1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:05,040 With one accord in one place, Scripture says suddenly there 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:08,200 came a sound from heaven. There was a rushing mighty wind, 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,640 and filled all the house where they were sitting, and there 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,840 appearing to them cloven tongues like as fire, and it sat up on 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,400 each of them. The Bible says they were all 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,520 filled with the Holy Ghost. Began to speak with other 7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,960 tongues as the Spirit gave them the utterance, thankful for the 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,040 power of the Holy Ghost. The awesome thing about the Holy 9 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,040 Ghost as a festival is that it's predicated upon the feast of 10 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,440 Passover. It has its placement because of 11 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:40,440 Passover, which speaks of that lamb that was slain that night 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,000 for the different households in order to get their deliverance 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,280 out of Egypt. God for a lamb that was slain, 14 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:54,760 that I could have a Pentecost. Amen, Amen. 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,000 You can stand with me today. We're going to be turning to the 16 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,160 Book of Second Samuel chapter #4 I said in the back, Sworn trust. 17 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,519 Maybe some people's got a little rest from revival. 18 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:09,320 If not, that's OK. I was, I was like double time 19 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:13,040 and revival. There was Arkansas International 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,600 Camp meeting going on the Little Rock while we were having our 21 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,880 revival and so I was listening through 2 messages as I was 22 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,960 going to sleep at night. So I got 7 sermons from the camp 23 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:25,960 meeting and the the the five from our service. 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,920 So I'm ready, praise God, I'm ready. 25 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,240 I was looking through old binder of our evangelism years the 26 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,440 other day because I was being cleaning some stuff out of my 27 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:39,600 office and there was one of my calendar still tucked in 28 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,600 Franklin Planner back in that day that I had. 29 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,640 And it was actually the year that Mariah was born. 30 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:49,120 And I seen where we had had a two week revival, no rest 31 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,240 nights, 16 services, back-to-back preaching. 32 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,880 And I thought those were the days. 33 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,000 Amen. So if you think you were tired 34 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:05,840 from 5, think about 16. Second Samuel chapter #4 verse 35 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,720 #4 And we had other ones that were longer than that too. 36 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:15,680 But you know, I wonder sometimes now, I don't know how the people 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,360 did it. I don't know how the people that 38 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,000 came out of fields that did fields and didn't have didn't 39 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 have machinery to do it per SE, but teams of horses and stuff 40 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,760 did that and worked all day and then they went revival. 41 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,560 But they did and you all did too this past week. 42 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:37,840 Amen. Second Samuel chapter 4, verse 43 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,320 4. I'll also be reading from Second 44 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:44,120 Samuel chapter #9 and I'll try to be conscious of the time the 45 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,320 Bible says. Because let me tell you 46 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,520 something. Just as a side note, you know, 47 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,240 I've, I've here and there preached a little shorter and 48 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:53,240 I've almost got complaints as a result of it. 49 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,840 Only only maybe from one person, but I'm maybe they have multiple 50 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,480 personalities on say, complaints nonetheless. 51 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:08,120 Second, Samuel 4 and four. And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a 52 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:13,760 son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the 53 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,520 tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel. 54 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,000 Those tidings are that Saul and Jonathan were dead and his nurse 55 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,640 took him up and fled. And it came to pass as she made 56 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:28,800 hastefully that he fell and became lame. 57 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:34,040 And his name was Mephibosheth, Second Samuel chapter #9 and 58 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,040 verse #1. The Bible says these words, and 59 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,200 you could read the whole chapter because it pertains to 60 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,840 Mephibosheth. But I just want verse #1 And 61 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,840 David said, is there yet any that is left of the House of 62 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:54,400 Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake for 63 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:55,760 a little while. This morning I'm going to 64 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:01,040 minister this surrendered Thrones and seated Grace. 65 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:06,160 Surrendered Thrones and seated grace. 66 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,920 Let's pray together. Father, we love you today in 67 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,760 this place. We're so grateful, Lord, for an 68 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,120 opportunity, God, to come and gather our lives around your 69 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,399 word. I pray Jesus we need your Father 70 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:21,120 in this house, but thankful Lord for the precious Lord gift of 71 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,240 the Holy Ghost God. Lord that we have failed in this 72 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,000 place even today through songs, the Lord, musicians, singers, 73 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,480 the Lord your spirit up mostly I pray God you would touch us a 74 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,840 new in the fresh God today by your spirit you have to help us 75 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:37,640 in the next little while and will not fail to give you glory 76 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,760 and honor Lord Jesus for it in Jesus name, Amen, Amen. 77 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,200 The church say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning 78 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:51,080 in Jesus name first verse that I read to you this morning. 79 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:57,000 The second Samuel chapter #4 is, is really a kind of a side to 80 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,480 all of the content and the context of chapter #4 chapter #4 81 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,040 really holds a, and it's an assassination narrative. 82 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,240 And, and so tucked in this, there's this just one verse. 83 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,720 And even in some translations, it's set off in parentheses 84 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:17,120 because it doesn't seem to, to really apply to what's going on 85 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,880 in the moment. Although if we had enough time, 86 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,160 I could talk to you how it does. But nonetheless, it's kind of 87 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,600 set there as an aside, and it's referencing something that took 88 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,800 place a few years earlier than what's taking place in chapter 89 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,280 #4 it seems to be almost like optional information. 90 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:39,800 It's not directly connected to the rest of the narrative, yet 91 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,400 it is there. And it's telling us information 92 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:47,440 about a man who is a son of Jonathan called Mephibosheth, 93 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:50,960 and really about an injury that took place to him in a moment 94 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,080 and some things that were taking place concerning his grandfather 95 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,600 and father having died. And the reason why that is 96 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,600 important is there's an assassination that's taking 97 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,120 place in this chapter that's removing yet another king. 98 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,280 And it's to bring our minds around this concept and idea 99 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:12,480 that what happens whenever kings are overthrown or kings die. 100 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:16,600 And we must understand that in this culture, when a king died 101 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,600 or when a king was throne, it was the standard political 102 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,280 practice to eliminate the former King's descendants. 103 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,480 The king died, and whoever was next to take the throne is going 104 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,920 to wipe out every descendant of the former king. 105 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:38,000 He's going to remove any threat to the throne that he is now 106 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,120 going to inherit it. It really wasn't personal, but 107 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,840 it was very strategic. They didn't want any rivals to 108 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,880 rear their head that any remaining heir could become a 109 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,000 rival claimant to the throne of the previous king. 110 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,000 So they didn't want anybody to incite any type of rebellion, 111 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,600 and so they would just snuff them out. 112 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,760 We have a scriptural precedent that this is the case. 113 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,000 As a matter of fact, if I allow me to put a few examples here 114 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,600 this morning, the Bible states in the book of Judges that after 115 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,160 Gideon dies that his son Abimelech, he wants to rule and 116 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,840 has a desire to do so. And as a result of that, he 117 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:23,200 kills all 70 brothers that he has in order to eliminate any 118 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,920 rival claims of leadership to the throne room. 119 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,160 There's another individual by the name of Beisha who kills 120 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,400 Jeroboam's whole house whenever he becomes king. 121 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:40,640 The Bible says as in first Kings 15 and verse 29 to all 70 122 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:53,360 Browning he to to make sure that a be again King Red went to the 123 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,000 throne. He would kill all of the 124 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,960 children, all of the relatives, if you will, male possible heir. 125 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,760 Historical record outside of the Bible along the frame of Saul 126 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,160 and David and Solomon that speaks the very same thing 127 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:13,200 speaks of Assyrian kings and Babylonian kings and Hittite 128 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:17,480 kings that would routinely kill the rivals routinely kill the 129 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:22,480 sons of former kings, even infants were were were there 130 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,320 royal inscriptions that are written in history sometimes 131 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,720 even boast how they would eliminate rival lines. 132 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:35,080 And so before the deaths though of Saul and Jonathan that is 133 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,400 being alluded to in verse number four of our text. 134 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:43,799 The Bible says that Saul made an unlawful sacrifice instead of 135 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:48,240 waiting for Samuel to come to do his role of judge and priest. 136 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,040 Saul got a little antsy and he went on and offered a sacrifice 137 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,960 which wasn't his and the Bible says that God's verdict on 138 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,680 Saul's mishap of doing this was this. 139 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,840 He basically told Saul that your Kingdom shall not reign that 140 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:09,440 income. God was basically telling Saul 141 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:16,560 dynasty is now going to be cut off as a result of Saul's 142 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:21,200 choices or lack of choices. He he ruined all of the Kingdom 143 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:26,040 opportunities for his entire family in in and the type of 144 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,160 most Saul really stands for the modern Adam, if you will. 145 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,560 You remember New Testament Scripture speaks of Adam that by 146 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:38,200 one man sin entered into the world and death by sin. 147 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:43,560 And now we have the fallibility of Saul and his mistake and as a 148 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:48,200 result of it, it impacts his whole household and influences 149 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,400 them and they are are rejected. And yet while Saul is still 150 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:57,640 reigning and other hand, David was chosen for the role to be 151 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,280 king. Amen. 152 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,160 There comes Samuel with the horn of oil above David's head, and 153 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,360 he's pouring it out and a fresh anointing is coming upon him. 154 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,760 No sooner had Saul throwing them, the Bible tells us that 155 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:17,160 God is releasing Saul and he's picking David as king. 156 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:22,240 And so with all of this in mind, whenever Mephibosheth's nurse 157 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:28,120 flees because news came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan 158 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:32,800 has been taking has been murdered in battle, she wasn't 159 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:37,160 being a a paranoid nurse. She she wasn't acting out of 160 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,440 terms. She wasn't overly concerned or 161 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:45,920 or just a nervous expecting Mephibosheth to die because 162 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,880 things with a tingly anointing upon him. 163 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,680 There is no doubt in my mind they're going to be finding 164 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:57,440 Mephibosheth to kill him. And so the Bible says that she 165 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,760 makes haste and she is quick. And in her quickness to leave, 166 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:09,120 the Bible tells us very well, Amen, that he pulled and he is 167 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:13,760 wounded too. But there was going to be some 168 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:18,720 perhaps retribution from David because now the king and the 169 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:23,040 King's son Jonathan were dead. They're going to be going after 170 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,200 the grandson. And they think that it's going 171 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,360 to be David that's going to come with the sword to slaughter. 172 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,320 Amen. This Mephibosheth, think for it 173 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,760 for a moment. If David was already anointed 174 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:41,120 king, and he's already had those words spoke over him, and that 175 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:46,280 anointing oil to touch his brow, the normal next step would to be 176 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,720 killed the remaining heirs of the previous dynasty. 177 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:55,840 It was just, it was the logic of political survival for that day. 178 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:00,280 If I can say it like this, Mephibosheth should have been 179 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,480 membership should have been acquired, and he should have 180 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,800 been executed. The sword should have been taken 181 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:15,680 to his heart because by custom, by culture, he is a threat. 182 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,760 He is the grandson of Saul. He's the son of Jonathan. 183 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,160 He's the legal heir to a fallen throne. 184 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:29,800 And so when we get to Chapter 9, what we should hear David saying 185 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:35,680 is this, is there any that is left of the House of Saul that I 186 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:39,240 need to eliminate? Is there any left of the House 187 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,640 of Saul that I need to kill? Is there any left of the House 188 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,720 of Saul that could be a rival to my throne, that could be a 189 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,760 claimer and siding rebellion to my throne? 190 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,200 That would have been the he did not which David acts is 191 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,000 revolutionary. He did not which David acts is 192 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,760 revolutionary. Mary. 193 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,120 It's quite different even as we see the scriptural precedent 194 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:07,240 must understand that in David's past, early on in hitter, 195 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:10,120 Jonathan. Now remember, he's the son of 196 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:15,640 Saul. He's the son of this covenant 197 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,720 between Jonathan and David. You can read of it in Psalms 18. 198 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,920 You can read parts of it and, and, and, and brother Saul, 199 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:27,320 Samuel 18 and Samuel 18 and Samuel chapter #20 But whenever 200 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,320 you read these things, Samuel chapter #20 But whenever you 201 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,840 read these things, most of the verse, most of the verses that 202 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:40,080 highlight David and Jonathan in their covenant, it either has 203 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:46,680 Jonathan. We don't see, it's not recorded 204 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:48,800 for us that David. So isn't it? 205 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,800 It's the Jonathan side of the covenant that we have view of. 206 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,480 For that matter, we read that Jonathan in the moment of this 207 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,120 covenant that he stripped himself. 208 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,680 He stripped himself of his robe and his garments and his sword 209 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,240 and his bow all the way down, the Bible says, to what they 210 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,440 called as a girdle. And he gave it to David. 211 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,920 Now don't get me wrong, this was a music mutual covenant because 212 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,320 we learned from scripture. The Bible says that Jonathan and 213 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,560 David made a covenant. It says that Jonathan even 214 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:28,200 caused David to swear again. So David does have some action 215 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,000 in this. It was a covenant of mutual 216 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:37,120 loyalty and mutual protection. But we never heard David say 217 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:42,200 anything or have a record of his feelings and actions regarding 218 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,440 the covenant when it was he made until now. 219 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,680 He's at this point in time in Second Samuel 9. 220 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,320 He's not just a king over Hebron, which he was for 7 1/2 221 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:59,160 years before he was king over Israel, but he is the king now 222 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:03,760 over all of Israel. He has assumed the throne. 223 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:09,480 He's setting and acting as king. And his question then, is there 224 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:14,040 any left of the House of Saul that I can show kindness to to 225 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,760 for Jonathan's sake? Whenever I read that, I'm not 226 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,920 expecting that an Old Testament person would not expect that. 227 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,240 A New Testament person under the law would not expect that. 228 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,440 It doesn't fall into the normal boundaries of their culture. 229 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,080 Amen. Even if Mephibosheth wasn't 230 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:42,600 crippled, he should have died. He shows grandson and when we 231 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,640 understand that, you got to understand even how Saul treated 232 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,120 David. Is everybody doing OK? 233 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,360 Saul hunts David like a predator hunts its prey. 234 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,280 Every attempt is very, very fruitless. 235 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,520 It's almost as though that Saul cannot erase David from from his 236 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,480 life, or at least not from his memory. 237 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,560 We read in Scripture that David dodges javelins at least twice 238 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,560 and evades them from Saul's presence once. 239 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,960 The Bible says he escapes through the window just moments 240 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,320 before Saul made an assassination attempt on his 241 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,320 life at Keela. The Bible says that David leaves 242 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:24,000 just before Saul arrives. In First Samuel 23 and verse 14 243 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,960 he says Saul sought him, meaning David every day, but God 244 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:34,000 delivered him not into his hand. David was in covenant with 245 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:39,640 Jonathan to such an extent that when he asked his question, he 246 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,720 doesn't ask who is left of the House of Jonathan. 247 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:47,240 Notice that he says who is left of the House of Saul, not just 248 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,040 who is left of the House of Jonathan. 249 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,840 He says who is left of the House of Saul. 250 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,600 Amen. David is broad his scope to 251 00:16:55,640 --> 00:17:00,120 encompass the whole House of Saul, not just the House of 252 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,600 Jonathan that he had made covenant with. 253 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:07,200 If I'd say like this, David is broadening his scope to include 254 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,880 everybody that would flow from the originator of the fall of 255 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:13,800 the dynasty of the House of Saul. 256 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,119 He goes back to the beginning of the man Amen, that created the 257 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:23,079 fall of the dynasty, and he's saying, is there anybody left? 258 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:27,920 Why in the world, David, would you broaden the scope and 259 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,480 include Saul and his household? What would provoke you to have 260 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,440 such kindness upon him? Amen. 261 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,680 Because the kindness that you are going to show is the 262 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,600 kindness that is for Jonathan's sake. 263 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,840 What? What would compel such a 264 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:49,080 powerful king with 12 tribes under his leadership Amen in his 265 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:54,280 own right to remember a family? Amen, member and a person, an 266 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:58,240 originator, Amen. They all have a fallible trend 267 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,880 and a fallible history. I'll tell you just a few things. 268 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,280 Why? Because whenever Jonathan made 269 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:08,920 his covenant with David, the Bible says that Jonathan loved 270 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,440 him as his own soul. Amen. 271 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,960 Loved him as his own soul. Here's something you got to 272 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:16,600 realize concerning that statement. 273 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:23,720 David has done nothing for Jonathan directly to provoke him 274 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:33,600 to say I love him with my soul. The love that Jonathan had is a 275 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,520 love that arose from just observing David on the 276 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:42,480 battlefield with Goliath and Saul. 277 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,920 And you can read the first verse really of First Samuel 18. 278 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,360 The Bible says that whenever Saul had done speaking and David 279 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:54,080 had done speaking together after that fight, it's then that we 280 00:18:54,080 --> 00:19:00,080 read that Jonathan says that he loved that man with his soul and 281 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,200 wanted to be knitted with that man. 282 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,600 That was enough. Just hearing, overhearing how 283 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:10,280 David talked about victory, just overhearing how David talked 284 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,880 about the battle, observing how he went against something that 285 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,360 defied God was enough for Jonathan to say, you know what? 286 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,680 That's something I want to be connected to. 287 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,880 That's something I want to be knitted to. 288 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,000 That's something Amen, that I, I want to be a part of. 289 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,880 And so he's giving off his robe and he's giving off his 290 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,040 garments, his sword and his bow, his girdle, all these things. 291 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:33,800 He's surrendering. What is he doing? 292 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:39,120 Because by the standard of the world at that moment in time, if 293 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:43,080 Saul died, the next king should have been Jonathan. 294 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,840 If Saul died, the next king that should have taken the throne is 295 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,400 Jonathan. But as Jonathan takes off his 296 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,920 robe and off his sword and off his girdle, he is surrendering 297 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:58,000 all of those things to David. What he's doing is surrendering 298 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,640 his claim to the throne. He says, I don't, I don't want 299 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,600 to be the ruler. I don't want to be in control. 300 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,840 I don't need to be king. I see the anointing on David. 301 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:12,920 I don't need to fight. He has the. 302 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:14,960 Ability to fight. What are you saying, Pastor 303 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,960 McGee? There's something that happened 304 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,880 in the covenant that was more valuable than anything else, and 305 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,560 that was Jonathan's surrender. I don't have to be the king of 306 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,200 my own life. I don't have to be in power or 307 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,400 be into control. I just is going to give that on 308 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,120 to a nut. I'm going to get there later. 309 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,480 But sometimes you got to read between the preaching, why I'm 310 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,240 preaching. Hey, man, he says. 311 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,560 I'm going to relinquish control to all of that. 312 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:46,640 I'm I'm unsatisfied with being in control and becoming a king. 313 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,800 No, no, no. I'm going to give that 314 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,960 obligation and that responsibility in my life to 315 00:20:52,960 --> 00:21:03,280 somebody else. It's on that basis that David 316 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:10,160 then stands and says, I'm going to show kindness to anybody of 317 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:16,920 the House of Saul, that failed House of Saul, that upended 318 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,760 dynasty of Saul. I'm I'm going to give kindness 319 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:25,960 to whoever because Jonathan's sake. 320 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,000 Can I tell you that it's more than for a individual's sake, 321 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,640 but more so for the action of Jonathan. 322 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:41,880 I'll show kindness, and kindness can reach whosoever will of the 323 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:46,720 fallen dynasty because of the principle of surrender. 324 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,520 Someone say Amen, I'm probably jumping ahead today and that's 325 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,680 OK. What we need to come to realize 326 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:03,200 this morning is that you and I are a part of a fallen dynasty. 327 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,840 We are part of a fallen people. We are after the nature, Amen, 328 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,480 of Adam. We are doomed for death. 329 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:15,360 We were born into sin. David said he was even in his 330 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:18,560 mother's womb. We have that Adamic nature upon 331 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,760 us. And if Romans is right, and it 332 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,200 is, it says the wages of sin is death. 333 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,960 There is according to culture, there is according to Old 334 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:33,560 Testament biblical record, that what we should deserve is death, 335 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,880 what we should deserve is the guillotine against our neck. 336 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:43,320 But there is one, a man who is king of kings and Lord of Lords, 337 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,960 with an anointing upon his head that says, I tell you what, I 338 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:52,240 know you should die. I know you shouldn't be afforded 339 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,480 the opportunity or the ability, ability to go on, but I'm not 340 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:01,440 here to see who I can eliminate. I come to give life and life 341 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:06,000 more abundantly because there's a covenant that I'm bound to. 342 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:17,440 Yes, look what happens on several different occasions and 343 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:26,800 we see this before that part of David's entourage before, before 344 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,520 he is assumed the position after David and Jonathan has died, 345 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,800 part of his entourage on 2 separate occasions. 346 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:42,480 They're in a position where they could kill Saul if they wanted 347 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:48,120 to. As a matter of fact, David is 348 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:51,480 encouraged by some that are with him. 349 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:59,600 Let's just snuff him out paving this men are hiding in The Cave 350 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,720 of in Jedi. The Bible says that Saul comes 351 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,040 into that cave. The real mean is he really went 352 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:13,600 in there to relieve himself. They're saying let's take him 353 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,920 out David. But the Bible says that David 354 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:25,280 just went along there, cut off the corner, Saul's robe, not 355 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:30,720 killing him, but at least doing something in such a way that he 356 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:37,960 would know that he was there. Because see, prior even to those 357 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:45,280 moments, David already have a covenant that was made with 358 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:49,360 Jonathan based upon the premise of surrender. 359 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:56,360 I'm not lifting a hand to this man that hates me. 360 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:02,200 I'm not lifting a hand to this man that's desiring to kill me. 361 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,800 I'm not lifting a hand to this man that probably wouldn't spit 362 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,840 on my guts if they were on fire. No, no, no. 363 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:12,640 But I'm just going to leave something right here to let him 364 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:18,040 know that I could have if I wanted to and that I was near 365 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:24,840 enough that I could touch him. The Bible says in another 366 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,840 episode that David and his men happened upon Saul and his army 367 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,400 and they're all laying on the ground. 368 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,400 They're asleep. They come upon them and they are 369 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,680 asleep. And again, there are some that 370 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,760 suggest that are part of the David's entourage. 371 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,920 Why don't we go in there and just pin Saul to the ground? 372 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:44,840 Why don't we kill him? He's been, he's been just so 373 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,360 hateful to you, not good to you. He's treated you wrongly. 374 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,200 And yet again, the Bible says that David just went over there 375 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,600 and they took Saul's spear and they took the jug of water that 376 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,760 was by his head. And then they hollered out and 377 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,440 said, oh, Saul, what? What's going on? 378 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,240 What were they doing? They had the ability to kill 379 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,760 him, but they didn't. But David just did something to 380 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:09,240 let him know I was there, I was near, I was close. 381 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,760 Can I tell you today, you might not want anything to do with 382 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,800 God. You might not want anything. 383 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,440 I know people like that. They hated him. 384 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,800 They spoke against him. They kicked up dust in his face. 385 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:24,240 But the awesome thing about God is he stays true to his 386 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:25,560 covenant. Hey, man. 387 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,400 And he doesn't snub you out. He doesn't mark you off, He 388 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,440 doesn't mark your name out, but he just leaves something Amen 389 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,800 back behind him, letting you know that if he wanted to, he 390 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,160 could have. But he wants them to know. 391 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:44,200 Although I could have, I want you to know I was close to you. 392 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,280 I was near to you, and if you'd changed your mind or a 393 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,800 direction, I was in arm's distance of you. 394 00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:02,680 Yes, I'm telling you today, there's people in this world, 395 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,640 they're walking around with corners of their garments that's 396 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,560 cut off. And all that is, is the 397 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,760 indication is that he's been close. 398 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,760 There's people walking around spearless and without a water 399 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,920 jug. And all of those are indices 400 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,400 that if he wanted to marquee out, he could have. 401 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:23,120 But mercy was extended to you, grace was extended to you, and 402 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:25,960 it don't have to be the way it's been. 403 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:42,560 So if his kindness could be shown to a man conspired to kill 404 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:51,720 him, as Saul was David, it could reach a cripple left somewhere 405 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,800 in the vicinity of Lodibar, which means no word, no 406 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,440 communication, no pasture, nothing. 407 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,840 Pibosheth at this point in time in his life. 408 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,280 At first Samuel 9. Her Chapter 9 is totally 409 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,960 disconnected from everything in the middle of nothing. 410 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:19,480 Bill. But instead of dying the 411 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:24,120 principle of surrendering a covenant, let him experience the 412 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:28,000 invitation of a king to his table. 413 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,760 I said you got to listen between the preaching because Jesus said 414 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,360 in the New Testament, he said search the scriptures. 415 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,000 When he said that in John 5, the only scriptures that they had at 416 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,840 that moment was the Old Testament scriptures. 417 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,880 He said, search the scriptures for which testify to the last 418 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,720 book of the Old Testament. You can find Jesus. 419 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,520 I've been talking to you this morning about is testifying 420 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:02,760 about Jesus because the reign of Christ, the reign of Christ, him 421 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:07,320 being born in Bethlehem's Manger should have spelled murder for 422 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:13,880 every other supposed king. That's even the reason why Herod 423 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,760 is still living under the mindset of that old practice in 424 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:23,280 Kingdom, right? There's people there, Herod at 425 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,760 that time serving almost as a vassal king for the nation of 426 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,160 Israel and the Jews. This is what caused his heart to 427 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,240 fall and he went to self preservation mode. 428 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,240 What was it? He wasn't willing to surrender. 429 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,080 When you're not willing to surrender to your king, you'll 430 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,360 try to self preserve your control. 431 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,720 Living in the old system, Herod considered it a threat. 432 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,200 When the three wise men showed up at his door and asked this 433 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:04,880 question, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? 434 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:10,080 Herod seen that as a threat. He saw that as a rival dynasty 435 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,200 coming to take his place. A child, claim it if you will, 436 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:19,280 to the throne. It challenged his legitimacy of 437 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,000 being king. Can I pause and say our 438 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,560 legitimacy of being in control of our lives needs challenged? 439 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,320 Yes. I'll do it my way, how I want to 440 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,560 do it, when I want to do it, or that it needs to be challenged, 441 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,160 man. And so Herod felt challenged. 442 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,720 That's why you'll read in the unfolding of the story that he 443 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:51,720 sends men into the city of Bethlehem and he orders all the 444 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,480 boys that are two years old and younger to be killed. 445 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,560 What's he trying to do? He's trying to snuff out the 446 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,520 competition to the throne. He's trying, if you will, to 447 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,960 take care of it and anybody else. 448 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:10,200 He didn't want that anointed child Jesus to become the one 449 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,720 that is king of the throne of the people, of the Jews. 450 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:19,440 And we see in Jesus's life similar things happening to him 451 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:25,280 that happened to David. Read the Gospels. 452 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,320 What's going on? Jesus is teaching, He's 453 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:29,960 preaching, he's speaking to the people. 454 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,480 And the Bible says in one place that they want to cast Jesus off 455 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,880 the brow of the hill. It says that he seemingly just 456 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,960 walks out through the midst of them and escapes. 457 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:47,680 John 730 says that they tried to seize him, but not one laid hand 458 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,400 on him. In another instance it says they 459 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,520 wanted to stone him, but Jesus hid for a little while in the 460 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,520 temple and then passed through the midst of them undetected. 461 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,200 The Bible says they sought again to take him, but he escaped out 462 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,760 of their hand. The Bible says they even plotted 463 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,560 how they might kill Jesus, but He would always withdraw into 464 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,760 the shadows. They wanted to kill him. 465 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,960 And all of us, like Saul, are living with a defunct heritage. 466 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:31,320 Sin, someone say it with me. Sin and Adam set the demise for 467 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,560 us all because the rest of that verse in Romans 5 says that that 468 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:43,040 death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. 469 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,040 Who you saying then this morning, pastor, I'm saying 470 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:52,080 this. We can be like Saul and feel 471 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:57,640 like our authority is being challenged and we can despise 472 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,880 God because the Bible says one of the reasons why Saul despised 473 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,520 David is because he behaved himself wisely. 474 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,000 We can assume that position. We can despise God because of 475 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,600 how wisely he behaves himself and despise him because he's 476 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,960 anointed for what we're trying to be. 477 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,520 Hey man. And even though he could kill 478 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:33,040 us, he don't. But he leaves indications in our 479 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:39,040 life that he's been close. When you are lying on him and 480 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,160 threatening God and casting dust up on him and he still allows 481 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,280 your diagnosis not to be true, He's just left you a little 482 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:51,880 indication that he's close. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 483 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:56,320 When you forgot him and you gave up on him and the bill came in 484 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,480 the mail and so happens you didn't have money in the bank, 485 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,800 but it showed up at the same time the bill came when you 486 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,600 needed it. He's leaving you a little 487 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:09,880 indication that he's close. Even in the middle of your 488 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,840 hatred and your refusal, trying to organize and dictate your own 489 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:25,159 life, he. Jesus left the empty tomb, He 490 00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:27,600 left the napkin that was folded together by itself. 491 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,840 He left burning hearts in the lives of those two boys in 492 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,280 Emmaus. He left visible scars of himself 493 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,560 that was for people's healing. What is all that proofs of his 494 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:42,360 presence that he had walked among and been near to humanity? 495 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:48,280 Are you going to be like Jonathan this morning? 496 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:55,719 You can surrender every supposed connection that you perceivably 497 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:02,040 have with a throne. That's where it's at, Brother 498 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,680 Fred. That's where I found it's at. 499 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:09,680 That's where Pentecost. That's where Pentecost surfaces. 500 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:19,600 At the point of surrender. At the point of surrender, he 501 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:31,920 died for everyone, but not everyone will be recipients of 502 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:36,800 the gift of his death because they won't surrender. 503 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:46,960 He was buried, He was buried, but not everyone will receive 504 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,360 the benefit of the burial because they won't surrender. 505 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:59,120 He was raised in newness of life, but not everyone will be 506 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,800 recipients of a new creature mentality. 507 00:36:08,940 --> 00:36:12,740 God is such a gentleman. He will not force himself on us. 508 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:18,780 If that was the case, every individual from the time of Adam 509 00:36:18,780 --> 00:36:22,580 until now, he would just take up housing inside every individual. 510 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,760 They would be filled with the Spirit. 511 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,240 It would be a said overdone thing. 512 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:28,840 We're all going to heaven. Hallelujah. 513 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,840 That's not what happens. Scripture says his kindness 514 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:43,480 leads me to repentance and in my surrender I'm saying God. 515 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:50,600 I don't want control over Paul Mcgee's life because I've had it 516 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,520 for a while and I can show you where my control gets me. 517 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,880 I surrender. It's when I step into a watery 518 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:04,200 grave of baptism and as practical as it might be, I give 519 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:08,440 my body over to whoever is baptizing me and more 520 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,040 importantly, the waters that's going to overflow me with the 521 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,440 invoking of the name of Jesus. Let's hold here for a moment. 522 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,960 The invoking of the name of Jesus is not the name just by 523 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,000 itself. When you evoke a name in the 524 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,840 Bible anytime, it's not just the name, it's the nature and the 525 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,280 character of the name that it goes alongs with it. 526 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,560 When we baptize in Jesus name, it's just not some name that 527 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,400 you're going down in, you're going down in the character in 528 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,240 the nature of that name and when you surrender to that. 529 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:55,840 That when you speak in new tongues, that member that James 530 00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:04,440 says no man contain, it's unruly evil, it's set on fire by hell. 531 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,960 Yet when you begin to speak in a heavenly language that the 532 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:16,240 education system hasn't taught you, and you are surrendering, 533 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:22,600 unruly member of your body and new creature, life comes inside 534 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:28,880 of you all just on a principle of surrender, not merit, not 535 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,880 goodness, not wholeness. Mephibosheth was crippled, but 536 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,000 he found the place at the master's table. 537 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,440 Because when he approached David, he says I'm your servant. 538 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:48,000 What is that surrender? We've got to finish up right? 539 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,640 We've already had a bunch going on today. 540 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:59,680 Look at this. Jonathan doesn't feel threatened 541 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:06,920 by David. He doesn't feel negatively 542 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:14,360 challenged by David. Mostly he's feeling kind of 543 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:21,560 blessed that he has this opportunity because Jonathan 544 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,160 valued his love for David, David and his connection with David 545 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:33,960 more than having any control. I'm, I'm trying to get there. 546 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:43,240 So David's kindness is really predicated on a principle and 547 00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:48,480 act surrender. And when I found him, this 548 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,880 hurtfully ministry of mine, and that is this surrender helps 549 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:59,560 kindness find every crippled mephibosheth that might be 550 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:04,480 isolated in some barren desolate nothing Ville place. 551 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:11,760 See, the nurse flees, originally because she thinks Miss 552 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:17,080 Fibosheth would be murdered. And as a result of the fleeing, 553 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:22,400 he is then crippled. This is what's powerful to me. 554 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:28,800 He's crippled, which in many regards virtually dismisses him 555 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,520 from the possibility of being king because the Bible says as 556 00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,720 kings would go to war, they even today, like our president is the 557 00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:40,520 chief commander. You know, then they weren't just 558 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,000 giving dictates. They were entering into the war 559 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,960 with their fellows like we had George Washington of years ago 560 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,200 being wanted a personality that was strong, that was capable. 561 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,960 You can't have a cripple leading the war. 562 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,560 So his own condition is almost dismissing himself. 563 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,320 Him doing that. He no one sees him as a 564 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,920 contender in that crippled state. 565 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,640 His enemies don't see him as a contender. 566 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:13,400 David don't even see him as a Mephibosheth himself doesn't see 567 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,400 it. Whenever David comes and and 568 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,000 they're in, he's in the presence of David. 569 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:27,600 Mephibosheth refers to himself as a dead dog, but David's a 570 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,200 laying fears right now in the moment as he speaks to 571 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,400 Mephibosheth. This yet I want to lay all of 572 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:38,640 your fears of the custom of our time, of the culture of our 573 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,800 time, of the political ideals of our time. 574 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,280 Notice what he says. This is section Samuel 97. 575 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:52,680 I believe he says fear not, for I will surely shoot the kindness 576 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:59,880 for Jonathan's surrender sake. He says thou shalt eat bread at 577 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:03,640 my table continually. Do you stay with me today? 578 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:10,880 I won't go much longer. God didn't put Mephibosheth on 579 00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,600 the throne. He put him at the table. 580 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,920 Why? Because the world doesn't need 581 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,840 listen to me. The world doesn't need another 582 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,360 king. It needs more testimonies of 583 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:40,600 surrender, kindness, grace. Every individual that surrender 584 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,200 control in their own life and finds their feet at the table is 585 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:51,560 just a testimony of His kindness, of His mercy, and of 586 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:56,280 His grace. And God's kindness is so 587 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,600 expansive. You know what it does? 588 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:03,720 It searches for the broken. It searches for the forgotten. 589 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:09,080 It searches for the quote UN quote culturally disqualified. 590 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,240 Note, Mephibosheth didn't invite himself to the table. 591 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,080 He didn't send for David to come. 592 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,520 David went looking for him. David sent for him. 593 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,640 Kindness came looking for Mephibosheth because there was a 594 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:38,640 covenant that had been made. And Mephibosheth responded in 595 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:44,160 surrender, just as his father Jonathan had responded in 596 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:50,240 surrender. God's kindness is going out this 597 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:54,000 morning to everybody sitting under the sound of my voice 598 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,760 today. It's going out to every single 599 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:05,600 person, but His kindness can only sit you and seat you at the 600 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:12,960 table when you stop running, when you stop hiding, and when 601 00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:17,240 you yield yourselves to total surrender for the placement that 602 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:23,440 He has for you. I'm asking as we bow our heads 603 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,240 across this place. I'm asking someone today to be 604 00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:30,600 vulnerable and take off the robes and the swords and the 605 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,480 Spears and all of those things that pertain to your own 606 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:36,880 authority. Take all of that off and lay the 607 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:42,400 side. Or maybe there's somebody else 608 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:43,840 that's just a crippled Mephibosheth. 609 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,560 Maybe today you got to stop seeing yourself as worthless. 610 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,480 Because the fact of the matter is this the table is not for 611 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,920 kings. It's for the surrendered. 612 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,640 We come to God today. I don't have to have control 613 00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,600 over my life. God, as as long as I know that 614 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:14,000 you have control, I don't have to Lord, be Lord, the frontline 615 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:19,080 face in every battle, as long as I know I'm not entering a battle 616 00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,600 alone. I've seen you fight, I've 617 00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,560 observed it. I wanted to be connected to 618 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:29,200 something like that. I want to love something like 619 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,320 that. Is there anybody in this place 620 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,400 that would come to the Lord today just as an act of 621 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:39,160 surrender, Say God, My life's not my own, My life's not my 622 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,480 own. It belongs to you. 623 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:47,000 When you do that, The kindness that He sent to you, you'll 624 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,720 experience to the NTH degree because you will have opened 625 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:54,200 your life up to what He's already trying to pour upon you, 626 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,480 so long as you try to live under the authority of your own 627 00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,920 affairs. It's like a bucket of water 628 00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:02,800 being poured upon you with an umbrella over your head. 629 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,000 It's coming, but it's not touching you, not impacting you. 630 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,280 But if you'll remove the umbrella of your authority, your 631 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,960 control, wanting to dictate your life, you'll be touched what's 632 00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,160 being poured out upon you. And it'll be His kindness and 633 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,520 His kindness. This comes mostly because of a 634 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:25,360 surrendering spirit. It touches us, it changes us, it 635 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:30,040 alters us. It seats us at a table that we 636 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:35,280 could not get there by any other means or way. 637 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,400 It's surrendered Thrones and see the grace. 638 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,280 Will somebody surrender right now to the Lord? 639 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:48,680 I surrender, Lord. I surrender Lord. 640 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,880 I surrender Lord. I surrender Lord. 641 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,520 Y'all. Let it be more than lip service 642 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,040 today. Let it be more than just a 643 00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,840 proclamation. Let it be more than just a good 644 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,120 intention, God. Let it be an act of the human 645 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,480 will. I'm laying down Lord. 646 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,440 Everything that says I'm in control, God. 647 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,400 I've made a mess with my life. I've made a mess, God, with me 648 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,960 being in control. God, I need you. 649 00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,520 I recognize you as the anointed king. 650 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,480 I recognize you as the anointing authority. 651 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,920 I want to be tethered to that. I want to be joined to that. 652 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:28,800 I want to love that. I want to surrender to that. 653 00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:33,800 Folks, if you need, if you need the Pentecost in your life, if 654 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,360 you need the gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection, 655 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:42,680 yes, it takes faith, but it also requires surrender.