Welcome to a new
Carter Report series,
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The Game Changers.
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These rare individuals
appear once in a lifetime.
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Like a blazing
meteor across the night sky,
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they change the
course of history.
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They show us the way forward.
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Welcome to The Game Changers.
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Welcome to this
terrific series on
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The Game Changers.
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Now the program
today is R rated.
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Now don't turn me off,
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it's R rated,
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but it's okay
for you to look at.
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Let me tell you why.
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We are calling it R
rated, quite frankly,
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to get your
attention but it's different
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to the filth and the
violence of many movies,
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this is R rated
in a special way.
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It's R rated because
R stands for Righteous,
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we are going to
talk about righteousness.
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It also stands for Rebels,
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so this is a story
of a huge rebellion,
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bunch of rebels.
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It also stands...
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R stands for Repentance.
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We are going to discover
today that God is the God,
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not only of the first
chance and the second chance
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but the third chance.
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God is a very gracious
God because of repentance.
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R also stands for Retribution.
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Somebody said, "You know what?
The mills of God grind slowly."
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You know the saying?
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"But they grind,
how? Exceeding small."
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We are going to talk
today about retribution.
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And R stands for Redemption.
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As I said a moment ago,
people would've said to me,
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"They can't
believe in the doctrine
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of the second chance."
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Well, I believe in the doctrine
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of the second
chance and the third chance
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because we will
discover that where
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"Sin did abound, grace
did," what does it say?
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"Much more abound."
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R also stands
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for Restricted.
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This is a restricted telecast.
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It is restricted to
those who don't cringe
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when they hear the truth
about real Bible characters.
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The Bible tells it as it is,
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it doesn't gloss over
the sins of men and women.
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This, today, is a
story of real courage,
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real courage.
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It's also a story of adultery,
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and rape, and
incest in the Bible.
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Yes, especially in the Bible.
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Revenge,
rebellion, and salvation.
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So we're dealing today
with The Game Changers,
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and The Game
Changer today is King David,
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Israel's greatest king,
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the most famous king
in the Old Testament.
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We're going to go to the Bible
and we're going to take a text
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in the New Testament,
Acts 13, and you've got Bibles
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in front of you there,
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so turn with me to Acts
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13:22,23.
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"And when He had
removed him, that's Saul,
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He raised up for
them David as king,
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to whom also He
gave testimony and said,
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'I've found David
the son of Jesse...'"
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This is quite amazing.
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"A man after My own
heart, a man after My own heart,
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who will do all My will.
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From this man's seed,
according to the promise,
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God raised up for Israel
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a savior, Jesus."
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Now when you study
this, we're going to do today,
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this great Game
Changer, this remarkable person,
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it's almost hard to
see how he can be a man
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after God's own heart.
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But we will discover
that in spite of all the sins,
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the grace of God comes
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through loud and clear.
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A man after God's own heart.
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Now history tells me that
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David started off
as a shepherd boy,
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he was looking
after his father's sheep.
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He was a strong young man.
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The Bible says,
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this is almost
too hard to believe,
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but he killed a lion and a bear.
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There's something
I forgot to tell you
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that people come
to us and they say,
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Can you believe
in these characters?
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Can you believe in
characters like King David?
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It's just one mythology."
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But when I was, recently,
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in the Israeli
museum in Jerusalem,
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I looked at a remarkable plaque
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on which were the
words, King David.
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There it is. It's
quite an amazing story.
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We now know that
King David was a real,
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historical character.
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The Bible is reliable.
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Now coming back to the time
when David was a shepherd boy
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looking after
his father's sheep,
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when he killed
a lion and a bear.
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If you come over to 1 Samuel 17,
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and we're going to
stay in this vicinity today
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in the telecast and
I'm glad you joined us,
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Chapter 17:34, 35,
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"But David said to Saul,
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'Your servant used to
keep his father's sheep,
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and when a lion or a bear came
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and took a lamb
out of the flock,
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I went after it and struck it,
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and delivered the
lamb from its mouth,
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and when it arose against me,
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I caught it by its beard,
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and struck and killed it.'"
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Can you believe it?
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This young guy, he
killed a lion and a bear
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with his bare hands.
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I've been to Africa
number of occasions,
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I've been an on
safari in Africa.
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I've had the great privilege
of seeing lions in the wild.
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They seem to be much bigger
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than the scrawny looking
lions that you see in circuses.
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These big powerful beasts...
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And the Bible tells
us that David took a lion
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and grabbed it by its beard.
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I mean, it's almost
too hard to believe.
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He grabbed the
bear with his own hands
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as he grabbed
the lion and slew it.
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It appears to me that God...
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Now remember
this, God loves courage.
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God doesn't love cowardice,
and God doesn't love wimpiness,
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God doesn't love the attitude.
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God loves
people, He loves cowards,
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but God doesn't
love the attitude
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that throws in the sponge
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and runs away from the battle.
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So here you've got a
young guy and God says,
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"He's a man after
my own heart" Why?
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Because he's got
the attribute of God
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and God has got courage.
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Now we're told
that this young guy,
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by the name of David,
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was destined in the plan
of almighty God for greatness.
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There was a prophet
by the name of Samuel,
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and God tells him to go
to the town of Bethlehem,
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that's where David
lived, that's where Jesus lived,
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that's where Jesus was born.
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And he goes there and he finds
a man by the name of Jesse,
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and Jesse has got these big,
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handsome, tough young sons.
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And all the boys passed before
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the Prophet Samuel
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and each boy seems to
out do his predecessor,
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they're such good-looking boys.
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So all these boys pass before
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the prophet and
the prophet says,
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"Not him, not him.
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I've been told to come here
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because you got to
have somebody else"
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Now if you come
over here to 1 Samuel
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16:7,
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"But the Lord said to Samuel,
'Do not look at his appearance
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or at his physical stature,
because I have refused him.
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For the Lord does
not see as man sees,
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for man looks at the
outward appearance...'"
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What does it say?
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"The Lord looks at the heart.'
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Thus Jesse made seven
of his sons pass before
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the Prophet Samuel.
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And Samuel said to Jesse,
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'The Lord has not chosen these.'
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And Samuel said to Jesse,
'Are all the young men here?'"
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Hey, are they all...
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"Then he said,
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'There remains yet the youngest,
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and there he is,
he's keeping the sheep.'
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And Samuel said to
Jesse, 'Send and bring him.
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For we will not sit
down till he comes here.'
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So he sent and brought him in.
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Now..."
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Look at these words.
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"He was ruddy,
ruddy, with bright eyes,
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and good-looking.
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And the Lord said,
'Arise, anoint him,
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for this is the one!'"
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God had a plan for this boy.
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You know why God
had a plan for this boy?
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You know why he was
destined for greatness?
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Because man looks on
the outward appearance,
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what does God look?
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God looks on the heart,
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and He looked into the
heart of this boy, David,
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and he found so
much good in that heart
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that he said, "This is the boy.
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This is the boy.
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He is going to become the king."
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His heart was right with God.
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I would like to remind you today
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that God has a plan
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and a purpose for
every man, woman, and child.
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God has a plan for
the man or the woman
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whose heart is right with God.
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Every one of us is
called for greatness in the plan
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and the purpose of God
if we will only believe.
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Now the story
goes on and tells us
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about a man by
the name of Goliath.
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He is the
champion of the Philistines
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who are the
enemies of the Israelites.
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Do you know how
tall Goliath was?
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If you do, don't tell me
because that will spoil things.
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He was just a tad
under 10 feet tall,
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and he wasn't skinny,
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he wasn't like a pole.
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He must've been three
feet across the shoulders
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at least, maybe four feet.
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He was a hulk, he
was the incredible hulk.
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He had a spear that was so big
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that the head of the
spear weighed 17 pounds.
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And he's out cursing God
and the children of Israel.
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You know what the
children of Israel are doing?
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"Oh, we can't do it,
he's too big for us."
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These are the people of God.
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"We can't do it!"
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At sometimes, how the
people of God operate?
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"We can't do it, he's too big.
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It's too hard."
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And then this boy
arrives and he says,
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"Why is this
uncircumcised Philistine
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defying the God of heaven?"
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He says, "Isn't
there a champion?"
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They said, "Go
home boy, go home boy.
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Go back to your mother."
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One of his brothers said,
"Go back to those few sheep."
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But he says, "I
will fight this man."
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And he's got one thing,
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he's got one thing
that the giant hasn't got.
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He's got courage and a...
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He's got a weapon.
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He got a slingshot.
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You know what it is?
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You know, flip...
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Now you can read the story,
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I want you to notice the story.
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I want you to notice
in 1 Samuel 17:45-47,
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how interesting this is.
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1 Samuel 45-47,
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"Then David said
to the Philistine,
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'You come to me with
a sword, with a spear,
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and with a javelin.
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But I come to you in the
name of the Lord of hosts,
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the God of the armies of Israel,
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whom you have defied.
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This day the
Lord will deliver you
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into my hand,
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and I will strike you
and take your head from you.
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And this day I will give
the carcasses of the camp
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of the Philistines
to the birds of the air
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and the wild
beasts of the earth,
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that all the earth may know
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that there is a God in Israel.
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Then all this
assembly shall know
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that the Lord does not
save with sword and spear,
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for the battle is the Lord's,
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and He will give
you into our hands.'"
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And then this young
man, the Bible says,
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he runs towards the giant.
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That's why he was a
man after God's own heart.
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He wasn't a
weakling, he wasn't a coward,
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he wasn't a person who
was filled with doubts,
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he wasn't a person saying,
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"It can't be
done, it's impossible.
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We can't do these things."
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But the Bible tells us that
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David actually runs
towards the Philistine
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and the Philistine
charges towards David,
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and David lets it go.
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When I was at Avondale College,
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I heard a preacher talking this,
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an old man by the
name of Pastor Gane,
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and he spoke about the moment
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when the stone hit
the forehead of the giant.
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He said, "Something like this
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had never ended
his head before."
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And this is true,
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something like
that had never ended
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the head of the
arch-enemy before.
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And Goliath goes
down but he's not dead.
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He's not dead yet.
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And this young man comes
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and he pulls
out Goliath's sword,
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I guess he has a
battle lifting up
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the sword but within a moment,
00:16:03.93\00:16:07.10
he's lopped off
the head of the giant.
00:16:07.13\00:16:13.07
That's why he is a
man after God's own heart.
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Many Christians think
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all the
attributes of Christianity
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are summed up
in the little rhyme
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"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,"
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you see, but it's far more
than meekness and mildness,
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it's a slingshot
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that tells me God and
one person are a majority.
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We are saved not by our works,
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but by the works
of the son of David
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who defeated
Goliath on the cross.
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You see, Goliath
represented the devil
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and the armies of darkness.
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David represented
the kingdom of God.
00:17:00.35\00:17:04.75
If Goliath had won,
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all Israel was lost,
00:17:07.66\00:17:12.19
but when David won,
00:17:12.23\00:17:15.06
all of the people
of God were saved,
00:17:15.10\00:17:19.37
not because of their courage
and not because of their works,
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but because David
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had won the battle.
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If God calls you,
He will empower you.
00:17:31.11\00:17:37.15
A slingshot goes
a long way with God.
00:17:37.19\00:17:41.59
With God you are invincible.
00:17:41.62\00:17:46.43
Don't hang out with people
00:17:46.46\00:17:49.90
who are naysayers.
00:17:49.93\00:17:53.54
Don't make friends of people
00:17:53.57\00:17:56.50
who talk you down,
00:17:56.54\00:17:59.64
whether it's in
church or out of church.
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Christian churches are filled
00:18:02.08\00:18:04.85
with faithless people.
00:18:04.88\00:18:08.48
"It can't be done!"
00:18:08.52\00:18:11.19
You see, don't tell me to preach
00:18:11.22\00:18:13.92
or else I'll just
get out of control.
00:18:13.96\00:18:18.46
Listen, if God calls
you, He will empower you.
00:18:18.49\00:18:23.50
Now I come to
the next great truth.
00:18:23.53\00:18:25.73
The path to glory
is paved with rough,
00:18:25.77\00:18:28.94
jagged stones.
00:18:28.97\00:18:33.31
King Saul is full
of jealousy and anger
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and he sets out to kill David.
00:18:36.14\00:18:38.85
Jealousy is a terrible sin.
00:18:38.88\00:18:42.45
It is a sin of
insecure little men and women.
00:18:42.48\00:18:48.42
Saul, initially, loved him.
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He takes him into the palace.
00:18:51.33\00:18:52.99
David is a skilled musician,
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didn't belong to the
Gaithers but he did better.
00:18:56.80\00:19:01.60
Why was the king so depressed?
00:19:01.64\00:19:04.14
David comes into the
palace and he plays the psalms
00:19:04.17\00:19:08.31
and beautiful music.
00:19:08.34\00:19:09.68
You know why the
king is depressed?
00:19:09.71\00:19:11.95
Because the Bible
says, "The king is angry."
00:19:11.98\00:19:16.48
Listen to this,
you may not know this.
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The main cause of depression
00:19:19.49\00:19:24.66
is repressed anger.
00:19:24.69\00:19:29.30
So if you have got anger inside
00:19:29.33\00:19:34.14
and you don't
give it up get it out,
00:19:34.17\00:19:37.51
you will become
clinically depressed.
00:19:37.54\00:19:43.14
That's a fact.
00:19:43.18\00:19:47.78
"And on one occasion,
this anger came upon the king,
00:19:47.82\00:19:51.55
he took his javelin and
tried to pin David to the wall."
00:19:51.59\00:19:57.13
After the defeat of Goliath,
00:19:57.16\00:20:00.90
the king was supposed
00:20:00.93\00:20:02.26
to give to David his daughter
because that was promised.
00:20:02.30\00:20:06.07
His eldest daughter was
Merab, but the king was a liar
00:20:06.10\00:20:10.31
and a cheat and he gave
the girl to somebody else.
00:20:10.34\00:20:13.58
He had a younger daughter.
00:20:13.61\00:20:15.78
His youngest daughter was Michal
00:20:15.81\00:20:20.38
and she loved David.
00:20:20.42\00:20:24.35
And the king was going to use
his own daughter to kill David,
00:20:24.39\00:20:28.92
whom he hated.
00:20:28.96\00:20:31.36
And so he said,
"You can have my daughter
00:20:31.39\00:20:35.06
and become the
king's son-in-law,
00:20:35.10\00:20:37.43
but I want a
100 dead Philistines
00:20:37.47\00:20:40.74
as the dowry."
00:20:40.77\00:20:43.61
And David said, "No problem,"
00:20:43.64\00:20:45.87
and brought him
200 dead Philistines.
00:20:45.91\00:20:51.01
He was not a wimp.
00:20:51.05\00:20:53.85
Saul pursues him, David flees.
00:20:53.88\00:20:57.75
One night David is on this hill,
00:20:57.79\00:21:00.12
the king and his
army is on this hill,
00:21:00.16\00:21:03.63
and a young man and
David go over to where
00:21:03.66\00:21:07.00
the king is sleeping.
00:21:07.03\00:21:10.23
It's an amazing story.
00:21:10.27\00:21:12.90
1 Samuel 26:7, 8,
00:21:12.93\00:21:17.31
"So David and Abishai..."
00:21:17.34\00:21:19.17
He had courage,
this young guy too.
00:21:19.21\00:21:20.94
"Came to the people by night,
00:21:20.98\00:21:22.78
and there Saul lay
sleeping within the camp,
00:21:22.81\00:21:25.48
with his spear struck
in the ground by his head.
00:21:25.51\00:21:28.45
And Abner and the people
lay all around him, snoring.
00:21:28.48\00:21:33.99
Then Abishai said to David,
00:21:34.02\00:21:36.16
'God has delivered your
enemy into your hand this day.
00:21:36.19\00:21:39.83
Now therefore, please,
let me strike him at once
00:21:39.86\00:21:44.37
with the spear,
right to the earth,
00:21:44.40\00:21:47.64
and I will not
have to strike him
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.40
a second time!'"
00:21:49.44\00:21:52.27
Look at me, you know
why they were sleeping?
00:21:52.31\00:21:56.58
Because God put them to sleep.
00:21:56.61\00:22:00.32
God can put your
enemies to sleep.
00:22:00.35\00:22:03.39
Some crooked
attorney is coming after you
00:22:03.42\00:22:06.12
who wants to fleece you.
00:22:06.15\00:22:10.26
If you have God in your life,
00:22:10.29\00:22:12.49
God can put your
enemies to sleep.
00:22:12.53\00:22:15.53
They can't hurt you.
00:22:15.56\00:22:18.23
But David would
not lift up his hand
00:22:18.27\00:22:20.10
against the Lord's anointed,
00:22:20.14\00:22:21.67
that's why he is called
a man after God's ownheart.
00:22:21.70\00:22:26.27
And so they take the spear
00:22:26.31\00:22:28.61
and they go to the
other side of the ravine
00:22:28.64\00:22:32.58
and you read 1 Samuel 26:21, 25,
00:22:32.61\00:22:37.09
Because David has
called out to him,
00:22:37.12\00:22:39.72
"Then Saul said, 'I have sinned.
00:22:39.75\00:22:41.09
Return, my son David.
00:22:41.12\00:22:42.92
For I will harm you no more
00:22:42.96\00:22:44.86
because my life was
precious in your eyes this day.
00:22:44.89\00:22:48.40
Indeed I have played the
fool and erred exceedingly.'
00:22:48.43\00:22:52.83
Then Saul said to David,
00:22:52.87\00:22:54.34
'May you be
blessed, my son David!
00:22:54.37\00:22:56.34
You shall both do great
things and also still prevail.'
00:22:56.37\00:23:00.41
So David went on his way,
00:23:00.44\00:23:02.24
and Saul
returned to his palace.'"
00:23:02.28\00:23:06.41
What a tragedy to come
to the end of your life
00:23:06.45\00:23:10.25
after being the
leader of God's people
00:23:10.29\00:23:13.66
and your closing testimony is
00:23:13.69\00:23:16.06
"I have played the fool."
00:23:16.09\00:23:20.83
"I've played the fool."
00:23:20.86\00:23:24.67
But even great and
good men can do bad things.
00:23:24.70\00:23:29.70
David goes and hides
with the Philistines,
00:23:29.74\00:23:31.97
the enemies of Israel.
00:23:32.01\00:23:34.91
It's not good to
associate willingly
00:23:34.94\00:23:37.15
with the enemies of God.
00:23:37.18\00:23:39.75
He hangs out
with the wrong crowd.
00:23:39.78\00:23:42.65
If you're hanging
out with the wrong crowd,
00:23:42.68\00:23:45.75
don't expect that God
is going to bless you.
00:23:45.79\00:23:49.82
Don't hang out
with the wrong crowd,
00:23:49.86\00:23:53.06
you don't need them
and they don't need you.
00:23:53.09\00:23:58.43
While there he
deceives the king Achish,
00:23:58.47\00:24:01.47
who was protecting him.
00:24:01.50\00:24:04.34
1 Samuel 27:10, 11
00:24:04.37\00:24:08.41
"Then Achish would say,
00:24:08.44\00:24:09.78
'Where have you
made a raid today?'
00:24:09.81\00:24:11.45
And David would say,
00:24:11.48\00:24:12.81
'Against the
southern area of Judah,
00:24:12.85\00:24:14.52
or against the southern
area of the Jerahmeelites,
00:24:14.55\00:24:17.92
or against the southern area
of the Kenites, and so forth.'
00:24:17.95\00:24:21.12
David would save
neither man nor woman alive,
00:24:21.16\00:24:24.73
to bring news to Gath, saying,
00:24:24.76\00:24:26.59
'Lest they should
inform on us, saying,
00:24:26.63\00:24:29.00
'Thus David did.'
00:24:29.03\00:24:31.60
And thus was his
behavior all the time
00:24:31.63\00:24:34.47
he dwelt in the
country of the Philistines.'"
00:24:34.50\00:24:36.67
You know what David is doing?
00:24:36.71\00:24:40.08
David is making his own bed.
00:24:40.11\00:24:43.58
David is lying to the
man who was protecting him
00:24:43.61\00:24:49.12
and befriending him.
00:24:49.15\00:24:50.82
Don't tell me now he's a
man after God's own heart.
00:24:50.85\00:24:55.86
In his
desperation to stay alive,
00:24:55.89\00:24:57.93
he became a deceiver.
00:24:57.96\00:25:00.26
This was a start of his
own personal descent into hell.
00:25:00.30\00:25:05.13
Listen to me,
00:25:05.17\00:25:06.50
a liar always travels downhill
00:25:06.53\00:25:13.07
and we live in a
time when the world
00:25:13.11\00:25:16.71
and the nation
are full of liars,
00:25:16.75\00:25:21.78
going down to hell,
00:25:21.82\00:25:26.45
I tell you.
00:25:26.49\00:25:29.19
I've known many lies,
they've all had a bad end.
00:25:29.22\00:25:34.76
David the deceiver
was later deceived.
00:25:34.80\00:25:40.10
Saul dies,
David becomes the king
00:25:40.14\00:25:45.81
and according to the
customs of those days,
00:25:45.84\00:25:49.61
he acquires a harem.
00:25:49.64\00:25:55.55
And in the next
part of our program
00:25:55.58\00:25:58.12
in just a few minutes,
00:25:58.15\00:26:00.72
I will tell you the
story of David's harem.
00:26:00.76\00:26:06.70
Don't go away,
we'll be right back.
00:26:06.73\00:26:09.13
The antichrist is
in the temple of God.
00:26:23.11\00:26:28.62
I will read you the actual words
00:26:28.65\00:26:31.15
of The Great
Roman Catholic Church.
00:26:31.19\00:26:35.66
More than a billion
people pray to the dead.
00:26:35.69\00:26:40.96
But the Bible talks very plainly
00:26:41.00\00:26:42.66
about good angels
00:26:42.70\00:26:44.53
and bad angels.
00:26:44.57\00:26:45.93
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