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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
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WELCOME, AGAIN, TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD
FOR THIS IN-DEPTH BIBLE STUDY.
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ALSO, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE
HERE IN THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH -
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OUR REGULAR MEMBERS AS WELL AS
THOSE WHO ARE VISITING WITH US
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TODAY - A VERY WARM
WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
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THE SUBJECT OF
REBELLION AND REDEMPTION.
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TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES
ON LESSON #5 ENTITLED THE
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CONTROVERSY CONTINUES .
NOW, FOR THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING,
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OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY DR. DAVID DEROSE.
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>>WELL, IT'S GOOD TO BE WITH
EACH ONE OF YOU THIS MORNING AND
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GOOD TO HAVE ALL OUR FOLKS FROM
AROUND THE WORLD JOINING US AS
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WELL, AS WE CONTINUE OUR STUDY
ON, REALLY, WHAT HAS BEEN CALLED
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THE GREAT CONTROVERSY.
WE'RE ON LESSON #5 AND LESSON
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#5 IS ACTUALLY, APPROPRIATELY
ENTITLED - TO GO ALONG WITH
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THAT THEME - THE
CONTROVERSY CONTINUES .
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YOU KNOW, I COULDN'T HELP, AS I
WAS READING THE VERY FIRST PART
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OF THE LESSON, FOR SOMETHING
TO CATCH MY EYE, BECAUSE IT'S
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SPEAKING HERE ABOUT A NUMBER OF
INDIVIDUALS IN BIBLICAL HISTORY
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THAT WE'RE GOING
TO BE LOOKING AT.
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LET ME JUST READ THE VERY
FIRST FEW WORDS OF THE LESSON.
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IT SAYS, 'WHEN WE COMPARE
THE LIVES OF DAVID, ELIJAH,
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HEZEKIAH, ESTHER AND NEHEMIAH,
SIMILAR THEMES SURFACE.
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GOD IS ABLE TO USE INSIGNIFICANT
PEOPLE TO TURN BACK THE TIDE OF
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EVIL. NOW I JUST
HAD TO STOP RIGHT
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THERE, AS I WAS READING, BECAUSE
THAT ONE WORD CAUGHT MY EYE -
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INSIGNIFICANT - AND I LOOKED
AT THE LIST: DAVID, ELIJAH,
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HEZEKIAH, ESTHER,
NEHEMIAH - DO YOU REALIZE WHO
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? I
MEAN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
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KINGS. WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT QUEENS.
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE THAT
WERE AT THE RIGHT HAND, AS IN
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THE CASE OF NEHEMIAH, OF
THE LEADING WORLD POWER LEADER.
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HOW COULD THESE BE
INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE?
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WELL, I THOUGHT
ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
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FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE GREAT
CONTROVERSY, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE
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BATTLE, WHERE IT REALLY IS BEING
WAGED, IT BEGAN, AS WE BEGAN
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THIS QUARTER
TOGETHER, IT BEGAN WHERE?
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WHERE DID THE BATTLE
BEGIN? THAT'S RIGHT, IT BEGAN IN
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HEAVEN. AND SO
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A
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HEAVENLY BATTLE AND, IN A VERY
REAL SENSE, EVERY ONE OF US - AS
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PEOPLE - AS FINITE MORTALS - ARE
QUITE INSIGNIFICANT, AREN'T WE?
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AT LEAST ON A CERTAIN LEVEL -
BUT ON ANOTHER LEVEL, AS WE READ
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THROUGH LESSONS LIKE THIS,
WE SEE THAT EVERY PERSON - EVERY
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SINGLE INDIVIDUAL HAS A ROLE TO
PLAY IN THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY.
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SO LET'S JUST FRAME THE CONTEXT
BEFORE WE DIVE INTO SOME OF
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THESE STORIES. WHAT
IS THE CONTROVERSY OVER?
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OKAY, YOU SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW,
THE QUARTERLY IS NOT JUST ABOUT
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THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, IT'S
ABOUT REBELLION AND REDEMPTION.'
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BUT THE REAL CONTROVERSY AND THE
REAL BASIS OF THE REBELLION HAS
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SOMETIMES BEEN SUMMARIZED IN A
SIMPLE QUESTION, AND IT'S THIS:
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CAN GOD BE TRUSTED?
OR WE MIGHT SAY, 'IS GOD
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TRUSTWORTHY?' AND
REALLY, AS WE READ THROUGH
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EACH OF THESE STORIES,
THIS QUESTION COMES UP.
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AND SO, LET'S LOOK AT SUNDAY'S
LESSON TOGETHER, BECAUSE IN
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SUNDAY'S LESSON, WE ARE
INTRODUCED TO ONE OF THE LEADING
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FIGURES OF THE BIBLE.
WE'D SAY, FROM A BIBLICAL
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STANDPOINT, OR FROM A HISTORICAL
STANDPOINT, THERE IS NO QUESTION
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OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DAVID.
IN FACT, SOME OF YOU MAY REALIZE
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THAT HISTORICALLY, THE
VERY EXISTENCE OF DAVID HAD BEEN
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QUESTIONED FOR MANY DECADES
AND CENTURIES BY, WHAT YOU MIGHT
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CALL, SECULAR
SCHOLARS OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
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BUT SOME YEARS AGO, AN
INSCRIPTION WAS FOUND TALKING
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ABOUT THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND
THIS CAUSED EVERYONE TO HAVE TO
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PAUSE, WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE IN THE
BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY, BECAUSE IT
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WAS SOME TIME AFTER THE TIME OF
DAVID - WAS BASICALLY NOT ONLY
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SAYING DID DAVID EXIST, BUT
DAVID WAS THE BEGINNING OF A
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DYNASTY AND SO AN INSCRIPTION
SPEAKING OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID
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SPEAKS TO THE PROMINENCE OF THIS
INDIVIDUAL, WHO WE ONLY HAVE
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REAL - REALLY RELATIVELY LITTLE
TIME TO LOOK AT SOME HIGH POINTS
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OR LOW POINTS, DEPENDING ON
YOUR PERSPECTIVE, IN HIS LIFE.
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TURN WITH ME FIRST TO 1 SAMUEL
CHAPTER 17 - 1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 17
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- WE'RE GOING TO PICK UP
THE CONTEXT AS WE LOOK AT THIS
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STORY. IT'S, PERHAPS, ONE OF THE
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BIBLE'S MOST FAMOUS STORIES.
EVEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER
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STUDIED THE BIBLE KNOW
THE STORY OF DAVID AND -
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>>GOLIATH.
>>GOLIATH, THAT'S RIGHT.
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1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 17 - THE
CONTEXT IS THAT, AT THIS TIME IN
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BIBLICAL HISTORY, GOD'S
PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY IN -
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IN BATTLE, IN WAR,
WITH THE PHILISTINES.
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AND IT SAYS IN CHAPTER 17
OF 1 SAMUEL VERSE 1, "NOW THE
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PHILISTINES GATHERED THEIR
ARMIES TOGETHER TO BATTLE, AND
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WERE GATHERED AT SOCHCOH, WHICH
BELONGS TO JUDAH;" AND SO THESE
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TWO ARMIES ARE FACING EACH
OTHER, AND IT SAYS IN VERSE 4
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"AND A CHAMPION WENT OUT FROM
THE CAMP OF THE PHILISTINES,
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NAMED GOLIATH FROM GATH WHOSE
HEIGHT WAS SIX CUBITS AND A
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SPAN." NOW I THINK IT WAS NOT
LONG AGO THAT PASTOR DOUG WAS
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GIVING US A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE
ON BIBLICAL MEASUREMENT.
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THERE ARE SOME CHALLENGES
BECAUSE THOSE BIBLICAL
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MEASUREMENTS WERE OFTEN TIED TO
THE ANATOMY OF THE RULING KING.
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BUT A CUBIT WAS ROUGHLY
ABOUT A FOOT AND A HALF.
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SO GOLIATH IS STANDING OVER
NINE FEET TALL - HE'S A TOWERING
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GIANT. YOU KNOW
THE STORY, AS HE DEFIES
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THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL AND, BY
EXTENSION, THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
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WE COME DOWN TO VERSE 33 - DAVID
HAS COME TO THE BATTLE LINES.
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HE DIDN'T COME TO SEE A FIGHT.
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HE CAME TO BRING A GIFT TO CARE
FOR HIS BROTHERS - SOME OF HIS
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OLDER BROTHERS WHO
WERE THERE WITH THE ARMY.
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AND DAVID STARTS
INQUIRING, 'WHO IS THIS GENTILE?
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WHO IS THIS HEATHEN WHO IS
CASTING DISREPROACH ON THE GOD
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OF HEAVEN?' DAVID IS
SAYING, IN RESPONSE TO
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OUR QUARTERLY, THAT
GOD COULD BE TRUSTED.
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GOD NEEDS TO BE
TREATED WITH RESPECT.
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HE IS A REAL GOD
- HE'S A LIVING GOD.
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AND SO THE WORD THAT DAVID IS
CONCERNED ABOUT GOD'S NAME AND
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GOD'S HONOR,
COMES TO SAUL THE KING.
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VERSE 31 - 1 SAMUEL 17, "NOW
WHEN THE WORDS WHICH DAVID SPOKE
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WERE HEARD, THEY REPORTED THEM
TO SAUL; AND HE SENT FOR HIM.
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THEN DAVID SAID TO SAUL, 'LET NO
MAN'S HEART FAIL BECAUSE OF HIM;
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YOUR SERVANT WILL GO AND FIGHT
WITH THIS PHILISTINE.'" NOW WHY
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DON'T YOU JUST STOP FOR A
MINUTE? WE ALL KNOW THE STORY.
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BUT IF YOU WERE THERE AT THE
TIME, YOU SEE THIS YOUNG KID -
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THIS LITTLE GUY, RELATIVELY
SPEAKING, WHO IS WANTING TO GO
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INTO BATTLE WITH THIS
GIANT AND WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?
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YEAH, YOU'RE THINKING
THIS IS CRAZY. THERE IS NO WAY.
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WHY IS DAVID WILLING TO
GO? LET'S KEEP READING ON.
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WE CATCH A PICTURE HERE -
BECAUSE SAUL SAYS JUST WHAT
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ANYONE WOULD SAY
FROM A HUMAN PERSPECTIVE.
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HE SAYS TO DAVID, "YOU ARE
NOT ABLE TO GO AGAINST THIS
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PHILISTINE TO FIGHT WITH HIM;
FOR YOU ARE A YOUTH, AND HE A
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MAN OF WAR FROM HIS YOUTH."
'YOU'VE GOT NO CHANCE, DAVID.'
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NOW LET'S JUST STOP RIGHT HERE.
SUPPOSEDLY THE FOCUS OF THIS
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LESSON IS ON
WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE?
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>>INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE.
NOW I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU FEEL
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TODAY - SOME OF YOU
MAY FEEL SIGNIFICANT.
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HOPEFULLY YOU DON'T
FEEL TOO SIGNIFICANT.
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YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS,
'LET HIM OR HER WHO THINKS THAT
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HE OR SHE STANDS,
TAKE HEED LEST' - WHAT?
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>>THEY FALL.
>>YES, LEST THEY FALL.
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SO WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE
INFLATED IDEAS OF OURSELVES.
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ON A CERTAIN LEVEL, ALL OF
US ARE INSIGNIFICANT, AREN'T WE?
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BUT WE'RE READING ABOUT SOMEONE
WHO, IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS
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STORY, DAVID NOT ONLY LOOKS
INSIGNIFICANT FROM AN OBJECTIVE
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STANDPOINT, BUT THE PEOPLE
IN POWER SAY HE'S INSIGNIFICANT.
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NOW I JUST HAVE TO STOP HERE
BECAUSE THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE IN
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THIS VERY CONGREGATION,
THAT SOME OF YOU, AS YOU'VE BEEN
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HEARING THE INVITATIONS TO SHARE
YOUR TALENTS HERE AT GRANITE
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BAY, YOU'RE SAYING, 'WELL, WHY
SHOULD I SAY THAT I HAVE THIS
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VISION TO HELP IN
THIS WAY IN THIS CHURCH?'
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AND, BY THE WAY, THOSE OF YOU
JOINING US, WHETHER IT'S BY LIVE
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STREAM OR BY DELAYED BROADCAST,
YOU MAY BE THINKING THE SAME
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THING - 'I'M JUST IN MY
HOME WATCHING THIS BROADCAST.
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WHAT DO I HAVE TO
OFFER IN MY COMMUNITY?'
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WELL, THE POINT IS, WE ALL HAVE
THE SAME OPPORTUNITY THAT DAVID
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HAD. IF WE SEE,
IN OUR EXPERIENCE,
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THAT GOD CAN BE TRUSTED - THAT
GOD IS TRUSTWORTHY - THE WORLD
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IS IN GREAT NEED OF PEOPLE WHO
WILL DO JUST WHAT DAVID SAID.
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EVEN THOUGH GOD'S NAME IS BEING
CAST DOWN, I AM WILLING TO STAND
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UP AND DO WHAT I CAN. >>AMEN.
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>>SAUL SAYS TO DAVID, 'YOU CAN'T
DO IT.' YOU MAY HAVE BEEN TOLD
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THAT YOU CAN'T DO
IT. YOU CAN'T PREACH.
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YOU CAN'T STUDY THE BIBLE - I'LL
TELL YOU, ONE OF THE FAVORITE
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PEOPLE THAT I MET IN MY LIFE
SOME YEARS AGO - I'VE BEEN A
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MEMBER OF MANY CHURCHES OVER THE
YEARS AND I REMEMBER ONE FELLOW,
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WE'LL CALL HIM BILL - BILL,
ACTUALLY - IF YOU WERE TO LOOK
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AT BILL YOU'D SAY 'HE
IS AN INSIGNIFICANT PERSON.
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HE CAN'T DO ANYTHING FOR THE
CAUSE OF GOD.' I MEAN, THE GUY,
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HE HAD WHAT WE CALL AGORAPHOBIA
- HE WAS AFRAID OF GROUPS OF
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PEOPLE. SO HE
ACTUALLY DID COME TO
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CHURCH, BUT HE WOULD ONLY
COME TO CHURCH AFTER THINGS
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WERE WELL UNDER WAY.
HE'D SLIP IN THE BACK.
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AND THEN WHAT DO YOU THINK HE
DID BEFORE THE SERVICE WAS OVER?
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HE'D SLIP OUT. YOU'D SAY,
'HOW CAN THIS GUY DO ANYTHING?'
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BUT BILL JUST HAD THIS BURDEN TO
SHARE THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS.
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AND ONE DAY, HE CALLED ME UP AND
HE SAID, 'WOULD YOU COME WITH
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ME AND HELP ME
GIVE BIBLE STUDIES?'
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BECAUSE HE WAS NOT REAL
CONFIDENT OF HIS ABILITIES.
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MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE
CONFIDENT, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY
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GOOD THAT WE'RE NOT VERY
CONFIDENT OF OUR ABILITIES.
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I DIDN'T TELL HIM, WELL, YES, I
CAN DO EVERYTHING AND I'LL JUST
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COME AND EVERYTHING'LL BE
FINE BECAUSE I'LL BE THERE.'
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NO, THAT WASN'T
MY ATTITUDE AT ALL.
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I WAS GOING THERE TO SUPPORT
BILL AND HE STARTED TAKING ME TO
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SEVERAL FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
AND WE WERE STUDYING THE BIBLE
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TOGETHER. WHY?
BECAUSE HE HAD A BURDEN
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TO SHARE WHAT HE HAD.
PEOPLE WOULD HAVE LOOKED AT
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HIM AND SAID, 'YOU
DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE.
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BUT HE SAID, 'I AM GOING TO GO
- NOT IN MY OWN POWER', BUT IN
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WHOSE POWER? LET'S
READ ON IN 1 SAMUEL
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CHAPTER 17 BECAUSE WE WANT TO
SEE HOW DAVID RESPONDED, BECAUSE
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I THINK THERE'S A LESSON FOR
EACH OF US IN DAVID'S RESPONSE.
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THE WORD IS
'DAVID YOU'RE IMPOTENT.
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DAVID, YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING.'
AND HERE'S WHAT DAVID SAYS -
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VERSE 34 OF 1 SAMUEL 17 -
"BUT DAVID SAID TO SAUL, 'YOUR
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SERVANT USED TO KEEP HIS
FATHER'S SHEEP, AND WHEN A LION
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OR A BEAR CAME AND TOOK A LAMB
OUT OF THE FLOCK, I WENT OUT
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AFTER IT AND STRUCK IT,
AND DELIVERED THE LAMB FROM ITS
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MOUTH; AND WHEN IT AROSE AGAINST
ME, I CAUGHT IT BY ITS BEARD,
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AND STRUCK AND KILLED IT.
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YOUR SERVANT HAS KILLED
BOTH LION AND BEAR; AND THIS
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UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE WILL BE
LIKE ONE OF THEM, SEEING HE HAS
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DEFIED THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING
GOD.' MOREOVER DAVID SAID, 'THE
00:14:33.70\00:14:40.51
LORD, WHO DELIVERED ME FROM THE
PAW OF THE LION AND FROM THE PAW
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OF THE BEAR, HE WILL
DELIVER ME FROM THE HAND OF THIS
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PHILISTINE.'" WHO WAS WATCHING
WHEN DAVID WENT TO BATTLE WITH
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GOLIATH? WHO WAS
WATCHING? YES, GOD WAS WATCHING,
00:14:54.86\00:15:00.06
BUT SO WAS EVERYONE ELSE.
I MEAN, THE ENTIRE PHILISTINE
00:15:00.06\00:15:03.97
ARMY AND THE ENTIRE ISRAELITE
ARMY WERE THERE LINED UP.
00:15:03.97\00:15:08.47
I MEAN, HE WAS
ON PUBLIC DISPLAY.
00:15:08.47\00:15:10.81
THIS WAS NATIONAL
NEWS. THIS WAS WORLD NEWS.
00:15:10.81\00:15:14.88
THIS WAS LIVE COVERAGE BY EVERY
MAJOR NETWORK, IF WE WANT TO PUT
00:15:14.88\00:15:18.45
IT IN THE
VERNACULAR. IT WAS NOT HAPPENING
00:15:18.45\00:15:21.02
IN SOME QUIET
CORNER. BUT LET'S PAUSE.
00:15:21.02\00:15:26.19
WHERE WAS IT THAT DAVID
KILLED THE LION AND THE BEAR?
00:15:26.19\00:15:29.52
WHO WAS WATCHING?
ONLY GOD AND A BUNCH
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OF SHEEP, REALLY.
YOU REMEMBER WHEN SAMUEL
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CAME, HE WAS ON A
MISSION. YOU REMEMBER THIS?
00:15:38.37\00:15:41.34
HE'S COMING TO ANOINT THE
NEXT KING OF ISRAEL, HE COMES TO
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JESSE'S FAMILY - REMEMBER, JESSE
IS DAVID'S FATHER - AND WHERE DO
00:15:45.27\00:15:50.58
JESSE AND THE
BROTHERS HAVE DAVID?
00:15:50.58\00:15:53.98
HE'S NOT EVEN AT THE
FEAST. HE'S NOT EVEN INVITED.
00:15:53.98\00:15:57.45
HE'S OUT THERE WITH THE SHEEP.
HE'S IN AN INSIGNIFICANT PLACE.
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BUT WHAT DOES DAVID DO
IN HIS INSIGNIFICANT PLACE?
00:16:03.46\00:16:10.87
HE IS FAITHFUL TO GOD IN THE
PLACE THAT GOD HAS PLACED HIM.
00:16:10.87\00:16:17.04
AND HIS FAITHFULNESS IN THAT
INSIGNIFICANT PLACE, PREPARES
00:16:17.04\00:16:21.94
HIM TO DO WHAT? TO
BE GOD'S CHAMPION WHEN
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THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON HIM.
AND I THINK THE MESSAGE IS SO
00:16:26.75\00:16:31.62
POWERFUL FOR US TODAY BECAUSE WE
LOOK AT MANY OF THESE LIVES IN
00:16:31.62\00:16:35.59
THIS LESSON - WE'RE GOING TO
LOOK NEXT AT ELIJAH - WHERE WAS
00:16:35.59\00:16:39.79
ELIJAH BEFORE GOD CALLED HIM TO
GO BEFORE THE KING OF THAT DAY?
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BEFORE HE'S - BEFORE KING AHAB
PRONOUNCED JUDGMENT - WHERE WAS
00:16:46.84\00:16:51.11
HE? HE WAS A MAN
WEARING COMMON CLOTHES.
00:16:51.11\00:16:58.71
YOU WOULDN'T EVEN CALL
THEM COMMON CLOTHES, PERHAPS.
00:16:58.71\00:17:02.32
RURAL SETTING - TOTALLY OUT
OF THE SPOTLIGHT - WE DON'T KNOW
00:17:02.32\00:17:08.89
WHAT GOD IS PREPARING US TO DO
AND SO DAVID, HERE, IS FAITHFUL
00:17:08.89\00:17:13.60
IN THE LITTLE THINGS. YOU
SAY, 'OH, THAT SOUNDS PRETTY
00:17:13.60\00:17:15.80
BIG TO ME.' YOU
KNOW, A LION, A BEAR?
00:17:15.80\00:17:18.73
BUT IT WAS LITTLE IN
THE EYES OF THE WORLD.
00:17:18.73\00:17:22.74
AND HE TRUSTS GOD AND
HE'S SEEN WHAT GOD HAS DONE.
00:17:22.74\00:17:25.67
AND SO, YOU KNOW THE STORY:
DAVID GOES IN FAITH AND THE KEY
00:17:25.67\00:17:30.28
STATEMENT HERE THAT THE LESSON
HIGHLIGHTS, IS THAT DAVID IS
00:17:30.28\00:17:35.98
ACTUALLY TRUSTING IN THE
LORD. IT HIGHLIGHTS VERSE 47 - 1
00:17:35.98\00:17:42.36
SAMUEL CHAPTER 17, VERSE 47
- AS DAVID IS SPEAKING OF HIS
00:17:42.36\00:17:47.86
CONFIDENCE, "THEN ALL THIS
ASSEMBLY SHALL KNOW THAT THE
00:17:47.86\00:17:51.67
LORD DOES NOT SAVE WITH SWORD
AND SPEAR, FOR THE BATTLE IS THE
00:17:51.67\00:17:56.50
LORD'S, AND HE WILL
GIVE YOU INTO OUR HANDS."
00:17:56.50\00:18:01.71
SO DAVID GOES FORTH CONFIDENT IN
THE GOD WHOSE AUTHORITY HAS BEEN
00:18:01.71\00:18:06.35
QUESTIONED THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
SATAN BEGAN THOSE QUESTIONS IN
00:18:06.35\00:18:09.32
HEAVEN SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, GOD
REALLY ISN'T INTERESTED IN YOU.'
00:18:09.32\00:18:13.15
HE BROUGHT IT TO
ADAM AND EVE, RIGHT?
00:18:13.15\00:18:16.16
'GOD IS KEEPING
SOMETHING FROM YOU.
00:18:16.16\00:18:18.23
IF YOU JUST EAT THIS FRUIT,
YOU'LL KNOW GOOD AND EVIL.
00:18:18.23\00:18:21.13
JUST TRUST YOUR OWN JUDGMENT
A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN GOD'S
00:18:21.13\00:18:25.87
WORD.' DO YOU SEE THE
PROBLEM? HOW ABOUT US TODAY?
00:18:25.87\00:18:30.81
ARE WE SUSCEPTIBLE
TO THE SAME PROBLEM?
00:18:30.81\00:18:33.48
IS GOD CALLING YOU TO DO
SOMETHING AND YOU'RE SAYING,
00:18:33.48\00:18:36.61
'BUT I CAN'T DO THAT.' BY THE
WAY, IF GOD ONLY CALLED YOU TO
00:18:36.61\00:18:42.05
DO THINGS THAT YOU WERE
CONFIDENT YOU COULD DO, WHO
00:18:42.05\00:18:45.39
WOULD BE IN DANGER
OF GETTING THE GLORY?
00:18:45.39\00:18:47.46
>>YOU. >>YOU, RIGHT?
00:18:47.46\00:18:50.29
WHEN DOES GOD CALL US TO
DO THE MOST AMAZING THINGS?
00:18:50.29\00:18:54.30
IT'S WHEN WE REALIZE
OUR INSIGNIFICANCE, RIGHT?
00:18:54.30\00:18:59.50
WHEN WE REALIZE OUR GREAT
NEED FOR GOD'S HAND TO BE ON OUR
00:18:59.50\00:19:03.71
SHOULDER. SO IF, RIGHT
NOW, YOU'RE STRUGGLING -
00:19:03.71\00:19:06.94
YOU'RE SAYING, 'DOES GOD
REALLY WANT ME TO DO THIS?'
00:19:06.94\00:19:08.74
IF GOD'S PUTTING A BURDEN ON
YOUR HEART, WHAT WOULD DAVID'S
00:19:08.74\00:19:11.05
EXAMPLE SAY TO YOU? >>DO IT.
00:19:11.05\00:19:13.25
>>DO IT. GO FORWARD.
00:19:13.25\00:19:15.52
MAKE THIS YEAR A YEAR WHERE
YOU'RE GOING TO DO BOLD THINGS
00:19:15.52\00:19:17.99
FOR GOD - NOT JUST BECAUSE IT'S
YOUR IDEA, BUT BECAUSE GOD IS
00:19:17.99\00:19:21.09
IMPRESSING YOU THAT YOU NEED TO
STEP OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE.
00:19:21.09\00:19:26.43
WE'VE HEARD THAT
BEFORE, HAVEN'T WE?
00:19:26.43\00:19:28.26
BUT IT'S SO TRUE - SO TRUE.
WELL, YOU'D SAY, 'WHAT A GREAT
00:19:28.26\00:19:32.33
STORY' - DAVID TRUSTING IN THE
LORD - BUT THEY DON'T WANT US TO
00:19:32.33\00:19:35.27
STOP LOOKING AT DAVID'S LIFE IN
THIS LESSON WITH THAT VIGNETTE.
00:19:35.27\00:19:40.38
THEY WANT US TO TURN TO ANOTHER
CHAPTER IN DAVID'S HISTORY.
00:19:40.38\00:19:43.95
NOW THEY WANT US TO GO TO 2
SAMUEL CHAPTER 11 - 2 SAMUEL
00:19:43.95\00:19:48.52
CHAPTER 11 - SO
MANY YEARS HAVE PASSED.
00:19:48.52\00:19:51.45
DAVID, FROM A YOUTH, WAGING
WAR ON GOLIATH, IS NOW THE KING.
00:19:51.45\00:19:57.39
HE IS A KING WHO HAS BEEN
VICTORIOUS MULTIPLE TIMES.
00:19:57.39\00:20:01.60
THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL HAS
EXTENDED AND IN 2 SAMUEL CHAPTER
00:20:01.60\00:20:07.47
11, THE STORY OPENS THIS WAY - 2
SAMUEL 11, VERSE 1, "IT HAPPENED
00:20:07.47\00:20:13.27
IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR,
AT THE TIME WHEN KINGS GO OUT TO
00:20:13.27\00:20:17.18
BATTLE, THAT DAVID SENT JOAB
(HIS GENERAL) AND HIS SERVANTS
00:20:17.18\00:20:21.52
WITH HIM, AND ALL ISRAEL;
AND THEY DESTROYED THE PEOPLE OF
00:20:21.52\00:20:24.62
AMMON AND BESIEGED RABBAH.
BUT DAVID REMAINED AT JERUSALEM.
00:20:24.62\00:20:30.39
THEN IT HAPPENED ONE EVENING
THAT DAVID AROSE FROM HIS BED
00:20:30.39\00:20:33.60
AND WALKED ON THE
ROOF OF THE KING'S HOUSE.
00:20:33.60\00:20:36.06
AND FROM THE ROOF HE SAW A WOMAN
BATHING, AND THE WOMAN WAS VERY
00:20:36.06\00:20:40.24
BEAUTIFUL TO BEHOLD. SO
DAVID SENT AND INQUIRED ABOUT
00:20:40.24\00:20:44.47
THE WOMAN. AND
SOMEONE SAID, 'IS THIS NOT
00:20:44.47\00:20:46.24
BATHSHEBA, THE
DAUGHTER OF ELIAM, THE WIFE OF
00:20:46.24\00:20:49.58
URIAH THE HITTITE?' THEN
DAVID SENT MESSENGERS, AND
00:20:49.58\00:20:53.68
TOOK HER; AND SHE CAME TO HIM,
AND HE LAY WITH HER, FOR SHE WAS
00:20:53.68\00:20:58.45
CLEANSED FROM HER IMPURITY;
AND SHE RETURNED TO HER HOUSE."
00:20:58.45\00:21:08.40
DID YOU CATCH SOME OF
THE DYNAMICS OF THIS STORY?
00:21:08.40\00:21:12.80
IT'S A STORY THAT'S OFTEN BEEN
TOLD, BUT THERE'S A PHRASE IN
00:21:12.80\00:21:17.14
THIS ACCOUNT THAT IS
OFTEN MISSED. IT'S RIGHT HERE.
00:21:17.14\00:21:22.31
IT SAYS, 'BATHSHEBA WAS CLEANSED
FROM HER IMPURITY.' DO YOU
00:21:22.31\00:21:29.15
UNDERSTAND WHAT
THAT'S TALKING ABOUT?
00:21:29.15\00:21:31.92
I INVITE YOU TO TURN IN YOUR
BIBLES TO THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS
00:21:31.92\00:21:34.79
CHAPTER 15 - LEVITICUS 15
- SO MOSES' FIVE BOOKS, OFTEN
00:21:34.79\00:21:40.50
REFERRED TO AS THE PENTATEUCH -
LEVITICUS IS RIGHT IN THE HEART
00:21:40.50\00:21:44.60
OF THOSE BOOKS - LEVITICUS
CHAPTER 15 - LEVITICUS 15 GIVES
00:21:44.60\00:21:51.61
AN INTERESTING
CEREMONIAL DESCRIPTION.
00:21:51.61\00:21:56.44
LEVITICUS VERSE - CHAPTER 15,
VERSE 19 - IT SAYS THIS: "IF A
00:21:56.44\00:22:01.72
WOMAN HAS A DISCHARGE, AND
THE DISCHARGE FROM HER BODY IS
00:22:01.72\00:22:06.39
BLOOD, SHE SHALL BE SET APART
SEVEN DAYS; AND WHOEVER TOUCHES
00:22:06.39\00:22:12.26
HER SHALL BE
UNCLEAN UNTIL EVENING.
00:22:12.26\00:22:15.83
EVERYTHING THAT SHE LIES ON
DURING HER IMPURITY SHALL BE
00:22:15.83\00:22:18.37
UNCLEAN; ALSO EVERYTHING THAT
SHE SITS ON WILL BE UNCLEAN."
00:22:18.37\00:22:21.44
AND IT GOES ON AND
EXPLAINS ABOUT THIS CEREMONIAL
00:22:21.44\00:22:24.31
UNCLEANNESS AND IT SPEAKS ABOUT,
THEN, THE NEED FOR PURIFICATION.
00:22:24.31\00:22:29.84
SO THE CONTEXT - IN THE CONTEXT
OF THE STORY IN 2 SAMUEL CHAPTER
00:22:29.84\00:22:35.02
11 - DAVID SEES THIS BEAUTIFUL
WOMAN AND WHEN HE CALLS HER TO
00:22:35.02\00:22:39.85
THE PALACE, HE FINDS
OUT THAT SHE IS WHAT?
00:22:39.85\00:22:45.76
SHE HAS BEEN CLEANSED
FROM HER MONTHLY IMPURITY.
00:22:45.76\00:22:51.03
AND HE SAYS WHAT? THE
IMPLICATION OF THE STORY IS
00:22:51.03\00:22:55.47
THAT DAVID SAYS, 'LOOKIT, GOD
HAS PREPARED THE WAY THAT I CAN
00:22:55.47\00:22:59.37
ENGAGE IN A RELATIONSHIP
WITH THIS WOMAN WITHOUT
00:22:59.37\00:23:03.31
BEING DEFILED. NO
REALLY, THAT'S THE ONLY
00:23:03.31\00:23:07.25
REASON THAT IT'S
MENTIONED IN THE CONTEXT.
00:23:07.25\00:23:11.19
NOW YOU MIGHT THINK THIS SOUNDS
CRAZY, BUT I'VE BEEN THERE
00:23:11.19\00:23:13.76
BEFORE - NOT PERSONALLY,
BUT WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
00:23:13.76\00:23:17.26
AS A PASTOR AND AS A PHYSICIAN,
I'VE TALKED WITH MANY PEOPLE
00:23:17.26\00:23:19.86
OVER THE YEARS. I
REMEMBER ONE WOMAN TELLING
00:23:19.86\00:23:22.30
ME SHE WAS IN AN EXTRAMARITAL
AFFAIR AND SHE WAS TELLING ME
00:23:22.30\00:23:26.60
AND MY WIFE - WE WERE COUNSELING
WITH HER - SHE WAS SAYING, 'WELL
00:23:26.60\00:23:29.64
THIS IS - GOD JUST SHOWED
ME THAT THIS WAS MY SOULMATE.'
00:23:29.64\00:23:33.71
LISTEN, YOU'RE
MARRIED TO SOMEONE ELSE.
00:23:33.71\00:23:36.31
'NO, BUT GOD REVEALED THIS.' AND
SHE WAS GOING THROUGH ALL THESE
00:23:36.31\00:23:39.18
PROVIDENCES THAT SHOWED HER THAT
SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THIS
00:23:39.18\00:23:43.69
INCESTUOUS, YOU'D SAY, OR
ADULTEROUS, MORE PRECISELY,
00:23:43.69\00:23:49.72
RELATIONSHIP.
YOU WOULD SAY, 'WELL
00:23:49.72\00:23:52.19
HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN? I
DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT
00:23:52.19\00:24:01.07
WE'RE STUDYING THE
GREAT CONTROVERSY AND THERE'S
00:24:01.07\00:24:05.11
SOMETHING IN ALL OF US
THAT WANTS TO MAKE EVERYTHING
00:24:05.11\00:24:08.04
BLACK AND WHITE.
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT?
00:24:08.04\00:24:12.08
SO DAVID: WAS HE
GOOD OR WAS HE BAD?
00:24:12.08\00:24:14.55
>>YES. >>YES, OKAY.
00:24:14.55\00:24:19.25
HOW MANY OF US ALWAYS
MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICES?
00:24:19.25\00:24:24.36
NONE OF US, RIGHT? BLACK
AND WHITE IT'S OFTEN NOT.
00:24:24.36\00:24:30.43
BUT DAVID, NOW, THINK ABOUT IT -
LET'S MAKE IT VERY CONTEMPORARY.
00:24:30.43\00:24:36.50
SOME - THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE
IN OUR MIDST - AND I'M NOT
00:24:36.50\00:24:39.51
SPEAKING, NECESSARILY, OF ANYONE
HERE IN THIS CONGREGATION, BUT
00:24:39.51\00:24:42.94
I'M SPEAKING OF
CHRISTIANITY AS A WHOLE TODAY.
00:24:42.94\00:24:45.85
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WANT
TO DIVIDE THE CHURCH INTO THE
00:24:45.85\00:24:48.42
LIBERALS AND THE CONSERVATIVES.
NOW, I DON'T KNOW THAT THOSE
00:24:48.42\00:24:52.62
DESIGNATIONS ARE PARTICULARLY
USEFUL, BUT LET'S JUST PAUSE
00:24:52.62\00:24:56.96
HERE. DAVID IS ENGAGING IN AN
00:24:56.96\00:24:59.53
EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR.
WOULD YOU SAY HE IS DIS -
00:24:59.53\00:25:02.80
MANIFESTING WHAT PEOPLE
TODAY WOULD SAY IS A TYPICAL
00:25:02.80\00:25:06.74
CHARACTERISTIC OF
CONSERVATIVES OR OF LIBERALS?
00:25:06.74\00:25:10.37
NOW NO ONE WANTS TO SPEAK
BECAUSE, DEPENDING ON WHAT PARTY
00:25:10.37\00:25:13.21
YOU'RE IN, YOU'LL POINT
FINGERS AT THE OTHER SIDE.
00:25:13.21\00:25:16.48
HERE'S THE POINT I'M MAKING:
DAVID SEEMS, IN 2 SAMUEL 11, TO
00:25:16.48\00:25:22.05
BE VERY PREOCCUPIED WITH THE
LAW. YOU SEE, HE WANTS TO MAKE
00:25:22.05\00:25:27.62
SURE THAT BATHSHEBA IS
NOT UNCLEAN CEREMONIALLY.
00:25:27.62\00:25:35.76
THAT'S REALLY THE IMPLICATION
- YOU MAY DISAGREE, BUT I WOULD
00:25:35.76\00:25:38.60
SUGGEST TO YOU THAT THERE IS NO
REASON WHY THAT IS MENTIONED IN
00:25:38.60\00:25:41.77
THE TEXT, OTHER THAN THAT,
THROUGH DAVID'S MIND, HE WAS
00:25:41.77\00:25:44.64
SAYING, 'THIS IS GOD'S HAND
BLESSING THIS RELATIONSHIP.' ON
00:25:44.64\00:25:49.64
A CERTAIN LEVEL, AT THE
SAME TIME, HE'S DOING WHAT?
00:25:49.64\00:25:54.15
HE IS BREAKING
GOD'S TEN COMMANDMENT LAW.
00:25:54.15\00:25:58.55
HOW CAN WE DO THAT? MANY
OF US MAY BE ASKING, 'WHAT
00:25:58.55\00:26:07.66
IS GOD'S WILL FOR MY
LIFE? ARE YOU THERE RIGHT NOW?
00:26:07.66\00:26:11.27
YOU'RE PRAYING ABOUT SOMETHING.
MAYBE IT'S A JOB SITUATION.
00:26:11.27\00:26:16.24
MAYBE IT IS IN THE
AREA OF RELATIONSHIPS.
00:26:16.24\00:26:18.67
MAYBE IT RELATES
TO YOUR FINANCES.
00:26:18.67\00:26:20.98
YOU'RE PRAYING ABOUT 'WHAT
IS GOD'S WILL FOR MY LIFE?'
00:26:20.98\00:26:24.81
LET ME TELL YOU, FROM MY
OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND FROM
00:26:24.81\00:26:28.12
BIBLICAL HISTORY, GOD'S WILL IS
OFTEN CLARIFIED WHEN WE FOLLOW
00:26:28.12\00:26:32.89
KNOWN LIGHT - WHEN WE
FOLLOW GOD'S REVEALED WILL.
00:26:32.89\00:26:37.93
BUT MANY OF US, IN CERTAIN AREAS
OF OUR LIFE, ARE NOT FOLLOWING
00:26:37.93\00:26:41.53
ALL THAT LIGHT AND WE START
ASKING FOR SIGNS AND WE START
00:26:41.53\00:26:46.13
LOOKING FOR, SOMEHOW,
GOD'S SIGN OF BLESSING.
00:26:46.13\00:26:49.27
I REMEMBER A STORY - MAYBE SOME
OF YOU HAVE HEARD DR. NEDLEY
00:26:49.27\00:26:51.94
TELL IT. HE TELLS
ABOUT A YOUNG MAN WHO
00:26:51.94\00:26:54.64
WAS WONDERING IF HE SHOULD MARRY
A CERTAIN YOUNG LADY AND, I
00:26:54.64\00:26:58.65
GUESS, PEOPLE HAD BEEN TELLING
BOTH HIM AND THE YOUNG LADY
00:26:58.65\00:27:01.22
THIS DID NOT LOOK LIKE A GOOD
RELATIONSHIP. SO ONE DAY HE'S
00:27:01.22\00:27:04.32
DRIVING HIS CAR AND A
TRAIN IS APPROACHING A CROSSING.
00:27:04.32\00:27:09.19
HE'S SOME DISTANCE AWAY AND
HE SAYS, 'WELL, I NEED A SIGN.
00:27:09.19\00:27:12.86
LORD, IF IT'S YOU'RE WILL THAT
I MARRY THIS GIRL, HELP ME BEAT
00:27:12.86\00:27:16.00
THE TRAIN.' AND SO HE SPEEDS UP
AND HE GETS THERE JUST AHEAD OF
00:27:16.00\00:27:21.57
THE TRAIN AND
CROSSES THE TRACKS.
00:27:21.57\00:27:24.04
SO WHAT WOULD YOU
CALL THAT? >>CRAZY.
00:27:24.04\00:27:26.57
>>YEAH, SOME OF YOU CALL IT
CRAZY, OTHERS OF YOU CALL IT
00:27:26.57\00:27:29.01
LUCKY. HE CALLED
IT A SIGN FROM THE
00:27:29.01\00:27:32.95
LORD THAT HE
SHOULD MARRY THIS GIRL.
00:27:32.95\00:27:35.72
I MEAN, IS THIS
CRAZY OR IS THIS CRAZY?
00:27:35.72\00:27:38.75
NOW FOR SOME REASON, THE BIBLE
SPEAKS THAT SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT
00:27:38.75\00:27:41.72
THESE BEAMS IN OUR OWN EYES
AND WE'RE TRYING TO PULL WHAT?
00:27:41.72\00:27:45.43
LITTLE SPECS OUT OF
OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES.
00:27:45.43\00:27:47.93
SO WE CAN SEE IT WHEN OTHER
PEOPLE ARE DOING IT, BUT GOD IS
00:27:47.93\00:27:51.20
CALLING US, IN THESE
STORIES, TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIM.
00:27:51.20\00:27:54.10
SO YOU SAY, 'WELL, HEY, I
KNOW HOW THIS STORY ENDED.
00:27:54.10\00:27:56.20
DAVID WAS FORGIVEN BY GOD.
00:27:56.20\00:27:59.14
DAVID REPENTED SINCERELY.' BY
THE WAY, HE WAS NOT A MAN AFTER
00:27:59.14\00:28:03.01
GOD'S OWN HEART WHEN HE
WAS ENGAGED IN ADULTERY WITH
00:28:03.01\00:28:06.31
BATHSHEBA. YOU ALL
REALIZE THAT, RIGHT?
00:28:06.31\00:28:08.85
BUT WHEN HE REPENTS AND
GOD FORGIVES HIM, HE AGAIN IS
00:28:08.85\00:28:14.29
DISPLAYING THE CHARACTER
OF GOD. PAUL WROTE ABOUT IT.
00:28:14.29\00:28:17.83
HE SAID, 'OKAY,
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
00:28:17.83\00:28:20.53
IF GOD CAN WORK THROUGH MY SIN,
LET'S ALL SIN MORE SO THAT GOD
00:28:20.53\00:28:25.00
WILL BE GLORIFIED MORE.' I'M
PARAPHRASING FROM THE BOOK OF
00:28:25.00\00:28:27.30
ROMANS. YOU REMEMBER THAT?
00:28:27.30\00:28:29.74
WHAT DOES PAUL
SAY? >>GOD FORBID.
00:28:29.74\00:28:32.24
>>YEAH, THE KING JAMES
TRANSLATES THAT GOD FORBID -
00:28:32.24\00:28:34.78
SOME WOULD SAY THAT'S NOT A REAL
GOOD TRANSLATION THERE BECAUSE
00:28:34.78\00:28:37.55
THAT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE
TAKING THE LORD'S NAME IN VAIN.
00:28:37.55\00:28:40.72
OTHER PEOPLE SAY,
'NO, THAT'S NOT IN VAIN.
00:28:40.72\00:28:42.12
YOU'RE SAYING, YOU
KNOW, 'GOD FORBID THAT'.
00:28:42.12\00:28:44.72
'MAY IT NEVER BE', PAUL IS
SAYING. WHATEVER LANGUAGE YOU
00:28:44.72\00:28:49.32
LIKE - HERE'S THE POINT: OUR SIN
NEVER INCREASES GOD'S GLORY -
00:28:49.32\00:28:55.96
NEVER INCREASES GOD'S GLORY.
IT'S ALWAYS BEST FOR US TO
00:28:55.96\00:28:59.93
FOLLOW GOD'S LAW FAITHFULLY.
LET'S ADD ONE MORE BIT TO THE
00:28:59.93\00:29:03.47
STORY HERE, THAT I THINK
IS PARTICULARLY FASCINATING.
00:29:03.47\00:29:07.41
TURN, IN YOUR BIBLES, WITH
ME TO 1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 3 - 1
00:29:07.41\00:29:14.15
CHRONICLES CHAPTER 3 BECAUSE
LEST WE THINK THAT EVERYTHING
00:29:14.15\00:29:17.69
TURNED OUT HAPPILY EVER AFTER
- YOU'VE READ THE BIBLE ENOUGH,
00:29:17.69\00:29:20.36
MOST ALL OF YOU, THAT YOU
REALIZE ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS
00:29:20.36\00:29:23.22
CAME INTO DAVID'S
LIFE AS A RESULT OF THIS.
00:29:23.22\00:29:31.43
DAVID HAD A MULTITUDE OF WIVES
AND ONE OF THEM IS MENTIONED
00:29:31.43\00:29:37.41
HERE IN 1 CHRONICLES
CHAPTER 3. IN VERSE 2 WE'RE
00:29:37.41\00:29:45.31
INTRODUCED TO GUESS
WHO? ABSALOM, IN VERSE 2.
00:29:45.31\00:29:50.72
IN VERSE 5 OF 1 CHRONICLES
3, SOLOMON IS MENTIONED.
00:29:50.72\00:29:57.13
BY THE WAY, WHOSE
CHILD WAS SOLOMON?
00:29:57.13\00:30:00.80
>>BATHSHEBA.
00:30:00.80\00:30:01.96
>>YES, BATHSHEBA OR
BATHSHUA - IT'S THE SAME PERSON.
00:30:01.96\00:30:05.43
SO YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, WAIT A
MINUTE.' NOW SOLOMON WAS, AGAIN,
00:30:05.43\00:30:10.01
IN THE LINE OF JESUS.
HE WAS A MAN OF PEACE.
00:30:10.01\00:30:14.91
AND WHO WAS HIS
MOTHER? BATHSHEBA.
00:30:14.91\00:30:19.45
YOU KNOW, I'LL
BE HONEST WITH YOU.
00:30:19.45\00:30:24.55
WE'VE GOT FOUR OTHER BIBLE
CHARACTERS TO LOOK AT AND I'M
00:30:24.55\00:30:27.22
GETTING CONCERNED. BUT
LET ME JUST PULL BACK THE
00:30:27.22\00:30:29.96
CURTAIN A LITTLE
BIT FOR A MINUTE.
00:30:29.96\00:30:32.73
DO YOU REALIZE
WHO BATHSHEBA WAS?
00:30:32.73\00:30:37.13
DO YOU REALIZE
WHO HER FATHER WAS?
00:30:37.13\00:30:40.80
AND WHO HER FATHER-IN-LAW WAS?
AND WHO WAS THE GRANDFATHER,
00:30:40.80\00:30:48.61
IF YOU WILL, IN THAT
LINEAGE. DO YOU KNOW?
00:30:48.61\00:30:53.08
SOME OF THESE RELATIONSHIPS?
YES, AHITHOPHEL, DAVID'S WISE
00:30:53.08\00:30:59.22
COUNSELOR, IT WAS HIS
BOY THAT MARRIED BATHSHEBA.
00:30:59.22\00:31:07.60
DID YOU KNOW THAT?
YOU CAN STUDY IT OUT.
00:31:07.60\00:31:09.86
WE WON'T GO THROUGH ALL
THE TEXTS HERE TODAY, BUT
00:31:09.86\00:31:14.10
AHITHOPHEL, THE WISE COUNSELOR
OF DAVID, WHOSE COUNSEL WAS, AS
00:31:14.10\00:31:20.34
IT WERE, THE COUNSEL OF GOD.
TURN WITH ME - WE JUST GOT - I
00:31:20.34\00:31:25.28
COULD SEE SOME OF YOU ARE
REALLY QUESTIONING WHAT I'M
00:31:25.28\00:31:28.02
TRYING TO TELL YOU HERE. 2
SAMUEL CHAPTER 23 - JUST GO
00:31:28.02\00:31:31.19
WITH THEIR - GO
THERE WITH ME FOR A MINUTE.
00:31:31.19\00:31:33.69
2 CHRONICLES - EXCUSE
ME, 2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 23.
00:31:33.69\00:31:41.96
WHY I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THIS
IS BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
00:31:41.96\00:31:46.00
TAKING SIDES AND WE'LL LOOK
AT SOME OF THESE OTHER BIBLE
00:31:46.00\00:31:49.80
CHARACTERS IN JUST A MINUTE, BUT
WE WANT TO ALIGN OURSELVES WITH
00:31:49.80\00:31:54.14
THOSE WHO WE THINK ARE
EXEMPLARY, BUT WE FIND THAT
00:31:54.14\00:31:57.58
EVERYONE HAS
SKELETONS IN THEIR CLOSETS.
00:31:57.58\00:32:01.65
2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 23 IS A
RENDITION OF DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN,
00:32:01.65\00:32:07.09
BEGINNING WITH VERSE 8.
AND IF YOU READ THROUGH THIS
00:32:07.09\00:32:09.62
LIST OF DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN,
YOU'LL FIND THAT THERE ARE A
00:32:09.62\00:32:12.96
NUMBER OF INTERESTING
FIGURES IN THIS LIST.
00:32:12.96\00:32:16.40
ONE OF THEM IS NONE
OTHER THAN GUESS WHO?
00:32:16.40\00:32:21.40
ELIAM, OKAY, WHO WAS THE - WAS
THE FATHER OF BATHSHEBA - AND
00:32:21.40\00:32:29.94
THEN WE HAVE URIAH THE HITTITE
THAT'S - URIAH IS VERSE 39 IN 2
00:32:29.94\00:32:34.35
SAMUEL 23 AND ELIAM IS THERE IN
VERSE 34. AND YOU SEE WHO ELIAM
00:32:34.35\00:32:40.56
IS, HE'S THE SON OF
AHITHOPHEL THE GILONITE.
00:32:40.56\00:32:45.83
SO, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T
REMEMBER THE STORY OF DAVID,
00:32:45.83\00:32:48.93
WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT DAVID,
AS A RESULT OF THIS ADULTEROUS
00:32:48.93\00:32:52.90
RELATIONSHIP, HE LOSES HIS OWN
MORAL POWER IN HIS OWN FAMILY.
00:32:52.90\00:32:57.94
ABSALOM ENDS UP REBELLING
AGAINST DAVID AND AHITHOPHEL,
00:32:57.94\00:33:02.81
WHOSE COUNSEL IS LIKE THE
COUNSEL OF GOD - THAT'S WHAT THE
00:33:02.81\00:33:06.21
BIBLE SAYS - HIS
WORD IS JUST LIKE GOLD.
00:33:06.21\00:33:09.45
WHATEVER HE SAYS SEEMS TO
HAPPEN, ACTUALLY JOINS UP WITH
00:33:09.45\00:33:12.99
ABSALOM. AND
BASICALLY, WHAT'S HAPPENING,
00:33:12.99\00:33:15.82
IF YOU LOOK AT THE
STORY OBJECTIVELY, DAVID
00:33:15.82\00:33:19.33
IS GUILTY OF MURDER.
HE'S GUILTY OF ADULTERY, AND
00:33:19.33\00:33:23.33
AHITHOPHEL IS SAYING,
'GOD IS FINALLY AT WORK.
00:33:23.33\00:33:27.27
DAVID IS FINALLY GETTING
HIS JUST REWARD AND I'M GOING TO
00:33:27.27\00:33:30.94
JOIN UP WITH ABSALOM SO THAT
DAVID GETS WHAT'S DESERVED OF
00:33:30.94\00:33:34.61
HIM. HE RUINED MY FAMILY.'
00:33:34.61\00:33:39.91
A MAN WHOSE COUNSEL
WAS LIKE THE WISDOM OF GOD.
00:33:39.91\00:33:44.42
BUT WHO DID AHITHOPHEL ACTUALLY
END UP REBELLING AGAINST?
00:33:44.42\00:33:49.02
HE WAS REBELLING
AGAINST GOD HIMSELF.
00:33:49.02\00:33:51.29
WHY I TAKE TIME WITH THE STORY
IS BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE IN
00:33:51.29\00:33:56.36
YOUR LIFE WHO HAVE WRONGED
YOU. ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT?
00:33:56.36\00:34:00.90
I DON'T NEED TO REMIND
YOU. THERE MAY BE PEOPLE IN THE
00:34:00.90\00:34:04.34
CHURCH WHO'VE WRONGED YOU.
THERE MAY BE PEOPLE JOINING US,
00:34:04.34\00:34:08.21
BY WAY OF THE INTERNET, WHO
ARE NOT IN CHURCH TODAY BECAUSE
00:34:08.21\00:34:12.15
PEOPLE HAVE WRONGED
THEM IN THEIR HOME CHURCH.
00:34:12.15\00:34:16.08
HERE'S THE MESSAGE IN THIS
STORY: IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW
00:34:16.08\00:34:19.25
PEOPLE HAVE WRONGED YOU;
GOD DOES CALL US TO FORGIVE.
00:34:19.25\00:34:23.83
BUT BEYOND THAT, GOD
SAYS, 'JUDGMENT IS MINE.
00:34:23.83\00:34:27.83
I WILL REPAY.' WE CAN TRUST GOD
WITH THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE,
00:34:27.83\00:34:34.60
JUST LIKE WE CAN TRUST
GOD WITH OUR OWN LIVES.
00:34:34.60\00:34:38.61
WITH THAT BACKGROUND, WE NEED TO
MOVE ON BECAUSE WE'VE STILL GOT
00:34:38.61\00:34:42.14
A NUMBER OF OTHER
BIBLE CHARACTERS TO LOOK AT.
00:34:42.14\00:34:44.91
WE MOVE TO ELIJAH
NEXT, IN MONDAY'S LESSON.
00:34:44.91\00:34:49.25
ELIJAH THE TISHBITE, AGAIN,
A SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT MAN
00:34:49.25\00:34:53.19
UNTIL HE'S BURDENED WITH
THE INIQUITY - THE INIQUITY OF
00:34:53.19\00:34:57.36
ISRAEL. AT THIS
TIME NOW, THE UNITED
00:34:57.36\00:35:00.43
MONARCHY UNDER DAVID AND
SOLOMON HAS BEEN DIVIDED.
00:35:00.43\00:35:03.60
AHAB IS THE KING OF
THE NORTHERN TRIBES.
00:35:03.60\00:35:06.13
THERE WAS NEVER A GOOD
KING OF THE NORTHERN TRIBES.
00:35:06.13\00:35:08.80
THEY WERE ALL WICKED.
00:35:08.80\00:35:09.94
AND SO ELIJAH BEARS THIS
TESTIMONY, BUT THE LESSON WANTS
00:35:09.94\00:35:13.94
US TO FOCUS ON, NOT HIS
TESTIMONY ABOUT THE COMING
00:35:13.94\00:35:17.81
DROUGHT - THE FAMINE THAT
WILL COME - BUT RATHER ON THE
00:35:17.81\00:35:23.62
CONCLUSION TO THOSE THREE AND A
HALF YEARS OF DROUGHT AND FAMINE
00:35:23.62\00:35:29.06
IN ISRAEL, BECAUSE IT BRINGS US
TO THE STORY, IN 1 KINGS 18, AND
00:35:29.06\00:35:34.56
I INVITE YOU TO
TURN THERE WITH ME.
00:35:34.56\00:35:36.73
IN 1 KINGS 18 WE'RE READING
ABOUT ANOTHER AMAZING STORY IN
00:35:36.73\00:35:41.47
THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT
CONTROVERSY, AND IT EXPOSES US
00:35:41.47\00:35:44.87
TO THE QUESTION,
REALLY, THAT WE BEGAN WITH.
00:35:44.87\00:35:48.44
IT'S THE QUESTION AT THE
FOUNDATION OF THIS ENTIRE
00:35:48.44\00:35:51.01
QUARTER. IN 1
KINGS 18, BEGINNING WITH
00:35:51.01\00:35:54.38
VERSE 21, GOD HAS CALLED FOR
A RENDEZVOUS THROUGH ELIJAH, OF
00:35:54.38\00:36:02.02
THE TWO OPPOSING FACTIONS -
JUST LIKE IT WAS IN DAVID'S DAY.
00:36:02.02\00:36:06.73
THE ARMY IS REBELLING
AGAINST GOD AND HIS WILL.
00:36:06.73\00:36:10.37
THE PHILISTINES WERE ON ONE
SIDE, THE ISRAELITES WERE ON THE
00:36:10.37\00:36:14.74
OTHER. NOW, ON
MOUNT CARMEL, THERE IS
00:36:14.74\00:36:17.34
ANOTHER SHOWDOWN, IF YOU WILL.
AND ON MOUNT CARMEL WE FIND, ON
00:36:17.34\00:36:23.45
ONE SIDE, ELIJAH AND,
IT SEEMS LIKE, EVERYONE
00:36:23.45\00:36:27.62
ELSE ON THE OTHER. LOOK
WHAT ELIJAH SAYS IN VERSE
00:36:27.62\00:36:30.15
21 OF 1 KINGS 18, "AND ELIJAH
CAME TO ALL THE PEOPLE AND SAID,
00:36:30.15\00:36:36.42
'HOW LONG WILL YOU FALTER
(OR LIMP) BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS?
00:36:36.42\00:36:42.03
IF THE LORD IS GOD, FOLLOW HIM;
BUT IF BAAL, FOLLOW HIM.'" AND
00:36:42.03\00:36:47.44
IT'S OFTEN BEEN POINTED OUT THAT
WHAT WAS HAPPENING HERE WAS NOT
00:36:47.44\00:36:51.37
A REBELLION AGAINST
GOD - EVEN THOUGH IT WAS.
00:36:51.37\00:36:56.64
YOU SAY, 'WAIT A MINUTE.
HOW CAN YOU SAY IT WAS NOT A
00:36:56.64\00:37:00.38
REBELLION
AGAINST GOD AND IT WAS?
00:37:00.38\00:37:02.35
IT'S GOT TO BE ONE OR THE OTHER.
IT WAS A REBELLION AGAINST GOD,
00:37:02.35\00:37:05.85
BUT THE PEOPLE DIDN'T THINK
THEY WERE REBELLING AGAINST GOD.
00:37:05.85\00:37:09.62
YOU SEE, ELIJAH DIDN'T SAY,
'STOP FOLLOWING BAAL AND START
00:37:09.62\00:37:13.36
FOLLOWING
JEHOVAH.' WHAT DID HE SAY?
00:37:13.36\00:37:17.17
'HOW LONG ARE YOU GOING
TO WAVER BETWEEN TWO SIDES?
00:37:17.17\00:37:22.80
YOU SEE, THE WORD THAT'S BEEN
USED IN THEOLOGICAL CIRCLES, FOR
00:37:22.80\00:37:27.68
WHAT WAS HAPPENING, WAS
SOMETHING CALLED SYNCRETISM.
00:37:27.68\00:37:31.08
WHAT WAS HAPPENING WAS GOD'S
PEOPLE WERE SAYING, 'YES, WE'RE
00:37:31.08\00:37:36.02
FOLLOWING JEHOVAH, BUT WE DON'T
WANT TO JUST FOLLOW JEHOVAH, WE
00:37:36.02\00:37:40.42
WANT TO HEDGE OUR BETS AND
WE WANT TO ALSO FOLLOW BAAL.
00:37:40.42\00:37:43.99
AFTER ALL, THEY SAY HE
BRINGS THE RAIN AND EVERYTHING.
00:37:43.99\00:37:46.33
WE'LL SERVE BAAL AND
WE'LL ALSO SERVE JEHOVAH.
00:37:46.33\00:37:50.13
BY THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW THIS IS
THE POPULAR RELIGION OF TODAY?
00:37:50.13\00:37:55.67
THIS IS THE POST-MODERN WORLD:
'OH YES, CHRISTIANITY'S GOOD.
00:37:55.67\00:38:00.44
SO IS ISLAM AND BUDDHA, BUDDHISM
AND TAOISM AND YES, YOU KNOW,
00:38:00.44\00:38:07.68
THE SECULAR HUMANISTS ARE RIGHT
TOO. YOU KNOW, EVERYONE'S RIGHT.
00:38:07.68\00:38:10.89
WE ALL HAVE OUR OWN TRUTH AND
WE CAN GROW.' LISTEN, I'M NOT
00:38:10.89\00:38:13.89
SAYING THERE AREN'T THINGS WE
CAN LEARN FROM PEOPLE OF EVERY
00:38:13.89\00:38:15.92
CULTURE. DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME.
00:38:15.92\00:38:18.33
BUT WHAT I AM SAYING IS AT THE
HEART OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
00:38:18.33\00:38:21.53
IS THAT GOD'S WORD CAN BE
TRUSTED. GOD'S WORD IS TRUE.
00:38:21.53\00:38:26.33
AND YES, SOMEONE - AN ADHERENT
OF ISLAM - IF THEY'RE FOLLOWING
00:38:26.33\00:38:30.61
BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES,
THEY CAN BE FOLLOWING TRUTH.
00:38:30.61\00:38:35.28
SOMEONE LIVING IN A REMOTE
PLACE, WHO'S NEVER HEARD THE
00:38:35.28\00:38:37.38
NAME OF GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN
BE SPEAKING TO THEIR HEART AND
00:38:37.38\00:38:40.25
THEY CAN BE FOLLOWING GOD'S
TRUTH WITHOUT THE REVELATION OF
00:38:40.25\00:38:43.55
THE BIBLE, BUT IT IS SO
MUCH CLEARER RIGHT HERE.
00:38:43.55\00:38:46.89
AND SO ELIJAH CALLS ON
MOUNT CARMEL TO DO WHAT?
00:38:46.89\00:38:51.13
FOR US, BY EXTENSION, TO STOP
HALTING BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS.
00:38:51.13\00:38:59.30
BY THE WAY, WHAT IS REALLY, IN
ESSENCE, THE RELIGION OF BAAL?
00:38:59.30\00:39:04.07
IT'S THE RELIGION OF
OUR OWN CREATION, YOU SEE?
00:39:04.07\00:39:10.51
ARE WE REALLY
FOLLOWING GOD WHOLEHEARTEDLY?
00:39:10.51\00:39:13.55
AM I FOLLOWING
GOD WHOLEHEARTEDLY?
00:39:13.55\00:39:15.98
WHAT IS GOD
CALLING ME TO DO TODAY?
00:39:15.98\00:39:18.72
YOU SAY, 'BUT, YOU KNOW,
DR. DEROSE, IF I WERE FOLLOWING
00:39:18.72\00:39:21.26
ALL THAT GOD WANTED ME TO
DO, I MEAN, I'D LOSE MY JOB.'
00:39:21.26\00:39:28.10
WHAT WAS ON THE LINE
FOR ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL?
00:39:28.10\00:39:31.63
WAS HE GOING TO LOSE HIS JOB?
00:39:31.63\00:39:34.24
I MEAN, HIS
LIFE WAS ON THE LINE.
00:39:34.24\00:39:37.44
I MEAN, YOU REALIZE SOME OF
THESE STORIES - THESE PEOPLE
00:39:37.44\00:39:39.77
THAT WE'RE READING ABOUT - THESE
SO-CALLED INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE
00:39:39.77\00:39:42.81
THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF
HISTORY - THEY'RE DOING WHAT?
00:39:42.81\00:39:46.98
THEY'RE DOING THINGS THAT
LOOK UNREASONABLE FROM A HUMAN
00:39:46.98\00:39:49.58
STANDPOINT BECAUSE GOD
HAS CALLED THEM TO DO IT.
00:39:49.58\00:39:53.36
AND THIS IS WHAT
SPEAKS TO ME TODAY.
00:39:53.36\00:39:55.92
LET'S GO ON TO TUESDAY'S LESSON,
WORDS OF DEFIANCE - WORDS OF
00:39:55.92\00:40:02.03
DEFIANCE. WE'RE, AGAIN, READING
00:40:02.03\00:40:04.83
ABOUT ANOTHER KING. THIS
TIME A KING OF THE SOUTHERN
00:40:04.83\00:40:07.97
TRIBES, A GOOD
KING, KING HEZEKIAH.
00:40:07.97\00:40:11.64
AND THINGS ARE
ESPECIALLY CHALLENGING.
00:40:11.64\00:40:17.65
TURN YOUR BIBLES NOW TO 2 KINGS
18 - 2 KINGS 18 - HEZEKIAH IS
00:40:17.65\00:40:27.56
THE RULER OF GOD'S PEOPLE - THE
EARTHLY RULER - DURING THE TIME
00:40:27.56\00:40:31.39
OF THE GREAT
GOSPEL PROPHET ISAIAH.
00:40:31.39\00:40:35.63
AND 2 KINGS TELLS US ABOUT
THIS REIGN OF HEZEKIAH AND HOW
00:40:35.63\00:40:40.60
HEZEKIAH WAS ZEALOUS TO DO WHAT
WAS RIGHT IN THE LORD'S SIGHT.
00:40:40.60\00:40:44.47
LOOK AT 2 KINGS 18, VERSE
3. IT SAYS "HE" - REFERRING TO
00:40:44.47\00:40:47.81
HEZEKIAH - "DID WHAT WAS
RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,
00:40:47.81\00:40:51.18
ACCORDING TO ALL THAT
HIS FATHER DAVID HAD DONE."
00:40:51.18\00:40:56.02
AND IT SPEAKS ABOUT HOW HE,
IN VERSE 4, TORE DOWN THOSE IDOL
00:40:56.02\00:41:01.09
WORSHIP CENTERS IN THE SOUTHERN
KINGDOM THAT HE WAS RULING OVER.
00:41:01.09\00:41:06.66
AND IN VERSE 5 IT SAYS,
"HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD GOD OF
00:41:06.66\00:41:09.36
ISRAEL." SO,
BASICALLY, HEZEKIAH IS
00:41:09.36\00:41:12.47
LIVING A LIFE WHERE HE'S
SAYING 'GOD IS TRUSTWORTHY.
00:41:12.47\00:41:16.47
I CAN PUT MY TRUST IN
HIM AND GOD WILL BLESS.
00:41:16.47\00:41:18.77
BUT YOU SAY, 'WELL, IF THAT'S
THE - THE BASIC PREMISE OF THESE
00:41:18.77\00:41:23.18
LESSONS, FOLLOW GOD - TRUST HIM
- FOLLOW HIS WORD AND EVERYTHING
00:41:23.18\00:41:26.65
WILL BE BLESSED, THAT IS
NOT WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STORY.
00:41:26.65\00:41:30.42
BECAUSE AS THE STORY PLAYS
OUT, AS YOU COME TO VERSE 17,
00:41:30.42\00:41:35.49
WE FIND THAT
HEZEKIAH IS UNDER SIEGE.
00:41:35.49\00:41:40.03
THE CITY OF JERUSALEM IS
SURROUNDED AND THE EMISSARIES
00:41:40.03\00:41:46.33
FROM THE WORLD POWER OF
THE DAY - THAT'S ASSYRIA, OKAY?
00:41:46.33\00:41:51.81
HEADQUARTERED IN NINEVEH,
ASSYRIA IS THREATENING TO
00:41:51.81\00:41:58.41
CONQUER JERUSALEM AND THEY ARE
SPEAKING BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE
00:41:58.41\00:42:04.02
LORD. LET'S LOOK
AT ONE OF THE HIGH
00:42:04.02\00:42:05.52
POINTS OF THE SPEECH OF THE
SPOKESPEOPLE FOR SENNACHERIB,
00:42:05.52\00:42:10.43
THE KING OF ASSYRIA.
JERUSALEM, REMEMBER, UNDER SIEGE
00:42:10.43\00:42:13.83
- SURROUNDED - LOOKING HOPELESS
AND HERE'S THE WORD THAT COMES
00:42:13.83\00:42:17.63
- I'M IN 2 KINGS CHAPTER
18, BEGINNING WITH VERSE 28.
00:42:17.63\00:42:25.17
I'M KIND OF JUMPING INTO THE
MIDDLE OF THAT VERSE, "HEAR THE
00:42:25.17\00:42:29.94
WORD OF THE GREAT
KING, THE KING OF ASSYRIA!"
00:42:29.94\00:42:33.28
- THAT'S SENNACHERIB
- "THUS SAYS THE KING:
00:42:33.28\00:42:35.55
'DO NOT LET HEZEKIAH
DECEIVE YOU, FOR HE SHALL NOT
00:42:35.55\00:42:38.95
BE ABLE TO DELIVER YOU FROM HIS
HAND; NOR LET HEZEKIAH MAKE YOU
00:42:38.95\00:42:44.69
TRUST IN THE LORD, SAYING, 'THE
LORD WILL SURELY DELIVER US;
00:42:44.69\00:42:48.86
THIS CITY SHALL NOT BE GIVEN
INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF
00:42:48.86\00:42:50.87
ASSYRIA.'' DO NOT LISTEN TO
HEZEKIAH; FOR THUS SAYS THE KING
00:42:50.87\00:42:54.87
OF ASSYRIA: 'MAKE PEACE
WITH ME'" - ETCETERA, ETCETERA.
00:42:54.87\00:42:59.34
BASICALLY, AS YOU READ THROUGH
THIS SPEECH, GOD IS BEING
00:42:59.34\00:43:03.58
DISPLAYED AS IMPOTENT IN THE
FACE OF SENNACHERIB - THE ONE
00:43:03.58\00:43:09.85
WHO, IF YOU READ SENNACHERIB'S
WRITINGS, HE'S BLESSED BY
00:43:09.85\00:43:13.05
ASHER, THIS HEATHEN GOD,
AND HE IS THE ALL-POWERFUL ONE.
00:43:13.05\00:43:18.03
THAT'S HOW HE STYLES HIMSELF.
00:43:18.03\00:43:19.86
YOU SAY, WELL,
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?
00:43:19.86\00:43:21.16
THERE'S AN AMAZING
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY THAT
00:43:21.16\00:43:24.10
DATES BACK TO THE 1800S - THERE
ARE ACTUALLY SEVERAL COPIES OF A
00:43:24.10\00:43:28.80
PRISM WITH
SENNACHERIB'S INSCRIPTIONS.
00:43:28.80\00:43:33.27
ONE OF THEM IS KNOWN AS THE
TAYLOR PRISM, FOUND BY COLONEL
00:43:33.27\00:43:37.05
TAYLOR IN THE 1800S, IN NINEVEH.
THE TAYLOR PRISM ACTUALLY IS
00:43:37.05\00:43:42.05
DESCRIBING THIS VERY
CONQUEST OF SENNACHERIB.
00:43:42.05\00:43:46.19
NOW, I DON'T READ CUNEIFORM,
WHICH THIS PRISM IS WRITTEN IN,
00:43:46.19\00:43:52.13
BUT THERE ARE SOME VERY GOOD
TRANSLATIONS OF THIS - A NUMBER
00:43:52.13\00:43:55.30
OF THEM - AND AS YOU READ
THROUGH THE TRANSLATIONS OF THE
00:43:55.30\00:43:58.60
TAYLOR PRISM AND THESE
OTHER PRISMS THAT SPEAK ABOUT
00:43:58.60\00:44:02.00
SENNACHERIB'S CONQUESTS, YOU
READ ABOUT HIM COMING TO THIS
00:44:02.00\00:44:05.37
COUNTRY AND THEY DIDN'T
SURRENDER AND I TOOK THE KING
00:44:05.37\00:44:07.81
AND I BANISHED HIM AND ALL HIS
FAMILY DIED AND I OBLITERATED
00:44:07.81\00:44:12.08
THIS TOWN AND I OBLITERATED THIS
AND I TOOK THIS OTHER KING AND I
00:44:12.08\00:44:15.18
BROUGHT HIM BACK TO NINEVEH
AS A, YOU KNOW, AS A SERVANT.'
00:44:15.18\00:44:19.19
BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
HE COMES TO JERUSALEM?
00:44:19.19\00:44:24.26
WELL, THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT SAYS
- LET'S LOOK AT IT, ACTUALLY - 2
00:44:24.26\00:44:30.30
KINGS CHAPTER 19, THE BIBLICAL
ACCOUNT SAYS THAT WHEN JERUSALEM
00:44:30.30\00:44:34.80
IS UNDER SIEGE, HEZEKIAH
DOES SOMETHING REMARKABLE.
00:44:34.80\00:44:41.54
2 KINGS 19 - HEZEKIAH IS GETTING
THESE MESSAGES, SPOKEN IN HEBREW
00:44:41.54\00:44:49.38
BEFORE THE WALL, TO
DISPIRIT THE PEOPLE.
00:44:49.38\00:44:52.25
THEN IN WRITING - "THEN
HEZEKIAH" - VERSE 15 OF 2 KINGS
00:44:52.25\00:44:55.86
19 - HE DOES WHAT? HE PRAYS
TO THE LORD. NOW, BY THE WAY,
00:44:55.86\00:45:03.13
DAVID'S SITUATION WAS HOPELESS
FROM A HUMAN PERSPECTIVE.
00:45:03.13\00:45:06.90
ELIJAH'S SITUATION LOOKED
HOPELESS, I MEAN, HE'S ARRAIGNED
00:45:06.90\00:45:09.74
AGAINST THE WHOLE KINGDOM OF
ISRAEL AND HE'S SPEAKING FOR GOD
00:45:09.74\00:45:15.31
WHEN NOBODY'S
SEEMS TO BE ON HIS SIDE.
00:45:15.31\00:45:17.75
HOW HOPEFUL DOES IT LOOK
FOR HEZEKIAH WHEN THIS IS THE
00:45:17.75\00:45:20.88
WORLD'S LEADER - SENNACHERIB
- AN ARMY OF 185,000 OR MORE
00:45:20.88\00:45:25.32
CAMPED AROUND THE
CITY? WHAT IS HAPPENING?
00:45:25.32\00:45:29.62
PEOPLE ARE SAYING,
'IT'S OVER. JUST SURRENDER.
00:45:29.62\00:45:32.29
IT'S OBVIOUS.'
HEZEKIAH DOES WHAT? HE PRAYS.
00:45:32.29\00:45:36.93
LISTEN TO HIS PRAYER - 2 KINGS
CHAPTER 19, VERSE 15 - HEZEKIAH
00:45:36.93\00:45:41.10
PRAYS BEFORE THE LORD AND
HE SAYS THIS: "O LORD GOD OF
00:45:41.10\00:45:45.24
ISRAEL, THE ONE WHO DWELLS
BETWEEN THE CHERUBIM, YOU ARE
00:45:45.24\00:45:50.88
GOD, YOU ALONE, OF ALL
THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH.
00:45:50.88\00:45:54.08
YOU HAVE MADE HEAVEN AND
EARTH." SO WHO'S HE PRAYING TO?
00:45:54.08\00:45:57.39
HE IS PRAYING TO THE CREATOR
AND TO THE GOD OF THE SANCTUARY.
00:45:57.39\00:46:02.52
VERY INTERESTING, ISN'T IT?
HE'S PRAYING TO THE GOD WHO IS
00:46:02.52\00:46:05.29
ENTHRONED IN THE SANCTUARY.
THIS HEAVENLY SANCTUARY IS REAL
00:46:05.29\00:46:09.96
IS WHAT HEZEKIAH IS
SAYING. GOD IS THE CREATOR.
00:46:09.96\00:46:13.70
WE DIDN'T JUST OCCUR BY
CHANCE. GOD IS THE CREATOR.
00:46:13.70\00:46:17.24
VERY INTERESTING STATEMENTS
IN LIGHT OF EARTH'S HISTORY.
00:46:17.24\00:46:21.68
VERSE 16, "INCLINE YOUR EAR, O
LORD, AND HEAR; OPEN YOUR EYES,
00:46:21.68\00:46:26.11
OR LORD, AND SEE; AND HEAR THE
WORDS OF SENNACHERIB, WHICH HE
00:46:26.11\00:46:28.55
HAS SENT TO
REPROACH THE LIVING GOD.
00:46:28.55\00:46:31.19
TRULY, LORD, THE KINGS OF
ASSYRIA HAVE LAID WASTE THE
00:46:31.19\00:46:34.92
NATIONS AND THEIR LANDS, AND
HAVE CAST THEIR GODS INTO THE
00:46:34.92\00:46:38.36
FIRE;" - SO HE'S SAYING,
'LISTEN, I KNOW HOW POWERFUL
00:46:38.36\00:46:42.16
THIS ARMY IS.' - IT'S
TRUE. EVERYTHING HE'S SAYING.
00:46:42.16\00:46:44.90
HE'S WIPED OUT EVERYBODY ELSE.
HEZEKIAH DOESN'T SURRENDER.
00:46:44.90\00:46:51.01
WHY? BECAUSE HE
HAS CONFIDENCE THAT
00:46:51.01\00:46:54.54
GOD IS TRUSTWORTHY -
THAT GOD IS POWERFUL -
00:46:54.54\00:46:57.78
THAT WE CAN TRUST
HIM. AND SO HE DOES THAT.
00:46:57.78\00:47:00.58
HE POURS OUT THIS PRAYER AND THE
RESULT OF HIS PRAYER IS THAT GOD
00:47:00.58\00:47:06.35
FROM HEAVEN STRIKES
THE ARMY OF SENNACHERIB.
00:47:06.35\00:47:13.50
THEY'RE DESTROYED, MIRACULOUSLY.
00:47:13.50\00:47:16.73
AND SO WE COME BACK
TO THE TAYLOR PRISM.
00:47:16.73\00:47:19.83
WE DON'T READ, WHEN IT COMES
TO HEZEKIAH, THAT HIS CITY WAS
00:47:19.83\00:47:23.67
OBLITERATED, LIKE THESE -
SOME OF THE OTHER CITIES THAT
00:47:23.67\00:47:26.17
SENNACHERIB WROTE ABOUT -
NUMEROUS CITIES HE SPOKE OF
00:47:26.17\00:47:28.88
OBLITERATING. WE
DON'T READ ABOUT HEZEKIAH
00:47:28.88\00:47:32.21
BEING TAKEN AS A
PRISONER BACK TO NINEVEH.
00:47:32.21\00:47:34.45
WHY? WELL, BECAUSE HE WASN'T.
00:47:34.45\00:47:36.48
EVERYONE WOULD KNOW IF THAT WAS
ON THE PRISM - THEY'D SAY IT WAS
00:47:36.48\00:47:38.32
JUST A BUNCH OF LIES. WHAT
DOES HE SAY ABOUT HEZEKIAH?
00:47:38.32\00:47:43.02
HE SAYS "HEZEKIAH HAVE
I CAGED UP LIKE A BIRD."
00:47:43.02\00:47:51.53
LOOK AT IT HERE. "AS
TO HEZEKIAH" - MENTIONED
00:47:51.53\00:47:54.34
EXPLICITLY IN THIS TAYLOR PRISM
- "AS TO HEZEKIAH THE JEW, HE
00:47:54.34\00:47:58.84
DID NOT SUBMIT TO MY
YOKE. I LAID SIEGE TO FORTY-SIX
00:47:58.84\00:48:04.18
OF HIS STRONG CITIES.
HIMSELF, I MADE A PRISONER IN
00:48:04.18\00:48:08.25
JERUSALEM, HIS ROYAL RESIDENCE,
LIKE A BIRD IN A CAGE."
00:48:08.25\00:48:15.89
SO WHAT COULD SENNACHERIB BOAST
ABOUT WHEN IT CAME TO HEZEKIAH
00:48:15.89\00:48:20.66
AND JERUSALEM? ALL
HE COULD SAY IS 'I PUT
00:48:20.66\00:48:23.57
THE CITY UNDER SIEGE.' BUT
HE DOESN'T SAY THE REST OF THE
00:48:23.57\00:48:26.97
STORY THAT THE BIBLE
REVEALS. BUT DO YOU SEE?
00:48:26.97\00:48:30.17
HERE'S AN ARCHAEOLOGIC RECORD
THAT IS TELLING US THE SAME
00:48:30.17\00:48:33.78
THING THE BIBLE IS TELLING
US: THE BIBLE CAN BE TRUSTED.
00:48:33.78\00:48:37.18
WHEN IT COMES TO THE TOPIC OF
THE LESSON, DO YOU WANT TO TRUST
00:48:37.18\00:48:41.78
IN THE GOD WHO REDEEMS, THE GOD
WHO CREATES, THE GOD WHO'S IN
00:48:41.78\00:48:45.09
THE SANCTUARY? OR DO
YOU WANT TO REBEL AND
00:48:45.09\00:48:47.69
REBELLION OFTEN LOOKS VERY
PIOUS. DAVID WAS REBELLING WHEN
00:48:47.69\00:48:52.96
HE WAS FOLLOWING THE LEVITICAL
LAWS IN MAKING SURE HE DIDN'T
00:48:52.96\00:48:56.53
HAVE AN ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIP
WITH A MENSTROUS WOMAN.
00:48:56.53\00:49:05.24
LET'S GO ON - A FEW MORE STORIES
HERE TO BRIEFLY TOUCH ON.
00:49:05.24\00:49:10.58
WE NOW COME, IN WEDNESDAY'S
LESSON, TO ANOTHER PERSON WHO,
00:49:10.58\00:49:15.92
BY SOME ACCOUNTS, MIGHT BE
INSIGNIFICANT, THIS IS ESTHER.
00:49:15.92\00:49:19.85
BUT ESTHER IS ACTUALLY RELATED
TO A CLOSE RELATIVE, MORDECAI,
00:49:19.85\00:49:25.66
FATHER FIGURE TO HER THERE.
MORDECAI IN THE KING'S PRESENCE.
00:49:25.66\00:49:31.40
BY THE WAY, WHEN DOES THE
STORY OF ESTHER TAKE PLACE?
00:49:31.40\00:49:34.77
ANY IDEA? SOMEWHERE
IN THE LATE 400S BC.
00:49:34.77\00:49:43.11
WHEN DID THE CAPTIVITY OF
JERUSALEM, OR GOD'S PEOPLE, END
00:49:43.11\00:49:48.95
IN BABYLON? YEAH,
AROUND 536 - 537 BC.
00:49:48.95\00:49:56.76
SO WE'RE TALKING
DECADES AFTER THAT.
00:49:56.76\00:50:00.26
BY THE WAY, OUR LAST
STORY, NEHEMIAH, THAT WE'LL JUST
00:50:00.26\00:50:02.83
BRIEFLY TOUCH ON, THAT STORY
TOOK PLACE ANOTHER GENERATION
00:50:02.83\00:50:08.44
AFTER ESTHER, OKAY? SO
SOMEWHERE AROUND 444 BC.
00:50:08.44\00:50:14.44
WHY ARE THOSE
DATES SO SIGNIFICANT?
00:50:14.44\00:50:17.08
YOU CAN READ EZRA CHAPTER 1
OF THAT DECREE THAT CYRUS GAVE
00:50:17.08\00:50:21.62
AROUND 537 BC. AND
WHAT WAS HIS DECREE?
00:50:21.62\00:50:26.32
ALL GOD'S PEOPLE
GO BACK TO JERUSALEM.
00:50:26.32\00:50:30.39
GO BACK. REBUILD YOUR TEMPLE.
00:50:30.39\00:50:32.49
I'M SANCTIONING IT.' YOU
READ THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH, SOME
00:50:32.49\00:50:36.83
TWENTY YEARS
LATER, SAYING 'GO BACK.
00:50:36.83\00:50:39.70
DON'T STAY IN BABYLON.' GOD WAS
GIVING MESSAGE AFTER MESSAGE,
00:50:39.70\00:50:43.54
TELLING HIS PEOPLE TO LEAVE THE
HOME OF THEIR CAPTIVITY AND GO
00:50:43.54\00:50:48.24
BACK TO JERUSALEM. BUT
WHAT DID MOST PEOPLE DO?
00:50:48.24\00:50:52.31
THEY STAYED WHERE THEY WERE
AT. WHY? I MEAN, FROM A HUMAN
00:50:52.31\00:50:56.72
PERSPECTIVE, IT WAS
STUPID TO GO BACK TO JERUSALEM.
00:50:56.72\00:50:59.65
BY THE WAY, READ ZECHARIAH
2 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
00:50:59.65\00:51:02.06
GOD PROMISES THEM
- THERE'S NO WALL UP.
00:51:02.06\00:51:04.86
REMEMBER, NEHEMIAH WAS
THE ONE THAT BUILT THE WALL.
00:51:04.86\00:51:07.40
HE WAS THE IMPETUS - THE
MAN THAT GOD USED TO REBUILD THE
00:51:07.40\00:51:10.27
WALL OF JERUSALEM. BUT
LONG BEFORE THAT, GOD SAID,
00:51:10.27\00:51:12.67
'I WILL BE A WALL OF
FIRE TO YOU. JUST TRUST ME.
00:51:12.67\00:51:15.67
GO BACK TO JERUSALEM.' SO NOW
WE'RE READING ABOUT ESTHER AND
00:51:15.67\00:51:19.31
NEHEMIAH. HERE'S THE
QUESTION, THE LINEAGE
00:51:19.31\00:51:22.31
OF ESTHER AND NEHEMIAH, WHERE
WERE THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS?
00:51:22.31\00:51:27.98
THEIR FATHERS, IF YOU WILL -
THEIR GRANDFATHERS HAD NOT LEFT
00:51:27.98\00:51:34.46
THE LAND OF CAPTIVITY.
ESTHER AND NEHEMIAH WERE
00:51:34.46\00:51:40.80
CHILDREN OF THOSE WHO HAD
REFUSED TO FOLLOW GOD'S WORD.
00:51:40.80\00:51:46.43
SO IF YOU'RE WANTING TO LABEL
PEOPLE, THEY WERE THE ONES WHO
00:51:46.43\00:51:50.04
WERE NOT FOLLOWING GOD AND
WHAT DOES GOD DO THROUGH THEM?
00:51:50.04\00:51:54.54
HE USES THEM. ARE YOU
CATCHING SOMETHING HERE?
00:51:54.54\00:51:58.61
YOUR HISTORY, YOUR PAST, YOUR
FAMILY'S HISTORY, YOUR GENETICS
00:51:58.61\00:52:05.79
DO NOT EXCLUDE YOU FROM BEING
ONE OF THE PEOPLE GOD USES.
00:52:05.79\00:52:11.83
THE KEY WORDS THROUGH NEHEMIAH
THAT WERE THE MEMORY TEXT FOR
00:52:11.83\00:52:15.23
THIS LESSON, THE KEY WORDS:
'LET US RISE UP AND' - DO WHAT?
00:52:15.23\00:52:22.34
- 'BUILD.' FOR DECADES
THE WALL HAS LAIN IN RUINS.
00:52:22.34\00:52:27.31
GOD PUTS A BURDEN ON A
MAN WITH A BAD BACKGROUND.
00:52:27.31\00:52:31.65
JUST LIKE SOLOMON, THE CHILD
OF AN ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIP.
00:52:31.65\00:52:37.32
I MEAN, YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT AN
EXCUSE FOR NOT DOING SOMETHING
00:52:37.32\00:52:39.75
FOR THE LORD? CAN I
MAKE EXCUSES FOR NOT DOING
00:52:39.75\00:52:43.26
WHAT GOD IS CALLING ME TO
DO? WHAT THIS LESSON TELLS US IS
00:52:43.26\00:52:47.50
THAT GOD USES PEOPLE WHO
ARE INSIGNIFICANT, BUT EVERY ONE
00:52:47.50\00:52:51.87
OF US IS REALLY SIGNIFICANT.
WE CANNOT - WE CANNOT EXCLUDE
00:52:51.87\00:52:57.74
OURSELVES FROM GOD'S
CALLING. YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:52:57.74\00:53:00.98
IT MAY JUST START WITH YOU
REACHING OUT TO A PERSON NEXT TO
00:53:00.98\00:53:03.24
YOU THAT YOU DON'T
KNOW. MAYBE IT'S A NEIGHBOR.
00:53:03.24\00:53:05.98
I DON'T KNOW WHAT GOD'S CALLING
YOU TO DO, BUT GOD IS CALLING
00:53:05.98\00:53:08.55
YOU TO CHANGE THE WORLD -
NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE SO GREAT, BUT
00:53:08.55\00:53:12.39
BECAUSE HE WANTS TO WORK
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>>FRIENDS, HAVE YOU EVER
HEARD OF THE BOWHEAD WHALE?
00:54:27.50\00:54:29.93
THIS ENORMOUS LEVIATHAN IS THE
SECOND-LARGEST CREATURE IN THE
00:54:29.93\00:54:33.34
WORLD. DARK AND
STOCKY, IT ROAMS THE
00:54:33.34\00:54:36.24
FERTILE ARCTIC NORTHERN WATERS.
THESE MASSIVE CREATURES CAN
00:54:36.24\00:54:40.68
BE MORE THAN 65-FEET LONG
AND WEIGHT MORE THAN 75 TONS.
00:54:40.68\00:54:44.85
THAT'S HEAVIER
THAN THE SPACE SHUTTLE.
00:54:44.85\00:54:47.32
YET, IN SPITE OF THEIR TITANIC
SIZE, THEY'RE ABLE TO LEAP
00:54:47.32\00:54:50.92
ENTIRELY OUT OF THE
WATER. CAN YOU SAY 'BELLY FLOP'?
00:54:50.92\00:54:55.79
THE BOWHEAD WHALE GETS ITS NAME
FROM ITS BOW-SHAPED SKULL - AND
00:54:55.79\00:55:00.10
THEY'VE GOT ONE
GINORMOUS NOGGIN.
00:55:00.10\00:55:02.60
MATTER OF FACT, THEIR HEADS ARE
ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THEIR BODY
00:55:02.60\00:55:05.03
SIZE, WHICH COMES IN HANDY WHEN
YOU FIND OUT HOW THEY USE THEIR
00:55:05.03\00:55:08.17
HEADS. THEY'VE
GOT VERY THICK SKULLS.
00:55:08.17\00:55:11.04
SOMETIMES THEY GET TRAPPED UNDER
THE SURFACE AND THEY USE THEIR
00:55:11.04\00:55:14.14
HEADS TO RAM THE ICE.
THEY CAN BREAK A BREATHING HOLE
00:55:14.14\00:55:17.65
IN THE ICE THAT IS A
FOOT AND A HALF THICK.
00:55:17.65\00:55:21.12
FRIENDS, YOU HAVE TO JUST
IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO
00:55:21.12\00:55:23.65
BE WALKING AROUND ON THE ARCTIC
ICE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HAVE THE
00:55:23.65\00:55:26.69
GROUND BENEATH YOU CRACK AND
SPLIT AND RISE AS ONE OF THESE
00:55:26.69\00:55:31.13
SEA MONSTERS PUSHES ITS HEAD UP
TO BREATH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
00:55:31.13\00:55:34.66
90 MINUTES.
BECAUSE BOWHEADS MAKE THEIR
00:55:34.66\00:55:37.87
HOME IN THE COLDEST PART OF OUR
WORLD, THEY HAVE THE THICKEST
00:55:37.87\00:55:40.74
BLUBBER OF ANY WHALE.
BUT THIS, PLUS THEIR FRIENDLY
00:55:40.74\00:55:43.94
AND CURIOUS NATURE, MADE THEM
PRIME TARGETS WHEN THE EUROPEAN
00:55:43.94\00:55:47.44
WHALERS DISCOVERED THE
BOWHEADS. THEY HUNTED THEM
00:55:47.44\00:55:50.45
NEARLY TO EXTINCTION.
FORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF
00:55:50.45\00:55:54.92
CONSERVATION EFFORTS, WE'VE
SLOWLY SEEN THEIR NUMBERS BEGIN
00:55:54.92\00:55:57.99
TO INCREASE SINCE THE 60S.
ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING FACTS
00:55:57.99\00:56:01.79
ABOUT THE BOWHEAD
WHALE IS ITS LONGEVITY.
00:56:01.79\00:56:04.89
SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED, BY
EVALUATING HARPOON TIPS FOUND IN
00:56:04.89\00:56:08.40
THEIR SKULL, AND EXAMINING THEIR
EYE TISSUE, THERE ARE BOWHEAD
00:56:08.40\00:56:12.27
WHALES OUT THERE THAT ARE
PROBABLY OVER 200 YEARS OLD.
00:56:12.27\00:56:16.27
YOU REALIZE THAT MEANS THERE
ARE BOWHEAD WHALES SWIMMING THE
00:56:16.27\00:56:19.64
OCEANS RIGHT NOW THAT WERE
ALIVE BEFORE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS
00:56:19.64\00:56:23.81
ELECTED PRESIDENT.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?
00:56:23.81\00:56:27.05
AMONG THE OTHER AMAZING
MEGA-FACTS ABOUT THE BOWHEAD
00:56:27.05\00:56:30.19
WHALE, IS ITS MEGA-MOUTH.
00:56:30.19\00:56:32.69
THEY HAVE THE LARGEST MOUTH
OF ANY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
00:56:32.69\00:56:36.02
AND WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR PIE
HOLE FULL EXTENDED, IT'S LARGE
00:56:36.02\00:56:39.26
ENOUGH TO PARK A
MEDIUM-SIZED SUV INSIDE.
00:56:39.26\00:56:42.93
YET, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT
THEY'VE GOT SUCH BIG MOUTHS,
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THEY SURVIVE BY EATING THE VERY
SMALLEST CREATURES IN THE OCEAN
00:56:45.37\00:56:49.10
- PLANKTON, KRILL, AND
OTHER MICROSCOPIC ANIMALS.
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FRIENDS, I'M ALWAYS AMAZED
BY THE CREATURES GOD HAS MADE.
00:56:52.97\00:56:56.41
THIS BOWHEAD WHALE IS ABLE
TO DIVE TO THE DEEPEST OCEANS.
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THEY CAN BREAK THROUGH THE ICE
AND MOVE MOUNTAINS WITH THEIR
00:56:59.71\00:57:02.08
HEAD AND COMPLETELY LEAVE THE
WATER AND FLY THROUGH THE AIR.
00:57:02.08\00:57:05.82
AND YET, THEY DO ALL THAT
BY GAINING STRENGTH FROM ALMOST
00:57:05.82\00:57:09.02
MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS.
IT HELPS US REMEMBER THAT WE
00:57:09.02\00:57:12.39
SURVIVE THROUGH THE
LITTLE PROMISES IN GOD'S WORD.
00:57:12.39\00:57:15.96
JESUS, WHEN TEMPTED BY THE
DEVIL, HE QUOTED JUST A FEW
00:57:15.96\00:57:18.73
LITTLE VERSES AND HE
SENT THE ENEMY RUNNING.
00:57:18.73\00:57:21.74
YOU CAN ALSO HAVE THAT SAME
DURABILITY AND LONG LIFE AS THE
00:57:21.74\00:57:24.64
BOWHEAD WHALE, BY TRUSTING
IN GOD'S WORD AND HIS PROMISES.
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