Now today in particular
we're gonna be talking about,
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the sermon title is
"From Friend to Fugitive".
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Now you've probably
heard the expression
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before that power or
authority can corrupt,
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and absolute power
can corrupt absolutely.
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And unfortunately,
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when God had taken King Saul
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from being just one
of the common people
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and exalted him to king.
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At first, he was
small in his own eyes,
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but then as he
met with some success,
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some popularity, and
some acclaim of the people,
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he started believing
in all the compliments.
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You know, when you
have power and influence,
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people will say all
kinds of nice things to you
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because they may be want favors,
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and they'll give you
all kinds of compliments,
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and if you start
believing all of that,
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it can be very damaging.
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And Saul began to
accept this adoration
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and this worship and
think more highly of himself,
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started disregarding the
Lord and the law of the Lord,
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and ultimately he started
grieving away the spirit.
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And God told Samuel,
pick someone else to be king.
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So David was chosen
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and anointed this
shepherd boy to be the king
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that would someday replace Saul,
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but it did not happen quickly.
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God is very patient in
the way He works out His will.
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And strangely, Saul
and now he became disturbed
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because when the
Spirit of the Lord
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left Saul, evil
spirits tend to come in.
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You know that
parable where Jesus said,
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"If a man is freed
from an evil spirit
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if he does not replace
it with something good,
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seven worse will come in."
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And when the Holy
Spirit left that vacuum,
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and Saul had been grieving away
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and disobeying
the Spirit of God,
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he was then
tormented by evil spirits,
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and darkness, and melancholy.
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And they said,
you need a musician
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who will come and pray,
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play some
inspiring music for you.
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And we've heard
that there is this
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son of Jesse in Bethlehem,
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he's very skilled
and he can sing too.
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And bring him, let him see
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if the music will
lift your spirits,
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and David was brought,
and sure enough it did.
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Well, it wasn't long after this
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that there was this
challenge with Goliath
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which is 1 Samuel 17.
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And we know that
story, that David,
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he ends up coming back
from the fields once again,
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comes to the front of the battle
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and he soundly defeats Goliath.
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Takes Goliath sword,
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removes Goliath's head
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after he renders him
unconscious with a stone.
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Yeah, and this is
where our story takes up now
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and you go to 1 Samuel 18.
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And Saul is talking
to his general saying,
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"Who is this young man's family
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because I promised
whoever defeats though,
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the giant would be
tax free in the kingdom,
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and there'd be some
benefits, and some rewards."
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And they said,
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"Well, I'm not
sure who his family is,
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you know, David had been
there in the court of Saul,
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but I guess they
hadn't done a lot of talking.
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And finally, Saul calls
him, and this is chapter 17:58.
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He said, "'Whose
son are you, young man?'
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So David answered," and said,
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"I'm the son of your
servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."
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Now when he had
finished speaking to Saul,
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evidently when Saul
was talking to David,
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the crown prince
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Saul's oldest son
Jonathan was there.
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And it says, "And Jonathan
loved him as his own soul."
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That's an interesting
statement to make but, you know,
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Jonathan when you
read about him early,
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he's very
different from his father.
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Jonathan had the
courage to go into battle
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with his armor bearer.
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You remember, when he said,
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"I realize
there's only two of us,
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but if the Lord is with
us then it doesn't matter
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'cause you and God
are always majority."
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And Jonathan
and his armor bearer
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defeated a
garrison of 20 Philistines
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just the two of them,
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so he had a large hearted
man, he had a lot of faith.
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And when he saw
the faith of David
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going against the
giant, he was inspired,
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he said, yes,
that's what I wanted to do,
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but my father wouldn't
let me, that's my theory,
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I can't prove it, but
you can't disprove it.
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And it says that,
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"Jonathan loved
him as his own soul."
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There was something
that the two of them shared,
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you've met people before
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and you've had friends before
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where you know that you clicked,
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that you just resonated.
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You sometimes knew
what the other was thinking
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before they spoke,
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and the hearts and the souls
of Jonathan and David were one.
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And it says, "He
loved him as his own soul."
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And verse 2,
"Saul took him that day,
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and would not let him go home
to his father's house anymore."
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'Cause prior to this
David was sort of on call,
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when he would have,
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when Saul would have these
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bouts of
depression and melancholy,
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David would be called
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and he'd come and he'd
play and he'd be refreshed
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then he get busy
with other things
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and David would
go back home again.
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But now he's telling David
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to look after
the giant business,
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you're staying,
you're good luck,
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you're staying with me,
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I don't wanna let him go home."
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Now this next verse talks
about the great friendship.
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It says, "Then Jonathan
and David made a covenant,
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because he loved
him as his own soul."
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Now I want to pause here
before I read the next verse.
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The word "Jonathan"
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the way you say God or
one of the names for God
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in Hebrew is Yahweh,
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and sometimes you'll find like
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Joshua, Yeshua, it
means, Yahweh is savior,
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same name as Jesus.
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When you see Jesus
again in Hebrew is Yeshua.
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Yonatan is Jonathan.
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Nathan means gift,
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Jonathan means gift of God.
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You've heard the name Nathaniel,
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it's another name for God.
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Elohim, that means gift of God,
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it's just kind of a
reverse way of saying it.
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We've got a boy named
Nathan, It means gift,
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and gifts come in many forms,
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as Nathan is a gift.
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But Jonathan means gift of God
and He is the son of the King.
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He is a type of Christ,
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says, he loved
David as his own soul.
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Now listen how he
demonstrates that love
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that he makes a covenant.
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Does Jesus make
a covenant with us,
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because He loves
us like his own soul?
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You still with me?
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Jonathan took off
the robe that was on him
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and he gave it to David.
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Does Jesus give us a robe,
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a symbol of His righteousness?
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And it says, "He
gave him his armor."
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Does the Bible
tell us in Ephesians 6
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that the Son of the King,
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Jesus, the gift of God,
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God so loved the
world He gave His Son
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that the heavenly
Jonathan gives us his armor.
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We are to put on
the armor of God.
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You know, David
didn't want the armor of Saul
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but he does take
the armor of Jonathan,
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might have been
more of his size too.
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And it says, "Even his sword."
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Does Jesus give us a
sword, the Word of God?
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"And his bow", in the Bible,
the bow is a symbol of strength
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'cause it took strength
to pull back those bows.
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"And his belt",
another implement
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in the armor of
God, the belt of truth.
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And so he makes his covenant
with him 'cause he loves him
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and he gives him all the things
necessary to be victorious.
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It's interesting that as
David is preparing to go through
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one of the
hardest times in his life,
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because up until now
when he killed the giant,
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but David doesn't show
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that he's gone
through any real trials.
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We're getting ready to
read about a number of trials,
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where David goes from
his friendship with Jonathan
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to being a fugitive
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and it's almost
like God is telling us
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at the beginning
of these chapters
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that he makes a
covenant with them,
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he arms him,
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he gives him
everything he's gonna need
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to survive the trials
he's about to go through,
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so I think there's a
spiritual analogy here.
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Verse 5, in 1 Samuel 18:5,
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"So David went out
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and wherever Saul sent
him, and he behaved wisely."
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Why? 'Cause the Holy
Spirit has come upon him.
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"And Saul set him
over the men of war,
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and he was accepted in
the sight of the people..."
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He's the hero,
he's killed the giant.
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"And also in the
sight of Saul's servants."
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And up to this point, it
says Saul loved David also,
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you'll notice it
says, Jonathan loved David.
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The servants loved David.
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"Now it happened as
they were coming home,
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when David was returning
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from the
slaughter of the Philistine,
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that the women had come out
of all the cities of Israel..."
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Now they've come back
from one of their battles
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and with the Philistines
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and you've probably
seen a victory parade before,
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you know, at the
time of this recording
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a Super Bowl completed,
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and the winning team,
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and I guess it was quite a game.
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The winning team
had a victory parade,
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even though the
weather was very inclement,
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everybody came out
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and they all wanted
to welcome their heroes
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and praise their heroes.
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Well, when they came
back from a victorious battle
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against the Philistines,
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all the people came
up principally women
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'cause all the men are fighting.
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And the women would dress up
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and they'd get their
tambourines, and they play
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and they sing
these songs of victory
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and they had the
ticker tape parade.
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And while they're
doing, here's one of the songs.
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It says, "The
women sang as they dance,
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they went out
before the procession."
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Saul has slain his thousands,"
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and Saul heard
that and he smiled
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and he took a chest full of air
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and made him feel really good,
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and start to look
down on all the people
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'cause he was taller
and being on a horse,
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he was really high,
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but then he
heard the next verse.
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And the women went on to sing,
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and I don't know
who wrote this song
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and they never
get royalties for it,
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but someone
wrote the second verse,
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and it calls all
kinds of problems.
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"And David his ten thousands."
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Now David was the
armor bearer of Saul,
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Saul's coming back,
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Saul was leading the parade
and David is back a little bit.
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And when Saul hears them say,
Saul has slain his, how many?
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Thousands.
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But then the women go on to say,
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"And David his ten thousands."
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He was, "what?"
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Instead of saying,
that's right take a bow David,
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you deserve it, isn't he great?
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And cheering along,
he becomes resentful,
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he's jealous.
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If you don't have
the Spirit of God,
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there's only one alternative,
whose spirit do you have?
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If you are not like Christ,
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you're like the other character.
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And Satan wants all
the praise and the glory.
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And when Saul grieved
away the Spirit of God,
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he wanted all the
praise and the glory,
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and when he heard them
giving acclaim to David,
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he now becomes very
jealous, he's not at all happy,
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and he starts to resent it.
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The Bible says that,
"Saul was very angry..."
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Verse 8, "Saying, and
the saying displeased him.
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And he said,
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'They have ascribed
to David ten thousand,
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to me they've only
ascribed thousands."
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Now anyone out there
have been given credit
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for slaying
thousands of enemies?
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I mean, I would
be happy with that
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and he was until he
heard the next verse.
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You know, if you
go to Baskin-Robbins
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try this sometime,
you got a couple of kids.
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Get one two scoops and
hand them their two scoops
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and they will be so happy,
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but then get their
sibling three scoops.
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Watch the
problems that will cause.
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Even if they've only
got room to eat two scoops,
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the fact that one of
the others got three,
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they're not
happy with two anymore.
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They would have been happy,
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but the idea that
someone else got more.
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Millionaires are
happy until they find out
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that someone else got a billion,
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and they're not happy anymore.
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Someone asked Rockefeller,
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"How much money does it
take to make a person happy?"
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He said, "A little more."
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It's always a little more.
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And if you don't
have the Spirit of God,
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then you're never satisfied,
and Saul is unsatisfied
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with the amount of
praise he's getting,
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especially if someone gets more.
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I'm the king and he
goes on and he says,
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"They're giving him
credit for ten thousands,
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and me only thousands."
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And then he adds,
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"What more can he
have but the kingdom?"
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Now don't forget
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Saul had received word
from Samuel the prophet,
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the Lord is going to
take the kingdom away from you
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and give it to your
neighbor who is better than you.
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He knew that there was
someone, a nigh brother,
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someone else in the kingdom
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that was going
to get the kingdom.
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And it just cracks me up that,
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he kept suspiciously looking
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at all the other subjects
wondering, what are their clan?
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What are their family?
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Where was this
person that was gonna
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dare to replace him?
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And all of that while
he get, he'd think about
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who was going to replace
him and it would bother him,
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and he go into one of
his fits of depression,
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and anger, and rage.
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And he said,
"David come play for me,
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I got to figure out who
it is gonna replace me."
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He was David, his musician.
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This is the first
time he begins to suspect
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that maybe David is the one,
after all he killed the giant,
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all the people love him.
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Boy, if there was an election,
they'd vote for him right now.
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You see what's
happening in his mind.
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And he's thinking, oh,
maybe David is the one.
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And from that moment, verse 9,
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"So Saul eyed David
from that day forward."
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And here is where
David's trials really begin.
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"And it happens..."
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verse 10, "The next day
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a distressing spirit
came from God on Saul,
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and he prophesied,
he's ranting in the house.
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And David played music,
David's got his beautiful harp,
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and he's
strumming, and he's singing,
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he's trying to soothe
them, but why is Saul ranting.
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The day after this
parade, he's upset,
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what's he upset about?
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David, and so David's there,
and he's trying to soothe him,
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the last person in the world
now Saul wants to soothe him
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is the one that is scaring him,
that he's gonna take his place.
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And so in a fit of jealousy,
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it says, "His
spear was in his hand.
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And Saul cast the spear,
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and he said, 'I will
pin David to the wall.'"
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But, you know, if
you can kill giants,
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you're usually pretty quick.
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And David being
a shepherd and all,
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he quickly ducked
and evaded the spear.
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Some of you remember that
image from the news years ago
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when President George W. Bush
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was in Iraq at
a news conference,
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and one of the Iraqis
who wasn't too happy about
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what was going on there,
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took off his shoe and
threw it at the president.
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Remember all that.
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And that's a
terribly disrespectful thing
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but, you know, what
really impress folks,
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is a guy threw two
shoes, Bush dodged them both.
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And I was really
impressed with his coordination.
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And someone asked
Laura about it and she said,
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"He's always
been very athletic."
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But it says that not
only did this happen once,
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you notice in verse 11, it says,
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"He escaped his presence twice",
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it tells you later
about the second incident,
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throws a spear at him.
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Now I wouldn't go back to
work, if my boss did that to me.
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But he's the king
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and they knew he was
having mental problems.
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They said, well, maybe
that was just an episode,
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he will get over and
that won't happen again,
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but it didn't happen so fast.
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So Saul finally fires David.
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David is removed
from his position
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as the medical
minstrel in the palace.
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You heard of
medical missionaries,
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David was a medical musician.
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And so he says,
00:16:05.63\00:16:06.73
"Look, I don't want you
in the palace and you don't,
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no more playing for me anymore.
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He says, I want to make
you a captain of thousands,
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we're engaged in full ongoing
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declaration of war
with the Philistines.
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I'm gonna put you in
charge of a thousand soldiers,
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you're to lead them into battle.
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And he thought to
himself, you know,
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there was a high mortality
rate among those soldiers,
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the captains of thousands,
00:16:26.55\00:16:28.22
thought I don't
want to destroy him,
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I'll make the
Philistines kill him.
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And it says, "So David went out
and came in before the people."
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Verse 14, "David
behaved himself wisely
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in all his ways,
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and the Lord was with him
and he kept winning victories.
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Therefore, when Saul saw
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that he behaved
himself a very wisely,
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now how count how
many times it says,
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"David behaved himself
wisely, wisely, wisely."
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He's gone from being a shepherd
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to hobnobbing in the
palace of the kingdom
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and he's praying always
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that God will give him wisdom
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to know what to
say, when to be quiet,
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how to conduct himself wisely,
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all of this and he's
gone from being a shepherd,
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he's leading
soldiers in the battle,
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he was still
comparatively a young man.
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I remember years ago
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when I first
went into ministry...
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Oh, no, even
before I was in ministry,
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when I started attending church
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and I started teaching
the Sabbath school class
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that some of the
folks in the church
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got to get in, they said, Doug,
we need to ordain you an elder.
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I said, "An elder," said,
"I'd barely grown a moustache,
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you want to make me an elder."
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I don't want to be unkind,
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but any of you ever
had Mormon missionaries
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visit your house?
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That's commendable that
they're out there doing that.
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But, you know, they wear a
name tag, what does it say?
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Say so and so Elder
Jones and Elder Carpenter,
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whoever it is, it will say elder
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and some of
these are young guys,
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they can't even
grow a mustache yet.
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The word for elder there
in the Bible is presbuteros
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and it means people
of age and experience.
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I said, "Elder?"
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And the one's that are
asking me were in their 80s.
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Said, "Doug, we want
to make you an elder."
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And I studied it out and
I said, "I'm doing this."
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"Well, this is
what you got to do,
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if you're gonna
teach and if you're gonna,
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you know, minister to community
you need to be an elder,
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and so they finally talk
to me into being an elder,
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but I always felt
like that was a misnomer.
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I felt like I'm
way out of my league,
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so here David is just,
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you know, he hasn't even...
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When he went to
fight Goliath, Saul said,
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"You're just a
youth, he's a man of war."
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But now he's telling him,
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"I'll make you a
captain of a thousand
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but he's winning battles.
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He's learning some of the skills
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he learned dodging bears
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and wolves and lions
out there in the wilderness,
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when it came to
knowing the terrain
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and leading his army.
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And David was a
very successful general.
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You'll never find in the
Bible where David lost a battle,
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not with the enemy on
the battlefield, very brave,
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very courageous, very
strong, and very successful.
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And this started bothering
him, more successful he was,
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the more it bothered Saul.
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Saul doesn't want
him to be successful.
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The more he's victorious,
the more kingly he appears.
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And Saul is now afraid that
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David's the one
that's gonna take his place.
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Verse 15, "When Saul saw
that he behaved very wisely,
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he was afraid of him.
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But all Israel and Judah
loved David," you notice that?
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First it says, Saul
loved him, now Saul hates him.
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You read in chapter 16,
it says Saul loved David.
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Jonathan loves him.
00:19:25.59\00:19:27.60
All of Israel loves him.
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And so Saul said to
David, I got an idea,
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he's a poor shepherd,
I'll let him marry my daughter
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because when he
killed the giant,
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then one of the ideas was
00:19:39.51\00:19:40.61
you're gonna get to marry
one of the king's daughter,
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Saul had several children.
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And he said, "I'll let
him marry my daughter Merab
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and I'll give
you to you as wife.
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Only be valiant for me
and fight the Lord's battles.
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For Saul thought,
00:19:52.52\00:19:54.22
'Let my hand not be against him,
00:19:54.22\00:19:56.26
but let the hand
of the Philistines
00:19:56.26\00:19:58.16
be against him.'"
00:19:58.16\00:19:59.43
Now that idea of
killing your enemy
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through your enemies.
00:20:01.66\00:20:03.57
David later picked up on that,
00:20:03.57\00:20:05.33
and you remember what David did
00:20:05.33\00:20:06.40
when he wanted
to get rid of Uriah?
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Said, "I won't lift
my hand against him,
00:20:08.77\00:20:10.57
make him go to the
front of the hottest battle
00:20:10.57\00:20:13.04
with the Amorites
and let them kill him,
00:20:13.04\00:20:17.05
and it happened, but
didn't work for Saul.
00:20:17.05\00:20:20.28
Saul hoped that,
00:20:20.28\00:20:21.85
"Look, I know you're poor
and you can't pay a dowry,
00:20:21.85\00:20:24.09
but if you go
fight battles for me,
00:20:24.09\00:20:26.29
and if you'll kill
a hundred Philistines,
00:20:26.29\00:20:29.69
bring me evidence
00:20:29.69\00:20:30.79
that you've killed
hundred Philistines,
00:20:30.79\00:20:32.26
you know, David
just didn't feel worthy."
00:20:32.26\00:20:34.10
He said, "So you
think it's a small thing
00:20:34.10\00:20:35.50
to be the king's son in law?"
00:20:35.50\00:20:37.73
But then Saul
got word, "Michal..."
00:20:37.73\00:20:39.93
I'm in verse 20.
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Your daughter Michal,
she is smitten by David.
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And they told Saul
and the thing pleased him.
00:20:44.81\00:20:46.74
He said, notice,
it's verse 21, Saul said,
00:20:46.74\00:20:49.51
"I'll give her to him
00:20:49.51\00:20:51.31
that she might
be a snare to him,
00:20:51.31\00:20:53.38
and that the hand
of the Philistines
00:20:53.38\00:20:55.58
might be against him."
00:20:55.58\00:20:56.65
Well, it turns
out Michal ended up
00:20:56.65\00:20:58.45
being a snare in many ways,
00:20:58.45\00:21:00.26
but he was hoping
that his love for Michal
00:21:00.26\00:21:04.53
and her love for him
00:21:04.53\00:21:05.66
that he'd use the dowry of
killing hundred Philistines
00:21:05.66\00:21:10.70
that David, you
know, he'd be killed
00:21:10.70\00:21:12.60
in one of those
battles and he'd never do it.
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"Saul said to
David the second time,
00:21:14.97\00:21:16.71
'You're to be my
son-in-law today.'
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And Saul commanded his servants,
00:21:19.01\00:21:20.44
'Communicate
with David secretly,
00:21:20.44\00:21:21.81
say him, 'Look, the
king delights in you
00:21:21.81\00:21:24.21
and His servants love you.
00:21:24.21\00:21:25.51
Now therefore go
00:21:25.51\00:21:26.58
and become the
king's son-in-law."'
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So they told David that.
00:21:28.62\00:21:30.19
And so David said, "All
right, well, if you insist
00:21:30.19\00:21:32.79
but that just doesn't seem right
00:21:32.79\00:21:34.29
that I should only
kill 100 Philistines,
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I'll kill 200."
00:21:36.62\00:21:38.93
So David goes out
and he doubles it.
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You know, when you
loved your firstborn,
00:21:41.83\00:21:44.20
you give a double portion,
00:21:44.20\00:21:46.43
when Elkanah loved Hannah,
he gave a double portion.
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Bible says,
Elisha said to Elijah,
00:21:51.51\00:21:53.44
"If you love me,
give me a double portion."
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And so David said, "I
won't kill 100 Philistines,
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I'll kill 200"
00:22:00.42\00:22:01.85
and he did, and he
brought the evidence.
00:22:01.85\00:22:05.72
And Saul is mystified
because everything he's doing,
00:22:05.72\00:22:09.12
all these plots are backfiring,
00:22:09.12\00:22:10.79
and he's getting
madder and madder,
00:22:10.79\00:22:12.26
he's trying to
pretend he likes David
00:22:12.26\00:22:13.73
but inwardly he hates him,
00:22:13.73\00:22:15.53
he's very jealous,
very peevish and small.
00:22:15.53\00:22:20.57
And so Saul knew that
the Lord was with David,
00:22:20.57\00:22:23.64
and then Michal
Saul's daughter loved him,
00:22:23.64\00:22:25.94
so he got someone
else that loves him,
00:22:25.94\00:22:28.11
and Saul was
more afraid of David.
00:22:28.11\00:22:31.01
So Saul, I am in
verse 29 of chapter 18,
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we're about done
with this chapter.
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"Saul became
David's enemy continually."
00:22:35.78\00:22:40.99
Not good to have
the king as your enemy.
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Now you're gonna
see from this point on
00:22:43.16\00:22:44.99
David begins to go
through a series of trials,
00:22:44.99\00:22:49.03
and you might be wondering
00:22:49.03\00:22:50.10
why is all this
happening to David.
00:22:50.10\00:22:52.03
Didn't God have a big
plan for David's life?
00:22:52.03\00:22:54.47
Why is he going
through all this hardship?
00:22:54.47\00:22:57.21
I thought he was
gonna be anointed king
00:22:57.21\00:22:59.01
and suddenly sit
on the front throne,
00:22:59.01\00:23:00.54
be surrounded with gold
and everybody obeying Him.
00:23:00.54\00:23:03.55
But David goes from
being filled with the spirit
00:23:03.55\00:23:06.35
to all kinds of trials.
00:23:06.35\00:23:09.32
Now don't forget that
00:23:09.32\00:23:10.92
because you go through
trials and life gets messy
00:23:10.92\00:23:15.12
and you've got challenges
00:23:15.12\00:23:16.46
in all kinds of different areas,
00:23:16.46\00:23:18.06
does not mean God does
not have a plan for you.
00:23:18.06\00:23:20.73
Sometimes the Lord allows you
00:23:20.73\00:23:22.40
to go through a
whole spectrum of trials
00:23:22.40\00:23:25.90
'cause he's preparing you
to live and reign with Him.
00:23:25.90\00:23:30.47
God through the
trials was preparing David
00:23:30.47\00:23:33.48
to be a king.
00:23:33.48\00:23:35.11
Why did Joseph go
through all of his trials?
00:23:35.11\00:23:38.38
God was preparing him
to lead for many years
00:23:38.38\00:23:41.75
but, you know, you learn
leadership through service.
00:23:41.75\00:23:44.89
And David was being
prepared through these trials.
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Verse 30, "Then the
princes of the Philistines
00:23:48.19\00:23:50.86
went out to war.
00:23:50.86\00:23:51.93
And so it was,
whenever they went out,
00:23:51.93\00:23:54.40
that David
behaved more wisely..."
00:23:54.40\00:23:56.60
You noticing the pattern.
00:23:56.60\00:23:57.97
"Than all the servants of Saul,
00:23:57.97\00:23:59.83
so his name
became highly esteemed."
00:23:59.83\00:24:02.54
Wherever they
went out into battle,
00:24:02.54\00:24:04.81
David would always
have the best battle plan,
00:24:04.81\00:24:08.64
his troops would be victorious,
they were always the ones
00:24:08.64\00:24:11.45
that were blowing the trumpet,
00:24:11.45\00:24:12.78
coming to the
rescue of everybody else,
00:24:12.78\00:24:14.72
they went down
mowing down the enemy
00:24:14.72\00:24:17.42
and the morale of his
group, his team was very great.
00:24:17.42\00:24:22.02
So Saul spoke to Jonathan,
his son, chapter 19, verse 1,
00:24:22.02\00:24:26.53
"That they should kill David.
00:24:26.53\00:24:28.16
But Jonathan, Saul's son,
delighted greatly in David."
00:24:28.16\00:24:31.10
You notice that Jonathan
is interceding with the king
00:24:31.10\00:24:34.44
for David, again
another Christ like attribute,
00:24:34.44\00:24:37.64
now that the
father wants to kill you,
00:24:37.64\00:24:39.47
but it's like against judgment.
00:24:39.47\00:24:42.18
"And Jonathan told David saying,
00:24:42.18\00:24:43.45
'Look, my father
wants to kill you.
00:24:43.45\00:24:45.11
Therefore please be on
your guard until morning,
00:24:45.11\00:24:47.62
stay in a
secret place and hide."
00:24:47.62\00:24:49.18
You go on this field,
they assigned a place.
00:24:49.18\00:24:50.89
He said, I'm gonna
walk out of the field,
00:24:50.89\00:24:52.15
and I'll talk to my dad,
you'll be able to listen,
00:24:52.15\00:24:55.42
and I'll stand in the
field and I'll talk to him.
00:24:55.42\00:24:58.13
"Thus Jonathan spoke well
of David to Saul his father,
00:24:58.13\00:25:01.40
and said to him,
00:25:01.40\00:25:02.66
'Let not the king sin
against his servant, David,
00:25:02.66\00:25:05.23
because he has not
sinned against you,
00:25:05.23\00:25:07.27
because his works
have been very good.
00:25:07.27\00:25:09.27
Jonathan waited till
Saul was in a good mood,
00:25:09.27\00:25:11.37
he wasn't
having the evil spirit,
00:25:11.37\00:25:12.81
he could reason with him.
00:25:12.81\00:25:14.61
"For he took
his life in his hand
00:25:14.61\00:25:16.48
and he killed the Philistine,
00:25:16.48\00:25:17.55
and the Lord brought about
00:25:17.55\00:25:18.65
a great
deliverance for all of Israel.
00:25:18.65\00:25:20.68
You saw, then you rejoiced.
00:25:20.68\00:25:23.05
Why will you then sin
against innocent blood?"
00:25:23.05\00:25:26.82
What did Pilate say
00:25:26.82\00:25:27.92
when they wanted
to execute Jesus?
00:25:27.92\00:25:30.83
I don't want to be guilty
00:25:30.83\00:25:31.86
against this
man's innocent blood.
00:25:31.86\00:25:34.20
Why will you sin
against innocent blood
00:25:34.20\00:25:35.83
to kill David without a cause?
00:25:35.83\00:25:38.37
You know, Saul had not
totally grieved away the spirit
00:25:38.37\00:25:40.57
and the spirit reason
with him at this point,
00:25:40.57\00:25:42.87
and he listen to
the voice of Jonathan.
00:25:42.87\00:25:45.24
And Saul swore, he made a vow,
by the way this vow came true.
00:25:45.24\00:25:48.71
"As the Lord lives,
he will not be killed."
00:25:48.71\00:25:52.51
You know, that
Saul made another vow
00:25:52.51\00:25:54.58
that his son Jonathan would die,
00:25:54.58\00:25:57.35
and Jonathan did
die a violent death
00:25:57.35\00:25:59.69
and David did not.
00:25:59.69\00:26:01.59
It's interesting,
Saul was a prophet
00:26:01.59\00:26:03.56
and Bible says that.
00:26:03.56\00:26:05.56
"And Jonathan called David,
00:26:05.56\00:26:07.76
and Jonathan told
him all these things."
00:26:07.76\00:26:09.30
He said, "Look, he's
calmed down, he's okay,
00:26:09.30\00:26:11.43
you can go back."
00:26:11.43\00:26:13.00
"And Jonathan
brought David to Saul
00:26:13.00\00:26:14.87
as he was in the past,
00:26:14.87\00:26:16.04
and in his
presence in past times.
00:26:16.04\00:26:19.37
And there was war again.
00:26:19.37\00:26:20.44
And David went out
00:26:20.44\00:26:21.51
and he fought
with the Philistines,
00:26:21.51\00:26:22.58
and he struck them
with a mighty blow,
00:26:22.58\00:26:23.91
and they fled from him.
00:26:23.91\00:26:25.68
And now the
distressing spirit of the Lord
00:26:25.68\00:26:27.92
came upon Saul as
he sat in his house,
00:26:27.92\00:26:29.85
his spear in his hand.
00:26:29.85\00:26:31.52
And David was playing music."
00:26:31.52\00:26:33.12
Now if I were David,
I would have thought,
00:26:33.12\00:26:34.39
you know,
00:26:34.39\00:26:35.59
"Your Majesty, can you
please put the spear now
00:26:35.59\00:26:37.66
and I'll play for you."
00:26:37.66\00:26:39.56
You've already once
tried to shish kebab me.
00:26:39.56\00:26:43.30
We don't want you to,
you know, just have a flinch,
00:26:43.30\00:26:47.10
ill-temper and...
00:26:47.10\00:26:48.94
But he is playing, now, do
you think David was relaxed?
00:26:48.94\00:26:53.38
He's probably
missing a few notes
00:26:53.38\00:26:55.98
and Saul is scowling at him
00:26:55.98\00:26:58.11
and he is
tightening and losing his grip
00:26:58.11\00:27:00.38
on his spear.
00:27:00.38\00:27:01.45
Every time Saul shifted,
00:27:01.45\00:27:02.52
David would miss
a note, you know,
00:27:02.52\00:27:05.09
'cause this
didn't go well last time,
00:27:05.09\00:27:07.66
and this was the second time.
00:27:07.66\00:27:09.99
And again, he's playing music.
00:27:09.99\00:27:12.09
"And Saul sought to pin David
to the wall with the spear,
00:27:12.09\00:27:16.33
but he slipped away
from Saul's presence.
00:27:16.33\00:27:19.03
And he drove the
spear into the wall."
00:27:19.03\00:27:21.04
Saul's pretty big and
strong and that would have hurt.
00:27:21.04\00:27:24.11
"And he fled and
he escaped that night.
00:27:24.11\00:27:27.24
Saul also sent messengers
to David's house to watch him
00:27:27.24\00:27:30.25
and to kill him in the morning."
00:27:30.25\00:27:31.75
Now he's got assassins,
00:27:31.75\00:27:34.28
they're stalking
his house to kill him.
00:27:34.28\00:27:37.52
"And Michal, David's
wife, told him, saying,
00:27:37.52\00:27:39.42
'If you don't
save your life tonight,
00:27:39.42\00:27:41.06
tomorrow you will be killed.'
00:27:41.06\00:27:43.36
So Michael let David
down through a window.
00:27:43.36\00:27:46.70
And he fled and escaped."
00:27:46.70\00:27:48.30
It's not the first
time that God's servants
00:27:48.30\00:27:50.70
been let down a
window by a woman.
00:27:50.70\00:27:53.44
Remember the story of Rahab?
00:27:53.44\00:27:56.10
You remember when
Paul was in Damascus
00:27:56.10\00:27:58.01
and they had spies
waiting to kill Paul?
00:27:58.01\00:28:00.74
And he was let
down through a window,
00:28:00.74\00:28:02.74
they let him down in
a basket and he escaped.
00:28:02.74\00:28:07.18
"And Michal put an image
and laid it in the bed..."
00:28:07.18\00:28:09.28
And everyone says, "Pastor Doug,
00:28:09.28\00:28:10.42
what was an image
doing in David's house?"
00:28:10.42\00:28:13.52
Well, they did
have statues back then
00:28:13.52\00:28:16.56
and that's
simply what it's saying,
00:28:16.56\00:28:17.73
the Bible doesn't say,
don't have any work of art,
00:28:17.73\00:28:20.13
it says, don't make
them and bow down to them.
00:28:20.13\00:28:21.80
So for whatever
reason they had something
00:28:21.80\00:28:24.17
that looked
like a body or person
00:28:24.17\00:28:26.77
or figure of some sort.
00:28:26.77\00:28:28.17
They stuck it under the blanket,
00:28:28.17\00:28:31.04
and they took some red goatskin,
00:28:31.04\00:28:33.51
the same color as David's
hair, and they put it there
00:28:33.51\00:28:35.51
and made it look
like he was in the bed.
00:28:35.51\00:28:36.78
They were hoping,
they'd look and say,
00:28:36.78\00:28:37.85
look, he's sick
let's leave him alone.
00:28:37.85\00:28:40.78
"So Saul's messengers
got the word, he is sick.
00:28:40.78\00:28:43.05
And Saul said to the messengers,
00:28:43.05\00:28:44.12
'Bring David back,
00:28:44.12\00:28:45.75
bring him in the bed
that I might kill him.'
00:28:45.75\00:28:47.89
They come in, there
was the image in the bed,
00:28:47.89\00:28:49.76
and the goat's
hair for his head.
00:28:49.76\00:28:52.16
And Saul said to Michal,
00:28:52.16\00:28:53.76
'Why have you
deceived me like this,
00:28:53.76\00:28:55.73
and you let my enemy go away.'"
00:28:55.73\00:28:57.83
She was probably
thinking your enemy,
00:28:57.83\00:28:59.27
you're the one that
told me to marry him.
00:28:59.27\00:29:02.04
"And Michal
answered, he said, 'Let me go!
00:29:02.04\00:29:03.87
Why should I kill you?'"
00:29:03.87\00:29:05.47
It's a fib.
00:29:05.47\00:29:06.81
You'll see that
there's some dishonesty
00:29:06.81\00:29:08.24
that is uttered
during this whole thing.
00:29:08.24\00:29:10.05
"So David fled and escaped."
00:29:10.05\00:29:11.35
Now I want you to notice
00:29:11.35\00:29:12.38
what's going on
here as we proceed.
00:29:12.38\00:29:14.85
First, he's got a
true friend in Jonathan,
00:29:14.85\00:29:17.89
and Jonathan prepares
00:29:17.89\00:29:19.39
and then gives him
his armor and sword
00:29:19.39\00:29:20.92
and watches over him.
00:29:20.92\00:29:23.06
And the Bible says,
00:29:23.06\00:29:24.16
"There's a friend that
sticks better than a brother.
00:29:24.16\00:29:26.96
He's long as he know, he
starts out with a friend,
00:29:26.96\00:29:29.40
Jonathan sees his
friend through the whole ordeal
00:29:29.40\00:29:32.77
and he encourages them
through the whole thing.
00:29:32.77\00:29:34.70
Do we have a friend in Jesus?
00:29:34.70\00:29:36.30
So then he loses his job.
00:29:39.34\00:29:40.68
You know, one of
the hardest things
00:29:40.68\00:29:41.71
that can happen to
a man is lose his job.
00:29:41.71\00:29:43.48
David had been in the
palace and he's kicked out.
00:29:43.48\00:29:46.72
He says, now I want
you to go be a captain.
00:29:46.72\00:29:49.25
And, you know, what's happening
00:29:49.25\00:29:50.45
with these
jealous feelings of Saul,
00:29:50.45\00:29:52.39
Saul was not
fighting against David.
00:29:52.39\00:29:54.46
Who is Saul
really fighting against?
00:29:54.46\00:29:57.43
He's fighting against Jehovah.
00:29:57.43\00:29:59.96
Because he's
grieved away the spirit,
00:29:59.96\00:30:01.70
he sees the spirit is in David,
00:30:01.70\00:30:03.93
he's trying to
just destroy David
00:30:03.93\00:30:06.90
because God had said
00:30:06.90\00:30:08.30
through His
word and His prophet,
00:30:08.30\00:30:10.27
someone else is
gonna replace you,
00:30:10.27\00:30:11.71
and he's trying to
stop it from happening.
00:30:11.71\00:30:13.84
He should have
just surrendered to it.
00:30:13.84\00:30:15.98
And then he gets
to marry the princes
00:30:15.98\00:30:17.71
and you'll think, you
think that's a good thing.
00:30:17.71\00:30:20.72
But no, Saul tries to do that
00:30:20.72\00:30:22.25
hoping that he'll die
trying to pay the dowry,
00:30:22.25\00:30:25.09
and then he sends his
assassins to David's house
00:30:25.09\00:30:28.09
where Michal is to kill him.
00:30:28.09\00:30:29.89
You know, during that time,
David actually wrote a psalm,
00:30:29.89\00:30:32.36
while he's going
through his trials
00:30:32.36\00:30:33.83
and I don't have time.
00:30:33.83\00:30:35.06
But if you read
through the Psalms,
00:30:35.06\00:30:36.46
you're going to
find is, this is a psalm
00:30:36.46\00:30:38.37
that David wrote
when this happened.
00:30:38.37\00:30:40.07
This is a psalm David
wrote when this happened.
00:30:40.07\00:30:42.30
David actually wrote a psalm
00:30:42.30\00:30:43.94
when he sent assassins
to kill him at the house,
00:30:43.94\00:30:48.38
and you find that in Psalm 59.
00:30:48.38\00:30:50.71
I'm just gonna read
a few verses of that.
00:30:50.71\00:30:53.15
I want to feel
like composing music,
00:30:53.15\00:30:55.08
but David found
great comfort in that.
00:30:55.08\00:30:57.79
Psalm 59, I'll read
verse, you know, just 1 and 3.
00:30:57.79\00:31:01.16
"Deliver me from
my enemies, O God.
00:31:01.16\00:31:03.22
Defend me from those
who rise up against me.
00:31:03.22\00:31:05.76
Deliver me from the
workers of iniquity,
00:31:05.76\00:31:07.93
and save me from
bloodthirsty men.
00:31:07.93\00:31:10.27
For they look, they
lie and wait for my life."
00:31:10.27\00:31:13.94
There they were at
his house lying in wait,
00:31:13.94\00:31:16.07
he's outlining what happened.
00:31:16.07\00:31:17.41
"The mighty
gathered against me..."
00:31:17.41\00:31:18.77
The king was against me.
00:31:18.77\00:31:20.54
"Not for my transgression
nor for my sin, O Lord."
00:31:20.54\00:31:24.28
I don't deserve this and
they're trying to kill me,
00:31:24.28\00:31:26.28
they're lying in wait.
00:31:26.28\00:31:27.82
So as you look in the Psalms,
00:31:27.82\00:31:29.52
pay attention to some
of those introductions
00:31:29.52\00:31:32.05
and you'll see that
David wrote some of these
00:31:32.05\00:31:34.02
during times of great trial.
00:31:34.02\00:31:36.16
Isn't it interesting
00:31:36.16\00:31:37.29
how much beautiful
music has been written
00:31:37.29\00:31:40.03
during times of great trial,
00:31:40.03\00:31:42.50
and so he wrote
that when he fled.
00:31:42.50\00:31:44.90
Now it tells us if you
go to chapter 19, verse 18.
00:31:44.90\00:31:49.14
Where does he go?
00:31:49.14\00:31:51.07
He's ended up on
the most wanted list.
00:31:51.07\00:31:54.31
David now flees to Samuel.
00:31:54.31\00:31:57.15
And this is natural,
00:31:57.15\00:31:59.11
Samuel had been
his spiritual mentor.
00:31:59.11\00:32:01.58
He's thinking, I'm gonna
die before I ever become king,
00:32:01.58\00:32:03.59
I just like some reassurance,
00:32:03.59\00:32:04.89
you are anointing me to be king?
00:32:04.89\00:32:06.82
Doesn't look like I'm a king.
00:32:06.82\00:32:07.99
I'm running for
my life right now.
00:32:07.99\00:32:10.36
And so he gets some
encouragement from Samuel,
00:32:10.36\00:32:12.96
but pretty soon
word came to King Saul,
00:32:12.96\00:32:15.10
that David was with
Samuel and up in Naioth.
00:32:15.10\00:32:20.57
That was a town nearby
to Ramah where Samuel lived.
00:32:20.57\00:32:24.91
So what does Saul do?
00:32:24.91\00:32:26.94
Stubborn sends his
soldiers to arrest David.
00:32:26.94\00:32:32.15
But when his
soldiers come to arrest him,
00:32:32.15\00:32:33.92
Samuel is out preaching
with the sons of the prophets,
00:32:33.92\00:32:36.08
and they're
prophesying to the people.
00:32:36.08\00:32:38.52
The sheriff from
Saul come to arrest David,
00:32:38.52\00:32:43.02
and the Spirit of
the Lord comes on them
00:32:43.02\00:32:44.06
and they start to preach.
00:32:44.06\00:32:46.59
And Saul is waiting and waiting,
00:32:46.59\00:32:48.23
said, "Why, what's
taking them so long."
00:32:48.23\00:32:50.90
Sends some more to arrest David,
00:32:50.90\00:32:54.27
bring him back
so I can kill him.
00:32:54.27\00:32:56.14
Another contingent
goes out to arrest David,
00:32:56.14\00:32:58.41
and when they come
into the presence of Samuel,
00:32:58.41\00:33:00.58
the Holy Spirit comes on them,
00:33:00.58\00:33:02.38
and they begin
to preach and teach.
00:33:02.38\00:33:05.68
And Saul says, "Where are they?
What's taking them so long?"
00:33:05.68\00:33:09.42
Send another group
because Saul is just south of
00:33:09.42\00:33:12.19
where Samuel is,
they're not that far away.
00:33:12.19\00:33:14.26
He sends another
group. What happened to them?
00:33:14.26\00:33:17.06
Well, looks like the
Holy Spirit came on them
00:33:17.06\00:33:18.46
and there they're preaching
00:33:18.46\00:33:19.49
and teaching
along with the rest.
00:33:19.49\00:33:22.13
Finally, Saul can't stand,
00:33:22.13\00:33:23.37
he said, "Well, if you
want something done right,
00:33:23.37\00:33:25.23
you do it yourself."
00:33:25.23\00:33:26.27
Says, "I'll go, I'll get him."
00:33:26.27\00:33:28.47
So he arms himself to the teeth.
00:33:28.47\00:33:30.11
He goes up there,
he comes to Naioth,
00:33:30.11\00:33:31.94
where Samuel is
and all the prophets
00:33:31.94\00:33:34.14
and the people
and they're teaching.
00:33:34.14\00:33:36.34
And the Bible says, "The
Holy Spirit came on Saul."
00:33:36.34\00:33:39.88
Can the Holy Spirit even come
on a person against their will?
00:33:39.88\00:33:43.25
When Balaam wanted
to curse God's people,
00:33:43.25\00:33:46.02
and God said,
you can't curse them
00:33:46.02\00:33:47.29
because I blessed them.
00:33:47.29\00:33:48.42
The Holy Spirit came on
Balaam, and against his will,
00:33:48.42\00:33:50.49
he had to utter a blessing.
00:33:50.49\00:33:54.00
And pretty soon,
he runs out of energy
00:33:54.00\00:33:59.43
and Saul, he starts
to prophesy and preach
00:33:59.43\00:34:02.40
and takes off his
clothes and lies down naked,
00:34:02.40\00:34:06.44
and then he
prophesies until sundown.
00:34:06.44\00:34:08.41
You can't fight against God.
00:34:08.41\00:34:11.21
So now he has to leave Samuel.
00:34:11.21\00:34:13.31
He says, well,
Saul knows where I'm at,
00:34:13.31\00:34:14.62
this won't work forever.
00:34:14.62\00:34:16.32
David flees again, he
goes back to Jonathan.
00:34:16.32\00:34:19.45
And most of
chapter 20 is talking about
00:34:19.45\00:34:22.46
where Jonathan tries to
intercede with his father.
00:34:22.46\00:34:26.09
And David says,
"You didn't realize
00:34:26.09\00:34:27.96
that your
father tried to kill me
00:34:27.96\00:34:29.66
in your sister's house,"
00:34:29.66\00:34:31.27
David is telling Jonathan.
00:34:31.27\00:34:33.00
"So then your father
sent soldiers to arrest me,
00:34:33.00\00:34:35.30
when I was up seeing Samuel.
00:34:35.30\00:34:36.64
He's trying to kill me."
00:34:36.64\00:34:37.94
Jonathan says,
"No, he promised me,
00:34:37.94\00:34:39.17
he swore it wouldn't happen."
00:34:39.17\00:34:40.64
He said, "No, he's
trying to kill me again.
00:34:40.64\00:34:43.21
He threw a spear at me again."
00:34:43.21\00:34:45.28
Jonathan said, "Look,
let me talk to him again."
00:34:45.28\00:34:47.52
Said, "You hide
out here in the field."
00:34:47.52\00:34:49.32
They set up
another secret mission
00:34:49.32\00:34:51.59
'cause, you know,
people in the quarter watching,
00:34:51.59\00:34:53.19
there are spies looking,
00:34:53.19\00:34:54.26
David is now
hiding in the bushes.
00:34:54.26\00:34:57.69
And Jonathan said,
"I'll go talk to my father."
00:34:57.69\00:35:00.46
He said, "Now is the
feast of the new moon."
00:35:00.46\00:35:02.66
It's a new moon
Sabbath. There will be a feast.
00:35:02.66\00:35:04.33
And all of the
kings, counselors,
00:35:04.33\00:35:06.77
his cabinet will
be gathered together,
00:35:06.77\00:35:08.34
they're all there and he said,
00:35:08.34\00:35:11.31
"I'll ask him then
in front of everybody."
00:35:11.31\00:35:14.38
And so then after
the second or third day,
00:35:14.38\00:35:16.54
and David is not in his seat,
00:35:16.54\00:35:18.05
he's one of the king's captains,
00:35:18.05\00:35:19.15
he's supposed to be there.
00:35:19.15\00:35:20.65
Saul says to Jonathan,
he knows they're friends.
00:35:20.65\00:35:23.69
Said, "Where is
the son of Jesse?"
00:35:23.69\00:35:26.49
"Oh, dad, David asked
if he could go to Bethlehem
00:35:26.49\00:35:30.23
because his family was
having a special sacrifice
00:35:30.23\00:35:32.09
for the new moon,
00:35:32.09\00:35:33.16
and I told him it would be okay,
00:35:33.16\00:35:34.56
I knew you were busy."
00:35:34.56\00:35:36.43
Saul threw, went into a fit.
00:35:36.43\00:35:40.47
He says, "Don't you
know if David is not dead
00:35:40.47\00:35:44.14
that you will
never be crowned prince?
00:35:44.14\00:35:47.04
So you're doing this against you
00:35:47.04\00:35:48.41
and he begins to
curse that his son,
00:35:48.41\00:35:51.25
says stuff about
Jonathan's mother.
00:35:51.25\00:35:53.11
I mean, Saul
just comes unhinged.
00:35:53.11\00:35:56.02
And Jonathan becomes outraged,
00:35:56.02\00:35:58.05
he says, "Why are
you trying to kill him?
00:35:58.05\00:36:00.16
He has done nothing but
good, the people love him,
00:36:00.16\00:36:02.32
everyone loves him."
00:36:02.32\00:36:03.56
And that really bothered Saul.
00:36:03.56\00:36:05.43
Saul now throws a
spear at his own son
00:36:05.43\00:36:10.07
and he misses.
00:36:10.07\00:36:11.10
He does not have a very good aim
00:36:11.10\00:36:12.30
evidently with his spear.
00:36:12.30\00:36:15.47
And Jonathan goes out mad
00:36:15.47\00:36:16.84
and he meets David in the field,
00:36:16.84\00:36:18.61
and he embraces and
he says, you're right.
00:36:18.61\00:36:20.78
He said, he is
bent on killing you
00:36:20.78\00:36:22.54
and I can't reason with
him, he's lost his mind,
00:36:22.54\00:36:25.11
he tried to spear me.
00:36:25.11\00:36:27.75
And so now he has to
flee from his friend.
00:36:27.75\00:36:31.89
So you notice what's happening?
00:36:31.89\00:36:33.76
He's losing his
position, he loses his wife,
00:36:33.76\00:36:37.09
he loses his home,
he loses his friend.
00:36:37.09\00:36:41.30
He's separated from Samuel,
00:36:41.30\00:36:42.63
that was the last
time he saw Samuel.
00:36:42.63\00:36:44.33
Samuel ends up
dying by chapter 25.
00:36:44.33\00:36:48.24
He now says, "Where do I go?"
00:36:48.24\00:36:49.74
When you're losing everybody,
he goes to the house of God.
00:36:49.74\00:36:53.27
Now the temple has
not been built yet,
00:36:53.27\00:36:54.84
they are still operating out
of a very tattered tabernacle.
00:36:54.84\00:36:59.41
And so he goes to
Nob where the priest is.
00:36:59.41\00:37:01.68
I think I even have
a map up on the wall
00:37:01.68\00:37:03.82
that you'll see there.
00:37:03.82\00:37:05.22
And David flees from
Nob, later he goes to,
00:37:05.22\00:37:08.59
you can see where
Gibeah is and Ramah
00:37:08.59\00:37:10.93
at the north of the map
there is where Samuel was,
00:37:10.93\00:37:13.90
Gibeah is where Saul had
his kingdom at that time.
00:37:13.90\00:37:16.67
He goes down south on the right,
00:37:16.67\00:37:18.27
there you'll see is Nob,
00:37:18.27\00:37:19.73
that's where the tabernacle was.
00:37:19.73\00:37:21.67
And he goes to Ahimelech
there who is the high priest.
00:37:21.67\00:37:25.24
And when he saw
David, he was scared.
00:37:25.24\00:37:27.64
He says, "How come you're
alone and nobody is with you,"
00:37:27.64\00:37:30.25
'cause they'd heard
about Saul going after David.
00:37:30.25\00:37:34.62
And he said, "I'm on some
urgent business for the king,
00:37:34.62\00:37:36.58
everything's okay."
00:37:36.58\00:37:37.65
David begins to tell stories.
00:37:37.65\00:37:41.49
I'm in chapter 21,
verse 1. Thank you.
00:37:41.49\00:37:44.49
And he said, "I need some food,
do you have any provisions?"
00:37:44.49\00:37:48.93
And there's the only
bread here is holy bread.
00:37:48.93\00:37:51.77
He said, "That will work."
00:37:51.77\00:37:53.37
By the way, do you know David...
00:37:53.37\00:37:54.60
Jesus refers to this experience,
00:37:54.60\00:37:56.64
Matthew 12, Jesus
said, "How do you not read
00:37:56.64\00:37:59.84
what David did
when he was hungry
00:37:59.84\00:38:01.34
and those who are with him?"
00:38:01.34\00:38:02.34
He had a small
group of men with him.
00:38:02.34\00:38:04.35
"How he entered the house of God
00:38:04.35\00:38:05.98
and ate the showbread,
00:38:05.98\00:38:07.58
that was not
lawful for him to eat
00:38:07.58\00:38:09.32
nor those who were with
him, but only for the priests.
00:38:09.32\00:38:12.32
But since it had
served its course
00:38:12.32\00:38:13.72
and they took it out,
00:38:13.72\00:38:14.99
they were now gonna
replace it with fresh bread.
00:38:14.99\00:38:16.66
They said, you can eat this
and they gave David the bread,
00:38:16.66\00:38:18.66
the holy bread
was given to David.
00:38:18.66\00:38:20.63
And he said, "Do you
have any weapons here?"
00:38:20.63\00:38:22.83
And he said,
"This is the temple."
00:38:22.83\00:38:24.83
He said, "You
know, the only weapon
00:38:24.83\00:38:26.00
we've got here is
we've got the relic
00:38:26.00\00:38:28.77
that you gave
us, it's the sword,
00:38:28.77\00:38:30.61
it's the sword of
Goliath that you gave us."
00:38:30.61\00:38:33.61
David said, "Oh,
there's no sword like that,
00:38:33.61\00:38:34.94
let me have it."
00:38:34.94\00:38:36.78
So he ends up
coming to the house of God,
00:38:36.78\00:38:38.41
and what does he get?
00:38:38.41\00:38:39.58
He gets holy bread
and he gets a sword.
00:38:39.58\00:38:42.58
I hope you friends
can find holy bread
00:38:42.58\00:38:44.52
and the sword when you
come to the house of God.
00:38:44.52\00:38:46.86
What does that bread represent?
00:38:46.86\00:38:48.96
Man doesn't live by
bread alone but by every word.
00:38:48.96\00:38:51.36
What does that sword represent?
00:38:51.36\00:38:52.99
The Word of God
which is a two-edged sword,
00:38:52.99\00:38:55.23
he went to the house of God
00:38:55.23\00:38:57.70
and he got some
encouragement there,
00:38:57.70\00:38:59.43
he was fed with holy bread,
00:38:59.43\00:39:01.90
and that's what we eat
when we come to church, right.
00:39:01.90\00:39:04.31
He was fed with holy
bread and he got a sword
00:39:04.31\00:39:06.27
but not like any other sword,
00:39:06.27\00:39:07.61
there was no sword
like the sword of Goliath.
00:39:07.61\00:39:11.05
But, you know,
that the high priest
00:39:11.05\00:39:12.71
because he had helped David,
00:39:12.71\00:39:15.32
he and his whole family
00:39:15.32\00:39:16.85
with the exception of
Abimelech, one of his sons,
00:39:16.85\00:39:19.62
they were all later
annihilated by Saul.
00:39:19.62\00:39:22.72
Saul became so angry,
00:39:22.72\00:39:24.66
he didn't care
what means he used
00:39:24.66\00:39:26.59
or how many people were killed,
00:39:26.59\00:39:28.33
if he could just
get rid of David.
00:39:28.33\00:39:30.63
Why does the devil
hate people so much?
00:39:30.63\00:39:34.64
Because the devil,
Satan, Lucifer hates Jesus,
00:39:34.64\00:39:38.74
the Son of David.
00:39:38.74\00:39:39.97
And most of the pain
00:39:39.97\00:39:41.78
and the suffering you
see in the world today is not
00:39:41.78\00:39:43.68
'cause the devil
cares that much about you,
00:39:43.68\00:39:45.78
but he wants to do
what he can to hurt Jesus.
00:39:45.78\00:39:49.38
It's all about destroying Jesus,
00:39:49.38\00:39:50.75
it's all about hurting Jesus,
00:39:50.75\00:39:52.45
and that's why he then sown
his wrath against the devil,
00:39:52.45\00:39:55.99
against you and me.
00:39:55.99\00:39:59.09
And so he now has to
leave the house of God.
00:39:59.09\00:40:04.00
You notice
something else about David,
00:40:04.00\00:40:05.60
his problem was never so
much the enemy on the outside
00:40:05.60\00:40:08.67
as the enemy within.
00:40:08.67\00:40:10.61
David always was able
to kill the Philistines,
00:40:10.61\00:40:12.87
but boy, he had
a lot of problems
00:40:12.87\00:40:14.38
from people in the kingdom.
00:40:14.38\00:40:17.08
Now David is, he
leaves the house of God
00:40:17.08\00:40:19.58
and he is so discouraged.
00:40:19.58\00:40:20.88
Where does he turn?
00:40:20.88\00:40:22.58
He now flees to his enemy.
00:40:22.58\00:40:24.92
You've probably heard
the expression before,
00:40:24.92\00:40:27.62
"My enemy's enemy is my friend."
00:40:27.62\00:40:31.46
And he knew that the
Philistines hated Saul
00:40:31.46\00:40:34.73
and Saul now hates David,
00:40:34.73\00:40:36.53
he figures maybe if I
go to the Philistines,
00:40:36.53\00:40:38.60
they'll protect me.
00:40:38.60\00:40:41.44
And this is in chapter,
00:40:41.44\00:40:42.57
I'm actually in
chapter 21, verse 10.
00:40:42.57\00:40:46.71
"David arose and he fled
that day from before Saul,
00:40:46.71\00:40:49.74
and he went to
Achish the king of Gath."
00:40:49.74\00:40:52.45
What?
00:40:52.45\00:40:53.92
King of where?
00:40:53.92\00:40:56.38
King of where? Gath.
00:40:56.38\00:40:58.65
Have you heard
that word Gath before?
00:40:58.65\00:41:02.06
Who's from Gath?
Who is the hero in Gath?
00:41:02.06\00:41:05.56
David is so troubled right now,
00:41:05.56\00:41:09.03
he is so down, he's
not thinking clearly.
00:41:09.03\00:41:11.80
He goes walking up
the streets of Gath,
00:41:11.80\00:41:13.97
he and a handful of men with him
00:41:13.97\00:41:15.57
that stuck with him.
00:41:15.57\00:41:16.94
And on his side, he's
got the sword of Goliath.
00:41:16.94\00:41:22.04
And he comes to the king
and he's looking for haven.
00:41:22.04\00:41:26.68
And the king is going,
he says to his cabinet,
00:41:26.68\00:41:32.85
he's applying for asylum?
00:41:32.85\00:41:35.56
He isn't the one,
this is the one that said,
00:41:35.56\00:41:39.06
Saul killed us thousand,
but David ten thousand,
00:41:39.06\00:41:41.50
ten thousand who?
00:41:41.50\00:41:42.80
Ten thousand of us,
00:41:42.80\00:41:44.57
and we're supposed
to take care of him
00:41:44.57\00:41:45.93
and he's wearing Goliath sword.
00:41:45.93\00:41:47.74
And David starts to hear
that it's not gonna end well
00:41:47.74\00:41:51.94
and, you know, what he does?
00:41:51.94\00:41:53.14
He's pretty
clever, he wasn't honest.
00:41:53.14\00:41:56.11
He says, "I better
act like I'm crazy,
00:41:56.11\00:41:58.55
so they'll have pity on me."
00:41:58.55\00:41:59.65
And he begins to
drool on his beard,
00:41:59.65\00:42:02.55
and start looking wild
eye and acts like he's crazy,
00:42:02.55\00:42:05.65
and he starts to
scratch on the gates.
00:42:05.65\00:42:07.96
And the king says, "He's crazy."
00:42:07.96\00:42:11.76
I don't have enough going
on, you bring me someone insane.
00:42:11.76\00:42:14.83
I haven't got time to have
an insane person in my house,
00:42:14.83\00:42:16.90
get him out of here,
00:42:16.90\00:42:18.00
that's exactly what
David wanted to hear.
00:42:18.00\00:42:20.40
Instead of killing
him, he pities him,
00:42:20.40\00:42:22.54
and he says get him out of Gath.
00:42:22.54\00:42:25.64
I don't want him here.
00:42:25.64\00:42:27.44
So he's now gone,
00:42:27.44\00:42:29.44
he's getting
rejected by his enemies.
00:42:29.44\00:42:33.52
You wonder how much
further down can he go.
00:42:33.52\00:42:37.52
You know David
wrote a Psalm, Psalm 34:1,
00:42:37.52\00:42:42.02
"A Psalm of David when
he changed his behavior
00:42:42.02\00:42:44.73
before Abimelech,
and he drove him away,
00:42:44.73\00:42:47.76
and he departed."
00:42:47.76\00:42:49.63
Have you read where it
says, "The angel of the Lord,"
00:42:49.63\00:42:51.67
and this is in Psalm 34.
00:42:51.67\00:42:53.60
"The angel of the Lord encamps
all around those who fear him,
00:42:53.60\00:42:57.44
and delivers them."
00:42:57.44\00:42:59.57
Something else that
David said in that Psalm
00:42:59.57\00:43:01.54
and you think it's a confession.
00:43:01.54\00:43:03.11
He says, "Keep
your tongue from evil,
00:43:03.11\00:43:04.91
and your lips
from speaking to see."
00:43:04.91\00:43:06.61
He said, "Lord, I know I
lied and acted like I was crazy.
00:43:06.61\00:43:10.49
I got scared, I
didn't know what to do.
00:43:10.49\00:43:12.05
It's like, it's a song
that includes confession.
00:43:12.05\00:43:15.19
But you read the Psalms,
it's telling about these trials
00:43:15.19\00:43:18.16
that David is going through.
00:43:18.16\00:43:19.89
And here we'll end up with this.
00:43:19.89\00:43:22.20
He get to chapter 22,
00:43:22.20\00:43:24.20
"Now David flees to
the Cave of Adullam.
00:43:24.20\00:43:27.70
And I think on the
screen here, we've got a picture
00:43:27.70\00:43:29.74
where someone
tried to take a picture
00:43:29.74\00:43:31.67
inside the Cave of
Adullam, it's still there today.
00:43:31.67\00:43:34.28
It used to be much
bigger, but over the millennia,
00:43:34.28\00:43:36.91
we're talking
about 3,000 years ago,
00:43:36.91\00:43:39.71
it had a little more space.
00:43:39.71\00:43:40.88
There's been, you
know, some cave-ins
00:43:40.88\00:43:42.02
and water washes in and
people used it overtime,
00:43:42.02\00:43:45.55
but there used to be a
little more capacity in there,
00:43:45.55\00:43:47.79
you can still probably
fit 100 people in the cave.
00:43:47.79\00:43:50.66
But that became his
holdout, he ends up in the cave.
00:43:50.66\00:43:55.23
Now here's someone
who when he got called
00:43:55.23\00:43:57.53
from the fields to the palace,
00:43:57.53\00:44:00.64
and he knew someday
he was gonna be king,
00:44:00.64\00:44:02.17
it made sense to David
00:44:02.17\00:44:03.71
that you've got a
big plan for my life,
00:44:03.71\00:44:05.07
I'm gonna be king,
00:44:05.07\00:44:06.14
it makes sense I should be here,
00:44:06.14\00:44:07.34
I'm gonna learn all
I can in the palace.
00:44:07.34\00:44:10.05
But it didn't play out
the way he had expected.
00:44:10.05\00:44:12.78
Now the king tries to
kill him and he loses his wife,
00:44:12.78\00:44:16.28
he loses his home, he
gets fired from the palace,
00:44:16.28\00:44:19.65
he's separated from
his friend Jonathan,
00:44:19.65\00:44:23.63
he can't go back
home to his family,
00:44:23.63\00:44:25.86
he's sort of an
alien in his own nation.
00:44:25.86\00:44:28.63
On every telephone
pole around Israel,
00:44:28.63\00:44:31.23
it says, top ten most wanted,
00:44:31.23\00:44:33.57
David was
number one on the list.
00:44:33.57\00:44:35.67
The king is trying to kill him.
00:44:35.67\00:44:36.81
He's running for his life,
00:44:36.81\00:44:38.11
and he ends up in a
dark wet moldy cave.
00:44:38.11\00:44:44.11
And later you
can hear, David says,
00:44:44.11\00:44:46.35
the water
wasn't very good there,
00:44:46.35\00:44:48.02
and he was yearning
after the water of Bethlehem.
00:44:48.02\00:44:50.25
So he's drinking sulfur
water and he's in a cave,
00:44:50.25\00:44:53.59
and he's in the
dark, and he's now really,
00:44:53.59\00:44:55.59
he's got athlete's foot
and everything is going bad.
00:44:55.59\00:44:57.66
And he thought I'm filled
with the Spirit of the Lord,
00:44:57.66\00:44:58.93
why is this happening to me?
00:44:58.93\00:45:00.76
Sometimes the path to
God's will for your life
00:45:02.93\00:45:06.20
is gonna take you
through a lot of difficulty.
00:45:06.20\00:45:11.24
God was preparing David
for usefulness and this...
00:45:11.24\00:45:16.68
So I'm telling you this,
00:45:16.68\00:45:18.08
because you may be
going through that.
00:45:18.08\00:45:20.18
David actually was
a great escape artist.
00:45:20.18\00:45:23.89
I wanted you, there's a
word I didn't highlight,
00:45:23.89\00:45:25.92
I want you to notice.
00:45:25.92\00:45:27.22
It's the word "escape".
00:45:27.22\00:45:30.86
1 Samuel 18:11,
00:45:30.86\00:45:34.00
"David escaped the
presence of Saul twice.
00:45:34.00\00:45:36.80
1 Samuel 22, "He
escaped to the Cave of Adullam."
00:45:36.80\00:45:41.80
1 Samuel 19:12,
00:45:41.80\00:45:44.17
"He went and fled
and escaped from Michal,
00:45:44.17\00:45:46.71
Michal's house."
00:45:46.71\00:45:48.71
1 Samuel 19:18,
"David fled and escaped,
00:45:48.71\00:45:51.38
and he went to Samuel."
00:45:51.38\00:45:53.25
1 Samuel 27:1,
00:45:53.25\00:45:55.68
"David said, I'm
better from dying
00:45:55.68\00:45:59.35
from the hand of the Lord
to go with the Philistines,
00:45:59.35\00:46:01.36
I'll escape to the
land of the Philistines."
00:46:01.36\00:46:04.93
And then of course,
he ends up in the cave.
00:46:04.93\00:46:06.86
You know, Jesus was
an escape artist too.
00:46:06.86\00:46:10.67
Bible says, John 10:39,
00:46:10.67\00:46:13.37
"Therefore they
thought to arrest Jesus again,"
00:46:13.37\00:46:15.94
What does again mean?
00:46:15.94\00:46:18.07
It had happened
before, but he escaped.
00:46:18.07\00:46:22.01
The son of David was
pretty good at that too.
00:46:22.01\00:46:24.28
He escaped from their hand.
00:46:24.28\00:46:27.02
You know what Adullam
means, the cave of Adullam?
00:46:27.02\00:46:29.48
A sealed off place.
00:46:29.48\00:46:31.89
God brought David
to a sealed off place,
00:46:31.89\00:46:34.09
and there things are gonna turn
00:46:34.09\00:46:36.19
from the cave on
his circumstances turn.
00:46:36.19\00:46:40.23
From the cave on and
we'll be dealing with this
00:46:40.23\00:46:42.00
in our next message.
00:46:42.00\00:46:44.10
An army begins to form,
00:46:44.10\00:46:46.43
and David's
greatness begins to rise,
00:46:46.43\00:46:49.84
and his leadership
and his experience,
00:46:49.84\00:46:51.71
but God had to bring
him down into a cave.
00:46:51.71\00:46:55.14
Did God had to bring
Elijah to a cave at one point?
00:46:55.14\00:46:58.68
Sometimes God's got to bring you
00:46:58.68\00:47:00.05
into a dark place
before you can see the light.
00:47:00.05\00:47:04.19
From the cave,
David wrote a Psalm,
00:47:04.19\00:47:07.06
you can read Psalm 142:7,
00:47:07.06\00:47:09.52
it's called the
"Maskil of David",
00:47:09.52\00:47:11.79
a prayer when he was
in the Cave of Adullam.
00:47:11.79\00:47:16.16
And I want to read a quote
to you from the book Maranatha,
00:47:16.16\00:47:20.27
that wonderful devotional
that talks about the last days.
00:47:20.27\00:47:22.84
Why am I emphasizing this?
00:47:22.84\00:47:26.07
David had lost
every earthly support.
00:47:26.07\00:47:29.54
God was preparing
David for greatness
00:47:29.54\00:47:32.48
by getting him to
learn to fully depend on him.
00:47:32.48\00:47:36.38
The Lord was also telling David,
00:47:36.38\00:47:37.95
no matter where you go,
00:47:37.95\00:47:39.35
you might have
to flee to Naioth,
00:47:39.35\00:47:41.79
then you might
have to go to Gath,
00:47:41.79\00:47:43.02
you go to Adullam,
00:47:43.02\00:47:44.09
you go wherever
you go, I am with you.
00:47:44.09\00:47:46.43
I will never leave
you and forsake you.
00:47:46.43\00:47:48.13
God delivered him out
of all of his troubles.
00:47:48.13\00:47:50.33
And here's that quote
from Maranatha, page 181.
00:47:50.33\00:47:53.20
"In the last great conflict
of the controversy with Satan
00:47:53.20\00:47:58.04
those who are loyal to God
00:47:58.04\00:48:00.51
will see every
earthly support cut off.
00:48:00.51\00:48:05.01
Because they
refuse to break His law
00:48:05.01\00:48:06.58
in obedience to earthly powers,
00:48:06.58\00:48:08.18
they will be
forbidden to buy and sell.
00:48:08.18\00:48:10.15
It will finally be decreed
00:48:10.15\00:48:11.55
that they shall be put to death.
00:48:11.55\00:48:14.09
But to the obedient
the promise is given,
00:48:14.09\00:48:15.96
'His dwelling will be on high,
00:48:15.96\00:48:17.89
his place of defense will
be the munitions of rocks.'"
00:48:17.89\00:48:21.93
Will there be a time
when maybe we will see,
00:48:21.93\00:48:24.37
friends, and job, and
family turn against us.
00:48:24.37\00:48:28.14
Jesus said,
00:48:28.14\00:48:29.44
those of your own
household will become your foes.
00:48:29.44\00:48:32.51
That doesn't mean
every person, every case,
00:48:32.51\00:48:34.21
but we're gonna see
even among our family.
00:48:34.21\00:48:36.24
People will turn against us.
00:48:36.24\00:48:38.01
You may lose
your earthly support,
00:48:38.01\00:48:39.61
your earthly possessions,
and your earthly positions.
00:48:39.61\00:48:43.12
You might find
yourself out in the woods,
00:48:43.12\00:48:45.92
but the promise is that
I will take care of you.
00:48:45.92\00:48:48.19
I will support you.
00:48:48.19\00:48:50.19
It says, "Bread
will be given them
00:48:50.19\00:48:54.20
and the water will be sure.
00:48:54.20\00:48:56.30
By this promise the
children of God will live."
00:48:56.30\00:49:00.44
You know, when we
look at the trials
00:49:00.44\00:49:01.87
that David went through
00:49:01.87\00:49:02.87
as He prepared
him for the palace,
00:49:02.87\00:49:05.27
and here he
starts in the palace,
00:49:05.27\00:49:06.37
ends up in a cave,
00:49:06.37\00:49:08.28
but he's gonna go
back to the palace again.
00:49:08.28\00:49:10.61
When you come to Christ,
He makes a promise to you,
00:49:10.61\00:49:12.58
but you might find
your path to the palace
00:49:12.58\00:49:15.45
is gonna take you through
some really difficult trials.
00:49:15.45\00:49:18.19
When you're going
through your trials
00:49:18.19\00:49:19.99
and you're
running for your life,
00:49:19.99\00:49:21.56
you know, the devil
is out to destroy you.
00:49:21.56\00:49:23.22
Did you know that?
00:49:23.22\00:49:24.29
I don't want to
scare you, but it's true.
00:49:24.29\00:49:26.26
The devil is going
around like a roaring lion
00:49:26.26\00:49:30.07
to make an appetizer out of you.
00:49:30.07\00:49:32.53
He wants to destroy you.
00:49:32.53\00:49:33.67
And so you go
through these trials,
00:49:33.67\00:49:35.40
don't be discouraged,
Jesus is your friend.
00:49:35.40\00:49:37.64
Have you ever heard a
mouse howl like a wolf?
00:49:48.65\00:49:52.59
Well, what would
you expect would happen
00:49:52.59\00:49:54.32
when a creature
changes its destiny
00:49:54.32\00:49:56.69
from the hapless
prey to mighty predator?
00:49:56.69\00:50:00.50
From the outside,
they look very much like
00:50:00.50\00:50:02.30
just an oversized field mouse.
00:50:02.30\00:50:04.53
Cute brown fur,
white on the underbelly,
00:50:04.53\00:50:07.27
nice little beady eyes,
00:50:07.27\00:50:09.00
but that's where
the similarity stop.
00:50:09.00\00:50:11.01
Grasshopper mice
are very unusual,
00:50:11.01\00:50:13.38
making them the
objects of great interest
00:50:13.38\00:50:15.61
for animal researchers.
00:50:15.61\00:50:18.91
These furry little
creatures are found
00:50:18.91\00:50:20.58
in the harsh
deserts of North America,
00:50:20.58\00:50:23.02
they're very
territorial in nature,
00:50:23.02\00:50:24.65
and they will monopolize
and fend off 25 acres.
00:50:24.65\00:50:28.29
They don't build their own homes
00:50:28.29\00:50:29.69
but sort of
confiscate the burrows
00:50:29.69\00:50:31.46
in the homes of other creatures.
00:50:31.46\00:50:34.36
They're not
called grasshopper mice
00:50:34.36\00:50:35.86
'cause they hop around,
00:50:35.86\00:50:37.10
but it's because they
eat a lot of grasshoppers.
00:50:37.10\00:50:39.20
In fact,
scientists have discovered
00:50:39.20\00:50:40.64
grasshopper mice
are the only mice
00:50:40.64\00:50:42.87
that are purely carnivorous.
00:50:42.87\00:50:46.37
They hunt much like cats
or weasels stocking their prey
00:50:46.37\00:50:49.48
in a predatory
fashion, and when they pounce,
00:50:49.48\00:50:52.45
they are ferocious.
00:50:52.45\00:50:53.92
Sometimes even taking on snakes
and scorpions and centipedes.
00:50:53.92\00:50:59.02
When a grasshopper mouse
gets into a fierce battle
00:50:59.02\00:51:01.49
with a snake or a
scorpion or centipede,
00:51:01.49\00:51:03.89
they may be bit or
stung several times,
00:51:03.89\00:51:07.10
but what is
amazing to researchers is
00:51:07.10\00:51:08.96
they've noticed,
when they are bitten,
00:51:08.96\00:51:11.17
they somehow shake it off
00:51:11.17\00:51:12.73
because they convert the toxin
and the venom to pain killer.
00:51:12.73\00:51:17.74
I think you can
understand why this information
00:51:17.74\00:51:20.08
would be of special
interest to scientists
00:51:20.08\00:51:22.48
that are trying to
discover new ways for people
00:51:22.48\00:51:25.05
to deal with chronic pain.
00:51:25.05\00:51:27.48
What are the most
intriguing characteristics
00:51:27.48\00:51:30.05
of these little creatures is
00:51:30.05\00:51:32.09
when they're
defending their territory
00:51:32.09\00:51:33.96
or celebrating a
victory over some adversary,
00:51:33.96\00:51:37.09
they'll throw back their head
00:51:37.09\00:51:38.49
and let out this
earth shaking howl.
00:51:38.49\00:51:41.46
It's a mousy howl, check it out.
00:51:41.46\00:51:44.07
The grasshopper mouse is
not the only member of creation
00:51:50.14\00:51:53.41
that can survive encounters
with venomous predators.
00:51:53.41\00:51:57.08
In Luke 10:19, it says,
00:51:57.08\00:51:58.65
"Behold, I will
give you authority
00:51:58.65\00:52:01.38
to trample on
serpents and scorpions
00:52:01.38\00:52:04.05
and over all the
power of the enemy.
00:52:04.05\00:52:06.39
Nothing will by
any means hurt you."
00:52:06.39\00:52:09.12
We don't have to be the
biggest and the strongest
00:52:09.12\00:52:11.33
to defeat our enemy and
let out that victory roar.
00:52:11.33\00:52:14.36
When God called
David to be king,
00:52:14.36\00:52:16.40
no human would have
guessed that he had it in him.
00:52:16.40\00:52:18.73
He was young and insignificant,
00:52:18.73\00:52:21.04
from the outside he looked like
there was no greatness in him,
00:52:21.04\00:52:24.54
but when God
looked at his heart,
00:52:24.54\00:52:26.34
he saw courage,
humility, compassion, and love.
00:52:26.34\00:52:29.34
David was imperfect
and he made mistakes,
00:52:29.34\00:52:32.18
but through God's power he
was able to conquer giants.
00:52:32.18\00:52:36.62
Friend, God does not intend
00:52:36.62\00:52:37.82
that you live out
the rest of your life
00:52:37.82\00:52:39.55
cowering and trembling
like a little field mouse.
00:52:39.55\00:52:42.52
If God can take
the grasshopper mouse
00:52:42.52\00:52:44.49
and give him courage,
00:52:44.49\00:52:45.63
so that he fights snakes,
and scorpions, and centipedes.
00:52:45.63\00:52:49.23
If God can put in the
heart of David the courage
00:52:49.23\00:52:51.53
to fight giants like Goliath,
00:52:51.53\00:52:54.07
then he can give
you that same courage.
00:52:54.07\00:52:56.34
The scripture say, "God has not
given you the spirit of fear,
00:52:56.34\00:53:00.18
but of power,
love, and a sound mind."
00:53:00.18\00:53:03.48
And you can have
that peace in your heart,
00:53:03.48\00:53:05.35
when you invite
the Prince of Peace
00:53:05.35\00:53:06.85
in your heart.
00:53:06.85\00:53:07.88
Why don't you do that right now?
00:53:07.88\00:53:09.38
Amazing Facts, changed lives.
00:53:21.60\00:53:24.57
My greatest wish is
that my children will see me
00:53:30.34\00:53:35.78
the way I see my own father.
00:53:35.78\00:53:40.52
He's a very devoted man.
00:53:40.52\00:53:43.75
And that kind of
framed my childhood
00:53:43.75\00:53:46.15
going forward from there
00:53:46.15\00:53:47.42
where I was always
involved in church work,
00:53:47.42\00:53:51.46
and I had a very rich experience
00:53:51.46\00:53:54.36
with the Lord at a young age,
00:53:54.36\00:53:58.07
all the way up through college.
00:53:58.07\00:53:59.60
Then after I got married,
00:53:59.60\00:54:01.80
I got in a
company called Comcast.
00:54:01.80\00:54:04.81
And I spent the past
roughly eight and a half years,
00:54:04.81\00:54:08.94
nine years at Comcast.
00:54:08.94\00:54:11.41
And I was actually
watching television with my son.
00:54:11.41\00:54:15.58
And a Comcast
commercial came on the air.
00:54:15.58\00:54:19.59
And he said, "Oh,
daddy, that's Comcast,
00:54:19.59\00:54:22.82
that's where you work, daddy."
00:54:22.82\00:54:25.79
And most fathers would be
proud of something like that,
00:54:25.79\00:54:29.23
but it really struck me that,
00:54:29.23\00:54:31.83
you know, my
son is getting older
00:54:31.83\00:54:33.60
and he does not see me
as a servant of the Lord.
00:54:33.60\00:54:36.24
He sees me as a
servant of my company.
00:54:36.24\00:54:40.14
And I knew that I would
have to make some changes,
00:54:40.14\00:54:44.35
because I wanted him to
know me as a man of God.
00:54:44.35\00:54:49.62
I never thought I
would be a preacher
00:54:49.62\00:54:51.25
or anything like that.
00:54:51.25\00:54:53.25
But I knew that, there
was room in the work for me
00:54:53.25\00:54:57.33
and for my own, for my talents.
00:54:57.33\00:55:00.90
And I wanted my son
00:55:00.90\00:55:02.40
to see me operating in the work.
00:55:02.40\00:55:07.40
That's when I knew that my
time there was coming to an end.
00:55:07.40\00:55:11.44
I was sitting in
my office one day
00:55:11.44\00:55:13.51
and I was kneeling in prayer,
00:55:13.51\00:55:15.41
I said, God, now show
me what You want me to do
00:55:15.41\00:55:18.48
because, you know,
00:55:18.48\00:55:20.85
it seems like a
big move here and...
00:55:20.85\00:55:24.52
Everyone is thinking, I'm crazy.
00:55:26.92\00:55:29.42
And I don't know exactly how,
00:55:29.42\00:55:33.96
you know, things are
gonna go if they don't go well.
00:55:33.96\00:55:38.30
You know, the crazy thought
00:55:38.30\00:55:39.33
when you, you're
thinking about God
00:55:39.33\00:55:42.24
and I lifted my
head up in prayer
00:55:42.24\00:55:46.44
and they were
just like a flock of...
00:55:46.44\00:55:49.94
Oh, maybe 300 birds
that were just flying
00:55:49.94\00:55:54.22
and they were
swooping down over the water
00:55:54.22\00:55:56.92
and they would fly back up
00:55:56.92\00:55:58.75
and then, they would
chase each other around
00:55:58.75\00:56:01.76
and, you know, I was
just looking at the pattern
00:56:01.76\00:56:03.46
of the giant flock,
00:56:03.46\00:56:05.39
and the promise of
the Lord came to me
00:56:05.39\00:56:08.46
where He says that,
00:56:08.46\00:56:10.03
you know, He takes
care of the sparrows,
00:56:10.03\00:56:13.44
and you don't see
them worrying about
00:56:13.44\00:56:16.44
how they are going to be
taking care of from day to day.
00:56:16.44\00:56:19.81
You know, they don't, you know,
wring their hands wondering,
00:56:19.81\00:56:23.58
you know, will there be
any worms to eat tomorrow?
00:56:23.58\00:56:26.55
And that promise
really stood out to me
00:56:26.55\00:56:30.42
and He said, "How
much more do I love you?
00:56:30.42\00:56:33.82
You know, I'm not
gonna send you on a mission
00:56:33.82\00:56:36.42
to do My work and
leave you high and dry,
00:56:36.42\00:56:40.40
because you
claim to be My child,
00:56:40.40\00:56:42.46
you claim to be My son."
00:56:42.46\00:56:44.27
And everyone knows that,
00:56:44.27\00:56:47.47
that assurance
allows me to know that,
00:56:47.47\00:56:49.90
whatever happens here,
whatever happens after here.
00:56:49.90\00:56:55.64
We're sons of God
00:56:55.64\00:56:57.55
and there are certain things
that we shouldn't worry about.
00:56:57.55\00:57:01.85
From the day we arrived at AFCO,
00:57:01.85\00:57:05.79
it's been obvious
00:57:05.79\00:57:07.49
that God has blessed
the Amazing Facts Ministry,
00:57:07.49\00:57:10.63
the AFCO program,
00:57:10.63\00:57:12.56
and I will be
using my AFCO experience,
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no matter where I
go to reach people out
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because the personal touch
of face-to-face evangelism,
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speaking and
sharing the word of God
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out of your own mouth,
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there's no replacement for that.
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And Amazing Facts has
been very instrumental
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in helping me
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find the area of the work of God
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and shown me how
large and how broad it is.
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It's been a tremendous
blessing to be in a place
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where we are around
people seeking to do God's will
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and listening for
His voice in their life,
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and that's very,
very important today.
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Together we have
spread the gospel
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much farther than ever before.
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Thank you for your support.
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