Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021703A
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00:15 >>WE ARE IN THE INFANCY OF A SERIES CALLED THE SHEPHERD 00:19 KING: LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF DAVID AND TODAY'S PRESENTATION 00:24 WILL BE THE SECOND INSTALLMENT, TALKING ABOUT SPIRIT-FILLED 00:28 MUSIC. I REMEMBER READING ABOUT GEORGE 00:32 FRIDERIC HANDEL, THE COMPOSER OF THAT FAMOUS SONG THE MESSIAH - 00:38 AND MANY OTHERS - THAT HE WAS JUST A VERY TALENTED ORGANIST. 00:43 AND ONE DAY, WHEN HE WAS VISITING A CHURCH IN ANOTHER 00:46 CITY, AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SERMON, YOU KNOW, THE ORGANIST 00:50 USED TO, WHAT THEY CALL, 'PLAY THE PEOPLE OUT' - AND WE CALL IT 00:53 A 'POSTLUDE' - AND HE WENT OVER TO THE ORGANIST AND SAID, 'DO 00:57 YOU MIND IF I PLAY THE PEOPLE OUT?' HE SAID, 'OH PLEASE' - IT 01:00 WAS CUSTOMARY - HE SAID, YOU KNOW, VISITING ORGANIST, BE 01:04 HAPPY TO. HE SAT DOWN AND HE BEGAN TO PLAY AND, AS THE USHERS 01:06 WENT UP THE AISLE TO USH PEOPLE OUT, NOBODY GOT UP BECAUSE THE 01:11 MUSIC WAS JUST SO MESMERIZING AND SO ENCHANTING AND SO 01:16 THRILLING, THAT THEY ALL STAYED THERE. AND HE PLAYED ON FOR 01:20 QUITE A WHILE AND THEN, EVENTUALLY, THE LOCAL ORGANIST 01:25 EITHER GOT HUNGRY OR HE GOT JEALOUS AND HE SAID, 'WELL, I 01:29 DON'T THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DO A VERY GOOD JOB OF PLAYING THEM 01:32 OUT. MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE OVER.' (LAUGHTER) AND HE SAID, 01:35 'ABSOLUTELY' AND HE HANDED BACK THE ORGAN AND, AS SOON AS HE 01:38 STARTED PLAYING, THE PEOPLE GOT UP AND LEFT. (LAUGHTER) 01:43 MUSIC DOES HAVE A POWER AND IT CAN DRAW, IT CAN REPEL, IT CAN 01:48 INSPIRE IN GOOD WAYS AND BAD. YOU REMEMBER, IN OUR LAST 01:53 PRESENTATION, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT DAVID WAS ANOINTED AS KING 02:00 AND SAMUEL MADE THAT SPECIAL CLANDESTINE VISIT THERE, TO 02:04 BETHLEHEM, TO ANOINT DAVID AS KING WHEN THERE WAS STILL A KING 02:08 ON THE THRONE, WHO HAD, BY THE WAY, ALSO BEEN CHOSEN BY GOD 02:12 AND FILLED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD SEVERAL YEARS EARLIER. 02:16 AND SO, IT SAYS HERE, AFTER HE TOOK THE HORN OF OIL - I'M IN 02:19 VERSE 13 - AGAIN, 1 SAMUEL 16, VERSE 13, "THEN SAMUEL TOOK THE 02:23 HORN OF OIL AND ANOINTED HIM IN THE MIDST OF HIS BROTHERS; AND 02:27 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID FROM THAT DAY FORWARD. 02:31 SO SAMUEL AROSE AND WENT TO RAMAH." 02:33 HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE BECAUSE I'VE JUST - IT 02:36 COULD BE VIEWED AS TREASON TO ANOINT ANOTHER KING WHILE THERE 02:40 IS A SITTING KING ON THE THRONE.' BUT NOTICE VERSE 14, 02:44 "BUT" - IT SAYS THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES ON DAVID - "BUT THE SPIRIT 02:50 OF THE LORD DEPARTED FROM SAUL, AND A DISTRESSING SPIRIT FROM 02:54 THE LORD TROUBLED HIM." NOW THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT VERSE. 03:00 DAVID IS SPIRIT FILLED, BUT THEN IT SAYS 'THE SPIRIT DEPARTED 03:07 FROM SAUL' AND THAT MANIFESTED ITSELF A NUMBER OF WAYS. 03:12 YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN THE WRITINGS OF JOSEPHUS, HE WAS 03:15 A JEWISH HISTORIAN. HE SAID - HE REPRESENTED THAT 03:19 SAUL BECAME DEMON POSSESSED AT THIS POINT. "HE WAS ALMOST 03:23 SUFFOCATED AND STRANGLED, AS WELL AS DISTRACTED AT HIS 03:27 COUNSELS. HE BECAME WEAK AND FOOLISH. HE LOST COURAGE AND 03:31 GREATNESS OF MIND. HE WAS TIMOROUS" - MEANING 03:34 FEARFUL - "AND ALARMED BY EVERYTHING, AND HE WAS FULL OF 03:37 ENVY AND SUSPICION, RAGE, AND DESPAIR." 03:41 AND, AS YOU READ OUT IN THE REMAINING CHAPTERS OF 1 SAMUEL, 03:45 YOU SEE THAT A LOT OF THAT PROVED TO BE TRUE. 03:48 HOW SAD TO HAVE THE WORDS WRITTEN, 'THE SPIRIT DEPARTED.' 03:53 THAT TELLS US THAT GOD CAN GIVE HIS SPIRIT TO SOMEBODY AND HE 03:57 CAN TAKE IT AWAY. THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT 04:00 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A GOOD SEGMENT OF DEAR CHRISTIANS 04:03 THAT BELIEVE THAT ONCE YOU'RE SAVED AND SPIRIT FILLED, 04:05 YOU CANNOT BE LOST. THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH THAT. THE BIBLE 04:09 TEACHES THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN BE GRIEVED. AND THESE WORDS ARE 04:13 IN THE SACRED RECORD AS A WARNING FOR ALL OF US SO THAT WE 04:17 WILL KNOW THAT WE NEED TO GUARD AGAINST GRIEVING THE SPIRIT AND 04:21 DO EVERYTHING IN OUR LIVES TO EMBRACE AND TO WELCOME THE 04:24 SPIRIT TO BE IN OUR LIVES. AGAIN, IT SAYS IN EPHESIANS 04:27 4:30, "AND DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, BY WHOM 04:32 YOU WERE SEALED FOR THE DAY OF REDEMPTION." 04:34 NOW, THE ONLY REASON PAUL WOULD SAY 'DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY 04:37 SPIRIT' IS BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN BE GRIEVED AND, WHEN 04:41 YOU COMPLETELY AND FINALLY GRIEVE THE SPIRIT AWAY, THEN 04:44 YOU'VE DONE WHAT IS DEFINED AS COMMITTING THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. 04:49 NOW, I DON'T BELIEVE SAUL HAD DONE THAT YET. 04:52 IT IS POSSIBLE TO GRIEVE AWAY THE SPIRIT - OR TO GRIEVE THE 04:55 HOLY SPIRIT. IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE EVEN SPIRIT 04:58 - DEMON POSSESSED AND NOT BE FINALLY LOST. 05:02 DIDN'T JESUS SAVE PEOPLE THAT SEEMED UTTERLY DEMON POSSESSED? 05:06 YOU KNOW THE STORY ABOUT THE DEMONIAC THERE BY THE SEA OF 05:09 GALILEE THAT RAN AROUND NAKED, DRAGGING BROKEN CHAINS AND 05:12 CUTTING HIMSELF AND CRYING AND LIVING WITH PIGS AND LIVING IN A 05:15 CEMETERY AND - I MEAN, THAT GUY WAS PRETTY FAR GONE AND JESUS 05:20 SAVED HIM AND TURNED HIM INTO AN EVANGELIST. 05:23 MARY MAGDALENE HAD SEVEN DEVILS CAST OUT OF HER. 05:26 AND SO, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO, LIKE THE PRODIGAL, THEY KNEW 05:29 GOD, THEY WERE IN THE FATHER'S HOUSE, THEY WANDERED AWAY, THEY 05:32 END UP IN THE PIGPEN, AND THEY CAN BE SAVED AGAIN. 05:36 BUT THERE IS A POINT OF NO RETURN AND, BEFORE THE STORY'S 05:39 OVER, I'M SAD TO SAY WHAT YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW, SAUL 05:44 ULTIMATELY DOES REACH THE POINT OF NO RETURN. 05:46 BUT I DON'T THINK HE WAS THERE YET. 05:49 BUT IT IS A SCARY THING TO THINK THAT YOU COULD GRIEVE AWAY THE 05:52 SPIRIT AND IT'S POSSIBLE TO DO IT AND NOT KNOW IT. 05:56 YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, THE STORY OF SAMSON - JUDGES 16, 06:00 VERSE 19 - VERY FAMOUS PASSAGE. 06:03 SHE, DELILAH, "LULLED HIM TO SLEEP ON HER KNEES, AND CALLED 06:09 FOR A MAN AND HAD HIM SHAVE OFF THE SEVEN LOCKS OF HIS HEAD. 06:13 THEN SHE BEGAN TO TORMENT HIM, AND HIS STRENGTH LEFT HIM." 06:18 - REMEMBER, IT WAS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD - CAME ON SAMSON AND 06:21 GAVE HIM THAT SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH - "AND SHE SAID" - AS A 06:24 TEST - "'THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON YOU, SAMSON!' 06:27 SO HE AWOKE FROM HIS SLEEP, AND SAID, 'I WILL GO OUT AS BEFORE, 06:29 AT OTHER TIMES, AND SHAKE MYSELF FREE!'" 06:32 - WITH A SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH - AND THIS IS THE VERSE THAT YOU 06:35 SHOULDN'T MISS - "BUT HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THE LORD HAD DEPARTED 06:40 FROM HIM." - THERE ARE THOSE WORDS AGAIN. WHAT HAPPENED AFTER 06:44 THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON DAVID? IT SAYS, 'BUT THE SPIRIT 06:47 DEPARTED FROM SAUL.' YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT 06:50 FRIGHTENS YOU, FRIENDS, BUT IT FRIGHTENS ME. 06:53 THE THOUGHT MAKES ME SHUDDER THAT I MIGHT GRIEVE AWAY THE 06:56 SPIRIT AND NOT KNOW IT. YOU WONDER HOW MANY - SAUL 07:01 CONTINUED AS KING FOR YEARS. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO GO 07:06 THROUGH ALL KINDS OF RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES AND RITUALS AND NOT 07:10 EVEN KNOW THEY'RE DOING IT WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT? 07:14 SAUL CONTINUED IN THE OFFICE AS KING. 07:16 AND THE PRIESTS THAT CONDEMNED AND CRUCIFIED JESUS, CONTINUED 07:20 WITH ALL THE RITUALS OF RELIGION - DEVOID OF THE SPIRIT. 07:25 I READ A QUOTE ONCE THAT PROBABLY EIGHTY PERCENT OF WHAT 07:30 HAPPENS IN CHURCHES HAPPENS WITHOUT THE SPIRIT'S 07:33 INVOLVEMENT. THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT 07:36 CAN GO ON THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT DOING. 07:39 THAT'S WHY DAVID, WHEN HE PRAYED - DAVID KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED 07:42 TO SAUL. PSALM 51, WHEN DAVID SINNED WITH 07:45 BATHSHEBA, YOU KNOW WHAT HIS BIG FEAR WAS? 07:48 HE SAID, 'DO NOT CAST ME AWAY FROM YOUR PRESENCE AND DO NOT 07:52 TAKE YOUR HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME. I WANT TO DIRECT YOU TO 1 07:56 CHRONICLES 17:13, NATHAN THE PROPHET COMES TO TALK TO DAVID. 08:00 HE'S TALKING ABOUT 'YOUR SON IS GOING TO BUILD A TEMPLE' - 08:02 SOLOMON - AND THIS IS WHAT NATHAN SAYS, "I WILL BE HIS 08:06 FATHER," - SPEAKING OF SOLOMON - "AND HE SHALL BE MY SON; AND I 08:09 WILL NOT TAKE MY MERCY AWAY FROM HIM, AS I TOOK IT FROM HIM WHO 08:14 WAS BEFORE YOU." - WHO WAS THAT? SAUL. 08:17 GOD - NATHAN IS TELLING DAVID - GOD IS TELLING DAVID, THROUGH 08:20 NATHAN, 'I AM GOING TO BE WITH YOUR SON UNTIL HE FINISHES HIS 08:24 HOUSE. I WILL NOT TAKE MY SPIRIT FROM 08:26 HIM AS - MY MERCY FROM HIM AS I DID FROM HIM WHO WAS BEFORE 08:29 YOU.' SO THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD - THE MERCY OF GOD - THE GRACE 08:34 OF GOD WAS TAKEN FROM SAUL AND IT LEFT HIM IN SHATTERS. 08:39 NOW, ARE THERE OTHERS IN THE BIBLE THAT HAD THAT EXPERIENCE? 08:43 WAS BALAAM A SPIRIT-FILLED PROPHET? WAS HE? 08:50 AT ONE POINT HE WAS, BUT HE BEGAN TO COVET THE REWARDS OF 08:56 BALAK, THE KING OF THE MOABITES, AND EVENTUALLY GRIEVED AWAY THE 08:59 SPIRIT AND HE WAS KILLED BY ISRAEL IN A BATTLE. 09:03 THE BIBLE TALKS A LOT ABOUT BALAAM. 09:05 WHAT ABOUT JUDAS? YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS 09:07 SENT OUT THE TWELVE APOSTLES PREACHING AND TEACHING. 09:10 WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE JESUS SENT THEM ON MISSIONARY 09:13 ENDEAVORS AND IT SAYS THEY CAME BACK AND SAID, 'PRAISE THE LORD, 09:16 EVEN THE DEVILS ARE SUBJECT TO US.' AND DON'T THINK FOR A 09:19 MOMENT THAT JUDAS WASN'T INSPIRED AT MOMENTS. 09:23 AND - BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU READ IN THE BIBLE THAT AT ONE POINT THE 09:29 HOLY SPIRIT LEFT JUDAS AND HE COMMITTED THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. 09:35 YOU CAN ALSO READ ABOUT DEMAS, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 09:38 PAUL SAID, 'DEMAS HAS FORSAKEN ME, HAVING LOVED THIS PRESENT 09:40 WORLD.' AND SO, I'M NOT SAYING THAT TO FRIGHTEN YOU, IT'S JUST 09:43 REALLY - IT'S AN IMPORTANT WARNING THAT WE OUGHT TO BE 09:48 AWARE THAT YES, ONCE YOU'RE SAVED YOU CAN BE SPIRIT-FILLED, 09:51 YOU CAN BE SAVED, BUT THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND THE 09:54 HOLY SPIRIT MUST BE NURTURED. IF YOU PERSIST IN REBELLION, 09:57 WHAT HAPPENED TO SAUL CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. 09:59 WHAT HAPPENED TO SAMSON AND BALAAM AND JUDAS CAN HAPPEN TO 10:03 YOU. NOW SAMSON, HE REPENTED AT THE END. 10:06 >>AMEN. >>SAUL DID NOT. 10:09 NOW, THIS THEN BEGS ANOTHER IMPORTANT QUESTION. 10:13 THE WORDING HERE THAT YOU FIND IS A LITTLE BIT CONCERNING FOR 10:17 SOME PEOPLE. YOU NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS IN VERSE 14? IT SAYS, "BUT 10:20 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD DEPARTED FROM SAUL, AND A DISTRESSING 10:23 SPIRIT FROM THE LORD TROUBLED HIM." A DISTRESSING SPIRIT FROM 10:28 THE LORD? DOES GOD SEND EVIL SPIRITS? 10:32 THIS IS A PASSAGE THAT OFTEN MAKES PEOPLE WONDER. 10:34 WELL SOME OF THIS ACTUALLY COMES FROM THE WAY THAT THE OLD 10:38 TESTAMENT - THE HEBREWS UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD IS ALL 10:41 SOVEREIGN - AND HE IS - AND SO THE DEVIL CAN'T DO ANYTHING 10:45 WITHOUT THE LORD AT LEAST LOOSENING HIS LEASH. 10:49 HE HAS TO GIVE HIM PERMISSION AS IN THE STORY OF JOB. 10:54 IT SAYS THAT GOD SAID TO THE DEVIL - IT WAS THE DEVIL THAT 10:57 HARASSED JOB, NOT THE LORD, BUT GOD HAD TO SAY, 'ALRIGHT, I'M 11:00 GOING TO GIVE YOU A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF LIBERTY, BUT THERE'S 11:03 LIMITS.' THAT REMINDS ME OF THE VERSE THAT YOU FIND WHERE PAUL 11:08 SAYS, IN 1 CORINTHIANS 10, 'GOD IS FAITHFUL WHO WILL NOT ALLOW 11:12 YOU TO BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU'RE ABLE.' GOD MUST ALLOW 11:16 LIMITS ON TEMPTATION, BUT DOES GOD TEMPT? NO. 11:21 I WANT TO READ ANOTHER VERSE - JAMES 1:13, "LET NO ONE SAY WHEN 11:25 HE IS TEMPTED, 'I AM TEMPTED BY GOD'; FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED 11:30 BY EVIL, NOR DOES HE HIMSELF TEMPT ANYONE." 11:34 SO, IS THAT CLEAR? >>AMEN. 11:36 >>GOD DOESN'T TEMPT ANYONE AND GOD WILL MEASURE - HE'LL MAKE 11:39 SURE THAT THE DEVIL IS NOT ALLOWED TO TEMPT YOU ABOVE WHAT 11:43 YOU'RE ABLE. SO DON'T EVER SAY, 'OH, LORD, I 11:45 GAVE IN BECAUSE I JUST COULDN'T HELP IT.' YES YOU CAN, BECAUSE 11:49 GOD PROMISES THAT HE'S NOT GOING TO TEMPT YOU ABOVE WHAT YOU'RE 11:52 ABLE TO RESIST WITH HIS POWER, AMEN? 11:55 IF YOU'LL ACCESS THE POWER THAT HE MAKES AVAILABLE. 11:59 SO, YOU CAN ALSO SEE ANOTHER EXAMPLE, WHEN ALL THESE FALSE 12:05 PROPHETS HAD GATHERED BEFORE KING JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAB, AND 12:11 MICAIAH THE PROPHET SAID - AND THIS IS 1 KINGS 22:23 - 12:16 "THEREFORE LOOK! THE LORD HAS PUT A LYING SPIRIT 12:19 IN THE MOUTH OF ALL THESE PROPHETS OF YOURS, AND THE LORD 12:22 HAS DECLARED DISASTER AGAINST YOU." 12:24 - THE LORD PUT A LYING SPIRIT? NO, WHEN YOU READ THE WHOLE 12:27 STORY IT SAYS THAT GOD ALLOWED THESE SPIRITS TO GO TO 12:32 AHAB AND DECEIVE HIM. GOD DIDN'T SEND THE SPIRITS, 12:35 THE SPIRITS WENT OF THEIR OWN VOLITION. YOU SEE, GOD IS ALWAYS 12:38 PROTECTING US. GOD HAS A HEDGE ABOUT US, BUT SOMETIMES THERE'S 12:40 A BREAK IN THE HEDGE IF WE REJECT GOD. 12:44 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE VERSE JUST TO TIE THAT OFF. 12:48 I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S CLEAR ON THIS. 12:49 2 THESSALONIANS 2, VERSE 9 - 2 THESSALONIANS 2, VERSE 9, "THE 12:55 COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF 12:58 SATAN, WITH ALL POWER, SIGNS, AND LYING WONDERS," - THAT'S 13:02 THAT LYING SPIRIT - IT SAYS 'THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE 13:05 DEVILS GO FORTH TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TO DECEIVE' - "AND 13:10 WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUS DECEPTION AMONG THOSE WHO PERISH," - WHY? 13:14 HERE'S THE PART - "BECAUSE THEY DID NOT RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE 13:18 TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. AND FOR THIS REASON GOD WILL 13:22 SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE THE LIE, 13:28 THAT THEY ALL MAY BE CONDEMNED WHO DID NOT BELIEVE THE 13:29 TRUTH BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS." 13:31 DO YOU SEE HOW IT WORKS? GOD GIVES YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT - 13:34 WELCOME, NURTURE THE HOLY SPIRIT - REJECT THE HOLY SPIRIT, THERE 13:38 IS A VACUUM THAT THE DEVIL WILL FILL. 13:43 YOU KNOW, IF IT RAINS ON GOOD SOIL, SOMETHING'S GOING TO GROW. 13:46 IF YOU DON'T NURTURE WHAT GROWS, YOU'RE GOING TO GET WEEDS, BUT 13:49 SOMETHING'S GOING TO - YOUR HEART IS NOT A VACUUM AND, IF 13:52 YOU DON'T HAVE GOD AND HIS SPIRIT INSIDE, THERE'S ONLY ONE 13:54 OTHER ALTERNATIVE. AND YOU REMEMBER READING THE 13:58 STORY WHERE JESUS SAID THIS MAN HAD THE EVIL SPIRITS CAST OUT - 14:02 AN EVIL SPIRIT CAST OUT, BUT HE DID NOT REPLACE IT WITH ANYTHING 14:05 GOOD AND THE EVIL SPIRIT CAME BACK AND SAID, 'LOOK, MY HOUSE 14:07 IS EMPTY' - IT'S SWEPT AND VACUUMED AND HE BROUGHT SEVEN 14:10 OTHER SPIRITS WORSE THAN THE FIRST. SO IT'S NOT NEUTRAL. 14:16 THERE'S NO SWITZERLAND IN THIS BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL 14:19 THAT YOU COULD SAY, 'I JUST WANT TO - I'M GOING TO SIT ON THE 14:21 SIDELINES. I DON'T WANT TO BE INVOLVED.' 14:23 JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'RE NOT WITH ME YOU'RE AGAINST ME. 14:26 AND SO, WHEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD LEFT SAUL, WHAT'S LEFT? 14:30 IF DARKNESS SHOULD LEAVE THIS ROOM, WHAT HAPPENS? 14:33 I'M SORRY, NO, IF LIGHT LEAVES THIS ROOM DARKNESS COMES IN. 14:36 IF YOU WANT TO GET THE DARKNESS OUT, YOU DON'T USE A SNOW 14:39 SHOVEL, YOU SIMPLY BRING IN THE LIGHT, THE DARKNESS GOES OUT. 14:43 AND OUR HEARTS ARE SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 14:45 THEY'RE NEVER JUST NEUTRAL. 14:47 SO, AS A RESULT OF THIS, SAUL IS - HE'S TERRIBLY TROUBLED. 14:51 I AGREE WITH WHAT JOSEPHUS SAID - HE BECAME JEALOUS, HE BECAME 14:54 RAGING, HE BECAME - YOU KNOW, ONE REASON - SAMUEL HAD GONE TO 14:58 KING SAUL AND SAID, 'BECAUSE OF YOUR UNFAITHFULNESS I'M TAKING 15:02 THE KINGDOM FROM YOU AND FROM YOUR DYNASTY AND I'M GOING TO 15:06 GIVE IT TO YOUR NEIGHBOR WHO'S BETTER THAN YOU. 15:08 THE LORD HAS SOUGHT OUT A MAN WHOSE HEART IS AFTER HIS OWN 15:11 HEART.' NOW, WHAT IS SAUL THINKING? 'SOMEWHERE OUT THERE 15:16 IN MY KINGDOM, IS MY REPLACEMENT.' AND HE WAS 15:20 BROODING AND HE WAS JEALOUS AND HE - INSTEAD OF REPENTING AND 15:24 HUMBLING HIMSELF, HE TRIED TO STOP IT FROM HAPPENING AND HE 15:28 WAS FRETFUL AND HE JUST HAD TOTALLY THE WRONG ATTITUDE. 15:33 HE WAS BLAMING GOD AND SAYING, 'THIS ISN'T FAIR' AND 'IT'S MY 15:35 PREROGATIVE TO BE KING' AND - WHO KNOWS WHAT HE WAS THINKING, 15:39 BUT AN EVIL SPIRIT HAD COME INTO HIS MIND. 15:42 AND IT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN ALL PHYSICAL. 15:47 SOMETIMES CIRCUMSTANCES CAN TRY UPON YOU AND STRESSES AND 15:50 DIFFERENT THINGS, AND IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ALL SPIRITUAL, BUT 15:55 IT'S LIKE THERE'S THIS OLD PROVERB THAT SAYS SATAN LIKES TO 15:58 FISH IN TROUBLED WATERS. SAUL HAD BECOME SO TROUBLED BY 16:04 THESE THINGS THAT IT GAVE THE DEVIL AN ADVANTAGE. 16:07 AND SO SOME DEMONIC HARASSMENT TAKES ADVANTAGE OF PHYSICAL 16:11 WEAKNESS. THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. DID YOU CATCH THAT? 16:15 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE HARASSED BY THE DEVIL AND THE 16:18 DEVIL MAKES THE MOST OF WHAT MAY BE PHYSICAL OR MENTAL WEAKNESSES 16:24 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE. IS THAT TRUE? >>YES. 16:27 >>I BELIEVE SO. SO WHAT'S THE FALLOUT FROM THIS? 16:31 HIS SERVANTS SEE THAT SAUL IS BROODING AND HE'S DIFFICULT AND 16:34 HE'S UNHAPPY AND HE'S KIND OF - HE GOES INTO FITS AND HE SEEMS 16:37 LIKE HE - HE'S LOST HIS CONFIDENCE, HE'S LOST HIS 16:39 COURAGE - AND IT SAYS, "THEN ONE OF THE SERVANTS" - I'M IN VERSE 16:44 18 - "ANSWERED AND SAID, 'LOOK, I HAVE SEEN A SON OF JESSE THE 16:49 BETHLEHEMITE," - LOOK AT THE IRONY OF GOD - "WHO IS SKILLFUL 16:55 IN PLAYING," - THIS IS THE FIRST REFERENCE WE HEAR THAT HE'S 16:58 SKILLFUL IN PLAYING, IN PARTICULAR, THE HARP. 17:01 WE'VE GOT A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF AN ANCIENT HARP UP HERE - ONE OF 17:05 THE SONS OF JESSE - "...SKILLFUL IN PLAYING," - NOW 17:07 LISTEN TO THIS - WHAT A WONDERFUL RECOMMENDATION IS 17:11 GIVEN HERE - "A MIGHTY MAN OF VALOR, A MAN OF WAR, PRUDENT IN 17:19 SPEECH, AND A HANDSOME PERSON; AND THE LORD IS WITH HIM." 17:25 WOW, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE A RECOMMENDATION LIKE THAT? 17:29 HE'S TALENTED, BRAVE, PATRIOTIC - MATTER OF FACT, I HEARD ONE 17:34 PASTOR SUM IT UP THIS WAY: IT TALKS ABOUT HIS PERSON, HIS 17:36 PASTIME - MUSIC - HIS PATRIOTISM - HE'S FROM BETHLEHEM 17:39 - HIS PRUDENCE, HIS PIETY, HIS POWER - IT TALKS ABOUT ALL THIS 17:43 IN ONE VERSE ABOUT DAVID. NOW, EVEN THOUGH DAVID IS 17:47 KEEPING SHEEP, YOU'LL NOTICE WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME PASSED 17:50 BETWEEN THE SPIRIT FILLING DAVID AND AN EVIL SPIRIT FILLING SAUL. 17:56 MONTHS, MAYBE EVEN YEARS WENT BY - DAVID JUST STAYED WITH THE 17:59 SHEEP AND HE WAS WAITING ON GOD'S TIMING. 18:01 SOME TIME DURING THE COURSE OF WHEN DAVID'S TAKING CARE OF THE 18:04 SHEEP, A BEAR COMES, A LION COMES - WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT 18:08 MORE NEXT WEEK - WORD GOT OUT THIS IS A BRAVE YOUNG MAN. 18:11 NOW, I KNOW SOME OF YOU ARE WONDERING, YOU KNOW, THAT SONG 18:17 ONLY A BOY NAMED DAVID ? AND HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN 18:20 ILLUSTRATIONS OF DAVID AND GOLIATH WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT 18:22 LOOKS LIKE DAVID IS ABOUT EIGHT YEARS OLD? 18:25 THAT'S GREAT FOR TEACHING SABBATH SCHOOL, BUT IT'S NOT 18:30 ACCURATE. SEE, IN THE HEBREW LAW, YOU 18:35 COULD NOT BE A SOLDIER - COULDN'T EVEN BE A SOLDIER 18:38 UNTIL YOU WERE TWENTY. IN A LOT OF COUNTRIES THEY NEED 18:40 ALL THE MILITARY THEY CAN GET AND THEY SAY EIGHTEEN. 18:44 AND THE MORE DESPERATE THEY GET - DURING THE CIVIL WAR THERE 18:47 WERE 14-YEAR-OLDS THAT WENT OUT THERE. AND WHEN HITLER'S FORCES 18:51 WERE JUST DECIMATED, THEY HAD THE HITLER YOUTH AND HITLER WAS 18:54 SENDING OUT 12-YEAR-OLDS TO FIGHT AND DEFEND THE HOMELAND - 18:59 AND THEY KEPT LOWERING THE AGE. BUT, YOU KNOW, GOD REALIZED THAT 19:02 YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FUZZ ON YOUR CHIN BEFORE YOU 19:06 CAN GO, YOU KNOW, BE PART OF THE SOLDIER - THE ARMY - AND SO 19:10 DAVID WASN'T QUITE TWENTY YET, BUT HE WASN'T TWELVE. 19:14 THERE'S A LOT OF DEBATE, WHEN YOU LOOK AT HOW LONG SAUL 19:17 REIGNED, HOW OLD SAMUEL WAS - THERE ARE SOME - IT TELLS US 19:20 DAVID WAS THIRTY WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN - AND YOU DO SOME OF 19:23 THE MATH AND - I DON'T HAVE TIME TO MAP THAT ALL OUT FOR YOU, BUT 19:27 I THINK THE EVIDENCE IS PRETTY GOOD THAT DAVID WAS PROBABLY 19:30 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 17 AND 19 AT THIS POINT. 19:34 AND HE RAN FROM SAUL FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND HE FINALLY GETS 19:37 CORONATED WHEN HE'S THIRTY, BUT DAVID HAD ALREADY DEMONSTRATED 19:43 SOME VALOR AND IT SAYS HE'S A MIGHTY MAN. 19:46 HE, YOU KNOW, HE WAS AT THE VERGE WHERE HE WAS BEING CALLED 19:49 A MAN, BUT HE WASN'T A LITTLE BOY AT THIS POINT. 19:53 SO, IT TELLS US THAT HE WAS TALENTED, HE WAS MUSICAL - AND 19:59 HE DIDN'T JUST HAVE THE ABILITY TO PLAY MUSIC. 20:02 IT SAYS HE'S SKILLFUL. NOW, EVERYBODY LOVES MUSIC AND 20:07 WE'RE GOING TO SPEND SOME TIME TALKING ABOUT MUSIC. 20:09 AND I'M JUST WONDERING, HOW MANY OF YOU OUT THERE PLAY AN 20:11 INSTRUMENT? LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS. 20:14 HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE TO SING? HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE TO SING 20:17 BUT YOU DON'T SING VERY WELL? (LAUGHTER) HEARD ABOUT THIS 20:22 LADY AND, FOR HER DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY, SHE BOUGHT 20:25 HER PIANO LESSONS. AND A FEW DAYS LATER HER FRIEND 20:30 CAME OVER AND SAID, 'HOW ARE YOUR DAUGHTER'S LESSONS GOING?' 20:33 AND SHE SAID, 'WELL, I BOUGHT HER A CLARINET.' AND SHE SAID, 20:36 'WELL, I THOUGHT SHE WAS DOING OKAY WITH THE PIANO.' SHE SAID, 20:38 'SHE WAS, BUT SHE CAN'T SING WITH THE CLARINET.' (LAUGHTER) 20:44 SHE HAD THE GIFT OF PIANO, BUT NOT SINGING. 20:48 SO HE SAYS, 'ALRIGHT, SEND FOR DAVID.' AND SO, LISTEN TO WHAT 20:53 HAPPENS NEXT HERE - 1 SAMUEL 16 - "THEREFORE, SAUL SENT 20:57 MESSENGERS TO JESSE," - NOW DID JESSE KNOW ABOUT DAVID BEING 21:02 ANOINTED KING? HE DID, BECAUSE SAMUEL HAD TO 21:05 COME AND GET HIS PERMISSION - GATHER ALL HIS KIDS - AND IT 21:07 SAYS, 'IN THE MIDST OF HIS BRETHREN HE WAS ANOINTED' - THE 21:10 BROTHERS KNEW, THE FATHER KNEW, THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY - AND THEY 21:13 PROBABLY HAD TO KEEP THAT REAL LOW KEY BECAUSE IT'S A 21:17 THREAT TO THE KINGDOM. AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THAT 21:21 MESSENGER COMES FROM THE PALACE, 'SEND ME DAVID'. 21:26 NOW, IF YOU'RE JESSE, WOULD YOU BE NERVOUS? 21:28 'UH OH, DID SOMEBODY LEAK SOME INFORMATION? 21:31 HOW DID HE FIND OUT ABOUT DAVID? IS HE GOING TO BE EXECUTED?' 21:37 AND SO JESSE'S A LITTLE WORRIED. IT SAYS, "SEND ME YOUR SON" - 21:41 WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, 'GIVE ME YOUR SON' TO A FATHER, ESPECIALLY A 21:45 KING THAT'S NOT BALANCED, DID OUR FATHER SEND HIS SON INTO A 21:50 WORLD THAT IS RULED BY A KING THAT IS NOT BALANCED? 21:53 JESUS IS THE SON OF DAVID, ISN'T HE? 21:57 "SEND ME YOUR SON DAVID, WHO IS WITH THE SHEEP." 22:01 - YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN WE NOTICE THAT DAVID IS WITH THE SHEEP? 22:03 HE KEEPS GOING BACK AND TAKING CARE OF SHEEP. 22:05 I COUNT AT LEAST THREE TIMES IT SAYS DAVID WENT BACK TO THE 22:07 SHEEP. HE TOOK CARE OF THE SHEEP. 22:10 HE WAS A GOOD SHEPHERD. JESUS CALLS HIMSELF 22:12 THE GOOD SHEPHERD. AND, AS WE GO THROUGH OUR SERIES 22:14 ON DAVID, I'M GOING TO OFTEN HIGHLIGHT THE PARALLELS BETWEEN 22:18 DAVID AND JESUS, THE SON OF DAVID. 22:23 HE SAID, 'SEND ME DAVID' - AND WHEN JESSE HEARS THAT HE SAYS, 22:28 'OH, I BETTER SEND A GIFT IN CASE HE'S HEARD SOMETHING. 22:31 I WANT TO - AND IT SAYS "AND JESSE TOOK A DONKEY LOADED WITH 22:35 BREAD, A SKIN OF WINE, AND A YOUNG GOAT, AND SENT THEM BY HIS 22:41 SON DAVID TO SAUL." SO HERE DAVID COMES AND HE'S GOT 22:45 BREAD AND WINE AND A SACRIFICE. YOU KNOW WHAT WAS 22:50 AT THE LAST SUPPER? JESUS SAID, 'THERE'S BREAD' - 22:54 WHEN THEY FINISHED THE PASSOVER, THE SACRIFICE - AND THERE WAS A 22:58 THE GRAPE JUICE THERE - THE WINE. AND SO HERE'S DAVID, THE 23:00 SON OF JESSE, AND HE'S COMING AND HE'S BRINGING THESE 23:03 OFFERINGS TO THE PALACE. NOW THE IRONY - YOU JUST HAVE TO 23:08 STOP AND - THE REASON THE STORY OF DAVID IS SO GREAT - IT'S LIKE 23:11 THE STORY OF JOSEPH - IT'S LIKE THE LAST THING YOU'D EXPECT. 23:14 HE COMES TO BETHLEHEM TO ANOINT A KING AND THE LAST ONE THEY 23:18 WOULD EXPECT IS THE ONE THAT IS CHOSEN. 23:21 AND THEN, THE IRONY THAT SAUL NEEDS TO FIND SOMEBODY TO HELP 23:26 HIM WITH HIS MENTAL DISTRESS AND, OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE 23:30 KINGDOM WHOM HE MIGHT HAVE CALLED UPON - THAT HAD PH.D.S 23:33 THAT COULD COUNSEL HIM, OR SKILLED MUSICIANS THAT COULD 23:37 PLAY FOR HIM, GUESS WHO GETS INVITED TO THE PALACE. 23:43 GOD'S PROVIDENCE IS AMAZING, ISN'T IT? 23:45 HOW HE WORKS THINGS OUT - AND SO DAVID IS CALLED, OF ALL PEOPLE, 23:48 AND - NOW DAVID MUST BE TIPTOEING IN AND HE MUST HAVE 23:53 BEEN VERY CAUTIOUS AND VERY CAREFUL. 23:55 SOMETHING I DON'T WANT TO RUSH PAST: WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 23:58 RECOMMENDATION THAT'S GIVEN EARLIER, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 24:01 DAVID, NOT ONLY DID IT SAY THAT HE WAS A MAN OF WAR, PRUDENT IN 24:06 SPEECH - NOW, YOU WOULD THINK A SHEPHERD BOY, BEING ARTICULATE 24:11 AND CHOOSING HIS WORDS CAREFULLY AND HAVING A GOOD VOCABULARY - 24:17 USUALLY YOU DON'T THINK OF A SHEPHERD THAT WAY, RIGHT? 24:19 USUALLY THINK OF A SHEPHERD AS BEING UNEDUCATED AND NOT VERY 24:23 ARTICULATE. BUT, JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE 24:26 A SHEPHERD BACK THEN - AS I MENTIONED, AND THEY MAY HAVE 24:28 BEEN A POOR FAMILY, BUT JESSE WAS A LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY. 24:32 THEY READ THE SCRIPTURES IN THEIR FAMILY. 24:36 THEY COMMUNICATED WELL. YOU LOOK AT THE PSALMS THAT 24:38 DAVID WRITES AND YOU FIND OUT THAT HE HAD A TREMENDOUS - HE 24:41 WAS A POET - HE HAD A TREMENDOUS GRASP OF LANGUAGE. 24:45 HE COMMUNICATED AND HE ARTICULATED HIMSELF BEAUTIFULLY. 24:51 AND THEY SAID, 'THERE'S A YOUNG MAN, HE HAS AN INCREDIBLE GIFT 24:53 OF SPEECH' - AND IT ALSO SAYS HE'S A GOOD-LOOKING YOUNG MAN 24:56 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS TYPICAL IN ANCIENT KINGDOMS, 24:59 THAT THEY BRING INTO THEIR PALACE PEOPLE THAT LOOK GOOD. 25:03 AND I KNOW TODAY WE WOULD CALL THAT DISCRIMINATION, BUT IF YOU 25:06 WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH, THEY DID IT. 25:09 WHEN KINGS AND QUEENS BROUGHT DIFFERENT COURTIERS AND PEOPLE 25:12 INTO THEIR PALACES THEY SAID, 'THEY WOULD LOOK GOOD IN THE 25:15 PALACE.' THEY WANTED THE BEST PEOPLE BECAUSE OTHER DIGNITARIES 25:19 WOULD COME AND THEY'D SAY, 'WOW!' 25:21 IT'S LIKE WHEN THE QUEEN OF SHEBA CAME TO SOLOMON, SHE SAID 25:23 WHEN SHE SAW HIS SERVANTS AND THEIR CLOTHING SHE WAS BREATH 25:28 TAKEN - BREATHLESS IS THE WAY IT TRANSLATES - NO MORE SPIRIT LEFT 25:33 IN HER. AND SO THEY WANTED TO BRING THE 25:35 GOOD-LOOKING PEOPLE AND THE ARTICULATE - PEOPLE THAT COULD 25:37 COMMUNICATE IN THE PALACE, THAT WOULD NOT EMBARRASS THE CROWN. 25:40 AND SO, THEY ALSO RECOMMENDED DAVID THAT WAY. 25:42 SO DAVID COMES TO SAUL, HE BRINGS THIS GIFT, AND THEN IN 25:49 THE PALACE - YOU READ 1 SAMUEL 16, VERSE 21, "SO DAVID CAME TO 25:52 SAUL AND STOOD BEFORE HIM. AND" - IT SAYS - "HE" - SAUL 25:57 - "LOVED HIM GREATLY," - SAUL LOOKED AT HIM - NOW, I DON'T 25:59 THINK HE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING TO HIM, AS YOU'LL SEE 26:01 LATER, BUT HE LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID, 'WHAT A FINE-LOOKING YOUNG 26:04 MAN.' AND HE HEARD HIM TALK - HE SAID, 'HE'S A VERY 26:09 ARTICULATE YOUNG MAN. HE SEEMS WISE, HE SEEMS TO 26:11 CONDUCT HIMSELF WELL, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HE CAN PLAY.' AND IT 26:16 SAYS - FINALLY, WHEN HE SAW HIM AND MAYBE HE HEARD HIM AUDITION, 26:21 HE SENDS A MESSAGE BACK TO JESSE, "PLEASE LET DAVID STAND 26:25 BEFORE ME, FOR HE HAS FOUND FAVOR IN MY SIGHT." 26:30 NOW HERE, IT'S JUST - YOU - IT'S SO AMAZING. 26:33 SAUL, WHEN HE'D HAVE HIS FITS OF RAGE, HE WAS LOOKING OUT THERE, 26:37 SCANNING THE HORIZON, WONDERING WHO, OUT THERE IN THE KINGDOM, 26:41 WAS THE ONE THAT WAS GOING TO REPLACE HIM. 26:44 HE'D SAY, 'OH MAN, THIS IS STARTING TO BOTHER ME. 26:46 DAVID, PLAY SOMETHING.' (LAUGHTER) AND THE BOY, THE 26:51 SHEPHERD BOY WHOSE COME TO PLAY THE HARP FOR HIM - LAST PERSON 26:54 IN THE WORLD THAT SAUL - AT FIRST - THOUGHT MIGHT BE THE ONE 26:58 THAT WAS GOING TO BE HIS REPLACEMENT, HE INVITES INTO THE 27:01 PALACE. ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW GOD WORKS? 27:05 >>AMEN. >>SAUL'D BE - HE'D BE PACING 27:08 BACK AND FORTH, LOOKING OUT HIS WINDOW. 27:10 HE'D BE WONDERING, LOOKING AT ALL THE DIGNITARIES AND THE 27:13 WARRIORS AND WONDERING WHO WAS GOING TO REPLACE HIM AS KING AND 27:16 IT'D START BOTHERING HIM - HE'D SAY, 'OH MAN, I'M JUST STRESSED 27:18 BY THIS SPIRIT AND I'M DEPRESSED. 27:21 BRING IN DAVID. HAVE HIM PLAY FOR ME.' 27:23 AND THERE HE WAS, THE ONE THAT WAS GOING TO REPLACE HIM. 27:26 IT WAS THE MUSICIAN. IT JUST - I DON'T KNOW, IS IT 27:31 JUST ME OR DOES - THAT IRONY IS AMAZING. 27:34 SO DAVID CAME AND STOOD BEFORE HIM. 27:37 AND THEN I WANT TO SPEND SOME TIME ON THE LAST VERSE HERE - OR 27:41 ONE OF THE LAST VERSES - 1 SAMUEL 16, VERSES 14 TO 23, "AND 27:46 SO IT WAS, WHENEVER THE SPIRIT FROM GOD WAS UPON SAUL," - IT'S 27:52 TALKING ABOUT THIS EVIL SPIRIT WOULD COME, BECAUSE GOD HAD 27:54 GIVEN PERMISSION - HE WITHDREW HIS PROTECTION AND THE EVIL 27:57 SPIRITS WOULD MAKE THE MOST OF SAUL'S JEALOUSY AND HIS 28:02 INSECURITIES - THAT HE'D BEGIN TO BROOD AND BECOME DEPRESSED 28:06 AND HE COULDN'T GET ANYTHING DONE AND HE WOULDN'T GO FIGHT 28:08 HIS BATTLES AND HE'D JUST SIT THERE AND PLAY DARTS WITH HIS 28:13 SPEAR - "THAT DAVID WOULD TAKE A HARP AND PLAY IT WITH HIS HAND. 28:20 THEN SAUL WOULD BECOME REFRESHED AND WELL, AND THE DISTRESSING 28:25 SPIRIT WOULD DEPART FROM HIM." 28:29 YOU KNOW, DAVID IS DESCRIBED AS THE SWEET PSALMIST OF ISRAEL. 28:33 NOT ONLY COULD DAVID PLAY, BUT DAVID COULD PLAY AND SING. 28:37 I USED TO TELL STEPHEN, WHEN HE WAS TAKING PIANO LESSONS, I 28:40 SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I WISH YOU'D ALSO TAKE UP THE PIA - THE 28:43 GUITAR BECAUSE YOU SING BEAUTIFULLY AND YOU CAN'T CARRY 28:47 YOUR PIANO WITH YOU.' SORRY MICHELLE, I LIKE THE GUITAR. 28:51 AND YOU CAN'T CARRY YOUR PIANO AROUND WITH YOU EVERYWHERE. 28:54 AND IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING, NATHAN TOOK GUITAR LESSONS BUT 28:59 NOW HE'S TAKING PIANO, AND LAST TIME WE SAW STEPHEN, STEPHEN'S 29:02 PICKING UP THE GUITAR. AND WE'RE LUCKY BECAUSE BOTH OF 29:06 OUR BOYS ARE GOOD LOOKING AND THEY CAN SING AND PLAY - AND 29:08 THEY ARE SINGLE IF YOU WANT TO KNOW - (LAUGHTER) - SINGLE 29:11 BATCHELORS OUT THERE. BUT - SO DAVID COULD SING, BUT 29:19 WHAT WAS IT THAT HE DID SO THAT AS HE'S SINGING THE EVIL 29:23 SPIRITS ARE DRIVEN FROM SAUL? OR AT LEAST HE'S ALLEVIATED. 29:29 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO HEAR? YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT A HUNDRED 29:31 AND FIFTY PSALMS OF DAVID, SO YOU CAN READ THEM. 29:34 BUT, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE THE WORDS AND THERE WAS MUSIC THAT 29:37 WENT WITH THEM AND THERE WERE INTERLUDES. 29:39 SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE READING IN THE PSALMS YOU'LL NOTICE YOU RUN 29:43 INTO THE WORD 'SELAH', RIGHT? YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 29:47 IT, BASICALLY MEANS, 'THINK ON THIS' AND THEY BELIEVE THAT 29:49 THOSE WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE PSALMS OF DAVID OR THE 29:54 PSALMS OF ASAPH AND THAT MEANT 'MEDITATION' - THINK ABOUT THIS 29:58 THIS - AND THAT MEANS THAT THERE WAS A PAUSE - IT WAS LIKE A 30:01 MUSICAL INTERLUDE AT THAT POINT. THE PROBLEM WAS THEY DIDN'T KNOW 30:05 HOW TO WRITE MUSIC THE WAY THAT WAS DEVELOPED IN THE 15TH/16TH 30:10 CENTURY WITH ALL THE NOTES AND DOTS. I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN 30:12 THEY DEVELOPED THAT, BUT TO PUT MUSIC DOWN AND - WHEN THE JEWS 30:18 WERE CONQUERED AND SCATTERED, A LOT OF THOSE MELODIES WERE LOST. 30:20 AND MAYBE A FEW SONGS THAT THE HEBREWS SING TODAY - THE 30:24 MELODIES GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE TIME OF DAVID, BUT THERE'S 30:27 NOT MANY. AND SO, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW. 30:31 BUT WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO HEAR? WON'T IT BE FUN TO GET TO HEAVEN 30:33 AND SAY, 'I'D LIKE TO GET DAVID'S CD. 30:36 I WANT TO HEAR DAVID PLAY THE MUSIC THAT COULD DRIVE THE EVIL 30:42 SPIRITS FROM SAUL.' WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO HAVE JUST THAT KIND OF 30:45 MUSIC? NOW, IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO HAVE 30:52 GOOD, GODLY MUSIC THAT WOULD DRIVE AWAY EVIL SPIRITS, IS IT A 30:58 STRETCH TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ALSO VERY BAD MUSIC THAT 31:03 WILL INVITE EVIL SPIRITS? >>AMEN. 31:07 >>BUT YOU'D BE SURPRISED - THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT 31:10 THINK MUSIC'S NEUTRAL AND THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER. 31:14 'YOU KNOW, THERE'S GOOD MUSIC BUT YOU JUST - IT'S WHATEVER IT 31:17 FEELS LIKE TO YOU. AND IF IT BLESSES YOU THEN IT 31:20 MUST BE GOOD.' I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. 31:25 I THINK MUSIC IS LIKE THEOLOGY. MUSIC IS A VIBRATION. 31:30 IT COMMUNICATES JUST LIKE THE WORDS I'M SPEAKING COMMUNICATE. 31:33 DIFFERENT KINDS OF MUSIC COMMUNICATE DIFFERENT KINDS OF 31:35 THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. AND THERE IS GOOD MUSIC AND THERE IS BAD 31:41 MUSIC. I'M JUST WONDERING, HOW MANY OF YOU AGREE THAT THERE - 31:45 THERE'S MUSIC FROM GOD. DO YOU BELIEVE THERE'S 31:48 MUSIC FROM THE DEVIL? >>YES. 31:50 >>YOU KNOW WHERE THE DIFFERENCE - WE ALL AGREE SO FAR, BUT YOU 31:52 KNOW WHERE THE DIFFERENCE WOULD COME? 31:53 IS IF I SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I WANT YOU TO SHOW ME WHERE TO DRAW THE 31:55 LINE BETWEEN THE TWO.' YOU'D BE SURPRISED HOW MANY CHRISTIANS 31:59 OUT THERE ARE STRUGGLING TO LIVE GODLY LIVES WHILE THEY'RE 32:03 LISTENING TO DIABOLICAL MUSIC. 32:05 AND THEY DON'T REALIZE THERE'S A CONNECTION. 32:08 I'VE HEARD SOME VERY INTERESTING TESTIMONIES OF PEOPLE THAT SAY, 32:11 'YOU KNOW, I'VE TRIED TO BE A CHRISTIAN FOR YEARS AND FINALLY 32:13 I BECAME CONVICTED, IF I WOULD GET RID OF MY ROCK AND ROLL 32:17 LIBRARY' - I KNOW IT WAS A STRUGGLE BECAUSE THEY WERE 32:20 ADDICTED - AND THEY DID AND JUST A WHOLE NEW SPIRIT CAME INTO 32:25 THEIR LIVES. THEY NEVER REALLY HAD MADE THE CONNECTION. 32:28 NOW I'M GIVING YOU, YOU KNOW, RADICAL EXAMPLES HERE, BUT 32:32 THERE'S A LOT OF NUANCES IN BETWEEN AND, EVEN AS I SHARE 32:35 THIS WITH YOU, I NEED TO TELL YOU, I FEEL A LITTLE INSECURE 32:37 BECAUSE I'M NOT TRAINED IN MUSIC. 32:40 I MEAN, MY MOTHER SANG - SHE WAS A SONGWRITER - 32:44 AND WE HAD GREAT COMPOSERS IN OUR HOUSE. 32:46 SOME OF THEM WERE WINNERS OF TONY AWARDS ON BROADWAY, SO WE 32:49 HEARD JUST INCREDIBLE MUSIC. NOT ALL OF IT GODLY - VERY 32:52 TALENTED - SOME WAS GOOD, SOME WAS BAD. 32:55 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE GOOD MUSIC AND BAD WORDS. 33:00 YOU CAN HAVE SOME BAD WORDS AND GOOD MUSIC. 33:03 MATTER OF FACT, I'VE HEARD SOME SONGS OUT THERE THAT - JUST 33:07 OUTSTANDING MUSIC, BUT THE WORDS WERE AWFUL. 33:12 AND SOME PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL, THAT SANCTIFIES THE MESSAGE'. 33:14 YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE BOTH TOGETHER THAT ARE RIGHT. 33:16 AND THEN I'VE HEARD SOME JUST ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC AND IT'S 33:20 JUST - THEY'RE HOWLING, THEY'RE JUMPING UP AND DOWN, THEY'RE 33:23 CRACKING THEIR GUITARS OVER EACH OTHER'S HEAD AND THEY JUST SAY 33:25 THE NAME 'JESUS' AND 'SPIRIT' EVERY TIME AND YOU'RE 33:27 SUPPOSED TO BE CHRISTIAN MUSIC. 33:30 I KNOW, I'M EXAGGERATING A LITTLE BIT, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF 33:33 PEOPLE SAYING, 'WE'VE GOT TO - WE'VE GOT TO GIVE THEM THE MUSIC 33:35 OF THE WORLD AND WE'LL PUT SOME CHRISTIAN'S WORDS IN TO CREATE A 33:38 BRIDGE TO BRING THE YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THE CHURCH. 33:41 AND SO, YOU'VE GOT THESE - THESE OSTENSIBLE CHRISTIAN GROUPS THAT 33:44 GO OUT THERE AND THEY PLAY THIS CHRISTIAN ROCK TO CREATE A 33:47 BRIDGE TO BRING THE YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THE CHURCH, BUT YOU KNOW 33:50 WHAT HAPPENS, IS THE KIDS THAT GROW UP IN THE CHURCH HEAR THAT; 33:52 IT CREATES A BRIDGE THAT LEADS THEM OUT. 33:54 THAT BRIDGE GOES BOTH WAYS. I'M NOT EVEN SURE IT GOES THE RIGHT 33:57 WAY. ASK ME HOW I FEEL. BUT JUST - AND I GREW UP 34:05 LISTENING TO THE MUSIC OF THE WORLD, BUT I SAW WHAT IT DID TO 34:09 ME - AND WHAT IT DOES TO ME. I STILL HEAR IT. 34:13 I - WALKING THROUGH THE MARKET OR - I LIKE GOING TO CHIPOTLE 34:21 AND EVERY NOW AND THEN I'LL TAKE A PHONE CALL WHILE I'M THERE AND 34:24 THE MUSIC IS JUST SOMETIMES AWFUL AND I'VE - MORE THAN ONCE 34:28 - I'VE HAD TO GO UP AND ASK THEM - I'VE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I LIKE 34:30 YOUR FOOD, BUT I DON'T CARE FOR YOUR MUSIC. 34:31 CAN YOU JUST TURN THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT? 34:33 YOU DON'T HAVE TO TURN IT OFF, JUST TURN IT DOWN. 34:35 I CAN'T EVEN TALK.' SOMEONE'LL CALL ME AND THEY'LL HEAR BOOM 34:38 BACKA DONKA BACKA BOOM BACKA - AND THEY'LL GO, 'PASTOR DOUG, 34:42 WHERE ARE YOU?' (LAUGHTER) AND - ALWAYS - NOW 34:45 I'M SELF CONSCIOUS, YOU KNOW, I PICK UP THE PHONE AND GO, 34:47 'LOOK, I CAN'T HELP IT. I'M IN THE MALL' OR 34:50 WHEREVER IT IS, YOU KNOW? BUT WE'RE SURROUNDED WITH IT. 34:55 AND THE REASON I SAID WHAT I SAID IS I'D BE LYING TO YOU IF I 35:01 ACTED LIKE NONE OF IT ATTRACTS ME. 35:04 IT DOES. IF THE DEVIL - YOU KNOW, YOU - 35:08 THE DEVIL DOESN'T USE BAIT THAT DOESN'T WORK. 35:11 AND ALL OF US HAVE SOMETHING WITHIN US AND THAT MUSIC PULLS 35:16 AT DIFFERENT PARTS OF OUR HEARTS. 35:18 AND SO, WE JUST NEED TO KNOW THAT, 'HEY, EVEN THOUGH I MIGHT 35:23 LIKE IT AND IT MIGHT BE ATTRACTIVE' - THERE'S A LOT OF 35:26 SWEETS AND THINGS THAT I KNOW I LIKE THE TASTE OF, BUT I DON'T 35:28 LIKE WHAT IT DOES TO ME. AND IT'S THAT WAY WITH MUSIC. 35:32 THERE'S MUSIC OUT THERE - IT'S NOT NEUTRAL. 35:35 YOU CAN'T LISTEN INDISCRIMINATELY TO ANYTHING 35:37 THAT'S OUT THERE AND SAY, 'THIS IS NOT AFFECTING ME 35:39 SPIRITUALLY.' BECAUSE IT DOES, FOR GOOD OR FOR BAD. 35:45 AND SO YOU NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT YOU LISTEN TO. 35:49 DAVID PLAYED AND THE DEVIL LEFT. AND THERE'S A LOT OF MUSIC THAT 35:53 THE CHRISTIANS PLAY TODAY AND THE DEVIL COMES IN. 35:57 AND THE SAD THING IS WE DO IT DELIBERATELY. 36:00 AND WE DON'T EVEN MAKE THE CONNECTION. 36:04 PEOPLE LISTENING TO - NOW, YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD SOME PEOPLE 36:07 SAY, 'WELL, DAVID WAS A SHEPHERD AND SO HE PROBABLY PLAYED 36:09 COUNTRY MUSIC, SO COUNTRY'S OKAY.' (LAUGHTER) RIGHT? 36:15 I'M SURE THERE IS SOME COUNTRY MUSIC THAT'S OKAY, BUT I CAN 36:18 TELL YOU A LOT OF THAT MUSIC IS TALKING ABOUT WHO'S CHEATING ON 36:20 WHO AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM AND HOLD 36:23 'EM AND SHE LEFT ME AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT A PREGNANT CAT 36:29 AND ALL THESE THINGS ARE GOING WRONG AND JUST - THIS IS 36:33 DEPRESSING. AND THEN YOU SAY - I JUST REALLY 36:38 HAVE HEARD, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE FOLKSY PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH, 36:43 THEY'LL SAY, 'OH YEAH, THAT WICKED ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC' - A 36:46 BOY ASKED HIS DAD ONE DAY, 'HAD YOU EVER HEARD ROCK AND 36:49 ROLL WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG?' HE SAID, 'YEAH, ONE TIME. 36:51 A TRUCKLOAD OF DUCKS COLLIDED WITH A TRUCK OF EMPTY MILK CANS. 36:55 THAT WAS THE CLOSEST THINK I CAME TO HEARING ROCK AND ROLL.' 36:58 BUT - AND SO THEY THINK ROCK AND ROLL IS WICKED BUT COUNTRY 37:04 MUSIC, YOU KNOW? IN ALMOST EVERY CATEGORY 37:08 THERE'S - WELL, LET ME SAY THIS DIFFERENTLY - SOME PEOPLE WILL 37:13 SAY 'WELL, EVERY CULTURE HAS DIFFERENT MUSIC.' WHICH 37:16 THAT'S JUST A CULTURAL THING. IN OUR CULTURE IT'S ROCK. 37:19 WE COME FROM A ROCK CULTURE. AND YOU OLD FOGIES, IN YOUR 37:22 GENERATION, YOU DON'T APPRECIATE ROCK MUSIC. 37:25 IT'S JUST - IT'S NOT A CULTURAL THING. 37:29 EVERY COUNTRY - I'VE BEEN ALL OVER THE WORLD - EVERY COUNTRY 37:33 I'VE BEEN IN, THE PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC ARE THE SAME. 37:37 IN ANY COUNTRY I'VE BEEN IN, WHEN MOTHERS WENT TO PUT THEIR 37:40 BABIES TO SLEEP AND THEY SING A LULLABY, LULLABIES WILL ALL HAVE 37:45 THE SAME PRINCIPLE. NONE OF THEM PLAY A SCREAMING 37:49 ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH LOUD DRUMS TO TRY TO PUT THE KID TO SLEEP. 37:53 IT WOULD MAKE THE KID NEUROTIC. THEY FOUND EVEN PLANTS RESPOND 37:58 TO MUSIC DIFFERENTLY, DID YOU KNOW THAT? 38:00 I JUST SAW A STUDY WITHIN A MONTH - NOT A CHRISTIAN STUDY - 38:04 THAT CAME OUT THAT SAID THEY'RE SHOWING THAT CERTAIN KIND OF 38:07 MUSIC - I THINK THEY SAID CLASSICAL MUSIC - THAT PLANTS 38:09 ARE MORE PRODUCTIVE. AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, IT MAY NOT 38:13 HAVE TO DO WITH IT, IT MIGHT JUST BE THAT THE VIBRATIONS ARE 38:15 HELPING' - OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, BUT ANIMALS 38:19 RESPOND TO MUSIC. THERE'S SOMETHING WITHIN US 38:23 - THESE VIBRATIONS - THAT IT AFFECTS US. 38:25 WHEN SOLDIERS GO TO WAR THERE'S A MUSIC FOR WAR. 38:30 THEY DON'T SING, AS THEY'RE MARCHING, 'LA LA LA, LA LA' - 38:36 THAT'S LULLABY MUSIC, RIGHT? (LAUGHTER) THEN, THAT'S WHEN 38:39 YOU WANT YOUR WAR MUSIC. >>YOU GOING TO SING (INAUDIBLE)? 38:44 >>NO, I'M NOT GOING TO SING THAT, NO. 38:45 (LAUGHTER) AND THEN THERE'S ROMANTIC MUSIC - I THINK THAT'S 38:50 TRUE - I THINK THERE'S GOOD ROMANTIC MUSIC. 38:54 THERE'S LOVE SONGS, RIGHT? ISN'T THERE A BOOK IN THE BIBLE 38:57 CALLED THE SONG OF SOLOMON ? AND SO THAT'S APPROPRIATE 39:00 - WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF AN APPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP. 39:03 >>AMEN. >>ROMANTIC MUSIC. 39:05 BUT YOU DON'T SING MARCHING MUSIC - YOU INVITE YOUR FIANCE 39:11 OVER AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE DINNER AND SAY, 'CAN I PUT ON A 39:16 LITTLE MUSIC FOR TO SET THE MOOD?' 39:18 'SURE, PLEASE DO THAT.' AND YOU PLAY 'DA DA DA DUM DUM DUM DUM 39:21 DA DUM' - WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A MARCHING SONG. 39:24 I KNOW, I'M CARRYING ON A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT'S MAKING A POINT - 39:27 THE - SO WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, THAT'S A CULTURAL THING' - WAR 39:30 MUSIC, ROMANTIC MUSIC, LULLABY - THESE DIFFERENT MUSIC PRINCIPLES 39:34 ARE THE SAME IN EVERY CULTURE. THERE WILL BE CULTURAL 39:37 DIFFERENCES, BUT THEY FALL WITHIN THE PRINCIPLES. 39:41 AND SO THERE ARE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES FOR MUSIC THAT WE 39:44 NEED TO UNDERSTAND. AND MARTIN LUTHER, HE BELIEVED 39:48 VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC. 39:52 LUTHER SAID, "THE DEVIL TAKES FLIGHT AT THE SOUND OF MUSIC" - 39:56 SPEAKING OF CHRISTIAN MUSIC - "AS HE DOES AT THE WORDS OF 39:59 THEOLOGY. FOR THIS REASON THE PROPHETS 40:02 OFTEN COMBINED THEOLOGY AND MUSIC - TEACHING OF THE TRUTH 40:06 AND CHANTING OF THE PSALMS AND THE HYMNS." 40:09 MATTER OF FACT, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE OLD SONGS 40:14 AND THE OLD HYMNS AND THEY HAD JUST PROFOUND THEOLOGY. 40:18 SOMETIMES IT WAS LIKE A SERMON IN A HYMN. 40:20 AND THE IDEA WAS THAT THE MUSIC WAS THERE TO ENHANCE THE WORDS - 40:23 TO TEACH AND REINFORCE THE TRUTH. 40:25 ANY OF YOU EVER READ THE SONG OF SOLOMON ? 40:28 OR, I MEAN, THE SONG OF MOSES ? IT'S LIKE 33 VERSES. 40:34 I'D LOVE TO HEAR THE MUSIC THAT WENT WITH THAT. 40:37 BUT HE WAS TEACHING THEM ABOUT FOLLOWING GOD IN THEIR JOURNEYS. 40:41 THAT'S QUITE A SONG. I'VE GOT A FRIEND WHO HIS FAMILY 40:44 WAS FROM THE REFORM CHURCH IN FINLAND. 40:47 AND HE SAID, 'OH YEAH, IN OUR FAMILY THEY WOULD SING A SONG - 40:51 25 MINUTES ONE SONG.' (WHISTLE) I SAID, 'WAS IT, YOU KNOW, THE 40:56 SAME WORDS?' 'NO, NO. NO TWO WORDS WERE THE SAME.' 41:01 THEY WOULD HAVE THIS SERMON THAT THEY'D PUT TO MUSIC THERE IN 41:05 FINLAND AND THEY WOULD SING THESE SERMONS. 41:10 WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE LONG. 41:12 YOU DO HAVE PSALM 117 THAT'S ONE OF THE SHORTEST CHAPTERS IN THE 41:14 BIBLE, BUT IT'S RIGHT NEXT TO PSALM 119. 41:17 I'D LOVE TO PREACH ON THAT SOMEDAY. THAT'S A LONG CHAPTER. 41:23 AND THEN, WHILE I'M ON THE SUBJECT OF LENGTH AND THE NUMBER 41:27 OF WORDS, I SHOULD PROBABLY TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE POPULAR 41:29 CONTEMPORARY SONGS THAT - WE OFTEN CALL THEM PRAISE SONGS. 41:35 THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I BELIEVE THAT ALL PRAISE SONGS ARE BAD. 41:38 I THINK THAT THERE'S AN APPROPRIATE TIME FOR SIMPLE 41:42 PRAISE SONGS. THERE'S SOME VERY SIMPLE 41:43 SONGS WE TEACH THE CHILDREN THAT HAVE VERY SIMPLE WORDS 41:47 AND THAT'S WONDERFUL. BUT THE THEOLOGY IS NOT WHAT IT 41:55 USED TO BE IN SOME OF THE OLD SONGS. 42:00 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE EXPRESSION 7-11 SONGS - THAT'S 42:05 BECAUSE THEY SING THE SAME SEVEN WORDS ELEVEN TIMES - JUST OVER 42:10 AND OVER. AND I GET KIND OF IRRITATED. 42:14 I LIKE LYRICS AND SO I LIKE WORDS THAT MEAN SOMETHING. 42:17 AND SO, WHEN PEOPLE JUST - AND SO MANY OF THEM JUST SOUND LIKE 42:20 LOVE SONGS AND IT'S JUST - A LOT OF IT IS JUST OVER AND OVER - 42:26 'OH JESUS, YOU'RE SO WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL. 42:28 OH JESUS, JESUS, JESUS.' AND I DON'T MEAN TO BE SACRILEGIOUS, 42:32 BUT I'M JUST - IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, TEACH ME SOMETHING. 42:35 YOU KNOW, LIFT ME THROUGH THE WORDS, BECAUSE THE REASON FOR 42:39 THIS MUSIC IS THERE'S THEOLOGY IN IT. 42:41 AND WHEN DAVID WOULD PLAY ON HIS HARP - I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER 42:45 IF HE WOULDN'T ALSO SING SOME TRUTHS OF GOD. 42:49 WHERE DO YOU THINK DAVID GOT HIS IDEAS FOR HIS SONGS? 42:55 DAVID SUNG - HE COMES FROM THE PASTURE TO THE PALACE AND HE IS 42:58 A MAGNIFICENT MUSICIAN. AND HE'S COMPOSED A LOT 43:02 OF SONGS ALREADY, I THINK. HE WAS OUT THERE SURROUNDED BY 43:06 THE THINGS THAT GOD MADE AND HE WOULD SEE THE MOUNTAINS AND HE 43:11 WOULD SEE THE MAJESTIC SUNSETS AND HE WOULD SEE 43:14 THE STARS AT NIGHT. YOU'VE READ THE PSALMS WHERE IT 43:17 TALKS ABOUT "WHEN I CONSIDER THE HEAVENS AND THE THINGS THAT YOUR 43:20 HANDS HAVE MADE, WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM, OR 43:23 THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU VISIT HIM? 43:25 AS THE SUN GOES FORTH IN ITS STRENGTH" - HE TALKS ABOUT THE 43:28 SUNRISE - "AS THE DEW UPON THE GRASS" - HE TALKS ABOUT THE 43:30 GRASS. YOU LOOK AT THE PSALMS - READ THE 23RD PSALM - "YOU LEAD 43:34 ME BESIDE THE STILL WATERS" - SO MANY OF DAVID'S PSALMS WERE 43:37 OBVIOUSLY INFLUENCED BY THE THINGS THAT GOD MADE. 43:42 AND SO, THE PURPOSE OF THE MUSIC WAS TO GLORIFY GOD. 43:47 BUT MUSIC IS - IT'S NOT A NEUTRAL MEDIUM. 43:51 J.S. BACH SAID, "ALL MUSIC SHOULD HAVE NO OTHER END AND AIM 43:56 THAN TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND FOR THE SOUL'S REFRESHMENT. 44:00 WERE THIS NOT REMEMBERED, THERE'S NO REAL MUSIC, ONLY A 44:03 DEVILISH HUBBUB." THAT'S WHAT BACH SAID. 44:06 SOMETHING ELSE YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW: EVERY COMPOSITION BY 44:09 BACH BEGAN WITH A 'J.J.' AT THE TOP LEFT AND THAT MEANT IT WAS 44:15 JESU JUVA, WHICH MEANT 'JESUS HELP ME' AND HE ENDED EVERY 44:20 COMPOSITION WITH 'S.D.G.' AND THAT MEANT SOLI DEO GLORIA - 'TO 44:25 GOD ALONE BE THE PRAISE'. EVERY COMPOSITION, THE START AND 44:29 THE BEGINNING, HE SAW IT AS A DIVINE OPPORTUNITY. 44:34 MARTIN LUTHER SAID, "AFTER THEOLOGY I GIVE THE HIGHEST 44:37 PLACE AND GREATEST HONOR TO MUSIC." 44:40 MATTER OF FACT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SET THE PROTESTANT 44:42 REFORMATION GOING IS LUTHER NOT ONLY TRANSLATED THE BIBLE, HE 44:46 WROTE A HYMN BOOK. THEY HAD NEW SONGS TO SING 44:49 BECAUSE, YOU REALIZE, AT THE TIME OF LUTHER ALL THE 44:52 MONASTERIES, THEY ALL WOULD COME INTO THE CHURCH AND THEY'D CHANT 44:55 IN LATIN AND IT WAS ALMOST HYPNOTIC. 45:00 AND AGAIN, I'VE GOT TO ILLUSTRATE BECAUSE WE'RE 45:02 THINKING ABOUT AUDIO THINGS, SO I'M NOT TRYING TO BE FUNNY, BUT 45:07 YOU EVER HEARD SOME OF THESE MONASTIC CHANTS? 45:10 SOME OF THEM ARE VERY PLEASANT - MATTER - YOU GET ALL THESE MEN'S 45:12 VOICES TOGETHER, BUT OFTEN IT SOUNDS LIKE 'VINA GINA WHU GEE 45:16 NAH NEE GNO' - AND WHEN I CAME INTO THE CHURCH I'D KIND OF COME 45:22 OUT OF EASTERN MYSTICISM - WENT THROUGH ALL THESE EASTERN 45:24 RELIGIONS - AND THEY'D ALL GET TOGETHER AND DO THESE MYSTICAL 45:28 CHANTS. AND THEY'D KIND OF MAKE THESE 45:33 OFF TONES - IT'S ALMOST LIKE SPA MUSIC THAT'S SUPPOSED TO PUT 45:36 YOU IN A HYPNOTIC TRANCE. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE 45:40 PEOPLE COULDN'T SING - THEY DIDN'T KNOW LATIN. 45:43 LUTHER GIVES THEM A BOOK AND - SONGS - AND THAT'S WHY LUTHER, 45:46 HE WOULD TAKE SOME OF THE GREAT MUSIC - YOU KNOW THAT SONG - A 45:49 MIGHTY FORTRESS? THAT WAS A MELODY THE PEOPLE 45:56 SANG, SOMETIMES EVEN IN THE BARS. 45:59 IT WAS A GREAT MELODY AND LUTHER SAID, 'NOTHING WRONG WITH THE 46:01 MELODY - THE WORDS ARE TERRIBLE. I'M GOING TO PUT NEW WORDS TO 46:03 THAT GREAT MELODY.' AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY WERE SINGING 46:07 SONGS LIKE THAT AND IT JUST - EVERYBODY WAS SINGING THE SONGS. 46:10 WHO WAS IT THAT SAID - YEAH, HEAR WE GO - CONFUCIUS, OF ALL 46:19 PEOPLE I MIGHT QUOTE, "IF ONE SHOULD DESIRE TO KNOW WHETHER A 46:23 KINGDOM IS WELL GOVERNED OR IF ITS MORALS ARE GOOD OR BAD, THE 46:27 QUALITY OF ITS MUSIC WILL GIVE YOU THE ANSWER." 46:30 WHAT DOES THAT BODE FOR US AS A NATION? 46:34 ANDREW FLETCHER SAID, 'I KNEW A VERY WISE MAN WHO BELIEVED THAT 46:38 IF A MAN WERE PERMITTED TO TAKE ALL THE BALLADS HE NEEDED, NOT 46:41 CARE WHO SHOULD MAKE THE LAWS OF THE NATION,' IF HE COULD WRITE 46:44 THE BALLADS - THE SONGS. PLATO SAID, 'GIVE ME THE MUSIC 46:48 OF A NATION AND I WILL CHANGE THE MIND OF THE NATION.' 46:51 YOU THINK IT'S AN ACCIDENT WHAT'S HAPPENED TO MUSIC? 46:55 OR IS THE DEVIL TRYING TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE NATION? 47:00 IT'S ANOTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION. 47:02 IT'S VERY POWERFUL. SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE VIBRATIONS 47:04 GO BEYOND THE PART OF OUR BRAIN THAT PROCESSES SPEECH AND 47:08 GETS DOWN INTO OUR SOUL. YOU EVER HEARD MUSIC 47:11 THAT'D JUST MAKE YOU WEEP? YOU KNOW, YOU'VE HEARD MUSIC 47:14 THAT JUST MOVES YOU TO TEARS AND YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY. 47:16 YOU MAY - I'VE HEARD MUSIC IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE I DON'T 47:18 KNOW WHAT THEY'RE SAYING, BUT THE MUSIC IS MESMERIZING. 47:24 AND SOMETIMES - YOU KNOW WHAT'S NEAT ABOUT MUSIC? 47:26 SOMETIMES THERE'LL BE A GREAT SONG - FOR INSTANCE, IF I SHOULD 47:30 JUST HUM - (HUMS JESUS LOVES ME ) EVERYONE KNOW WHAT THAT WAS? 47:38 EVEN THOUGH I DON'T SING ON KEY? THE WORDS - DID YOU HAVE 47:42 THE WORDS IN YOUR MIND? SO WHEN YOU HEAR THE MELODIES, 47:44 IT BRINGS THE WORDS BACK. AND SO, BY COMBINING WORDS - 47:48 GOOD THEOLOGY - WITH THESE BEAUTIFUL VIBRATIONS - THE 47:52 DIVINE GOOD MUSIC - IT INSPIRES TOWARDS TRUTH. 47:57 OH, WE CAN'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF MUSIC, FRIENDS, AND I 47:59 JUST DON'T HAVE TIME TO - TO GIVE IT THE ATTENTION IT 48:02 DESERVES. IN THE BOOK EDUCATION - P. 62, 48:07 "MUSIC FORMS A PART OF GOD'S WORSHIP IN THE COURTS ABOVE AND 48:10 WE SHOULD ENDEAVOR, IN OUR SONGS OF PRAISE, TO APPROACH AS NEARLY 48:15 AS POSSIBLE TO THE HARMONY OF HEAVENLY CHOIRS." 48:19 IT'S OUR GOAL HERE AS A CHURCH, IN THE PASTORAL STAFF, WITH THE 48:21 MUSIC LEADERS, TO SAY, 'LORD, WHAT IS THE MUSIC, NOT THAT THE 48:25 WORLD LIKES, BUT WHAT WILL GLORIFY YOU? 48:28 WHAT WILL PLEASE YOU?' AND I KNOW SOMETIMES WE PROBABLY 48:30 MISS THE MARK, BUT THAT'S OUR GOAL, IS TO BE EVALUATING AND 48:34 STUDYING - AND IT'S WORTH STUDYING, ISN'T IT? 48:37 TO KNOW WHAT IS TRUTH IN HIS WORD AND WHAT IS GOOD WHEN IT 48:40 COMES TO MUSIC. IN 1 TESTIMONIES 497 , "MUSIC, 48:45 WHEN NOT ABUSED, IS A GREAT BLESSING. 48:48 BUT WHEN IT IS PUT TO A WRONG USE, IT IS A TERRIBLE CURSE." 48:53 SO THE PURPOSE OF MUSIC IS TO GLORIFY GOD. 48:56 PSALM 71, VERSE 22, "ALSO WITH A LUTE I WILL PRAISE YOU. 49:01 I WILL PRAISE YOUR FAITHFULNESS O MY GOD. 49:03 TO YOU I WILL SING WITH A HARP, O HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. 49:07 MY LIPS SHALL GREATLY REJOICE WHEN I SING TO YOU AND MY SOUL, 49:11 WHICH YOU HAVE REDEEMED." PSALM 57, "I'LL PRAISE YOU, 49:14 O LORD, AMONG THE PEOPLES. I WILL SING TO YOU 49:17 AMONG THE NATIONS." SO ONE OF THE REASONS THEY WOULD 49:20 SING THEIR MUSIC IS NOT JUST TO TEACH THEM, IT WAS 49:22 ALSO AN OUTREACH. THE HEATHEN WILL HEAR. 49:26 'I'LL PRAISE YOU AMONG THE NATIONS' - MUSIC IS POWERFULLY - 49:29 IS A VERY POWERFUL TOOL EVANGELISTICALLY. 49:32 ANYWAY, SO BACK TO DAVID. SO GOD, IN HIS PROVIDENCE, HE 49:37 BRINGS DAVID TO THE PALACE AND DAVID, IN THE TIME - NOW, HE 49:42 WASN'T THERE FULL TIME, BECAUSE THE KING WOULD NOT MAKE SLAVES 49:46 OF THE PEOPLE THAT WOULD COME TO SERVE HIM IN THAT WAY. 49:48 HE SAID, 'JESSE, COULD YOU SEND ME YOUR SON? 49:50 HE WILL BE SOMEONE WHO WILL SERVE ME' - BUT HE'S NOT A 49:53 SLAVE. HE'S NOT AN INDENTURED SLAVE. HE CAN STILL GO HOME. 49:56 THEY WERE ABOUT - SAUL DID NOT LIVE IN JERUSALEM, SAUL LIVED IN 50:00 GIBEAH, WHICH IS ABOUT EIGHT MILES NORTH OF BETHLEHEM. 50:04 SO DAVID, WHEN HE WENT TO SAUL, HE WENT UP TO GIBEAH. 50:07 THAT'S WHERE THE COURT WAS BACK THEN. AND HE'D GET THE MESSAGE 50:10 SAYING, 'YOU NEED TO COME HELP THE KING. HE'S HAVING A HARD 50:12 TIME.' AND HE'D COME AND HE'D SPEND SOME TIME. 50:14 HE'D PLAY IN THE PALACE AND WHILE HE WAS THERE - THIS WAS SO 50:17 PROVIDENTIAL - NOT ONLY DID IT BLESS SAUL, BUT DAVID, BY 50:21 WATCHING HOW THINGS WERE CONDUCTED IN THE PALACE, BY 50:25 WATCHING AS SAUL WAS INTERACTING WITH LEADERS FROM OTHER 50:27 COUNTRIES, BY WATCHING THE INTRIGUE AND THE JOSTLING AND - 50:31 HE WAS ON THE SIDELINES AT A LOT OF MEETINGS. 50:34 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THERE ARE HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS THAT ARE 50:37 HAPPENING IN THE COUNTRY AND THE LEADERS DON'T NOTICE THE 50:41 SERVANTS. THEY'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WAITERS. 50:45 THEY'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE BUTLERS. 50:47 THEY'RE TALKING. THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT 50:48 INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE. DAVID, WHILE HE'S IN THE 50:52 BACKGROUND, HE'S PROVIDING BACKGROUND MUSIC - HE'S 50:54 BRILLIANT - HE'S SPIRIT FILLED TOO. 50:56 GOD'S - HE'S TAKING IT ALL IN AND GOD USED THIS PROVIDENCE TO 51:01 PREPARE HIM - BECAUSE, I MEAN, LET'S FACE IT, THERE'S A 51:03 DISTANCE BETWEEN BEING A SHEPHERD AND BEING A KING. 51:07 AND GOD SAID, 'LOOK, I NEED TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF A 51:09 LEARNING CURVE IN THE PALACE. I'M GOING TO LET YOU OBSERVE 51:14 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE PALACE AND HOW TO CONDUCT YOURSELF. 51:16 I'M GOING TO LET YOU LEARN FROM SAUL'S MISTAKES SO YOU DON'T 51:19 MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES. HE'D OFTEN HEAR PEOPLE FLATTER 51:22 THE KING SO THEY COULD GET WHAT THEY WANT. 51:24 AND IT TAUGHT DAVID, 'WELL, THEY'LL TELL THE KING ANYTHING 51:26 TO GET WHAT THEY WANT.' AND HE SAID, 'I DON'T WANT TO BE FOOLED 51:29 BY THAT.' HE SAW THAT THE KING WOULD BE SO FULL OF HIMSELF THAT 51:32 HE WOULDN'T REALLY CARE ABOUT ANYONE ELSE. 51:34 HE SAID, 'I WANT TO BE A KING THAT CARES ABOUT THE POOR 51:36 PEOPLE. HE SAW THE GOOD THINGS THAT SAUL DID. 51:39 HE SAW THE BAD THINGS THAT SAUL DID, AND GOD WAS PREPARING DAVID 51:42 TO BE THE GREATEST KING OF ISRAEL AS HE SAT IN THE CORNER 51:45 AND PLAYED HIS HARP. ISN'T THAT AMAZING? 51:49 >>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING 51:52 YOU READ IN THE BIBLE. WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS 51:56 CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 52:00 TO GET BIBLICAL STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWERS CALL IN TO BIBLE ANSWERS 52:03 LIVE - A LIVE NATIONWIDE CALL-IN RADIO PROGRAM WHERE YOU CAN TALK 52:08 TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND ASK HIM YOUR MOST DIFFICULT BIBLE 52:11 QUESTIONS. FOR TIMES AND STATIONS IN YOUR 52:13 AREA, OR TO LISTEN TO ANSWERS ONLINE, VISIT 52:16 BAL.AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . (MUSIC) 52:42 >>HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'THEY EAT 52:44 LIKE A BIRD' TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY WHO HAS A MINUSCULE 52:47 APPETITE? WELL YOU MIGHT WANT TO THINK 52:49 TWICE NEXT TIME YOU USE THAT EXPRESSION. 52:52 FOR EXAMPLE, TAKE THE HUMMINGBIRD: IN ORDER FOR IT TO 52:55 MAINTAIN ITS INCREDIBLE METABOLISM, IT HAS TO EAT ABOUT 52:58 50-PERCENT OF ITS BODY WEIGHT EVERY DAY. 53:02 TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, IF A HUNDRED-POUND WOMAN WAS TO EAT 53:05 LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD, SHE WOULD HAVE TO EAT 50 POUNDS OF SUGAR A 53:09 DAY JUST TO MAINTAIN HER BODY WEIGHT. IMAGINE THAT. 53:13 MAYBE YOU DON'T WANT TO IMAGINE THAT, BUT PERHAPS YOU'LL WANT TO 53:16 CONSIDER THIS ANOTHER WAY: THE HUMMINGBIRD TYPICALLY CONSUMES 53:19 BETWEEN FOUR TO SEVEN CALORIES A DAY, ON THE OTHER HAND, A HUMAN: 53:22 ABOUT 3,500 CALORIES A DAY. BUT IF YOU WERE TO EAT LIKE A 53:26 BIRD - A HUMMINGBIRD - YOU'D HAVE TO EAT OVER 53:29 150,000 CALORIES A DAY. THAT'S LIKE A MAN - 170 POUNDS 53:36 THAT WOULD BE EATING 3,000 OREO COOKIES. UNDER NORMAL 53:40 CONDITIONS, A HUMMINGBIRD NEEDS TO EAT EVERY FIVE OR TEN 53:43 MINUTES, BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY ONE TIME DURING THE YEAR THE 53:46 HUMMINGBIRD WILL EAT ITS ENTIRE BODY WEIGHT EVERY DAY. 53:50 YOU SEE, ONCE A YEAR THEY MAKE THIS MIGRATION 500 MILES ACROSS 53:54 THE GULF OF MEXICO FROM TEXAS TO THE YUCATAN PENINSULA. 53:59 IN ORDER TO DO THAT, THE HUMMINGBIRD FEASTS ON NECTAR AND 54:04 GORGES THEMSELVES ON THIS NECTAR FOR ABOUT A WEEK, DOUBLING THEIR 54:08 BODY WEIGHT. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN 54:10 STORE ENOUGH CALORIES TO HELP THEM WITH THEIR 70-WING BEATS 54:13 PER SECOND OR ROUGHLY 4 MILLION WING BEATS ON THAT JOURNEY. 54:19 YOU KNOW, IN THE SAME WAY, FRIENDS, AS WE NEAR THE END OF 54:20 TIME, WE NEED TO BE FEASTING AND GORGING OURSELVES ON THE NECTAR 54:24 OF GOD'S WORD. WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE 54:26 THAT STRENGTH TO GET US THROUGH THE TIMES OF TROUBLE 54:28 THAT ARE AHEAD. SO WHEN IT COMES TO THE BIBLE 54:31 AND YOUR PERSONAL DEVOTIONS, IF YOU'RE GOING TO EAT LIKE A 54:33 BIRD, EAT LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD. (MUSIC) 54:58 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO 55:01 WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, 55:05 VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 55:10 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS 55:15 WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 55:20 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 55:23 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. >>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES. 55:41 >>MY MOTHER PASSED AWAY WHEN I WAS THREE AND MY PATERNAL 55:44 GRANDPARENTS DECIDED THEY WOULD CARE FOR MY TWO OLDER SISTERS 55:49 AND I SO THAT MY FATHER WOULD HAVE TIME TO MOURN. 55:54 WE NEVER REALLY HAD A MOTHER OR A STRONG FATHERLY FIGURE - AND 55:57 I'M NOT BLAMING MY DAD, I'M JUST SAYING THAT'S HOW THINGS WORKED 56:00 OUT. WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL MY 56:06 OLDEST SISTER GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT WITH OUR FATHER AND MY 56:12 SISTER AND I DECIDED THAT WE WOULD TAKE HER SIDE AND SO THAT 56:20 CAUSED A SPLIT IN OUR FAMILY. FOR FOUR YEARS WE LIVED IN THE 56:26 SAME HOUSE, WE ATE FROM THE SAME POT, WE USED THE SAME RESTROOM, 56:30 WE WALKED BY EACH OTHER BUT WE NEVER SAID ANYTHING TO OUR 56:33 FATHER AND HE NEVER SAID ANYTHING TO US. 56:38 A YEAR LATER I DECIDED THAT I WOULD MOVE OUT FOR COLLEGE. 56:41 HE WASN'T VERY HAPPY WITH THAT. WE GOT BOOTED OUT OF THE HOUSE. 56:47 WE WENT BACK TO APOLOGIZE BUT WE WEREN'T REALLY ACCEPTED BACK. 56:54 I HAVE FELT SO ALONE A LOT OF MY LIFE. 56:58 I FELT LIKE I'VE HAD TO FEND MORE FOR MYSELF. 57:00 I'VE BEEN MISSING A FATHERLY LOVE. 57:04 I DON'T HAVE FAMILY WITH ME. I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF THINGS. 57:14 BUT I HAVE GOD AND I'VE BEEN FULFILLED. 57:18 I'VE BEEN SATISFIED. GOD HAS BEEN MY FATHER. 57:33 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 57:36 BEFORE. 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