1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:05,200 The brothers jealousy kicked in. Why? 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:13,680 Because Joseph's dreams disrupted their comfort, just 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:20,920 like David's anointing disturbed his leader Saul, who was 4 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:25,480 presently on the throne. Joseph's favor agitated his 5 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,680 brother's insecurity. Shift back for a moment, if you 6 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,480 will, to David. We read verse #5 and this is 7 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,000 what I want you to concentrate on. 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,640 Jonathan is pleading with his father Saul, when he says, For 9 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:42,240 he, Speaking of David, did put his life in his hand and slew 10 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,840 the Philistine. And the Lord wrought a great 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,080 salvation for all Israel. Thou solicit, and did his 12 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,160 rejoice. Wherefore wilt thou sin against 13 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,040 innocent blood to slay David without a cause? 14 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:01,720 Jonathan is telling Saul, Saul who has a a menacing eye at this 15 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,600 moment toward David, who really has murder in his heart toward 16 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,360 David. He has just got some people 17 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,440 together, Amen. In a conspiracy, so to speak, 18 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:14,640 that says let's kill David, let's take David out. 19 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,720 And Jonathan is calling to memory of Saul this he says 20 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:24,520 Saul, he said David jeopardized his life by slaying Goliath. 21 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,920 Nobody else would go out to him. Nobody else would say anything. 22 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,760 No one else would approach him. He put his life in his own 23 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,160 hands. When he went to the valley of 24 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:41,000 Elah, he jeopardized his life. And God gave David the victory. 25 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,160 David, just David just volunteered himself as an 26 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,200 instrument for God to give the victory. 27 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,720 And notice what Jonathan says to his father. 28 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,320 These, these phrases, I believe, are the most important, he says. 29 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:02,120 Dad, he says you saw it and you rejoiced over it. 30 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,680 In other words, you were just as glad as any other individual in 31 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,600 Israel whenever David took down Goliath. 32 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,360 You were just as happy as any other individual. 33 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,400 You shouted with the crowd whenever he brought down 34 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,800 Goliath. You clapped your hands just as 35 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,680 vigorously as anybody else of Israel whenever he won the 36 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,120 battle against Goliath. From that matter, Dad, after the 37 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,720 battle you brought David into your personal quarters. 38 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:34,560 You had conversation with him. You talk to him, you even give 39 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,520 gave him a position in the Kingdom after this great defeat. 40 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:45,040 You celebrated that victory just as much as anybody else. 41 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,480 But Dad, that celebration didn't last long. 42 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:54,360 Where you once honored David for going to war, now you're seeking 43 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:59,360 out battles that David can go into, hoping he won't return 44 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,520 from war. You're throwing javelins at him 45 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,800 and Spears at him whenever he comes into your presence. 46 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,360 He you're using him as a target. Watch me now for dealing with 47 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:19,040 your emotional fallout of having the Kingdom ripped from you, he 48 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,680 says. David is innocent blood and yet 49 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,680 you seek to kill him. You're seeking to kill innocent 50 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,040 blood. You want to snuff out his 51 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,960 innocence. Dad, what changed? 52 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,800 David didn't change. Warren Rigsby says it like this. 53 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,440 David didn't create problems for Saul. 54 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,480 He revealed the deep seated problems that were already 55 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:49,920 there. Someone say man, everyone loves 56 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,040 David. If you read through Samuel like 57 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,520 chapter 8 and chapters before you read of different ones 58 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:01,840 characters in the Bible where it plainly says they loved David. 59 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,960 Jonathan, Saul's son, he loved David. 60 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,240 Michael, hey man, his wife, David's wife, she loved David. 61 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:14,200 The Bible portrays that all of Israel and all of Judah, all of 62 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,519 them loved and adored David. Watch this even in First Samuel 63 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:21,120 16 and verse 21. Guess what the Scripture says? 64 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:26,680 Even at one point in his life, the Bible says that Saul loved 65 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:31,040 David greatly. So where's the rub, Saul? 66 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:34,800 Where's the rub? When everyone loves this person 67 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:39,640 and it tells us at least three times even that God is with this 68 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:45,200 person, then how do we justify Saul's hatred toward him now? 69 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,960 I mean, if you're the only one with a problem with him, is he 70 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:56,240 the problem? Or have their practice and their 71 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,920 mode of life challenge something in you? 72 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,240 Flip back 1 chapter with me, if you will, the first Samuel 73 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,240 chapter 18 and verse 7. Because this kind of gives us a 74 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,360 little bird's eye view of maybe where some of the rub has 75 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,560 started. And the Bible says, and the 76 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:23,240 women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul have 77 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:27,600 slain his thousands, and David his 10 thousands. 78 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:33,160 And Saul was very Roth, and the same displeased him. 79 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,000 And he said they have ascribed, and to David 10 thousands, and 80 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,480 to me they have ascribed. But thousands. 81 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:46,160 And what can we have? But what can he have but more? 82 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:53,320 But the Kingdom verse 9 and Saul I'd David from that day forward. 83 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,080 There it is. It's the song has changed, 84 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,480 right? One translation says the last 85 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:04,640 verse verse #9 like this. And from that day forward, Saul 86 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:09,240 eyed David with suspicion. There's something that happened 87 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,080 not because David changed. Something was happening inside 88 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,000 of Saul that David's life challenged. 89 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:21,560 Issues, emotions, feelings, pre preconceived ideas inside of 90 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,400 Saul. He went from admiring David to 91 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:28,520 being aggravated by David. He went from applausing whenever 92 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,640 he had victory over Goliath to now be an accusatory toward 93 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,080 David. He was once joyous just like the 94 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,040 rest of the House of Israel, but now that's turned into jealousy. 95 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:45,160 David was doing what God anointed him to do, to go out 96 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,560 and to come in, to seize victory, if you will, for the 97 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,160 House of Israel. But Saul did not see it as a 98 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,880 blessing. He saw it as a threat. 99 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:01,360 And why? Because David was too good to be 100 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,000 safe. In Saul's insecure heart, 101 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:10,000 someone say, man, the women pray saw for his thousands, David, 102 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,360 his 10 thousands. Listen, folks, these, these 103 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,000 weren't necessarily literal numbers. 104 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,640 These, these aren't like poetic lines. 105 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,680 These are lines, the lyrical lines, sultry type of lines that 106 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,120 are being spoken here. But whenever Saul heard that 107 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,680 song being sung, he took it as a threat. 108 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:33,480 It doesn't sit well with him. His competitive spirit rises up 109 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,280 in him. It doesn't set well. 110 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:39,280 But they ascribe 10 thousands to David and only a thousands to 111 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,240 him. He was interpreting and all of 112 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,560 this, here's somebody that's edging in on my turf. 113 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,320 Here's somebody that's trying to get their way, if you will, 114 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,080 trying to get in to where I'm at rather than seeing it for what 115 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,080 it really was. What those words really were, 116 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,320 were the exponential impact that happens when another person 117 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,720 comes alongside you. What are you saying? 118 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,200 You'll remember in Deuteronomy chapter 32 and verse 30, this is 119 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,400 a question form in which it is posed. 120 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:14,040 Bishop is preached on the ages ago How should one chase 1002 121 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,400 put 10,000 to fly? Except their rock had sowed them 122 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,160 and the Lord had shut them up. This is a part of what's known 123 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,200 as the Song of Moses. They're reflecting on the 124 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,760 importance of having God as your rock even during times when 125 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,760 you're disobedient. Thank God you have a God, Moses. 126 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:38,039 They're reflecting on the importance of having God as your 127 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:40,840 rock, even during times when you're disobedient. 128 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,799 Thank God you have a God as you're wrong. 129 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,200 And he's basically saying that whenever God comes alongside 130 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,200 people, he'll give their addition or that additional perp 131 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:58,320 what the scripture says, but in through his insecurity as an 132 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:03,000 affront to who he was someone trying to edge in when what God 133 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,840 was really saying, hey, Saul, there's thousand, but when we 134 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,160 get another man involved, there's 10,000 that can be 135 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,680 conquered. Saul had their own concept. 136 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,440 Saul had the wrong idea. Saul had the wrong perspective. 137 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:21,160 And so he says in his spirit, let's kill the warrior just as 138 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,000 much as Joseph's brother said, let's kill the dreamer. 139 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,360 Someone being too good begins to reveal stuff in US. 140 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:43,040 Yeah, we get real with it. We, we in the church world, we 141 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:44,400 can do it on the level of churches. 142 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,640 We want churches, other churches, you know, we want them 143 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,920 to have revival as long as their revival doesn't eclipse our 144 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,880 revival. We want them to baptize people 145 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,400 and people get the Holy Ghost. But if they do more than we do, 146 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,320 someone say Amen. Maybe you like, maybe you want 147 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:09,880 somebody to do a good job where you work. 148 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,720 But if it starts doing, doing a little bit more if you and they 149 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:21,160 get more praise than you do. Then something starts to happen, 150 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:22,840 right? There's stuff that starts to 151 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:28,440 happen if it's there in US, and we want to start to criticize 152 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,880 because we don't want anybody to get a leg up on us. 153 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,800 We know they're doing good, but we try to find fault to put them 154 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:44,360 on our level. Amen. 155 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,920 Someone say glory, so it reveals something inside of us. 156 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,280 Favor is is magnetic. It's just like people are are 157 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:54,560 drawn to it. It's magnetic. 158 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:58,920 But favor is also polarizing. You'll cause some separation. 159 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,680 There'll be some drawn to you if there's favor on your life and 160 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:06,160 other people will be driven crazy because of you if there's 161 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,160 favor on your life. And it's not always what you do, 162 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:15,800 it's what you're representing. Joseph represented God's 163 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,440 calling. David was representing God's 164 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,000 anointing. Both stood for something. 165 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,440 Listen to me well right here. Here's where the crossroads 166 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,880 come. Both stood for something that 167 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,080 others either lost, lacked, or never pursued. 168 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,280 Let me say that again. What I mean is this the reason 169 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,440 why the brothers had a hard time and the reason why Saul had a 170 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,120 hard time with David. They were dealing with the fact 171 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:42,920 they had lost some of those things. 172 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,960 Some of them lacked some of those things, others never 173 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:47,200 pursued. A dream. 174 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:56,320 Oh yes, someone say Amen. Lord help us. 175 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,480 It's just all these things. And so here's David and Joseph. 176 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,240 They they didn't come, they didn't become dangerous because 177 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,080 they sin. This is amazing to me. 178 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:05,920 They didn't come to dangerous because they sin. 179 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,120 They became dangerous because they succeeded. 180 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:13,200 Others were threatened by their success in God. 181 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:20,200 The coat reminded the brothers that they didn't receive it. 182 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:28,000 The song that Saul heard reminded him that you know what, 183 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,120 there's somebody else alongside me now, but I feel like he's 184 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:37,160 taking my place. The dream reminded them that 185 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:40,760 some of them didn't have faith to believe for what he could see 186 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,800 and when. Favor exposes fear in our hearts 187 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,840 and more importantly, insecurity. 188 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,320 Insecurity, whenever fear exposes that. 189 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,760 When favor exposes that, what oftimes is born is jealousy. 190 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,200 Jealousy. And when that happens, people 191 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:15,920 don't know how to celebrate you. They want to assassinate you or 192 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,040 you, whoever you're having a problem with. 193 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:21,960 See, this is what's happening because they're thinking, man, 194 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:23,360 if I can't beat him, I'll bury him. 195 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,960 That's what happened to Saul. That's what happened to Joseph's 196 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:32,880 brothers. And if we're not careful, I'm 197 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,560 talking to, I know Apostolic Church going people, we're not 198 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:37,720 careful. What can happen to us that we'll 199 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,960 see someone succeeded, someone going forward, and jealousy will 200 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:42,680 rise in our spirit. And all that is doing is 201 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:45,520 revealing something in us that we need to get to God, to take 202 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,360 care of, that we need to get to God and say, help me with this. 203 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:50,560 Amen. But for those Davids that are 204 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:53,920 setting among me tonight, for those Josephs that are setting 205 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,360 among me tonight in this room, you didn't ask for the favor. 206 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,280 You didn't sign up for the dreams. 207 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,880 You're just walking in what God has given you. 208 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:07,600 And I know sometimes you might feel attacked not because you 209 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,160 failed, but because you tried to do something right. 210 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,960 And everybody says, well, they're compromising in order to 211 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,680 do that. They're cheating in order to, 212 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:19,840 they're cheating in order to do that. 213 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:21,800 Well, they're trying to find something. 214 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,720 Oh, but do you know, because they're trying to find something 215 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,480 that will just blackmail what is happening in your life at that 216 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:29,600 moment. Amen. 217 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,200 But I want to talk to you tonight. 218 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,400 Amen. That if you're walking with God, 219 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,720 that's how you know that this may be something more spiritual 220 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,280 than just something that's natural. 221 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,480 Because I'm telling you tonight, hell doesn't mind it if you're 222 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,160 just average. Hell doesn't mind if you're a 223 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,480 average St. If you're a average prayer 224 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:53,000 person, average Bible reader, an average worshipper, an average 225 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,520 faster, he doesn't mind if you're average. 226 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,840 But people in hell gets nervous when you carry something 227 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,480 exceptional that's come from the hand of God. 228 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:10,840 Hey man, someone say Amen. So what I'm saying to the Davids 229 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:15,200 and the Josephs tonight is this Please, by all means, don't dim 230 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,400 your fire because it makes somebody else uncomfortable. 231 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,760 That's just lingering in the shadows. 232 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,560 Keep on walking, keep on dreaming. 233 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,800 Slay another Goliath if you have to, because there's room enough 234 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:32,200 for every dream and every calling in the Kingdom, even if 235 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:37,440 it surpasses my own dream. And my can you hear me? 236 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,560 I'm not standing here today in the bucket trying to pull 237 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,880 everybody with a dream down if their dreams bigger than my 238 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,480 dream, trying to pull everybody with a calling down if they go 239 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,960 somewhere further than I go. No, no, no, let's prop him up. 240 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,160 Let's get jealousy and pride and animosity out of our heart and 241 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:59,280 let's blow in the cells of those that will dream and those that 242 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,920 will envision. God just might have his hand on 243 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:11,080 their life. Hey, man, there's another reason 244 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:19,800 and another response in David's story that will miss if we're 245 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:26,120 not careful here tonight. And that is Jonathan's response. 246 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:35,280 Thank God for the Jonathan's because Jonathan didn't feel 247 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:41,040 threatened by David. He's striking friendship. 248 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:48,680 He's pulling off his armor, his sword, giving it to David. 249 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,120 He's making covenant. He didn't feel threatened. 250 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,640 He felt connected. He didn't compete with David. 251 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,240 He covenant. He made a covenant with David. 252 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,000 He said David, and this is just Paul McGee terms. 253 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:08,920 David, I I see the hand of God on your life. 254 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,960 I see what God is doing in all of this. 255 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:19,800 And David, I'd rather walk beside you than to compete with 256 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:27,690 you, Brother Reese. If someone started in this 257 00:17:27,690 --> 00:17:33,130 church and they cling better than you did, they cling better 258 00:17:33,130 --> 00:17:35,080 than you did. There's one or two things. 259 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,480 You're either going to say, I want to walk beside you, or 260 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,360 you're going to say they missed a spot. 261 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,120 You understand? Because when someone's too good, 262 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:54,600 it reveals stuff in US. It happens all time, I think. 263 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,160 I think Bishop JH Osborne, you say years ago he's talking 264 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,840 about, you know, you like if you're taking up offering, we 265 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,240 used to take up or they take up offering sometimes at you know, 266 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,600 conferences who'll give 20 and they go, you know, down the line 267 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,240 and such. It's like, you know, someone 268 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,960 who's going to give $20, someone raise their hand, you know that 269 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,080 one person sitting there all that cheap steak, look over 270 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:12,800 them. They just even go get just $20 271 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,160 to missions. I can't believe that. 272 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,840 But then it goes past that line to where someone's will give 273 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,600 like 202,000 or saying that person who do they think they 274 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:27,120 are being a show off like that same person, same person. 275 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,920 Because we live in a day that you either not good enough or 276 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,840 you're too good. Everybody wants to ride the road 277 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:41,080 of mediocrity, but in the moment, all that's really doing 278 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:46,960 is revealing something in US. It's revealing something inside 279 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,920 of us. Jonathan didn't feel threatened. 280 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,200 He said I want to, I want to walk alongside you. 281 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,440 Let me tell you something. If you want peace in your life, 282 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,240 surround yourself with some Jonathan's, not Saul's. 283 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,960 Because again, the problem wasn't that David was really too 284 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,160 good. The problem was that Saul's 285 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:08,200 heart was too small to handle somebody so good. 286 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:15,160 Someone came in and when your heart small, every success 287 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:25,400 around you feels like a threat. Oh Jesus, every success feels 288 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:30,280 like a threat. And in my years experience, I've 289 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:34,320 come to discover, and not even in my own life sometimes, that 290 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,280 jealousy is just really a sign of unhealed purpose. 291 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:45,440 Jealousy is a sign of unhealed purpose in my life. 292 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:48,880 If you stand, I can go and hold you alone. 293 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,600 Someone saying glory, we need to sell peas all the time. 294 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,880 Get rid of them. We get the next ones. 295 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,280 We'll get them out on Sunday too. 296 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:03,600 And we'll just don't. You start doing that right now. 297 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,320 Here's what I want to do a call to action tonight. 298 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,360 Because sitting in this building, we may have 33 299 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:16,440 divisions of people. We could have the the Davids and 300 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:21,160 the Josephs, we could have the Sauls and the brothers, but we 301 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,080 also may have some Jonathan's. And so tonight I want you to 302 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:30,040 look very introspectively at your life because to the Sauls 303 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,720 and the brothers, that type of heart, that type of mindset, you 304 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,120 may feel jealous. You may feel insecure around 305 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:40,880 somebody else's blessing or somebody else's favor of what's 306 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,360 going on in their life. And what you need to do tonight, 307 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:47,160 you need to come to alter and say, God, I need you to heal my 308 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,240 heart. I need you to remove the 309 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:54,200 comparison game in my life. And I need you to restore a 310 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,160 sense of calling for my own life. 311 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:01,400 Huh. Saul handled his kingship so 312 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:07,440 loosely because he got detached from his first call and then he 313 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,520 wants to decapitate the man who is pursuing it. 314 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,280 If you are that tonight, then I say by all means, ask, offer 315 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,000 healing. But if you're a David or if 316 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,320 you're a Joseph, tonight, your heart you. 317 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,520 You've been favored, perhaps of God, and you've been fought 318 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,440 because of that favor of where God's taken you or what's going 319 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,640 on in your life. He's anointed you, he and please 320 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,200 don't apologize that he's done it, huh? 321 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:38,840 Don't kill it, don't run from it, and don't let insecure 322 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:44,200 people shame you for what God's doing. 323 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:47,200 But I believe what we need to do. 324 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,880 Then as David and Joseph says this, we got to say, God 325 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:59,040 strengthen me to keep the right attitude, to stay strong in my 326 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:03,000 pursuit, though I'm hearing the voices of those of negativity 327 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 and jealousy and insecurity all around me. 328 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,840 But if you're a Jonathan here tonight, we say, here's the fact 329 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,280 of Jonathan. Jonathan. 330 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:17,600 Jonathan knew although he was stationed in life of being 331 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,040 Saul's son, he should have been the next king. 332 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:26,880 Jonathan knew that that wasn't to be his role. 333 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,640 And having that understanding, he turned to whom he's seen it 334 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:41,080 upon and he said, I'm going to help lift him up. 335 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,480 You remember what David said one time to Jonathan? 336 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:48,600 He said, Jonathan, I would, I would already be dead have it 337 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,080 not been for this step of grace between me and you. 338 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,560 He said in this relationship, this covenant that we made, and 339 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,440 so all the Jonathan's, I would say you just keep on praying, 340 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:02,080 saying God help me to to protect and promote the purpose that may 341 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,760 be in other people's lives while I'm still trying to find the 342 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,760 purpose in my own life. And don't let me get resentful. 343 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,520 Don't let me get resentful, right folks? 344 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,360 It happens. It happens with churches, it 345 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:22,760 happens in ministries, it happens in organizations, it can 346 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,560 happen within the church. Someone, I'm not speaking into 347 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:27,800 existence, but someone could have. 348 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,040 Tonight, while Sister McGee was talking about the different 349 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,880 things that Jen Crews done that may have revealed something in 350 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:40,920 your spirit. Well, don't she think she's 351 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:45,040 something really arriving now, stepping it up tall. 352 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:50,880 We all, we all laughing, we all laughing. 353 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,640 So I'm telling you the truth. He'll start to reveal stuff in 354 00:23:54,640 --> 00:24:04,800 your heart when somebody else gets an accolade or a little oh 355 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:10,120 God, when good's too good and she's OK. 356 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:12,280 As long as she just does the clean team, you know, and they 357 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,320 laugh and part of the Becky group and all that good stuff, 358 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,040 that's fine. She's going to start teaching 359 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,880 Sunday school and things. She go take stuff off Sister 360 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,200 Mcgee's play. I tell you what, though, I 361 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,320 caught her the other day, XYZ. She had a little bit of attitude 362 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:35,750 and let her shine, but don't let her out. 363 00:24:35,750 --> 00:24:41,910 Shine me. And then folks, is this OK? 364 00:24:41,950 --> 00:24:45,030 Is this OK? Bishop, You pull me over, then 365 00:24:45,030 --> 00:24:47,990 we start serving in capacities. And if we ever have anybody else 366 00:24:47,990 --> 00:24:50,430 help you in that or serve in that capacity and move you 367 00:24:50,430 --> 00:24:55,080 somewhere else and you feel like you're being replaced, like, 368 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,800 well, they shouldn't be doing that to me. 369 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:02,960 That's my job. It starts revealing something in 370 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:08,280 US. Hey, man, it starts revealing 371 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:12,760 something in US. God, I want to have a just a 372 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,400 pure heart and I want to have a pure mind. 373 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:24,360 If, if, if Saul rejoice when David conquered, Jonathan's just 374 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:31,800 asking why do you want to kill him now we and bow our heads in 375 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:39,640 this place, God, because I'm convinced tonight we have a good 376 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,240 group of people. Listen, there's a good group of 377 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:49,320 people in this church, good strong backbone group of people. 378 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,320 And I'm convinced that God wants to place his favor upon 379 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,520 different lives in this assembly tonight. 380 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,040 I think God wants to do that, But he wants the rest of us, 381 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,800 whoever we may be if our time is not now, He wants us to be 382 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:12,600 trustworthy for the favor. He wants to be able to trust 383 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,000 that, hey, I can put favor on their life and bring them a few 384 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,160 steps forward while they others might be in a holding pattern 385 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,680 right now, but I want them to be able to be trusted with the 386 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,760 favor that I could place on somebody else. 387 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,040 That's their friend, that's their church member, that 388 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,640 they're whatever is we got to ask God tonight. 389 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,600 God deliver me from the fear of being overlooked. 390 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:40,240 Oh, God, deliver me from the fear of being overlooked. 391 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,480 Deliver me, God, from jealousy. If you don't ever pray about 392 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,920 jealousy in your life, you need to pick it up and do it. 393 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,680 I almost make it a daily part Amen of my prayer that God, that 394 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,720 he would help me with jealousy in my heart. 395 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,240 Because yes, as a pastor, there are things. 396 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,800 Sometimes I catch it. It arises inside of me, Brother 397 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,120 Fred, whenever I get that little feeling about somebody else or 398 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,600 what's happening over there, that little jealous spirit 399 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,880 arrives in my heart. I don't want that because what 400 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,640 it does is it poisons. I don't want that jealousy in my 401 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,240 heart. Hey man, we got to ask. 402 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,480 God, Lord, help us, Lord, to be faithful to what you called us 403 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,520 to help us, God, to be faithful with both of our hands and our 404 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,600 hearts to what you called us to. And help us to be joyful and 405 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,160 celebrate others, God, for what you're doing in their life. 406 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,080 God teach me to celebrate God, everything that you anoint, 407 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,800 everything. God that you appoint God even 408 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,800 when it's not me. The old scripture says we love. 409 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,160 It says to rejoice when others rejoice and to weep when they 410 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,400 weep. One writer said we have a better 411 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,120 time weeping when they weep, then we do rejoicing when they 412 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:48,360 rejoice. It reveals things in us. 413 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:53,200 This altar is open tonight for every David, for every Saul, 414 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,240 forever Joseph's brother, for every Joseph, for every 415 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,480 Jonathan. That we could just come and 416 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:03,080 expose our lives to the Lord and say Lord God I don't want 417 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,480 someones good to be too good for me. 418 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,160 I don't want to be able, Lord Jesus to be supportive and 419 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,520 encouraging Lord Jesus to what you may be doing in others lives 420 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,840 pre adventure, God, what you may be doing, Lord, in my own life 421 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,280 someday, God, I understand Lord how I handle those things and 422 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,040 what arises in me, what emotions, what feelings arise in 423 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,360 me in those moments. Lord is really revealing 424 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:29,680 something about me. Help me God to be introspective. 425 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:34,080 Help me God to be introspective. I pray God, Lord, for the 426 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,200 purpose of the overall Kingdom, Lord, the callings that your 427 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:41,320 Lord disperse, Lord the dreams, God, that you'll displace God 428 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,400 upon the several others. Help us, O God, to rejoice when 429 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,040 it starts, when it begins, and Lord, as it flourishes and 430 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,000 grows, the Lord into further fruition. 431 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,000 God, continue to rejoice. Help us not to be looking to cut 432 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,880 down or cut somebody off, Lord at the knees, God, because maybe 433 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,200 they passed where we were and maybe just because the call in 434 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,560 the desire that they have is greater than ours. 435 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,160 Help us, O God, how to have the right spirit? 436 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,400 Check me, O God, search me, O God and all my heart see if 437 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,440 there be any wicked way in me. Jealousy, pride and in Masati, O 438 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:21,400 God, check my heart tonight, O Lord Halabo shataye Ababa Sandi 439 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,800 abbao Sandi. Yes, yes. 440 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,000 Yes, yes, yes.