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>>FOR THOSE YOU WHO ARE
REGULARS, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT OUR
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BACKGROUND IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT
AND YOU PROBABLY GATHERED THAT
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WE ARE BEGINNING A NEW
SERIES AND YOU'RE CORRECT.
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I'VE BEEN LOOKING
FORWARD TO THIS FOR SOME TIME.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING
FOR, PROBABLY, THE NEXT TWELVE
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PRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE
LIFE OF ONE OF THE GREAT BIBLE
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CHARACTERS, AND
THAT WOULD BE DAVID -
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A SERIES CALLED
THE SHEPHERD KING .
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NOW, TODAY'S PRESENTATION
IS GOING TO BE PART 1, TALKING
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ABOUT HOW THE LORD
LOOKS AT THE HEART.
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THERE'S VERY FEW PEOPLE IN
HISTORY - I DON'T JUST MEAN
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BIBLE HISTORY, BUT I MEAN
HISTORY IN GENERAL - THAT HAVE
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EXPERIENCED AS MUCH ADVENTURE
AND THE HIGHS AND LOWS AND THE
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MANY FACETS OF LIFE AS THE
SUBJECT THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE
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CONSIDERING IN
THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
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YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE
IN HISTORY THAT YOU MIGHT CALL
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'SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT'
OR 'IVAN THE TERRIBLE' OR
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'ALEXANDER THE GREAT', BUT THERE
REALLY IS NO SUPERLATIVE THAT
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YOU CAN FIND TO DESCRIBE THIS
INCREDIBLE CHARACTER, DAVID.
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MATTER OF FACT, A COUPLE
OF HUNDRED YEARS AGO, BIBLE
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CRITICS, EVEN SOME OF THE
SCHOLARS WERE SAYING, 'WELL,
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DAVID REALLY JUST WAS
MANUFACTURED. HE'S A SERIES OF
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STORIES THAT CAME FROM
HEBREW LORE. THERE REALLY WAS NO
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PERSON NAMED DAVID'. JUST
LIKE SOMETIMES THEY ARGUE,
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'THERE REALLY WAS NO KING
ARTHUR' - THAT HE'S A FICTIONAL
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CHARACTER FROM HEBREW HISTORY
MADE TO INSPIRE, BUT - AND TO
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TEACH SOME LESSONS, BUT THERE
REALLY COULD NEVER POSSIBLY BE
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ONE INDIVIDUAL THAT HAD THAT
MUCH TALENT AND ADVENTURE PACKED
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INTO A SINGLE LIFE.'
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID.
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AND SO THEY DOWNPLAYED AND THEY
DISMISSED THE STORY ABOUT DAVID
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AND THE ACCURACY OF HIS
EXPERIENCE. BUT THEN, SOME
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THINGS HAPPENED THAT
BEGAN TO SHAKE UP THE CRITICS.
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FOR ONE THING, SOME
DISCOVERIES WERE MADE.
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FOR INSTANCE, TALKING ABOUT THE
HOUSE OF DAVID, IN 1993 AND '94
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IN NORTHERN ISRAEL, THERE WAS A
SECTION OF A MONUMENT STONE - A
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STELE - AND IT WAS FOUND IN
THE TEL DAN - DAN IS A NORTHERN
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TERRITORY OF ISRAEL - IT HAD
AN INSCRIPTION ON IT - I THINK
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WE'VE GOT A PICTURE OF IT UP
THERE ON THE SCREEN - AND IN THE
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INSCRIPTION IT TALKS
ABOUT THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
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AND THAT JUST REALLY
SHOOK UP THE CRITICS.
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AND, BY THE WAY, IT IS, TODAY,
IN THE MUSEUM OF JERUSALEM AND
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IT GENERATED A LOT OF DEBATE AND
ARTICLES, BUT THEY LOOKED AT IT
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AND THEY LOOKED AT IT AGAIN AND
THEY SAID, THAT IS WHAT IT SAYS.
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MEANING, THERE REALLY WAS A
PERSON NAMED DAVID AND IT WAS
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HIS MONARCHY, KNOWN
AS THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
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WELL, EVEN BEFORE THAT, THEY'D
FOUND ANOTHER INSCRIPTION AND
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IT'S WHAT THEY CALLED 'THE
MOABITE STONE' WRITTEN BY KING
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MESHA OF MOAB AND, DURING
ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME PERIOD
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AND, AGAIN, THEY FOUND THE
INSCRIPTION 'THE HOUSE OF DAVID'
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- THESE STELES WERE STONE
MONUMENTS OR PILLARS THAT THEY
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WOULD INSCRIBE HISTORY ON AND
EVEN JOSHUA DID THAT WHEN THE
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CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CROSSED OVER.
THEY PLASTERED SOME ROCK AND
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THEY PUT THE BLESSINGS
AND THE CURSINGS ON THIS.
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THEY WOULD PUT THE HISTORY
OF NATIONS ON THESE ROCKS.
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AND THEN, AT KARNAK, IN EGYPT,
THERE'S A PHARAOH - HE WAS
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PHARAOH SHOSHENQ I - HE IS
ACTUALLY, IN THE BIBLE, REFERRED
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TO AS SHISHAQ - THE SAME KING
- HE RECORDS HIS VICTORY OVER
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REHOBOAM, WHO IS THE GRANDSON
OF DAVID AND, IN THE DIFFERENT
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CITIES THAT HE MENTIONS, THERE'S
ONE LOCATION REFERRED TO AS THE
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HEIGHTS OF DAVID. AND
SO, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT HOW
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LITTLE EXCAVATION IS REALLY
DONE IN THAT TERRITORY, THERE IS
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PROBABLY A LOT MORE
YET TO BE DISCOVERED.
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EVERY TIME THEY TRY AND
BUILD IN JERUSALEM THEY RUN INTO
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ARTIFACTS; THEY JUST DON'T HAVE
TIME TO STOP AND DUST OFF AND
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SIFT THROUGH ALL OF THE
ARTIFACTS THAT THEY DISCOVER.
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AND THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO
BE MORE THAT WILL COME TO LIGHT,
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BUT THERE IS PLENTY, I THINK,
THAT YOU CAN FIND IN HISTORY
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THAT TELLS US THAT
DAVID WAS A REAL PERSON.
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EVEN THE WAY THE STORY OF DAVID
IS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE, IT NOT
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JUST - IT DOESN'T JUST GLORIFY
HIS GOOD DEEDS AND HIS FEATS AND
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HIS VALOR, IT TALKS ABOUT HIS
WEAKNESS AND HIS BAD DECISIONS.
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AND YOU READ ABOUT IT AND
YOU SAY, 'THIS WAS A VERY HUMAN
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INDIVIDUAL. NOW, OF
THE PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN
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STUDY IN THE BIBLE, FEW
HAVE A BIGGER IMPACT ON BIBLICAL
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HISTORY AND CHRISTIANITY
THAN THE CHARACTER OF DAVID.
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ABRAHAM IS MENTIONED
232 TIMES IN THE BIBLE.
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MOSES IS MENTIONED
850 TIMES IN THE BIBLE.
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JESUS IS MENTIONED 981 TIMES -
HIS NAME - IN THE BIBLE, BUT THE
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NAME OF DAVID IS MENTIONED MORE
THAN A THOUSAND TIMES IN THE
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BIBLE. YOU KNOW,
THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE
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IN THE BIBLE THAT
HAD THE NAME MOSES.
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THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE
BIBLE THAT HAD THE NAMES JESUS
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AND JOSEPH, BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE
PERSON IN THE BIBLE THAT HAD THE
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NAME DAVID. THERE
IS NO OTHER PARALLEL
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TO THIS INDIVIDUAL. ABOUT
66 CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE -
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THAT'S A LOT - ARE DEDICATED TO
DAVID. OF THE 150 PSALMS, 76 OF
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THOSE PSALMS ARE
CALLED 'PSALMS OF DAVID'.
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NOW, THERE ARE SOME PSALMS, LIKE
THE SECOND PSALM, FOR INSTANCE,
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IT DOESN'T SAY 'A PSALM OF
DAVID', BUT WHEN PETER QUOTES
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FROM THE 2 PSALM IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT, HE CALLS IT A PSALM
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OF DAVID. SO THERE
ARE SOME OF THE PSALMS
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THAT WERE PROBABLY
WRITTEN BY DAVID THAT HE DOESN'T
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EVEN GET CREDIT FOR. AND
SO, THE IMPACT OF THE PERSON
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WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER ON
THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND BIBLE
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HISTORY IS
REALLY HARD TO MEASURE.
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DAVID WAS A REMARKABLE
PERSON. THE NAME DAVID, IT
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MEANS 'BELOVED'. IT'S
VERY SIMILAR TO THE WORD
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'LOVE' IN THE BIBLE AND IT MEANS
THE FAVORED OR THE BELOVED ONE.
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THERE'S EVEN A BOOK IN THE BIBLE
- YOU KIND OF GATHER THAT THE
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WHOLE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK IS TO
INTRODUCE THE COMING OF DAVID.
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IT'S CALLED THE BOOK OF RUTH
. WHEN YOU GET TO THE END OF THE
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BOOK OF RUTH IT SAYS - BOAZ AND
RUTH, THEY HAD THIS BABY NAMED
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OBED - IT'S A WONDERFUL
LOVE STORY ABOUT A MOABITE GIRL
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WHO IMMIGRATES AND COMES TO
BETHLEHEM AND HOW HER FAMILY
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IS REDEEMED - IT'S
A STORY OF REDEMPTION.
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AND THE WHOLE STORY CONCLUDES
BY SAYING THEY HAD A BOY NAMED
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OBED, WHO THEN HAD A BOY
NAMED JESSE, WHO HAD A BOY NAMED
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DAVID. AND SO IT
ALL LEADS INTO THE
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STORY OF THIS MAGNIFICENT KING.
NOW, DAVID IS NOT THE FIRST
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KING, AND MAYBE I'LL GET TO THAT
IN A MINUTE. ONE REASON I THINK
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IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US
TO DO THIS SERIES - YOU MIGHT BE
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THINKING, 'OH, PASTOR
DOUG, WE'RE A CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
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WHY ARE WE GOING TO SPEND SO
MUCH TIME IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
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TALKING ABOUT AN OLD
TESTAMENT CHARACTER?'
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THAT DOESN'T BOTHER ME,
IT DOES BOTHER SOME PEOPLE.
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BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THE
FIRST THING IT SAYS IN THE NEW
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TESTAMENT - IT TALKS ABOUT THE
GENEALOGY OF JESUS, THE SON OF
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DAVID. AND SO, TO
UNDERSTAND JESUS, YOU
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REALLY NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING
ABOUT DAVID BECAUSE DAVID
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IS A TYPE OF CHRIST. HE
IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST
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PROFOUND TYPES OF CHRIST -
JOSEPH, MOSES, DAVID ARE VERY
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POWERFUL EXAMPLES, IN
THEIR LIVES, OF JESUS.
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THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH, CHAPTER
23, VERSE 5, "'BEHOLD, THE DAYS
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ARE COMING,' SAYS THE LORD,
'THAT I WILL RAISE TO DAVID A
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BRANCH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; A KING
SHALL REIGN AND PROSPER, AND
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EXECUTE JUDGMENT AND
RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH.'" -
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A PROPHECY ABOUT CHRIST -
IT'S CALLED THE BRANCH OF DAVID.
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REVELATION 22 - HERE YOU ARE AT
THE END OF THE BIBLE AND JESUS
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IS SPEAKING - IT'S IN RED
LETTERS - AND CHRIST SAID,
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"I...HAVE SENT MY ANGEL TO
TESTIFY TO YOU THESE THINGS IN
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THE CHURCHES. I AM
THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING
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OF DAVID, THE
BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR."
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AND SO YOU SEE, FRIENDS, IT'S
SO IMPORTANT THAT WE ARE TALKING
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ABOUT THE LIFE OF DAVID BECAUSE,
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE LIFE OF
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DAVID, YOU ARE
TALKING ABOUT JESUS.
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AND YOU'LL BE SURPRISED, AS WE
EXPLORE THE LESSONS IN THE BIBLE
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FROM THE EXPERIENCES OF DAVID,
HOW MUCH YOU'RE GOING TO LEARN
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ABOUT JESUS. AND SO,
REALLY, TO UNDERSTAND
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THIS - NOW OUR STUDY TODAY, JUST
SO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE
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NEIGHBORHOOD WILL BE, IF YOU
GO TO THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL,
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CHAPTER 16, THAT IS GOING
TO BE THE NUCLEUS FOR WHERE
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WE'RE GOING TO BE. 1
SAMUEL CHAPTER 16 - WE CANNOT
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DIVE RIGHT IN AND START TALKING
ABOUT DAVID WITHOUT GIVING
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YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND. DAVID
WAS PROBABLY BORN ABOUT, OH,
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1010 B.C. THE EVENTS WE'RE GOING
TO CONSIDER TRANSPIRE ABOUT
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1025 B.C. FOR THOSE OF YOU
THAT LIKE WORLD HISTORY, THIS IS
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ABOUT THE TIME THAT SOME PEOPLE
LEFT SOUTHERN CHINA IN BOATS AND
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BEGAN TO EXPLORE
AND SETTLE POLYNESIA.
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THIS IS ABOUT THE SAME TIME THE
CHINESE DISCOVERED GUNPOWDER.
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THIS IS ABOUT THE SAME
TIME, IN THE AMERICAS, THE OLMEC
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CIVILIZATION BEGAN TO
DEVELOP MATH AND BUILD PYRAMIDS.
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AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A
THOUSAND YEARS - WHAT WE USED TO
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CALL B.C., WHICH WAS BEFORE
CHRIST, UNTIL THE AGNOSTICS
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CHANGED IT TO BCE AND TRIED TO
GET RID OF ANY REFERENCE TO GOD
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IN THAT. YOU'VE
GOT TO UNDERSTAND
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SOMETHING ABOUT
THE KING BEFORE DAVID.
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NOW, DAVID IS NOT
THE FIRST KING OF ISRAEL.
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I'VE HEARD SOME SAY
THAT. TECHNICALLY HE'S NOT EVEN
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THE SECOND KING OF ISRAEL.
THERE WAS ONE MAN THAT WAS A
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KING IN ISRAEL FOR A BRIEF
TIME DURING THE TIME OF JUDGES,
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AHIMLECH, HE WAS NOT A
GOOD GUY AND HE DIDN'T END WELL.
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HE GOT HIT ON THE HEAD BY A
STONE THAT A WOMAN THREW OFF THE
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WALL. HE HAD KIND OF A SHORT,
VIOLENT REIGN. BUT THE FIRST
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KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
WAS A KING BY THE NAME OF SAUL.
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AND YOU MAY REMEMBER THE STORY
ABOUT THE FALL OF SAUL IS NOT A
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HAPPY ONE, BUT IT'S
THERE. IT'S AN IMPORTANT STUDY.
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THE PEOPLE, UP UNTIL THAT
TIME, WHEN THEY ENTERED INTO THE
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PROMISED LAND, THEY WERE LED BY
GENERALS LIKE JOSHUA AND JUDGES
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- SOMETIMES THE PRIESTS,
BUT THEY WERE DIFFERENT FROM THE
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OTHER NATIONS IN THAT
THE LORD WAS THEIR KING.
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AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE
ANCIENT KINGDOMS DIDN'T REALLY
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HAVE A SINGULAR KING.
SOME OF THEM, LIKE THE
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PHILISTINES,
DIDN'T HAVE ONE KING.
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THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO - THEY
CALLED THEM KINGS BUT THEY WERE
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DIVIDED INTO LIKE FIVE DISTRICTS
AND THEY SORT OF HAD THIS
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COALITION OF DISTRICT KINGS.
WELL, THE HEBREWS HAD THEIR
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TWELVE TRIBES AND THEY WOULD
HAVE VARIOUS JUDGES, BUT THEY
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REALLY SAW GOD AS THEIR
KING. BUT THEN SOMETHING
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CAME OVER THEM. THEY
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE DON'T
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HAVE LIKE A CAPITAL, WE DON'T
HAVE A KING WHO LEADS US OUT,
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AND WE WANT TO BE
LIKE THE OTHER KINGDOMS.
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WE WANT SOMEONE WHO'S GOING
TO GO FIGHT OUR BATTLES FOR US.
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WE DON'T WANT THE HEADACHES OF
ORGANIZATION.' AND THEY CAME TO
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SAMUEL, WHO HAD BEEN A FAITHFUL
PROPHET FOR MANY YEARS -
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PROBABLY OVER 40 YEARS - SAMUEL
WOULD BE THE LAST OF TWELVE
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JUDGES. AND THEY
SAID - AND YOU'LL FIND
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THIS IN 1 SAMUEL CHAPTER
8, VERSE 5, "...NOW MAKE US A
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KING TO JUDGE US LIKE ALL THE
NATIONS." JUST AN INTERESTING
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FOOTNOTE - NOW YOU DON'T MIND
IF I STOP AND TEACH INSTEAD OF
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PREACH ALONG THE WAY? JUST
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT WANT TO
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KNOW: IT WAS NEVER GOD'S
ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THEM TO HAVE A
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KING, BUT GOD KNEW THEY WOULD,
EVENTUALLY, HAVE A KING BECAUSE,
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DURING THE TIME OF MOSES, HE
SAID, 'WHEN YOU HAVE A KING'.
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AND SO GOD FORESAW THAT THEY
WOULD EVENTUALLY CLAMOR TO HAVE
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A KING, BUT IT
WASN'T HIS ORIGINAL PLAN.
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HE WAS TO BE THEIR KING.
THEY SAID, 'MAKE US A KING.
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WE WANT TO BE LIKE THE OTHER
NATIONS.' WHICH IS ALREADY A
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SIGN OF GOING
THE WRONG DIRECTION.
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AND SO, FINALLY, SAMUEL
CONSENTED AND, AFTER BEING
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GUIDED, HE PICKED
SAUL AS THEIR KING.
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IT'S INTERESTING, THE NAME
'SAUL' MEANS 'ASKED FOR' AND
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IT'S ALMOST LIKE GOD
SAID, 'YOU ASKED FOR IT'.
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AND WHEN SAMUEL HELPED PICK THE
KING AND SAUL WAS CHOSEN - HE
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WAS VERY TALL - HE WAS
KIND OF WHAT EVERYONE WOULD HAVE
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PICTURED IF YOU SAID,
'PICTURE A MIGHTY KING'.
00:12:57.04\00:13:00.08
THEY SAY CHARLEMAGNE WAS A
VERY LARGE MAN - RODE A VERY BIG
00:13:00.11\00:13:03.35
HORSE. HE WAS A
- YOU GO TO FRANCE,
00:13:03.38\00:13:05.25
YOU SEE SOME OF THE STATUES
OF CHARLEMAGNE, HE WAS HUGE.
00:13:05.28\00:13:07.98
AND, OF COURSE, THEY ALWAYS DO
THAT WITH STATUES, BUT THEY SAY
00:13:08.02\00:13:10.55
IN REAL LIFE HE WAS A
BIG MAN - A MIGHTY WARRIOR.
00:13:10.59\00:13:13.66
THIS IS WHAT THEY
PICTURED WITH SAUL.
00:13:13.69\00:13:15.22
HE WAS A BIG MAN - THE BIBLE
SAID HE'S A HEAD AND SHOULDERS
00:13:15.26\00:13:19.96
ABOVE EVERYBODY ELSE.
AND THEY'VE DONE ENOUGH
00:13:20.00\00:13:24.13
EXCAVATION DURING THAT TIME
PERIOD AND THEY WERE KIND OF
00:13:24.17\00:13:28.04
THE SAME HEIGHT AS WE ARE.
IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING, YOU
00:13:28.07\00:13:30.97
KNOW, YOU GO TO EUROPE AND
ENGLAND, THEY EXCAVATE AND YOU
00:13:31.01\00:13:33.68
LOOK AT THE ARMOR THAT
THE MEN WORE, THEY WERE SHORT.
00:13:33.71\00:13:37.05
THEY JUST ALL HAD RICKETS - THEY
DIDN'T EAT WELL - BUT WHEN THEY
00:13:37.08\00:13:39.58
DO THE EXCAVATION IN THE MIDDLE
EAST, THEY WERE ABOUT OUR SIZE.
00:13:39.61\00:13:43.18
MATTER OF FACT, SOME OF THEM GOT
TO ABOUT NINE FEET AND A HALF.
00:13:43.22\00:13:46.32
THAT WAS GOLIATH, FRIENDS,
WE'LL GET TO THAT LATER.
00:13:46.35\00:13:49.19
BUT - SO TO SAY THAT SAUL WAS
A HEAD AND SHOULDERS TALLER THAN
00:13:49.22\00:13:52.76
EVERYBODY ELSE - YOU KNOW,
HE'S PROBABLY SIX-FEET FOUR OR
00:13:52.79\00:13:58.33
SOMETHING. HE WAS A TALL
MAN. AND EVERYONE THOUGHT,
00:13:58.37\00:14:01.17
'WHAT A KING!' AND HE STARTED
OUT HUMBLE. MATTER OF FACT,
00:14:01.20\00:14:06.37
LATER, WHEN HE WAS REBUKED
BY SAMUEL, SAMUEL SAID TO HIM,
00:14:06.41\00:14:10.41
'WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE' - THIS
WAS 1 SAMUEL 15 - "WHEN YOU WERE
00:14:10.45\00:14:13.18
LITTLE IN YOUR OWN EYES," -
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS TALL, HE WAS
00:14:13.21\00:14:16.92
HUMBLE - "WERE YOU NOT
HEAD OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL?
00:14:16.95\00:14:20.92
AND DID NOT THE LORD
ANOINT YOU KING OVER ISRAEL?"
00:14:20.96\00:14:25.26
SAUL WAS CHOSEN BY GOD, BUT WITH
POWER OFTEN COMES TEMPTATION.
00:14:25.29\00:14:33.07
YOU'VE HEARD THE EXPRESSION MANY
TIMES, 'POWER CORRUPTS' - AND AS
00:14:33.10\00:14:36.87
SAUL WENT OUT IN THE SPIRIT OF
THE LORD AND HE WAS VICTORIOUS
00:14:36.91\00:14:39.27
IN THE BATTLE AND ALL THE PEOPLE
BEGAN TO PRAISE HIM AND SING
00:14:39.31\00:14:42.48
ABOUT HIM, IT BEGAN TO GO TO HIS
HEAD AND HE STARTED THINKING, 'I
00:14:42.51\00:14:45.45
REALLY MUST BE SOMETHING SPECIAL
- CHOSEN BY GOD, VICTORIOUS IN
00:14:45.48\00:14:48.62
BATTLE, AND HERE, JUST WITH A
FEW MEN WE DEFEATED MUCH BIGGER
00:14:48.65\00:14:51.79
ARMIES AND HE STARTED TO
TAKE THE GLORY ON HIMSELF AND HE
00:14:51.82\00:14:55.66
BECAME PROUD. AND
THEN HE GOT WHERE HE WASN'T
00:14:55.69\00:14:58.79
LISTENING TO THE
DIRECTION OF GOD.
00:14:58.83\00:15:00.83
HE WASN'T OBEYING THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND GOD
00:15:00.86\00:15:04.30
BEGAN TO WITHDRAW
HIS SPIRIT FROM SAUL.
00:15:04.33\00:15:10.24
ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS HE
WAS GIVEN SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO
00:15:10.27\00:15:14.04
REDEEM HIMSELF -
SOME MAJOR TESTS.
00:15:14.08\00:15:16.31
ON ONE OCCASION, SAMUEL
SPECIFICALLY SAID TO SAUL,
00:15:16.34\00:15:20.58
'BEFORE YOU GO DOWN TO BATTLE
WITH THE PHILISTINES, WAIT SEVEN
00:15:20.62\00:15:23.55
DAYS. I WILL COME TO YOU AT
GILGAL. I'LL OFFER SACRIFICE.
00:15:23.59\00:15:27.39
WAIT FOR ME.' SAUL WENT DOWN
FOR THIS MASSIVE BATTLE, ALL THE
00:15:27.42\00:15:31.46
FORCES OF THE PHILISTINES HAVE
GATHERED AND HE WAITED - AND HE
00:15:31.49\00:15:34.66
THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE GOING
TO ATTACK ANY TIME AND HE LOST
00:15:34.73\00:15:37.90
FAITH AND HE SAID,
'LOOK, SAMUEL'S GETTING OLD.
00:15:37.93\00:15:40.10
HE FORGOT. HE'S RUNNING BEHIND.
00:15:40.14\00:15:42.94
I'LL DO WHAT NO' - NO MAN WAS
SUPPOSED TO DO BUT THE LEVITES
00:15:42.97\00:15:48.21
AND THE PRIESTS -
HE OFFERED SACRIFICE.
00:15:48.24\00:15:52.61
AND RIGHT WHEN HE
DID THAT SAMUEL CAME.
00:15:52.65\00:15:56.28
SAMUEL SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU
DISOBEYED - GOD WAS GETTING
00:15:56.32\00:15:58.89
READY TO ESTABLISH YOUR KINGDOM
- THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A
00:15:58.92\00:16:01.32
DYNASTY OF KINGS - A MONARCHY
NAMED AFTER YOU IF YOU HAD
00:16:01.36\00:16:05.83
PROVEN YOURSELF FAITHFUL.
BUT NOW, YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE
00:16:05.86\00:16:08.46
THE KINGDOM
BECAUSE YOU LOST PATIENCE.
00:16:08.50\00:16:11.70
A LOT OF PEOPLE LOSE EVERYTHING
WHEN THEY LOSE PATIENCE.
00:16:11.73\00:16:15.07
WELL, SEVERAL YEARS WENT
BY - EVEN THOUGH GOD SAID YOUR
00:16:15.10\00:16:17.77
MONARCHY WON'T CONTINUE -
HE STILL HAD A CHANCE TO REDEEM
00:16:17.81\00:16:20.08
HIMSELF. SAMUEL WAS
SENT, AGAIN, TO SAUL.
00:16:20.11\00:16:23.38
HE SAID, 'I'M SENDING YOU TO
FIGHT AGAINST THE MORTAL ENEMIES
00:16:23.41\00:16:26.01
OF ISRAEL, THE AMALEKITES' -
AMALEK WAS THE SON OF ESAU AND
00:16:26.05\00:16:30.75
THEY WERE THE FIRST TO ATTACK
ISRAEL WHEN THEY BECAME A NATION
00:16:30.79\00:16:33.39
AND THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT.
HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO GO
00:16:33.42\00:16:35.52
ATTACK AND
ANNIHILATE THOSE PEOPLE.
00:16:35.56\00:16:38.63
DO NOT TAKE ANY OF THE SPOIL.
DESTROY EVERYTHING - THEY ARE
00:16:38.66\00:16:41.53
CORRUPT DISEASED PEOPLE.'
SAUL WAS GIVEN AN ORDER: 'IF YOU
00:16:41.56\00:16:45.83
DON'T DESTROY THEM, THEY'LL
DESTROY YOU.' AND HE SAID, 'WIPE
00:16:45.87\00:16:48.54
THEM OUT.' SAUL DIDN'T WANT
TO DO THAT. AND THE PEOPLE, THEY
00:16:48.57\00:16:52.61
SAID TO THE KING, 'OH, YOU
DON'T WANT TO DESTROY ALL THESE
00:16:52.64\00:16:54.21
SHEEP.' THEY WON - THEY BEAT THE
SOLDIERS AND THEY SAID, 'DON'T
00:16:54.24\00:16:56.18
DESTROY ALL THE ANIMALS, I
MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE'LL KEEP THEM.
00:16:56.21\00:16:59.58
WE'LL SACRIFICE THESE INSTEAD OF
SACRIFICING OUR OWN AND SO WE'LL
00:16:59.61\00:17:02.52
END UP WITH MORE.' AND HE GAVE
IN TO WHAT THE PEOPLE WANTED,
00:17:02.55\00:17:06.29
WHICH IS A MAJOR
FAILURE FOR A GOOD LEADER.
00:17:06.32\00:17:09.29
IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE A
SPIRITUAL LEADER, YOU'VE GOT TO
00:17:09.32\00:17:11.09
GET YOUR LEADERSHIP FROM GOD,
NOT FROM THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE THE
00:17:11.13\00:17:14.60
PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS GOING
TO KIND OF LEAD YOU DOWN.
00:17:14.63\00:17:16.97
YOU NEED TO STAND
AND LEAD BACK TO GOD.
00:17:17.00\00:17:19.50
AND HE GAVE IN TO THE PEOPLE
AND GAVE IN TO THE CROWD AND GOD
00:17:19.53\00:17:25.44
TOLD SAMUEL, 'LOOK, SAUL
HAS STOPPED FOLLOWING ME.
00:17:25.47\00:17:29.44
HE NOT ONLY SAVED THE SHEEP AND
THE GOATS AND THE CATTLE, HE DID
00:17:29.48\00:17:33.92
NOT KILL AGAG. HE
SAID, 'OH, IT WOULD BE
00:17:33.95\00:17:35.92
NICE TO BRING BACK A TROPHY.
WE'VE CAPTURED THE KING ALIVE.
00:17:35.95\00:17:39.09
AFTER ALL, IF THEY CAPTURED ME,
I WOULDN'T WANT THEM TO KILL ME,
00:17:39.12\00:17:41.62
AND SO LET'S BRING HIM BACK AS
A TROPHY - PUT HIM IN PRISON.'
00:17:41.66\00:17:44.63
AND, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE HE
DID NOT ANNIHILATE AGAG AND THE
00:17:44.66\00:17:49.90
HOUSE OF AGAG - YOU READ LATER,
IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER THERE WAS
00:17:49.93\00:17:57.24
SOMEONE WHO TRIED TO, NOW,
ANNIHILATE ALL OF THE JEWS - HIS
00:17:57.27\00:18:00.28
NAME WAS HAMAN THE AGAGITE.
WHEN YOU DON'T FOLLOW GOD'S
00:18:00.31\00:18:04.81
ORDERS - GOD CAN SEE
DOWN THE LINE - HE KNOWS
00:18:04.85\00:18:06.55
WHAT HE'S SAYING. AND
SO, SAUL DID NOT OBEY AND,
00:18:06.58\00:18:11.22
ULTIMATELY, GOD SAID, IN A
MESSAGE THROUGH SAMUEL, 'TO OBEY
00:18:11.25\00:18:15.32
IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE, AND
TO HEARKEN THAN THE FAT OF RAMS.
00:18:15.36\00:18:18.89
YOUR REBELLION
IS LIKE WITCHCRAFT.
00:18:18.93\00:18:20.73
BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT OBEYING
ME, YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE THE
00:18:20.76\00:18:23.43
KINGDOM.' AND 1 SAMUEL 13:13,
"AND SAMUEL SAID TO SAUL, 'YOU
00:18:23.47\00:18:29.30
HAVE DONE FOOLISHLY.
YOU HAVE NOT KEPT THE
00:18:29.34\00:18:31.54
COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD YOUR
GOD, WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU.
00:18:31.57\00:18:34.51
FOR NOW THE LORD WOULD HAVE
ESTABLISHED YOUR KINGDOM OVER
00:18:34.54\00:18:36.98
ISRAEL FOREVER.
BUT NOW YOUR KINGDOM
00:18:37.01\00:18:39.25
SHALL NOT CONTINUE." -
NOTICE - "THE LORD HAS SOUGHT
00:18:39.28\00:18:43.18
FOR HIMSELF A MAN AFTER
HIS OWN HEART, AND THE LORD HAS
00:18:43.22\00:18:48.26
COMMANDED HIM TO BE COMMANDER
OVER HIS PEOPLE, BECAUSE YOU
00:18:48.29\00:18:51.66
HAVE NOT KEPT WHAT
THE LORD COMMANDED YOU."
00:18:51.69\00:18:54.50
NOTICE THE WORD 'COMMAND'
- COMMAND, COMMAND, COMMAND -
00:18:54.56\00:18:57.73
DO THE COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD MATTER TO GOD?
00:18:57.77\00:19:00.27
>>YES. >>IF YOU
BELIEVE THE BIBLE,
00:19:00.30\00:19:02.70
IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT THEY
DO. AND SO, AGAIN, YOU READ IN 1
00:19:02.74\00:19:09.18
SAMUEL 15:28 - "SO SAMUEL SAID
TO HIM, 'THE LORD HAS TORN THE
00:19:09.21\00:19:12.41
KINGDOM OF ISRAEL FROM YOU
TODAY, AND HAS GIVEN IT TO A
00:19:12.45\00:19:15.42
NEIGHBOR OF YOURS, WHO IS BETTER
THAN YOU.'" WELL, AS SOON AS
00:19:15.45\00:19:19.59
SAUL HEARD THIS, INSTEAD OF
THINKING OF HUMBLING HIMSELF AND
00:19:19.62\00:19:24.23
SAYING, 'LORD, I'M SORRY.' YOU
KNOW, EVEN A WICKED KING LIKE
00:19:24.26\00:19:26.86
AHAB, WHEN HE HUMBLED HIMSELF,
GOD SHOWED MERCY TO HIM.
00:19:26.90\00:19:30.03
AND THERE WERE SEVERAL TIMES
WHEN KINGS HUMBLED THEMSELVES
00:19:30.07\00:19:32.40
AND HE SHOWED THEM MERCY.
BUT SAUL, INSTEAD OF REPENTING
00:19:32.43\00:19:36.17
AND BEING SORRY, HE BEGAN TO
BE SUSPICIOUS AND SAY, 'SOMEONE
00:19:36.20\00:19:40.34
ELSE IS GOING TO GET MY KINGDOM.
THAT'S JUST NOT FAIR.' AND HE
00:19:40.38\00:19:43.28
WAS ANGRY WITH GOD AND HE BEGAN
TO WONDER AND PLOT AND THINK,
00:19:43.31\00:19:46.88
'WELL, MAYBE I CAN STOP THAT
PROPHECY. IF I FIND OUT WHO'S
00:19:46.92\00:19:50.59
GOING TO BE KING IN MY PLACE,
I'LL GET RID OF THEM.' YOU KNOW,
00:19:50.62\00:19:53.19
SOMEONE ELSE WHO DID THAT -
HIS NAME WAS HEROD THE GREAT.
00:19:53.22\00:19:55.99
HE KILLED ALL THE BABIES
IN BETHLEHEM BECAUSE HE WAS
00:19:56.02\00:19:58.29
THREATENED THAT
THERE'D BE ANOTHER KING.
00:19:58.33\00:20:01.06
AND THAT SAME SPIRIT - AND SO,
A DIABOLICAL SPIRIT OF JEALOUSY
00:20:01.10\00:20:05.07
BEGAN TO COME OVER SAUL AND HE
BEGAN TO DRIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:20:05.10\00:20:09.84
OUT OF HIS LIFE.
SO, GOD IS PATIENT.
00:20:09.87\00:20:13.64
FROM THE TIME THAT GOD FIRST
TOLD SAUL 'YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE
00:20:13.68\00:20:17.15
THE KINGDOM' - WHEN SAUL OFFERED
SACRIFICE THAT ONLY THE PRIESTS
00:20:17.18\00:20:20.22
WERE SUPPOSED TO DO - SEVERAL
YEARS WENT BY AND HE HAD THE
00:20:20.25\00:20:24.05
FAILURE WITH FULFILLING HIS WILL
WITH THE AMALEKITES AND IT MAY
00:20:24.09\00:20:29.52
ACTUALLY BE THAT KING DAVID WAS
BORN AROUND THE TIME GOD SAID,
00:20:29.56\00:20:33.56
'I'M SEEKING A MAN AFTER MY OWN
HEART. BECAUSE, YOU SEE, SAUL
00:20:33.60\00:20:36.83
REIGNED FOR 40 YEARS. IT
WAS ABOUT TEN OR TWELVE YEARS
00:20:36.87\00:20:41.24
INTO HIS REIGN HE BEGAN
TO FAIL - HE BECAME PROUD.
00:20:41.27\00:20:44.81
SO, ULTIMATELY - NOW GO TO -
MATTER OF FACT, I WANT YOU TO GO
00:20:44.84\00:20:48.28
TO CHAPTER 16 - I TOLD YOU THIS
AWHILE AGO, SORRY - I NEVER WENT
00:20:48.31\00:20:51.78
THERE - GO TO CHAPTER - CHAPTER
15 OF 1 SAMUEL AND IT SAYS AFTER
00:20:51.81\00:21:01.12
THIS LAST ANNOUNCEMENT OF
JUDGMENT THAT SAMUEL MADE ON
00:21:01.16\00:21:05.59
SAUL - IN VERSE 35 - "AND SAMUEL
WENT NO MORE TO SEE SAUL UNTIL
00:21:05.63\00:21:11.03
THE DAY OF HIS DEATH.
NEVERTHELESS SAMUEL MOURNED FOR
00:21:11.07\00:21:15.10
SAUL, AND THE LORD
REGRETTED THAT HE HAD MADE SAUL
00:21:15.14\00:21:18.87
KING OVER ISRAEL.
NOW, YOU KNOW WHERE ELSE
00:21:18.91\00:21:21.04
YOU FIND THOSE
WORDS? WHERE IT SAYS 'THE
00:21:21.08\00:21:22.51
LORD REGRETTED'? YEAH,
JUST BEFORE THE FLOOD GOD
00:21:22.54\00:21:26.88
SAID - GOD WAS SORRY THAT HE HAD
MADE MAN. GOD CHOSE TO MAKE MAN
00:21:26.92\00:21:32.15
AND GOD CHOSE SAUL. HISTORY
COULD HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY
00:21:32.19\00:21:35.62
DIFFERENT. SAUL
HAD THE FREEDOM TO BE A
00:21:35.66\00:21:38.43
GOOD KING - AND GOD GAVE
HIM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
00:21:38.46\00:21:43.03
EVEN THOUGH GOD KNOWS
ALL THINGS, GOD DOESN'T MAKE
00:21:43.06\00:21:45.67
EVERYTHING HAPPEN. GOD
KNOWS EVERYTHING THAT WILL
00:21:45.70\00:21:47.47
HAPPEN, BUT HE'S NOT
MAKING EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS.
00:21:47.50\00:21:49.80
YOU HAVE A FREE HEART AND A FREE
WILL TO CHOOSE AND SAUL MADE
00:21:49.84\00:21:53.58
VERY BAD CHOICES - HE CHOSE
TO BE PROUD, HE CHOSE TO BE
00:21:53.61\00:21:57.95
REBELLIOUS - AND GOD
REGRETTED THAT HE MADE HIM KING.
00:21:57.98\00:22:02.22
SAMUEL CONTINUED TO MOURN FOR
SAUL BECAUSE HE HAD SUCH GREAT
00:22:02.25\00:22:06.09
HOPES - AND HE SPENT A
WHOLE NIGHT PRAYING FOR HIM.
00:22:06.12\00:22:10.89
NOW, YOU LOOK IN
CHAPTER 16, VERSE 1.
00:22:10.93\00:22:13.66
HERE'S WHERE YOU SEE SAMUEL THE
PROPHET, WHO'S BEEN A PROPHET -
00:22:13.70\00:22:17.50
FAITHFUL PROPHET - MANY YEARS,
GOING ON HIS LAST MISSION.
00:22:17.53\00:22:22.47
"NOW THE LORD SAYS TO SAMUEL,
'HOW LONG WILL YOU MOURN FOR
00:22:22.50\00:22:26.37
SAUL, SEEING I HAVE REJECTED
HIM FROM REIGNING OVER ISRAEL?'"
00:22:26.41\00:22:30.85
- MATTER OF FACT, IN THE
PREVIOUS CHAPTER IT SAYS, AT ONE
00:22:30.88\00:22:33.15
POINT, SAMUEL SPENT THE
WHOLE NIGHT IN PRAYER OVER SAUL.
00:22:33.18\00:22:37.65
NOW THAT MAY BOTHER YOU TO HEAR
THIS, BUT IT IS TRUE THAT EVEN
00:22:37.69\00:22:43.12
THOUGH HE PRAYED ALL NIGHT
FOR SOMEBODY, THE PRAYER WAS NOT
00:22:43.16\00:22:45.13
ANSWERED, BECAUSE IT MAKES A
BIG DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU PRAY FOR
00:22:45.16\00:22:48.50
PEOPLE. GOD'S SPIRIT CAN WORK IN
00:22:48.53\00:22:50.53
THEIR LIVES IN DRAMATIC
WAYS. I BELIEVE JESUS PRAYED FOR
00:22:50.57\00:22:53.74
JUDAS, DON'T YOU THINK? >>AMEN.
00:22:53.77\00:22:56.64
>>I THINK THAT
[JESUS] PRAYED FOR ADAM.
00:22:56.67\00:22:59.47
I MEAN, SOMETIMES PEOPLE HAVE
A FREEDOM - AND ADAM PRAYED FOR
00:22:59.51\00:23:02.64
CAIN AND YOU - IT'S IMPORTANT
- AND GOD DOES ANSWER PRAYER,
00:23:02.68\00:23:06.78
DON'T MISUNDERSTAND, BUT NOT
EVERY TIME - AS LONG AS A PERSON
00:23:06.82\00:23:09.18
HAS A FREE WILL. AND
SO, SAMUEL WAS MOURNING THAT
00:23:09.22\00:23:14.82
SAUL - HE WAS
WORRIED ABOUT THE KINGDOM.
00:23:14.86\00:23:16.29
HE SAYS, 'WHAT AM
I GOING TO DO NOW?
00:23:16.32\00:23:17.43
SAUL'S NOT KING.
I'M TOO OLD TO DO THIS.
00:23:17.46\00:23:20.13
SAMUEL'S SONS HAD NOT
BEEN FAITHFUL - THEY WERE TO BE
00:23:20.16\00:23:22.96
JUDGES AND THEY STARTED TAKING
BRIBES. THAT'S WHEN THEY STARTED
00:23:23.00\00:23:26.37
ASKING FOR A KING. AND
GOD SAID, "HOW LONG WILL YOU
00:23:26.40\00:23:30.31
MOURN FOR SAUL, SEEING
I HAVE REJECTED HIM FROM
00:23:30.34\00:23:32.64
REIGNING OVER ISRAEL?
FILL YOUR HORN WITH OIL."
00:23:32.67\00:23:36.48
IT'S INTERESTING THAT WHEN
SAMUEL ANOINTS SAUL HE USES A
00:23:36.51\00:23:42.18
VIAL, BUT WHEN HE ANOINTS DAVID
HE USES A HORN OF OIL, WHICH WAS
00:23:42.22\00:23:47.89
SOMETHING THAT
THEY USED IN THE TEMPLE.
00:23:47.92\00:23:49.62
IT SAYS, "...GO; I AM SENDING
YOU TO JESSE THE BETHLEHEMITE.
00:23:49.66\00:23:54.36
FOR I HAVE PROVIDED MYSELF
A KING FROM AMONG HIS SONS."
00:23:54.40\00:23:59.40
AND SAMUEL IS THINKING, 'WELL,
SAUL IS STILL ON THE THRONE.' HE
00:23:59.43\00:24:02.74
SAYS IN VERSE 2, "HOW CAN I GO?
IF SAUL HEARS IT, HE WILL KILL
00:24:02.77\00:24:06.94
ME." - HE HAD ALREADY SEEN THAT
SAUL WAS ACTING VINDICTIVE AND
00:24:06.98\00:24:09.94
JEALOUS AND THREATENED.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF YOU'RE
00:24:09.98\00:24:13.98
ANOINTING ONE KING WHILE
ANOTHER KING IS STILL ALIVE?
00:24:14.02\00:24:16.82
ISN'T THAT VIEWED AS
TREASON? THAT'D BE TREACHEROUS.
00:24:16.85\00:24:20.42
SOME OF YOU, IF YOU REMEMBER
YOUR BIBLES, YOU KNOW THAT
00:24:20.46\00:24:25.39
ELISHA THE PROPHET TOLD ONE
OF THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS - HE
00:24:25.43\00:24:29.10
SAYS, 'I WANT YOU TO GO TO
ISRAEL AND I WANT YOU TO ANOINT
00:24:29.13\00:24:31.83
A GENERAL THERE,
NAMED JEHU, TO BE THE KING.
00:24:31.87\00:24:35.37
AND, AFTER YOU ANOINT HIM AND
PROCLAIM THAT HE IS TO BE THE
00:24:35.40\00:24:37.87
KING, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, BECAUSE
IF WORD GETS BACK TO THE SITTING
00:24:37.91\00:24:43.38
KING, THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS BEEN
CHOSEN AS KING, YOU CAN BE SEEN
00:24:43.41\00:24:47.68
AS A TRAITOR. AND
SO, YOU KNOW, SAMUEL'S
00:24:47.72\00:24:52.82
GOING, 'UH, SAUL MAY NOT LOOK
- HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THIS?
00:24:52.85\00:24:55.89
I'M GOING TO' - YOU KNOW,
WHEN HE - WHEN SAUL WAS ANOINTED
00:24:55.92\00:24:58.43
THERE WAS GREAT FANFARE AND
EVERYBODY WAS EXCITED ABOUT THIS
00:24:58.46\00:25:02.36
KING AND HE WAS ANNOUNCED AND -
AND HE SAYS, 'I DON'T WANT TO DO
00:25:02.40\00:25:07.27
THAT. HOW CAN I
DO IT, IF SAUL HEARS,
00:25:07.30\00:25:09.24
HE WILL KILL ME?' IT'S ALSO
INTERESTING, HASN'T GOD TAKEN
00:25:09.27\00:25:13.01
CARE OF SAMUEL
ALL ALONG THE WAY?
00:25:13.04\00:25:15.58
>>AMEN. >>THAT
HE SHOULD BEGIN TO
00:25:15.61\00:25:17.41
QUESTION IF GOD COULD
TAKE CARE OF HIM AT THIS POINT?
00:25:17.45\00:25:20.75
AND GOD SAYS,
'LOOK, HERE'S WHAT YOU DO.
00:25:20.78\00:25:23.75
TAKE A HEIFER WITH YOU AND SAY,
'I'VE COME TO SACRIFICE TO THE
00:25:23.79\00:25:27.39
LORD.'' NOW GOD'S NOT
TELLING SAMUEL TO LIE.
00:25:27.42\00:25:30.09
HE DID THAT VERY THING.
THEY DID COME TO BETHLEHEM
00:25:30.13\00:25:31.93
TO OFFER SACRIFICE.
IT WAS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
00:25:31.96\00:25:34.50
'THEN INVITE JESSE TO THE
SACRIFICE AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT
00:25:34.56\00:25:37.30
YOU SHALL DO AND YOU SHALL
ANOINT FOR ME THE ONE THAT I
00:25:37.33\00:25:40.64
NAME TO YOU.' SO,
IT WASN'T THAT UNUSUAL.
00:25:40.67\00:25:45.01
SAMUEL STARTED THE
SCHOOL OF THE PROPHETS.
00:25:45.04\00:25:47.88
HE WOULD GO - HE WENT ON A
CIRCUIT AROUND ISRAEL - RAMAH,
00:25:47.91\00:25:52.01
WHICH WAS HIS HOMETOWN,
WAS ABOUT ELEVEN MILES NORTH OF
00:25:52.05\00:25:55.82
BETHLEHEM. YOU'VE
GOT JERUSALEM - ABOUT
00:25:55.85\00:25:57.99
FOUR MILES AWAY FROM JERUSALEM
YOU'VE GOT BETHLEHEM. AND THEN,
00:25:58.02\00:26:01.42
YOU GO ELEVEN MILES NORTH
FROM THERE, YOU'VE GOT RAMAH.
00:26:01.46\00:26:04.89
FROM THAT CENTRAL LOCATION
SAMUEL USED TO GO ON A CIRCUIT
00:26:04.93\00:26:08.33
THROUGH ISRAEL, LIKE A GOOD
PRIEST AND A TEACHER AND A JUDGE
00:26:08.36\00:26:12.00
- AND HE WOULD JUDGE THE
PEOPLE. HE'D OFFER SACRIFICE.
00:26:12.03\00:26:14.67
HE'D INTERCEDE FOR THE DIFFERENT
DISTRICTS AND THE TRIBES.
00:26:14.70\00:26:17.61
AND SO, IT WASN'T GOING TO BE
THAT UNUSUAL THAT HE WOULD GO TO
00:26:17.64\00:26:20.01
THIS TRIBE OF JUDAH, OFFER
SACRIFICE IN BETHLEHEM - BUT HE
00:26:20.04\00:26:24.71
WAS THEN GOING CALL JESSE INTO
AN INNER ROOM - INTO THE HOUSE
00:26:24.75\00:26:28.08
WITH THE FAMILY AND HE WAS GOING
TO DO THIS ANOINTING SERVICE.
00:26:28.12\00:26:31.35
OSTENSIBLY,
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
00:26:31.39\00:26:34.09
AND SO, SAMUEL DID
WHAT THE LORD SAID.
00:26:34.12\00:26:38.76
CAN YOU SAY, 'AMEN'? >>AMEN.
00:26:38.79\00:26:40.70
>>DO YOU DO WHAT THE LORD
SAYS WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS?
00:26:40.73\00:26:43.30
YOU MIGHT ASK QUESTIONS BUT WHEN
YOU KNOW WHAT GOD SAYS, YOU NEED
00:26:43.33\00:26:45.23
TO DO IT. HE SAYS,
'DON'T BE A HEARER BUT A DOER'.
00:26:45.27\00:26:48.50
"SO SAMUEL DID WHAT THE LORD
SAID, AND WENT TO BETHLEHEM.
00:26:48.54\00:26:52.21
AND THE ELDERS OF THE TOWN
TREMBLED" - THEY SAW HIM COMING,
00:26:52.24\00:26:54.91
MAYBE WITH A SERVANT OR TWO AND
ONE OF THEM'S PULLING A HEIFER
00:26:54.94\00:26:57.48
FOR SACRIFICE -"AND
SAID, 'DO YOU COME PEACEABLY?'"
00:26:57.51\00:27:00.75
- THEY'RE TREMBLING
WHEN SAMUEL COMES. WHY?
00:27:00.78\00:27:03.79
WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU
REMEMBER THAT WHEN THEY PRAYED
00:27:03.82\00:27:07.59
FOR A KING, GOD
GAVE THEM A KING.
00:27:07.62\00:27:10.59
AND, AFTER SAMUEL INTRODUCED THE
KING AND SAID, 'THIS IS THE WAY
00:27:10.63\00:27:12.89
OF THE KINGDOM', THEN SAMUEL
SAYS, 'NOW, YOU'VE SINNED A BIG
00:27:12.93\00:27:16.97
SIN IN ASKING FOR A
KING. YOU'VE REJECTED GOD
00:27:17.00\00:27:20.40
IN ASKING FOR A KING.
IT'S WHEAT HARVEST NOW AND
00:27:20.44\00:27:24.01
YOU'RE GETTING READY TO HARVEST,
BUT I'M GOING TO PRAY AND GOD'S
00:27:24.04\00:27:26.07
GOING TO SEND THUNDER AND
RAIN AND DESTROY YOUR CROPS.' SO
00:27:26.11\00:27:29.18
SAMUEL PRAYS AND THUNDER
AND RAIN DESTROYS THEIR CROPS.
00:27:29.21\00:27:33.18
THIS IS A FELLOW WHO
PRAYED AND THINGS HAPPENED.
00:27:33.21\00:27:35.85
SO WHEN HE CAME TO YOUR TOWN
YOU WENT, 'UH OH.' THEY ALL HAD
00:27:35.88\00:27:39.39
GUILTY CONSCIENCES AND
THEY THOUGHT, 'NOW WHAT'S UP?
00:27:39.42\00:27:41.92
WHAT DID WE DO?
HAS HE FOUND OUT?'
00:27:41.96\00:27:43.79
SO THEY'RE WORRIED
ABOUT WHAT HIS PRESENCE MEANS.
00:27:43.83\00:27:46.36
IS HE COMING TO BLESS
OR IS HE COMING TO CURSE?
00:27:46.39\00:27:48.30
'DID WE DO SOMETHING WRONG?'
"AND THE ELDERS OF THE TOWN
00:27:48.33\00:27:51.80
TREMBLED AT HIS COMING."
THIS IS NOT YOUR REGULAR
00:27:51.83\00:27:54.70
APPOINTMENT - "'DO
YOU COME PEACEABLY?'
00:27:54.74\00:27:57.91
AND HE SAID, 'PEACEABLY;"
- SHALOM - "I HAVE COME TO
00:27:57.94\00:28:02.28
SACRIFICE TO THE
LORD. SANCTIFY YOURSELVES" -
00:28:02.31\00:28:05.51
CLEAN UP AND COME TOGETHER.
WE'RE GOING TO OFFER SACRIFICE
00:28:05.55\00:28:08.55
- "AND COME WITH ME TO THE
SACRIFICE." AND THEN HE MET
00:28:08.58\00:28:11.72
JESSE - AND THE BIBLE SAYS
JESSE WAS AN ANCIENT MAN AT THIS
00:28:11.75\00:28:15.06
POINT, MEANING HE WAS ONE OF THE
ELDERS IN BETHLEHEM AND HE WOULD
00:28:15.09\00:28:19.13
BE HOSTED BY ONE OF THE FAMILIES
- AND SAID, 'JESSE, I AM TO BE
00:28:19.16\00:28:21.33
HOSTED WITH YOU.' "THEN HE
CONSECRATED JESSE AND HIS SONS,
00:28:21.36\00:28:26.10
AND INVITED THEM TO THE
SACRIFICE." AND SO, WHEN THEY
00:28:26.13\00:28:29.40
CAME, THEY OFFERED THE SACRIFICE
AND THEN, EVIDENTLY, HE GOES
00:28:29.44\00:28:32.31
INTO THIS - BECAUSE YOU DON'T
WAN THIS BEING TOO PUBLIC - HE
00:28:32.34\00:28:35.11
MAYBE GOES INTO JESSE'S
HOUSE AND HE MEETS WITH THEM.
00:28:35.14\00:28:37.78
BEFORE THEY SIT DOWN TO THE
FEAST - SEE, THEY WOULD OFFER
00:28:37.81\00:28:39.88
THE SACRIFICE AND THEN
THEY WOULD BEGIN TO BUTCHER THE
00:28:39.91\00:28:42.02
SACRIFICE FOR THE FAMILY
AND THEY WOULD EAT OF IT. AND
00:28:42.05\00:28:46.92
MAYBE HE WENT IN THE HOUSE -
JESSE HAD A HOME - PROBABLY A
00:28:46.96\00:28:49.92
LARGE HOME, HE'S AN ELDER IN THE
LAND - AND SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M HERE
00:28:49.96\00:28:53.46
ON A SPECIAL MISSION.' HE
HAD TO TELL JESSE WHAT WAS UP.
00:28:53.50\00:28:56.77
HE SAID, 'I'M TO CHOOSE AND
ANOINT ONE OF YOUR SONS.' IT
00:28:56.80\00:29:00.24
SAYS HE COMES INTO THE HOUSE,
THAT HE, SAMUEL, LOOKS AT ELIAB
00:29:00.27\00:29:04.41
AND HE SAID, "SURELY THE
LORD'S ANOINTED IS BEFORE HIM!"
00:29:04.44\00:29:09.14
NOW ELIAB WAS - HE WAS AS CLOSE
TO SAUL AS ANY OF THE SONS OF
00:29:09.18\00:29:12.85
JESSE - HE IS
TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME.
00:29:12.88\00:29:15.48
HE LOOKS LIKE A PRINCE. HE LOOKS
STRONG. HE'S THE FIRSTBORN.
00:29:15.52\00:29:19.62
YOU KNOW, THE FIRSTBORN ARE
USUALLY THE MOST RESPONSIBLE
00:29:19.65\00:29:21.82
ONES BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT TO
MANAGE ALL THE OTHER SIBLINGS.
00:29:21.86\00:29:24.63
ANY OF YOU FIRSTBORN? AND
THE ONES WHO ARE THE HARDEST
00:29:24.66\00:29:27.83
TO LIVE WITH ARE THE BABIES
BECAUSE THEY GET SPOILED AND
00:29:27.86\00:29:30.80
THEY HAVE EVERYONE ELSE PICKING
UP AFTER THEM AND THEY GET ALL
00:29:30.83\00:29:32.67
- THEY'RE GOOEY AND
LOVEY - AND ATTENTION.
00:29:32.70\00:29:34.17
MOM AND DAD WANT TO BE GOOD
PARENTS FOR THE FIRSTBORN - BY
00:29:34.20\00:29:36.77
THE TIME THE LAST ONE
COMES THEY SAY, 'OH, WHO CARES?'
00:29:36.81\00:29:38.64
YOU KNOW? (LAUGHTER) NOW SAMUEL
IS A PROPHET, BUT BECAUSE YOU'RE
00:29:38.67\00:29:44.21
A PROPHET DOES NOT MEAN YOU'RE
A PERSON. PROPHETS DO NOT WALK
00:29:44.25\00:29:47.68
AROUND - EVERYTHING THEY SAY
IS A PROPHECY - 'THUS SAITH THE
00:29:47.72\00:29:51.02
LORD, I WANT A SANDWICH.' 'THUS
SAITH THE LORD, PLEASE PASS THE
00:29:51.05\00:29:54.26
SALT.' 'THUS SAITH THE LORD' -
NOT EVERYTHING IS A 'THUS SAITH
00:29:54.29\00:29:57.53
THE LORD' -
PROPHETS ARE JUST PEOPLE.
00:29:57.56\00:29:59.69
THAT'S IMPORTANT
BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT.
00:29:59.73\00:30:02.23
SO SAMUEL IS THINKING LIKE ANY
HUMAN, 'WOW, THAT'S A STRIKING
00:30:02.26\00:30:06.50
YOUNG MAN. HE LOOKS LIKE A FINE
KING. HE LOOKS LIKE HE MIGHT
00:30:06.53\00:30:10.51
EVEN BE BETTER THAN SAUL. MAYBE
NOT AS TALL, BUT' - AND HE'S
00:30:10.54\00:30:15.01
LOOKING ON THE OUTSIDE. AND EVEN
PROPHETS SOMETIMES FORGOT TO
00:30:15.04\00:30:21.58
LOOK ON THE INSIDE. AND GOD SAID
TO HIM - I'M IN VERSE 7 - VERY
00:30:21.62\00:30:29.32
IMPORTANT VERSE - 1 SAMUEL 16:7,
"BUT THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL,
00:30:29.36\00:30:33.19
'DO NOT LOOK AT HIS APPEARANCE
OR AT HIS PHYSICAL STATURE,
00:30:33.23\00:30:37.30
BECAUSE I HAVE REFUSED HIM.
FOR THE LORD DOES NOT SEE AS
00:30:37.33\00:30:42.70
MAN SEES; FOR MAN LOOKS AT
THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT THE
00:30:42.74\00:30:47.34
LORD LOOKS AT
THE HEART." >>AMEN.
00:30:47.38\00:30:50.48
>>"SO JESSE CALLED AMINIDAB,
AND MADE HIM PASS BEFORE SAMUEL.
00:30:50.51\00:30:55.55
AND HE SAID, 'NEITHER HAS
THE LORD CHOSEN THIS ONE.'
00:30:55.58\00:30:57.69
THEN JESSE MADE SHAMMAH PASS BY.
00:30:57.72\00:31:00.76
AND HE SAID, 'NEITHER HAS
THE LORD CHOSEN THIS ONE.' THUS
00:31:00.79\00:31:03.06
JESSE MADE SEVEN OF HIS
SONS PASS BEFORE SAMUEL.
00:31:03.09\00:31:06.90
AND SAMUEL SAID TO JESSE, 'THE
LORD HAS NOT CHOSEN THESE.'" -
00:31:06.93\00:31:11.50
AND SAMUEL'S BEGINNING TO THINK,
'OH MAN, DID I MISUNDERSTAND?'
00:31:11.53\00:31:14.50
AND HE'S SCRATCHING HIS HEAD AND
HE'S THINKING, 'I'M ALMOST SURE
00:31:14.54\00:31:17.31
GOD SAID - HE TOLD ME ONE OF
THE SONS OF JESSE - MAYBE' - AND
00:31:17.34\00:31:20.88
WHILE HE'S WONDERING HE THINKS,
'ARE THESE ALL OF YOUR SONS?'
00:31:20.91\00:31:25.71
AND JESSE SAYS, SORT OF
DISMISSIVELY, 'WELL, THERE'S THE
00:31:25.75\00:31:29.65
YOUNGEST'. AND HE SAID,
'ARE THESE ALL YOUR SONS?'
00:31:29.68\00:31:34.59
HE SAID, "THERE REMAINS YET THE
YOUNGEST, AND THERE HE IS,'" -
00:31:34.62\00:31:37.66
AND THE WAY IT'S WORDED IN THE
HEBREW - 'THERE HE IS' - IT'S
00:31:37.69\00:31:40.70
ALMOST LIKE, 'BEHOLD' OR 'LOOK
OVER THE VALLEY THERE ON THE
00:31:40.73\00:31:44.53
HILL WITH THE SHEEP - THAT'S
HIM. YOU SEE THE GUY - HE'S KIND
00:31:44.57\00:31:47.70
OF SLINGING STONES AND GOOFING
OFF. YEAH, THERE'S DAVID.'
00:31:47.74\00:31:52.97
(LAUGHTER) 'HE'S VERY PASSIONATE
AND HE'S JUST SINGING AND
00:31:53.01\00:31:58.85
WHISTLING ALL THE
TIME. YOU DON'T MEAN HIM?'
00:31:58.88\00:32:02.78
AND SAMUEL SAYS TO
JESSE, 'ARE THEY ALL HERE?'
00:32:02.82\00:32:05.75
HE SAYS, 'WELL, THERE'S DAVID.'
HE SAID, 'SEND HIM AND BRING HIM
00:32:05.79\00:32:08.82
FOR WE WILL NOT SIT DOWN'
- THEY'D SACRIFICED BUT THEY
00:32:08.86\00:32:11.26
HADN'T HAD THE FEAST YET - "'FOR
WE WILL NOT SIT DOWN TILL HE
00:32:11.29\00:32:13.86
COMES HERE.' SO HE
SENT AND BROUGHT HIM IN.
00:32:13.90\00:32:18.20
NOW HE WAS RUDDY," - AND THE
WORD 'RUDDY' MEANS REDDISH AND
00:32:18.23\00:32:23.14
WE'RE NOT SURE
HOW TO APPLY THAT.
00:32:23.17\00:32:25.77
I DID A LITTLE STUDY ON IT AND
SCHOLARS SAY IT COULD MEAN HE
00:32:25.81\00:32:30.31
HAD RED HAIR,
WHICH IS NOT UNHEARD OF.
00:32:30.35\00:32:32.91
MY MOTHER WAS JEWISH. MY
BROTHER HAD FLAMING RED HAIR.
00:32:32.95\00:32:36.82
YOU HAVE NEVER MET ANYONE WITH
REDDER HAIR THAN MY BROTHER.
00:32:36.85\00:32:40.69
IT'S AS RED AS - IT
WAS ORANGE. SO YOU CAN HAVE
00:32:40.72\00:32:44.06
JEWS WITH RED HAIR. AND I
- MY MOTHER AND FATHER HAD
00:32:44.09\00:32:49.23
BROWN EYES - I HAVE
BLUE EYES. YOU CAN HAVE JEWS
00:32:49.26\00:32:51.83
WITH BLUE EYES.
THEY'RE NOT SURE WHAT IT MEANS.
00:32:51.87\00:32:54.10
RUDDY COULD HAVE MEANT RED HAIR
OR IT COULD HAVE MEANT THAT HE
00:32:54.14\00:32:56.71
HAD RUDDY CHEEKS - THAT HE
WAS FAIR COMPLECTED AND HE CAME
00:32:56.74\00:33:00.24
RUNNING IN AND HIS CHEEKS
WERE RED AND - THE WAY THAT WORD
00:33:00.28\00:33:04.01
TRANSLATES THERE - THERE WAS
SOMETHING BRIGHT ABOUT HIS FACE.
00:33:04.05\00:33:07.32
IT CAN SOMETIMES TRANSLATE
BRIGHT EYES - THEY DON'T KNOW IF
00:33:07.35\00:33:10.29
THAT MEANS THAT HE HAD
RED HAIR AND BLUE EYES.
00:33:10.32\00:33:13.89
THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT MEANT THAT
HE JUST HAD BEAUTIFUL EYES, BUT
00:33:13.92\00:33:17.83
THERE'S SOMETHING STRIKING AND
ATTRACTIVE ABOUT HIS APPEARANCE
00:33:17.86\00:33:21.40
- IT'S VERY CLEAR. AND
IT'S INTERESTING THAT, YOU
00:33:21.43\00:33:23.93
KNOW, IT SAYS THAT, SOMETIMES,
ABOUT THESE TYPES OF CHRIST
00:33:23.97\00:33:28.37
- THAT THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL.
YOU KNOW, MOSES, REMEMBER THEY
00:33:28.40\00:33:32.17
WERE THROWING ALL THE BABIES
TO THE CROCODILES AND AMRAM AND
00:33:32.21\00:33:35.48
JOCHEBED, THEN THEY HAD
MOSES AFTER THE KING'S EDICT.
00:33:35.51\00:33:39.61
PRESUMABLY AARON AND MIRIAM WERE
BORN BEFORE THE KING MADE THE
00:33:39.65\00:33:43.05
EDICT THAT SAID THROW ALL
THE BABY BOYS IN THE RIVER.
00:33:43.08\00:33:45.49
IT WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED
FOR MIRIAM BUT IT WOULD HAVE
00:33:45.52\00:33:47.46
MATTERED FOR AARON. BUT THEN
IT SAYS THEY HAD MOSES AND IT'S
00:33:47.49\00:33:51.06
ALMOST LIKE THEY WERE THINKING,
'OH, SHOULD WE KEEP HIM OR NOT?'
00:33:51.09\00:33:54.20
AND THEY SAID, 'HE'S
A GOOD-LOOKING BABY'.
00:33:54.23\00:33:56.13
THE BIBLE SAYS HE
WAS A BEAUTIFUL BABY.
00:33:56.16\00:33:58.03
IT'S ALMOST LIKE IF HE
WASN'T, 'OH, WELL, UH'.
00:33:58.07\00:33:59.87
BUT SO THEY
SAID, 'LET'S KEEP HIM'.
00:33:59.90\00:34:02.90
BUT WHAT MOTHER DOESN'T
THINK HER BABY'S BEAUTIFUL?
00:34:02.94\00:34:06.44
IT SAYS JOSEPH WAS
BEAUTIFUL. DAVID WAS BEAUTIFUL.
00:34:06.47\00:34:10.81
MOSES WAS BEAUTIFUL.
THEY'RE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST.
00:34:10.85\00:34:14.22
AND YOU EVER SING THAT
SONG, ISN'T HE BEAUTIFUL?
00:34:14.25\00:34:17.29
AND JESUS IS BEAUTIFUL AND
SO IT'S JUST TELLING US THAT
00:34:17.32\00:34:20.26
THERE'S THIS INNER BEAUTY THAT
THE OUTWARD BEAUTY IS REFLECTIVE
00:34:20.29\00:34:22.86
OF. IT'S ALMOST STRANGE BECAUSE
FIRST IT SAYS, 'DON'T LOOK ON
00:34:22.89\00:34:25.83
THE OUTSIDE'.
FINALLY, WHEN HE DOES LOOK AT
00:34:25.86\00:34:28.56
HIM HE SAYS, 'OKAY, I'M
GOING TO LOOK ON THE HEART'.
00:34:28.60\00:34:30.20
IT SAYS HE'S
BEAUTIFUL BOTH WAYS.
00:34:30.23\00:34:32.80
NOW THAT'S ANOTHER
REASON THAT MAKES DAVID UNUSUAL.
00:34:32.83\00:34:34.97
NOT ONLY DOES HE HAVE ALL
THESE - HE'S A GENERAL, HE'S A
00:34:35.00\00:34:37.84
SHEPHERD, HE'S A WARRIOR, HE'S A
SONGWRITER, HE'S A POET, HE'S AN
00:34:37.87\00:34:41.94
ADMINISTRATOR, HE'S A BUILDER
- AND HE WAS GOOD LOOKING ON TOP
00:34:41.98\00:34:46.65
OF ALL OF THAT. AND
SAMUEL THEN "TOOK THE HORN
00:34:46.68\00:34:49.95
OF OIL AND HE ANOINTED HIM IN
THE MIDST OF HIS BROTHERS; AND
00:34:49.98\00:34:53.96
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON
DAVID FROM THAT DAY FORWARD."
00:34:53.99\00:34:58.19
NOW WHY DID GOD PICK DAVID?
BECAUSE HE WAS GOOD-LOOKING?
00:34:58.23\00:35:04.17
OR HE SAID, 'I HAVE
FOUND A MAN AFTER MY HEART'?
00:35:04.20\00:35:07.74
PROBABLY THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT THINGS YOU COULD SAY
00:35:07.77\00:35:10.17
ABOUT DAVID. IT'S
SAID ABOUT DAVID IN A WAY
00:35:10.21\00:35:12.57
IT'S NOT SAID ABOUT
ANYONE ELSE IN THE BIBLE.
00:35:12.61\00:35:15.08
THERE WAS
SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HEART.
00:35:15.11\00:35:17.11
THE LORD HAS SOUGHT HIMSELF
A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART.
00:35:17.15\00:35:20.45
IF YOU COULD PRAY - I WROTE A
SONG YEARS AGO I WILL NOT SING
00:35:20.48\00:35:24.35
FOR YOU - IT SAYS, 'LORD, LET ME
SEE WITH YOUR EYES, LET ME HEAR
00:35:24.39\00:35:28.02
WITH YOUR EARS, LORD, LET ME
SPEAK WITH YOUR LIPS' AND THEN
00:35:28.06\00:35:31.09
IT SAID, 'LORD, LET ME LOVE WITH
YOUR HEART' - GIVE ME A HEART
00:35:31.13\00:35:33.53
LIKE YOUR OWN. I'LL GIVE
YOU THE WHOLE WORDS SOMEDAY.
00:35:33.56\00:35:37.87
BUT I THOUGHT THAT'S THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN PRAY FOR
00:35:37.90\00:35:41.54
IS THAT YOU COULD HAVE
A HEART LIKE GOD'S HEART.
00:35:41.57\00:35:43.10
IF I COULD LOVE THE LOST THE WAY
JESUS LOVES THE LOST, I'D BE A
00:35:43.14\00:35:45.57
LOT BETTER
PASTOR AND EVANGELIST.
00:35:45.61\00:35:48.14
PROBLEM IS, WE DON'T
LOVE LIKE THE LORD LOVES.
00:35:48.18\00:35:50.51
WE COULD SEE THINGS THE WAY
THE LORD SEES - BUT DAVID HAD AN
00:35:50.55\00:35:54.38
OUTLOOK ON LIFE, HE HAD A
PASSION FOR OTHERS LIKE THE
00:35:54.42\00:35:58.69
LORD. HE HAD A
LOVE FOR THE FATHER AND
00:35:58.72\00:36:01.42
FOR GOD AND FOR
OBEDIENCE LIKE THE LORD.
00:36:01.46\00:36:05.83
AND - BUT OFTEN WE LOOK AT
THINGS LIKE SAMUEL DID - WE LOOK
00:36:05.86\00:36:08.93
ON THE OUTSIDE. AND I
REMEMBER, YEARS AGO, I
00:36:08.96\00:36:14.27
TOOK MY - OUR SON MICAH OUT
LOOKING FOR A CAR AND IT WAS
00:36:14.30\00:36:20.58
TIME FOR HIM TO GET HIS FIRST
CAR AND I MADE THE MISTAKE OF
00:36:20.61\00:36:23.88
STOPPING AT A CHEVY DEALER
AND HE LOOKED AT A RED CAMARO.
00:36:23.91\00:36:27.55
AND HE SAID, 'SURELY THE LORD'S
ANOINTED IS BEFORE ME.' (RAUCOUS
00:36:27.58\00:36:31.75
LAUGHTER) I SAID, 'OH,
MICAH, YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK AT THE
00:36:31.79\00:36:34.66
HEART.' (LAUGHTER) I SAID, 'IT'S
A GAS GUZZLER AND IT'S GOING TO
00:36:34.69\00:36:38.63
BE A PIECE OF JUNK
IN ABOUT FIVE YEARS.
00:36:38.66\00:36:40.76
DON'T - YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK ON
THE INSIDE - DON'T LOOK AT THE
00:36:40.80\00:36:42.66
RED ON THE OUTSIDE. THE
POLICE WILL LOOK AT THE RED
00:36:42.70\00:36:44.83
ON THE OUTSIDE AND YOU'LL GET
A TICKET.' A LADY GOES TO MACY'S
00:36:44.87\00:36:48.87
AND SHE LOOKS ACROSS THE FLOOR
AND SHE SEES A BEAUTIFUL DRESS.
00:36:48.90\00:36:51.67
'SURELY THE LORD'S ANOINTED
IS BEFORE ME.' DOESN'T KNOW THAT
00:36:51.71\00:36:55.84
IT'S MADE FROM RECYCLED PLASTIC
BOTTLES IN CHINA AND HASN'T
00:36:55.88\00:36:59.68
LOOKED AT THE PRICE TAG YET.
WE ALWAYS LOOK ON THE OUTSIDE.
00:36:59.71\00:37:03.92
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS
THAT JESUS WAS TEACHING WHEN HE
00:37:03.95\00:37:06.22
BEGAN HIS MINISTRY?
WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO JESUS IS
00:37:06.25\00:37:10.19
INNER VALUE. HE
TALKED ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS
00:37:10.23\00:37:13.73
LEADERS WHO PRAYED TO BE
SEEN OF MEN - ON THE OUTSIDE.
00:37:13.76\00:37:17.67
THEY DID THEIR
FASTING TO BE SEEN OF MEN.
00:37:17.70\00:37:20.17
THEY DID THEIR
GIVING TO BE SEEN OF MEN.
00:37:20.20\00:37:21.87
ALL OF IT WAS TO BE SEEN.
AND GOD SAID, 'IT'S GOOD TO
00:37:21.90\00:37:24.84
PRAY, IT'S GOOD TO FAST, IT'S
GOOD TO GIVE, BUT YOU DO IT AND
00:37:24.87\00:37:27.71
YOUR FATHER WHO SEES IN
SECRET WILL REWARD YOU OPENLY.
00:37:27.74\00:37:31.85
GOD IS REALLY INTERESTED IN WHAT
YOU ARE ON THE INSIDE, BECAUSE
00:37:31.88\00:37:35.55
IF YOU'RE RIGHT ON THE
INSIDE, THE OUTSIDE WILL CHANGE.
00:37:35.58\00:37:38.99
>>AMEN. >>ISN'T THAT TRUE?
00:37:39.02\00:37:40.49
>>YES. >>YOU KNOW
WHAT INTEGRITY IS?
00:37:40.52\00:37:43.76
INTEGRITY MEANS YOU'RE THE SAME
PERSON WHEN NO ONE'S LOOKING AS
00:37:43.79\00:37:47.60
YOU ARE WHEN THEY
ARE LOOKING. >>AMEN.
00:37:47.60\00:37:49.90
>>AND GOD WANTS US TO BE RENEWED
AND TRANSFORMED ON THE INSIDE.
00:37:49.93\00:37:55.00
THIS IS THE
MOST IMPORTANT THING.
00:37:55.04\00:37:58.31
WHAT ARE YOU IN THE HEART?
00:37:58.34\00:37:59.81
ACTS 13:22 - YOU NOTICE IT SAYS
- AND THIS WAS IN OUR SCRIPTURE
00:37:59.84\00:38:03.85
READING - "AND WHEN HE HAD
REMOVED [SAUL], HE RAISED UP FOR
00:38:03.88\00:38:08.08
THEM DAVID AS KING, TO WHOM ALSO
HE GAVE TESTIMONY AND SAID, 'I
00:38:08.12\00:38:12.32
HAVE FOUND DAVID THE SON OF
JESSE, A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART,
00:38:12.35\00:38:17.53
WHO WILL DO ALL MY WILL.'" SO
OFTEN WHEN PEOPLE MAKE THE MOST
00:38:17.56\00:38:21.20
IMPORTANT DECISIONS IN LIFE -
A GIRL LOOKS AT A MAN AND SAYS,
00:38:21.23\00:38:28.50
'SURELY THE LORD'S
ANOINTED IS BEFORE ME'.
00:38:28.54\00:38:32.14
AND GOD SAYS, 'DO NOT LOOK ON
THEIR OUTWARD APPEARANCE, LOOK
00:38:32.17\00:38:37.31
ON THE HEART. YOU
WANT TO SEE WHO ARE
00:38:37.35\00:38:39.51
THEY REALLY ON THE
INSIDE. MEN DO THE SAME THING.
00:38:39.55\00:38:43.42
THEY SEE A BEAUTIFUL GIRL -
'I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR MY WIFE -
00:38:43.45\00:38:46.35
SURELY THE LORD'S ANOINTED' -
GOD SAYS, 'NO, YOU CAN'T AFFORD
00:38:46.39\00:38:50.36
THAT ONE.' (LAUGHTER)
YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK ON THE HEART.
00:38:50.39\00:38:57.23
DEUTERONOMY 6 - 'THOU SHALT LOVE
THE LORD YOUR GOD' - WHAT'S THE
00:38:57.27\00:39:00.40
GREAT COMMAND? ALL OF
YOUR HEART, ALL OF YOUR
00:39:00.44\00:39:04.47
SOUL, ALL OF YOUR STRENGTH.
DAVID LOVED THE LORD LIKE THAT.
00:39:04.51\00:39:09.44
IT SAYS IN PSALMS 78, "HE ALSO
CHOSE DAVID HIS SERVANT, AND
00:39:09.48\00:39:13.78
TOOK HIM FROM THE
SHEEPFOLDS...TO SHEPHERD JACOB
00:39:13.82\00:39:16.55
HIS PEOPLE, AND
ISRAEL HIS INHERITANCE.
00:39:16.58\00:39:19.62
SO HE SHEPHERDED THEM ACCORDING
TO THE INTEGRITY OF HIS HEART,"
00:39:19.65\00:39:24.33
- WHAT WAS DIFFERENT ABOUT
DAVID? HE HAD AN HONEST HEART.
00:39:24.36\00:39:27.40
IF YOU COULD SHOW DAVID HE WAS
WRONG, HE WOULD LISTEN TO YOU.
00:39:27.40\00:39:30.53
THERE ARE SEVERAL STORIES THAT
WE'LL BE LOOKING AT LATER WHERE
00:39:30.57\00:39:32.57
DAVID, HE WOULD LISTEN TO
ANYBODY AND HE WAS WILLING TO
00:39:32.60\00:39:36.77
ACCEPT REBUKE, WHERE SOME
KINGS WERE TOO PROUD FOR THAT.
00:39:36.81\00:39:41.64
HE WAS REASONABLE. HE
WANTED TO DO WHAT - TRUTH
00:39:41.68\00:39:44.01
AND JUSTICE - WERE THE
MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO DAVID.
00:39:44.05\00:39:46.85
YOU READ SOME OF THE PSALMS
AND YOU CAN TELL WHAT'S IN HIS
00:39:46.88\00:39:49.18
HEART. THE BIBLE
SAYS, IN 2 CHRONICLES
00:39:49.22\00:39:52.35
(16:9)- ONE OF MY FAVORITE
VERSES - "FOR THE EYES OF THE
00:39:52.39\00:39:55.02
LORD RUN TO AND FRO THROUGHOUT
THE WHOLE EARTH," - GOD IS
00:39:55.06\00:39:58.13
SCANNING THE WORLD - "TO
SHOW HIMSELF STRONG ON BEHALF OF
00:39:58.16\00:40:02.10
THOSE WHOSE
HEART IS LOYAL TO HIM."
00:40:02.13\00:40:05.03
THAT MEANS GOD IS LOOKING
DOWN FROM HEAVEN; HE WANTS TO DO
00:40:05.07\00:40:07.24
WONDERFUL THINGS. HE
WANTS TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG.
00:40:07.27\00:40:09.70
HE WANTS TO DO MIRACLES FOR
YOU, IF YOUR HEART IS LOYAL.
00:40:09.74\00:40:13.01
IF WE ARE FULLY SURRENDERED
TO GOD AND OUR HEARTS ARE LOYAL,
00:40:13.04\00:40:15.61
AND OUR PASSION IN LIFE IS
TO KNOW HIM AND TO DO HIS WILL,
00:40:15.64\00:40:18.85
HE WANTS TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO
YOU. 1 KINGS 8:39, "THEN HEAR IN
00:40:18.88\00:40:26.05
HEAVEN" - SOLOMON IS PRAYING
- "YOUR DWELLING PLACE, AND
00:40:26.09\00:40:28.16
FORGIVE, AND ACT, AND GIVE
TO EVERYONE ACCORDING TO ALL HIS
00:40:28.19\00:40:31.29
WAYS, WHOSE HEART YOU KNOW" -
NOTICE WHAT SOLOMON SAYS - "(FOR
00:40:31.33\00:40:35.70
YOU ALONE KNOW THE HEARTS OF
ALL THE SONS OF MEN)," - GOD CAN
00:40:35.73\00:40:41.40
LOOK ON - THE DEVIL MIGHT LOOK
ON THE OUTSIDE AND KNOW WHAT
00:40:41.44\00:40:44.74
YOU'RE THINKING, BUT
HE CAN'T READ YOUR HEART.
00:40:44.77\00:40:48.28
YOU CAN PRAY IN YOUR HEART
AND ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE
00:40:48.31\00:40:50.88
PRAYING. THAT'S OKAY. YOU
CAN READ IN THE BIBLE WHERE
00:40:50.91\00:40:53.68
NEHEMIAH PRAYED IN HIS HEART
WHEN HE WAS BEFORE THE KING, HE
00:40:53.72\00:40:56.18
SAID, 'OH LORD, GIVE ME FAVOR IN
THE SIGHT - HE DIDN'T SAY IT OUT
00:40:56.22\00:40:58.69
LOUD, BUT GOD HEARD THAT
PRAYER. SO GOD KNOWS WHAT
00:40:58.72\00:41:02.92
YOU'RE THINKING. THE
BIBLE SAYS, OFTEN, JESUS
00:41:02.96\00:41:06.36
KNEW WHAT THEY WERE THINKING AND
HE WOULD ANSWER THEIR THOUGHTS.
00:41:06.39\00:41:10.73
AT THE FEAST WITH SIMON, WHEN
MARY MAGDALENE WAS THERE, JESUS
00:41:10.77\00:41:13.40
KNEW WHAT SIMON WAS THINKING:
'OH, IF THIS MAN WAS A PROPHET
00:41:13.44\00:41:15.80
HE'D KNOW WHAT MANNER OF
WOMAN THIS IS THAT TOUCHES HIM.'
00:41:15.84\00:41:18.21
JESUS ANSWERED
WHAT HE WAS THINKING.
00:41:18.24\00:41:20.94
AND WHEN JESUS TOLD THE SINNER
- THE PARALYTIC - 'YOUR SON'S' -
00:41:20.98\00:41:24.51
'YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN',
THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES
00:41:24.55\00:41:27.32
THOUGHT, 'WHO IS
THIS THAT FORGIVES SINS?'
00:41:27.35\00:41:30.05
JESUS, KNOWING
THEIR THOUGHTS, ANSWERED.
00:41:30.09\00:41:32.99
SO WHEN YOU PRAY IN YOUR HEART,
JESUS HEARS YOUR PRAYER BECAUSE
00:41:33.02\00:41:35.42
JESUS KNOWS YOUR HEART. >>AMEN.
00:41:35.46\00:41:37.33
>>NOW DAVID GOES ON AND HE
BECOMES ONE OF THE GREATEST
00:41:37.36\00:41:42.23
KINGS - FOLLOWING THIS ANOINTING
- THE OIL IS POURED ON HIM - A
00:41:42.26\00:41:46.30
SYMBOL OF THE SPIRIT GOING IN
- BUT I DON'T WANT TO RUSH PAST
00:41:46.33\00:41:50.51
THE WAY THAT GOD PREPARED
HIM FOR THIS GREAT LIFE WORK WAS
00:41:50.54\00:41:54.54
THROUGH SPENDING TIME
OUT IN COUNTRY IN SOLITUDE.
00:41:54.58\00:41:59.75
YOU KNOW, IT'S OFTEN TRUE THAT
THROUGH COMMUNION WITH GOD - YOU
00:41:59.78\00:42:04.72
CAN'T GET IT THROUGH
THE BUSYNESS OF LIFE.
00:42:04.75\00:42:07.42
SOME OF US, WE SAY WE'RE TOO
BUSY TO HAVE TIME FOR COMMUNION,
00:42:07.46\00:42:10.46
BUT YOU'VE GOT TO
HAVE COMMUNION WITH GOD.
00:42:10.49\00:42:13.36
DAVID, OUT THERE FOLLOWING THE
SHEEP, HE HAD A LOT OF TIME OUT
00:42:13.40\00:42:17.20
IN NATURE TO PRAY AND TO
THINK. AND IT WASN'T JUST DAVID.
00:42:17.23\00:42:22.20
HOW DID MOSES GET PREPARED?
MOSES THOUGHT, 'I'M GOING TO
00:42:22.24\00:42:25.37
SAVE ISRAEL AND GOD
SAID, 'NO, YOU NEED SOME TIME
00:42:25.41\00:42:28.01
FOLLOWING SHEEP'. AND
HE SENT HIM OUT THERE TO
00:42:28.04\00:42:30.91
TAKE CARE OF
JETHRO'S SHEEP FOR 40 YEARS.
00:42:30.95\00:42:33.78
HOW DID JOSEPH PREPARE
FOR HIS GREAT LIFE WORK?
00:42:33.82\00:42:36.89
HE SPENT TIME
TAKING CARE OF SHEEP.
00:42:36.92\00:42:38.82
HE SPENT SOME TIME
OUT IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:42:38.85\00:42:41.89
AND THE NATION OF ISRAEL, BEFORE
THEY COULD ENTER THE PROMISED
00:42:41.92\00:42:43.89
LAND, HE STERILIZED THEM - HE
TAUGHT THEM ABOUT WHO HE WAS -
00:42:43.93\00:42:47.66
IN THE WILDERNESS.
THEY WERE PURIFIED.
00:42:47.73\00:42:51.87
YOU KNOW, I READ SOMETHING LAST
NIGHT IN THE BOOK PATRIARCHS AND
00:42:51.90\00:42:54.67
PROPHETS ABOUT DAVID.
WHILE HE WAS OUT THERE TAKING
00:42:54.70\00:42:58.91
CARE OF THE SHEEP, IT
SAYS, "DAILY REVELATIONS OF THE
00:42:58.94\00:43:01.51
CHARACTER AND MAJESTY OF HIS
CREATOR FILLED THE YOUNG POET'S
00:43:01.54\00:43:05.25
HEART WITH
ADORATION AND REJOICING.
00:43:05.28\00:43:08.22
IN CONTEMPLATION OF GOD AND HIS
WORKS, THE FACULTIES OF DAVID'S
00:43:08.25\00:43:12.99
MIND AND HIS HEART WERE
DEVELOPING AND STRENGTHENING FOR
00:43:13.02\00:43:16.69
THE WORK OF HIS AFTERLIFE.
HE WAS DAILY COMING INTO A MORE
00:43:16.73\00:43:20.63
INFINITE COMMUNION WITH
GOD. HIS MIND WAS CONSTANTLY
00:43:20.66\00:43:24.40
PENETRATING INTO NEW DEPTHS FOR
FRESH THEMES TO INSPIRE HIS SONG
00:43:24.43\00:43:29.20
AND TO WAKE THE
MUSIC OF HIS HARP."
00:43:29.24\00:43:31.24
IT'S INTERESTING, WE HAVE A HARP
HERE TODAY WHILE WE'RE TALKING
00:43:31.27\00:43:33.78
ABOUT THAT. THAT'S QUITE BY
CHANCE. NEXT WEEK WE'RE GOING TO
00:43:33.81\00:43:36.81
HAVE ONE ON PURPOSE. IT'S
GOING TO BE AN OLDER HARP -
00:43:36.85\00:43:40.75
"WHO CAN MEASURE THE RESULTS
OF THOSE YEARS OF TOIL AND
00:43:40.78\00:43:43.42
WANDERING AMONG
THE LONELY HILLS?
00:43:43.45\00:43:45.72
THE COMMUNION WITH NATURE
AND WITH GOD, THE CARE OF HIS
00:43:45.75\00:43:48.86
FLOCKS, THE PERILS AND
DELIVERANCE, THE GRIEFS AND THE
00:43:48.89\00:43:51.73
JOYS OF HIS LOWLY LOT WERE NOT
ONLY TO MOLD THE CHARACTER OF
00:43:51.76\00:43:55.30
DAVID AND TO INFLUENCE HIS
FUTURE LIFE, BUT THROUGH THE
00:43:55.33\00:43:58.27
PSALMS OF ISRAEL'S SWEET SINGER,
THEY WERE IN ALL COMING AGES TO
00:43:58.30\00:44:02.64
KINDLE LOVE AND FAITH IN THE
HEARTS OF GOD'S PEOPLE, BRINGING
00:44:02.67\00:44:06.81
THEM NEAR TO THE EVER-LOVING
HEART OF HIM IN WHOM ALL
00:44:06.84\00:44:10.48
CREATURES LIVE." YOU
KNOW, WHEN YOU READ THE 23RD
00:44:10.51\00:44:14.52
PSALM - THAT BEAUTIFUL PSALM -
YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THE 23RD PSALM
00:44:14.55\00:44:17.05
IF DAVID HADN'T BEEN
OUT THERE FOLLOWING SHEEP.
00:44:17.09\00:44:19.92
BUT HE HAD INCREDIBLE ABILITY
- HE WAS VERY BRIGHT - I'M
00:44:19.95\00:44:24.73
CONVINCED THAT DAVID
WAS EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT.
00:44:24.76\00:44:28.83
I THINK THERE'S PRACTICAL
REASONS FOR THINKING HE WAS
00:44:28.86\00:44:31.13
EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT. IF
YOU HAD GIVEN HIM A TEST, HE
00:44:31.17\00:44:33.64
WOULD HAVE SCORED VERY
HIGH. ONE REASON IS HE FATHERED
00:44:33.67\00:44:37.04
SOLOMON, WHO WAS THE
WISEST PERSON THAT EVER LIVED,
00:44:37.07\00:44:40.68
NEXT TO JESUS, RIGHT?
YOU LOOK AT THE SCOPE OF
00:44:40.71\00:44:43.55
UNDERSTANDING HE HAD - DAVID,
IN HIS TIME IN THE HILLS, IT WAS
00:44:43.58\00:44:48.25
PREPARING HIM TO
BE A MILITARY LEADER.
00:44:48.28\00:44:50.65
YOU KNOW, TO BE A GOOD MILITARY
LEADER - I DOWNLOADED A FREE
00:44:50.69\00:44:54.56
BOOK ONE TIME THAT TALKED
ABOUT THIS ANCIENT GENERAL - THE
00:44:54.59\00:45:00.06
WRITINGS OF THIS ANCIENT GENERAL
- HIS ADVICE ON HOW YOU WORK IN
00:45:00.10\00:45:04.27
MILITARY. HE SAID, 'YOU NEED
TO KNOW GEOGRAPHY. YOU NEED TO
00:45:04.30\00:45:07.70
UNDERSTAND THE LAND AND HOW THE
LAND WILL WORK FOR OR AGAINST
00:45:07.74\00:45:10.27
YOU IN A BATTLE.' AND I JUST
READ - I WAS ON A PLANE AND I
00:45:10.31\00:45:14.41
GOT BORED AND I READ THIS THING
ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT TOPOGRAPHY
00:45:14.44\00:45:17.71
AND THE COUNTRY AND KNOWING
THE COUNTRY IS IN A BATTLE.
00:45:17.75\00:45:21.75
BOY, DID THAT EVER COME
IN HANDY IN DAVID'S LIFE.
00:45:21.78\00:45:24.32
HE KNEW ALL THE NOOKS AND
CRANNIES - HE ENDED UP - YOU
00:45:24.35\00:45:26.65
KNOW, DAVID, AMONG BEING A POET
AND BEING A MILITARY GENIUS, AND
00:45:26.69\00:45:32.39
BEING AN ADMINISTRATOR AND A
JUDGE, HE WAS A SPELUNKER - YOU
00:45:32.43\00:45:37.27
KNOW WHAT A SPELUNKER
IS? THEY EXPLORE CAVES.
00:45:37.30\00:45:40.47
THAT'S ONE REASON I LIKE DAVID.
DAVID SPENT TIME IN CAVES.
00:45:40.50\00:45:44.21
WELL, HOW DO YOU
THINK HE FOUND THOSE CAVES?
00:45:44.24\00:45:45.91
WHEN HE WAS ROAMING THE
TERRITORY OF JUDAH - THAT'S
00:45:45.94\00:45:48.21
WHERE YOU'VE GOT THE DEAD SEA
AREA AND SOME OF THOSE CAVES.
00:45:48.24\00:45:50.38
HE WOULD HIDE FROM SAUL -
AND SO HIS TIME OUT THERE IN THE
00:45:50.41\00:45:55.02
WILDERNESS, IT REALLY
CAME IN HANDY LATER IN LIFE.
00:45:55.05\00:45:57.62
AND YOU MIGHT BE THINKING,
'LORD, WHY DO YOU HAVE ME OUT
00:45:57.65\00:46:00.32
HERE FOLLOWING
SHEEP ALL THESE YEARS?'
00:46:00.36\00:46:03.76
SOMETIMES YOUR TIME OUT THERE
- YOU MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT
00:46:03.79\00:46:08.33
WILDERNESS THAN I HAVE AND
- I QUITE LITERALLY DID HAVE A
00:46:08.36\00:46:12.00
WILDERNESS FOR A WHILE, BUT THE
LORD IS PREPARING YOU IN THAT
00:46:12.03\00:46:16.20
EXPERIENCE. HE'S TEACHING YOU.
00:46:16.24\00:46:18.77
YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW WHY DOING
AUTO MECHANIC WORK FOR YEARS IS
00:46:18.81\00:46:22.78
PREPARING YOU FOR MINISTRY,
BUT YOU'D BE SURPRISED.
00:46:22.81\00:46:26.75
THERE'S A LOT YOU CAN
LEARN ABOUT PEOPLE FROM A CAR.
00:46:26.78\00:46:30.15
YOU DIDN'T THINK I
WAS GOING TO SAY THAT.
00:46:30.19\00:46:34.02
SOMEDAY I'LL
PREACH MY SERMON ON THAT.
00:46:34.06\00:46:36.62
AND FINALLY, NOT ONLY WAS HE
PREPARED IN SOLITUDE, DAVID WAS
00:46:36.66\00:46:41.20
SPIRIT FILLED. IT SAYS
THERE IN 1 SAMUEL 16:13,
00:46:41.23\00:46:46.17
"THEN SAMUEL TOOK THE HORN
OF OIL AND ANOINTED HIM IN THE
00:46:46.20\00:46:48.40
MIDST OF HIS BROTHERS; AND
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON
00:46:48.44\00:46:51.54
DAVID FROM THAT DAY
FORWARD. SO SAMUEL AROSE
00:46:51.57\00:46:55.08
AND WENT TO RAMAH."
SAMUEL DID WHAT HE WAS SUPPOSED
00:46:55.11\00:46:57.55
TO DO AND HE
WENT BACK TO HIS HOME.
00:46:57.58\00:46:59.38
THAT WAS THE LAST
MISSION OF SAMUEL.
00:46:59.41\00:47:01.92
BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME
ON DAVID AND IT BEGAN TO MOVE IN
00:47:01.95\00:47:05.15
HIM. AND YOU
THINK, ONCE THE SPIRIT
00:47:05.19\00:47:06.15
CAME OVER HIM HE'D NOW
GO TO THE PALACE AND SAY,
00:47:06.19\00:47:08.49
'HEY, SAUL, I'M KING. I
JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW.
00:47:08.52\00:47:10.33
CAN YOU MOVE OVER?'
YOU KNOW, HE HAD PATIENCE.
00:47:10.36\00:47:13.36
HE WENT FROM THIS EXPERIENCE
- HIS BROTHERS WATCHING HIM GET
00:47:13.40\00:47:16.26
ANOINTED WITH OIL - THEY HAD TO
KEEP THIS TOP SECRET - AND THEN
00:47:16.30\00:47:20.24
HE GOES BACK TO
TAKE CARE OF SHEEP.
00:47:20.27\00:47:22.27
AND THEN HE SAID, 'LOOK, IF
GOD'S THE ONE WHO CHOSE WHAT TO
00:47:22.30\00:47:26.37
DO, GOD'S THE ONE WHO CHOOSES
WHEN TO DO IT, AND I'M NOT GOING
00:47:26.41\00:47:29.38
TO RUSH.' NOW YOU MAY NOT KNOW
THAT THIS WAS NOT THE ONLY TIME
00:47:29.41\00:47:33.11
DAVID WAS ANOINTED.
DAVID WAS ANOINTED THREE TIMES.
00:47:33.15\00:47:36.92
HE WAS ANOINTED HERE BY SAMUEL,
AND THEN YOU LOOK IN 2 SAMUEL 2,
00:47:36.95\00:47:43.06
WHEN HE FINALLY WAS ACCEPTED
TO BE KING IN JUDAH, HE WAS
00:47:43.09\00:47:47.60
ANOINTED IN HEBRON -
THAT WAS HIS FIRST CAPITAL.
00:47:47.66\00:47:51.20
AND THEN, FINALLY, AFTER A
PROTRACTED BATTLE FOR THREE AND
00:47:51.23\00:47:54.44
A HALF YEARS WITH ISHBOSHETH,
THE SON OF SAUL, HE WAS ANOINTED
00:47:54.47\00:47:59.54
KING OVER ALL ISRAEL IN
JERUSALEM THREE AND A HALF YEARS
00:47:59.57\00:48:03.41
LATER. NOW ISN'T
THAT INTERESTING?
00:48:03.45\00:48:05.55
ONCE AS A CHILD, THEN ONCE AT
THE BEGINNING OF HIS BEING KING
00:48:05.58\00:48:12.12
WHEN HE WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD,
AND ONCE THREE AND A HALF YEARS
00:48:12.15\00:48:14.82
LATER. DOES THAT SOUND
AT ALL FAMILIAR TO YOU?
00:48:14.86\00:48:17.49
JESUS SPEAKS IN THE TEMPLE AS
A CHILD, THEN WHEN HE'S THIRTY
00:48:17.53\00:48:21.76
YEARS OLD JESUS IS ANOINTED WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND THEN BEFORE
00:48:21.80\00:48:24.73
HE IS CRUCIFIED HE'S
ANOINTED BY MARY MAGDALENE.
00:48:24.77\00:48:29.70
DO YOU KNOW SHE ANOINTS
HIM WITH OIL BEFORE HE DIES?
00:48:29.74\00:48:33.01
SO THERE'S ALMOST LIKE
THREE ANOINTINGS THERE AS WELL.
00:48:33.04\00:48:36.54
WELL, IN CONCLUSION - THIS WAS
REALLY AN INTRODUCTION TO DAVID
00:48:36.58\00:48:39.85
THIS MORNING, BUT THE MAIN THING
I WANT YOU TO REALIZE IS IT
00:48:39.88\00:48:44.32
TELLS US THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD
CAME ON DAVID, BUT THE SPIRIT OF
00:48:44.35\00:48:48.62
THE LORD DEPARTED FROM SAUL AND
A DISTRESSING SPIRIT FROM THE
00:48:48.66\00:48:52.56
LORD TROUBLED HIM. YOU
MIGHT WONDER WHY WOULD A
00:48:52.59\00:48:54.36
DISTRESSING SPIRIT TROUBLE
HIM? I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT
00:48:54.40\00:48:57.03
A LITTLE NEXT WEEK.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
00:48:57.07\00:48:59.70
IS DAVID HAD
SURRENDERED. SAUL HAD NOT.
00:48:59.73\00:49:04.51
THE LORD WANTS TO
REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU.
00:49:04.54\00:49:07.21
HE WANTS TO LEAD YOU.
HE'S GOT SOME PLANS FOR YOUR
00:49:07.24\00:49:09.11
LIFE AND THE ONLY LIMITATION ON
WHAT GOD CAN DO IN YOUR LIFE IS
00:49:09.14\00:49:14.12
HOW YOU HAVE
SURRENDERED YOUR HEART.
00:49:14.15\00:49:16.25
IN MARK 8:35 JESUS SAID, "FOR
WHOEVER DESIRES TO SAVE HIS LIFE
00:49:16.28\00:49:20.49
WILL LOSE IT, BUT WHOEVER LOSES
HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE AND THE
00:49:20.52\00:49:24.49
GOSPEL'S WILL SAVE IT."
SAUL REFUSED TO HUMBLE HIMSELF
00:49:24.53\00:49:28.43
AND GIVE HIS HEART TO
GOD. HE LOST THE KINGDOM.
00:49:28.46\00:49:31.83
DAVID HAD A HEART
LIKE GOD'S OWN HEART.
00:49:31.87\00:49:34.44
HE SURRENDERED
HIS HEART TO THE LORD.
00:49:34.47\00:49:35.90
HE GAINED THE KINGDOM.
NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU,
00:49:35.94\00:49:38.47
FRIENDS, BUT I WANT TO
LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST.
00:49:38.51\00:49:40.98
I WANT TO BE IN THAT
KINGDOM. AND WHAT GOD WANTS
00:49:41.01\00:49:43.98
IS YOUR HEART. >>AMEN.
00:49:44.01\00:49:45.68
>>PEOPLE LOOK ON THE OUTSIDE.
OUR WORLD IS PREOCCUPIED WITH
00:49:45.71\00:49:48.38
EXTERNAL THINGS. WE ALL
WANT TO MAKE A GOOD SHOWING.
00:49:48.42\00:49:51.42
BUT WITH GOD, HE WANTS TO
KNOW WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE.
00:49:51.45\00:49:55.42
I HEARD A PASTOR SAY ONE TIME,
'IN THE WORLD, EVERYONE JUDGES
00:49:55.46\00:49:57.93
THE FAMILY BY WHAT
KIND OF HOUSE THEY LIVE IN.
00:49:57.96\00:50:01.16
GOD WANTS TO KNOW WHAT KIND
OF FAMILY LIVES IN THE HOUSE.'
00:50:01.20\00:50:03.67
>>AMEN. >>IN THE
WORLD THEY'LL HAVE SOME
00:50:03.70\00:50:06.90
HOLLYWOOD EVENT AND EVERYONE
LOOKS AT THE DRESS THE WOMAN
00:50:06.94\00:50:09.74
WEARS. GOD COULD CARE LESS
ABOUT THE DRESS THE WOMAN WEARS.
00:50:09.77\00:50:12.51
GOD WANTS TO KNOW WHAT
KIND OF WOMAN WEARS THE DRESS.
00:50:12.54\00:50:14.94
>>AMEN. >>MEN ALWAYS WANT A
00:50:14.98\00:50:16.91
HIGH-POWERED CAR - 'LOOK AT ME.
LOOK AT THIS CAR.' PEOPLE LOOK
00:50:16.95\00:50:20.62
AT THE CAR YOU DRIVE - GOD WANTS
TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF MAN DRIVES
00:50:20.65\00:50:22.92
THE CAR. GOD IS WANTING
TO KNOW 'WHO ARE YOU REALLY?
00:50:22.95\00:50:28.56
DO I HAVE YOUR
HEART? DO YOU BELONG TO ME?
00:50:28.59\00:50:30.76
ARE YOU WILLING TO BE MADE
NEW - BE A NEW CREATURE - BE
00:50:30.79\00:50:33.13
SPIRIT-FILLED?' DAVID, NOTHING
WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO HIM.
00:50:33.16\00:50:36.23
HE DID SOME - HE DID SOME
CALCULATING OUT THERE WHEN HE
00:50:36.26\00:50:39.40
WAS COUNTING SHEEP AND DAVID
SAID, 'WHAT PROFIT IS IT IF YOU
00:50:39.43\00:50:42.87
GAIN THE WHOLE
WORLD AND LOSE YOUR SOUL?'
00:50:42.90\00:50:45.14
AND SOMEWHERE OUT THERE IN THE
HILLS HE MADE HIS DECISION THAT
00:50:45.17\00:50:47.44
NOTHING COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT
THAN GOD - KNOWING GOD, SERVING
00:50:47.48\00:50:51.05
GOD, LOVING GOD. HIS
FAMILY WOULD COME TOGETHER
00:50:51.08\00:50:53.82
AND HE WOULD LISTEN TO HISTORY.
I DON'T THINK I MENTIONED TO
00:50:53.85\00:50:55.92
YOU, JESSE, HIS
FATHER, WAS BORN BEFORE SAMSON.
00:50:55.95\00:51:00.99
JESSE LIVED ALL
THROUGH THE TIME OF SAMSON.
00:51:01.02\00:51:04.29
JESSE, NO DOUBT - THOSE NIGHTS,
YOU KNOW, NO TELEVISION OR
00:51:04.33\00:51:07.13
COMPUTER, THEY'D TELL STORIES
AND JESSE WOULD TELL HIS BOYS
00:51:07.13\00:51:11.53
ABOUT THIS SPIRIT-FILLED JUDGE
OF ISRAEL - HIS UPS AND HIS
00:51:11.57\00:51:15.20
DOWNS - AND DAVID
WOULD LISTEN TO THESE THINGS.
00:51:15.24\00:51:19.04
AND THE BOYS WOULD LISTEN.
AND DAVID WAS INSPIRED - THEY'D
00:51:19.07\00:51:21.21
HEAR THE STORIES OF MOSES.
DAVID KNEW THE SCRIPTURES.
00:51:21.24\00:51:24.15
JESSE'S FAMILY READ THE
SCRIPTURES TO THE FAMILY AND HE
00:51:24.18\00:51:27.68
MADE UP HIS MIND. HE
SAID, 'I WANT TO FOLLOW GOD.
00:51:27.72\00:51:31.15
I WANT GOD TO HAVE MY HEART.'
AND IT GAVE HIM SUCH JOY THAT HE
00:51:31.19\00:51:35.32
JUST COULD NOT CONTAIN HIMSELF
AND HE FILLED THE HILLS WITH
00:51:35.36\00:51:38.09
SONGS THERE, BECAUSE NOTHING
WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO DAVID THAN
00:51:38.13\00:51:40.60
GOD. DO YOU WANT TO HAVE A HEART
00:51:40.63\00:51:42.66
CLOSE TO THE
HEART OF GOD? >>YES.
00:51:42.70\00:51:44.97
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
00:51:45.00\00:51:47.87
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
00:51:47.90\00:51:51.41
CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE
CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
00:51:51.44\00:51:55.88
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>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
00:52:12.16\00:52:33.75
>>I WAS HEADING
SOUTH ON INTERSTATE 5.
00:52:33.78\00:52:37.29
THIS COMMERCIAL COME ON KFBK
RADIO ABOUT A REVELATION SEMINAR
00:52:37.32\00:52:42.22
BY AMAZING FACTS. I BEGAN -
MY CHEST BEGAN TO TIGHTEN UP.
00:52:42.26\00:52:46.43
I BEGAN SWEATING PROFUSELY.
I HAD DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING.
00:52:46.46\00:52:50.93
THERE WAS THIS BIG REST AREA
AND, AT THIS TIME, I PULLED INTO
00:52:50.97\00:52:54.87
THERE. I THOUGHT MAYBE I
WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK.
00:52:54.90\00:52:57.41
I GOT OUT OF MY TRUCK, WALKED
INTO THE MEN'S RESTROOM THERE,
00:52:57.44\00:53:01.78
AND PUT COLD WATER ON MY
FACE, AND THEN FINALLY THINGS
00:53:01.81\00:53:04.85
SUBSIDED. A WEEK
LATER, AGAIN, I HEARD
00:53:04.88\00:53:07.48
THIS AMAZING FACTS
COMMERCIAL COME ON THE RADIO.
00:53:07.52\00:53:10.45
IN FACT, THE MEETINGS WERE GOING
TO START THAT VERY NIGHT - THIS
00:53:10.49\00:53:12.95
- AND, AGAIN, IMMEDIATELY
I HAD THESE SAME SYMPTOMS.
00:53:12.99\00:53:16.46
I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T
MY HEART. I HAVE TO GO TO THAT
00:53:16.49\00:53:19.69
MEETING. AND, AS I WAS GOING
DOWN TO SACRAMENTO, I DECIDED TO
00:53:19.73\00:53:23.60
PARK AND GO INSIDE.
WELL, I GOT IN AND WALKED INTO
00:53:23.63\00:53:28.30
THE FURTHERMOST REAR SEAT
THEY HAD IN THE PEW THERE.
00:53:28.34\00:53:32.84
AND THIS PARTICULAR EVANGELIST,
HIS NAME WAS KIM KJAER.
00:53:32.87\00:53:39.11
IT WAS LIKE TAKING ONE
LAYER OFF AT A TIME OF AN ONION.
00:53:39.15\00:53:43.42
HE LAID IT OUT SO PERFECTLY
THAT WE COULD ALL UNDERSTAND IT.
00:53:43.45\00:53:46.52
AND I WAS REALLY MOTIVATED.
I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
00:53:46.55\00:53:49.26
WELL, I FINISHED - I DIDN'T MISS
A MEETING. IN FACT, ON THE FIFTH
00:53:49.29\00:53:52.79
NIGHT THEY HAD AN ALTAR CALL
AND MY KNEES STOOD RIGHT UP AND
00:53:52.83\00:53:57.00
I WALKED FORWARD AND I GAVE
MY HEART TO JESUS CHRIST. I'VE
00:53:57.03\00:54:01.04
LEARNED, THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE
THING, THAT WHEN YOU - WHEN YOU
00:54:01.07\00:54:04.81
LEAVE THE DEVIL'S TERRITORY, HE
GETS PRETTY ACTIVE IN CAUSING A
00:54:04.84\00:54:08.88
LOT OF PROBLEMS. WELL, I HAD THE
EVANGELIST COME OUT AND THEY HAD
00:54:08.91\00:54:14.02
PRAYER WITH ME
ABOUT MY BUSINESS.
00:54:14.05\00:54:16.18
I WOULD FIND A SICK BUSINESS AND
MAKE IT WELL AND THEN MARKET IT.
00:54:16.22\00:54:20.99
I FINALLY ENDED UP WITH A
BUSINESS THAT I REALLY ENJOYED
00:54:21.02\00:54:24.33
THAT WAS ONE THAT WAS
BUILDING EQUESTRIAN CENTERS.
00:54:24.36\00:54:27.93
AND THEY SAID TO ME, 'STEVE,' HE
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING
00:54:27.96\00:54:30.60
TO REALLY KEEP THE SABBATH
YOU'VE GOT TO SHUT YOUR DOORS ON
00:54:30.63\00:54:33.00
THE SABBATH.' WELL, I DID
AND SO I SOLD THE BUSINESS TO MY
00:54:33.03\00:54:36.97
BROTHER. IT TOOK
ME 22 YEARS TO BUILD
00:54:37.01\00:54:39.41
THAT BUSINESS AND HE
LOST IT IN 33 MONTHS.
00:54:39.44\00:54:43.98
MY SON, WHO WAS MY BUSINESS
PARTNER, I'D BEEN GIVING HIM TEN
00:54:44.01\00:54:47.28
PERCENT OF THE
BUSINESS EVERY YEAR.
00:54:47.32\00:54:49.15
HE THOUGHT I'D JUST
FALLEN OFF THE BRIDGE.
00:54:49.18\00:54:53.89
MY SON DIDN'T TALK TO ME
FOR FIVE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:54:53.92\00:54:57.33
AND THEN A FEW
OTHER THINGS HAPPENED.
00:54:57.36\00:54:59.33
I HAD AN EX-EMPLOYEE LIVING
IN MY GUEST HOUSE - HE KIND OF
00:54:59.36\00:55:02.26
WATCHED AFTER OUR PLACE - AND HE
SAID, 'STEVE,' HE SAID, 'THERE'S
00:55:02.30\00:55:06.67
AN ALLIED MOVING VAN BACKED
UP TO YOUR FRONT DOOR IN YOUR
00:55:06.70\00:55:10.07
HOME.' I SAID, 'YOU'RE KIDDING!'
I SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN?'
00:55:10.11\00:55:14.08
HE SAID, 'THEY'RE MOVING
EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR HOUSE
00:55:14.11\00:55:16.11
INTO THIS TRUCK AND YOUR WIFE IS
OUT THERE SUPERVISING THEM.' AND
00:55:16.14\00:55:20.52
WHEN I WENT HOME AND OPENED THE
FRONT DOOR, MY VOICE ECHOED IN
00:55:20.55\00:55:23.39
THAT HOUSE. THERE WASN'T
ANY FURNITURE LEFT ANYWHERE.
00:55:23.42\00:55:26.22
THERE WAS ONE BED
LEFT IN THE HOUSE.
00:55:26.25\00:55:29.12
I KNEW MY WIFE WAS UPSET BECAUSE
OF MY COMING TO THIS CHURCH, BUT
00:55:29.16\00:55:33.43
I HAD NO IDEA THAT SHE WOULD
MOVE OUT LIKE THIS - THAT WAS A
00:55:33.46\00:55:36.83
TOTAL SHOCK TO ME. IT
WAS SOME TIME THERE - I
00:55:36.87\00:55:39.90
LOCKED MYSELF IN THE BEDROOM
AND I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE.
00:55:39.93\00:55:43.84
I SPENT ABOUT A HALF A YEAR JUST
EVERY NIGHT, GETTING HOME AND I
00:55:43.87\00:55:47.51
WOULD STUDY. IT
ALLOWED ME TO HAVE A PERSONAL
00:55:47.54\00:55:51.25
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
WELL, TO MAKE A LONG STORY
00:55:51.28\00:55:54.62
SHORT, I MET CRYSTAL,
AND SHE WAS A GODLY WOMAN.
00:55:54.65\00:55:59.32
THAT WAS THE LORD'S DOING, NOT
MINE, AND HE WAS JUST THERE TO
00:55:59.35\00:56:03.19
LET ME KNOW, 'I'M
WITH YOU ALL THE WAY.
00:56:03.22\00:56:05.59
EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE
SOME TRIALS AND YOU'RE GOING TO
00:56:05.63\00:56:07.50
HAVE SOME HARDSHIPS, I WANT YOU
TO KNOW THAT I'LL BE WITH YOU.'
00:56:07.50\00:56:11.33
BECAUSE, NO MATTER WHAT
I DO NOW, HE IS MY LEADER.
00:56:11.37\00:56:16.17
HE'S THE LEADER OF MY MARRIAGE.
00:56:16.20\00:56:17.74
HE'S THE LEADER OF
EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE TODAY.
00:56:17.77\00:56:20.64
THAT ONE MEETING WITH THE
AMAZING FACTS SEMINAR CHANGED MY
00:56:20.68\00:56:23.51
ENTIRE LIFE AND, TO THIS DAY,
I'M STILL ON FIRE FOR GOD - I'M
00:56:23.55\00:56:28.82
STILL
WITNESSING TO MY NEIGHBORS.
00:56:28.85\00:56:30.85
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00:56:30.89\00:56:34.09
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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
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00:57:18.80\00:57:22.50
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
00:57:22.54\00:57:25.47
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:25.51\00:57:28.98
WHY DID GOD
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00:57:29.01\00:57:31.35
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MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:31.38\00:57:34.18
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00:57:48.60\00:57:52.67
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