(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
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>>TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE
IN #9 OUT OF, PROBABLY, WHAT
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WILL BE A 12-PART PRESENTATION
TALKING ABOUT DAVID, WHO IS THE
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MIGHTY AND THE MERCIFUL.
AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN BY
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JUST BACKING UP A LITTLE BIT.
WE RAN OUT OF TIME LAST TIME AND
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I WANT TO JUST TIE OFF
A VERY IMPORTANT STORY.
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WHEN WE LAST WERE STUDYING THE
LIFE OF DAVID, THE GREAT PASSION
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OF HIS HEART WAS TO HAVE THE ARK
OF GOD MOVE TO THE NEW CAPITAL
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FOR THE KINGDOM, WHICH IS ALSO
A WISE STRATEGIC MOVE, TO MAKE
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SURE THAT YOU'VE GOT BOTH THE
CENTER OF THE WORSHIP AND THE
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CENTER OF THE MONARCHY AND THE
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP WAS IN THE
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SAME PLACE. AND
SO, THERE WAS THIS
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PROCESSION - THEY DID IT ONCE
WRONG AND THEN THEY DID IT THE
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RIGHT WAY AND THEY
MOVED THE ARK UP TO JERUSALEM.
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NOW THE SECOND TIME, WHEN
THEY DID IT THE WAY THEY WERE
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SUPPOSED TO, IT WAS IN TIME OF
GREAT CELEBRATION - AND YOU CAN
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READ ABOUT THIS IN PSALM 68:24,
IT SAYS, "YOUR PROCESSION IS
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SEEN, O GOD, THE PROCESSION
OF MY GOD, MY KING, INTO THE
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SANCTUARY - THE SINGERS
IN FRONT, THE MUSICIANS LAST,
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BETWEEN THEM VIRGINS PLAYING
TAMBOURINES:" - AND I DON'T KNOW
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IF YOU'VE EVER READ THE
150TH PSALM WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT
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PRAISING GOD IN HIS SANCTUARY
AND THAT THEY WERE LEADING THIS
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PROCESSION UP THERE - AND
IT EVEN MENTIONS DANCE AND
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TAMBOURINES AND THESE THINGS.
NOT THAT THEY WERE DOING THAT IN
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THE SANCTUARY, BUT EN
ROUTE TO THE SANCTUARY WITH
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THE ARK OF GOD. AND IT
SAYS - SO THEY CAME UP,
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THEY BROUGHT THE ARK - YOU
REMEMBER DAVID WAS - HE WAS
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LEADING THE PROGRAM AND HE
HAD PUT ON A SIMPLE LINEN EPHOD,
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LIKE THE PRIESTS WEAR
- LIKE THE LEVITES WEAR.
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HE HAD TAKEN OFF HIS ROYAL ROBES
AND HE WAS JUST RIGHT IN THERE
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WITH EVERYBODY ELSE - PART
OF THAT PARADE - PRAISING GOD.
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AND YOU READ IN 1 CHRONICLES
15:28, "THUS ALL ISRAEL BROUGHT
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UP THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF
THE LORD WITH SHOUTING AND WITH
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THE SOUND OF THE HORN,
WITH TRUMPETS AND WITH CYMBALS,
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MAKING MUSIC WITH
STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND HARPS."
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AND I'VE SEEN SOME OF THE
PAINTINGS OF THIS EVENT; THEY
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PORTRAY DAVID AS ACTUALLY IN THE
PROCESSION PLAYING A HARP, WHICH
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I UNDERSTAND HE
WAS PRETTY GOOD AT.
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NOW WHAT WE LEFT OUT
LAST TIME IS, WHILE THIS IS
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HAPPENING, AND AS HE ENTERS
JERUSALEM, HIRAM, THE KING, HAS
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GIVEN DAVID CARPENTERS
AND MATERIALS AND HE'S BUILT A
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BEAUTIFUL PALACE - A HOME -
YOU KNOW, WE'D CALL IT THE WHITE
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HOUSE - FOR THE KING.
AND LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW
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WHEN HE CAME HOME WAS HIS WIFE,
MICHAL. NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN 2
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SAMUEL 6:16, IN YOUR BIBLES,
"NOW AS THE ARK OF THE LORD CAME
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INTO THE CITY OF DAVID, MICHAL,
SAUL'S DAUGHTER, LOOKED THROUGH
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A WINDOW AND SAW KING DAVID
LEAPING AND WHIRLING BEFORE THE
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LORD; AND SHE
DESPISED HIM IN HER HEART."
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NOW, YOU PROBABLY WANT TO READ
THE WHOLE STORY THERE, AND SO,
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IF YOU GO TO CHAPTER 6 AND YOU
CAN SEE WHERE DAVID, THEN, COMES
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BACK, HE BLESSES ALL THE PEOPLE,
HE COMES TO BLESS HIS HOUSE NOW
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- THEY'VE HAD A GREAT FEAST -
AND IT SAYS IN VERSE 20 - THIS
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IS 2 SAMUEL 6:20, "THEN DAVID
RETURNED TO BLESS HIS HOUSEHOLD.
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AND MICHAL THE DAUGHTER OF SAUL
CAME OUT TO MEET DAVID," - SHE,
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SORT OF, WAS ONE OF THE FIRST
OF HIS FAMILY - HE'S GOT SEVERAL
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WIVES NOW - TO MEET HIM, AND SHE
SPEAKS UP IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY,
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"HOW GLORIOUS WAS THE KING OF
ISRAEL TODAY, UNCOVERING HIMSELF
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TODAY IN THE EYES OF THE MAIDS
OF HIS SERVANTS, AS ONE OF THE
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BASE FELLOWS SHAMELESSLY
UNCOVERS HIMSELF." WOW.
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THAT WAS KIND OF A - I
MEAN, THIS IS THE HIGH POINT OF
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DAVID'S LIFE, TO PRAISE THE LORD
LIKE THIS, AND HERE, IN FRONT OF
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THE REST OF THE HOUSEHOLD,
MICHAL, SAUL'S DAUGHTER - SHE
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HAD BEEN A PRINCESS AND
SHE WAS DAVID'S FIRST WIFE.
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SHE WAS PROBABLY NOT TOO HAPPY
THAT DAVID'S TAKEN OTHER WIVES.
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AND THEN, WHEN DAVID WAS OUT
RUNNING AROUND IN THE HILLS OF
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JUDAH, HIDING FROM HER FATHER,
HER FATHER TOOK MICHAL AND
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MARRIED HER OFF TO ANOTHER GUY.
AND WHEN DAVID BECAME KING HE
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SAYS, 'LOOK, I WANT MY
WIFE BACK.' AND SO SHE CAME BACK
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AGAIN. SHE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN
VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT EITHER.
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HER FATHER'S BEEN KILLED.
HER BROTHERS ARE KILLED - SO I
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DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING GOING ON
IN HER MIND, BUT YOU DON'T MOCK
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THE KING IN
FRONT OF THE HOUSEHOLD.
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YOU DON'T MOCK YOUR HUSBAND
IN FRONT OF OTHERS - AND HE WAS
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PRAISING GOD - AND SO
DAVID COMES RIGHT BACK.
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IF HE HAD SAID NOTHING,
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE.
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HE SAYS TO MICHAL, IT WAS BEFORE
THE LORD, WHO CHOSE ME INSTEAD
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OF YOUR FATHER AND ALL OF HIS
HOUSE, TO APPOINT ME RULER OVER
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THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD, OVER
ISRAEL. THEREFORE I WILL PLAY
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MUSIC BEFORE THE LORD.'"
HE SAID, 'GOD'S ANOINTED ME' -
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"I WILL EVEN BE MORE
UNDIGNIFIED THAN THIS, AND WILL
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BE HUMBLE IN MY OWN SIGHT.
BUT AS FOR THE MAIDSERVANTS OF
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WHOM YOU HAVE SPOKEN, BY
THEM I WILL BE HELD IN HONOR."
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AND THEN IT MAKES AN
INTERESTING STATEMENT.
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THIS IS WHY I'VE INCLUDED THIS
STORY, "THEREFORE MICHAL THE
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DAUGHTER OF SAUL HAD NO CHILDREN
TO THE DAY OF HER DEATH."
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NOW, I DON'T BELIEVE
THAT IS BECAUSE DAVID DID NOT
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ACCOMMODATE WITH THE
REGULAR INTIMACY OF MARRIAGE.
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I THINK THAT GOD DENIED HER -
THIS IS SOMETHING THE LORD DID -
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I THINK THE LORD DENIED
HER HAVING CHILDREN AND - FOR A
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COUPLE OF REASONS: ONE WAS
BECAUSE OF THE ARROGANCE AND THE
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SCOFFING THAT HAPPENED AT THIS
TIME BUT, BEYOND THAT, JESUS WAS
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TO BE A DESCENDANT OF DAVID.
GOD HAD PREDICTED THAT SAUL AND
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HIS HOUSE WOULD NOT CONTINUE. IF
SAUL AND DAVID HAD HAD CHILDREN,
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THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN
SOME THAT WOULD HAVE FOUGHT -
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>>MICHAL. >>DID I SAY IT WRONG?
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THANK YOU. IF
MICHAL - I JUST DID THAT TO
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GIVE MY WIFE AN OPPORTUNITY
TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW.
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(LAUGHTER) IF MICHAL AND DAVID
HAD HAD CHILDREN, THEN SOME
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MIGHT HAVE LATER CONTESTED AND
SAID, 'SHE HAD - THIS CHILD HAS
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A RIGHT TO THE THRONE.' AND
THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DISPUTE
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IN THAT WAY, AND SO, PARTIALLY,
I THINK, FOR THAT REASON, GOD
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DENIED THEM
HAVING CHILDREN TOGETHER.
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AND SO, AT THIS POINT, WHAT
HAPPENS NEXT IN THE NEXT FEW
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CHAPTERS IS YOU SEE THAT DAVID
CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN HIMSELF
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IN THE KINGDOM. HERE
YOU SEE DAVID THE MIGHTY
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AND YOU CAN LOOK AT A SERIES OF
BATTLES -I'M JUST GOING TO GO TO
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CHAPTER 8 - 2 SAMUEL 8, VERSE 1,
"AFTER THIS IT CAME TO PASS THAT
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DAVID ATTACKED THE
PHILISTINES AND SUBDUED THEM."
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NOW, YOU REMEMBER WHEN 1
SAMUEL ENDS, THE PHILISTINES HAD
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OVERTHROWN ISRAEL AND
EVEN TAKEN TERRITORY BACK.
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IT WAS A LOW POINT - THEY'D LOST
ALL THIS TERRITORY THEY'D GAINED
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DURING THE TIME OF SAMUEL
THE PROPHET AND SAUL THE KING.
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DAVID WAS GETTING STRONGER AND
STRONGER, THEY ENGAGED IN A FEW
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BATTLES, FINALLY, WHEN
IT SAYS HE SUBDUED THEM, THE
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PHILISTINES, WHO DAVID HAD BEEN
FIGHTING SINCE GOLIATH, AS A
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CHILD, WHO SAMSON HAD BEEN
FIGHTING, ARE FINALLY SUBDUED.
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AFTER CENTURIES OF BATTLES
WITH THEM, THEY ARE NOW PAYING
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TRIBUTE TO ISRAEL. "THEN" -
IT SAYS - "HE DEFEATED MOAB."
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- THIS IS THE NATION THAT'S ON
THEIR EAST COAST - "FORCING THEM
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DOWN TO THE GROUND, HE
MEASURED THEM OFF WITH A LINE."
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- YOU REMEMBER THE MOABITES ONCE
OPPRESSED - THEY HAD A GREAT,
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BIG, FAT KING NAMED EGLON,
WHO WAS KILLED BY EHUD, AND THE
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MOABITES ONCE HAD THEM IN
TRIBUTE AND, UNDER DAVID, HE
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DEFEATS THE KINGDOM OF
MOAB - "FORCING THEM DOWN TO THE
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GROUND, HE MEASURED
THEM OFF WITH A LINE.
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WITH TWO LINES HE MEASURED OFF
THOSE TO BE PUT TO DEATH, AND
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WITH ONE FULL LINE
THOSE TO BE KEPT ALIVE.
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SO THE MOABITES BECAME DAVID'S
SERVANTS, AND BROUGHT TRIBUTE."
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IT SOUNDS PRETTY FIERCE, HERE
- "DAVID ALSO DEFEATED HADAEZER
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THE SON OF REHOB, KING OF
ZOBAH, AS HE WENT TO RECOVER HIS
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TERRITORY AT
THE RIVER EUPHRATES.
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DAVID TOOK FROM HIM ONE
THOUSAND CHARIOTS, SEVEN HUNDRED
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HORSEMEN, AND TWENTY
THOUSAND FOOT SOLDIERS."
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- THAT'S A LOT - "WHEN THE
SYRIANS OF DAMASCUS CAME TO HELP
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HADADEZER KING OF ZOBAH, DAVID
KILLED TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND OF
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THE SYRIANS. THEN
DAVID PUT GARRISONS IN
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SYRIA OF DAMASCUS; AND
THE SYRIANS BECAME DAVID'S
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SERVANTS, AND BROUGHT
TRIBUTE. SO THE LORD PRESERVED
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DAVID WHEREVER HE WENT."
SO, BASICALLY, DAVID - HE'S
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ALREADY IN PEACE WITH
THE KING OF TYRE - THE
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ZIDONIANS IN THE NORTH.
THEN, TO THE NORTHEAST, YOU'VE
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GOT SYRIA - WHERE SYRIA STILL
IS TODAY - AND DAMASCUS - AND HE
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DEFEATED THEM ALL THE WAY TO THE
EUPHRATES RIVER. AND THEN YOU GO
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EAST AND HE DEFEATED AMMON.
ACTUALLY, THE BATTLE WITH AMMON
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COMES NEXT WEEK, BUT MOAB AND
THE EDOMITES AND THE PHILISTINES
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OVER BY THE COAST AND
THEY WERE AT PEACE WITH EGYPT.
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BUT HE'S BASICALLY - THE KINGDOM
IS EXPANDING, HE'S DAVID THE
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MIGHTY - WHAT'S AMAZING ABOUT
DAVID, YOU CAN'T FIND AN EXAMPLE
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IN THE BIBLE OF
DAVID LOSING A BATTLE.
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SOMETIMES HE CHANGED STRATEGY,
BUT HE WON EVERY BATTLE - AND
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DAVID IS A TYPE OF JESUS
AND IF YOU'VE GOT JESUS AS YOUR
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GENERAL, YOU HAVE
NOTHING TO FEAR. AMEN?
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NOW I JUST THOUGHT I'D MENTION
THAT MANY PSALMS - AND WE JUST,
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YOU KNOW, I WISH SOMETIMES I
HAD MORE TIME - PROBABLY TAKEN
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PLENTY OF TIME FOR THIS SUBJECT
- TO GO THROUGH THE PSALMS THAT
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DAVID IS WRITING
DURING THESE EXPERIENCES.
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BUT JUST ONE EXAMPLE WOULD BE,
IF YOU LOOK IN PSALM 60 - I'M
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NOT GOING TO READ PSALM 60, I'M
GOING TO READ THE INTRODUCTION
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TO PSALM 60, BECAUSE THESE WERE
ORIGINALS - PART OF THE ANCIENT
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HEBREW OR THE
INTRODUCTIONS TO THE PSALMS.
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HERE'S WHAT IT SAYS - IT'S
CALLED - THE TITLE OF THE SONG -
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HE WILL TREAD DOWN OUR FOES - HE
WILL TREAD DOWN OUR FOES - "TO
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THE CHOIRMASTER.
ACCORDING TO SHUSHANEDITH,
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MICHTAM OF DAVID, FOR
INSTRUCTION; WHEN HE STROVE WITH
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ARAMNAHARAIM AND WITH ARAMZOBAH,
AND WHEN JOAB, ON HIS RETURN,
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STRUCK DOWN TWELVE THOUSAND
OF EDOM IN THE VALLEY OF SALT."
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SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT THESE
BATTLES WITH THE SYRIANS AND
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THIS IS WHEN THIS PSALM IS
WRITTEN - A PSALM OF VICTORY.
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SO, ALL ALONG THE WAY, AS HE'S
WINNING BATTLES, DAVID IS NOT
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FORGETTING TO BE
THANKFUL AND HE'S SINGING.
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SO THE NEXT THING I WANT TO GO
ON, WE'RE GOING TO BE JUMPING UP
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NOW TO 1 SAMUEL AND WE'LL BE
GOING INTO VERSE 1 OF CHAPTER 9
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- 1 SAMUEL 9. SO DAVID
IS - HE'S GAINING PEACE
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IN THE KINGDOM AROUND HIM AND
HE HAS SOME TIME TO THINK AND TO
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REMEMBER THE PROMISES
AND THE COVENANTS HE'S MADE.
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FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 SAMUEL 20:14
IT SAYS, "AND THOU SHALT NOT
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ONLY WHILE YET I LIVE SHEW ME
THE KINDNESS" - HE'S MADE THIS
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COVENANT WITH JONATHAN -
"...KINDNESS OF THE LORD, THAT I
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DIE NOT: BUT ALSO THOU SHALT
NOT CUT OFF THY KINDNESS FROM MY
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HOUSE FOR EVER: NO, NOT WHEN THE
LORD HATH CUT OFF THE ENEMIES OF
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DAVID EVERY ONE
FROMMTHE FACE OF THE EARTH."
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NOW YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING WHY
THIS EVEN WE'RE GOING TO STUDY
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HAPPENS WHEN IT DOES.
JONATHAN, IN HIS COVENANT, SAYS,
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'WHEN YOU HAVE CUT OFF
YOUR ENEMIES THEN I WANT YOU TO
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REMEMBER THIS COVENANT.' SO NOW,
DAVID HAS, FOR THE MOST PART,
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CUT OFF HIS ENEMIES, HE
REMEMBERS THIS COVENANT THAT HE
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HAS MADE WITH JONATHAN
YEARS EARLIER WHEN - SHORTLY
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AFTER HE KILLED GOLIATH.
YOU CAN READ, AGAIN, IN 1 SAMUEL
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20, VERSE 42, "AND THEN JONATHAN
SAID TO DAVID, 'GO IN PEACE,
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FORASMUCH AS WE HAVE SWORN BOTH
OF US IN THE NAME OF THE LORD,
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SAYING, 'THE LORD BE BETWEEN
ME AND THEE, AND BETWEEN MY SEED
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AND THY SEED FOR EVER.''" SO
NOW DAVID'S THINKING ABOUT THE
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OFFSPRING OF JONATHAN. AND
THEN HE HAD MADE A COVENANT
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WITH SAUL, THE
FATHER OF JONATHAN.
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YOU LOOK IN 1 SAMUEL 24:21,
"THEREFORE SWEAR NOW TO ME BY
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THE LORD, THAT YOU WILL NOT CUT
OFF MY DESCENDENTS AFTER ME, AND
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THAT YOU WILL NOT DESTROY
MY NAME FROM MY FATHER'S HOUSE.
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SO DAVID SWORE TO SAUL.
AND SAUL WENT HOME; BUT DAVID
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AND HIS MEN WENT
TO THE STRONGHOLD."
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IT WAS A CUSTOM, IN BIBLE TIMES,
THAT WHEN ONE KING OVERTHREW AND
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CONQUERED ANOTHER KING THAT,
LEST ANYBODY SAY, 'WE WANT TO
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CONTINUE THE FORMER MONARCHY',
YOU WOULD EXTERMINATE THAT
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KING'S FAMILY.
PRINCIPALLY IT WAS THE SONS, NOT
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NECESSARILY THE WIVES OR THE
DAUGHTERS, BECAUSE THE SONS WERE
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THE ONES WHO WOULD - YOU'D BE
THREATENED ABOUT THEM REIGNING.
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YOU LOOK MORE AT THE KINGDOM
OF ISRAEL THAN THE KINGDOM OF
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JUDAH FOR AN EXAMPLE, BECAUSE
JUDAH WAS ALWAYS THE HOUSE OF
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DAVID. ISRAEL, THERE
WERE SEVERAL CHANGES.
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IT CHANGED FROM JEHU TO BAASHA
TO AHAB TO ZIMRAM AND - THERE'S
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ALL THESE DIFFERENT KINGS.
AND WHENEVER ONE KING CAME INTO
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POWER, LIKE WHEN JEHU CAME
INTO POWER, THEY COMPLETELY
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ANNIHILATED ALL THE SONS OF
AHAB. AND BAASHA DID AND NOMRI
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DID IT - THEY ALL ANNIHILATED
ALL OF THE KINGS BEFORE AND ALL
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OF THEIR HOUSE SO THERE'D BE NO
THREAT OF THEM WANTING TO COME
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BACK AND TAKE OVER AGAIN.
AND SO, EVERYONE EXPECTED, AFTER
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ALL THE YEARS THAT SAUL WAS
TRYING TO KILL DAVID, THAT WHEN
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DAVID FINALLY BECAME SETTLED
IN HIS POWER, HE'D MAKE SURE AND
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ANNIHILATE ANY
RESIDUE OF SAUL'S HOUSE.
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SO YOU CAN HAVE THAT AS A
BACKGROUND AND UNDERSTAND WHY IT
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MADE SOME PEOPLE NERVOUS
WHEN DAVID ASKED THIS QUESTION.
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HE BEGINS TO REMEMBER
THE PROMISE HE MADE ABOUT THE
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OFFSPRING OF JONATHAN AND SO
DAVID CALLS HIS SERVANTS AND HE
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SAYS, 'IS THERE ANYONE LEFT
OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL THAT I MAY
00:14:04.74\00:14:09.94
SHOW HIM KINDNESS?'
AND AS SOON AS HE SAYS, 'IS
00:14:09.98\00:14:12.11
THERE ANYONE LEFT
OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL?'
00:14:12.15\00:14:13.68
THEY THOUGHT, 'OH WHY,
YOU WANT TO WIPE THEM OUT?'
00:14:13.72\00:14:16.79
AND DAVID, REALIZING THEY'RE
GOING TO MISUNDERSTAND, HE SAYS,
00:14:16.82\00:14:18.79
'THAT I MIGHT SHOW THEM
KINDNESS.' SO HERE YOU'VE GOT
00:14:18.82\00:14:22.89
THE MERCY OF DAVID.
WHY? FOR JONATHAN'S SAKE.
00:14:22.92\00:14:28.13
NOW HE WASN'T SHOWING THEM
KINDNESS FOR THEIR SAKE, BUT
00:14:28.16\00:14:30.17
HE'S GOING TO SHOW THEM KINDNESS
FOR JONATHAN, THE SON OF THE
00:14:30.20\00:14:33.64
KING. NOW WE
TALKED EARLIER ABOUT EVEN
00:14:33.67\00:14:35.87
JONATHAN IS
BEING A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:14:35.90\00:14:38.21
JONATHAN MAKES THIS COVENANT -
YOU REMEMBER, WITH DAVID - GIVES
00:14:38.24\00:14:41.14
HIM HIS ROBE, GIVES HIM HIS
BELT - BELT IS A SIGN OF TRUTH -
00:14:41.18\00:14:45.21
GIVES HIM HIS SWORD - THE WORD
OF GOD - AND JONATHAN FINALLY
00:14:45.25\00:14:48.88
DIES AND HE IS SUSPENDED FROM
THE WALLS OF BETHSHAN - HE DIED
00:14:48.92\00:14:54.32
SUSPENDED - PINNED -
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.
00:14:54.36\00:14:57.36
HERE JONATHAN IS THIS GOOD SON
OF THE KING AND JESUS WAS THE
00:14:57.39\00:15:02.80
GOOD SON OF THE KING WHO GIVES
US ALL OF HIS ARMOR AND HE DIES
00:15:02.83\00:15:07.57
IN OUR BEHALF. SO JONATHAN
IS - IS SORT OF A SIGN OF THAT.
00:15:07.60\00:15:10.97
JONATHAN MAKES A COVENANT
WITH DAVID BECAUSE HE LOVES HIM.
00:15:11.01\00:15:14.14
I'M JUST REMINDING YOU BECAUSE
NOT ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN TO ALL
00:15:14.18\00:15:16.75
OF THE PRESENTATIONS.
AND SO, HERE, BECAUSE OF THE
00:15:16.78\00:15:20.45
SAKE OF JONATHAN, HE'S GOING
TO SHOW MERCY ON HIS HOUSEHOLD.
00:15:20.48\00:15:26.19
DOES GOD SHOW MERCY ON
US FOR THE SAKE OF JESUS?
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WE DON'T PRAY THAT GOD DOES
THINGS FOR US BECAUSE WE DESERVE
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IT, WE PRAY IN THE
NAME OF SOMEONE ELSE.
00:15:31.99\00:15:35.40
THAT'S WHY WHEN WE PRAY IN
JESUS' NAME, WE'RE NOT SAYING
00:15:35.43\00:15:37.43
FOR OUR SAKE, BUT
FOR THE SAKE OF THE SON.
00:15:37.47\00:15:40.44
AND SO, I WANT YOU TO TURN WITH
ME - AND I'M GOING TO READ WITH
00:15:40.47\00:15:44.31
YOU IN 2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 9,
HE SAYS, 'IS THERE ANYONE LEFT?'
00:15:44.34\00:15:49.54
"AND THERE WAS A SERVANT" - I'M
IN VERSE 2 - 2 SAMUEL 9, VERSE 2
00:15:49.58\00:15:54.18
- "AND THERE WAS A SERVANT OF
THE HOUSE OF SAUL WHOSE NAME WAS
00:15:54.22\00:15:56.75
ZIBA. SO WHEN
THEY HAD CALLED HIM TO
00:15:56.79\00:16:00.06
DAVID, THE KING SAID
TO HIM, 'ARE YOU ZIBA?'
00:16:00.09\00:16:03.19
HE SAID, 'AT YOUR SERVICE!'
THEN THE KING SAID, 'IS THERE
00:16:03.22\00:16:06.03
NOT STILL SOMEONE OF THE
HOUSE OF SAUL, TO WHOM I MAY
00:16:06.06\00:16:09.96
SHOW THE KINDNESS OF GOD?'
AND ZIBA" - PROBABLY LOOKING
00:16:10.00\00:16:14.04
DOWN - HE'S SHIFTING BACK AND
FORTH - HE SAID, "THERE IS STILL
00:16:14.07\00:16:18.51
A SON OF JONATHAN
WHO IS LAME IN HIS FEET."
00:16:18.54\00:16:22.71
NOW THIS IS MENTIONED EARLIER
IN THE BIBLE, ABOUT THIS SON OF
00:16:22.74\00:16:27.22
JONATHAN, BECAUSE AT THE END
OF 2 SAMUEL, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT
00:16:27.25\00:16:31.32
THE DEATH OF JONATHAN -
YOU CAN READ IN 2 SAMUEL 4:4 -
00:16:31.35\00:16:37.13
"JONATHAN, SAUL'S SON, HAD A
SON WHO WAS LAME IN HIS FEET.
00:16:37.16\00:16:41.96
HE WAS FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN
THE NEWS ABOUT SAUL AND JONATHAN
00:16:42.00\00:16:45.27
CAME FROM JEZREEL; AND HIS
NURSE TOOK HIM UP AND FLED.
00:16:45.30\00:16:50.14
AND IT HAPPENED, AS SHE MADE
HASTE TO FLEE, THAT HE FELL AND
00:16:50.17\00:16:54.78
BECAME LAME. HIS
NAME WAS MEPHIBOSHETH."
00:16:54.81\00:16:59.18
NOW, EVIDENTLY, WHEN -
YOU REMEMBER, THERE WAS THIS
00:16:59.21\00:17:02.38
TERRIBLE BATTLE WHERE THE
PHILISTINES KILLED SAUL, THEY
00:17:02.42\00:17:04.79
KILLED JONATHAN, KILLED
MELCHISHUA, KILLED ABINIDAB -
00:17:04.82\00:17:07.46
THE SONS OF SAUL - ISHBOSHETH
WAS LEFT OVER. NEWS REACHED, OF
00:17:07.49\00:17:12.99
THE BATTLE, FROM
JEZREEL, IT REACHED TO GIBEAH.
00:17:13.03\00:17:15.13
YOU REMEMBER READING THERE,
AT THE END OF 1 SAMUEL, IT SAYS,
00:17:15.16\00:17:18.57
'THE ISRAELITES FLED THE CITIES
AND THE PHILISTINES POSSESSED
00:17:18.60\00:17:21.77
THEM.' AND, IN KNOWING THE
PHILISTINES WERE COMING, AND THE
00:17:21.80\00:17:26.51
FIRST PEOPLE THE PHILISTINES
WOULD WANT TO KILL WERE THE
00:17:26.54\00:17:28.74
DESCENDENTS OF SAUL, THAT HIS
MAID - THE NURSEMAID - HIS NANNY
00:17:28.78\00:17:33.48
THAT TOOK CARE OF HIM, SHE
PICKED HIM UP AND THEY RAN FOR
00:17:33.52\00:17:36.15
THEIR LIVES. AND WE DON'T KNOW
00:17:36.18\00:17:37.45
EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENED.
THEY MAY HAVE BEEN LOWERING HIM
00:17:37.49\00:17:39.85
OVER A WALL OR
SOMETHING, BUT HE FELL.
00:17:39.89\00:17:42.42
SHE DROPPED HIM AND HE PROBABLY
BROKE HIS FEET OR ANKLES.
00:17:42.46\00:17:45.99
IN THE HASTE AND THE FOG
OF WAR THERE WAS NO DOCTOR.
00:17:46.03\00:17:49.20
THEY COULDN'T SET THEM PROPERLY
AND IT HEALED DEFORMED SO THAT
00:17:49.23\00:17:52.97
HE ALWAYS WALKED WITH A LIMP.
AND SO, HERE HE IS, HE IS REALLY
00:17:53.00\00:17:57.91
NEXT IN LINE TO BE KING, BECAUSE
THE WAY THAT IT WORKED IN A
00:17:57.94\00:18:02.24
MONARCHY - THEY STILL PRACTICE
THIS IN ENGLAND, TODAY - IT'S
00:18:02.28\00:18:05.98
GOING TO BE THE
CHILDREN OF THE FIRSTBORN.
00:18:06.01\00:18:08.68
SO SAUL'S
FIRSTBORN WAS JONATHAN.
00:18:08.72\00:18:11.75
SAUL IS DEAD. JONATHAN IS DEAD.
00:18:11.79\00:18:14.72
THE OTHER BROTHERS ARE DEAD -
THEY WOULD BE NEXT IN LINE - SO
00:18:14.76\00:18:18.03
NOW IT'S GOING TO BE THE
FIRSTBORN OF THE FIRSTBORN WHO'S
00:18:18.06\00:18:21.56
IN LINE TO TAKE THE PLACE OF
SAUL IF THE REIGN OR MONARCHY OF
00:18:21.60\00:18:26.30
SAUL WAS TO CONTINUE. THIS
HAPPENS TO BE MEPHIBOSHETH.
00:18:26.33\00:18:29.40
SO HE IS THE FIRST ONE DAVID
OUGHT TO BE THREATENED BY BUT,
00:18:29.44\00:18:33.24
INSTEAD OF BEING THREATENED BY
THE ONE WHO WOULD HAVE HAD TITLE
00:18:33.27\00:18:36.01
TO SAUL'S THRONE, DAVID SHOWS
HIM MERCY AND HE GOES, WHAT YOU
00:18:36.04\00:18:39.95
WOULD CALL, 'THE SECOND MILE'.
AND HE'S DOING ALL THIS BECAUSE
00:18:39.98\00:18:43.32
HE MADE A PROMISE AND HE
PLANS ON KEEPING HIS PROMISE.
00:18:43.35\00:18:46.59
NOW, THIS WAS NOT IN MY NOTES
BUT, YOU KNOW, A VERSE JUST
00:18:46.62\00:18:50.26
POPPED INTO MY MIND. IF
YOU TURN, IN PSALMS 15 -
00:18:50.29\00:18:56.03
THIS IS A GOOD PLACE TO GO.
THIS IS A PSALM YOU OUGHT TO -
00:18:56.06\00:18:58.67
YOU OUGHT TO JUST MEMORIZE -
PSALM 15 - "LORD, WHO MAY ABIDE"
00:18:58.70\00:19:06.07
- BY THE WAY, WRITTEN BY DAVID
- NOT ALL THE PSALMS ARE WRITTEN
00:19:06.11\00:19:08.44
BY DAVID, BUT THIS ONE
IS - "LORD, WHO MAY ABIDE
00:19:08.48\00:19:11.01
IN YOUR TABERNACLE? WHO
MAY DWELL IN YOUR HOLY HILL?
00:19:11.05\00:19:15.62
HE WHO WALKS UPRIGHTLY, AND
WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SPEAKS
00:19:15.65\00:19:18.55
THE TRUTH IN HIS HEART; HE
WHO DOES NOT BACKBITE WITH HIS
00:19:18.59\00:19:21.62
TONGUE OR DO EVIL TO HIS
NEIGHBOR, NOR DOES HE TAKE UP A
00:19:21.66\00:19:25.26
REPROACH AGAINST HIS FRIEND;
IN WHOSE EYES A VILE PERSON IS
00:19:25.29\00:19:29.56
DESPISED, BUT HE HONORS THOSE
WHO FEAR THE LORD;" - NOTICE
00:19:29.60\00:19:32.93
THIS PART - "HE WHO SWEARS
TO HIS OWN HURT AND DOES NOT
00:19:32.97\00:19:37.34
CHANGE; HE WHO DOES NOT PUT OUT
HIS MONEY AT USURY, NOR DOES HE
00:19:37.37\00:19:42.04
TAKE A BRIBE
AGAINST THE INNOCENT.
00:19:42.08\00:19:43.71
HE WHO DOES THESE
THINGS SHALL NEVER BE MOVED."
00:19:43.75\00:19:46.65
THAT'S A NICE PROMISE, BUT
NOTICE THE PART: "HE WHO SWEARS
00:19:46.68\00:19:49.55
TO HIS OWN HURT" - YOU
MAKE A PROMISE AND IT BECOMES
00:19:49.58\00:19:51.85
INCONVENIENT TO KEEP THE
PROMISE, BUT YOU'VE MADE A
00:19:51.89\00:19:54.12
PROMISE AND YOU
KEEP YOUR PROMISE.
00:19:54.16\00:19:56.86
AND SO DAVID SAID, 'LOOK, I'VE
MADE A PROMISE TO JONATHAN.' AND
00:19:56.89\00:20:01.90
IT SAYS THAT ZIBA SAYS, 'WELL,
THERE IS THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED
00:20:01.93\00:20:06.20
MEPHIBOSHETH, BUT
HE'S LAME IN HIS FEET.
00:20:06.23\00:20:09.44
YOU DON'T WANT TO BOTHER HIM,
HE'S NOT A REAL THREAT TO YOU.
00:20:09.47\00:20:12.27
HE'S NOT GOING TO BE
LEADING AN ARMY INTO BATTLE.'
00:20:12.31\00:20:15.18
SO DAVID SAID, 'WHERE IS
HE?' "AND ZIBA SAID TO THE KING,
00:20:15.21\00:20:18.95
'INDEED HE IS IN THE HOUSE OF
MACHIR THE SON OF AMMIEL, IN LO
00:20:18.98\00:20:22.22
DEBAR.'" NOW THIS IS ABOUT 70
MILES NORTH OF WHERE DAVID IS IN
00:20:22.25\00:20:28.59
JERUSALEM - A LITTLE NORTHEAST.
IT'S UP AGAINST THE FOOTHILLS
00:20:28.62\00:20:32.29
IN WHAT WE CALL THE
WEST BANK - IT'S ON THE WEST
00:20:32.33\00:20:34.30
SIDE OF THE JORDAN. IT
IS A BARREN PIECE OF LAND -
00:20:34.30\00:20:38.17
MATTER OF FACT, THE WORD
'LO DEBAR' MEANS 'NO PASTURE'.
00:20:38.20\00:20:42.57
SO, HERE, WHAT WAS ONCE
THE KING'S SON, OR AT LEAST THE
00:20:42.60\00:20:47.94
PRINCE OF JONATHAN, WHO, YOU
KNOW, LIVED IN A PALACE - WELL,
00:20:47.98\00:20:53.62
BENJAMIN IS NO LONGER RECOGNIZED
AS A LEADING TRIBE - NOW HE'S
00:20:53.65\00:20:58.99
DEPENDENT ON SOMEBODY ELSE,
BASICALLY, TAKING HIM IN AND
00:20:59.02\00:21:02.92
TAKING CARE OF HIM AND SHOWING
HIM MERCY - PROBABLY SOMEONE
00:21:02.96\00:21:05.36
ELSE FROM THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN
- AND HE'S LAME IN HIS FEET.
00:21:05.39\00:21:09.23
SEVERAL YEARS HAVE GONE BY -
WHEN DAVID BECAME KING, FINALLY,
00:21:09.26\00:21:13.23
HE WAS ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD.
THE ACCIDENT HAPPENS DURING THE
00:21:13.27\00:21:15.64
BATTLE OF THE PHILISTINES AND
THEN, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER SEVEN
00:21:15.67\00:21:18.74
YEARS GO BY AND THEN DAVID
HAS SEVERAL YEARS OF BATTLE SO,
00:21:18.77\00:21:21.98
AT THE TIME THIS HAPPENS,
MEPHIBOSHETH IS IN HIS TWENTIES.
00:21:22.01\00:21:26.58
AND "...DAVID SENT AND BROUGHT
HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE OF MACHIR
00:21:26.61\00:21:30.52
THE SON OF AMMIEL, FROM LO
DEBAR." THAT'S A LONG JOURNEY.
00:21:30.55\00:21:33.99
HE'S GOT TO BE TRAVELING BY
CART OR BY MULE OR SOMETHING -
00:21:34.02\00:21:38.19
SEVENTY MILES - CAN YOU IMAGINE
BEING MEPHIBOSHETH AND HEARING
00:21:38.23\00:21:46.03
'THE KING WANTS TO SEE YOU'?
NOW, SAUL WAS WANTING TO KILL
00:21:46.07\00:21:52.47
DAVID FOR YEARS, AND THEN,
AFTER SAUL DIED, ABNER APPOINTED
00:21:52.51\00:21:57.31
SAUL'S SON ISHBOSHETH TO BE
KING AND THERE WAS A LONG WAR.
00:21:57.35\00:22:02.75
YOU REMEMBER READING LAST WEEK
THERE WAS A LONG WAR BETWEEN THE
00:22:02.78\00:22:05.25
HOUSE OF DAVID
AND THE HOUSE OF SAUL.
00:22:05.29\00:22:07.56
NOW DAVID IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED,
HE'S DEFEATED ALL THESE FOREIGN
00:22:07.59\00:22:10.89
POWERS AND HE SAYS, 'I
WANT TO SEE MEPHIBOSHETH.
00:22:10.93\00:22:16.63
COME TO ME.' WHAT DO YOU
THINK'S GOING THROUGH HIS MIND?
00:22:16.67\00:22:22.90
'I'M THE NEXT ONE IN LINE AFTER
ISHBOSHETH DIED, TO BE THE KING,
00:22:22.94\00:22:27.11
HE'S PROBABLY THREATENED.
HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE NOTHING'S
00:22:27.14\00:22:29.28
GOING TO HAPPEN,
BUT HE'S THE KING.
00:22:29.31\00:22:30.81
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO, RUN?
I'M LAME.' AND SO HE'S GOT TO GO
00:22:30.85\00:22:34.18
- HE'S BEEN SUMMONED BY THE KING
AND HE PROBABLY COMES WITH GREAT
00:22:34.22\00:22:38.45
TREPIDATION, WONDERING 'WHAT
IS DAVID GOING TO DO TO ME?'
00:22:38.49\00:22:42.02
MY GRANDFATHER TRIED TO KILL HIM
AND THEN MY UNCLE ISHBOSHETH WAS
00:22:42.06\00:22:45.43
AT WAR WITH DAVID, AND NOW HE'S
CALLING ME IN ON THE CARPET.'
00:22:45.46\00:22:50.03
AND SO, YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE
FEAR - MAYBE ZIBA SAID, 'DON'T
00:22:50.07\00:22:55.14
WORRY, HE'S NOT
GOING TO HURT YOU.
00:22:55.17\00:22:56.60
HE SAYS HE WANTS TO SHOW
KINDNESS.' BUT I'M SURE THAT ALL
00:22:56.64\00:22:59.67
THESE THOUGHTS ARE
GOING THROUGH HIS MIND.
00:22:59.71\00:23:03.11
"NOW WHEN MEPHIBOSHETH THE SON
OF JONATHAN, THE SON OF SAUL,
00:23:03.14\00:23:07.05
HAD COME TO DAVID, HE
FELL ON HIS FACE AND PROSTRATED
00:23:07.08\00:23:11.32
HIMSELF." - HE'S
SHOWING A SIGN OF SUBMISSION.
00:23:11.35\00:23:14.29
HE SAID, 'I'M NOT CLAIMING ANY
DIGNITIES' - AND DAVID SAID TO
00:23:14.32\00:23:19.03
MEPHIBOSHETH,
'ARE YOU MEPHIBOSHETH?'
00:23:19.06\00:23:22.00
"AND HE ANSWERED,
'HERE IS YOUR SERVANT!'"
00:23:22.03\00:23:26.07
AND DAVID SAID, "DO NOT FEAR,"
- NOW HE MUST HAVE SAID THAT
00:23:26.10\00:23:29.84
BECAUSE HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS
AFRAID WHEN HE FELL BEFORE HIM.
00:23:29.87\00:23:34.14
HE'S SURROUNDED BY DAVID'S
SOLDIERS - "DO NOT FEAR, FOR I
00:23:34.18\00:23:38.21
WILL SURELY SHOW YOU KINDNESS
FOR JONATHAN YOUR FATHER'S
00:23:38.25\00:23:42.12
SAKE," - 'YOUR FATHER WAS MY
BEST FRIEND AND EVEN THOUGH YOUR
00:23:42.15\00:23:46.89
FEET ARE MAIMED, YOU
LOOK LIKE JONATHAN' -
00:23:46.92\00:23:51.26
AND THEN HE GOES ON
TO SAY, "AND WILL RESTORE
00:23:51.29\00:23:53.93
TO YOU ALL THE LAND OF SAUL YOUR
GRANDFATHER; AND YOU SHALL EAT
00:23:53.96\00:23:58.50
BREAD AT MY TABLE CONTINUALLY."
- WOW, THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
00:23:58.53\00:24:04.64
NOW, I WANT TO TELL YOU JUST
A FEW THINGS ABOUT SOME OF THESE
00:24:04.67\00:24:07.28
WORDS - WHAT THEY MEAN AND WHAT
HAPPENED. MEPHIBOSHETH ACTUALLY
00:24:07.31\00:24:12.95
MEANS 'SHAME DESTROYER' OR 'THE
ONE WHO EXTERMINATES SHAME'.
00:24:12.98\00:24:19.32
HE MAY HAVE FELT ASHAMED BECAUSE
HERE HE WAS, LAME IN HIS FEET.
00:24:19.35\00:24:23.02
HE WAS THE ONLY SON OF
JONATHAN, THAT WE KNOW OF.
00:24:23.06\00:24:27.76
BY THE TIME HE COMES TO DAVID'S
HOUSE, HE'S ALREADY MARRIED.
00:24:27.76\00:24:31.17
LIKE I SAID, HE'S PROBABLY
TWENTY-TWO TO TWENTY-FIVE -
00:24:31.20\00:24:33.40
SEVERAL YEARS OF BATTLES HAVE
GONE BY - AND IT SAYS HE'S EVEN
00:24:33.44\00:24:36.64
GOT A WIFE - AND MEPHIBOSHETH
ALREADY HAS HIS OWN SON.
00:24:36.67\00:24:40.34
AND SO, HE'S A YOUNG MAN ABOUT
- TWENTIES - PROBABLY HEALTHY,
00:24:40.38\00:24:43.51
BRIGHT, HANDSOME IN EVERY WAY,
BUT HE JUST CAN'T GET AROUND
00:24:43.55\00:24:46.28
WITHOUT CRUTCHES OR SOME OTHER
FORM OF CONVEYANCE, BECAUSE HIS
00:24:46.31\00:24:52.05
FEET DON'T WORK. HE'S COMING
FROM A LAND OF NO PASTURE.
00:24:52.09\00:24:57.66
HE'S STAYING IN THE HOUSE OF
SOMEONE NAMED MACHIR AND MACHIR
00:24:57.69\00:25:00.63
MEANS 'SOLD'. ALSO
IN THE HOUSE OF AMMIEL,
00:25:00.66\00:25:05.37
WHICH MEANS 'PEOPLE OF GOD', AND
HERE HE COMES INTO THE PALACE
00:25:05.40\00:25:10.37
OF DAVID AND HE'S EXPECTING
JUDGMENT. PROBLEM IS, HE'S LAME
00:25:10.41\00:25:14.58
IN HIS FEET. WELL,
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS
00:25:14.61\00:25:17.35
US THAT ALL OF US ARE
SOMEWHAT LAME IN OUR FEET.
00:25:17.38\00:25:22.72
HAVE YOU EVER - REMEMBER THE
PARABLE ABOUT THE - JESUS TELLS
00:25:22.75\00:25:27.66
THIS PARABLE ABOUT A KING AND
HE SAID TO HIM WHO INVITED HIM,
00:25:27.69\00:25:34.03
'WHEN YOU GIVE A DINNER OR A
SUPPER, DO NOT ASK YOUR FRIENDS
00:25:34.10\00:25:37.40
OR YOUR BROTHERS OR
YOUR RELATIVES, OR YOUR RICH
00:25:37.43\00:25:39.67
NEIGHBORS, LEST THEY ALSO INVITE
YOU BACK AND YOU BE REPAID.
00:25:39.70\00:25:43.51
BUT WHEN YOU GIVE A FEAST,
INVITE THE POOR, THE MAIMED, THE
00:25:43.54\00:25:47.78
LAME, THE BLIND, AND YOU'LL
BE BLESSED BECAUSE THEY CANNOT
00:25:47.81\00:25:51.98
REPAY YOU. FOR YOU SHALL BE
REPAID IN THE RESURRECTION OF
00:25:52.01\00:25:55.78
THE JUST. YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER
WHEN WE WENT TO INDIA THE FIRST
00:25:55.82\00:26:00.76
TIME - AND I MIGHT EVEN HAVE A
PICTURE OF THIS THAT I GAVE THEM
00:26:00.79\00:26:05.36
ON THE SCREEN. IN 1999 I WENT
TO INDIA. I WAS THERE WITH DOUG
00:26:05.39\00:26:09.60
HILL, WITH LOWELL HARGREAVES,
WITH - MICAH WENT ALONG WITH US
00:26:09.63\00:26:13.10
ON THIS TRIP - AND THEY - A
LOT OF KIDS WOULD COME INTO THE
00:26:13.13\00:26:16.54
MEETING AND YOU CAN SEE THERE'S
ONE THERE ON THE LEFT AND HE'S
00:26:16.57\00:26:19.01
GOT A CRUTCH, BUT I DIDN'T GET
A PICTURE - IF I DID, I COULDN'T
00:26:19.04\00:26:22.38
FIND IT. THERE WAS A GIRL
WHO WOULD COME EVERY NIGHT AND I
00:26:22.41\00:26:25.61
WONDERED WHY SHE WAS SITTING ON
THE FLOOR. AND SOMEBODY ASKED -
00:26:25.65\00:26:31.35
I ASKED SOMEBODY AND
THEY SAID, 'SHE CAN'T WALK.
00:26:31.39\00:26:34.16
SHE'S LAME.' AND THEN ONE OF THE
NIGHTS OF THE MEETING I SAW HER
00:26:34.19\00:26:37.39
COME IN - SHE WAS TWELVE YEARS
OLD - BEAUTIFUL FACE - JUST -
00:26:37.43\00:26:41.30
SOME OF THOSE DEAR PEOPLE HAVE
SUCH BEAUTIFUL FACES AND EYES
00:26:41.33\00:26:45.00
AND BIG SMILES AND BEAUTIFUL
WHITE TEETH - AND SHE JUST HAD
00:26:45.03\00:26:48.20
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL FACE, BUT
HER LEGS WERE MANGLED - I DON'T
00:26:48.24\00:26:51.67
KNOW, SOME BIRTH DEFECT - SHE
DRUG HERSELF TO THE MEETINGS.
00:26:51.71\00:26:56.51
DIDN'T HAVE A CART OR ANYTHING
AND SHE'D FIND A PIECE OF
00:26:56.54\00:27:00.48
CARDBOARD TO SIT ON DURING THE
MEETINGS, BUT SHE LITERALLY - I
00:27:00.52\00:27:03.72
COULDN'T BELIEVE IT, SHE'D GET
TO THE MEETINGS AND SHE WAS SO
00:27:03.75\00:27:06.25
HAPPY AND SHE WAS SMILING.
SHE WAS SO GLAD TO BE THERE.
00:27:06.29\00:27:09.96
AND WHEN THE MEETINGS WERE OVER,
SOMETIMES PEOPLE WOULD CARRY HER
00:27:09.99\00:27:12.63
OUTSIDE AND THEY'D TAKE HER SO
FAR AND THEN SHE WOULD JUST DRAG
00:27:12.66\00:27:15.10
HERSELF DOWN THE STREET AND HER
LEGS WERE BLACK AND CALLOUSED
00:27:15.13\00:27:20.40
FROM CONSTANT CONTACT WITH
THE STREET AND IT JUST BROKE MY
00:27:20.44\00:27:24.14
HEART. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU THINK
ABOUT WHERE JESUS SAID, 'WHEN
00:27:24.17\00:27:28.81
YOU HAVE A FEAST,
BRING THESE PEOPLE IN.'
00:27:28.84\00:27:32.18
WELL, IF DAVID WOULD DO THAT,
AND IF JESUS WOULD DO THAT?
00:27:32.21\00:27:36.92
SHOULD WE CARE
ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE THAT?
00:27:36.95\00:27:39.39
>>AMEN. >>AND BRING THEM IN?
00:27:39.42\00:27:41.52
JUST SHOW THEM A
RELATIONSHIP? BUT ALL OF US ARE
00:27:41.56\00:27:44.83
SOMETHING LIKE
THAT. WE'RE ALL CRIPPLED.
00:27:44.86\00:27:48.06
WHAT DOES 'WALK'
REPRESENT IN THE BIBLE?
00:27:48.10\00:27:52.03
IT SAYS, 'SOMEONE WALKED WITH
GOD' - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THEM
00:27:52.07\00:27:54.44
HAVING AN ABILITY.
ALL OF US ARE CRIPPLED.
00:27:54.47\00:27:58.34
ALL OF US HAVE
PROBLEMS GETTING AROUND.
00:27:58.37\00:28:01.14
WE'RE ALL LAME IN OUR FEET,
IF YOU WILL, AND WE STRUGGLE TO
00:28:01.18\00:28:07.08
WALK THE WAY WE SHOULD WALK
BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN CRIPPLED BY
00:28:07.12\00:28:10.65
SIN. WE'RE ALL
MARRED. WE'RE ALL MAIMED.
00:28:10.69\00:28:14.06
AND - BUT YET DAVID SAYS, 'COME
INTO MY HOUSE.' FURTHERMORE, IT
00:28:14.09\00:28:19.76
TELLS US THAT HE WANTS THEM
TO HAVE A PLACE AT HIS TABLE.
00:28:19.79\00:28:22.70
THIS IS WHAT IS
SO AMAZING TO ME.
00:28:22.73\00:28:24.13
GO BACK TO
CHAPTER 9 OF 2 SAMUEL.
00:28:24.17\00:28:28.10
HE SAID, "YOU SHALL EAT
BREAD AT MY TABLE CONTINUALLY."
00:28:28.14\00:28:32.01
NOW, WHEN I READ THIS, I
COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK OF
00:28:32.04\00:28:35.08
ANOTHER STORY THAT YOU'RE
GOING TO FIND - IF YOU HAVE YOUR
00:28:35.11\00:28:37.55
BIBLE, DON'T LOSE YOUR PLACE
IN 2 SAMUEL 9, BUT I'M GOING TO
00:28:37.58\00:28:40.95
SHOW YOU AN AMAZING STORY - VERY
QUICK - JEREMIAH CHAPTER 52 -
00:28:40.98\00:28:45.52
JUST FIND THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH,
THEN FIND THE LAST CHAPTER IN
00:28:45.55\00:28:48.59
JEREMIAH - CHAPTER 52 - THEN
THE LAST FEW VERSES IN THE LAST
00:28:48.62\00:28:51.79
CHAPTER OF JEREMIAH. THE
BOOK OF JEREMIAH, AND THE
00:28:51.83\00:28:54.86
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
BOTH END WITH THIS STORY.
00:28:54.93\00:28:58.23
SO THIS IS A STORY
YOU'LL FIND TWICE IN THE BIBLE.
00:28:58.27\00:29:01.14
JUST TO GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND,
WHEN KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR
00:29:01.17\00:29:04.01
CONQUERED JERUSALEM,
HE DID IT IN TWO STAGES.
00:29:04.04\00:29:07.58
FIRST TIME HE CONQUERED, HE
CARRIED THE KING - HE WAS THE
00:29:07.61\00:29:10.15
SON OF JOSIAH, HIS NAME WAS
JEHOIACHIN - HE CARRIED HIM OFF
00:29:10.18\00:29:13.88
TO BABYLON AND HE
PUT HIM IN PRISON.
00:29:13.92\00:29:15.28
HE WAS ONLY LIKE 18 YEARS
OLD OR 20 - HE WAS A YOUNG KING.
00:29:15.32\00:29:18.92
THEN HE MADE
ZEDEKIAH, HIS BROTHER, KING.
00:29:18.95\00:29:21.86
ZEDEKIAH REBELLED.
ZEDEKIAH LATER HAD HIS EYES PUT
00:29:21.89\00:29:24.19
OUT AND HE WAS
KILLED FOR HIS REBELLION.
00:29:24.23\00:29:25.93
MEANWHILE, JEHOIACHIN IS IN
PRISON IN BABYLON AND DANIEL'S
00:29:25.96\00:29:30.13
CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON AND
ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED WITH
00:29:30.17\00:29:32.27
SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO
- AND THE FIERY FURNACE HAPPENS
00:29:32.30\00:29:34.97
AND THE GOLDEN IMAGE HAPPENS
AND ALL THIS TIME JEHOIACHIN IS
00:29:35.00\00:29:38.34
STILL IN PRISON IN BABYLON.
00:29:38.37\00:29:40.51
MATTER OF FACT, NEBUCHADNEZZAR
REIGNS FOR FORTY YEARS.
00:29:40.54\00:29:44.55
AND, OF THE FORTY YEARS THAT
NEBUCHADNEZZAR REIGNS, HE LEAVES
00:29:44.58\00:29:47.38
THE KING OF JUDAH IN
PRISON THIS WHOLE TIME.
00:29:47.42\00:29:51.99
CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING IN
A BABYLONIAN JAIL BACK THEN?
00:29:52.02\00:29:54.19
NO AIR-CONDITIONING BACK THEN
- THEY DIDN'T HAVE SOME OF THE
00:29:54.22\00:29:57.63
CONVENIENCES IN
AN AMERICAN PRISON.
00:29:57.66\00:30:01.00
WE WERE JUST - I THINK I TOLD
YOU ABOUT TEN TIMES, WE WERE IN
00:30:01.03\00:30:04.10
NEW GUINEA A LITTLE MORE THAN
A WEEK AGO AND THEY'RE HAVING -
00:30:04.13\00:30:06.53
THE GOVERNMENT'S BANKRUPT IN
PNG RIGHT NOW - AND THEY'VE HAD
00:30:06.57\00:30:11.81
TERRIBLE PROBLEMS.
THEY'VE TURNED OFF POWER
00:30:11.84\00:30:13.48
TO THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING.
WOULDN'T IT BE A LITTLE
00:30:13.51\00:30:16.64
DISTRESSING IF, ALL OF A SUDDEN,
THEY TURNED OFF POWER TO THE
00:30:16.68\00:30:18.41
WHITE HOUSE BECAUSE THEY
DIDN'T - COULDN'T PAY THE BILL?
00:30:18.45\00:30:21.38
THEY TURNED OFF POWER TO THE
PARLIAMENT BUILDING AND ONE OF
00:30:21.42\00:30:23.95
THE SADDEST THINGS ABOUT
THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN NEW
00:30:23.99\00:30:27.26
GUINEA, THEY HAD NO
FOOD FOR THE PRISONERS.
00:30:27.29\00:30:30.99
AND SO THE PEOPLE IN PRISON, IF
SOMEONE DIDN'T BRING THEM - FROM
00:30:31.03\00:30:34.76
THE OUTSIDE - FOOD, SOME OF THE
GUARDS WOULDN'T EVEN TAKE CARE
00:30:34.83\00:30:37.50
OF THEM BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T
GETTING PAID AND, HOPEFULLY -
00:30:37.53\00:30:40.20
THEY SAID IT'S PICKING UP NOW,
BUT, BOY, I COULDN'T IMAGINE
00:30:40.24\00:30:43.10
BEING IN A JAIL IN PORT MORESBY
AND NOT HAVING FOOD BROUGHT TO
00:30:43.14\00:30:49.74
YOU, RIGHT THERE, SEVEN
DEGREES FROM THE EQUATOR, NO
00:30:49.78\00:30:52.28
AIR-CONDITIONING. THAT'D
BE PRETTY BAD. SO HERE HE IS,
00:30:52.31\00:30:55.92
TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS IN A
BABYLONIAN JAIL. IT'S BELIEVED
00:30:55.95\00:30:59.19
THAT DANIEL, THEN, TALKED
TO THE SON OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
00:30:59.22\00:31:02.19
WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR DIED,
YOU KNOW, HE WAS A FIRM KING AND
00:31:02.22\00:31:04.59
ONCE HE MADE A
LAW, HE WOULDN'T CHANGE.
00:31:04.63\00:31:06.13
BUT WHEN HE DIED, DANIEL TALKED
TO HIS SON - HIS NAME WAS EVIL
00:31:06.16\00:31:09.13
MERODACH - HE ONLY REIGNED
FOR ONE YEAR - KING OF BABYLON -
00:31:09.16\00:31:13.47
"...IN THE FIRST YEAR OF
HIS REIGN, LIFTED UP THE HEAD OF
00:31:13.50\00:31:16.04
JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH
AND BROUGHT HIM OUT OF PRISON.
00:31:16.07\00:31:20.94
AND HE SPOKE KINDLY TO HIM AND
GAVE HIM A MORE PROMINENT SEAT
00:31:20.98\00:31:25.75
THAN THOSE OF THE KINGS
WHO WERE WITH HIM IN BABYLON."
00:31:25.78\00:31:28.65
- SO THE KING OF BABYLON'S
GOT ALL THESE OTHER KINGS WHO
00:31:28.68\00:31:30.69
REPRESENTED OTHER COUNTRIES, WHO
HAVE SEATS AT HIS TABLE - "SO
00:31:30.72\00:31:34.76
JEHOIACHIN CHANGED FROM HIS
PRISON GARMENTS," - HE TOOK OFF
00:31:34.79\00:31:38.39
HIS RAGS THAT YOU WOULD WEAR IN
PRISON, AND HE GETS ROBES FROM
00:31:38.43\00:31:41.80
THE ROYAL WARDROBE - "AND HE ATE
BREAD REGULARLY BEFORE THE KING
00:31:41.83\00:31:47.07
ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE.
AND AS FOR HIS PROVISIONS, THERE
00:31:47.10\00:31:50.94
WAS A REGULAR RATION GIVEN
HIM BY THE KING OF BABYLON, A
00:31:50.97\00:31:54.88
PORTION FOR EACH DAY
UNTIL THE DAY OF HIS DEATH, ALL
00:31:54.91\00:31:57.68
THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE."
NOW THIS, TO ME, IS ONE OF THE
00:31:57.71\00:32:00.12
MOST WONDERFUL
PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE.
00:32:00.15\00:32:02.62
FIRST TIME I HEARD THIS I
WAS ACTUALLY IN A PRESBYTERIAN
00:32:02.65\00:32:04.82
CHURCH AND I HEARD THE PASTOR
PULL THIS OUT AND I THOUGHT,
00:32:04.85\00:32:08.02
'I'VE NEVER READ THAT VERSE
BEFORE.' AND I THOUGHT, 'WOW,
00:32:08.06\00:32:12.19
WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY OF
SOMEBODY GOING FROM THE PRISON
00:32:12.23\00:32:15.83
TO THE PALACE IN ONE DAY.' THIS
IS WHAT HAPPENED TO JOSEPH; HE
00:32:15.86\00:32:20.80
HEARS THE KEYS IN THE LOCK AND
ALL OF A SUDDEN THE JAILER SAYS,
00:32:20.84\00:32:24.27
'THE PALACE WANTS TO TALK TO
YOU.' AND YOU KNOW THE STORY, HE
00:32:24.31\00:32:26.91
TRANSLATES THE KING'S DREAM AND,
BEFORE THAT DAY IS OVER, JOSEPH
00:32:26.94\00:32:30.51
IS SHAVED, HE'S CLEANED UP,
HE'S GOT NEW ROBES, HE'S GOT AN
00:32:30.55\00:32:33.65
ALLOWANCE, HE'S GOT SERVANTS
THAT RUN BEFORE HIM, HE'S IN
00:32:33.68\00:32:37.45
CHARGE OF EGYPT - CAN YOU - TALK
ABOUT A RADICAL TURN OF EVENTS -
00:32:37.49\00:32:40.76
TO GO FROM BEING A PRISONER IN A
FILTHY PRISON WITH NO HOPE AND,
00:32:40.79\00:32:45.43
ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE WORD OF THE
KING AND YOUR STATUS CHANGES AND
00:32:45.46\00:32:49.20
YOU GO FROM PRISONER
TO PALACE IN ONE DAY.
00:32:49.23\00:32:52.73
>>AMEN. >>YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT
00:32:52.77\00:32:53.97
HAPPENED WITH ESTHER. SHE
WENT FROM - IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
00:32:54.00\00:32:57.64
OVERNIGHT WITH HER, BUT SHE DID
DEFINITELY GO FROM THE STATUS OF
00:32:57.67\00:33:00.64
BEING A CAPTIVE - AN
ORPHAN GIRL - TO BEING THE QUEEN
00:33:00.68\00:33:05.25
IN THIS PALACE. THIS IS WHAT
00:33:05.28\00:33:07.68
HAPPENED WITH DANIEL. HE
WENT FROM BEING CAPTIVE TO
00:33:07.72\00:33:09.98
BEING PRIME MINISTER
WHEN HE TRANSLATED THE
00:33:10.02\00:33:14.09
KING'S DREAM FOR HIM.
THIS IS WHAT ISRAEL DOES - THEY
00:33:14.12\00:33:17.03
GO FROM BEING A NATION OF SLAVES
AND PRISONERS TO BEING LEADERS.
00:33:17.06\00:33:22.20
YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME
INTERESTING VERSES IN THE BIBLE
00:33:22.23\00:33:27.24
THAT TALK ABOUT GOD BRINGING
PEOPLE OUT OF PRISON TO RULE.
00:33:27.27\00:33:32.11
AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT.
YOU CAN LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
00:33:32.14\00:33:35.71
PSALM 142:7, "BRING MY SOUL
OUT OF PRISON, THAT I MAY PRAISE
00:33:35.74\00:33:40.48
YOUR NAME;" - AND YOU CAN
READ IN PSALM 68, VERSE 6, "GOD
00:33:40.52\00:33:45.79
SETTLES THE SOLITARY IN A HOME;
HE LEADS OUT THE PRISONERS TO
00:33:45.82\00:33:50.19
PROSPERITY, BUT THE REBELLIOUS
DWELL IN A PARCHED LAND."
00:33:50.23\00:33:54.76
WELL, HERE, MEPHIBOSHETH
HAS GONE FROM THIS PARCHED LAND
00:33:54.83\00:33:58.97
CALLED LO DEBAR AND ALL OF A
SUDDEN DAVID SAYS, 'LOOK, I WANT
00:33:59.00\00:34:01.84
YOU TO COME TO THE PALACE AND
I WANT YOU TO EAT FROM MY TABLE
00:34:01.87\00:34:06.54
AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU NEW
CLOTHES' - THE SAME THING THAT
00:34:06.57\00:34:08.78
HAPPENS TO JEHOIACHIN YEARS
LATER - THE KING SAYS, 'I'M
00:34:08.81\00:34:13.38
GOING TO TAKE YOU AND I'M GOING
TO CHANGE YOUR STATUS AND I'M
00:34:13.42\00:34:16.89
GOING TO GIVE YOU A SEAT AT MY
TABLE, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU NEW
00:34:16.92\00:34:20.36
CLOTHES, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU
FOOD, YOU'RE GOING TO BANQUET
00:34:20.39\00:34:24.46
WITH ME' - TALK ABOUT A RADICAL
CHANGE - BUT THIS IS THE STORY
00:34:24.49\00:34:28.96
OF SALVATION. WHAT
GOD DOES WITH MEPHIBOSHETH
00:34:29.00\00:34:33.20
IS WHAT HE REALLY IS
OFFERING TO EACH ONE OF US.
00:34:33.23\00:34:36.44
HE SAYS, 'I'M GOING TO ADOPT YOU
BECAUSE OF MY LOVE FOR JONATHAN.
00:34:36.47\00:34:41.34
BECAUSE I HAVE A COVENANT WITH
JONATHAN, I'M GOING TO ADOPT YOU
00:34:41.38\00:34:45.51
AS MINE. I'M GOING
TO CHANGE YOUR STATUS.
00:34:45.55\00:34:49.18
I'M GOING TO GIVE
YOU A SEAT AT MY TABLE.
00:34:49.22\00:34:51.75
NOW, DOES HE DO IT BECAUSE HE'S
A FAST RUNNER, OR DOES HE DO IT
00:34:51.79\00:34:56.83
IN SPITE OF HIS BEING CRIPPLED?
DOES GOD SAVE US BECAUSE OF OUR
00:34:56.86\00:35:06.90
GOOD WORKS - OF OUR
GREAT WALK? OR DOES HE SAVE US
00:35:06.94\00:35:11.57
WHILE WE'RE CRIPPLES? HE
INVITES US TO COME TO HIS
00:35:11.61\00:35:15.58
PALACE BECAUSE HE
SHOWS MERCY ON US.
00:35:15.61\00:35:18.05
IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF OUR
GOODNESS, IT'S IN SPITE OF OUR
00:35:18.08\00:35:20.92
BADNESS THAT GOD EXTENDS HIS
MERCY TO US - IT'S BECAUSE OF
00:35:20.95\00:35:25.35
THE COVENANT HE'S MADE -
AND WHEN WE BELIEVE IN THAT
00:35:25.39\00:35:28.32
COVENANT. AND HERE,
YOU KNOW, WE COME TO
00:35:28.36\00:35:30.83
JESUS AND WE THINK 'OH,
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO' AND
00:35:30.86\00:35:33.80
'WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?'
AND HE SAYS, 'DON'T FEAR.' HOW
00:35:33.83\00:35:36.56
MANY TIMES DID
JESUS SAY, 'DON'T FEAR'?
00:35:36.60\00:35:38.97
AND SO, WHAT
DOES MEPHIBOSHETH DO?
00:35:39.00\00:35:40.90
HE BOWS HIMSELF - I'M IN 2
SAMUEL 9:8 - HE BOWS HIMSELF AND
00:35:40.94\00:35:45.47
SAYS, BEFORE THE KING, "WHAT
IS YOUR SERVANT, THAT YOU SHOULD
00:35:45.51\00:35:48.84
LOOK UPON SUCH A DEAD DOG AS I?"
YOU KNOW, SOLOMON SAID, 'FOR HE
00:35:48.88\00:35:53.82
THAT IS JOINED TO THE LIVING
THERE IS HOPE, FOR A LIVING DOG
00:35:53.85\00:35:56.92
IS BETTER THAN A DEAD LION.' AND
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS CRIPPLED IN
00:35:56.95\00:36:00.99
HIS FEET, HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO
TREAT YOU LIKE A PRINCE.' ISAIAH
00:36:01.02\00:36:06.09
40, VERSE 1, "'COMFORT,
YES, COMFORT MY PEOPLE!'
00:36:06.13\00:36:09.23
SAYS YOUR GOD." - HE
WANTS US TO BE BLESSED
00:36:09.26\00:36:12.23
HE WANTS TO COMFORT
US. AND SO, THIS IS REALLY
00:36:12.27\00:36:14.74
THE STORY OF SALVATION.
I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER, FOR
00:36:14.77\00:36:17.41
A MOMENT, THE -
THE RADICAL CHANGE.
00:36:17.44\00:36:20.31
NOW HE'S GONE FROM
HOPELESSNESS TO HOPE.
00:36:20.34\00:36:24.28
IT'S LIKE WHAT THE LORD DID
FOR JOSEPH - NOW HE GETS A NEW
00:36:24.31\00:36:28.12
POSITION. EPHESIANS
2 SAYS HE "...RAISED
00:36:28.15\00:36:31.32
US UP TOGETHER, AND MADE US
SIT TOGETHER IN THE HEAVENLY
00:36:31.35\00:36:34.42
PLACES IN CHRIST JESUS."
AND YOU, AGAIN - YOU READ IN
00:36:34.46\00:36:37.96
REVELATION 5:10, "AND HAVE
MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS TO OUR
00:36:37.99\00:36:42.43
GOD; AND WE SHALL
REIGN ON THE EARTH."
00:36:42.46\00:36:44.90
HE GIVES US NEW ROBES - YOU
MAYBE READ IN ZECHARIAH 3:4,
00:36:44.93\00:36:49.10
WHERE HE ANSWERED AND SAID TO
THOSE THAT STOOD BY HIM, 'TAKE
00:36:49.14\00:36:52.44
AWAY THE FILTHY GARMENTS FROM
HIM.' AND HE SAID, "SEE, I HAVE
00:36:52.47\00:36:56.44
REMOVED YOUR INIQUITY FROM YOU,
AND I WILL CLOTHE YOU WITH RICH
00:36:56.48\00:36:59.58
ROBES." HE GIVES US NEW BREAD.
00:36:59.61\00:37:03.45
CAN YOU IMAGINE
BEING KING JEHOIACHIN?
00:37:03.49\00:37:05.92
YOU'RE IN THE BABYLONIAN JAIL
AND YOU'RE EATING, YOU KNOW,
00:37:05.95\00:37:08.59
JUST MOLDY BREAD FOR 37 YEARS
AND THEN THEY SAY, 'OH, YOU'RE
00:37:08.62\00:37:13.19
NOT EATING THAT BREAD ANYMORE,
YOU'RE EATING THE KING'S BREAD
00:37:13.23\00:37:15.70
NOW.' ONE OF THE LAST THINGS
JESUS DID IS HE HAD A FEAST WITH
00:37:15.73\00:37:20.70
THE DISCIPLES AND HE SAID, 'I'LL
NOT DRINK OF THE FRUIT OF THE
00:37:20.74\00:37:25.01
VINE TILL I DRINK IT WITH YOU
AGAIN IN THE FATHER'S KINGDOM.'
00:37:25.04\00:37:28.24
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT
THIS FEAST WE'RE GOING TO HAVE.
00:37:28.28\00:37:31.25
LUKE 22:30, "THAT YOU MAY EAT
AND DRINK AT MY TABLE" - JESUS
00:37:31.28\00:37:35.42
IS SAYING THIS - "THAT YOU MAY
EAT AND DRINK AT MY TABLE IN MY
00:37:35.45\00:37:38.82
KINGDOM, AND SIT ON THRONES
JUDGING THE TWELVE TRIBES OF
00:37:38.85\00:37:42.39
ISRAEL." SO THIS
IS INCREDIBLE - AND
00:37:42.42\00:37:45.39
HE MAKES A NEW PROVISION.
SEE, EVEN WITH KING JEHOIACHIN -
00:37:45.43\00:37:49.13
NOT ONLY DID HE SAY 'I'M GOING
TO TAKE CARE OF YOU', HE SAID,
00:37:49.16\00:37:51.77
'I'M GOING TO
GIVE YOU AN ALLOWANCE.
00:37:51.80\00:37:53.00
WHAT THAT, BASICALLY, MEANS
IS YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A ROYAL
00:37:53.03\00:37:55.80
EXPENSE ACCOUNT. YOU
GET A COMPANY CREDIT CARD.
00:37:55.84\00:37:59.34
AND SO, NOT ONLY AM I TAKING
CARE OF YOU, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:37:59.37\00:38:02.11
HAVE INCOME - YOU'LL HAVE SOME
SPENDING MONEY FOR INCIDENTALS
00:38:02.14\00:38:04.95
AS WELL - FOR THE REST OF
YOUR LIFE I'LL GIVE YOU AN
00:38:04.98\00:38:07.68
ALLOWANCE.' AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT
THAT WAS INTERESTING, THAT THE
00:38:07.72\00:38:11.62
BOOK OF JEREMIAH
ENDS WITH THE WORD 'LIFE'.
00:38:11.65\00:38:14.92
IT'S SAYING, 'FOR THE REST
OF YOUR LIFE' - 'AS LONG AS YOU
00:38:14.96\00:38:18.16
SHALL LIVE I'M GOING TO TAKE
CARE OF YOU.' THAT'S KIND OF AN
00:38:18.19\00:38:21.96
ANALOGY FOR HEAVEN AND
WHAT THE LORD DOES FOR US.
00:38:22.00\00:38:27.20
MEPHIBOSHETH CAN'T BELIEVE THIS.
00:38:27.24\00:38:28.50
HE BOWS HIMSELF DOWN AND SAYS,
"WHAT IS YOUR SERVANT, THAT YOU
00:38:28.54\00:38:31.84
SHOULD LOOK UPON
SUCH A DEAD DOG...?"
00:38:31.87\00:38:33.94
AND THEN THE KING, FURTHERMORE,
HE CALLS ZIBA, SAUL'S SERVANT,
00:38:33.98\00:38:36.95
AND HE SAYS TO HIM - NOW ZIBA
WAS THE STEWARD FOR THE HOUSE OF
00:38:36.98\00:38:41.42
SAUL. AND WHEN
SAUL DIED AND HIS SONS
00:38:41.45\00:38:44.52
DIED AND ISHBOSHETH WAS KILLED,
ZIBA, WHO AT ONE POINT HAD BEEN
00:38:44.55\00:38:50.03
A SERVANT, HE SORT OF INHERITS
EVERYTHING THAT WAS SAUL'S.
00:38:50.06\00:38:53.53
HE'S MANAGING ALL THIS PROPERTY
THAT BELONGED TO THE HOUSE OF
00:38:53.56\00:38:55.56
SAUL AND DAVID
REPROVES HIM A LITTLE BIT.
00:38:55.60\00:38:59.07
HE SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU'VE TAKEN
CARE OF ALL OF SAUL'S STUFF, BUT
00:38:59.10\00:39:01.17
YOU'RE NOT DOING A VERY GOOD
JOB OF TAKING CARE OF JONATHAN'S
00:39:01.20\00:39:03.47
SON.' HE HAD KIND OF
NEGLECTED TO CARE FOR HIM.
00:39:03.51\00:39:08.61
AND HE SAYS TO HIM, "I HAVE
GIVEN TO YOUR MASTER'S SON ALL
00:39:08.64\00:39:15.82
THAT BELONGED TO SAUL
AND TO ALL HIS HOUSE."
00:39:15.85\00:39:19.29
NOW THIS IS VERY GENEROUS
FOR DAVID, BECAUSE KING SAUL WAS
00:39:19.32\00:39:22.26
KING FOR FORTY YEARS.
HE'S GOT A LOT OF PROPERTY.
00:39:22.29\00:39:25.26
HE HAD SERVANTS. HE HAD
LAND. TYPICALLY, WHEN ONE KING
00:39:25.29\00:39:28.40
OVERPOWERS ANOTHER KING,
HE TAKES ALL THE PROPERTY.
00:39:28.43\00:39:32.37
BUT DAVID SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M
NOT TAKING ANYTHING FROM SAUL.
00:39:32.40\00:39:35.20
IF GOD MAKES ME RICH,
THAT'LL BE GOD'S BUSINESS.
00:39:35.24\00:39:37.27
I'M GIVING THIS ALL TO JONATHAN
- I'M GIVING IT TO JONATHAN'S
00:39:37.31\00:39:41.11
SON. AND SO WHAT,
BY RIGHT, DAVID COULD
00:39:41.14\00:39:44.15
HAVE TAKEN - HE SAYS, 'I WANT TO
GIVE IT, NOW, ALL TO JONATHAN'
00:39:44.18\00:39:47.48
- AND ZIBA CAN'T ARGUE WITH THE
KING. HE SAYS, IN VERSE 10, "YOU
00:39:47.52\00:39:51.32
THEREFORE, AND YOUR SONS AND
YOUR SERVANTS, SHALL WORK THE
00:39:51.35\00:39:55.19
LAND FOR HIM, AND YOU SHALL
BRING IN THE HARVEST, THAT YOUR
00:39:55.22\00:39:58.06
MASTER'S SON MAY
HAVE FOOD TO EAT.
00:39:58.09\00:40:00.40
BUT MEPHIBOSHETH YOUR MASTER'S
SON SHALL EAT BREAD AT MY TABLE
00:40:00.43\00:40:03.57
ALWAYS.'" - HE SAYS, 'YOU GUYS
ARE GOING TO WORK THE FIELDS.
00:40:03.60\00:40:05.33
YOU CAN SELL IT.' HE'LL HAVE
SOME SPENDING MONEY PLUS SOME
00:40:05.37\00:40:07.94
EXTRA FOOD, BUT HE'S
GOING TO SIT AT MY TABLE.
00:40:07.97\00:40:10.81
NOW ZIBA, THIS CHIEF STEWARD,
HE HAD FIFTEEN SONS AND TWENTY
00:40:10.84\00:40:15.44
SERVANTS. "THEN
ZIBA SAID TO THE KING,
00:40:15.48\00:40:18.25
'ACCORDING TO ALL THAT MY
LORD THE KING HAS COMMANDED HIS
00:40:18.28\00:40:20.95
SERVANT, SO WILL YOUR
SERVANT DO.'" THAT'S A GOOD IDEA
00:40:20.98\00:40:24.22
FOR US TO SAY THAT TOO.
"'AS FOR MEPHIBOSHETH,' SAID THE
00:40:24.25\00:40:28.96
KING, 'HE SHALL EAT AT MY TABLE
LIKE ONE OF THE KING'S SONS.'"
00:40:28.99\00:40:34.23
HOW IS DAVID GOING
TO TREAT MEPHIBOSHETH?
00:40:34.30\00:40:36.73
HE'S ADOPTING HIM AS HIS
OWN. HOW DOES THE LORD TREAT US?
00:40:36.77\00:40:41.77
YOU KNOW, THE
BIBLE SAYS WE'RE ADOPTED.
00:40:41.80\00:40:43.71
CHRIST ADOPTS
US INTO THE FAMILY.
00:40:43.74\00:40:46.01
I SAID, 'THIS IS JUST SUCH A
BEAUTIFUL STORY.' YOU KNOW, JUST
00:40:46.04\00:40:48.84
TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE MORE
INSIGHT IN THIS, YOU REMEMBER
00:40:48.88\00:40:51.75
BEFORE ABRAHAM HAD ISAAC OR
ISHMAEL, HE PRAYED AND HE SAID
00:40:51.78\00:40:57.62
TO THE LORD, 'LORD, YOU'VE GIVEN
ME ALL THIS SUBSTANCE; I'VE GOT
00:40:57.65\00:41:00.56
A HOUSE FULL OF SERVANTS, I'VE
GOT MONEY - I'VE GOT SILVER,
00:41:00.59\00:41:03.39
I'VE GOT GOLD, I'VE GOT CATTLE'
- AND HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO
00:41:03.43\00:41:06.16
LEAVE IT ALL TO MY STEWARD,
ELIEZER OF DAMASCUS.' DO ANY OF
00:41:06.19\00:41:10.70
YOU REMEMBER THAT? THE
STEWARD - THE CHIEF STEWARD
00:41:10.73\00:41:13.23
OF ABRAHAM - WAS
GOING TO GET EVERYTHING.
00:41:13.27\00:41:15.70
AND SO, WHO DOES ABRAHAM
SEND TO FIND A WIFE FOR ISAAC?
00:41:15.74\00:41:19.77
ELIEZER. NOW,
IF YOU'RE THE CHIEF
00:41:19.81\00:41:22.58
STEWARD, WOULDN'T THAT
MAKE YOU FEEL A LITTLE FUNNY?
00:41:22.61\00:41:25.51
'IF IT WASN'T FOR ISAAC, ALL OF
THIS WOULD BE MINE.' BUT ELIEZER
00:41:25.55\00:41:29.48
IS A SERVANT AND HE WANTS TO DO
WHATEVER THE KING TELLS HIM TO
00:41:29.52\00:41:32.75
DO. ELIEZER WANTS TO DO WHATEVER
00:41:32.79\00:41:34.72
ABRAHAM TELLS HIM
TO DO. HE IS HAPPY.
00:41:34.76\00:41:38.09
HE IS PRAYING TO
FIND THE VERY BEST WIFE.
00:41:38.13\00:41:40.30
HE IS A GOOD STEWARD. HE
DOESN'T SEE IT AS HIS OWN.
00:41:40.33\00:41:43.03
HE SEES IT AS HE'S
MANAGING THE GOODS FOR ANOTHER.
00:41:43.06\00:41:45.43
ZIBA DOES THE SAME THING
- AT LEAST AT THIS POINT.
00:41:45.47\00:41:48.57
HE SAYS, 'WHATEVER THE KING
SAYS, THAT I'LL DO' AND HE NOW
00:41:48.60\00:41:53.38
BECOMES - MEPHIBOSHETH HAS GONE
FROM BEING DEPENDENT ON THE HOS
00:41:53.41\00:41:59.78
- HE'S GONE FROM
WELFARE TO BEING GOVERNOR.
00:41:59.81\00:42:04.15
YOU KNOW, THAT'S HAPPENED
SEVERAL TIMES IN HISTORY.
00:42:04.19\00:42:06.79
IT WAS VERY INTERESTING -
THERE'S A NUMBER OF PLACES YOU
00:42:06.82\00:42:12.59
CAN FIND, WHERE PEOPLE HAVE
GONE FROM BEING A CAPTIVE IN A
00:42:12.63\00:42:16.06
COUNTRY AND THEN THEY BECOME
THE LEADER OF THE COUNTRY - LIKE
00:42:16.10\00:42:19.07
NELSON MANDELA - HE'S IN PRISON
IN SOUTH AFRICA - YOU KNOW,
00:42:19.10\00:42:23.84
THERE'S A PASSAGE IN THE BIBLE
THAT SAYS, 'YOU'LL BRING SOMEONE
00:42:23.87\00:42:26.64
OUT OF THE HOUSE TO RULE, THOUGH
HE WAS POOR IN THE KINGDOM.'
00:42:26.68\00:42:30.45
NELSON MANDELA, WHO'S IMPRISONED
BY SOUTH AFRICA, ENDS UP
00:42:30.48\00:42:33.92
BECOMING THE
PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA.
00:42:33.95\00:42:36.22
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER,
IN POLAND, LECH WALESA?
00:42:36.25\00:42:39.72
I THINK HE'S STILL
ALIVE. HE WAS THE LEADER OF THE
00:42:39.75\00:42:42.12
SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT THAT HELPED
OVERTHROW COMMUNISM IN EUROPE
00:42:42.16\00:42:46.83
AND THEY IMPRISONED HIM
SEVERAL TIMES THERE IN POLAND.
00:42:46.86\00:42:49.46
HE ENDED UP BECOMING THE
FIRST PRESIDENT OF POLAND.
00:42:49.50\00:42:52.57
AND YOU CAN POINT TO DIFFERENT
PLACES IN THE WORLD WHERE THIS
00:42:52.60\00:42:54.90
HAS HAPPENED. AND SO
HERE, MEPHIBOSHETH HAS
00:42:54.94\00:42:57.21
GONE FROM BEING ON
WELFARE TO HAVING SERVANTS AND
00:42:57.24\00:43:01.48
HAVING A HOUSEHOLD. AND
THE REASON I'M PRESSING THIS
00:43:01.51\00:43:05.18
ON YOU IS BECAUSE, WHENEVER
I READ THIS, I'M READING ABOUT
00:43:05.21\00:43:08.42
WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR ME -
THAT GOD TAKES ME, THOUGH I AM A
00:43:08.45\00:43:12.49
CRIPPLE; THAT GOD TAKES ME,
THOUGH WE'RE POOR AND WRETCHED.
00:43:12.52\00:43:16.76
BLESSED ARE THE
POOR IN SPIRIT, RIGHT?
00:43:16.79\00:43:18.76
AND THAT HE ADOPTS US - HE
BRINGS US INTO HIS HOUSE - HE
00:43:18.79\00:43:22.16
SITS AT HIS TABLE AND HE SAYS,
'I'M GOING TO TREAT YOU LIKE ONE
00:43:22.20\00:43:25.00
OF MY OWN SONS. NOW,
CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS - I
00:43:25.03\00:43:29.24
THINK I HEARD CHUCK SWINDOLL
TALK ABOUT THIS STORY ONE TIME
00:43:29.27\00:43:32.61
AND HE TRIED TO PAINT A PICTURE
OF WHAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE
00:43:32.64\00:43:36.18
WHEN YOU HAD
DINNER AT DAVID'S HOUSE.
00:43:36.21\00:43:38.88
NOW DAVID'S GOT A BEAUTIFUL
PALACE, HE'S GOT A BANQUET HALL,
00:43:38.91\00:43:40.65
THE KING OF TYRE BUILT IT FOR
HIM - CEDAR FROM LEBANON - NEVER
00:43:40.68\00:43:43.79
ROTTED - THIS GREAT
WOOD THEY HAD UP THERE.
00:43:43.82\00:43:46.29
AND YOU READ AT THE END OF
CHAPTER 8 ABOUT DAVID'S - HIS
00:43:46.32\00:43:52.39
ATTENDANTS. YOU LOOK IN VERSE 15
OF 2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 8, "SO DAVID
00:43:52.43\00:43:59.13
REIGNED OVER ALL ISRAEL; AND
DAVID ADMINISTERED JUDGMENT AND
00:43:59.17\00:44:03.37
JUSTICE TO ALL HIS PEOPLE.
JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH WAS OVER
00:44:03.41\00:44:07.98
THE ARMY;" - HERE'S YOUR GENERAL
- "JEHOSHAPHAT THE SON OF AHILUD
00:44:08.01\00:44:11.78
WAS RECORDER;" - THIS IS
HIS CABINET - "ZADOK THE SON OF
00:44:11.81\00:44:15.58
AHITUB AND AHIMELECH THE SON
OF ABIATHAR WERE THE PRIESTS;
00:44:15.62\00:44:19.55
SERAIAH WAS THE SCRIBE; BENEAIAH
THE SON OF JEOHIADA WAS OVER
00:44:19.59\00:44:23.79
BOTH THE CHERETHITES AND
THE PELETHITES;" - BY THE WAY,
00:44:23.83\00:44:26.19
BENAIAH ENDED UP BECOMING
GENERAL AFTER JOAB - "AND
00:44:26.23\00:44:30.43
DAVID'S SONS
WERE CHIEF MINISTERS."
00:44:30.47\00:44:32.47
SO THE DINNER BELL RINGS AND
THEY'RE ALL HUNGRY, YOU KNOW,
00:44:32.50\00:44:37.27
AND SO THEY ALL MAKE THEIR WAY
PAST THE SERVANTS AND PAST THE
00:44:37.31\00:44:40.38
SOLDIERS AND PAST THE SECURITY
AND THE METAL DETECTORS AND THEY
00:44:40.41\00:44:43.08
COME INTO THE BANQUET HALL OF
DAVID AND HERE'S JOAB, HE COMES
00:44:43.11\00:44:46.88
STRIDING IN FIRST AND
HE'S COVERED WITH SCARS.
00:44:46.92\00:44:49.28
HE'S GOT HIS ARMOR AND HIS GEAR
ON AND HE GETS AROUND THE TABLE
00:44:49.32\00:44:53.49
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT -
THE PRIESTS COME IN AND THEY'RE
00:44:53.52\00:44:58.79
WEARING THEIR ROBES AND ABIATHAR
- THEY HAD TWO, KIND OF, HIGH
00:44:58.83\00:45:03.30
PRIESTS AT THAT TIME - ZADOK AND
ABIATHAR - AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
00:45:03.33\00:45:06.60
THE SCRIBES COME IN, AND DAVID'S
SONS COME IN ONE BY ONE, AND
00:45:06.63\00:45:09.84
YOU'VE GOT ABSALOM THERE AND
HE'S BEAUTIFUL BEYOND WHAT YOU
00:45:09.87\00:45:12.84
CAN IMAGINE - AND ALL OF THEM
WERE GOOD LOOKING - AMNON AND
00:45:12.87\00:45:16.61
ADONIJAH - AND THE RECORDER AND
THE DIFFERENT OFFICERS COME IN
00:45:16.64\00:45:22.92
AND DIFFERENT VISITING KINGS
MIGHT BE THERE, AND THEY ALL
00:45:22.95\00:45:25.35
GATHER AROUND THIS TABLE FILLED
WITH CHAIRS AND THEY PULL OUT
00:45:25.39\00:45:29.19
THEIR CHAIRS AND THEY GET READY
TO SIT DOWN AND THEN YOU HEAR
00:45:29.22\00:45:32.06
'DRAG CLOP, DRAG CLOP,
DRAG CLOP' AND THEY LOOK AND IN
00:45:32.09\00:45:37.90
THROUGH THE DOOR - HE CAN'T GO
VERY FAST SO THE OTHER ONES BEAT
00:45:37.93\00:45:40.17
HIM TO THE TABLE. IN
COMES MEPHIBOSHETH AND THEY
00:45:40.20\00:45:44.67
ALL WAIT FOR HIM AND HE COMES
UP TO THE TABLE AND HE SETS HIS
00:45:44.71\00:45:47.91
CRUTCHES ASIDE AND THEY SIT DOWN
AND THEY PULL THEIR CHAIRS IN -
00:45:47.94\00:45:51.08
BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY PULL
THEIR CHAIRS IN UNDER THE TABLE,
00:45:51.11\00:45:53.78
AND THE TABLE CLOTH IS
THERE, NOBODY SEES HIS FEET.
00:45:53.82\00:45:57.59
HE SITS AT THE TABLE
JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.
00:45:57.62\00:46:00.99
AND THIS IS REALLY WHAT
THE LORD DOES FOR US HE SITS
00:46:01.02\00:46:04.39
US DOWN IN HEAVENLY
PLACES. WE HAVE BEEN INVITED
00:46:04.43\00:46:07.23
TO THE FEAST OF A
KING. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT
00:46:07.30\00:46:10.27
ABOUT THAT BEFORE?
HOW BEAUTIFUL THAT IS?
00:46:10.30\00:46:13.64
WE'LL SIT DOWN IN
THE KINGDOM WITH JESUS.
00:46:13.67\00:46:16.64
YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER READING IN
HISTORY A FEW YEARS AGO, ABOUT
00:46:16.67\00:46:21.14
SOMEONE BY THE NAME OF WILLIAM
RUDOLPH - WILMA RUDOLPH - AND
00:46:21.18\00:46:28.25
SHE WAS A YOUNG BLACK GIRL BORN
IN TENNESSEE - STARTED INTO LIFE
00:46:28.28\00:46:34.49
WITH JUST SOME VERY
DIFFICULT CHALLENGES.
00:46:34.52\00:46:37.06
FIRST OF ALL, SHE WAS
THE TWENTIETH OF TWENTY-TWO
00:46:37.09\00:46:39.59
CHILDREN. WHEN SHE
WAS BORN SHE WEIGHED
00:46:39.63\00:46:42.86
FOUR AND A HALF POUNDS
- NEARLY DIED AT BIRTH.
00:46:42.90\00:46:46.43
BY THE TIME SHE WAS FOUR
YEARS OLD SHE CONTRACTED DOUBLE
00:46:46.47\00:46:50.54
PNEUMONIA, THEN SHE HAD SCARLET
FEVER, AND THEN SHE GOT POLIO,
00:46:50.57\00:46:56.38
WHICH LEFT HER CRIPPLED IN HER
LEGS - PRINCIPALLY HER LEFT LEG.
00:46:56.41\00:47:01.85
DOCTORS SAID SHE'D NEVER
WALK AGAIN WITHOUT ASSISTANCE.
00:47:01.88\00:47:04.79
EVENTUALLY, BY THE TIME SHE
WAS NINE, THEY HAD A LEFT BRACE.
00:47:04.82\00:47:08.12
I THINK SHE ALSO HAD AN INSERT
- A DIFFERENT SIZE SHOE ON HER
00:47:08.16\00:47:11.46
LEFT FOOT. BUT SHE
WAS VERY DETERMINED -
00:47:11.49\00:47:14.56
A VERY DETERMINED YOUNG
GIRL. AT NINE SHE SAID THAT SHE
00:47:14.56\00:47:18.07
BELIEVED - SHE TRUSTED GOD THAT
HE WAS GOING TO HEAL HER - AND
00:47:18.10\00:47:21.04
SHE NOT ONLY PRAYED, SHE
WORKED AS HARD AS SHE COULD.
00:47:21.07\00:47:23.81
I THINK SHE HAD TO RIDE TWO
HOURS EACH WAY TO THE NEAREST
00:47:23.84\00:47:27.98
PLACE WHERE - WHEN THEY
HAD SEGREGATION BACK THEN - SHE
00:47:28.01\00:47:31.91
COULD GET THE PRIMITIVE PHYSICAL
THERAPY FOR POLIO, AND THEY
00:47:31.95\00:47:35.52
WOULD MASSAGE HER LEG.
WELL, HER MOTHER COULDN'T MAKE
00:47:35.55\00:47:37.59
THE TRIP AND SO, THEY TAUGHT HER
MOTHER HOW TO MASSAGE HER LEGS.
00:47:37.62\00:47:40.96
AND SHE CONTINUED TO
DO EVERYTHING SHE COULD.
00:47:40.99\00:47:44.59
SHE FINALLY TOOK OFF HER METAL
LEG BRACE WHEN SHE WAS NINE AND
00:47:44.63\00:47:47.96
SHE AMAZED PEOPLE THAT SHE WAS
ABLE TO WALK WITHOUT THE BRACE.
00:47:47.96\00:47:50.93
BY THIRTEEN SHE HAD DEVELOPED A
RHYTHMIC WALK WHERE YOU COULDN'T
00:47:50.97\00:47:54.87
TELL THAT SHE HAD ONCE HAD POLIO
- THE ONE LEG WAS JUST A LITTLE
00:47:54.90\00:47:57.94
BIT SMALLER THAN THE OTHER.
FINALLY SHE DECIDED THAT SHE
00:47:57.97\00:48:01.18
WANTED TO JOIN THE
OTHER KIDS WHEN THEY HAD P.E.
00:48:01.21\00:48:04.01
AND SHE WANTED TO RUN.
THEY FELT SORRY FOR HER - SHE
00:48:04.05\00:48:07.78
GOT INTO A RACE AND SHE CAME
IN LAST, BUT SHE KEPT RACING.
00:48:07.82\00:48:11.52
SHE WOULD NOT GIVE UP. AND
SHE WAS LAST MANY TIMES AND
00:48:11.55\00:48:14.96
THEN, AMAZINGLY, ONE DAY SHE WAS
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RACE WHEN
00:48:14.99\00:48:19.69
THEY FINISHED AND,
INCREDIBLY, THEN SHE WON A RACE.
00:48:19.73\00:48:23.20
AND, FROM THAT POINT
ON, SHE NEVER LOST A RACE.
00:48:23.23\00:48:26.10
SHE KEPT ON RUNNING AND
EVENTUALLY, THAT GIRL WHO WAS
00:48:26.13\00:48:30.61
TOLD SHE WOULD NEVER WALK AGAIN
BECAUSE SHE WAS CRIPPLED IN HER
00:48:30.64\00:48:33.98
FEET, WENT ON TO WIN
THREE OLYMPIC MEDALS.
00:48:34.01\00:48:37.45
SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN IN
AMERICAN HISTORY TO WIN THREE
00:48:37.48\00:48:40.08
MEDALS AT ONE OLYMPIC
EVENT - AND SHE NEVER GAVE UP.
00:48:40.12\00:48:43.95
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS
US THAT THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE
00:48:43.99\00:48:47.29
LORD WILL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH.
00:48:47.32\00:48:50.16
THEY WILL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS
LIKE EAGLES, THEY WILL RUN AND
00:48:50.19\00:48:53.13
NOT BE WEARY, THEY
WILL WALK AND NOT FAINT.
00:48:53.16\00:48:56.06
THE LORD INVITES US INTO
HIS HOUSE AND WE MAY COME AS
00:48:56.10\00:48:59.90
CRIPPLES BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT?
WE LEARN TO WALK ALONG THE WAY.
00:48:59.93\00:49:03.71
YOU CAN READ ABOUT
THE MINISTRY OF JESUS.
00:49:03.74\00:49:06.21
YOU READ ABOUT IT ISAIAH,
"THE EYES OF THE BLIND WILL BE
00:49:06.24\00:49:09.31
OPENED, THE EARS OF THE DEAF
WILL BE UNSTOPPED, THEN THE LAME
00:49:09.34\00:49:14.02
MAN WILL LEAP AS A HART AND THE
TONGUE OF THE DUMB WILL SING."
00:49:14.05\00:49:18.99
AND THIS IS ONE OF THE SIGNS OF
JESUS' MESSIAH MINISTRY, IS THAT
00:49:19.02\00:49:22.66
HE COULD HEAL THE CRIPPLES -
PEOPLE THAT COULDN'T WALK, HE
00:49:22.69\00:49:26.06
WOULD HEAL. WE COME
TO CHRIST, WE LIMP IN
00:49:26.09\00:49:28.23
LIKE MEPHIBOSHETH, HE ADOPTS US,
HE ACCEPTS US, HE FEEDS US, HE
00:49:28.26\00:49:32.53
EMBRACES US, HE PROMISES US
DON'T FEAR, AND THEN WE END UP
00:49:32.57\00:49:36.84
HAVING A PLACE IN HIS
KINGDOM. ISN'T THAT A WONDERFUL
00:49:36.87\00:49:38.97
STORY OF GOD'S GRACE?
AND HE CAN TEACH US TO WALK.
00:49:39.01\00:49:42.78
HE CAN HEAL - HE CAN HEAL US
AND HELP US TO WALK A NEW WALK.
00:49:42.81\00:49:46.48
SO DAVID SHOWED HIM MERCY
AND, I THINK, THIS IS ONE OF THE
00:49:46.51\00:49:49.32
REASONS THAT DAVID IS SHOWN TO
BE A KING AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART.
00:49:49.35\00:49:53.32
ANY OTHER KING WOULD
HAVE EXACTED VENGEANCE.
00:49:53.36\00:49:56.02
DAVID, NOT ONLY JUST LET HIM GO,
DAVID SAID, 'NO, I'M NOT GOING
00:49:56.06\00:49:59.63
TO LET YOU GO. I'M
BRINGING YOU INTO MY HOUSE.
00:49:59.66\00:50:01.86
EVEN THOUGH YOU WOULD NORMALLY
BE MY NUMBER ONE THREAT AND
00:50:01.90\00:50:04.13
ENEMY, BECAUSE YOU'RE THE NEXT
IN LINE, I'M BRINGING YOU INTO
00:50:04.17\00:50:07.07
MY PALACE. I'M GOING
TO TREAT YOU LIKE A SON.
00:50:07.10\00:50:09.50
I'M GOING TO ADOPT YOU.
I'M GOING TO FEED YOU AND I'M
00:50:09.54\00:50:11.97
GOING TO KEEP MY PROMISE.
AND EVERY TIME DAVID LOOKED
00:50:12.01\00:50:14.44
ACROSS THE TABLE AND HE SAW
MEPHIBOSHETH, HE COULDN'T HELP
00:50:14.48\00:50:18.15
BUT SEE THE IMAGE
OF JONATHAN THERE.
00:50:18.18\00:50:21.88
AND SO, IT JUST ALWAYS BROUGHT
DAVID GREAT JOY BECAUSE HE
00:50:21.92\00:50:24.49
THOUGHT ABOUT HIS LOVE FOR
JONATHAN WHENEVER HE LOOKED AT
00:50:24.52\00:50:27.32
HIM. WHEN OUR FATHER LOOKS
00:50:27.36\00:50:29.06
AT US, WHAT
DOES HE SEE? >>JESUS.
00:50:29.09\00:50:31.99
>>DOESN'T HE SEE
HIS SON THAT HE LOVES?
00:50:32.03\00:50:34.20
AND SO, DOES HE LOVE US
AND TREAT US LIKE HIS OWN SON?
00:50:34.20\00:50:37.83
IT'S THE STORY OF
SALVATION. (MUSIC)
00:50:37.87\00:50:53.05
>>HI FRIENDS, THIS IS
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
00:50:53.08\00:50:55.35
WOULD YOU LIKE TO
HEAR AN AMAZING FACT?
00:50:55.38\00:50:57.45
MORE AND MORE OF THE WORLD IS
TURNING, NOW, TO NATURAL FORMS
00:50:57.49\00:51:00.22
OF ENERGY TO TRY AND FIND THEIR
POWER AND THEY'RE RESORTING TO
00:51:00.26\00:51:03.83
THINGS LIKE THE WIND FARM
THAT WE HAVE HERE IN JAMAICA AT
00:51:03.86\00:51:06.29
WIGTON. YOU KNOW,
I REMEMBER YEARS AGO,
00:51:06.33\00:51:08.83
MY WIFE AND I GOING TO VISIT THE
BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII AND WE WERE
00:51:08.86\00:51:12.13
AMAZED AT ALL THE POTENTIAL
THERE FOR NATURAL POWER,
00:51:12.17\00:51:15.34
BUT THEY WEREN'T USING
IT. THERE AT THE SOUTH PART OF
00:51:15.37\00:51:17.74
THE ISLAND THERE WAS
VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. YOU CAN MAKE
00:51:17.77\00:51:21.48
GEOTHERMAL POWER THERE. IF
YOU WENT TO WAIMEA, THE WIND
00:51:21.51\00:51:25.25
WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING, BUT
THEY HAD NO WINDMILLS THERE.
00:51:25.28\00:51:28.75
IF YOU WENT OVER TO KONA, SUN
ALWAYS SHINES - SOLAR ELECTRIC -
00:51:28.78\00:51:33.29
BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY
MUCH SOLAR ELECTRIC THERE.
00:51:33.32\00:51:35.76
AND IF YOU WENT TO HILO, IT WAS
ALWAYS RAINING - HYDROELECTRIC.
00:51:35.79\00:51:39.53
AND IN SPITE OF ALL THAT
POTENTIAL FOR POWER THERE ON THE
00:51:39.56\00:51:42.20
BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII, THEY WERE
POWERING THE ISLAND BACK THEN
00:51:42.23\00:51:45.27
WITH DIRTY DIESEL GENERATORS.
00:51:45.30\00:51:47.77
IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW
WE SOMETIMES WASTE THE POWER OF
00:51:47.80\00:51:50.21
GOD'S SPIRIT THAT HE'S
MAKING AVAILABLE TO US.
00:51:50.24\00:51:52.74
AND EACH OF US CAN HAVE
THAT SPIRIT IF WE SIMPLY ASK.
00:51:52.77\00:51:56.14
YOU CAN READ IN ZECHARIAH
CHAPTER 10 - WHAT DO WE DO?
00:51:56.18\00:51:59.21
'ASK OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE
TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN AND HE
00:51:59.25\00:52:02.42
WILL SEND FLASHING CLOUDS.'
JESUS ALSO SAID, IN THE BOOK OF
00:52:02.45\00:52:05.89
LUKE, 'IF YOU THEN BEING EVIL
KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO
00:52:05.92\00:52:09.46
YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE
WILL YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE
00:52:09.49\00:52:12.33
THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO THEM THAT ASK?'
00:52:12.36\00:52:15.36
WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF
ACTS, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS
00:52:15.40\00:52:18.77
POURED OUT, IT SAYS THERE WAS A
SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND.
00:52:18.80\00:52:22.67
AND THAT POWER THAT LAUNCHED THE
CHURCH BACK THEN CAN STILL POWER
00:52:22.70\00:52:25.81
YOUR LIFE TODAY, FRIENDS. SO
WHY DON'T YOU ASK HIM? (MUSIC)
00:52:25.84\00:52:44.39
>>FOR LIFE-CHANGING
CHRISTIAN RESOURCES VISIT
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CALL 1-800-538-7275.
00:52:47.03\00:52:57.04
>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
00:52:57.07\00:53:05.51
>>I'M TLINGIT
INDIAN FROM SITKA, ALASKA.
00:53:05.55\00:53:08.38
MY TLINGIT NAME
IS WISH DUSTY CLOUD.
00:53:08.42\00:53:12.89
IT WAS A VERY DEPRESSING
TIME FOR THE PEOPLE OF ALASKA.
00:53:12.92\00:53:16.73
A LOT OF ALCOHOL ABUSE WAS
TAKING PLACE AND, UNFORTUNATELY,
00:53:16.76\00:53:23.57
MY MOTHER GOT
CAUGHT UP IN THE ALCOHOL.
00:53:23.60\00:53:28.10
IT MADE MYSELF AND MY SIBLINGS
GROW UP IN A PRETTY HORRIBLE
00:53:28.14\00:53:37.88
ENVIRONMENT. IT WAS
REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND GOD.
00:53:37.91\00:53:44.32
IT WAS REALLY HARD TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT LOVE WAS.
00:53:44.35\00:53:48.56
I ENDED UP HAVING A CHILD IN MY
TWELFTH GRADE AND LEAVING HOME
00:53:48.59\00:53:57.80
WHEN I WAS FIFTEEN YEARS OLD,
BUT SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, WE MADE IT
00:53:57.83\00:54:02.94
AND I BECAME A
LONER. I BECAME A HERMIT.
00:54:02.97\00:54:06.11
SO I WENT UP TO THE BIGGEST
MARIJUANA COUNTY TO HUMBOLDT
00:54:06.14\00:54:11.21
COUNTY AND
STARTED MY NEW CAREER.
00:54:11.25\00:54:15.85
THINGS WEREN'T RIGHT THOUGH.
NO MATTER HOW NICE I KEPT
00:54:15.88\00:54:19.59
THINKING LIFE WAS LIVING UP ON
TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, NOT HAVING
00:54:19.62\00:54:24.29
TO WORRY ABOUT WEARING CLOTHING,
JUST WAKING UP AND WATCHING THE
00:54:24.33\00:54:30.17
PLANTS GROW - SEARCHING,
STILL, FOR MORE AND MORE.
00:54:30.20\00:54:35.17
I WENT TO THE POST OFFICE AND
I WAS STANDING THERE BY MYSELF.
00:54:35.20\00:54:41.11
I LOOKED DOWN AND HERE WAS THIS
WHAT IS CALLED A HANDBILL - A
00:54:41.14\00:54:46.48
POSTCARD - AND THE LETTERS ON
IT GRABBED MY ATTENTION AND IT
00:54:46.51\00:54:51.12
SAID, 'REVELATION' - I'D NEVER
HEARD REVELATION TAUGHT BEFORE
00:54:51.15\00:54:56.66
AND I THOUGHT, 'GOSH, THAT WOULD
HAVE BEEN SO GOOD.' I LOOKED AT
00:54:56.69\00:55:00.50
THE TIME AND THE DATE AND I
SAID, 'WOW, THAT'S TODAY.' AND
00:55:00.53\00:55:07.57
FOR SIX WEEKS I SAT THERE IN THE
FRONT SEAT OF THAT BUILDING AND
00:55:07.60\00:55:15.44
COULD NOT BELIEVE THE THINGS
THAT I HEARD AND I FOUND THIS
00:55:15.48\00:55:22.75
HUNGER THAT I HAD IN MY
HEART FOR DECADES BEING FILLED.
00:55:22.78\00:55:27.16
I WAS ACTUALLY LIKE A STARVING
CHILD, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO GET
00:55:27.19\00:55:31.46
IN TO LEARN MORE
ABOUT REVELATION.
00:55:31.49\00:55:34.23
AND I CHOSE TO BE
BAPTIZED ON APRIL 3RD.
00:55:34.30\00:55:40.50
EVEN THOUGH I CHOSE TO
SERVE GOD, I KEPT FALLING.
00:55:40.54\00:55:45.31
I WAS GOING TO BIBLE STUDIES ALL
- FOUR TIMES A WEEK AND JUST SO
00:55:45.34\00:55:51.05
HUNGRY TO LEARN
AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
00:55:51.08\00:55:55.32
GOD JUST OVERNIGHT HAD ME
STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD THROUGH
00:55:55.35\00:56:00.29
AFCOE AND THE MIRACLES THAT
HAPPENED THROUGH AFCOE IS SO
00:56:00.32\00:56:05.83
INCREDIBLE.
00:56:05.86\00:56:07.00
THE ONLY PREACHER I WAS
LISTENING TO WAS PASTOR DOUG
00:56:07.03\00:56:09.96
BATCHELOR, WHO I
DIDN'T EVEN CALL BY HIS NAME.
00:56:10.00\00:56:13.74
I CALLED HIM 'THE CAVEMAN' AND
THEN HERE, ALL OF A SUDDEN, I'M
00:56:13.77\00:56:18.61
SITTING IN FRONT OF HIM IN HIS
CLASSROOM, LEARNING FROM HIM.
00:56:18.64\00:56:25.75
ON OCTOBER 11, I SAT THERE,
THOUGH, IN MY ROOM SAYING,
00:56:25.78\00:56:30.79
'LORD, HERE I AM STUDYING YOUR
WORD, BUT WHAT - WHAT AM I DOING
00:56:30.82\00:56:37.56
HERE? WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
WHAT IS IT YOU WANT ME TO DO?'
00:56:37.59\00:56:42.93
AND THAT NIGHT, ABOUT ONE IN THE
MORNING, GOD SPOKE TO ME AND HE
00:56:42.96\00:56:46.84
SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO WRITE A
NOTE TO PASTOR DOUG AND TELL HIM
00:56:46.87\00:56:51.21
WHAT YOU DO.' I SAT
THERE AND I SAID, 'NO, I'M
00:56:51.24\00:56:53.51
NOT GOING TO WRITE A NOTE.
I'M NOT GOING TO WRITE A NOTE.'
00:56:53.54\00:56:55.41
AND I SAID, 'OKAY.' SO I RIPPED
OFF A PIECE OF PAPER AND I WROTE
00:56:55.44\00:56:59.58
ON THE NOTE AND I SAID, 'I'M
AN EXPERIENCED FASHION DESIGNER.
00:56:59.61\00:57:03.85
I CAN SEW ANYTHING. I
CAN MAKE ANY PATTERNS.
00:57:03.89\00:57:07.19
IF THERE'S ANY WAY THAT I CAN BE
OF ANY SERVICE TO YOU, GOD TOLD
00:57:07.22\00:57:12.46
ME TO BE BOLD AND TELL YOU.' AND
I WALKED UP AND I HANDED HIM THE
00:57:12.49\00:57:16.10
NOTE AND HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT
WAS, BUT HE SAID, 'THANK YOU.'
00:57:16.13\00:57:19.13
AND FOUR HOURS LATER I GOT A
PHONE CALL FROM AMAZING FACTS.
00:57:19.17\00:57:23.71
PASTOR DOUG TOLD ME THAT I
WAS AN ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYERS.
00:57:23.74\00:57:27.44
THEY HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR A
WARDROBE STYLIST FOR THEIR NEW
00:57:27.48\00:57:31.45
FILM THAT THEY'RE
PRODUCING. >>ACTION! TWO! THREE!
00:57:31.48\00:57:37.65
>>AMAZING FACTS HAS CHANGED MY
LIFE IN THE DIRECTION THAT GOD
00:57:37.69\00:57:42.39
WANTS ME TO GO.
AND NOW, OUT OF ALL THE
00:57:42.42\00:57:46.53
KNOWLEDGE THAT WAS TAUGHT TO
ME, I'M ABLE TO GO OUT INTO THIS
00:57:46.56\00:57:50.77
WORLD AND SHARE THE
GOSPEL AND FINISH THE WORK
00:57:50.80\00:57:55.94
FOR JESUS CHRIST.
>>FRIENDS, IT'S BECAUSE OF GOD'S
00:57:55.97\00:58:00.78
BLESSING AND YOUR SUPPORT THAT
THOUSANDS OF OTHERS, LIKE NITA,
00:58:00.81\00:58:05.18
HAVE FOUND JESUS
AND EVERLASTING LIFE.
00:58:05.21\00:58:17.03
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
00:58:17.06\00:58:32.04