1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:03,800 You're listening to the Bridgetown Church Podcast with 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,840 Pastor Casey Kendall, where our vision is Jesus, our mission is 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,760 people, and our cause is love. Thanks for tuning in. 4 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:12,680 Let's dive in. Want to talk to you about a 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,040 topic that you probably have never struggled with in First 6 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,520 Samuel Chapter 19 yet we're going back that way. 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,120 First Samuel Chapter 19, I want to talk to you about the topic 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,440 of jealousy. I don't think any of you have 9 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,640 ever struggled with this. I don't think any of this topic 10 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,360 or this word has ever hit your heart. 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,880 I think whether you're in elementary school, middle school 12 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,880 or high school, or if you're a young adult in college or if 13 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:40,440 you're a married single in your 20s or 30s or 40s, I don't 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,720 think, well, I could be sure at one time a point in your life 15 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,320 you've struggled with jealousy. I've entitled the message, Every 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:59,320 Breath You Take 1982 Sting 1983. It was released by a band called 17 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:03,160 The Police. But This is why I've entitled 18 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,840 the Message this way. If you have your Bible handy in 19 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:14,200 First Samuel chapter 19, if you would pay attention to verse 11, 20 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:20,600 Saul also sent messengers to David's house to watch him and 21 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,240 to kill him in the morning. And Michael, David's wife told 22 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,960 him saying if you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you 23 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:35,480 will be killed. Now flip with me to the end of 24 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,520 the chapter. You probably have watched TV 25 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,200 shows that started at the end and they take you all the way 26 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,120 back to the beginning. Look at what happens at the end 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,160 of this chapter. And he also stripped Saul. 28 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,400 King Saul stripped off his clothes and prophesied before 29 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,960 Samuel in like manner. And he lay down naked all that 30 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,440 day and all that night. Therefore, they say, is Saul 31 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,280 also among the prophets? I want to talk to you about the 32 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,000 topic of jealousy. I want to give you the little 33 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,440 bit of a definition. Chuck Swindoll writes these 34 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:13,880 words like an angry, anger blind, half starved rat prowling 35 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,000 in the foul smelling sewers below St. level. 36 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,400 He writes. So is the person caged by and 37 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,560 within the suffocating radius of selfish jealousy. 38 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:32,400 Trapped by, he writes resentment and diseased by rage, he feeds 39 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,760 on the filth of his own imagination. 40 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,720 If you would just look at your neighbor this morning and say 41 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,720 neighbor, my neighbor, I know all of you have missed this in 42 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:54,760 the last three weeks. Neighbor, my neighbor, you can't 43 00:02:54,760 --> 00:03:01,000 make me happy. Yep, just say that the person 44 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,400 you just said that to is relieved. 45 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,480 They are relieved. Look at them again and just say 46 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:14,320 you can't make me happy. I've been married to my wife now 47 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:19,360 coming up on 29 years of our lives have been together. 48 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:26,600 We got married at the age of 14. We're still young at heart. 49 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:32,240 A few years into my marriage, my wife said something that stung a 50 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:38,480 lot but opened my eyes a bunch. It wasn't that she told me that 51 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,920 I love you forever. I didn't need to hear that in 52 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,600 that moment. It wasn't that she looked at me 53 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,000 and said in our marriage that I am committed to you. 54 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:52,160 Richer or poorer, sicker or or if you're in health, whatever 55 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,160 that might be, I'm committed to you. 56 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,600 I didn't need that in the moment. 57 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,920 After listening to my negative narrative and my constant 58 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:03,040 complaining, my wife looked dead in my eyes. 59 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,280 And she, she gave me that look. Husbands, you know that look 60 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,200 that your wife gives you when she's about to say your first, 61 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,000 middle and last name to you. You know that that, that, that 62 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,160 situation that you're in. She looked at me and she said 63 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,560 these words. She said it is not my job to 64 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:28,600 make you happy. And I sat there because all of 65 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:34,040 my life was based upon how the person that I had connected 66 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:40,480 myself to was actually doing. And I'd found that in my life 67 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:45,200 because of that connection that when my wife was off, that meant 68 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:49,760 that I was off, That if my situation was off, that meant 69 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,040 that then I was off. I just want to say it again 70 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:59,240 because some of you are like preach it Pastor Casey, you 71 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:06,680 can't make me happy. You can't make me happy. 72 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,600 And it is not your wife's job or your boyfriend's job or your 73 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:16,400 friend's job or your parents job or your boss's job or your Co 74 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,400 employee's job to actually make you happy. 75 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:25,200 And I think all of us listening to these words in this room and 76 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,080 on the pad podcast this morning have found ourselves with this 77 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,520 statement being true in our lives. 78 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:38,120 Is is that we have often found that we are looking for people 79 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,800 to determine the level of happiness within our hearts. 80 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,760 In fact, we have found that we have set our happiness in our 81 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:52,920 joy upon three things. We have set them letter A on the 82 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,400 places that we find ourselves in today. 83 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:00,080 We've set our happiness and our joy simply upon the places that 84 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,920 we have found ourselves in. That could mean that is it is an 85 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,280 abundant place or it's a lacking place and because of the 86 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:10,040 abundance we have an abundant of joy or happiness. 87 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,120 Because it's a lack, we find that we have a lack of happiness 88 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,840 and joy. The 2nd place is we base our 89 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:18,840 happiness and joy, let her be on people. 90 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,440 We find that if we are connected to certain people who are doing 91 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:26,520 well, then we are doing well. But if we get in an argument or 92 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,960 if something happens, or if they step away for a little bit, we 93 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,760 have found within our own hearts and our own lives that we are 94 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:38,480 not doing good. Letter C We connect our joy, our 95 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,680 happiness to the problems that we face. 96 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,840 Some of you are in small problems, some of you are in 97 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:47,520 medium problems. Some of you are in very large 98 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,640 problems. Some of you are in medium large 99 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,960 problems. Some of you are in medium large 100 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,920 problems. And we think that the problem 101 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:01,040 that we we are in is the indicator and the director of 102 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:08,120 the joy that we can and will experience in our hearts and 103 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:13,440 lives. And if I'm not doing well, many 104 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:19,560 times I blame it on people that are not doing well around me and 105 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,200 life simply becomes a chore and it's no longer a joy. 106 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,560 Life becomes something that I just endure through. 107 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:33,600 I no longer enjoy my life. Life becomes for me something 108 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:39,280 that's painfully enduring rather than expectantly enjoying 109 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:44,840 because I'm waiting for them to bring me happiness. 110 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:49,120 I want you to hear this. Your marriage will not be your 111 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,960 ultimate happiness. Your job will not be your 112 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,680 ultimate happiness. Your singleness will not be your 113 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,520 ultimate happiness. Your finances will not determine 114 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,520 your ultimate your your happiness. 115 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,240 Your friendships will not determine your ultimate 116 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,440 happiness. Your family, the disease, the 117 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,320 car, the kids, the parents, the traffic, the crowds, the people 118 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:19,120 that you are connected to listen either if they're holy or 119 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,840 whatever it might be, does not ultimate ultimately determine 120 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:27,200 your happiness. The truth be told, the trauma 121 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:31,360 that you've gone through is real, but the trauma doesn't 122 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:37,280 determine the level of your joy. I want to, I want to put it 123 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,559 simply, if I can, and that is this. 124 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:46,280 I want to tell you simply and graciously that your joy is your 125 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:52,320 job. Your joy is your job. 126 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,680 I'm going to say that again because this needs to reach my 127 00:08:55,680 --> 00:09:00,400 heart as much as yours. Your joy is your job. 128 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,000 It's not your wife's job. It's not your husband's job. 129 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,120 It's not a friend's job. It's not your boss's job. 130 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:12,680 Your joy is your job. As one man said. 131 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:16,760 He said, nothing will make you happy until you choose to be 132 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,720 happy. No person plays face, pleasure 133 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,920 or pain will determine your happiness unless you decide to 134 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,200 be happy. They are not your savior. 135 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:32,560 Jesus is and it will not just come to you, it will flow 136 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:36,480 through you to reach people that are all around you. 137 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:44,480 Your joy is your job, and unless we learn this now, your mood 138 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,760 will become your master. Unless we learn this now, your 139 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,760 feelings will become your pharaoh. 140 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,760 They will tell you when you can get out and when you can stay 141 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,640 in. They will lead you wherever that 142 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:03,960 you allow them to do to be. And what happens is, is now my 143 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:10,240 mood is set and the mood impacts everybody in the house, not just 144 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,000 me. And so we have now found in our 145 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:19,240 lives that we've become the sour St. we've become the fermented 146 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,800 follower. We have become the person that 147 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:27,160 when we hear Nehemiah say that the joy of the Lord is your 148 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,080 strength, we read that verse and say, well, Nehemiah doesn't know 149 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,520 what's happened in my life. And we come to a spot in our 150 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:42,600 life where we think that this aspect of happiness or joy can 151 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:48,760 only be determined by what has happened to us in our lives. 152 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,520 If there was anyone that needed to hear this in Glendora, 153 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,680 someone also needed to hear this in Israel. 154 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:00,920 His name was King Saul. You remember King Saul, don't 155 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,640 you? Years passed. 156 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,760 We spoke of him months ago. We talked of Saul. 157 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,000 You remember that the whole series is called heart, that God 158 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,440 was looking for a man who would take a stand, who would live 159 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,880 with character. And he chose, as he called Saul, 160 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,320 the first king of Israel. And he says to Saul, this is 161 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,320 what the people have asked for. So we're calling Saul head and 162 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,080 shoulders above everybody else. God told him to wipe out the 163 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,360 Amalekites. He didn't listen to God. 164 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:36,480 God rejected him as king. And he said, I will find myself 165 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:41,120 another man to lead this thing. So he sends the prophet Samuel 166 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,000 to go to a man by the name of David at Jesse's house. 167 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,200 And he said, you're looking at the outward appearance, but I'm 168 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,360 looking at the heart. This is the king. 169 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:55,680 David's keeping a watch of the sheep by day, by night he hears 170 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,040 that there's a battle. He also is told by his father to 171 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:03,640 take cheese and bread and essential oils and everything to 172 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,280 his brothers. He goes to the valley of Elah 173 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:11,240 and he hears Goliath shout. I will wipe out this nation. 174 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,880 I will take care of any enemy of mine. 175 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,160 David says, you're not talking that way about the God of 176 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,680 Israel. He goes and fights against 177 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,640 Goliath. He wins by the power of God, for 178 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:26,080 the glory of God. You think Saul would be excited? 179 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,600 You think there would be an uproar in the palace? 180 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:37,880 Saul is so upset and jealous and if there is one thing that will 181 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,680 attack your joy, I would put it this way. 182 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:45,560 The greatest enemy of your joy is jealousy. 183 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:54,680 The greatest enemy of your joy is jealousy and Saul desperately 184 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:59,800 needed to hear God in obey him because this was Saul's mission. 185 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,120 Look at verse one. Now Saul spoke to Jonathan his 186 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,760 son and to all his servants that they should kill David. 187 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,040 Notice Saul's mission if you would jump down to verse 2. 188 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:17,800 So Jonathan told David saying, my father Saul seeks to kill 189 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,240 you. Look at verse five of the 190 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,960 chapter. For he took his life in his 191 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,800 hands and the Lord killed the Philistine through David and the 192 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,200 Lord brought about a great salvation for all of Israel. 193 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:35,360 You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against an 194 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:41,840 innocent, against innocent blood to kill David without cause? 195 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:47,440 Look at Saul's mission verse 11. Saul also sent messengers to 196 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,240 David's house to watch him and to kill him. 197 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,240 Look at his his message and his mission is this. 198 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:58,080 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David saying, bring 199 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:04,200 him up to me in the bed that I may kill him. 200 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:09,160 Everything about King Saul all should have been rejoicing and 201 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:14,200 ruling and reigning and obeying the Lord, but due to his 202 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:21,640 jealousy, he is now pursuing and seeking after the man that God 203 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:26,160 had called into this place, and now he says we need to get rid 204 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,400 of him. Jealousy, if you're taking note, 205 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:35,960 jealousy is this. Jealousy is a third party, a 206 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:42,680 rival, A competing force stealing something that is or 207 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:48,920 should have been yours. We get jealous of people's 208 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,040 lives. We get jealous of people's 209 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,800 relationships. We get jealous of people's 210 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,360 possessions. We get jealous of their status 211 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,240 in life, their story in life. Now that we can see everybody 212 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:05,280 else's story on Instagram, we even find ourselves even tempted 213 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,160 to be jealous over people's kids. 214 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,880 We find ourselves to be jealous over people's health. 215 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:16,880 And we find that in our lives, Jealousy, like King Saul, has 216 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,480 become the most invisible and miserable sin. 217 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,480 It has become the most invisible and miserable sin. 218 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,320 We cannot see jealousy. You can still see when someone 219 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,240 steals something from you or something's hurt, someone's hurt 220 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,240 physically, but you can't see jealousy within someone's heart 221 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,600 and life unless it starts coming out through their speech and 222 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,480 their actions. And this is what oftentimes 223 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:51,480 happens. I believe it was the song that 224 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:56,480 was most popular in Saul's house. 225 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:06,480 Every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you 226 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:13,640 break, every step you take. I'll be watching you. 227 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:29,040 If we know the song, it has become something that has struck 228 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,480 a chord in our own hearts and our own lives. 229 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:40,600 This issue of jealousy in Saul's life, it filled his eyes, his 230 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,920 mouth and his hands, and it robbed him of the joy that was 231 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:50,080 in his heart. He wanted one thing. 232 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,080 That was it. He wanted one thing, David dead. 233 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,720 And jealousy will always decimate joy. 234 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,000 It will always decimate joy. I love this, what Chuck Chuck 235 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,839 Swindoll goes on to write. He says anyone who has 236 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:10,960 experienced deliverance from this damnable parasite knows 237 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,960 only too well the extent of its damage. 238 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,040 Jealousy will decimate a friendship, dissolve a romance 239 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,880 and destroy a marriage. It will shoot tension through 240 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:26,280 the ranks of professionals. It will nullify unity on a team. 241 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,680 It will ruin a church. It will separate preachers. 242 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,920 It will foster competition in a choir, bringing bitterness and 243 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:38,360 finger pointing among talented instrumentalists and capable 244 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:43,840 singers with squint eyes. Jealousy will question motives 245 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:48,960 and deplore another success. It will become severe, 246 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:55,360 suspicious, narrow and negative. Can I read that last line? 247 00:17:56,360 --> 00:18:02,880 It will become severe, suspicious, narrow, and 248 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:07,600 negative. And that's where jealousy leads 249 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,840 to. But how do we know if we're 250 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,440 leaning our lives in this direction of jealousy? 251 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,520 If you would just write some things down for me this morning, 252 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,320 This is how you know you're leaning into jealousy. 253 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:26,560 Is this is this way #1 we seek to put down what God is raising 254 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,720 up. We begin to seek to put down 255 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:35,320 what God is raising up. No, Notice, if you would, Saul 256 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,080 spoke to Jonathan. Now you know that Jonathan is 257 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:43,360 Saul's son. He is the next in line to be the 258 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:47,080 king of Israel. But God chooses another man. 259 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,880 If there was anyone who should have been jealous, it was 260 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,720 Jonathan. But his father, Saul is holding 261 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:59,280 on so much to his position that he finds himself speaking now to 262 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:04,400 Jonathan, who loved David, the Bible says even more than love 263 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,200 of a woman, he had that type of connection and friendship that 264 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,000 the Bible says he told his son. And to all of his servants, now 265 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,600 look at jealous. He didn't just stay with King 266 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:19,800 Saul and spread throughout the whole palace, not just his 267 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:25,240 family, but all of his servants. Do you know your jealousy 268 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:29,200 impacts more people than just the room that you're standing in 269 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,120 because you stop doing things that you know you should be 270 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:36,640 doing. And we just throw in the towel 271 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,520 in areas that God has told us to keep on fighting and then notice 272 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:46,680 this verse one that they should kill David but Jonathan saw son 273 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:51,520 delighted much in David notice the story So Jonathan told David 274 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,200 ran to David. He said my father saw seeks to 275 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,200 kill you. Therefore, please be on your 276 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,960 guard until morning and stay in a secret place and hide. 277 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,240 My dad's jealous. The song is playing. 278 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,240 I want you David to go and hide. At that time, they didn't have 279 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,240 any cell phones. At that time, they didn't have 280 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,840 find my friend. At that time, you couldn't 281 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,400 locate anybody. Have you ever seen someone who's 282 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,720 constantly watching where somebody is going or where where 283 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,760 their next step is? Davidde hiding in a certain 284 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:28,760 spot, away from Saw, away from Jonathan. 285 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,680 And notice this, David hears from Jonathan. 286 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,000 Verse 3 I'll go out and I'll stand beside my father in the 287 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,600 field where you are, and I will speak with my father about you. 288 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,600 Then what I observe I will tell you. 289 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:44,720 So he goes and talks to his dad, and he reasons with him, and 290 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,160 this is what he says. Now Jonathan spoke well of David 291 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,600 to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin 292 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,880 against your servant against David, because he has not sinned 293 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,280 against you, and because his works have been very good 294 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,120 towards you. Notice this. 295 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,440 For he took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, 296 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,840 and the Lord brought about a great salvation for all of 297 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,400 Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. 298 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,640 Why then will you sin against innocent blood to kill David 299 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,480 without cause? So Saul heeded the voice of 300 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:21,720 Jonathan, and Saul swore as the Lord lives, he shall not be 301 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,440 killed. Then Jonathan called David, and 302 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,280 Jonathan told him all these things. 303 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:32,800 And so Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence 304 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,120 in times past. Thank you. 305 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:42,560 Jonathan reasons with his dad, but his dad had made his 306 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:48,520 position the idol and because his position was the idol, now 307 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:52,680 that he worshipped of being king, he now found that his 308 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:57,080 friends had become his enemies. Did you catch that? 309 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:06,400 And so because of this, Saul is saying I will get rid of the man 310 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:12,640 that God is raising up because my hands are wrapped so much 311 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:17,520 around the throne that now David, who proclaims the music 312 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:22,440 that I have given that soothes my spirit, is no longer a friend 313 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,040 to me. He's actually become the enemy 314 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,240 to me. And sometimes what happens in 315 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:32,200 life is positions can mean more than people. 316 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:37,280 And this is King Saul, and he finds himself in this place in 317 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,440 his life now, this is King Saul. He's called by God. 318 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,480 He's anointed by God. He had the Spirit of God rest 319 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,680 upon him at times, as we read in the end of the verse. 320 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,800 He was prophesying naked, laying on the ground. 321 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,680 This is King Saul who had the calling, the anointing, the 322 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:02,440 position, the power, and he took all of that and let it slip his 323 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:07,560 grass because he wouldn't be obedient. 324 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:12,640 David played the music, David fought Goliath, and this is the 325 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:17,760 context of these verses. And for Samuel 18, verse 30, 326 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,600 then the Princess of the Philistines went out to war. 327 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,880 And so it was, whenever they went out, that David behaved 328 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:29,720 more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his 329 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:36,840 name became highly esteemed. This was the context in which 330 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:43,120 Saul was hearing this. And because Saul had lifted up 331 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:47,920 the wrong things, he could not see the right thing. 332 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,280 Listen, when other people have become or a position has become 333 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,640 your only source of joy or happiness. 334 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,000 We constantly continue to turn people that are friends into our 335 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,720 enemies. And at some point and at some 336 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:07,440 time, those people or position that we lifted up will now let 337 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,560 us down. And we find them in a place, and 338 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:16,040 we find ourselves in a place where now, like King Saul, we're 339 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,160 fading away. But God is raising up David. 340 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:25,440 And now as God's raising up David, Saul says, take him down, 341 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,240 take him out. He's trying to control the 342 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,800 situation that God is sovereign over. 343 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,240 Now, please listen to this. That doesn't mean that we don't 344 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,720 stay connected to people. It doesn't say that we don't 345 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,720 have intimate friendships. But but listen, I want you to 346 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:48,680 put people in their right place. I want you to put positions in 347 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,160 their right place. I was recently in an Angel game 348 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,920 and I was sitting up in the four hundreds and and as we were 349 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:01,320 sitting there there I'd never been at a game where people had 350 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,560 gotten up so much. Like can just people watch the 351 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,600 game? Like we have this 7 second time 352 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,800 attention because of these short videos we love. 353 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,640 People are just getting up and this guy must have stood in this 354 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:25,480 place for about 7 minutes. I didn't time him and he blocked 355 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,600 the view of what was happening on the field. 356 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,080 He just stood there. He had his beer in his hand and 357 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:41,080 he's talking to a friend and I said a little bit loudly, we 358 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:45,600 just take your place. We can't see what we need to 359 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:50,600 see, and I think we need to allow things to take their right 360 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:55,440 place to see the things that we actually need to see. 361 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,840 We actually need to put the positions in the right place to 362 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,680 see the things that we actually need to see. 363 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,160 We need to put our problems in the right place for us to see 364 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,480 what we need to see. And that gives us the 365 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,000 opportunity to not walk around jealous. 366 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:16,280 Now, I believe Saul's jealousy was fed by his own insecurity 367 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,120 and his own fear. If you would just listen to me 368 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:22,400 for a minute, David was not the enemy of Saul. 369 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,840 Samuel was not the enemy of Saul. 370 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,360 Michael, his daughter, was not the villain in the story. 371 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:33,440 Jonathan wasn't the villain. David wasn't the villain. 372 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,000 Samuel, the prophet in the later chap part of this chapter, was 373 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,320 not the villain. Saul was the villain. 374 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,360 And a lot of times we're thinking we, they, they have to 375 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:48,000 deal with that. But listen, let's deal with our 376 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:54,760 own insecurity and our own fear, because what happens is this is 377 00:26:54,760 --> 00:27:00,360 Saul does things he later regrets and he says things he 378 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:04,440 later regrets, and he finds himself in this place operating 379 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:10,440 at this basis simply upon fear. And I wrote these things down 380 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,960 about these certain verses. And that's this is that this is 381 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,640 what happens in our lives. And insecurity and fear takes 382 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:22,760 place where we begin to try to, to, to get rid of that thing or 383 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,120 person that God is raising up in our lives. 384 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,480 Is this is what happens. We begin like King Saul, to 385 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:33,400 think and believe that things are not true. 386 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,240 So we think and believe, excuse me, things that are not true, 387 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,000 and we allow the things that we're believing that are not 388 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,120 true to begin to dictate, like Saul, the things that we'll 389 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,800 actually be doing. This is also what happens to 390 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:55,800 King Saul and us is we are constantly let down because you 391 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,920 can only lift one person up and that is Jesus. 392 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:06,760 And so because of that now we begin to make liking Saul 393 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,120 decisions and say things out of our words, out of fear. 394 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:14,280 And this is what happens. We say things that we shouldn't 395 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:19,920 say in our lives and we begin to do things that we shouldn't do 396 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:25,080 with our lives. And because of that, we try to 397 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:32,400 put down what God is lifting up. You can't make me happy. 398 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,920 David could do nothing to make Saul happy, not even beat 399 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:42,040 Goliath or wipe out the Philistines because his position 400 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:46,320 was more important and his disobedience was more important. 401 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,280 The second thing, often times how we know we're being LED into 402 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,160 jealousy is this is we allow impatience to take the place of 403 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,320 obedience. We allow impatience to take the 404 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,160 place of obedience. This is what happens with King 405 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,120 Saul. Note, notice this verse 8. 406 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,400 And there was war again, and David went out and fought with 407 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,240 the Philistines and struck them with a mighty blow and they fled 408 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,240 from him. Now the distressing spirit from 409 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,040 the Lord. Notice that the Lord gave Saul a 410 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,000 distressing spirit. It's interesting. 411 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:28,240 That's a whole nother sermon that we could walk through, but 412 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,880 not today. He came upon Saul as he sat in 413 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:37,040 his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing 414 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,720 music with his hand. And then Saul sought to pin 415 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:45,280 David to the wall. Notice this with a spear. 416 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:51,200 But he slipped away from Saul's presence, and he drove the spear 417 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,400 into the wall. And so David fled and escaped 418 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,720 that night. Notice the impatience of Saw. 419 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,680 He is now the Lord sends a distressing spirit. 420 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:09,040 Here's David playing oceans, probably on his harp, and he's 421 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,520 called me out upon the water, and he's strumming the harp. 422 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,600 Normally Saul would calm down, but at this point he impatiently 423 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:22,960 takes a spear and he hurls it at David. 424 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,840 This is not just something that happened to Saul. 425 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,240 This is taking us all the way back to First Samuel chapter 15, 426 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:37,960 where God told Saul to wipe out all the Amalekites, but he chose 427 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,760 to do it his way instead of God's way. 428 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:47,880 And it's just Saul's story that he would continue in this place 429 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,840 unrepentant. Now, throwing Spears at David. 430 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,520 Now, if I was David, I'd probably try to pull the spear 431 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,480 out of the wall and throw it back. 432 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,440 David doesn't do that. He just runs. 433 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,920 He runs for his life. Saul takes his spear and he 434 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,800 throws it at him. Now, I know we're not throwing 435 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,760 Spears now, but have you impatiently ever said something 436 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:20,440 to someone that you shouldn't have said? 437 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,240 Why did I say that you ever had that, that thought you ever 438 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,520 found in your life that you have you, you have done something, 439 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,640 maybe not thrown a spear, but you've done something out of 440 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,640 distress that you're oh, why'd I do that? 441 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,320 This is Saul's life. And this is what happens when 442 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,800 you're jealous is you begin to make decisions out of impatience 443 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,080 rather than obedience to God. What was Saul losing? 444 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:03,880 He was losing the throne, but he could have gained his life with 445 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,440 repentance. And I think many times what 446 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,960 happens in our lives is the exact same thing as we begin to 447 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:17,600 live in an impatient heart and attitude about everything around 448 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,760 us. In the car, we're impatient. 449 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,960 At the store, we're impatient. You're going to go to a 450 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,200 restaurant today after church for some of you, and the server 451 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,080 is not going to do a good enough job for you. 452 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,400 Does the server is going to give you the wrong salad dressing? 453 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,400 And you're going to look at them and say, why do I keep coming 454 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,200 back here? Don't you understand? 455 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,720 I'm giving you my business. How many times do I need to say 456 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:55,160 ranch? Don't do that. 457 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,280 You're you're you're going to go home and your kids are going to 458 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,440 get on your nerves. That was a good spot for an Amen 459 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:09,360 parents, your wife or your husband is going to get on your 460 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:14,280 nerves. Something's going to happen. 461 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:19,360 That rises, that raises, excuse me, the tension in the room. 462 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,840 In that moment, you have an opportunity to throw the spear, 463 00:33:29,370 --> 00:33:32,930 hold your Spears, hold your Spears back. 464 00:33:33,930 --> 00:33:39,570 Because normally, out of impatience, it reveals my 465 00:33:39,570 --> 00:33:43,770 insecurity and my lack of trust that God's actually working. 466 00:33:46,290 --> 00:33:49,520 Let's move on. The third thing that jealousy 467 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,960 does is it allows our perspective to shift from friend 468 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,120 to enemy. That's what it does. 469 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,160 Notice this. So Saul verse 11 sent messengers 470 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:03,000 to David's house to watch him. Every breath you take, every 471 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,880 move you make, David, I'll be watching you. 472 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,360 And he wanted to kill him in the morning. 473 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:13,239 And Michael, David's wife, told him, saying, if you do not save 474 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,480 your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed. 475 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,719 So Michael let David down through the window and he went 476 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,760 and he fled and he escaped. And Michael took an image and 477 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,280 laid it in the bed, put a cover of goats hair for his head and 478 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,600 covered it with cloth and clothes. 479 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,960 And so when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said he is 480 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:34,960 sick. And then Saul sent the 481 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:40,159 messengers back to David saying, bring him up to me in the bed 482 00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:44,639 that I may kill him. And when the messengers had come 483 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:48,159 in, there was the image in the bed with the cover of goats hair 484 00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:50,520 for his head. And notice this if you would. 485 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,639 Then Saul said to Michael, Why have you deceived me like this 486 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:57,200 and sent my enemy away so that he has escaped? 487 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,160 And Michael answered Saul. He said to me, Let me go, why 488 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,280 should I kill you? So David fled, and he escaped 489 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,560 and went to Samuel at Rama, and told him all that Saul had done 490 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,360 to him. And he and Samuel went and 491 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,280 stayed, and they off. No, no, no, no, if you would. 492 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:21,840 David was the musician, the shepherd. 493 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:27,440 He was the one seeking King Saul's best interest. 494 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:31,560 And now what jealousy does to King Saul is it shifts his 495 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,840 attention from David being his friend to now David being his 496 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,360 enemy. And that's what happens in 497 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,720 jealousy. And this is the last thing that 498 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:45,400 happens in jealousy, is that we strip ourselves of what God has 499 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,840 called us to wear. If you would notice this, 500 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:59,720 Jonathan saves David's life. Notice this, his wife Michael, 501 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:02,400 who is Saul's daughter saves David's life. 502 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:09,000 Notice this Samuel who is the prophet of the Lord in Israel, 503 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:13,120 saves David's life. God brought all of these people 504 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:18,280 in to save David's life. Now notice this King Saul still 505 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,880 on the hunt. David finds himself running off 506 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:26,040 with Samuel hiding. Now it was told Saul saying take 507 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,480 note, David Naoth in Rama. Then Saul sent messengers to 508 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,920 take David and when they saw the group of prophets prophesied in 509 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,240 Samuel standing as the leader over them, the Spirit of God 510 00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:39,480 came upon the messengers of Saul and they also prophesied. 511 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,320 All of Saul's servants begin to speak the word of the Lord, but 512 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,760 they're looking for David to kill him. 513 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,440 God works all things together for good for those who love him, 514 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,400 those who are called according to his purpose. 515 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,760 And when Saul was told, he sent other messengers and they 516 00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,400 prophesied likewise 2 groups of people. 517 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,200 Then Saul sent messengers again the third time and they 518 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,720 prophesied also three times they're prophesying. 519 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,360 And then he also went to Rama. He's all forget it, I'm going. 520 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,720 And he came to the great well that is at Seku. 521 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:18,000 And so he asked and said where, where are Samuel and David? 522 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,680 And someone said indeed they are at Naoth and Rama. 523 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,040 And so he went there and Naoth and Rama. 524 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:28,800 Then the Spirit of God also came upon him, and he went on, and he 525 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,440 prophesied until he came to Naoth and Rama, and he also 526 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,680 stripped off his clothes, and he prophesied before Samuel in like 527 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,400 manner, and lay down naked all the day and all the night, that 528 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:47,080 that might be a little PG13. What a story. 529 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:55,920 Here is King Saul dressed in a kingly robe, representing power, 530 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,800 authority, calling and anointing. 531 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,920 And he is so jealous that even when the Spirit of God falls on 532 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,800 him, he is still seeking David's life. 533 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,200 And then this is what happens to King Saul. 534 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,600 He lay down naked all that day and all that night. 535 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,600 Therefore, they say is saw also among the prophets. 536 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,720 He took off what he should have been wearing. 537 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:38,720 Now if we were to equate Genesis chapter 3 with First Samuel 538 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:46,080 chapter 19, nakedness through sin led to shame. 539 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:56,200 Notice where jealousy leads to. It leads to you taking off what 540 00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:00,920 you should actually be wearing. What should you be wearing? 541 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:13,840 Joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, 542 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:18,320 self-control. But through jealousy we strip 543 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:23,720 all of that off because we choose the authority of our 544 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:28,280 flesh rather than the power of God's Spirit. 545 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:35,040 You see what happens? Saul is now laying on a ground 546 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:40,800 rather than sitting in a throne. That's what jealousy does. 547 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:49,480 Jealousy ruins us, jades us. It brings us to a place in our 548 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:54,240 lives that we desire not to be. I didn't realize when Sting 549 00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:58,400 wrote Every Breath You Take that he wrote that in 1982, right 550 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:03,200 after his divorce. I know it wasn't popular for us 551 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,240 who grew up in the 80s until 1983 when it came out through 552 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:11,800 the band, but it has a very we we sing it like Every Breath You 553 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:15,080 Take. Every like, like it's a love 554 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:20,400 song like I'll be watching like, but he's like every breath you 555 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:31,360 need to every move you make, every bond you break, I'll be 556 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:39,640 watching you like we sing it like, oh, can't you see you 557 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,640 belong to me? What? 558 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:51,640 That's not how he wrote it. That's not how God wrote your 559 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,440 story either. It's not how God wrote your 560 00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:00,200 story. And some of us die in this place 561 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:07,160 and we lose the power and the presence and the authority of 562 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:15,480 what God had given to us simply because we just can't let them 563 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:23,360 live. What Saul ultimately wanted was 564 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,720 control. What God ultimately took away 565 00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:32,440 from him was control. There is only one sovereign 566 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:36,720 Lord, and it is not me, and it is not you. 567 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:46,320 You can't make me happy, and I can be sure that I can't make 568 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:52,600 you happy. Your joy is your job. 569 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:58,680 And so today I would like to ask that we would deal with the most 570 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,120 invisible and miserable sin of jealousy. 571 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:09,080 Let Jesus root it out. Let it let, let the bitterness 572 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:14,360 be pulled out of our hearts. Let the let, let, let the this, 573 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:21,840 the seed of resentment just be yanked out and let God begin his 574 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:26,320 work. I think sometimes in our lives 575 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:33,480 we are following a person or people so much on social media 576 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,760 that we don't even see what God's doing in our own lives. 577 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,480 And I just want to encourage myself, encourage you as you've 578 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:48,920 come, is that this is a place for you to deal with this now. 579 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:53,240 Confess it, repent it of it, turn to Jesus in it and see what 580 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:55,360 God wants to do in and through your life. 581 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:56,520 Can we? 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