look how broadest shoulders 

720
00:44:07,100 --> 00:44:08,000
that. 
I heard his voice. 

721
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,300
He's a commanding voice. 
He's handsome. 

722
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,400
Surely this is the king. 
Does that sound familiar? 

723
00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:24,300
It does sound familiar and if 
you forgot go to chapter 9 verse

724
00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:28,800
2, Concerning Saul when we were 
introduced them. 

725
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,200
And he had a son whose name was 
Saul. 

726
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:37,100
A handsome young men? 
there was not a man among the 

727
00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:40,600
people of Israel more handsome 
than he from his shoulders 

728
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,700
upward, he was taller than any 
of the people and you would 

729
00:44:44,700 --> 00:44:51,800
think Then after learning from 
this, you just spent a season of

730
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,200
grief over a man who had the 
looks the charm, the 

731
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:59,100
personality, the gifting, but 
didn't have the character to 

732
00:44:59,100 --> 00:45:01,300
carry him. 
In his calling, you saw the 

733
00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:04,800
flaws, you saw the disasters 
from such an individual and you 

734
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,500
would think that you would 
calculate in your estimation of 

735
00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:11,700
whose before you just because he
has the outward appearance 

736
00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:13,900
doesn't make him King Lee 
Worthy. 

737
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:21,500
But he didn't learn, he decided 
for this King. 

738
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,600
The same way, Israel decided for
the first king, he was no 

739
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,500
different. 
He was no different in choosing 

740
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,200
than the people who are now 
apostate condition. 

741
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,400
How do you make sense of this? 
It's a very, very wonderful 

742
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,400
illustration. 
How most people today treat 

743
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,100
their sin. 
They never learn. 

744
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:45,500
And they commit the same sin 
that cause them grief. 

745
00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:50,000
Just a week ago. 
Just a month ago, just three 

746
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,600
months ago. 
They go back to it over and over

747
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,100
and over again and somehow 
they're convinced that it won't 

748
00:45:58,100 --> 00:46:01,300
be like last time or the 
pleasure in my sin. 

749
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,800
See the thing with temptation is
listen, whenever Temptation, 

750
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,200
Whispers In Your Ear they will 
never bring to remembrance The 

751
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:15,900
Sting of that sin. 
Never Temptation cunningly only 

752
00:46:15,900 --> 00:46:19,000
shows you whatever Sensation 
that brought you pleasure in 

753
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:24,600
that moment every single time. 
It will never bring to your 

754
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,600
memory. 
Remember the pain, and the 

755
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,300
shame, and the guilt, and the 
vows that you made that you 

756
00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:32,900
would never do it again. 
Never ever, ever, ever, remember

757
00:46:32,900 --> 00:46:35,900
how good it felt remember how 
much profit you made, remember 

758
00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:39,200
how you got away with it? 
Never will tell you of the 

759
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:43,800
things that rent your heart or 
cause you to lose sleep at 

760
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:47,700
night. 
And it's amazing here that 

761
00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:52,100
Samuel the prophet we just read 
a few verses ago that God has 

762
00:46:52,100 --> 00:46:55,300
said, get out of this. 
You're grieving too much. 

763
00:46:56,100 --> 00:46:59,600
He didn't even consider that 
when he looked at this King and 

764
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,100
said, maybe he's the one. 
In fact, he didn't say maybe he 

765
00:47:02,100 --> 00:47:10,200
said, surely this is the one. 
A great deterrent to Temptation.

766
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,500
And I'm not saying that what the
same is doing here is outright 

767
00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:14,100
sin, but it's a wonderful 
parallel. 

768
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,300
A great deterrent to any 
Temptation, having a grip on 

769
00:47:18,300 --> 00:47:22,300
your mind that would lead to you
making decisions. it's the ever 

770
00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:25,600
keep before you this things that
those sins Afflicted, you with 

771
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,200
You want temptation to lose its 
power. 

772
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,500
Do one of many things and 
rehearsing your mind. 

773
00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:36,400
This thing lied to me. 
Last time. 

774
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,700
This thing deceived me last time
and maybe it's something that 

775
00:47:42,700 --> 00:47:45,600
you've never been introduced 
with. 

776
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,600
So consider the feelings of 
others who have fallen that same

777
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,100
sin. 
This destroy them. 

778
00:47:51,100 --> 00:47:52,900
That's why we have these things 
in the Bible. 

779
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,900
Just in case your circle of 
friends, isn't two grand, you 

780
00:47:56,900 --> 00:48:01,500
have a Saul, you have a David As
Heroes. 

781
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,900
As examples of both good and The
Ugly. 

782
00:48:09,100 --> 00:48:14,600
And this man amazingly. 
Didn't consider that. 

783
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:18,600
This can be a colossal failure. 
And he said, in his heart, 

784
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,900
surely, this is the guy, You 
didn't learn that outward 

785
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:24,800
appearance. 
Does it make somebody 

786
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,300
justifiable for position of 
leadership? 

787
00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:30,900
Did you? 
But secondly, it shows us that 

788
00:48:30,900 --> 00:48:33,500
we are capable of being 
influenced by the world. 

789
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,300
Who thought like this Israel, 
that and they weren't in the 

790
00:48:38,300 --> 00:48:41,800
best spiritual condition. 
When they made that decision. 

791
00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:47,000
I looked at this and I thought 
to myself even Samuel was 

792
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,700
magnetized by the power of 
outward appearance. 

793
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:58,900
Even Samuel was drawn in. 
To the point where he began to 

794
00:48:58,900 --> 00:49:03,500
esteem and consider the worth 
and value, and make his 

795
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:07,700
decisions the same way that an 
apostate people did. 

796
00:49:10,500 --> 00:49:14,200
Why? 
Because he's exemplifying to us 

797
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,000
just how strong the pull of 
Attraction is when the eye of 

798
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:23,000
the flesh is entertained. 
Samuel shows just how quick you 

799
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,000
can go from thinking in the 
spirit, the thinking, In the 

800
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:31,200
Flesh, he's demonstrating here. 
That even at important moments 

801
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,400
in your life, you can make 
decisions that would alter it if

802
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:39,300
you're not careful. 
And it's amazing because what 

803
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:42,700
Samuel showing here, the utter 
Importance of Being in tune with

804
00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:48,300
God's heart and mind always, You
and I can't afford a moment to 

805
00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:50,500
slip you, and I must walk in the
spirit. 

806
00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:56,400
Not 90% of the day, all the day.
And God made it very easy for us

807
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:57,500
and we'll get to that in a 
moment. 

808
00:49:57,500 --> 00:49:59,800
But think about this, if you 
don't, if you're not convinced 

809
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:04,100
of how powerful this is, then 
consider this thought that the 

810
00:50:04,100 --> 00:50:08,800
man that Samuel was told by God,
to choose David. 

811
00:50:09,100 --> 00:50:12,700
Not because of his appearance, 
but because of his heart, right?

812
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:17,700
David's heart, not his 
appearance, was what Drew God to

813
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:21,600
choose him, to be the shepherd 
over Israel that same man when 

814
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:25,400
he became king What happened? 
Let me just read it to you and 

815
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:30,100
second Samuel, 11 verse 2. 
It happened late one afternoon 

816
00:50:30,100 --> 00:50:32,800
when David arose from his couch 
and was walking on the roof of 

817
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:38,100
the King's house that he saw 
from the roof, a woman bathing 

818
00:50:38,300 --> 00:50:42,900
and the woman was very beautiful
He asked for her name, he called

819
00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:46,400
her into his room, he slept with
her, she was married, he got her

820
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,800
pregnant. 
He killed the husband, and he 

821
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,300
tried to cover his sin. 
Where did it all start? 

822
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:57,900
He saw Samuel, he saw. 
And what did he see? 

823
00:50:57,900 --> 00:51:01,600
What God's correction tells us. 
Don't look at his appearance. 

824
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:08,000
Don't look at his stature. 
Where did this whole thing even 

825
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:13,000
begin from the garden? 
And Eve saw that the tree was 

826
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:20,400
pleasant to the eyes? 
So, our perception, our flesh, 

827
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,900
the things that cause our hearts
to flutter and our minds to go 

828
00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:30,000
into imaginations that pull is 
very strong. 

829
00:51:30,100 --> 00:51:35,600
It happened to a prophet It 
happened to a man who got 

830
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,900
selected because his heart was 
so enthralled and consumed with 

831
00:51:38,900 --> 00:51:43,600
loving him, be careful. 
And here we are, and we think 

832
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,600
that we can just go on through a
day without spending time with 

833
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,500
God. 
How do I protect myself from 

834
00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:50,800
this song? 
I don't want to be like that. 

835
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:52,000
I see it there. 
Why is it there? 

836
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,300
It's to tell me that it's 
possible. 

837
00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:56,800
So how do I protect myself? 
That I wake up a couple. 

838
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,700
The Bible gives you a 
prescription if you would just 

839
00:52:04,700 --> 00:52:08,900
listen to it. 
The scripture tells us exactly 

840
00:52:08,900 --> 00:52:11,600
and it's one of the most common 
verses that we all know, perhaps

841
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,700
we know it, but we don't 
understand the power behind it 

842
00:52:13,700 --> 00:52:15,900
and I'm ending it with this 
verse in Romans 12:2. 

843
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:19,600
Did I be conformed to this 
world? 

844
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,900
But be transformed by the 
renewal of your mind. 

845
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,300
That by testing you may do, What
discern that you may discern, 

846
00:52:29,300 --> 00:52:33,500
what is the will of God, what is
good and acceptable and perfect.

847
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,600
I want to tell you something. 
This world has a gospel. 

848
00:52:39,900 --> 00:52:42,600
And they come with different 
faces and different tunes and 

849
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,900
different different lures. 
But the same goal, this world 

850
00:52:46,900 --> 00:52:51,400
longs to every single day. 
Doesn't give up, doesn't doesn't

851
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:55,600
rest every single day. 
Has one ambition to conform you 

852
00:52:55,600 --> 00:53:00,800
to itself. 
You're thinking your convictions

853
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:06,000
your plans, every single thing 
about you, what the world longs 

854
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:10,000
to do is squeeze you into its 
mold. 

855
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,300
This verse is not given to 
worldly people, it's given to 

856
00:53:13,300 --> 00:53:17,900
the church. 
Do not be conformed and the 

857
00:53:17,900 --> 00:53:20,400
consequences of being conformed 
to the world. 

858
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,600
Some of you really need to hear 
this. 

859
00:53:22,900 --> 00:53:29,400
So listen, very carefully. 
Do not be conformed to this 

860
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,800
world because the consequences 
are many. 

861
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,400
And here's one of the 
consequences that it has the 

862
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,900
ability to blur, your 
discernment from understanding, 

863
00:53:37,900 --> 00:53:42,100
the will of God. 
It clouds your thinking to the 

864
00:53:42,100 --> 00:53:47,300
point where you don't walk out 
and make decisions that are good

865
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:51,900
acceptable and perfect. 
I'm sure. 

866
00:53:51,900 --> 00:53:55,000
And I hope there's not one 
person in here that doesn't long

867
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,900
to live their life in a way that
they make decisions that are 

868
00:53:58,900 --> 00:54:06,400
good acceptable and perfect. 
But the world wants to conform 

869
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,700
you. 
We're in the arena of the mind 

870
00:54:10,100 --> 00:54:14,200
so that you can't discern that. 
And based on that, lack of 

871
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:16,700
discernment. 
You begin to make decisions and 

872
00:54:16,700 --> 00:54:21,500
frame your convictions in a way.
That's tears you apart from the 

873
00:54:21,500 --> 00:54:24,300
path of God's perfect will for 
your existence. 

874
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,200
And you don't even know it. 
Because you think that this 

875
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,000
world is neutral concerning your
spirituality. 

876
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:37,500
When in fact, it has an evil 
plot for your mind. 

877
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,400
So then, what is the antidote? 
What is the protection? 

878
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,000
What is the remedy? 
What is The Shield while he 

879
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:51,300
tells us be transformed how by 
the renewing of your mind? 

880
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:58,100
This is where it needs to change
the mind, not your emotions, 

881
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:02,300
your thinking the collection of 
your thoughts. 

882
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:07,100
Your thought patterns the thing 
that you open the drawer and 

883
00:55:07,100 --> 00:55:12,300
then you pull out that envelope 
that says, what I believe Who Am

884
00:55:12,300 --> 00:55:14,800
I? 
Who is God, what is life? 

885
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:20,000
And God out of all. 
The means, I remember sitting 

886
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,400
when I was in advertising, and 
I'm sure this guy was, 

887
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:24,700
obviously, he was saying it 
mockingly. 

888
00:55:24,700 --> 00:55:28,500
He says, out of all the ways, 
this atheist got out of all the 

889
00:55:28,500 --> 00:55:30,600
ways that God could have 
revealed himself. 

890
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:33,900
He did it with a book. 
He did it with a book. 

891
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,600
He couldn't just appear in the 
sky, he couldn't just, and he 

892
00:55:36,607 --> 00:55:38,600
was saying, I'm not even going 
to tell you what he said, 

893
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,300
mockingly, but yeah, God chose 
to reveal himself through a 

894
00:55:42,300 --> 00:55:48,000
book. 
And it's through his word. 

895
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:54,200
And my exposure to it. 
That has the power to begin to 

896
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,100
rewire realign and renew my 
mind. 

897
00:55:57,700 --> 00:55:59,300
That's where it is. 
It's very simple. 

898
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,900
Told you, it wasn't complicated.
Here's what begins to happen. 

899
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,900
You don't just have the ability 
to reference certain scriptures 

900
00:56:06,900 --> 00:56:09,800
and you know how to be more in 
tune with Bible. 

901
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:13,400
Study know, there is a 
transformation that word in the 

902
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:15,800
Greek is the same word used when
Jesus was on the Mount of 

903
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:20,300
transfiguration and he 
transformed There is an actual 

904
00:56:20,300 --> 00:56:23,900
powerful thing that's taking 
place in your mind, and what it 

905
00:56:23,900 --> 00:56:26,900
does is, it begins to now give 
you a sense of discernment, this

906
00:56:26,900 --> 00:56:31,700
is so powerful in which you are 
now able to navigate through 

907
00:56:31,700 --> 00:56:38,400
life and make decisions that are
good acceptable and perfect. 

908
00:56:40,300 --> 00:56:43,200
So what happens is when you come
to this word and you allowed to 

909
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:48,900
wash over you and listen as 
powerful as memorization, is 

910
00:56:49,300 --> 00:56:53,100
just read it. 
Just re just expose yourself to 

911
00:56:53,100 --> 00:56:58,900
it and watch what will happen to
your brain to your thinking, to 

912
00:56:58,900 --> 00:57:02,600
your emotional capacity and 
state and Condition. 

913
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,100
It's a mate. 
There's a supernatural thing 

914
00:57:05,100 --> 00:57:06,700
that begins to take place in 
you. 

915
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:11,100
And, you know, at least in part,
that one of the ways in which 

916
00:57:11,100 --> 00:57:14,600
somebody has been. 
So consumed with this process is

917
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,700
that, whatever situation is 
thrown at them in their minds, 

918
00:57:17,700 --> 00:57:22,800
they can respond biblically, 
It's like they the mind just 

919
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,200
it's able to go to a scripture. 
It's able to go to a scenario. 

920
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,900
It's able to go to so many 
places because their minds have 

921
00:57:28,900 --> 00:57:33,400
been so convinced and consumed 
with the word of God. 

922
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,600
So what begins to happen? 
You don't see beauty the same 

923
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:41,300
way the world sees Beauty. 
You elevate Beauty at a 

924
00:57:41,300 --> 00:57:43,400
different standard than the 
world does. 

925
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:49,800
You don't see trials, the same 
way, you don't cease in the same

926
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,900
way, you don't see the things 
that bring people Joy the same 

927
00:57:53,900 --> 00:57:57,200
way and it's effortless. 
Why? 

928
00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:59,400
Because all you've been doing is
coming to the word and the word 

929
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,300
is Renewing, Your Mind and 
things begin to happen in you. 

930
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:09,800
And then from that place, you're
able to have a discernment that 

931
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:14,800
is incalculable in value. 
It's a Wonderful confidence that

932
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:18,700
you have that in this season of 
my, with the decisions that 

933
00:58:18,700 --> 00:58:21,600
needed me. 
I know that I will be closer to 

934
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:23,200
the will of God than anybody 
else. 

935
00:58:25,300 --> 00:58:29,200
That's why in my life, I don't 
take advice from people. 

936
00:58:31,700 --> 00:58:35,700
That do not renew their minds 
with the word of God. 

937
00:58:37,300 --> 00:58:39,100
How am I going to trust in their
discernment? 

938
00:58:40,100 --> 00:58:42,100
How am I going to trust in the 
discernment of a Christian that 

939
00:58:42,100 --> 00:58:43,400
doesn't look any different than 
the world? 

940
00:58:45,100 --> 00:58:48,400
I need to discern the will of 
God in my life and not just for 

941
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:49,700
me. 
I'm going to go to those who 

942
00:58:49,700 --> 00:58:53,300
know, the will of God because 
they have been renewing their 

943
00:58:53,300 --> 00:58:55,700
minds and they've been 
transformed. 

944
00:58:55,700 --> 00:59:00,700
I would suggest the same for 
you. and so you look at 

945
00:59:00,700 --> 00:59:04,900
Temptation differently, you look
at qualifications in somebody 

946
00:59:05,700 --> 00:59:09,900
differently. 
And that is something you and I 

947
00:59:09,900 --> 00:59:13,900
all have access to and it is the
great protection. 

948
00:59:15,700 --> 00:59:19,000
Samuel was learning this and got
his patient. 

949
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,700
He teaches us through experience
as well, but Samuel was 

950
00:59:21,700 --> 00:59:24,700
learning. 
As you are seeing this, the way 

951
00:59:24,700 --> 00:59:27,500
that I don't see. 
I see it differently than you. 

952
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:35,200
and you and I, we acquire a 
sensitivity to the wisdom and 

953
00:59:35,207 --> 00:59:38,300
the knowledge of God, as we 
expose ourselves to his word 

954
00:59:38,300 --> 00:59:43,500
which renews us and then 
transforms us, So you saying, 

955
00:59:43,500 --> 00:59:45,800
brother, why should I read the 
Bible every day for many 

956
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,600
reasons? 
And here's one, you inherited 

957
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:51,200
discernment. 
That will protect you and guide 

958
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:55,000
you in this life in a way. 
Like nothing can God will honor 

959
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,100
you as you honor his word. 
All there are many things to 

960
00:59:58,100 --> 01:00:00,800
learn from this chapter, but we 
will reserve it for next week. 

961
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:06,200
and so if you are in a place 
today, where you like I don't 

962
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,300
know where I'm at right now. 
I don't know the next step take 

963
01:00:08,300 --> 01:00:12,100
comfort to know that Samuel 
didn't know either, but also be 

964
01:00:12,100 --> 01:00:15,600
challenged to know that 
discernment only comes with a 

965
01:00:15,607 --> 01:00:18,300
renewal of the mind. 
You want the will of God for 

966
01:00:18,300 --> 01:00:21,000
your life. 
It comes from the transformation

967
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:26,800
that is surging from this book. 
This is a supernatural book. 

968
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:30,000
That's why even when I go 
through Old Testament books, 

969
01:00:30,300 --> 01:00:34,400
like Ezekiel or Leviticus, I 
believe that I'm going to get a 

970
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,400
discernment. 
I'm going to know something 

971
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,100
about God. 
I'm going to know something 

972
01:00:39,100 --> 01:00:43,200
about life because the scripture
promises me promises you the 

973
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:44,900
same. 
Let's pray. 

974
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:09,000
Louis, thank you. 
That you give hope for those who

975
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:15,200
have fallen. whether it's a 
Great Falls, like David, What we

976
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:18,400
would consider minor Falls like 
Samuel. 

977
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:24,500
We didn't know how to manage his
emotions, who didn't know how to

978
01:01:24,500 --> 01:01:28,700
believe you when it came to a 
call to obey you and who even 

979
01:01:28,700 --> 01:01:31,100
didn't think like you in a brief
moment. 

980
01:01:32,300 --> 01:01:36,600
When you called him. 
To be a vessel that would 

981
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:39,900
represent him. 
Lord, thank you. 

982
01:01:40,900 --> 01:01:43,600
That I know point. 
Which Samuel do you condemn him 

983
01:01:44,300 --> 01:01:48,300
or shun him or remove him 
because you knew that he loved 

984
01:01:48,300 --> 01:01:52,500
you. 
Any desire to be your servant 

985
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:56,500
that he gave up so much to be 
the man that he was, and thank 

986
01:01:56,500 --> 01:01:59,800
you, Lord, and our own lives 
that we can take comfort that 

987
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:03,800
when we make hiccups, and we 
might even sin or we think in a 

988
01:02:03,808 --> 01:02:06,500
way that we shouldn't have 
thought we were deceived for a 

989
01:02:06,500 --> 01:02:10,100
moment or we weren't as mature 
as we needed to be spiritually. 

990
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:14,700
You do not disqualify us. 
You teach us as you taught 

991
01:02:14,700 --> 01:02:19,300
Samuel, you disciple us. 
Your patience is so great 

992
01:02:19,300 --> 01:02:22,100
greater than our patients, even 
for ourselves. 

993
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:24,800
Lord. 
In this moment, we are stirred a

994
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:29,300
fresh about one of the aspects 
of the power of your word that 

995
01:02:29,300 --> 01:02:34,900
it grants us a discernment to 
see as you see, which is the 

996
01:02:34,900 --> 01:02:39,000
best way to see and we pray Lord
that there would be a renewed 

997
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:44,000
passion for personal Devotion, 
to the word of the Living God, 

998
01:02:44,700 --> 01:02:47,300
we ask Lord that. 
There's anybody in here, who's 

999
01:02:47,300 --> 01:02:50,500
fearful fearful? 
Because they don't know the next

1000
01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:53,900
step and there's silence, help 
them know that just as you were 

1001
01:02:53,900 --> 01:02:57,400
silent with the choice of a king
through that silence you taught 

1002
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:02,000
Samuel something about himself. 
Help us believe that there is 

1003
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,600
not one season, not one day 
wasted with you. 

1004
01:03:05,700 --> 01:03:10,400
Every single season, every 
single moment you use. 

1005
01:03:11,500 --> 01:03:14,000
The scripture says that you test
the righteous even when they 

1006
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:18,100
wake up, you test the righteous 
and then is placed, or we feel 

1007
01:03:18,100 --> 01:03:19,800
rich. 
To know that we have the Living 

1008
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:24,200
God, on our side and that we 
have the Living Word at our 

1009
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:27,100
disposal, forgive us for our 
laziness. 

1010
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,300
Forgive us for our lack of 
faith. 

1011
01:03:29,500 --> 01:03:32,600
Forgive us for not seeing the 
word as we ought to see it but 

1012
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:35,500
Lord as gracious as you were to 
Samuel. 

1013
01:03:35,500 --> 01:03:39,900
So you are to us. 
Help us think like you feel like

1014
01:03:39,900 --> 01:03:42,000
you move when you want us to 
move, stay you. 

1015
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,400
When you want us to stay, We 
Worship You, Lord, and we are 

1016
01:03:45,408 --> 01:03:50,200
excited to see how you see. 
Men, the heart, the heart. 

1017
01:03:51,300 --> 01:03:53,200
Your name, we pray. 
Amen. 

1018
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:55,600
Can we stand and worship God 
together? 

1019
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:56,000
Please.