WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:04.839 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Sunday Service, episode fifty two. 2 00:00:05.799 --> 00:00:07.679 I am your host, Josh Monday. If you know me, 3 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:10.640 I'm a Christian rapper, devoter, husband, father, and Army veteran. 4 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:14.679 And yes, this is actually the one year anniversary. 5 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:14.519 Of the show. 6 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.320 Big thanks to Cult of Conspiracy podcast because this, of 7 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:22.320 course is brought to you by Cult Conspiracy Podcasts. Who Yeah, 8 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:26.079 had me hop on a show probably like a year 9 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:28.320 and a half ago, and then I hopped on another 10 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:31.719 show like a year and two months ago, and then 11 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:32.640 they offered. 12 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.280 This this show to me, which is awesome. 13 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:38.439 So now we got Sunday Service, which is on its 14 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:41.960 one year anniversary, and then Wednesday Service as well. So 15 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:43.920 I kind of wanted to go over a few shout 16 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.759 outs to those that commented last week we had for 17 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:51.000 Sunday Service, we had MDMP twenty two. Like always, I 18 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:55.320 see you every show commenting Whiskers White every show, even 19 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:55.960 on my show. 20 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.439 Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Sorry it was 21 00:00:58.520 --> 00:00:59.039 late to comment. 22 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:03.240 We listened while on the road to Nashville, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. 23 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:06.879 How awesome though, Alabama, nice drive, just listening to the 24 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:08.040 word God. 25 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:08.400 Bless you all. 26 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:10.799 Thank you Whiskers White, you always do on the show, 27 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:13.040 and you always thow comments on each show, even on 28 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:15.680 my show too. I really appreciate you Mitch as well. 29 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.040 Thank you for commenting each week. Brad Gillis, you know 30 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:20.760 what you did for me man, You really blessed me 31 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:24.120 on my show and my podcast. And also thank you 32 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:26.760 for all your comments. I really appreciate you, brother. And 33 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.359 then let's check out Wednesday Service who we had on 34 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:33.799 there so we had seven comments last week. Thank you 35 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:37.799 so much we had Brad Gillis, Thank you, Mitch. I 36 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.079 appreciate you. DW great podcast. Thank you so much, Brandy Hoping. 37 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.879 The comments are helpful. Brandy, the comments are definitely helpful. 38 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:46.840 I appreciate you. I don't know if you listen to 39 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:48.920 Sunday Service as well, but I see you always commenting 40 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:53.120 on Wednesday Service. The comments definitely help and Whiskers White 41 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.159 comment comment comment. Thank you and b God bless you, Josh. 42 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:58.599 Thank you so much for the end depth study. Yeah, 43 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.040 thank you guys so much or the comments. I really 44 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:04.200 appreciate you, and plus listening to the show MBMP twenty two, 45 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.120 thank you. Like I said, guys one year I mean, 46 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:11.159 it went by pretty fast. But in one year we've 47 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:17.360 already gotten to First Samuel, First Samuel chapter twenty four now, 48 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:20.280 and that's amazing, you know, And it's such a blessing 49 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:25.080 to be in this position to teach. And like I said, 50 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:28.879 I don't know any other conspiracy podcast that's doing Bible 51 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:32.520 studies like this, so I think it is vastly important. 52 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:35.159 And I think that it's pretty cool that I ended 53 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:35.520 up on. 54 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:39.319 Cold the Conspiracy podcast, because obviously some of their shows 55 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:43.919 are not geared towards Christianity only, so you know, I'm 56 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.360 noticing some of the shows, some of the guests I 57 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:48.479 see that come on there, and some of the other 58 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.400 shows that they're affiliated with, but they decided to have 59 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:55.199 this show on here, and I think it's really good. 60 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:02.240 It's really good for the listeners because everybody needs to 61 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:03.879 hear the word of God, for sure. They need to 62 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:06.639 hear the real truth, nothing but the truth, the Word 63 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:11.639 of God. Right, So thank you for always tuning in, everybody, 64 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:13.520 and thank you guys so much for one year of 65 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:16.560 a great show. You know, it's been, like I said, 66 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:21.000 such a blessing, all glory to God. Of course, in 67 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:24.560 one Corinthians ten, verse thirty one. It says, whether therefore 68 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:26.960 you eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all 69 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:29.159 to the glory of God. And that's what we do 70 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.039 on this show. So let's go ahead and continue with 71 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:39.680 first Samuel. First Samuel twenty four. Let's go ahead and 72 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:43.319 pull it up on the screen. Share. 73 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:48.439 There we go, boom. All right, First Samuel twenty four. 74 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.520 We're going to be in verse one, and like I 75 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.479 always do, I got to pull up all my notes. 76 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:57.439 I was trying to pull up my notes on my 77 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.240 regular phone, which I have here. 78 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:02.520 Perfect, have that up, and guys, yeah, I just can't 79 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:05.759 believe it's already been a year. A year goes by 80 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:11.000 so fast, man, so fast, and we've covered so much 81 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:14.560 information on the in the Bible that's been incredible, you know, 82 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:19.720 So I really really appreciate being able to do this. 83 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:22.160 Like I said, you might hear some dings in the background, guys, 84 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:26.199 because I just turn on my phone and hopefully it 85 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:28.600 doesn't bother you guys, or hopeully hopefully it's. 86 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:34.199 Not too loud. Excuse me, But let's go ahead and 87 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.800 pull this up for Samuel twenty four. 88 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.879 Perfect, there we go, all right, let's go over a 89 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:45.199 little intro before we start. For Samuel twenty four, as 90 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.279 a testament to David's character. Yeah see, you guys, you 91 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:50.720 hear some dings in the background. I can't help that. 92 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:56.519 Let me see, Yeah, I can't really help that because 93 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:58.800 this phone I can't turn on silently because of this 94 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:02.519 it's got this big old case and it's I can't, like, really, 95 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:05.040 I don't have that side where. 96 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:06.439 I could turn on the silent there. 97 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:09.199 So if it dings a couple of times, I do apologize, 98 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:12.160 But let me go ahead and continue first. Samuel twenty 99 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.279 four is a testament to David's character, his deep respect 100 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:19.439 for God's anoided and his unshakable faith in God's judgment. 101 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:23.199 He spares Saul not out of fear, but out of 102 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:26.879 reverence for God's plan. It is a powerful reminder that 103 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.519 vengeance belongs to God and that we should strive to 104 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:36.720 exhibit mercy even to our adversaries. So, yeah, you're gonna 105 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.000 see that definitely displayed here. Let's go ahead and start, 106 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:48.079 excuse me, for Samuel twenty four. Verse one, Now it 107 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:50.079 happened when Saul. This is David spare Saul? 108 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:50.959 Is what the title is? 109 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.399 Now It happened when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, 110 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.360 that it was told to him saying, take note, David 111 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:01.680 is in the wilderness of Ngetti. Then Saul took three 112 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:05.800 thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to seek 113 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.040 David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats. 114 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:10.720 So he came to the sheep bolds by the road, 115 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.160 where there was a cave, and Saul went in to 116 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.800 attend to his needs. That literally means he went in 117 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:20.639 to use the restroom. Okay, whether it's a number two 118 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:24.199 or number one, I don't know. But one thing he 119 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:27.439 didn't know is that David and his men were staying 120 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:27.839 in the. 121 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:28.959 Recesses of the cave. 122 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:32.240 Meaning Saul went in the very front of the cave, 123 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.639 probably to use the restroom, and David and all his 124 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:37.560 men were in the very end of the cave, and 125 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:38.879 Saul went in there by himself. 126 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:43.600 It sounds like, so does he have men guarding. 127 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.319 The cave, probably, but he doesn't know anybody's actually in 128 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:48.839 the cave. And it says here that David and his 129 00:06:48.920 --> 00:07:00.480 men were staying in the recesses of the cave. Okay, 130 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.759 it says then the men of David said to him, 131 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:07.399 said to David, this is the day of which the 132 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:09.560 Lord has said to you. Behold that will deliver your 133 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:13.079 enemy into your hand, that you may do to him 134 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.480 as it seems good to you. And David arose and 135 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.199 secretly cut off a corner of Saul's robe. Now it 136 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:22.959 happened afterward that David's heart troubled him because he had 137 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:25.600 cut Saul's robe. And he said to his men, the 138 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.040 Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my master, 139 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:31.399 the Lord's anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, 140 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.879 seeing he is he is the anoyed of the of 141 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:34.279 the king. 142 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:46.079 Hold on really quick for some reason that is so weird. Okay, so. 143 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:50.720 Let's go ahead and stop the real. Well, actually, we'll 144 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:52.680 finish this off, it says Uh. And he said to 145 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:54.160 the men, the Lord forbid that I should do this 146 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:56.959 thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, to stretch out 147 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.000 my hand against him, seeing he is the anoided of 148 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:01.959 the Lord. So to restrain his servants from these words, 149 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:04.839 that did not allow him to rise against Saul. And 150 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:09.399 Saul got up from the cave and went on his way. So, 151 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:14.040 so what happened was since Saul was the Lord's anointed. 152 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:18.439 And also also this is what I also kind of see. 153 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.439 I mean, David has been through a lot with Saul, right, 154 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:27.079 and he probably wanted to respect the fact that that 155 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:30.759 Saul was still the king and Saul was still the 156 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:34.559 Lord's anointed. So it says that he didn't want to 157 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.159 he even though his men is trying to say, this 158 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:41.080 is the day of which the Lord had said to you, behold, 159 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.720 I will deliver your enemy into your hands, doesn't mean 160 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:45.879 that the Lord was actually delivering him. 161 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:46.559 Into his hands. 162 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:50.240 The men are assuming that because they're like, what's the 163 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:52.600 chances of him coming in here to take a pee 164 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:53.200 or a dump? 165 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:55.039 And we're in here. 166 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.320 This is it, guy, you know, this is it David. 167 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:01.320 So David kind of it says. Now it happened after 168 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:05.919 that David's heart troubled him. I'm sorry, it said, behold, 169 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:07.519 I will deliver enter me in your hand. Yeah, And 170 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:10.080 then David arose secretly cut off a corner of Saul's rope. 171 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:12.440 So when David was walking probably in this in this 172 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:15.559 cave in the dark, like all right, here, it's time 173 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.759 for me to take him out, he probably just said, 174 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:21.440 you know what, I'm just gonna cut a piece of 175 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.320 his robe off secretly and have that peace so that 176 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:28.080 he knows at some point he's gonna know that, hey, 177 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:29.440 I had a chance to kill you. 178 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:31.000 But I didn't, you know. 179 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:34.879 So it's even more kind of a powerful powerful for 180 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.559 him to do that than for him to just slay 181 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:41.000 Slam right there. But he also it says, the Lord 182 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.120 forbid that I should do this thing to my master, 183 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.919 the Lord's anointed. So he still looked up to Saul 184 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:51.399 as the king at that time. He hasn't taken David 185 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.000 hasn't taken over as king yet. He's gonna become king, 186 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.000 but he hasn't taken over yet. But uh, he said, 187 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.320 do this thing to my master, and Lord's anointed, distretch 188 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.159 on my hand against him, seeing he is the notant 189 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:03.679 of the Lord. 190 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:04.240 You see. 191 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:07.159 Let's see what my notes say, because that's what I'm 192 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:10.440 seeing there. David had the opportunity. This is in my notes. 193 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:13.159 David had the opportunity to kill Saul in the cave, 194 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:17.039 but he chose not to harm the Lord's anointed. This 195 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:22.799 demonstrates his respect for God's authority and timing. Okay, so 196 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.559 let's go ahead and check out a little deeper into 197 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:27.879 David's restraint, and let's see if it's going to pull 198 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:31.440 up exactly what I'm looking for. David's restraint is a 199 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.480 significant thing in the theme in the biblical narrative, illustrating 200 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:38.559 his character as a man after God's own heart, marked 201 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:43.080 by humility, patience, and respect for God's anointed. His theme 202 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:45.919 is primarily observed in the accounts of David's interactions with 203 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.039 King Saul, as recorded in the Books of Samuel. For Samuel, David, 204 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.440 the youngest son of Jesse, was anointed by the prophet 205 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.039 Samuel to be the future king of Israel for Samuel sixteen, 206 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:59.840 verses twelve through thirteen. Despite his divine appointment, David faced 207 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:02.799 a prolonged period of waiting before ascending to the throne. 208 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.200 During this time, King Saul, the reigning. 209 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.720 Manark, became increasingly hostile towards David, perceiving him as a 210 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:09.879 threat to his kingdom. And I'm only going over these 211 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.840 parts so that people kind of because something white just 212 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:13.600 just be tuning in. 213 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:15.360 You know, this might be their first week listening to 214 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:15.799 the show. 215 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:17.639 So it's good to kind of do like a little 216 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:21.720 you know, tell people what happened, you know before in 217 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.279 the other chapters, Saul's jealousy and fear led him to 218 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.279 pursue David, relentlessly. 219 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:31.559 Seeking to take his life. The Cave of all the Adullam. 220 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.200 One of the most notable instances of David's resistance recurred 221 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:36.679 in the wilderness of Ngetti. 222 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:38.159 Saw entered a cave to. 223 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.600 Leave himself, underware that David and his men were hiding 224 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:44.679 deeper inside. David's men saw that his providential opportunity to 225 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:48.120 kill Saul, but David refused, saying the Lord had forbid me, 226 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.919 which we just read. Instead, David secretly cut off a 227 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:55.000 corner of Saul's robe, later revealing it to Saul as 228 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:59.919 evidence of his loyalty and restraint. And then we're going 229 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:04.080 I'm going to find another significant time of this happening 230 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:06.759 in the wilderness of Zif, which is going to be 231 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:08.559 in one Samuel twenty six, which is going to be 232 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:11.559 a little bit further down. So we will go ahead 233 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:15.480 and continue to read, and then we could probably go 234 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.240 back to these notes. So let's go ahead and continue 235 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:21.600 to read. So now we're in one Samuel twenty four, 236 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:25.639 verse eight. David also arose afterward went out to the 237 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:28.000 cave and called to Saul, saying, my Lord the King. 238 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.120 And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his 239 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.960 face to the earth and bowed down. And David said 240 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.200 to Saul, why do you listen to the words of 241 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.279 men who say, indeed, David seeks your harm? Look this 242 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:42.639 day of your eyes have seen the day the Lord 243 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.240 delivered you today into my hand in the cave. And 244 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.360 someone urged me to kill you, but my eyes spared you, 245 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.159 and I said, I will not stretch out my hand 246 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:53.159 against my Lord, for he is the Lord's anointed. 247 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:56.759 Moreover, my father. See, yes, see the. 248 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:59.519 Corner of the rope, of the corner of your robe 249 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:01.679 in my head. Bra just showed it to him right 250 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.120 For in that I cut off the corner of. 251 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:10.440 Your robe and did not kill you. 252 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:14.120 Know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion 253 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:14.720 in my hand. 254 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:16.360 And I have not sinned against you. 255 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:19.039 Yet you hunt my life to take it. 256 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:29.879 So hold on, let me go back real quick. Okay, 257 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:31.240 let me continue. 258 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:34.279 Let the Lord judge between you and me, and let 259 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:36.720 the Lord avenge me in you. But my hands shall 260 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:40.080 not be against you, as the proverb, but the ancient says, 261 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:43.519 wickedness proceeds from the wicked, but my hand shall not 262 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.600 be against you. After whom has the King of Israel 263 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:51.200 come out? Whom do you pursue a dead dog a flee? Therefore, 264 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:53.600 let the Lord be judged and judge between you and me, 265 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:55.799 and see and plead my case, and deliver me out 266 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:58.000 of your hand, so it says, in. 267 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:00.799 Trust God's justice. 268 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:04.080 David refrained from taking vengeance into his own hands, declaring, 269 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:07.240 may the Lord judge between you and me? In First 270 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.360 Samuel twenty four verse twelve, which we just read, he 271 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:14.639 trusted God to be the ultimate judge and avenger. And 272 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:19.559 then in a First Samuel twenty four verse five, after 273 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.879 cutting off a corner of Saul's robe, David was conscious stricken. 274 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:27.240 This shows his sensitivity to sin and his desire to 275 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.080 maintain a clear conscience before God. 276 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:34.759 Amen to that. You see how David was. 277 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.720 He was He was a man after God's heart. You know, 278 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.879 he was basically trying. He would always try to follow 279 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:41.919 what the Lord said, and most of the time, not 280 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:44.399 all the time, he would go back to God and 281 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:47.320 speak to him before he made a move, like you know, 282 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:49.600 you notice that. But as we you know, as we 283 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:52.639 go into verse twenty five, I mean chapter twenty five 284 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.759 and twenty six, you're going to kind of see that 285 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:56.679 he veers away from that, but then he comes back 286 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:59.960 to it, you know. But sometimes the flesh takes over. Right, 287 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:02.519 you're not always walking in the spirit, even if you're 288 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:04.200 a man of God. You're trying to walk in the 289 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:06.840 in the spirit as much as possible. And you could 290 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.440 be a pastor of a church and every you know, 291 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:12.320 Wednesday Sunday, you're you're teaching, and you know, and you're 292 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.919 doing Bible stays on Thursdays, and you're you're always in 293 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:16.600 the Word of God, and someone could cut you off 294 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.200 in the freeway, and sometimes the flesh takes. 295 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:21.840 Over and you might say, hey if you or hey, 296 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:22.519 what is he doing? 297 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:25.120 You know whatever, maybe lose your temper. Sometimes you're not 298 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:28.120 always walking in the spirit. We want to try and 299 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.279 walk in the spirit at all times, but sometimes you're not. 300 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:35.159 David is human, Okay, He's only human. He does make mistakes. 301 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:37.639 So we will see that in chapter twenty five. I 302 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:40.360 don't want to do any spoiler alerts, but you will see, 303 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.679 all right, So let's continue now. When in Onest Samuel 304 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:47.080 twenty four verse sixteen. So it was when David had 305 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:50.879 finished speaking these words of Saul that Saul says, is 306 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:53.480 this your voice, my son, David, And Saul lift up 307 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:57.960 his voice and wept. Okay, So what I would say is, 308 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:01.039 this is the Saul that's that doesn't have. 309 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.639 The evil spirit. This is the regular Saul. Okay. 310 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:07.320 That's why you see, That's why he lifted up his 311 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:10.279 voice and he wept. Now I'm not saying that the 312 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:14.279 evil spirit's not still attacking him. I'm just saying, like, 313 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:16.240 maybe right now it kind of took a step back 314 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.519 and let Saul be Saul. But you kind of see 315 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.000 how Saul kind of handles this conversation. 316 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:24.360 Right, Let's see what he says. 317 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.600 Then he said to David, you are more righteous than I, 318 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:30.799 for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have 319 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:34.159 rewarded you with evil. And you have shown that this 320 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:36.600 day how you have dealt with me. For when the 321 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:39.320 Lord delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me. 322 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.360 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let 323 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.559 him get away safely? Therefore, may the Lord reward you 324 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.039 with good for what you have done to this day, 325 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:51.440 to me this day. And I know indeed that you 326 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:52.639 shall surely be king. 327 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:53.440 Wow. 328 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:57.279 So he says that, he says, I know you shall 329 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.399 surely be king. So now he knows David is the 330 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.679 one that's annoyed. That's really interesting, and that the kingdom 331 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:06.839 of Israel shall be established in your hand. Therefore, swear 332 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:08.839 now to me by the Lord, that you will not 333 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:12.119 cut off my descendants after me, and that you will 334 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:16.559 not destroy my name from my father's house. So David 335 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:19.079 swore to Saul, and Saul went home, but David and 336 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:20.519 his men went to the up. 337 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:26.160 To the stronghold. So the main thing that you want to. 338 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:32.759 Understand here is that David did not just forgive Saul 339 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:36.119 and just go, okay, cool, I'm just going to follow 340 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:40.079 you home now, Saul and trust him. No. Sometimes, you know, 341 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.279 as a Christian or a man of God, you know, 342 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:45.960 you want to forgive people, but doesn't mean just because 343 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.480 you're forgiving them, doesn't mean that you're going to put 344 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:50.359 your one hundred percent trust that they're not going to 345 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.480 do something bad to you. All you're doing is you're 346 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.279 literally forgiving them, and you know you're. 347 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:58.519 You're that's what you're doing there, you know. 348 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:04.000 And so David swore to Sault, which means, you know, basically, 349 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.200 he forgave him, and he swore to him that he 350 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:09.200 would not know when he does become king, who would 351 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:11.400 not cut off his family or his descendants. 352 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:13.759 And Saul went home, but David and his men went 353 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:17.039 up to the stronghold. Let me just see real quick. 354 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:19.160 So in my notes, I want to go and find 355 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:21.359 out what stronghold says means. But in my notes, let 356 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:24.119 me see what it says. It says Saul's response, Saul's 357 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:26.960 reaction to David's mercy was one of the temporary repentants, 358 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:31.079 one of temporary repentance and acknowledgment of David's righteousness. This 359 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:36.440 highlights the power of mercy to convict and transform arts. 360 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:43.480 So yes, so highlights the power of mercy to convict. Yeah, 361 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:46.920 so he gave Saul mercy. He know, he could have 362 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:49.519 killed him right there. It could have been the last 363 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.279 time he ever saw his son again, could be the 364 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:53.720 last time he ever saw his wife again, last time 365 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:56.160 he ever saw his daughters again, the last time he 366 00:18:56.240 --> 00:19:01.319 ever breathed air, drink water, eat food. It could have 367 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:03.279 been it David had him, He could have killed him, 368 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.480 you know. And then David would have took the throne, 369 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:13.480 so and Jonathan would have been alive. And honestly, if 370 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:15.359 he would have killed Saul right there, Jonathan probably have 371 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:17.240 been alive to see David actually become king. 372 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:17.519 You know. 373 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.720 But you see how the power of mercy convicts and 374 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.559 transform hearts. So Saul probably felt some type of way 375 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:29.960 right there. I don't believe he had that that evil 376 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.880 spirit's not fully gone from him. If it was fully 377 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:35.880 gone from him, I believe that maybe this is just 378 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:40.799 be speculating that I maybe Saul would have maybe had 379 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:44.079 a different change of heart, but that that spirit came 380 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.000 on him and it's just kept attacking him and making him. 381 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:49.680 I think he made him pretty crazy in my in 382 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.319 my opinion, and not able to think. But let's go 383 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:57.240 ahead and go to find out what stronghold means, because 384 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:00.759 I don't really know. And when I I was studying, 385 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:05.720 I remember this pastor was talking about it about what stronghold. 386 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:08.480 Oh, it says up to the hold and the king. 387 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:14.839 James, and uh, what is the hold net prey net, 388 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:18.480 pray fastness or stronghold and his men went up to 389 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:20.240 the net? 390 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:21.720 I don't I don't know. 391 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:27.880 What stronghold means fastness or stronghold was in the hold 392 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:30.720 David d not but abide in the hold on to 393 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:33.160 the hold. Well, I see it a lot in First 394 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:36.039 Samuel and Second Samuel. You know, whoever the author was, 395 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:44.000 Well wherever it means, I don't really know because it 396 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.480 says stronghold, but I don't even even that's the actual 397 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:51.519 strong definition snares what one thing says here, but that 398 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:54.480 stets isn't used in a different way. But yeah, I'm sorry, guys, 399 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:56.200 I don't really know what that means. But it says 400 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:58.880 David and his men went up to the stronghold. Okay, so, 401 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:05.160 uh so we're done with that chapter and went fairly quick, but. 402 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:06.400 About twenty five minutes. 403 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:11.039 So we have some practical applications that you got it, 404 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:15.559 you can use in your life. Practical practice restraint. In 405 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:20.160 situations where we are wronged, we should exercise restraint and 406 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:25.240 avoid taking matters into our own hands. Amen to that, 407 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:29.200 that's for sure. We should pray about it, obviously, and 408 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:32.960 take a step back and pray to God like how 409 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:34.200 should I handle this situation? 410 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:37.880 And Lord? And obviously that God is not going to 411 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:38.880 tell you to do evil. 412 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:41.519 So whatever you're whatever you were going to However, you 413 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:43.880 were going to react to a situation, if you were 414 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:46.559 going to react in evil, then you know that that's 415 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:48.920 not God telling you to do it. That's the devil, right, 416 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:52.799 So just practice restraint and make sure that you act 417 00:21:54.119 --> 00:21:57.880 with mercy and love. You know that God is help 418 00:21:58.039 --> 00:22:01.759 is pushing you to be that way and not for 419 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:06.200 you to be doing evil. Maintain a clear conscience, be 420 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:09.640 sensitive till the Holy Spirit's conviction, and strive to live 421 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:14.319 with integrity even in small matters. Trust God's timing, Rely 422 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:17.599 on God's justice and timing rather than seeking immediate retribution, 423 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:21.599 show mercy, Extend mercy to others, knowing that it can 424 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:23.799 be led to repentance and reconciliation. 425 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:26.400 And then I remember earlier I. 426 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:27.680 Was telling you guys, guys going to go back to 427 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:29.680 thy notes. Right, I had a little bit more notes 428 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:39.039 on David's restraint. Okay, I didn't really get to finish that. 429 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:44.440 So in the Wilderness of Zip in First Samuel twenty six, 430 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:48.640 verse nine, another significant episode occurred when David in absolute 431 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:53.440 and affiliated Saul's camp. That's verse twenty Oh, that's verse 432 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:56.160 twenty six. Oh, That's why I didn't want to read 433 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:00.079 that I'm sorry. We'll go ahead and continue. 434 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:01.799 We'll go ahead and continue. You guys, I'm sorry. 435 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:03.559 I don't want to talk about verse twenty six because 436 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:08.480 I don't want any spoiler alerts. So let's check out 437 00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:13.759 some additional scriptures that do connect. We have Romans twelve, 438 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:18.480 verse nineteen. Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room 439 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:21.400 for God's wrath, for it is written Vengeance's mind. I 440 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:27.240 will repay, says the Lord, very very true. Right, do 441 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:29.720 you need to take out your wrath and your anger 442 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.640 on somebody. No, let God take out his wrath on 443 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:36.119 that person. You just need to give mercy and don't 444 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:40.759 avenge that person yourselves. Matthew five twenty four says, But 445 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:43.599 I tell you love your enemies and pray for those 446 00:23:43.640 --> 00:23:47.319 who persecute you. So even though it's hard, I know 447 00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:52.839 it's very difficult. When someone's being mean to you, trying 448 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:56.960 to bully you, making fun of you, taking advantage of you, 449 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:02.079 persecuting you. What Jesus wants you to do is to 450 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:07.559 love them pray for them. Okay, that is what a 451 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:12.160 true Christian would do. Is it easy? No, it's not 452 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:16.000 the easiest thing. Is it easy for everybody to do that. No, 453 00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:18.599 I'll be the first one to admit that's very hard. 454 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:21.119 It was very hard before when I used to be 455 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:24.359 like not Christian or not reading the Bible. Of course, 456 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:26.759 now I don't really have any enemies. 457 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:29.559 But the thing is, the. 458 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:32.720 Persecution that happens to me is only online, and that 459 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:36.960 doesn't bother me. When someone persecutes me online, it's like, Okay, 460 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:42.039 I don't really care, but you know, I do put 461 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:44.440 my do. I do put myself out to a lot 462 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:48.319 of people. Right on this show, Cult Conspiracy Pray. They have, however, 463 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:50.039 many members I don't even know they have so many 464 00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:52.000 people listen to the show. I have no clue how 465 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:53.559 many people listen to this show. But I do put 466 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:56.160 myself out to a lot of people, and some people 467 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:57.400 are definitely haters. 468 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:01.000 They'll be like, ugh, he's reading the Bible, you know. 469 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:02.839 So I get that, and that's okay. 470 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:05.200 Like I said, I love on them and pray for 471 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:08.000 them because forgive them Father, they know not what they 472 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:09.119 do is what Jesus says. 473 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:13.640 That's what we should say too. Here we go next. 474 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:16.759 It says Proverbs twenty verse twenty two, do not say 475 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:18.160 I will avenge this evil. 476 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.400 Wait on the Lord and he will deliver you. 477 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:24.559 Those are just excellent verses for you to go to 478 00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:28.319 if you're having issues with somebody. And like I said, 479 00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:31.039 I always people I have issues with their online. I 480 00:25:31.079 --> 00:25:34.240 never have issues with people in person because I will 481 00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:38.279 diffuse the situation very quickly, because I don't fight with 482 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:41.880 people unless it's on the battlefield in war. Okay, I'm 483 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:43.440 not going to fight somebody. 484 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:46.039 Over anything, you know. 485 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:48.640 I only fight people overseas when we got to defend 486 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:53.960 this country or if or if somebody comes into my home. 487 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:58.000 All right, if somebody came into my house, you better 488 00:25:58.039 --> 00:26:01.160 be ready for a war. My one hundred round clip 489 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:04.079 in my air fifteen and my other stuff. So anyways, 490 00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:07.319 but as far as outside of my home, you know, 491 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:09.880 I'll protect my kids by any means necessary, you know. 492 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:15.240 But this is these are great verses, these three verses. 493 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:17.720 We need to make sure that we pay attention to 494 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.480 this when we're having any type of issue with people. Okay, 495 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.920 And that is the end of verse twenty four. And 496 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:29.680 now we're going to go to twenty five. And just 497 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:33.279 like some of some of the parts of Samuel, a 498 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.880 lot of it is storylines, so it's kind of easy 499 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:39.000 to kind of get into, and there's a lot, you know, 500 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:41.119 the storyline. I don't really like to give you too 501 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.599 much commentary on some of the storylines because I want 502 00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:47.000 you to make sure that you're you follow me along, 503 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:47.279 you know. 504 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:50.000 I don't want to get too crazy in the commentary. 505 00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:58.519 But so next up, we have the death of Samuel 506 00:26:58.839 --> 00:27:01.599 that's going to be in a Samuel twenty five. 507 00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:12.759 So let's go ahead. Sorry, I got surprised at something. 508 00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:16.440 Okay, let me just do the intro first and then 509 00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:22.160 we will get into the death of Samuel. Okay, First, 510 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.599 Samuel twenty five teaches the importance of wisdom, respect for authority, 511 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:31.720 and understanding divine justice. Abigail's timely intervention, paired with her 512 00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:36.119 respect and acknowledgment of David's future authority, not only saves 513 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:40.079 her household, but also impresses David, leading her to becoming 514 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:45.000 his wife. That's why I went, because I studied. I 515 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:47.519 studied twenty five all the way to the very very end, 516 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:50.240 and I didn't get the very end, so I didn't 517 00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:52.039 even know he ended up marrying Abigail. 518 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:58.279 That's yeah, Abigail, that's really interesting. David leading to her 519 00:27:58.319 --> 00:27:59.160 becoming his wife. 520 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:03.079 God's justice, as seen in the ball's downfall, remind us 521 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.559 that every action has consequences, and disrespectful and selfish actions 522 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:09.319 often lead to downfall. 523 00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:15.319 This is quite interesting what we see here. But this 524 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:16.839 is one of those times. 525 00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:20.519 Where David kind of starts walking in the in the flesh. 526 00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:24.039 You see it that he that he's most of the time, 527 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:26.880 David is just a sweet, innocent person. And he keeps 528 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.640 being like just innocent and just walking with God and 529 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:31.920 going to God, should I do this? 530 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:32.960 Should I do this? Lord? 531 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:35.200 And you know, before he even does something, and he 532 00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:37.480 asks like here, let me ask the Lord, the Lord, 533 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:42.119 you know, And I'm sure that that God appreciates you 534 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:45.279 know that I would think, you know. But so Samuel, 535 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:48.039 this is gonna be the death of Samuel. Samuel is 536 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:50.880 the last of the judges. Okay, that's what's happening here. 537 00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:53.160 The last of the judges is about to pass away, 538 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:54.880 and it is it. 539 00:28:54.839 --> 00:28:55.880 Happens to be Samuel. 540 00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:58.319 So we went through like four hundred and fifty years 541 00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:01.680 of judges or four hundred years of judge and you. 542 00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:02.880 Know, we when we read the. 543 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:06.720 Book of Judges, and now Samuel was the last judge. 544 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:10.079 So let's go ahead and check this out. It says, 545 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:14.640 then Samuel died, and the Israelites gathered together and laminated 546 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:17.319 for him and buried him at his home in Rama 547 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:21.240 and David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. 548 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:26.480 Okay, so let me just go to my notes real quick. 549 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:32.640 It says, this chapter begins with the death of Samuel, 550 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:37.240 a significant prophet in Israel, also a judge. His passing 551 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:39.720 marks the end of an era and sets the stage 552 00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:44.319 for the unfolding events. Now, Samuel died and all Israel 553 00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:46.720 assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him at 554 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:50.319 his home in Ramah. First Samuel twenty five, verse one. 555 00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:54.519 So yeah, it said that the and the Israelites gathered 556 00:29:54.519 --> 00:30:00.359 together and laminated for him, which is mourned for him. 557 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:02.400 That's what that means. They mourned for him. 558 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:08.519 So it's it's interesting because Samuel's life was amazing, but 559 00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:15.440 his mother, Hannah, couldn't have children. Prayed to God, she 560 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.240 was barren. She prayed, she prayed, she prayed. The other 561 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:19.559 woman was making fun of her. 562 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:21.720 She prayed. She ends up having Samuel. 563 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:25.119 She dedicated Samuel to Eli, the priest, and then the 564 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:28.599 priest ends up having two sons that were evil and wicked, 565 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:32.039 and then he raised Samuel. Samuel did an amazing job. 566 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:34.319 So Samuel just did did great things. And the Lord 567 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:37.720 was constantly speaking through Samuel, and you know, it was 568 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:42.559 it was it was awesome reading about his journey and everything, 569 00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:46.839 you know. So I'm sure that's why they all were 570 00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:49.079 mourning for him, just because he did an amazing job 571 00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:54.079 being a judge, a priest, you know, and a prophet. Right, 572 00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:58.680 he did great at all those. So let's go ahead 573 00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:03.519 and read. Think I had a verse. 574 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:10.400 To to read, So let me just read this real 575 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:11.480 quick before we start. 576 00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:15.839 James One, verses twelve through fifteen. Blessed is the man 577 00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.559 who endures temptation from when he has been approved, he 578 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:20.680 will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has 579 00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:21.319 promised to. 580 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:22.720 Those who love him. 581 00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.519 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am 582 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:29.160 tempted by God. For God cannot be tempted by evil, 583 00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.279 nor does he himself tempt anyone. But each one is 584 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:36.160 tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire 585 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:41.359 and entice. Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth 586 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:43.920 to sin, and sin, when it is full grown, brings 587 00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:47.720 forth death. So the reason why I bring this up 588 00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:50.759 is because that last part there where it says that 589 00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:54.240 when it's talking about gives birth to sin and sin, 590 00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:56.680 you know, you kind of see where David kind of 591 00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:58.359 gets a little crazy. 592 00:31:58.640 --> 00:31:59.559 But really it's this. 593 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:02.160 The Baal character that we're gonna read about that is 594 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:05.519 really the sinful man. So let's go ahead and read 595 00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:08.359 it and see what we got here. So this is 596 00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:14.759 gonna be first Samuel twenty five, verse two. Now there 597 00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:17.000 was a this is David and the wife of Nebal. 598 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:20.480 Now there was a man in Moan whose business was 599 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:26.480 in caramel carmel. And the man was very rich. He 600 00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:30.119 had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, and he 601 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:33.960 was sharing his sheep in carmel. The name of the 602 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:37.599 man was Noble. And just let you guys know that his. 603 00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:40.680 Name no Ball. It actually means fool. 604 00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:43.680 I don't know why his parents would name him the ball, 605 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:49.559 but he definitely lives up to his name. And it 606 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:53.359 says and the name of his wife Abigail, And she 607 00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:58.599 was a woman of good understanding or good discernment is 608 00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:04.000 what other translations say, and beautiful appearance. But the man 609 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.920 was harsh and evil in his doings. He was of 610 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:11.960 the House of Caleb. Okay, we know who Caleb was. 611 00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:14.200 You know, eighty two years old, ended up entering the 612 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.119 Promised Land. He was one of the twelve spies that 613 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:21.759 went over to check out the giants and came back 614 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:24.319 gave a good report like Joshua did, and then the 615 00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:28.720 other ten gave a bad report, and none of none 616 00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:31.480 of their families, None of those people got to enter 617 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:36.440 the Promised Land. Only their children, right, and but Caleb 618 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:37.559 and Joshua, they ended up. 619 00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:38.480 Going to the Promised Land. 620 00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:41.039 This is the House of Caleb, so you guys remember, 621 00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:44.119 but you see what it says here. She was a 622 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:49.160 woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance. So I'm sure 623 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:53.480 that Nebal had money, and you know, back then it 624 00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:56.640 was a setup wedding, so this is just me speculating. 625 00:33:56.680 --> 00:34:00.880 But you know her, even though she's beautiful and she's 626 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:04.240 really obviously she has good, great understanding. I'm sure the 627 00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:08.920 parents just ended up maybe getting thinking, hey, this guy 628 00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:09.400 could take. 629 00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:11.199 Care of her for the rest of her life, you know. 630 00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:17.400 And the man is evil in his doings, all right, 631 00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:20.760 so you know that he was harsh on her and 632 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:24.400 evil in his doings, right, But she's beautiful, right, And 633 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:27.079 the only other people that are described like that in 634 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:31.440 the Bible is Rachel and Esther. Just so you guys 635 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:35.320 know that, I'm sure that Sarah was also great at discerning, 636 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:41.440 but Sarah was described as beautiful, and Rebecca was described 637 00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:44.760 as beautiful as well. But when it's talking about discerning 638 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.079 or good understanding and beautiful in appearance, the only other 639 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:51.159 two were Rachel and Esther. 640 00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:57.440 Okay, so just wan't to let you know that, all right. 641 00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:02.360 Let's go to first Sebuel twenty five, verse four, when 642 00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:05.039 David heard in the wilderness that the ball was sharing 643 00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:10.400 his sheep. Sharing is like a time of Ah, it's 644 00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:11.559 like like when you harvest. 645 00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:13.480 Like basically, it's the same thing as like when you 646 00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:16.480 harvest crops. 647 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:19.199 Right, it's a time of you know, you have a 648 00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:21.679 whole bunch of crops, and it's a time to kind 649 00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:24.760 of you know, you have a bunch of it's like 650 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:26.159 you're all your work that you've. 651 00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:28.400 Done, you finally get to this point. And that's what 652 00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:31.599 that means. Shearing the sheep. Let's uh, let's see if. 653 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:37.400 Let's see what the biblical definition of shearing. 654 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:46.480 Sheep is sheep Bible biblical meaning. 655 00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:51.320 In the Bible, sheep sharing represented more than a farm chore. 656 00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:54.599 It was cultural, culturally significant. 657 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.719 Salibatory event which often marked by feasting and social gathering, 658 00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:01.639 as well as a time for economic gain. You see, 659 00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:04.039 that's what I'm meant by that, and giving the first 660 00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:08.639 fruits to priests. Symbolically, the imagery of sheep before shears 661 00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:12.320 in Isaiah fifty three seven highlights themes of humility, sacrifice, 662 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.199 and submission. They made it for Christians interpret his prophecy 663 00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:20.440 of Jesus. This event also are his Jesus' suffering and 664 00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.239 redemptive work. This event also served as a backdrop for 665 00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:26.079 significant narratives such as David's interactions. 666 00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:30.239 With the ball and the habitual rise. In the Davidic dynasty. 667 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:35.360 Excuse me, sheep sharing was a major event of colvinial 668 00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:39.000 gathering that brought communities together for banquets and festivities. So 669 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.280 it's like a big deal, okay, So just want to 670 00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:43.039 let you guys know that, I just want to give 671 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:45.239 you the biblical definition so you kind of know exactly 672 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:46.199 what's happening there. 673 00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:55.840 Here we go. So let me go ahead and continue. 674 00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.440 David sent ten young men and David said to the 675 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:02.639 young men, go up to Carmel, go to the bal 676 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:06.440 and greet him in my name. And thus, okay, so 677 00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:08.679 greet him in my name. So just want to let 678 00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:11.840 you guys know what that means. When when he says, 679 00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:15.880 greet nebal in his name, it's just basically like it's 680 00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:17.440 like David speaking right, So. 681 00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:19.840 It holds authority. 682 00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:22.599 It's kind of similar to the way we pray when 683 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:25.159 we say, Father God, in the name of Jesus, right, 684 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:28.000 So we're speaking as if we're Jesus. We're speaking in 685 00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:33.639 Jesus's name to God because Jesus is righteous and sinless 686 00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:35.800 and he's able to speak to God. So we say 687 00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:37.440 Father God in the name of Jesus. 688 00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:37.719 Right. 689 00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:38.719 Very similar. 690 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:40.320 So right here it says, go up to Carmel, go 691 00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:43.519 to the baal and greet him in my name. And 692 00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:45.440 in verse six it says, and thus you say to 693 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:48.679 him who lives in prosperity, peace be with you, Peace 694 00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:51.679 to your house, and peace to all you have. Now 695 00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:55.159 I have heard that you have shears. Your shepherds were 696 00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:58.079 with us, and we did not hurt them, nor was 697 00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:01.039 there anything missing from them. All the while they were 698 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:04.280 in carmel, ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, 699 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.280 let my young man find favor in your eyes, for 700 00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.559 we come on a feast day. Please give whatever comes 701 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:14.559 to your hand to your servants and to your son David. 702 00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:17.519 All right, And it says so. 703 00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:19.840 When David's young men came, they spoke in the ball 704 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.159 according to all these words, in the name of David 705 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.159 and waded. Then the Ball answered David's servants and said, 706 00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:27.119 who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? 707 00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.639 And there were many servants nowadays who break away each other, 708 00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:34.519 break away each other from his master. Shall I then 709 00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:37.079 take my bread and my water and my meat that 710 00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:39.199 I have killed for my shears, and give it to 711 00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:43.000 the men whom I do not know where they are from. 712 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:47.639 Okay, so just let's just pause there real quick. Okay. 713 00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:51.159 So in the Ball's Foolishness, Okay, the ball, whose name 714 00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:54.239 means fool, is described as harsh. 715 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:56.199 And evil in his dealings. This is in my notes. 716 00:38:56.239 --> 00:38:59.519 Okay, guys, Despite David's protection of his shepherds, the Ball 717 00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:04.599 refuses to provide for David, and uh, we just good 718 00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.599 clock out of that. Despite David's protection of his shepherd's 719 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:09.760 the ball refuse to provide for David and his men. 720 00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:12.400 But the ball answered, David servants who is David and 721 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:16.159 who is the son of Jesse? So understand something. What 722 00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:20.440 was happening is David has his pints out next to 723 00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:23.800 the ball's shepherds, right, so he has all of his tents, 724 00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:26.679 all of his men out there, and the Philistines what 725 00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:28.360 they would do is they would come and they would 726 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.559 they would take people's sheep. So David's men were there 727 00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:35.119 protecting these sheep. Now didn't the ball have any type 728 00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:37.599 of agreement with him? Did the ball go to David 729 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:42.079 beforehand and say, hey, David, listen, listen, listen brother, you know, 730 00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:44.840 son of Jesse. If you protect all my sheep for 731 00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:46.639 the year, what I'm going to do is at the 732 00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:48.760 end of the year, I'm going to give you my food, 733 00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:50.000 water and bread. 734 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:54.000 At the festivity. Okay, cool, No, he didn't do that. 735 00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:58.800 All David is saying is, look, we protected your shepherds 736 00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:02.159 and your sheep for the entire year basically against the 737 00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:06.440 Philistines coming in and taken over. So all we're asking 738 00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:09.760 for is whatever you can provide us. Is it looks 739 00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:15.760 like David and his men needed food and this, and 740 00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:17.679 David also is about to become king. 741 00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:22.719 Okay, and the Ball is a jerk, that's what it says. 742 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.800 You know, he's does he doesn't handle situations correctly. So 743 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:32.440 who's in the right here, Well, I would think that 744 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:37.880 God's law would say that you take care of David's men. Okay, 745 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.440 So the Ball's not following God's law, so he's not 746 00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:44.519 in the right. But also David is kind of coming in, 747 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:49.159 like you'll see what David does after he finds out 748 00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:54.239 what this man says. So so in verse twelve, it says, 749 00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:56.639 so David's young men turned on their heels and went back, 750 00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:59.119 and they came and told him all these words. Then 751 00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:03.239 David said to his and every man gird on his sword. Okay, 752 00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:07.280 every man gird on his sword, like basically, grab your sword, 753 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:10.239 let's go to they're about to handle business. So every 754 00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:13.480 man girded on his sword, and David also girded his sword, like, hey, 755 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:16.559 I'm taking my sword, and you guys grab your sword. 756 00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:17.239 Let's go. 757 00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:20.079 And about four hundred men went with David in two 758 00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:24.400 hundred stayed with the supplies. So he's got six hundred men. 759 00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:27.480 Two hundred stay back with the supplies. Four hundred are 760 00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:32.480 going with David, okay, and David is basically coming out 761 00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:35.440 of anger. Okay, So let's go ahead and pause there 762 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:36.960 real quick, and see what I have in my notes 763 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:40.960 about this. It says David's anger. David, feeling gets sulted 764 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:44.199 and disrespected, prepares to take vengeance on the ball. His 765 00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:48.519 response highlights the human tendency to react in anger. David 766 00:41:48.599 --> 00:41:50.639 said to his men, eats, one of you, strap on 767 00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:53.920 your sword. That's what gird your sword means, strap on 768 00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:56.960 your sword. Were about to handle business, right, That's pretty 769 00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.320 much what it means in English. 770 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:02.559 All right, let's go ahead and continue. And I shouldn't 771 00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:04.400 even be This is not a laughing matter. I'm sorry, guys, 772 00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:07.400 I don't mean to laugh. It's just I'm a I'm a. 773 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:12.800 Soldier at heart and a warrior myself, So I understand 774 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.320 where he's coming from, and I understand how it is 775 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:18.440 to live in the flesh. I've fought many times in 776 00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:22.400 the flesh, so I understand. But uh so, let's go 777 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:28.679 ahead and continue here and for Samuel twenty five, verse fourteen. Now, 778 00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:34.000 one of the young men told Abigail Naball's wife, who Okay, 779 00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:36.119 So we told Abigail. 780 00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:39.280 His wife, Nayball's wife. 781 00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:42.639 Now, what did it say about Abigail? It says that 782 00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:44.199 she's discerning. 783 00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:47.559 Or what did it say earlier? How did this? 784 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.920 She was a woman of good understanding, is what it says, 785 00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:58.480 or discernment. Okay, so that's what she is. So now 786 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:02.760 let's see how Abigil handles. Okay, So the young man 787 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:04.920 told Abigail. Probably the young man was like, hey, I 788 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:11.199 just heard them talk right now, and uh, he disrespected David. 789 00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:15.360 And there's six hundred men out there. Abigail just letting 790 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:18.039 you know. You know, one of the young men told Abigail. 791 00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:20.559 That's all it says, told Abigail told a bigil what wow, 792 00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:23.599 I would think he's saying, Hey, this is what Dave 793 00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:28.480 Ball just told David David's men, and David's men did 794 00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:32.360 about face and headed right back to David. Here's what 795 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:35.039 it says, saying, Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness. 796 00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:37.639 Sorry, and it's actually here explaining it. Explain it. 797 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:41.360 Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, 798 00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:42.599 and he reviled them. 799 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:45.480 But the men were very good to us. And so 800 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:46.559 this is one of the sheep. 801 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:48.760 The young men, I think is probably one of the 802 00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:52.280 sheep herders right, or the shepherds. It says, but the 803 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:54.960 men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, 804 00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:58.199 nor did we miss anything, as long as we accompanied them. 805 00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:02.519 When we were in the field, they were a wall 806 00:44:02.599 --> 00:44:05.000 to us, both by day or by night, and by 807 00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:09.199 day all the time we were with him keeping the sheep. Now, therefore, 808 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:11.639 know and consider what you will do, for harm is 809 00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:14.760 determined against our master and against all of his household. 810 00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:19.719 For he is such a scoundrel that one cannot. 811 00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.519 Speak to him. Wow. I'm surprised that it says that. 812 00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:27.239 So wow, that guy, even though that is even though. 813 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.199 That's his master, he said he's such a scoundrel that 814 00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:34.400 one cannot speak to him, probably thinking, hey, you're his wife, 815 00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:37.079 can he please go speak to him? And instead of 816 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.719 him speaking to Since she knows that Nabel is a 817 00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:44.760 jerk and hard to deal with, she takes everything into 818 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:45.280 her own hands. 819 00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:46.159 And look what she does. 820 00:44:48.199 --> 00:44:52.239 Then Abigail went. Abigail made haste and took two hundred 821 00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:56.280 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, 822 00:44:56.480 --> 00:45:01.480 five sets of roasted grain. Our sea roasted grain, one 823 00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:04.360 hundred clusters of the raisins, two hundred kates of figs, 824 00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:07.480 and loaded them on donkeys. And she said to her servants, 825 00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:10.000 go on before me, see I am coming after you. 826 00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:13.199 But she did not tell her husband, Ayball. Obviously she's 827 00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:15.760 not gonna tell her husband because her husband is not 828 00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:18.400 easy to deal with, and he probably would have denied 829 00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:20.480 that she does this. And if she did do this, 830 00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:22.480 he probably would be mad at her. Maybe he wanted 831 00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:31.559 to harm her in some type of way. But I 832 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:41.400 definitely wanted to say, well, I'll talk about it after. 833 00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:45.800 Let's continue reading first Samuel twenty five, verse twenty. So 834 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:48.119 it was that she wrote on her donkey that she 835 00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:50.840 went down under cover on the hill and there were 836 00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.039 David and his men coming down toward her, and she 837 00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:57.239 met them. So they were on their way to take 838 00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:01.000 care of business. Now, David said, sure in vain, I 839 00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:03.719 have protected all that this fellow in the wilderness, so 840 00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:06.360 that nothing has missed all that belongs to him, and 841 00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.519 he has repaid me evil for good. May God do 842 00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:12.400 so and more also to the enemies of David, if 843 00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:14.760 I leave one male of who belonged to him, by 844 00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:19.119 morning light meaning David is about to go in there 845 00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:22.039 with his men and slay all the males of his family. 846 00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:25.000 Okay, he's not going there to play. 847 00:46:26.599 --> 00:46:29.679 So he said, if I leave one male who belonged 848 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:32.280 to him by morning light, and that could be his 849 00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:36.880 servants too, he could be killing all the servants and 850 00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:40.480 also him, Nabel, and also all the males being all 851 00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:41.639 like maybe all of his sons. 852 00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:43.000 Whatever. 853 00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:45.360 He's gonna go in there and handle it, right, it 854 00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:58.039 sounds like, so we'll stop there really quick. Oh yeah, 855 00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:01.440 we already talked about that. Okay, now we're gonna read 856 00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:02.920 verse twenty three. I'll go to my notes after I 857 00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:08.400 read twenty three. Now, when Abigail saw David, she dismounted 858 00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:10.960 quickly from the donkey, fell in her face before David 859 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:12.960 and bowed down to the ground as she fell at 860 00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:17.119 his feet and said, oh, oh me, my lord, on me, 861 00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:20.239 let this iniquity be, and please let your maid servants 862 00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:22.800 speak in your ears and hear the words of your 863 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:23.800 maid servant. 864 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:24.599 Please. 865 00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:25.039 Uh. 866 00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:26.599 So's let's stop there. 867 00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:31.559 So Abigail's intervention Abigail Neval's wife, why is it discerning? 868 00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:35.119 Wife acts quickly to prevent disasters. She approaches David with 869 00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:39.119 humility and wisdom, offering gifts and pleading for mercy. When 870 00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:41.880 Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell 871 00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:45.599 face down to David and bowed to the ground. Okay, 872 00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:48.800 she knows what you're supposed to do. That's what that 873 00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:52.199 gentleman should have done. Because as you read this, you 874 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:54.159 could tell that she knows he's going to become king, 875 00:47:54.199 --> 00:47:56.760 and she knows a lot about David. So na Ball 876 00:47:56.800 --> 00:47:59.840 should have known a lot about David as well, acting 877 00:47:59.880 --> 00:48:01.639 like he doesn't know who the son of Jesse is. 878 00:48:03.559 --> 00:48:10.639 So in Abigail's. 879 00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:09.840 Intervention is a significant narrative found in the first Book 880 00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:12.239 of Samuel, especially in On Samuel twenty five. 881 00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:14.159 This account unfolds during. 882 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:16.199 The period of David's fugitive years, when he was fleeing 883 00:48:16.199 --> 00:48:19.320 from King Saul. Abigail is introduced as the intelligent and 884 00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.719 beautiful wife, and the Ball a wealthy but surely foolish 885 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:25.960 man from Moan whose business was in Carmel. 886 00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:32.079 So what is the uh? 887 00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:37.679 Well the theological and moral insights abigail intervention is often 888 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:40.960 highlighted as an example of peacemaking and wise counselor. Her 889 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:44.280 action demonstrates the power of humility, courage, and discernment, and 890 00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:49.159 diffusing potential violence and achieving reconciliation. This narrative also underscores 891 00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:53.199 themes of divine justice and providence, as God intervenes to 892 00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:56.519 protect David and to bring about in the ball's downfall 893 00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:00.679 without David restoring to violence. Abigail's role as a mediator 894 00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.360 reflects the Biblical ideal of using wisdom to tack to 895 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:10.400 avert tack, to avert conflict, and promote peace. Okay, I 896 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:11.960 just want to go over that at so that you 897 00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:14.360 know about her as we're reading these verses. 898 00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:16.519 Okay, so let's go back. 899 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:20.320 And we'll see what happens in First Samuel twenty five, 900 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:21.039 verse thirty eight. 901 00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:23.000 Later, all right, here we go. 902 00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:27.719 So in verse twenty five, we're in First Samuel twenty five, 903 00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.639 verse twenty five. Please let my lord regard his scoundrel, 904 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:35.119 the ball, for his name is for as his name is, 905 00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:38.159 so is he a fool? Right, that's what his name means. 906 00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:41.159 The ball is his name, and folly is with him 907 00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:44.400 or fool. But I, your maid servant, did not see 908 00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:47.679 the young man of my lord whom you sent. Now, therefore, 909 00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:50.440 my Lord as the Lord lives and as your soul lives. 910 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:52.840 Since the Lord has held you back from coming to 911 00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:55.760 bloodshed and from avenging yourself. 912 00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:56.239 With your own hand. 913 00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:58.639 Now, then let your enemies and those who seek halm 914 00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.440 from my Lord be as the ball. All right, So 915 00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:04.920 she is bringing up God obviously he's to bring up 916 00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:08.000 the Lord, saying that the Lord has held you back 917 00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:11.239 from coming to bloodshed, from avenging yourselves. Very smart the 918 00:50:11.280 --> 00:50:14.119 way she's speaking, she is kind of putting David a 919 00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:16.920 little bit in his place, like, Hey, remember that the 920 00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:20.360 Lord stops you from bloodshed, right, remember that, right? And 921 00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:22.599 then she's also kind of saying that instead of you 922 00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:27.920 taking the ball, you can take me, right, and probably 923 00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:29.440 gets David feeling some type of way. 924 00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:30.559 And let's continue. 925 00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:33.559 And now this present which your matesron has brought to you, 926 00:50:33.639 --> 00:50:35.480 my Lord, let it be given to you to the 927 00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:38.639 young men who follow my Lord. And he keeps calling 928 00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:41.400 him my lord. Right, he's going to become king, and 929 00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:44.679 she knows it. Please forgive the trespass of your maid servant, 930 00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:47.119 for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an 931 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:50.760 enduring house, because my Lord fights the battles of the Lord, 932 00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:54.400 and the evil is not found in you throughout your days. 933 00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:57.400 Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek 934 00:50:57.440 --> 00:50:59.880 your life. But the life of my Lord shall be 935 00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:03.199 in the bundle of the living, with the Lord your God, 936 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:07.400 and the lives of your enemies. He shall sling out 937 00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:10.800 as from the pocket of a sling, speaking of when 938 00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:14.039 he fought against Goliath right talked about this, the pocket 939 00:51:14.039 --> 00:51:17.280 of a sling. And it shall come to pass when 940 00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:19.880 the Lord has done from my Lord according to all 941 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:24.199 the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed. 942 00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:25.960 Your l you ruler over Israel. 943 00:51:26.039 --> 00:51:28.159 So she knows about David, she knows's going to be king. 944 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:32.119 The Baal would have to know that this will be 945 00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:33.199 no grief to you. 946 00:51:33.159 --> 00:51:36.760 Nor offense of heart to my lord. Need either that. 947 00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:40.519 You have shed blood without cause or that my Lord 948 00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:43.320 has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well 949 00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:48.679 with my Lord, then remember your maid servant. Okay, So 950 00:51:48.719 --> 00:51:52.719 we see what's going on there and see how she's 951 00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:56.239 speaking to him with respect, calling to my Lord, say 952 00:51:56.239 --> 00:51:57.599 he's going to be ruling over Israel. 953 00:51:57.639 --> 00:51:59.079 You're going to be king. She knows you're going to 954 00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:01.519 be king, and she's just basically. 955 00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:05.800 Doing a very good job of being understanding and speaking. 956 00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:07.679 Beautifully, and she's beautiful as well. 957 00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:10.639 So I'm sure David is kind of dumbfounded here, and 958 00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:13.519 we'll see how he handles it. Then David said to Abigail, 959 00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:15.840 blessed is the Lord God of Israel who sent you 960 00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:17.800 this day to me. And he says it with the 961 00:52:17.880 --> 00:52:21.119 excamation point, so he's kind of like saying it like 962 00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:24.119 pretty loud and wants to express himself. And blessed is 963 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:27.000 your advice, And blessed are you because you have kept 964 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:29.360 me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging 965 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:30.639 myself in my own hand. 966 00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:32.119 For indeed, as the. 967 00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:34.480 Lord God of Israel lives, who has kept me back 968 00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.280 from hurting you. Unless you had hurried and come to 969 00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:39.960 meet me, surely my morning light, no mails would. 970 00:52:39.719 --> 00:52:41.400 Have been left to Nebaal. 971 00:52:41.760 --> 00:52:45.079 So David received from her hand what she had brought 972 00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:47.960 him and said to her, go up in peace to 973 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:50.360 your house. See I have needed your voice and respected 974 00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:56.199 your person. Okay, now, so he accepted the gifts. And 975 00:52:56.800 --> 00:53:03.719 in that culture, if you bring these gifts, you need 976 00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:06.719 them to accept it. If they accept it, then usually 977 00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:11.760 you're good. Kind of the same thing happened when Esaul 978 00:53:11.880 --> 00:53:14.199 and Jacob was meeting, and Jacob kept bowing down to 979 00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:16.280 him before he got to him, and he said, I 980 00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:17.559 got all these gifts I want to gift to you. 981 00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:20.320 And Esaul said, no, brother, don't worry about it. No, no, no, 982 00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:20.960 you need to. 983 00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:22.320 Accept these gifts. Like he kept on. 984 00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:26.079 He was very very persistent because in that culture, if 985 00:53:26.119 --> 00:53:28.559 you offer these gifts and he would have denied it, 986 00:53:28.599 --> 00:53:32.239 then she would have went home thinking, Okay, that's it, 987 00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:35.840 we're done. You know, even though he might have said, hey, 988 00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:37.679 don't worry, I'm not going to do anything now, just 989 00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:39.880 take your stuff and go home, she would have felt 990 00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:42.000 like she didn't complete her mission, and she probably would 991 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:45.039 have felt even worse. But let's see how the Ball 992 00:53:45.119 --> 00:53:51.320 handles this, because as you know, the ball is a jerk, right, 993 00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:54.719 doesn't really handle situations correctly. Let's go ahead first, Samuel 994 00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:58.159 twenty five, verse thirty six. Now Abigail went to the Ball, 995 00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:00.320 and there was holding a feast in his house, like 996 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:02.840 the feast of a king. And the Ball's heart was 997 00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:05.960 merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore, she 998 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:08.960 told him nothing little or much until morning light. So 999 00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:11.760 it was in the morning when the wine had gone 1000 00:54:11.800 --> 00:54:14.480 from the ball, and his wife had told him these things. 1001 00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:17.039 That his heart died within him and he became like 1002 00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:19.880 a stone. Then it happened, after about ten days that 1003 00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:22.320 the Lord struck the ball and he died. 1004 00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:33.519 So wow. So the Lord struck the ball and he died. Wow. 1005 00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:41.920 So divine justice is what you see? Divine justice indeed, 1006 00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:44.639 So let's go ahead and check this out. So God 1007 00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:46.920 deals with the ball striking him dead. This is my 1008 00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:50.480 notes after he learns of the events. This demonstrates God's 1009 00:54:50.639 --> 00:54:53.679 justice and sovereignty. About ten days later, the Lord struck 1010 00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:57.559 the ball dead and divine. 1011 00:54:57.280 --> 00:54:58.079 Justice what is that? 1012 00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:02.320 Divine justice refers to the righteous and fairness of God 1013 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:04.639 and his dealings with humanity and creation. 1014 00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:08.039 It is essential. It is an essential. 1015 00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:12.400 Attribute to God's character, reflecting his holiness and moral perfection. 1016 00:55:13.159 --> 00:55:17.719 Divine justice ensures that God acts in accordance with his nature, 1017 00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:23.440 rewarding righteousness and punishing wickedness. The concept of divine justice 1018 00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:26.960 is deeply rooted in scripture. The Bible consistently betrays God 1019 00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:33.199 as a just judge who administers justice impartially. In Deuteronomy 1020 00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:36.440 thirty four thirty two, Verse four, God is described as 1021 00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:39.239 the rock. His work is perfect, for all his ways 1022 00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:43.559 are just. A God faithfulness without injustice, righteousness, and upright 1023 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:48.239 is he. This verse underscores the perfection and fairness inherit 1024 00:55:48.320 --> 00:55:52.039 in God's nature justice in the Old Testament. In the 1025 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:54.880 Old Testament, divine justice is often associated with God's covenant 1026 00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:58.599 relationship with Israel. The law given to Moses, including the 1027 00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:03.480 Ted Commandments, reflects God's standards of justice and righteousness. Leviticus nineteen, 1028 00:56:03.559 --> 00:56:04.920 verse fifteen commands. 1029 00:56:04.519 --> 00:56:05.960 You must not pervert justice. 1030 00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:09.320 You must not show partiality to poor or favoritism to 1031 00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:12.199 the rich, for you are a judge your neighbors fairly. 1032 00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:21.400 This highlights the expectation for human justice to mere divine justice. 1033 00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:22.000 In the New Testament. 1034 00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:25.119 Like Romans three, verse twenty five through twenty six, God 1035 00:56:25.159 --> 00:56:28.920 presented himselves as an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood. 1036 00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:32.079 He demonstrates his righteousness because of his forbeance. He had 1037 00:56:32.119 --> 00:56:34.800 passed over the sins committed beforehand. He did this to 1038 00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:39.599 demonstrate his righteousness as the present time, as as to 1039 00:56:39.679 --> 00:56:40.320 be just and. 1040 00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:42.719 Justify the one who has faith in Jesus Christ. Okay, 1041 00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:47.119 So conclusion is. 1042 00:56:48.920 --> 00:56:51.639 Divine justice is a central theme in the Bible, reflecting 1043 00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:55.199 God's holy and righteous nature and assurance believers of God's 1044 00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:58.360 fair and impartial judgment both in the present and in 1045 00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:02.159 the future. Though Christ through Christ Jesus, God's justice is 1046 00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:06.480 perfectly fulfilled, offering redemption and the hope of eternal life 1047 00:57:06.519 --> 00:57:10.559 to those who believe. Now we got to understand, guys, 1048 00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:14.119 that God is striking the ball dead. We got to 1049 00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:18.239 be careful, be careful when we're doing certain things to 1050 00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:23.280 certain people. Obviously God can intervene. So if you are, 1051 00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:27.960 you know, hopefully nobody listened to this podcast has the 1052 00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:31.360 type of personality in the ball has, because I hope 1053 00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:34.559 that nobody does, because that's definitely not the way we 1054 00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:38.800 handle it stuff as Christians. But man, God just struck 1055 00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:43.320 him dead ten days later. That's it's what happens. Is 1056 00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:46.880 like I said, it's divine justice Verse Samuel twenty five, 1057 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:49.679 verse thirty nine. So when David heard that Nabal was dead, 1058 00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:52.360 he said, blessed be the Lord who has pleaded the 1059 00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:54.800 cause of my reapproach from the hand of the bal 1060 00:57:55.280 --> 00:57:57.159 and he has kept a servant from evil. For the 1061 00:57:57.159 --> 00:57:59.280 Lord has returned the wickedness of the ball in his 1062 00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:04.199 own head and David sent and proposed to Abigail to 1063 00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:05.719 take her as his wife. 1064 00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:09.639 Look at that, dude. When the when the servants of 1065 00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:11.960 David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to 1066 00:58:11.960 --> 00:58:14.639 her saying, David has sent us to you to ask 1067 00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:17.800 you to become his wife, so she must have everything. 1068 00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:20.199 She was speaking to him. She was probably beautiful. She 1069 00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:22.719 probably just left him dumbfound it. Like I said earlier, 1070 00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:24.719 That's why I didn't want to say it, but yeah, 1071 00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:28.159 I was like, I saw he that sel it said 1072 00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:29.840 that she ended up becoming his wife. I kind of 1073 00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:31.760 in the in the intro, I kind of messed that up, 1074 00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:36.360 but uh yeah, I was like, wow, David Man, David 1075 00:58:36.440 --> 00:58:42.280 David David Man, Like, this guy is a interesting character here. 1076 00:58:44.280 --> 00:58:47.320 So she knows he's going to be king and she 1077 00:58:47.440 --> 00:58:50.079 deserves a good man. She was with the one rich guy, 1078 00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:51.840 so you might as well get with another person. That's 1079 00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:54.360 even though he's not rich at the moment, he's going 1080 00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:56.039 to become king and he knows it. 1081 00:58:57.719 --> 00:58:59.800 And David sent proposed to Abigail to take her as 1082 00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:00.239 a wife. 1083 00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:02.440 When the servant said David had come to Abigail at Carmel, 1084 00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:04.519 they spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you 1085 00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:08.039 to ask you to become his wife. And then she arose, 1086 00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:10.440 bowed her face to the earth, and said, here's your 1087 00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:12.559 maid servant, a servant to wash the feet of the 1088 00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:15.159 servants of my lord. So Abigail rose in haste and 1089 00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:18.599 rode on a donkey, attended by five of her maidens, 1090 00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:22.079 and she followed the messengers of David and became his wife. 1091 00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:27.079 David also took an amim of Giselle, and so both 1092 00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:30.920 of them were his wives. So he's got two wives, right, 1093 00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:33.280 He's got two wives. 1094 00:59:33.320 --> 00:59:33.679 Wow? 1095 00:59:33.920 --> 00:59:44.840 So oh no, he handles two wives. Oh, I forgot. 1096 00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:47.320 He also has McCall, So that's three wives. 1097 00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:49.559 Okay. 1098 00:59:49.639 --> 00:59:53.000 So, but Saul had given McCall his daughter, David's wife, 1099 00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:56.639 to Patty, the son of Leish, oh, who was from Galen. Okay, 1100 00:59:56.719 --> 01:00:03.199 So looks like McCall, who was David's wife, got with somebody. 1101 01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:07.440 Else, uh, the son of Leish who was from Gayleen. Okay. 1102 01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:10.800 So wow, A whole bunch of Game of Thrones ness 1103 01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:11.400 happened in here. 1104 01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:13.280 To see. This is a lot of action going on. 1105 01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:16.440 It's crazy set. That's why I'm looking forward to the 1106 01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:23.800 House of David part you know, the season two It 1107 01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:26.000 was a pretty good movie. There's a few things that 1108 01:00:26.039 --> 01:00:28.199 they obviously added and took away, but most of it 1109 01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:29.719 was kind of going along with the Bible. 1110 01:00:29.960 --> 01:00:34.679 Pretty good stuff. I really enjoyed that that that. 1111 01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:37.639 Show something I could show my wife to kind of 1112 01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:39.960 get her back into the Word again. You know, she's 1113 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:44.960 she's she's listening to the Word. I think she's probably 1114 01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:46.679 up to where I'm at right now, just kind of 1115 01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:49.320 staying pretty neck and neck. What she does she puts 1116 01:00:49.320 --> 01:00:51.519 the Bible app on and it reads to her while 1117 01:00:51.519 --> 01:00:53.280 the kids are falling asleep, and you know, so that 1118 01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:54.239 way they're listening to. 1119 01:00:54.280 --> 01:00:57.119 The Word before they go to bed. So it's good stuff. 1120 01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:00.400 But all right, practical lappings. 1121 01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:02.480 We're done with chapter twenty five, so let's go over 1122 01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:06.480 some practical applications. So we have seek wisdom in conflict, 1123 01:01:06.639 --> 01:01:09.760 Like Abigail, we should seek wisdom and discernment in times 1124 01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:14.519 of conflict, aiming to be peacemakers. Yes, and see she 1125 01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:18.519 acted the way she acted, and look what ended up happening. Yeah, 1126 01:01:18.559 --> 01:01:20.760 her husband died, but obviously she was not happy with 1127 01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:21.079 that guy. 1128 01:01:21.159 --> 01:01:21.960 She knows he was a jerk. 1129 01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:24.760 Who's probably a total jerker all the time, and you 1130 01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:29.400 kind of tell control anger. David's initial reaction shows the 1131 01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:33.119 danger of acting in anger. We must acting in anger. 1132 01:01:33.679 --> 01:01:39.320 We must learn to control our emotions and seek God's guidance. Next, 1133 01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:42.840 trust in God's justice. Instead of taking matters into your 1134 01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:45.519 own hands. We should trust that God will bring justice 1135 01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:50.199 in his time. Yes, everybody will be judged. You know, 1136 01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:52.239 we don't need to be the judge. We just need 1137 01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:56.559 to be the ones that are giving mercy love. We 1138 01:01:56.599 --> 01:01:58.519 don't need in grace. Right, we don't need to be 1139 01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:04.440 taking stuff in our own hands unless it is somebody 1140 01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:08.360 coming into your oh, your home, okay. The Bible says 1141 01:02:08.360 --> 01:02:10.960 that explicitly in Leviticus that if someone comes into your 1142 01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:13.639 home to harm you or your family, you are allowed 1143 01:02:13.679 --> 01:02:17.039 to take care of business. All right, So make sure that. 1144 01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:19.039 You're not just like, all right, you come into my home. 1145 01:02:19.119 --> 01:02:21.519 To rob my house and rape and pillage. Well, I'm 1146 01:02:21.519 --> 01:02:23.960 gonna give you mercy and grace. Do whatever you want. 1147 01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:27.639 You want my safe, here you go, you want this, 1148 01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:30.400 here you go, no problem. Gracy and grace and mercy 1149 01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:36.360 to you. Better protect your home, be a person of influence, okay, 1150 01:02:38.119 --> 01:02:44.559 be a person of influence, my ear, Abigail's actions remind 1151 01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:47.400 us that one person's courage and wisdom can change the 1152 01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:52.320 course of events. So you see what happened her her actions? 1153 01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:55.719 It was amazing, right, perfect, She did exactly what she 1154 01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:58.920 was supposed to do, and it changed the course of 1155 01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:03.679 events for sure. All right, let's check out some additional 1156 01:03:03.679 --> 01:03:05.960 scriptures that connect. 1157 01:03:07.519 --> 01:03:08.239 M exuse me. 1158 01:03:11.079 --> 01:03:18.800 We have Proverbs fifteen, verse one. A gentle answer turns 1159 01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:22.960 away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Abigails jumped. 1160 01:03:23.079 --> 01:03:29.199 Abigail's gentle approach to David exemplifies this truth. James one, 1161 01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:34.400 verse nineteen and twenty. My beloved brothers understand this. Everyone 1162 01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:37.159 should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow 1163 01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:41.039 to anger, for man's anger does not bring about the 1164 01:03:41.119 --> 01:03:45.480 righteousness that God desires. Perfect verse for this. Definitely, this 1165 01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:50.639 is just a great verse that connects with Samuel twenty five. Okay, 1166 01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:55.320 Perfect Romans twelve, verse nineteen, do not avenge yourself's beloved, 1167 01:03:55.320 --> 01:03:57.440 but leave room for God's wrath. We already went over 1168 01:03:57.480 --> 01:04:00.599 that earlier, for it has written Vengas's mind, pay says 1169 01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:01.039 the Lord. 1170 01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:06.079 This is also a good verse for this section. All right, 1171 01:04:06.159 --> 01:04:07.320 let's go ahead, keep going. 1172 01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:11.480 It's a late night already. I apologize, guys. If I yawn, it's. 1173 01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:14.559 Not I'm not trying to yawn them. Believe me. 1174 01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:22.239 It's a I already had a long day today. Here 1175 01:04:22.239 --> 01:04:24.480 we go, here we go, but we keep it moving, guys, 1176 01:04:24.519 --> 01:04:27.280 it doesn't matter. Rainslee, hail snow. I'm gonna still continue 1177 01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:28.719 to do this show, right, no matter what. 1178 01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:38.039 All right, burse Samuel twenty six, Do. 1179 01:04:38.039 --> 01:04:45.840 I have any Do I have any other notes over 1180 01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:48.440 here for this chapter? 1181 01:04:48.599 --> 01:04:53.719 Let me just make sure. Nope, and I don't have 1182 01:04:53.719 --> 01:04:55.679 anything for twenty six? Nope. 1183 01:04:55.760 --> 01:04:57.880 Cool, Now I got my other notes over here for 1184 01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:04.079 twenty six, perven, I don't need that phone anymore. All right, 1185 01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:09.559 let's go over the intro. David again spares Saul first. 1186 01:05:09.559 --> 01:05:13.599 Samuel twenty six reveals David steadfast faith in God's timing 1187 01:05:13.639 --> 01:05:18.280 and authority, despite being relentlessly pursued by Saul. David shows 1188 01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:22.639 an extraordinary example of mercy, respect, and honor towards God's 1189 01:05:22.639 --> 01:05:27.880 anointed king. His actions underline the belief that vengeance belongs 1190 01:05:27.880 --> 01:05:30.599 to God alone, and it is not our place to 1191 01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:34.639 supersede his judgment. David's story in this chapter encourages us 1192 01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:38.599 to display integrity even in the face of injustice, trusting 1193 01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:41.840 that God sees and will right every wrong in his 1194 01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:49.400 perfect timing. Excuse me, yes, make sure that we yes, 1195 01:05:49.519 --> 01:05:54.280 so trusting in God to see the well right every wrong, 1196 01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:56.559 and it's perfect time in awesome. So let's go ahead 1197 01:05:56.599 --> 01:06:02.400 and go to Let's go ahead and go to first 1198 01:06:02.400 --> 01:06:07.039 Samuel twenty six, Verse one, David spear saw a second time. 1199 01:06:07.400 --> 01:06:10.119 Now the Zip fights came to Saul and Gibbea, saying, 1200 01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:15.039 is David not hiding in the hill of Heklau opposite Jesshamon. 1201 01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:18.119 Then saw arose and went down to the wilderness of Zip, 1202 01:06:19.079 --> 01:06:22.599 having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him to 1203 01:06:22.679 --> 01:06:24.400 seek David in the wilderness of Zip. 1204 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:27.159 So you see, al Saul kind of. 1205 01:06:27.119 --> 01:06:30.360 Said that you're gonna be king and kind of gave 1206 01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:32.400 him all this mercy and stuff and all that in 1207 01:06:32.599 --> 01:06:36.239 verse twenty four or in chapter twenty four. Well, you 1208 01:06:36.280 --> 01:06:40.599 see already in chapter twenty six that Saul forgets, you know, 1209 01:06:40.679 --> 01:06:43.559 that discerning spirit is over him again, or not discerning spirit, 1210 01:06:43.599 --> 01:06:48.679 but that spirit is over him again, and he's right 1211 01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:51.960 back at trying to get David right. He says, in 1212 01:06:52.039 --> 01:06:55.400 Saul encamped in the hill of Hekelau, which is opposite 1213 01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:59.360 of Jesshamon by the road. But David stayed in the wilderness, 1214 01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:02.800 and he saw well, and he saw that Saul came 1215 01:07:02.840 --> 01:07:05.519 after him in the wilderness. David therefore sent out spies 1216 01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:11.000 and understood that Saul had indeed come. Okay, so the 1217 01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:16.920 zeph fyights kind of snitched on on David right. So 1218 01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:19.559 so David so on first Amuel twenty six, first five, 1219 01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:22.599 first five, it says, so David arose and came to 1220 01:07:22.639 --> 01:07:25.440 the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the 1221 01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:28.159 place where Saul lay, and after the son of Ner, 1222 01:07:28.320 --> 01:07:31.800 the commander of his army, now saw lay within the 1223 01:07:31.840 --> 01:07:35.119 camp and the people encamped all around him. Then David 1224 01:07:35.159 --> 01:07:39.760 answered and said to a Himmelech the Hittite, and Abershaw, 1225 01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:42.320 the son of Zora, brother of Joe ab saying, who 1226 01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:44.639 will go down with me to Saul in the in 1227 01:07:44.679 --> 01:07:48.320 the camp. And Apshai said, I will go down with you. 1228 01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:52.880 So David and Apshai came to the people by night, 1229 01:07:53.320 --> 01:07:56.199 and there saw they sleeping within the camp. With his 1230 01:07:56.320 --> 01:08:00.760 spears stuck to the ground by his head, and the 1231 01:08:01.440 --> 01:08:05.960 people lay around him. Then Abishai said to David, God 1232 01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:08.719 has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now, therefore, 1233 01:08:08.760 --> 01:08:11.599 please let me strike him and once with a spear 1234 01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:13.760 right to the earth, and I will not have to 1235 01:08:13.800 --> 01:08:16.880 strike him a second time. So he wants to take 1236 01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:18.920 the spear and put it straight through his heart. 1237 01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:21.199 And let's see what David does. 1238 01:08:21.239 --> 01:08:24.399 But David said to Abishai, do not destroy him, for 1239 01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:27.119 who can stretch out his hand against the Lord's anointed 1240 01:08:27.239 --> 01:08:31.119 and be guiltless. And David said, furthermore, as the Lord lives, 1241 01:08:31.159 --> 01:08:34.840 the Lord shall strike him, and his day shall come 1242 01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:38.159 to die. He shall go out to battle and perish. 1243 01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:43.399 So he is prophesying about him right there. It says 1244 01:08:43.439 --> 01:08:46.279 that he shall go out. 1245 01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:47.760 To battle and perish. We'll see what happens later. 1246 01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:51.399 But uh, let's go ahead and check out what my 1247 01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:55.840 notes say. Says David had the perfect opportunity to kill Saul, 1248 01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:58.239 who was sleeping in this camp, but he. 1249 01:08:58.239 --> 01:08:59.199 Chose to spare him. 1250 01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:02.159 But David said to Abashide, do not destroy him, for 1251 01:09:02.319 --> 01:09:04.920 he cannot lift a hand against the Lord's annoyed and guiltless. 1252 01:09:05.199 --> 01:09:09.359 This demonstrates David's respect for God's anointed and his trust 1253 01:09:09.439 --> 01:09:12.000 in God's timing. This is the other portion that I 1254 01:09:12.039 --> 01:09:16.399 was talking about in my other notes. Let's continue in 1255 01:09:16.800 --> 01:09:20.079 First Samuel twenty six, verse eleven. The Lord forbid that 1256 01:09:20.119 --> 01:09:22.560 I should stretch out my hand against the Lord's annoyed 1257 01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:25.640 But please take now the spear and the jug of 1258 01:09:25.720 --> 01:09:28.239 water that are by his head, and let us go. 1259 01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:30.399 So David took the spear and the jug of water 1260 01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:33.560 by Saul's head, and they got away, and no man 1261 01:09:33.720 --> 01:09:37.039 saw or knew it or awoke, for they were asleep 1262 01:09:37.079 --> 01:09:40.680 because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them. 1263 01:09:41.199 --> 01:09:44.399 So it looks like God was keeping them asleep and 1264 01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:47.600 keeping David safe. Okay, so. 1265 01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:53.119 I think that David was also receiving a word from 1266 01:09:53.119 --> 01:09:56.159 the Lord right there when he says, as the Lord lives, 1267 01:09:56.199 --> 01:10:26.439 the Lord shall strike him. I'm sorry, okay, sorry, my 1268 01:10:26.520 --> 01:10:29.680 sister just texted me something that I was reading real quick. 1269 01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:32.119 Okay, let's continue. 1270 01:10:32.119 --> 01:10:35.359 I apologized that was a text message and then expect 1271 01:10:35.359 --> 01:10:38.399 to receive. But so, what I think happened is I 1272 01:10:38.399 --> 01:10:40.640 think the Lord was actually speaking through David. Here it says, 1273 01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:43.239 as the Lord lives, the Lord shall strike him on 1274 01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:47.079 his day shall come to die, and he sh she 1275 01:10:47.079 --> 01:10:49.600 shall go out to battle in Paris. The Lord forbid 1276 01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:51.600 that I should stretch out my hand, So I think 1277 01:10:51.600 --> 01:10:54.039 God was telling him not to kill him at that moment, 1278 01:10:54.079 --> 01:10:54.840 and and and. 1279 01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:55.640 Take this spear. 1280 01:10:55.960 --> 01:10:58.680 And then so the Lord put him in a deep sleep, right, 1281 01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:00.239 So I think that's Uh. 1282 01:11:02.399 --> 01:11:04.079 Let me make sure my phone is on silent, because 1283 01:11:04.079 --> 01:11:05.520 I don't want that anymore. 1284 01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:11.840 It's very hard to uh, it's very hard when you 1285 01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:14.239 get interrupted during a show. 1286 01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:17.199 So let's go ahead, and let's. 1287 01:11:17.279 --> 01:11:21.000 Also take a look at So we stopped there. They 1288 01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:23.000 had fallen, so we stopped then verse thirteen. 1289 01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:26.199 So I'll go and highlight that. So respect for authority. 1290 01:11:26.279 --> 01:11:29.199 David's action shows a deep respect for the authority God 1291 01:11:29.199 --> 01:11:32.439 has established, even when his authority is flawed. He acknowledges 1292 01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:36.359 Saul as the Lord's anointed and refrains from taking matters 1293 01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:39.840 into his own hands. Okay, we kind of see that there, 1294 01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:42.079 So let's go in and continue and see what happens. 1295 01:11:42.119 --> 01:11:45.720 So first Samuel twenty six, verse thirteen. Now David went 1296 01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:47.880 over to the other side and stood on the top 1297 01:11:47.920 --> 01:11:50.880 of the hill afar off a great distance between them, 1298 01:11:50.920 --> 01:11:53.680 and David called out to the people to Abner, the 1299 01:11:53.680 --> 01:11:57.199 son of Nurse, saying do you not answer Abner? And 1300 01:11:57.319 --> 01:11:59.600 Abner answered and saying who are you calling out by 1301 01:11:59.600 --> 01:12:03.680 the king? Calling out to the king. So David said 1302 01:12:03.680 --> 01:12:06.159 to Abner, are you not a man? And who is 1303 01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:07.119 like you in Israel? 1304 01:12:07.640 --> 01:12:08.079 Would? 1305 01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:11.840 Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? 1306 01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:14.600 For one of the people came in to destroy your king, 1307 01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:18.359 Your lord the king. This thing that you have done 1308 01:12:18.479 --> 01:12:20.600 is not good, as the Lord lives. You deserve to 1309 01:12:20.640 --> 01:12:23.479 die because you have not guarded your master, the Lord's anointed. 1310 01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:26.000 And now see where the king's spear is, and the 1311 01:12:26.079 --> 01:12:29.439 jug of water was by his head. Then saw new 1312 01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:32.079 David's voice and said, is that your voice, my son David? 1313 01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:35.319 David said, it is my voice, O Lord, my lord, 1314 01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:37.920 O King. And he said, why does my lord thus 1315 01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:41.960 pursue his servant for that I have not done? For 1316 01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:45.399 what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand? 1317 01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:45.960 Now? 1318 01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:49.319 Therefore, please let my lord the King hear the words 1319 01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:52.119 of his servant. If the Lord has stirred up you 1320 01:12:52.199 --> 01:12:55.680 against me, let him accept an offering. But if it 1321 01:12:55.760 --> 01:12:58.720 is his children of but if it is the children 1322 01:12:58.760 --> 01:13:01.520 of men. May they be cursed before the Lord, for 1323 01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:04.439 they have driven me out this day from sharing in 1324 01:13:04.479 --> 01:13:07.640 the inheritance of the Lord, saying, go serve other gods. 1325 01:13:07.880 --> 01:13:10.680 So now do not let my blood fall to the 1326 01:13:10.680 --> 01:13:13.079 earth before the face of the Lord. For the King 1327 01:13:13.119 --> 01:13:18.000 of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as 1328 01:13:18.039 --> 01:13:21.760 when one hunts a partridge in the mountains. Then Saul said, 1329 01:13:21.800 --> 01:13:24.640 I have sinned, returned my son, David, for I will 1330 01:13:25.439 --> 01:13:27.840 harm you no more because my life was precious in 1331 01:13:27.880 --> 01:13:30.520 your eyes this day. Indeed, I have played the fool 1332 01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:34.399 and aerd exceedingly. So you see his Saul once again, 1333 01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:37.199 you know, trying to tell him, hey, just come on, David, 1334 01:13:37.239 --> 01:13:40.039 come on down, let's be friends again. Right, So it's 1335 01:13:40.119 --> 01:13:43.920 kind of interesting. Let's see what David says. And David answered, saying, 1336 01:13:44.439 --> 01:13:47.600 here's the King's spear. Let one of the young men 1337 01:13:47.680 --> 01:13:50.159 come over and get it. May the Lord repay every 1338 01:13:50.239 --> 01:13:53.239 man for his righteousness and his faithfulness. For the Lord 1339 01:13:53.319 --> 01:13:55.479 delivered you into my hand today, but I would not 1340 01:13:55.600 --> 01:13:59.119 stretch out my hand against the Lord's anointed. And indeed, 1341 01:13:59.199 --> 01:14:03.199 as your life was vault much this day in my eyes, 1342 01:14:03.279 --> 01:14:07.000 So let my life be valued. Sorry, as your life 1343 01:14:07.079 --> 01:14:09.880 was valued much in this day in my eyes. So 1344 01:14:10.000 --> 01:14:12.399 let my life be valued much in the eyes of 1345 01:14:12.439 --> 01:14:15.560 my Lord, of the Lord, and let him deliver me 1346 01:14:15.680 --> 01:14:17.079 out of all tribulation. 1347 01:14:17.600 --> 01:14:17.960 Okay. 1348 01:14:18.039 --> 01:14:21.560 So then Saul said to David, may you be blessed, 1349 01:14:21.640 --> 01:14:24.199 my son, David, you shall both do great things and 1350 01:14:24.319 --> 01:14:27.079 also still prevail. So David went on his way and 1351 01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:30.600 Saul returned to his place. So you see that David 1352 01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:34.159 once again did not say, Okay, Saul, sounds good man. 1353 01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:36.279 We're good now. Yeah, let's go ahead and shake hands. 1354 01:14:36.319 --> 01:14:38.560 All right, brother, let's go come on, guys, my six 1355 01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:39.680 hundred men, come on down. 1356 01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:42.359 We're good guys. No, no, no, no, no no. 1357 01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:45.159 It says that David went on his way and Saul 1358 01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:48.880 returned to his place. So the beef is obviously not over. 1359 01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:53.880 But let's go ahead and check out moral integrity, okay. 1360 01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:56.479 So in my notes it says David's integrity is highlighted 1361 01:14:56.479 --> 01:14:58.520 as he chooses to do what is right in God's 1362 01:14:58.520 --> 01:15:03.800 eyes rather than what is expedient or self serving. David's 1363 01:15:03.800 --> 01:15:07.239 decision to spare Saul's reflects his faith that God will 1364 01:15:07.279 --> 01:15:08.439 deal justly with Saul. 1365 01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:09.640 In his own time. 1366 01:15:10.079 --> 01:15:12.720 The Lord will we pay every man for his righteousness 1367 01:15:12.720 --> 01:15:15.960 and faithfulness. For the Lord delivered you into my hand today. 1368 01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:17.960 But I will not stretch out my hand against you 1369 01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:25.119 the Lord's anointed. So faith in God's justice. Faith in 1370 01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:27.880 God's justice is a central theme throughout the Bible. Let's 1371 01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:30.560 kind of look a little deeper into that. We are 1372 01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:32.359 done with the chapter, so we'll go ahead and go 1373 01:15:32.359 --> 01:15:34.680 into some notes here before we go. And we are 1374 01:15:34.760 --> 01:15:38.199 kind of flying through Samuel. Okay, we're already on twenty six. 1375 01:15:38.279 --> 01:15:40.000 What do we have left all the way to? Like 1376 01:15:40.039 --> 01:15:41.560 what thirty two thirty one? 1377 01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:45.359 Perfect? Awesome? All right, So let's go ahead and check out. 1378 01:15:45.359 --> 01:15:47.840 Faith in God's justice a central theme throughout the Bible, 1379 01:15:47.880 --> 01:15:51.239 reflecting the belief that God is inherently just and righteous 1380 01:15:51.239 --> 01:15:53.199 in all his ways. The faith is rooted in the 1381 01:15:53.399 --> 01:15:57.920 understanding that God's justice is perfect and transcending human comprehension 1382 01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:01.960 and ensuring the righteousness ultimately veils. And we kind of 1383 01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:05.439 already talked about a few of these, like Deuteronomy thirty 1384 01:16:05.479 --> 01:16:08.199 two four we talked about earlier. Let's see what it 1385 01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:11.720 says in the Psalms frequently echoed the sentiment portraying God 1386 01:16:11.720 --> 01:16:15.079 as righteous judge who upholds justice for the oppressed. In 1387 01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:18.399 Psalms nine, verse seven and eight, it says, but the 1388 01:16:18.520 --> 01:16:22.039 Lord abides forever. He has established his throne for judgment. 1389 01:16:22.359 --> 01:16:25.760 He judges the world with justice, He governs the people with. 1390 01:16:27.239 --> 01:16:31.960 Equality. Okay, it says equity. Sorry. 1391 01:16:32.680 --> 01:16:36.479 Here the Psalmist expresses confidence in God's eternal reign and 1392 01:16:36.560 --> 01:16:42.000 his commandment as equitable judge. Mackay six's eight. 1393 01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:44.479 We kind of went over this a little bit earlier. 1394 01:16:45.079 --> 01:16:49.439 So in summary, faith in God's justice is a foundational 1395 01:16:49.479 --> 01:16:51.680 aspect of the biblical narrative. Afirm me that God is 1396 01:16:51.800 --> 01:16:55.000 righteous and just in all his ways. The faith caused 1397 01:16:55.039 --> 01:16:58.199 believers to trust in his ultimate judgment and to reflect 1398 01:16:58.279 --> 01:16:59.279 his justice in his. 1399 01:16:59.199 --> 01:17:03.039 Own life in their own lives. So all right. 1400 01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:07.039 And also, David had respect for authority. David's actually shows 1401 01:17:07.039 --> 01:17:09.199 a deep respect for the authority of God is established. 1402 01:17:09.239 --> 01:17:11.600 When his authority is flawed, he acknowledges saw as the 1403 01:17:11.600 --> 01:17:14.359 Lord's anoyed it and refrains for taking the matters into 1404 01:17:14.359 --> 01:17:17.920 his own hands. All right, perfect, all right, So we're 1405 01:17:17.960 --> 01:17:20.680 done with chapter twenty six. Let's go ahead and check 1406 01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:25.079 out some practical applications that you can use in your 1407 01:17:25.119 --> 01:17:29.600 own life. Choosing forgiveness over revenge. Like David, we are 1408 01:17:29.640 --> 01:17:32.560 all called to forgive those who wrong us and leave 1409 01:17:32.760 --> 01:17:37.720 justice in God's hands. Next, respecting authority. Even when we 1410 01:17:37.760 --> 01:17:41.319 disagree with those in authority, we should respect the positions 1411 01:17:41.359 --> 01:17:45.479 they hold and trust God's work through them. And then 1412 01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:48.079 another one would be trusting God's timing. 1413 01:17:48.720 --> 01:17:52.119 We should have faith that God will bring about. 1414 01:17:51.920 --> 01:17:54.560 Justice in his perfect timing rather than taking matters into 1415 01:17:54.720 --> 01:17:55.439 your own hands. 1416 01:17:56.119 --> 01:17:58.279 And the next one would be maintain integrity. 1417 01:17:59.439 --> 01:18:02.800 Uphold integrity by doing what is right even when it 1418 01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:04.720 is difficult or when no one is watching. 1419 01:18:05.319 --> 01:18:07.920 That is such a main theme that we should live 1420 01:18:07.920 --> 01:18:10.039 in our life because. 1421 01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:15.079 Even though you feel like nobody's watching, someone is watching. 1422 01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:18.640 God is watching, right, So when no one is around, 1423 01:18:18.720 --> 01:18:21.399 like I'm talking about physically, like no person is around 1424 01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:27.319 and your integrity is tested, God is watching. Okay, when 1425 01:18:27.359 --> 01:18:30.319 you see money hanging out of someone's wallet, or you 1426 01:18:30.399 --> 01:18:32.640 see money on the counter that's not yours. 1427 01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:35.920 Or you see you know, an easy steal. 1428 01:18:35.800 --> 01:18:37.880 Or you're at work and you're like, oh, you know what, 1429 01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:39.960 I'm just gonna leave fifteen minutes early. No one will 1430 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:42.720 know you know all that stuff. Man, you just got 1431 01:18:42.760 --> 01:18:46.199 to keep integrity. Okay, those are just little examples, but 1432 01:18:46.239 --> 01:18:49.039 there's thousands of examples of integrity. 1433 01:18:49.359 --> 01:18:50.359 And also. 1434 01:18:51.720 --> 01:18:54.680 When you're gonna send you know, like okay, when you're 1435 01:18:54.720 --> 01:18:57.199 nobody's around, you're by yourself, like, hey, you know what 1436 01:18:57.600 --> 01:19:00.760 perfect timing no one's around. You know, I'm gonna go 1437 01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:03.279 smoke a cigarette, or I'm gonna go do some dip, 1438 01:19:03.399 --> 01:19:06.880 or I'm gonna go drink a beer. You know, my 1439 01:19:06.920 --> 01:19:09.920 wife's not around or whatever. Whatever it is. You know 1440 01:19:09.960 --> 01:19:12.439 that that that causes you to do that, and and 1441 01:19:12.640 --> 01:19:15.479 maybe she doesn't agree with you doing it, you know, Uh, 1442 01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:18.840 just maintain integrity even when no one is watching. That 1443 01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:21.680 is so important. And that's something that I need to 1444 01:19:21.720 --> 01:19:24.239 do and everybody on this earth needs to do, right, 1445 01:19:24.640 --> 01:19:28.880 is maintain integrity even when no one is watching. Some 1446 01:19:28.880 --> 01:19:30.960 people will have plenty of integrity when people are around, 1447 01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:32.840 because they want to be boastful or they want people 1448 01:19:32.840 --> 01:19:35.319 to say, hey, that person's so holy or look how 1449 01:19:35.359 --> 01:19:37.880 good he is or whatever. But when no one's around, 1450 01:19:38.079 --> 01:19:45.119 that's the time when it really counts. Right. All right, 1451 01:19:45.199 --> 01:19:50.359 let's go check out some additional scriptures that connect we have. 1452 01:19:54.560 --> 01:19:57.760 Matthew five point forty four is one that comes to mind. 1453 01:19:58.039 --> 01:20:00.000 Uh, it's it's we already kind of went over earlier. 1454 01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:01.680 But I tell you love your enemies and pray for 1455 01:20:01.680 --> 01:20:05.560 those who persecute you. And then Proverbs twenty verse twenty two, 1456 01:20:06.319 --> 01:20:09.199 do not say I will avenge this evil. 1457 01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:11.079 Wait on the Lord. He will deliver you. 1458 01:20:11.520 --> 01:20:14.319 So those we kind of already went over earlier, so perfect, 1459 01:20:14.319 --> 01:20:23.880 we can just go on to First Samuel twenty seven now, okay, 1460 01:20:24.000 --> 01:20:26.600 and then let me just switch to First Samuel twenty 1461 01:20:26.640 --> 01:20:33.000 seven on the screen, all right, So yeah, probably next 1462 01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:35.920 week we might end up finishing Samuel. We'll do what 1463 01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:38.840 twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty and thirty one next week, Yeah, 1464 01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:42.279 we'll probably end up finishing it, all right, So let's 1465 01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:47.840 go over the intro for Samuel twenty seven. It's David 1466 01:20:47.960 --> 01:20:52.319 and the Philistines. Despite finding himself in a precarious situation, 1467 01:20:52.720 --> 01:20:57.319 David exhibits immense courage and strategic acumen. In First Samuel 1468 01:20:57.439 --> 01:21:01.119 twenty seven. He demonstrates that God's guide can help navigate 1469 01:21:01.159 --> 01:21:04.279 the most challenging of circumstances. The faith and the strength 1470 01:21:04.319 --> 01:21:09.000 he shows are a testament to trust in God's larger plan. 1471 01:21:09.840 --> 01:21:15.680 So let's go ahead and go into First Samuel twenty seven. 1472 01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:19.319 It says David allied with the Philistines. And David said 1473 01:21:19.359 --> 01:21:21.840 in his heart, this is a First Samuel twenty seven, 1474 01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:24.600 verse one. And David said in his heart, Now shall 1475 01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:27.239 I perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is 1476 01:21:27.279 --> 01:21:29.920 nothing better for me than I should speedily escape to 1477 01:21:29.960 --> 01:21:31.199 the land of the Philistines. 1478 01:21:31.640 --> 01:21:32.479 And Saul will. 1479 01:21:32.359 --> 01:21:36.199 Despair of me to seek me, anyone to seek me 1480 01:21:36.319 --> 01:21:39.520 anymore in any part of Israel, so I shall escape 1481 01:21:39.520 --> 01:21:42.239 out of his hand. Then David arose and went over 1482 01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:45.319 with six hundred men who were with him to assh 1483 01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:48.640 the son of Macau, the king of Gath. So David 1484 01:21:48.720 --> 01:21:52.279 dwelt with Akish in Gath, he and his men, each 1485 01:21:52.359 --> 01:21:56.159 man with his household, and David with his two wives, 1486 01:21:57.359 --> 01:22:02.640 any whom the Jesuits, and Abaga of the Kramelites, the 1487 01:22:03.439 --> 01:22:06.920 Juralites sorry, and n Abigail of the Kramelites, the Ball's widow. 1488 01:22:07.640 --> 01:22:11.840 And now was told Saul that David had fled the gas. 1489 01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:15.359 So he sought him no more. So we see that 1490 01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:19.520 in so let's go to my. 1491 01:22:19.520 --> 01:22:23.000 Notes, we'll cook David's fear and decision. But David thought 1492 01:22:23.000 --> 01:22:25.439 to himself, once these days I will be destroyed by 1493 01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:26.119 the hand of Saul. 1494 01:22:26.159 --> 01:22:27.760 The best thing I could do was to escape to 1495 01:22:27.800 --> 01:22:28.920 the land of the Philistines. 1496 01:22:29.399 --> 01:22:32.800 David's decision was driven by fear for Saul, despite God's 1497 01:22:32.840 --> 01:22:37.439 previous deliverance and promises. So kind of David started, he left. 1498 01:22:37.560 --> 01:22:41.199 He left in fear, knowing that God's promise was that 1499 01:22:41.239 --> 01:22:44.880 Saul would be delivered in battle and killed. Right. David 1500 01:22:44.920 --> 01:22:48.239 even said that, So that's kind of crazy. So let's 1501 01:22:48.479 --> 01:22:53.439 see what it says here. David, the second King of 1502 01:22:53.479 --> 01:22:55.399 Israel and central theme of the Old Testament, is renewed 1503 01:22:55.399 --> 01:23:00.560 for his faith, leadership, complex character in his life. 1504 01:22:59.720 --> 01:23:01.079 But he had a fear of Saul. 1505 01:23:01.159 --> 01:23:04.800 One of the most significant periods of fear in David's 1506 01:23:04.840 --> 01:23:08.640 life occurred during his flight from King Saul, and the 1507 01:23:08.680 --> 01:23:12.359 first King of Israel became increasingly jealous of David's success popularity, 1508 01:23:12.439 --> 01:23:14.279 perceiving him as a threat to his throne, which you've 1509 01:23:14.279 --> 01:23:17.199 already gone over. This jealousy turned into relent, this pursuit 1510 01:23:17.239 --> 01:23:21.079 of In First Samuel twenty one through twenty seven, David's 1511 01:23:21.079 --> 01:23:24.039 fear of Saul is palable as he becomes a fugitive, 1512 01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:27.720 constantly on the move to evade Samuel's attempt for his life. 1513 01:23:27.800 --> 01:23:29.399 And we kind of have already gone through a lot 1514 01:23:29.439 --> 01:23:32.159 of all this, so I'm not going to go over 1515 01:23:32.279 --> 01:23:36.760 all the stuff from Samuel for Samuel fifteen and all 1516 01:23:36.800 --> 01:23:39.479 this other stuff, but I'll go ahead and just do 1517 01:23:39.560 --> 01:23:42.840 a conclusion here. David's life, marked by fear and critical decisions, 1518 01:23:42.880 --> 01:23:46.279 serves as a testament to the complexities of human emotion 1519 01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:53.000 and the importance of faith. His experience reminds believers of. 1520 01:23:51.079 --> 01:23:54.279 The necessity to seek God's. 1521 01:23:55.399 --> 01:23:58.279 To seek God's guidance, and to act in integrity even 1522 01:23:58.319 --> 01:24:01.640 in the face of fear. So let's go ahead and 1523 01:24:02.840 --> 01:24:08.359 continue reading for Samuel twenty seven, verse five. Then David 1524 01:24:08.439 --> 01:24:11.279 said to Is, she's now that I if I have 1525 01:24:11.439 --> 01:24:14.920 found favor in your eyes, let them give me a 1526 01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:17.119 place in some town in the country that I might 1527 01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:19.680 dwell there. But why should your servant dwell in the 1528 01:24:19.760 --> 01:24:23.560 royal city with you? So he's gave Ziglag that day, 1529 01:24:23.840 --> 01:24:27.039 gave him Ziglag that day, zig Lag that day. Therefore 1530 01:24:27.119 --> 01:24:31.079 Ziglag has belonged to the Kings of Judah to this day. Now, 1531 01:24:31.119 --> 01:24:33.000 the time that David dwelt in the country of the 1532 01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:35.720 Philistines was one full year and four months. 1533 01:24:36.199 --> 01:24:39.319 Wow, that's very interesting. So David got some. 1534 01:24:38.600 --> 01:24:41.079 Some time, you know, he has two wives. Now maybe 1535 01:24:41.119 --> 01:24:43.239 he's like like kind of settling in a little bit. 1536 01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:45.880 He still knows he's going to be king is it 1537 01:24:45.920 --> 01:24:48.520 was promised to him the throne. But let's see what 1538 01:24:48.560 --> 01:24:57.000 happens here living among the Philistines. Okay, so then let's 1539 01:24:57.000 --> 01:24:59.720 go continue on my notes real quick. It says David 1540 01:24:59.760 --> 01:25:03.279 saw refuged with Akish king OF's Gath, and has given 1541 01:25:03.319 --> 01:25:07.159 the town of Ziglag. This move provided temporary safety, but 1542 01:25:07.279 --> 01:25:11.079 also placed David in a morally complex situation living among 1543 01:25:11.159 --> 01:25:15.319 idolatrs and enemies of Israel. Yeah, that's what I'm kind 1544 01:25:15.319 --> 01:25:19.439 of surprised about. Man. David kind of maybe made a 1545 01:25:19.520 --> 01:25:24.680 rash decision there. For Samuel twenty seven, verse eight, and 1546 01:25:24.800 --> 01:25:28.159 David and his men went up and raided the Gershites, 1547 01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:33.319 the Geerzites, and the Amalekites, for those nations were the 1548 01:25:33.359 --> 01:25:38.079 inhabitants of the land of Old, and as for as 1549 01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:40.960 you go to sure, even as far as the land 1550 01:25:41.000 --> 01:25:44.960 of Egypt. Wherever David attacked the land, he left neither 1551 01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:49.000 man nor women alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, donkeys, 1552 01:25:49.000 --> 01:25:53.079 and camels in the apparel, and returned and came to Akish. 1553 01:25:53.399 --> 01:25:58.279 Then Akish would say, where have you made a raid today? 1554 01:25:58.520 --> 01:26:02.479 And David would say, against the southern area of Judah, 1555 01:26:02.520 --> 01:26:05.680 or against the southern area of the Gerremalites, or against 1556 01:26:05.720 --> 01:26:07.279 the southern area of the Kennites. 1557 01:26:08.000 --> 01:26:10.119 David would save. 1558 01:26:10.000 --> 01:26:13.399 Neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, 1559 01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:17.279 saying lest they should inform us, saying, thus David did, 1560 01:26:17.359 --> 01:26:20.039 and thus his behavior of all the time he dwelt 1561 01:26:20.039 --> 01:26:23.079 in the country of the Philistines. So see a kiss, 1562 01:26:23.199 --> 01:26:26.439 believe David saying he has made his people of Israel 1563 01:26:26.560 --> 01:26:28.359 utterly abhor him. 1564 01:26:28.920 --> 01:26:31.119 Therefore he will be my servant forever. 1565 01:26:32.640 --> 01:26:32.800 Man. 1566 01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:33.640 It's kind of crazy. 1567 01:26:33.680 --> 01:26:35.520 So let's check out what it says, because this is 1568 01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:37.119 already the end of the chapter. This is a really 1569 01:26:37.199 --> 01:26:39.880 quick chapter, so we'll see what. Yeah, this is really 1570 01:26:39.920 --> 01:26:42.359 really short, so we'll see what it says. In my notes. 1571 01:26:42.399 --> 01:26:46.520 So Deception and Survival, David deceived a Kish about his raids, 1572 01:26:46.760 --> 01:26:50.479 claiming he attacked Israelite territories when he actually targeted other groups. 1573 01:26:50.760 --> 01:26:54.199 This deception highlights the ethical dilemmas David base while living 1574 01:26:54.239 --> 01:26:57.960 in enemy territory. Wow, so yeah, we see that going on. 1575 01:26:59.359 --> 01:27:02.359 And also so Acus thought David would be his servant forever, 1576 01:27:02.880 --> 01:27:07.199 you know, and then God's sovereignty. Despite David's fear driven decision, 1577 01:27:07.279 --> 01:27:10.359 God continued to protect and guide him. This chapter reminds 1578 01:27:10.399 --> 01:27:14.319 us that God's plans are not thwarted by our missteps. 1579 01:27:15.560 --> 01:27:19.600 So yeah, this chapter was very short, and it was 1580 01:27:19.680 --> 01:27:22.479 only maybe three paragraphs, you know. 1581 01:27:22.800 --> 01:27:25.680 But yeah, all right, well we'll. 1582 01:27:25.520 --> 01:27:27.960 See how fast these other chapters are. We'll get through 1583 01:27:28.000 --> 01:27:32.199 them pretty quick. I have another twenty minutes. Let's go 1584 01:27:32.239 --> 01:27:35.479 ahead and go over a couple of practical applications trusting 1585 01:27:35.560 --> 01:27:38.560 God's promises. When fear threatens to overwhelm us, we must 1586 01:27:38.640 --> 01:27:43.159 remember God's faithfulness and promises, choosing faith over fear. So 1587 01:27:43.239 --> 01:27:46.199 obviously David did not choose faith over fear. He had 1588 01:27:46.239 --> 01:27:48.000 two wives. It looks like he was trying to get 1589 01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:50.159 away from Saul, and he kind of wanted to maybe 1590 01:27:50.199 --> 01:27:53.399 live the good life for a little bit, and he 1591 01:27:53.399 --> 01:27:56.079 had his six hundred men. Looks like he was raiding cities, 1592 01:27:56.119 --> 01:27:58.720 but he was killing men, women, children, taking camels and 1593 01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:01.840 all this stuff. Right, it would say that he attacked 1594 01:28:01.840 --> 01:28:04.520 the land. He left neither man nor woman alive, so 1595 01:28:05.479 --> 01:28:11.079 he is rating cities with these men. Seek God the 1596 01:28:11.159 --> 01:28:15.439 counsel before making significant decisions, especially in times of distress. 1597 01:28:15.479 --> 01:28:20.159 Seek guidance from God. And why is godly counsel? Integrity 1598 01:28:20.159 --> 01:28:23.640 and different situations, Even in challenging circumstances, strive to maintain 1599 01:28:23.680 --> 01:28:27.680 integrity and honesty. Trusting God to provide a way and 1600 01:28:27.720 --> 01:28:30.840 then recognize God's sovereignty is another one. I acknowledge that 1601 01:28:30.880 --> 01:28:33.880 God is in control even when our circumstances seem dire 1602 01:28:34.079 --> 01:28:38.159 or our decisions are flawed. All right, So let's see 1603 01:28:38.159 --> 01:28:43.600 if there's any connecting scriptures here. Obviously Proverbs three, verses 1604 01:28:43.640 --> 01:28:46.199 five through six. Lean not on your own understanding, and 1605 01:28:46.239 --> 01:28:49.960 all your ways acknowledge him. Psalms fifty six, verses three 1606 01:28:50.000 --> 01:28:52.800 through four. When I am afraid, I put my trust 1607 01:28:52.800 --> 01:28:58.079 in You, in God whose word I praise. In God 1608 01:28:58.119 --> 01:29:01.159 I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man 1609 01:29:01.239 --> 01:29:05.199 do to me? This is David speaking in the Psalms. Right, Well, 1610 01:29:05.199 --> 01:29:06.880 he should have took his own advice. Uh well, this 1611 01:29:06.920 --> 01:29:10.439 is probably written after this though, But you know how 1612 01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:13.399 it is. Man Sometimes, like I said, you start living 1613 01:29:13.399 --> 01:29:18.079 in the flesh and not in the spirit, and that's 1614 01:29:18.119 --> 01:29:21.119 what happens Romans eight twenty eight. And we know that 1615 01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:23.359 God works all things all together for the good of 1616 01:29:23.399 --> 01:29:25.640 those who love Him and who are called according to 1617 01:29:25.680 --> 01:29:26.239 His purpose. 1618 01:29:27.079 --> 01:29:31.520 All right, cool, so let's go ahead, and oh, I 1619 01:29:31.600 --> 01:29:33.560 didn't want to do that. Let's go to. 1620 01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:38.840 First Samuel twenty eight. I think we'll end here because 1621 01:29:38.840 --> 01:29:40.840 I'm gonna even if I have to end a little 1622 01:29:40.840 --> 01:29:41.880 bit early, I don't want to. 1623 01:29:42.039 --> 01:29:43.359 Go too far into. 1624 01:29:45.920 --> 01:29:48.239 Let's see how long this is. Ah, this is a 1625 01:29:48.279 --> 01:29:52.720 little bit longer. And I know about this chapter, so 1626 01:29:52.920 --> 01:29:55.319 let's go ahead and check this out. I think we'll 1627 01:29:55.399 --> 01:29:59.560 end in twenty eight for sure, because I remember. I 1628 01:29:59.600 --> 01:30:02.800 remember this chapter very well. This chapter serves as a 1629 01:30:02.840 --> 01:30:07.199 stark reminder of the repercussions of disobedience and the desperation. 1630 01:30:07.319 --> 01:30:10.439 This is going to be a First Samuel twenty eight introduction. 1631 01:30:11.119 --> 01:30:14.520 This chapter serves as a stark reminder the repercussions of 1632 01:30:14.560 --> 01:30:17.520 disobedience and the desperation that can follow when once is 1633 01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:21.920 a strained from God's guidance. It encourages us to remain faithful, 1634 01:30:21.960 --> 01:30:25.119 seeking the Lord's counsel in times of uncertainty, rather than 1635 01:30:25.159 --> 01:30:30.560 turning to forbidden and unreliable sources. Though in dire times 1636 01:30:30.880 --> 01:30:33.880 we may feel abandoned, our faith should remain steadfast in 1637 01:30:33.960 --> 01:30:38.880 God's divine plan. So before we start, I'm gonna have 1638 01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:43.119 to look up some stuff real quick because I want 1639 01:30:43.159 --> 01:31:01.960 to divination in the Bible. Exodus twenty two, verse eighteen. 1640 01:31:02.039 --> 01:31:07.439 That's the part I want to look up. Exodus twenty two, 1641 01:31:09.800 --> 01:31:10.520 verse eighteen. 1642 01:31:11.079 --> 01:31:12.920 Let's check it out. 1643 01:31:16.199 --> 01:31:20.359 You shall not permit a sorceress to live. Whoever lies 1644 01:31:20.399 --> 01:31:22.479 with an animal shall surely be put to death. He 1645 01:31:22.680 --> 01:31:25.800 sacrifices any good except the Lord, he shall be utterly destroyed. 1646 01:31:27.119 --> 01:31:31.920 You shall not tolerate sorceress Biblical Hebrew Leviticus nineteen twenty six. 1647 01:31:31.960 --> 01:31:33.960 You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall 1648 01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:38.119 not practice divination or soothsaying. So we got Exodus twenty eight, 1649 01:31:38.479 --> 01:31:42.000 and also we got Leviticus nineteen, verse twenty six. Dealing 1650 01:31:42.079 --> 01:31:46.399 with sorcerers or sorceress is what it says. Sorry, not sorcerers, 1651 01:31:46.439 --> 01:31:51.119 it says sorceress, which are female witches, right, and look 1652 01:31:51.119 --> 01:31:55.399 what Saal does here in first chapter, first Samuel, twenty eight. 1653 01:31:57.399 --> 01:32:01.319 So all right, let's check it out. Consults a medium. 1654 01:32:04.840 --> 01:32:06.800 Now what happened This is first same of twenty eight, 1655 01:32:06.880 --> 01:32:08.720 verse one. Now what happened in those days that the 1656 01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:12.600 Philistines gathered their enemies together for war to fight with Israel. 1657 01:32:13.239 --> 01:32:15.760 And Akeith said to David, you will surely know that 1658 01:32:15.840 --> 01:32:18.239 you will go out with me to battle you and 1659 01:32:18.279 --> 01:32:20.279 your men. And David said to us, she surely you 1660 01:32:20.319 --> 01:32:22.279 know that your servant can what your servant can do. 1661 01:32:22.680 --> 01:32:24.760 And as she said to David, therefore I will make 1662 01:32:24.800 --> 01:32:28.239 you one of my chief guardians forever. All right, So 1663 01:32:29.199 --> 01:32:33.960 that whole portion there, it's interesting that he says that 1664 01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:37.159 to David. But let's see what Saul's doing over here. 1665 01:32:37.760 --> 01:32:41.800 Saul consults a medium. Now Samuel had died, and all 1666 01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:44.800 Israel had laminated for him and buried him in Rama, 1667 01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:48.119 in his own city, and Saul had put the mediums 1668 01:32:48.279 --> 01:32:52.239 and the spiritualists out of the land. Then the Philistines 1669 01:32:52.279 --> 01:32:56.039 gathered together and came and encamped and shoon him. So 1670 01:32:56.079 --> 01:32:58.159 Saul gathered all Israel together. 1671 01:32:57.880 --> 01:32:59.319 And then encamped in Gilboa. 1672 01:33:00.239 --> 01:33:04.079 So what we need to know here is Saul kicked out, 1673 01:33:04.159 --> 01:33:07.159 you know, all the mediums and the spirit is out 1674 01:33:07.159 --> 01:33:10.600 of the land. Okay, I think he would have them 1675 01:33:10.680 --> 01:33:13.479 killed actually if they were if they ended up coming 1676 01:33:13.479 --> 01:33:16.079 back to the land, because Samuel was, you know, wanted 1677 01:33:16.119 --> 01:33:18.439 people to follow the law right and he knew that 1678 01:33:18.479 --> 01:33:22.199 the Lord was didn't want any spiritists or any witches 1679 01:33:22.399 --> 01:33:25.319 or any mediums or spiritists in the land. 1680 01:33:26.119 --> 01:33:28.199 So let's check out what verse five says. 1681 01:33:28.239 --> 01:33:31.039 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was 1682 01:33:31.119 --> 01:33:34.520 afraid and his heart trembled greatly. And when Saul inquired 1683 01:33:34.600 --> 01:33:36.840 to the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either 1684 01:33:36.840 --> 01:33:40.119 by dreams, nor by erim or by the prophets. 1685 01:33:40.760 --> 01:33:42.479 So now we have Saul. 1686 01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:47.800 Regretting everything, you know, probably just like, oh my gosh, 1687 01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:49.399 I'm trying to ask for the word of the Lord. 1688 01:33:49.439 --> 01:33:52.880 I got the Philistines. Here, where's my answer? You know, 1689 01:33:53.119 --> 01:33:57.800 where's Samuel when I need him? Basically, because whenever he 1690 01:33:57.840 --> 01:33:59.960 had Samuel talked to God, he always got at least 1691 01:34:00.119 --> 01:34:02.079 word I mean, if it's negative or bad news or 1692 01:34:02.119 --> 01:34:03.760 good news, a least he had worked from the Lord. 1693 01:34:07.720 --> 01:34:09.279 That as not answering him though. 1694 01:34:14.319 --> 01:34:21.439 All right, So let's see what Saul does, since the 1695 01:34:21.479 --> 01:34:22.840 Lord is not answering him. 1696 01:34:24.640 --> 01:34:26.279 Actually, let me see what my notes say. It says 1697 01:34:26.319 --> 01:34:29.039 Saul's dis desperation. When Saul saw the Philissine's army, he 1698 01:34:29.119 --> 01:34:32.039 was afraid and trembled. Saul's fear leads to him seek 1699 01:34:32.079 --> 01:34:34.279 guidance from God, but he receives no answer, which we 1700 01:34:34.760 --> 01:34:36.039 already talked about. 1701 01:34:36.079 --> 01:34:37.880 But let's see what Saul does. 1702 01:34:37.960 --> 01:34:41.479 In First Samuel twenty eight, verse seven, then Saul said 1703 01:34:41.479 --> 01:34:44.000 to his servants, find me a woman who is a medium, 1704 01:34:44.079 --> 01:34:46.600 that I may go to her and inquire to her. 1705 01:34:46.760 --> 01:34:48.560 And as servants said to him, in fact, there is. 1706 01:34:48.560 --> 01:34:53.600 A woman who is a medium in Endoor. So Saul 1707 01:34:53.640 --> 01:34:55.720 disguised himself and put on other clothes. 1708 01:34:56.439 --> 01:34:56.960 Excuse me. 1709 01:34:58.159 --> 01:34:59.880 He went and two men with him, and they ca 1710 01:35:00.239 --> 01:35:02.600 to the women by night, and he said, please conduct 1711 01:35:02.680 --> 01:35:05.760 a seance for me, and bring up for me the 1712 01:35:05.800 --> 01:35:13.720 one I shall name to you. So these are I'll 1713 01:35:13.760 --> 01:35:17.520 stop there. These are forbidden practices. Despite having expelled mediums 1714 01:35:17.520 --> 01:35:20.239 and spirituals from the land, Saul seeks out a medium 1715 01:35:20.319 --> 01:35:23.439 demonstrated as a disobedience and lack of faith. So Saul 1716 01:35:23.520 --> 01:35:26.039 disguised himself and put on other clothes and went out 1717 01:35:26.159 --> 01:35:26.760 with two men. 1718 01:35:27.880 --> 01:35:29.359 What are the forbidden practices? 1719 01:35:29.439 --> 01:35:31.279 Let's check that out real quick before we get into 1720 01:35:31.279 --> 01:35:32.760 what Paul Saul does. 1721 01:35:32.800 --> 01:35:33.000 Here. 1722 01:35:33.720 --> 01:35:36.439 In the Bible, forbidden practices are those actions and behaviors 1723 01:35:36.479 --> 01:35:39.600 that are expressed expressively prohibited by God. 1724 01:35:40.720 --> 01:35:42.039 Prohibited by God. 1725 01:35:42.119 --> 01:35:47.800 These prohibitions are given Maine to maintain holiness, purity, and 1726 01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:51.760 obedience among God's people. The Bible outlines various practices that 1727 01:35:51.800 --> 01:35:54.840 are considered abominable and detestable in the sight of God, 1728 01:35:55.159 --> 01:35:58.319 and these are often associated with pagan rituals, idolatry, and 1729 01:35:58.399 --> 01:35:59.239 moral corruption. 1730 01:36:01.159 --> 01:36:03.239 One of the most frequently condemned practices in the. 1731 01:36:03.239 --> 01:36:06.199 Bible is idology, the worship of false gods or images. 1732 01:36:06.760 --> 01:36:09.840 The First Commandment explicitly states you shall have no other 1733 01:36:09.880 --> 01:36:14.000 gods before me. Idology is seen as a direct affront 1734 01:36:14.239 --> 01:36:17.079 to the sovereignty and uniqueness of the One True God. 1735 01:36:17.359 --> 01:36:21.960 The Israelites were repeatedly warned against adopting the idolatrous practices 1736 01:36:21.960 --> 01:36:25.880 of surrounding nations Deuteronomy twelve Versus twenty nine through thirty 1737 01:36:25.880 --> 01:36:31.279 one occult practices. The Bible strictly forbids any form of 1738 01:36:31.279 --> 01:36:36.920 occult practices, including divination, sorcery, and witchcraft. Deuteronomy eighteen, verses 1739 01:36:36.920 --> 01:36:39.640 ten through twelve states, let no one found among you 1740 01:36:39.800 --> 01:36:42.479 are who sacrifices his son or daughters, and the fires 1741 01:36:42.479 --> 01:36:48.800 and practices divination or contrary interprets, omens, practice sorcery, cast spells, 1742 01:36:48.800 --> 01:36:51.840 consults of medium or spiritists, or inquirers of the dead. 1743 01:36:52.199 --> 01:36:55.119 Whoever does these things detestable to the Lord. Such practices 1744 01:36:55.159 --> 01:36:59.640 are seen as attempts to gain forbiddance, knowledge, or gain 1745 01:36:59.720 --> 01:37:04.039 power apart from God. See what's going on there. Another 1746 01:37:04.079 --> 01:37:07.640 one is sexual immorality. Sexual morality is another category of 1747 01:37:07.720 --> 01:37:11.399 forbidden practices. The Bible provides clear guidance for sexual conduct, 1748 01:37:11.439 --> 01:37:15.279 emphasizing the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman, 1749 01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:22.119 and Leviticus eighteen outlines the various prohibited sexual relations, including adultery, incest, 1750 01:37:22.199 --> 01:37:27.319 and homosexuality. The New Testament reaffirms these prohibitions, urging believers 1751 01:37:27.359 --> 01:37:30.640 to flee from sexual immorality one Corinthian six, verse eighteen. 1752 01:37:31.359 --> 01:37:34.840 Child sacrifice is another one. The practice of child sacrifice, 1753 01:37:34.880 --> 01:37:39.279 particularly to the god Moloch, is explicitly condemned in the scripture. 1754 01:37:39.319 --> 01:37:42.439 Leviticus eighteen verse twenty one, you shall not give any 1755 01:37:42.479 --> 01:37:45.079 of your children to be sacrificed to Moloch. Or you 1756 01:37:45.159 --> 01:37:47.439 must not profane the name of your Lord. I am 1757 01:37:47.479 --> 01:37:51.199 the Lord, the name of your God, I am the Lord. 1758 01:37:51.479 --> 01:37:51.800 Okay. 1759 01:37:51.880 --> 01:37:56.000 Such practices were prevalent among the Canaanites and were strictly 1760 01:37:56.039 --> 01:37:59.119 forbidden for the Israelites, but some of the Israelites did 1761 01:37:59.199 --> 01:38:02.520 do it. I should say that there, but it doesn't 1762 01:38:04.039 --> 01:38:08.439 dishonest practices. The Bible also addresses dishonest practices such as theft, lying, cheating, 1763 01:38:08.640 --> 01:38:12.279 and the eighth commandment, you shall not steal, underscores the 1764 01:38:12.279 --> 01:38:17.960 importance of integrity and honesty. Proverbs eleven one states dishonest 1765 01:38:18.000 --> 01:38:20.680 skills are an abomination to the Lord, but an accurate 1766 01:38:20.680 --> 01:38:25.680 weight is his delight. That's basically stating that some people 1767 01:38:25.680 --> 01:38:29.319 when they would weigh like a you know, like an 1768 01:38:29.319 --> 01:38:33.000 info or whatever it's called the info or whatever, when 1769 01:38:33.000 --> 01:38:36.560 they were dealing with selling of grains and food, then 1770 01:38:36.600 --> 01:38:39.119 they would kind of mess the scales up to try 1771 01:38:39.159 --> 01:38:41.279 to make more money. So it says that dishonest skills 1772 01:38:41.319 --> 01:38:43.560 are not are abomination to the Lord, but an accurate 1773 01:38:43.560 --> 01:38:47.119 weight is his delight. Right. Drunkenness and gluttony is another one. 1774 01:38:47.199 --> 01:38:50.159 Drunkenness and gluttony are warned against as behaviors that lead 1775 01:38:50.199 --> 01:38:54.960 to moral decay and spiritual insensitivity. Apheesians five eighteen invides 1776 01:38:55.000 --> 01:38:57.000 us do not get drunk on wine, which leads to 1777 01:38:57.079 --> 01:39:02.800 reckless indiscretion. Instead be filled with the spirit. The Bible 1778 01:39:02.880 --> 01:39:05.760 encourages moderation and self control as virtues. 1779 01:39:05.359 --> 01:39:08.760 That honor God. Conclusion, the Bible prohibit. 1780 01:39:10.319 --> 01:39:13.439 Prohibitions against these practices are rooted in the desire for 1781 01:39:13.520 --> 01:39:17.800 God's people to live lives that reflect His holiness and righteousness. 1782 01:39:17.800 --> 01:39:20.960 By avoiding these forbidden practices, believers are called to demonstrate 1783 01:39:21.199 --> 01:39:23.319 their commitment to God's covenant and to live in the 1784 01:39:23.359 --> 01:39:23.920 matter that is. 1785 01:39:23.840 --> 01:39:24.520 Pleasing to him. 1786 01:39:24.960 --> 01:39:26.520 I would just want to go over all those things, 1787 01:39:26.560 --> 01:39:30.399 because all those are abomination, not only what Saul's doing 1788 01:39:30.479 --> 01:39:32.439 right here, but those other things that I mentioned. Okay, 1789 01:39:32.920 --> 01:39:36.279 let's go ahead and go back to first Samuel twenty eight, 1790 01:39:36.399 --> 01:39:38.760 verse nine. Then the woman said to him, look, you 1791 01:39:38.800 --> 01:39:41.560 know that sal what Saul has done. He has cut 1792 01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:42.880 off the mediums and the. 1793 01:39:42.840 --> 01:39:45.800 Spirit is from the land. When then do you. 1794 01:39:45.880 --> 01:39:48.159 Lay a snare for my life? It caused me to 1795 01:39:48.279 --> 01:39:50.880 die and Saul swore to her by the Lord, saying, 1796 01:39:50.880 --> 01:39:53.239 as the Lord lives, no punishment shall come upon you 1797 01:39:53.319 --> 01:39:55.840 for this thing. Then the woman said, whom shall I 1798 01:39:55.880 --> 01:39:58.920 bring up? And he said, bring up Samuel for me. 1799 01:39:59.520 --> 01:40:01.479 When the woman and saw Samuel, she cried out with 1800 01:40:01.479 --> 01:40:03.680 a loud voice. And the woman spoke to Samuel saying, 1801 01:40:03.880 --> 01:40:05.720 why have you just seed before you were Saul? 1802 01:40:07.079 --> 01:40:11.760 So she was surprised to see Samuel. 1803 01:40:12.239 --> 01:40:15.119 Now, what I think normally happens with these spirituists or 1804 01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:18.199 these divination these people that do this is they have 1805 01:40:18.319 --> 01:40:23.920 a demon come and kind of act like the people 1806 01:40:23.960 --> 01:40:26.560 that you're calling up, you know, like, Hey, I want 1807 01:40:26.560 --> 01:40:28.680 to call up my Aunt Margaret. You know, I want 1808 01:40:28.680 --> 01:40:30.359 to I want to talk to Aunt Margaret. You know, 1809 01:40:30.439 --> 01:40:33.039 I've she's been dead for a couple of years. And 1810 01:40:33.199 --> 01:40:34.840 you know, the people they sit around a table and 1811 01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:37.119 they you know, you see it on movies. I've never ever, 1812 01:40:37.159 --> 01:40:39.720 obviously done this ever in my life. I've never done 1813 01:40:39.760 --> 01:40:42.319 any of that stuff. But and then a demon will 1814 01:40:42.359 --> 01:40:44.680 act like Aunt Margaret, you know, and kind of know 1815 01:40:44.800 --> 01:40:47.479 certain things that that that that only that Aunt Margaret 1816 01:40:47.520 --> 01:40:51.960 would know. H But this is kind of what's going 1817 01:40:52.000 --> 01:40:55.600 on here. And the crazy thing is, see Samuel at 1818 01:40:55.600 --> 01:41:00.880 the time, where would he be? So Samuel would not 1819 01:41:00.960 --> 01:41:04.279 be in heaven yet, right, he would be in Abraham's bosom. 1820 01:41:05.359 --> 01:41:09.840 If you look at Luke sixteen versus like Luke sixteen, 1821 01:41:09.880 --> 01:41:11.479 I think it's like one through seventeen. 1822 01:41:12.079 --> 01:41:12.439 Read it. 1823 01:41:12.439 --> 01:41:16.039 It's about the story of Lazareth and the rich Man 1824 01:41:16.119 --> 01:41:22.319 and Lazarus. Okay, so Jesus is telling the story about 1825 01:41:22.439 --> 01:41:26.479 the rich man dying and Lazareth dying, and Lazareth is 1826 01:41:26.479 --> 01:41:29.239 in Abraham's bosom in Paradise and there's a big chasm 1827 01:41:29.279 --> 01:41:32.479 between him and on the other side is shield. So 1828 01:41:32.520 --> 01:41:36.199 you have this is all located in the earth, I believe, 1829 01:41:37.439 --> 01:41:39.640 and this is what biblical cosmology is about. I kind 1830 01:41:39.640 --> 01:41:41.960 of went over this on the Cult of Conspiracy before. 1831 01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:45.000 But what you have is you. 1832 01:41:44.960 --> 01:41:51.479 Have the rich Man can see Abraham and he says, Father, Abraham, 1833 01:41:51.479 --> 01:41:53.920 will you please send Lazareth over here to put a 1834 01:41:54.000 --> 01:41:56.319 drip of water on my tongue. The whole point to 1835 01:41:56.439 --> 01:42:00.520 what I'm saying is that Samuel was not in heaven yet, 1836 01:42:00.680 --> 01:42:04.039 because no one's in heaven yet. Only God the Father 1837 01:42:04.319 --> 01:42:08.319 and Jesus was in heaven, and the Holy spirit. You know, 1838 01:42:08.399 --> 01:42:11.560 I don't think anybody was in heaven before Jesus died 1839 01:42:11.600 --> 01:42:15.399 on the cross. Okay, no one was in heaven before 1840 01:42:15.479 --> 01:42:19.359 Jesus died on the cross. So when when Jesus died 1841 01:42:19.399 --> 01:42:22.199 on the cross, he descended into the earth, the lower 1842 01:42:22.279 --> 01:42:23.000 parts of the earth that. 1843 01:42:23.039 --> 01:42:27.680 Peaces four Versus Peasans four verses. 1844 01:42:27.560 --> 01:42:31.399 Verse eight talks about before he ascended to heaven. He 1845 01:42:31.520 --> 01:42:36.600 descended first into the earth. Right, So the there was 1846 01:42:36.720 --> 01:42:42.039 prophets of old Abraham, you know, these different prophets and 1847 01:42:42.239 --> 01:42:45.039 people that that walk with God, that were righteous in faith, 1848 01:42:45.720 --> 01:42:50.039 that I believe were in Abraham's bosom, Uh, not in shield, 1849 01:42:50.039 --> 01:42:52.399 but in Abraham's bosom that Jesus came and got and 1850 01:42:52.439 --> 01:42:55.159 brought to heaven. And then also it says that the 1851 01:42:55.800 --> 01:42:58.239 when Jesus died on the cross, and the in Matthew 1852 01:42:59.000 --> 01:43:01.560 it says that when he had a great earthquake happened, 1853 01:43:01.600 --> 01:43:10.399 and the spirits of the other prophets they were walking 1854 01:43:10.439 --> 01:43:15.399 around seeing and many people saw them. The old prophets 1855 01:43:15.439 --> 01:43:17.600 of old came back to life out of the grave. 1856 01:43:19.439 --> 01:43:22.439 I mean, it's interesting. But anyways, all I want to 1857 01:43:22.439 --> 01:43:26.479 say is she was probably very surprised to actually see Samuel. 1858 01:43:27.239 --> 01:43:30.199 It says the woman saw Samuel. She cried out and 1859 01:43:30.239 --> 01:43:32.520 spoke to Saul, why are you deceiving me? And the 1860 01:43:32.600 --> 01:43:35.039 king said to her, do not be afraid. What did you see? 1861 01:43:35.239 --> 01:43:37.439 And the woman said to Saul, I saw a spirit 1862 01:43:37.479 --> 01:43:41.199 as sending out of the earth. This is what I'm 1863 01:43:41.239 --> 01:43:45.399 talking about. And she said to her, what is his form? 1864 01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:47.720 And he said, an old man is coming up, and 1865 01:43:47.760 --> 01:43:50.760 he has covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that 1866 01:43:50.840 --> 01:43:53.079 it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to 1867 01:43:53.119 --> 01:43:56.159 the ground and bowed down. Now, Samuel said to Saul, 1868 01:43:56.199 --> 01:43:58.399 why are you disturbing me by bringing me up? 1869 01:43:59.760 --> 01:44:00.199 Wow? 1870 01:44:00.600 --> 01:44:04.960 So where was he located? Well, it says that he 1871 01:44:05.039 --> 01:44:08.399 was located in the earth. That's what it says, coming 1872 01:44:08.479 --> 01:44:11.920 out of the earth. Okay, why are you disturbing me 1873 01:44:12.000 --> 01:44:16.119 by bringing me up? Because he was down in the earth. 1874 01:44:17.800 --> 01:44:19.880 This is really interesting, guys, And I think you guys 1875 01:44:19.880 --> 01:44:22.399 should understand in biblical cosmology. When I went over it 1876 01:44:22.439 --> 01:44:26.960 on the show, Heaven is up, Sheil or Hell is 1877 01:44:27.119 --> 01:44:31.039 down in the earth. And he's not coming out of Hell. 1878 01:44:31.119 --> 01:44:34.800 He's coming out of Abraham's bosom. Now, Samuel said to Saul, 1879 01:44:34.800 --> 01:44:39.319 why have you disturbed me bringing me up? And Saul answered, 1880 01:44:39.800 --> 01:44:43.119 I am deeply distressed, for the Philistines make war against me, 1881 01:44:43.199 --> 01:44:45.640 and God has departed from me and does not answer 1882 01:44:45.680 --> 01:44:49.760 me anymore, neither by prophets nor by dreams. Therefore I 1883 01:44:49.760 --> 01:44:52.000 have called you that you may reveal to me what 1884 01:44:52.319 --> 01:44:55.439 should I do. Then, Samuel said, so why do you 1885 01:44:55.520 --> 01:44:57.880 ask me? Seeing the Lord has departed from you and 1886 01:44:57.960 --> 01:45:00.920 has become your enemy. And the Lord has done for himself. 1887 01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:04.319 He has spoken by me, For the Lord has torn 1888 01:45:04.359 --> 01:45:06.239 the kingdom out of your hand and given it to 1889 01:45:06.279 --> 01:45:09.039 your neighbor David, because you did not obey the voice 1890 01:45:09.079 --> 01:45:12.199 of the Lord nor execute his fierce wrath upon Amelek. 1891 01:45:12.720 --> 01:45:16.760 Therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day. Moreover, 1892 01:45:16.800 --> 01:45:20.000 the Lord has also delivered Israel with you into the 1893 01:45:20.039 --> 01:45:22.359 hand of the Philistines. That tomorrow you and your sons 1894 01:45:22.399 --> 01:45:27.359 will be with me. The Lord will also deliver the 1895 01:45:27.479 --> 01:45:30.119 army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines. 1896 01:45:31.239 --> 01:45:31.720 Wow. 1897 01:45:32.039 --> 01:45:35.479 Okay, so this is really interesting because a lot of 1898 01:45:35.479 --> 01:45:36.159 people try to. 1899 01:45:36.159 --> 01:45:38.880 Say, well, we don't know if that was really Samuel. 1900 01:45:38.880 --> 01:45:40.520 They came up or one of like you know some 1901 01:45:40.560 --> 01:45:42.600 people that will be more liberal about this, But I'm 1902 01:45:42.640 --> 01:45:45.720 seeing what I'm seeing. I take the Bible for what 1903 01:45:45.840 --> 01:45:49.920 it is. What I'm seeing is I'm seeing Samuel being 1904 01:45:50.039 --> 01:45:54.000 in the earth in Abraham's bosom in Paradise. On the 1905 01:45:54.039 --> 01:45:57.760 other side is a big chasm. That's where Sheila is located, 1906 01:45:58.640 --> 01:46:02.319 exact thing described by Jesus, our Lord and Savior in 1907 01:46:02.880 --> 01:46:07.840 Luke chapter sixteen. So we have Samuel being in the earth, 1908 01:46:08.479 --> 01:46:11.920 you know, in Paradise doing what I don't know. 1909 01:46:12.079 --> 01:46:13.279 I have no idea what he's doing. 1910 01:46:13.840 --> 01:46:18.000 But it says that the lady when she said, bring 1911 01:46:18.079 --> 01:46:22.039 up he says, bring up Samuel for me. That's what 1912 01:46:22.680 --> 01:46:25.840 Saul says, because he knows as well. He knows biblical cosmology, 1913 01:46:26.399 --> 01:46:28.239 you know what I mean, So does David. David knows 1914 01:46:28.239 --> 01:46:31.359 as well. Saul says. When the woman saw Samuel, she 1915 01:46:31.399 --> 01:46:33.479 cried out with a loud voice and said, why have 1916 01:46:33.560 --> 01:46:34.159 you deceived me? 1917 01:46:34.239 --> 01:46:36.479 For you, Saul? And then the king said to her, 1918 01:46:36.560 --> 01:46:39.159 do not be afraid. What do you see? I saw 1919 01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:41.880 a spirit ascending out of the earth. 1920 01:46:42.359 --> 01:46:46.800 Okay, did this spirit ascend from heaven and come down? 1921 01:46:47.680 --> 01:46:48.720 No? No, no, no no. 1922 01:46:49.199 --> 01:46:55.199 She saw Samuel ascending out of the earth. Very interesting, guys, 1923 01:46:55.479 --> 01:46:58.039 that what's going on here. This is the type of 1924 01:46:58.119 --> 01:47:00.359 thing that I like to go over when I'm going on, like, 1925 01:47:00.399 --> 01:47:04.439 we're his shield located because we have this, we have 1926 01:47:04.560 --> 01:47:07.000 science teachers teaching you that there's just a core of 1927 01:47:07.000 --> 01:47:10.399 the earth and there's a core spinning as well, and 1928 01:47:10.439 --> 01:47:13.039 it's just magma and that's all it is. And there's 1929 01:47:13.119 --> 01:47:16.119 no Hell, there's no shield. Well where's hell located? Well, 1930 01:47:16.119 --> 01:47:20.520 it's in another dimension. Okay, what's the dimension in Hebrew? 1931 01:47:22.159 --> 01:47:24.840 I don't know. So we just got to understand what's 1932 01:47:24.880 --> 01:47:25.560 going on here. 1933 01:47:25.680 --> 01:47:28.680 I take this literal and exactly the way it's talked, 1934 01:47:29.039 --> 01:47:32.479 and I think it's Uh. I think it's really interesting 1935 01:47:32.520 --> 01:47:35.359 what's going on here? Because he's speaking to Samuel. This 1936 01:47:35.439 --> 01:47:37.760 is Samuel speaking. This is not a demon. A demon 1937 01:47:37.840 --> 01:47:41.159 would never tell Saul this. A demon would be like, hey. 1938 01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:43.800 Saul, everything's gonna be all right, don't worry. 1939 01:47:44.199 --> 01:47:47.119 Uh, just continue talking to mediums and they'll help you 1940 01:47:47.159 --> 01:47:49.680 and guide you. Instead of a demon would have said, 1941 01:47:49.720 --> 01:47:51.840 you know what, probably don't speak to the Lord anymore. 1942 01:47:52.239 --> 01:47:54.720 Speak to mediums because obviously you're gonna get the right answer. 1943 01:47:54.840 --> 01:47:56.680 Let me tell you what to do, and you know 1944 01:47:56.840 --> 01:47:59.479 and what you see as Samuel saying, you know what, 1945 01:48:00.199 --> 01:48:03.720 they're gonna deliver you into the hands the Philistines, and 1946 01:48:03.760 --> 01:48:06.680 tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Does 1947 01:48:06.720 --> 01:48:10.800 that mean that that Saul is gonna be going to 1948 01:48:11.479 --> 01:48:14.760 Paradise or is he gonna be going to Shield? 1949 01:48:15.039 --> 01:48:15.840 And we don't know. 1950 01:48:17.000 --> 01:48:20.239 Because you and your sons will be with me, doesn't 1951 01:48:20.319 --> 01:48:22.760 mean that, Okay, you're gonna be with me in Paradise. 1952 01:48:22.800 --> 01:48:27.720 On the paradise side, because he could end up being 1953 01:48:27.920 --> 01:48:32.960 maybe his son Jonathan would end up being with with 1954 01:48:33.319 --> 01:48:37.760 Samuel in Paradise and the soul might be in Abraham's 1955 01:48:37.800 --> 01:48:41.359 are in a in Shield, or he would still be 1956 01:48:41.399 --> 01:48:43.920 able to speak. It looks like because you could see 1957 01:48:43.960 --> 01:48:47.319 in Luke sixteen, they're able to speak, and they got 1958 01:48:47.359 --> 01:48:51.560 all five senses speak. He wants water, he's able to drink, 1959 01:48:51.600 --> 01:48:54.399 he's able to smell, he's able to to hear. You know, 1960 01:48:54.439 --> 01:48:56.239 he's got the five senses while he's in hell. So 1961 01:48:57.199 --> 01:49:02.840 oor sheel, so let's continue. Immediately. Saw fell full length 1962 01:49:02.880 --> 01:49:05.119 to the ground, and he was dreadfully afraid because of 1963 01:49:05.159 --> 01:49:08.039 the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, 1964 01:49:08.079 --> 01:49:12.039 for he had eaten no food all day or all night. 1965 01:49:12.199 --> 01:49:14.560 And the women came to Saul and saw that he 1966 01:49:14.680 --> 01:49:17.399 was severely troubled, and said to him, Look, your maid 1967 01:49:17.439 --> 01:49:19.359 servant has obeyed your voice, and I have put my 1968 01:49:19.439 --> 01:49:21.960 life in your hands and heeded the words which you. 1969 01:49:22.000 --> 01:49:22.520 Spoke to me. 1970 01:49:22.640 --> 01:49:25.920 Therefore, please heat also the voice of your maid servant, 1971 01:49:25.960 --> 01:49:28.600 and let me set a piece of bread before you 1972 01:49:28.640 --> 01:49:31.199 and eat. You may have strength to go on your way. 1973 01:49:31.479 --> 01:49:33.680 But it refuse and said I will not eat. So 1974 01:49:33.800 --> 01:49:36.079 his servants, together with the women, urged him, and he 1975 01:49:36.079 --> 01:49:38.560 heeded their voice. Then he arose from the ground and 1976 01:49:38.560 --> 01:49:40.479 sat on the bed. Now the women had a fat 1977 01:49:40.479 --> 01:49:43.159 and calf in the house, and she hastened to kill it, 1978 01:49:43.600 --> 01:49:46.319 and she took flour and kneaded it and baked and 1979 01:49:46.359 --> 01:49:49.439 livid bread from it. So he brought So she brought 1980 01:49:49.439 --> 01:49:51.560 it before Saul and his servants, and they ate, and 1981 01:49:51.640 --> 01:49:55.119 they rose and went away that night. That's the end 1982 01:49:55.159 --> 01:49:58.479 of chapter twenty eight. Wow, so we know what his 1983 01:49:58.600 --> 01:50:00.760 faith is the next day, right, he's gonna end up 1984 01:50:00.760 --> 01:50:01.399 getting killed. 1985 01:50:02.039 --> 01:50:05.199 But let's see what the appearance of Saul. 1986 01:50:05.279 --> 01:50:08.960 The medium is surprised when Samuel appears, indicating that this 1987 01:50:09.119 --> 01:50:12.520 was not a typical occurrence. Samuel's message to Saul is 1988 01:50:12.600 --> 01:50:16.239 one in judgment, confirming that the Lord has turned against him. 1989 01:50:16.880 --> 01:50:19.720 Let me just see what it says here in my notes. 1990 01:50:20.199 --> 01:50:22.800 The appearance of Samuel is recorded in the Bible is 1991 01:50:22.840 --> 01:50:26.199 a significant event that occurs in First Samuel twenty eight. 1992 01:50:26.640 --> 01:50:27.520 This events take. 1993 01:50:27.399 --> 01:50:30.039 Place during the reign of King Saul, which we already know, 1994 01:50:31.039 --> 01:50:34.000 and it highlights the spiritual and moral decline of Saul 1995 01:50:34.039 --> 01:50:37.800 as he seeks guidance outside of God's will. 1996 01:50:37.920 --> 01:50:39.039 It's huge what he did. 1997 01:50:39.319 --> 01:50:42.199 He went, that's he didn't even wait on the Lord, 1998 01:50:42.279 --> 01:50:44.760 he just went straight to this medium. And wow, that's 1999 01:50:44.960 --> 01:50:48.880 just total disrespect. King Saul, facing the threat of the 2000 01:50:48.880 --> 01:50:52.680 Philistine army, is desperate for guidance. The prophet Samuel, who 2001 01:50:52.760 --> 01:50:55.279 had annoyeded Saul as king, has died, and Saul finds 2002 01:50:55.319 --> 01:50:58.880 himself without divine counsel and his desperation, Saul seeks out 2003 01:50:58.880 --> 01:51:02.239 a medium and Indoor, despite having previously expelled all mediums 2004 01:51:02.239 --> 01:51:05.479 and spiritualists out of the land according with God's law. 2005 01:51:07.760 --> 01:51:10.960 In One Samuel twenty eight, verse three, the encounter at Indoor, 2006 01:51:11.079 --> 01:51:13.800 Saul disguised himself and visits the medium which you already 2007 01:51:13.840 --> 01:51:16.199 know about. We read about Samuel's message. The spirit of 2008 01:51:16.199 --> 01:51:19.119 Samuel peers and questions, Saul, why have you disturbed me 2009 01:51:19.159 --> 01:51:22.520 by bringing me up. Saul explains his dire situation, expressing 2010 01:51:22.560 --> 01:51:25.479 that God has turned away from him no longer answers 2011 01:51:25.640 --> 01:51:28.960 him through prophets or dreams. Samuel's response is a rediation 2012 01:51:29.079 --> 01:51:31.720 of God's judgment against Saul as is disobedient, particularly as 2013 01:51:31.760 --> 01:51:37.640 failure to destroy completely destroy the Amalekites. In On Samuel fifteen, 2014 01:51:38.439 --> 01:51:41.000 Samuel declared to the Lord was torn the kingdom of 2015 01:51:41.039 --> 01:51:43.119 Saul and given it to David, the son of Jesse, 2016 01:51:43.279 --> 01:51:47.000 for the prophesies that Israel will be defeated by the Philistines. 2017 01:51:47.439 --> 01:51:50.800 What's the theological implications of this? The appearance of Samuel 2018 01:51:50.880 --> 01:51:53.880 raised a significant theological question about the afterlife and the 2019 01:51:54.000 --> 01:51:57.680 nature of communication with the dead. The Bible constantly condemns 2020 01:51:57.960 --> 01:52:01.600 necromancy and consulting of the dead in Deuteronomy eighteen, verses 2021 01:52:01.600 --> 01:52:04.600 ten through twelve, and this event underscores the gravity of 2022 01:52:04.680 --> 01:52:09.159 Saul's sin and seeking guidance forbidden means. It serves as 2023 01:52:09.199 --> 01:52:12.560 a stark reminder of the consequences of disobedience and the 2024 01:52:12.600 --> 01:52:17.119 imhortance of seeking God's will through legitimate channels. The moral 2025 01:52:17.159 --> 01:52:20.319 and spiritual lessons Saul encounters with the spirit of Samuel 2026 01:52:20.319 --> 01:52:23.279 illustrates the tragic end of a king who started with 2027 01:52:23.359 --> 01:52:26.319 a great promise but fell due to pride and disobedience. 2028 01:52:26.760 --> 01:52:31.239 It highlights the fullity futility of seeking guidance apart from 2029 01:52:31.359 --> 01:52:36.000 God and inevitable judgment that follows persistent rebellion. This event 2030 01:52:36.039 --> 01:52:39.239 serves as a cautionary tale for believers and remain faithful 2031 01:52:39.399 --> 01:52:42.560 to God's commands to seek his guidance through prayer, scripture, 2032 01:52:42.640 --> 01:52:44.399 and counsel. 2033 01:52:44.159 --> 01:52:45.600 Of godly leaders. 2034 01:52:47.960 --> 01:52:51.279 In the ancient Near Eastern context, necromancy and consultant of 2035 01:52:51.319 --> 01:52:54.960 the dead were come and practices among pagan cultures. Israel 2036 01:52:55.000 --> 01:52:57.720 called to be distinct adhering to God's laws and avoiding 2037 01:52:57.720 --> 01:53:02.600 such practices. Saul's actions reflected to departure from his illustrating 2038 01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:08.880 the synchronism syncretism that often plagued Israel throughout its history. 2039 01:53:10.840 --> 01:53:13.920 Departure from his distinctiveness, I didn't see that part. Illustrating 2040 01:53:13.960 --> 01:53:20.079 this synchronism that often plagued Israel. Through his throughout history conclusion. 2041 01:53:20.119 --> 01:53:22.279 The appearance of Samuel is a pivotal moment in the 2042 01:53:22.359 --> 01:53:26.680 narrative Sal's kingship, making the final confirmation of his downfall. 2043 01:53:26.720 --> 01:53:29.039 It serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of 2044 01:53:29.079 --> 01:53:32.199 dis of obedience to God and the dangers of turning 2045 01:53:32.239 --> 01:53:33.960 to forbidden practices for guidance. 2046 01:53:34.039 --> 01:53:36.079 Okay, I just wanted to get that out you guys. 2047 01:53:36.119 --> 01:53:37.680 That's very important for us to know. 2048 01:53:38.159 --> 01:53:43.119 Don't go speak to mediums or psychics or anything like that. 2049 01:53:43.199 --> 01:53:46.159 It's not of God at all in any way. And 2050 01:53:46.239 --> 01:53:48.079 don't go try to contact the dead. 2051 01:53:48.680 --> 01:53:50.680 All you're gonna do is end up speaking to a demon, 2052 01:53:50.840 --> 01:53:55.600 all right, And this is really it does bring up 2053 01:53:55.720 --> 01:53:59.000 questions about how it is in the afterlife, but there's 2054 01:53:59.039 --> 01:54:02.239 certain things that that kind of point towards what was 2055 01:54:02.279 --> 01:54:02.760 going on. 2056 01:54:02.680 --> 01:54:06.640 Before Jesus's death, before Jesus died on the cross, before 2057 01:54:06.720 --> 01:54:07.920 Nebu was allowed in heaven. 2058 01:54:10.000 --> 01:54:13.119 So it just gets really really interesting, guys when you 2059 01:54:13.239 --> 01:54:15.319 kind of think about it and dig deep. I know 2060 01:54:15.399 --> 01:54:18.920 you guys have probably heard my Biblical cosmology episode. Definitely 2061 01:54:19.279 --> 01:54:22.359 would say to check that thing out. But yeah, we're 2062 01:54:22.359 --> 01:54:25.079 done with Chapter twenty eight. Let's go ahead and go 2063 01:54:25.119 --> 01:54:30.680 into some practical applications. Seek God first in times of trouble. 2064 01:54:30.760 --> 01:54:35.439 Prioritize seeking God's guidance through prayer and scripture rather than 2065 01:54:35.760 --> 01:54:40.319 turning to worldly solutions. Obedience matters. Reflect on areas of 2066 01:54:40.319 --> 01:54:43.039 your life where you may be compromising God's commands and 2067 01:54:43.039 --> 01:54:48.000 seek to realign with his will. Avoid forbidden practices. Recognize 2068 01:54:48.039 --> 01:54:50.880 the dangers of engaging in practices that God has forbidden, 2069 01:54:51.199 --> 01:54:54.319 such as consulting mediums or engaging in the cold activities. 2070 01:54:54.680 --> 01:54:58.399 Trust in God's timing. Understand that God's silence is an absence. 2071 01:54:59.000 --> 01:55:02.279 Trust is not and absence. Trust in his timing, and continued 2072 01:55:02.479 --> 01:55:03.079 to seek. 2073 01:55:03.760 --> 01:55:09.840 Oops, excellent, drop my ring, it's my wedding ring. I 2074 01:55:09.880 --> 01:55:10.479 can't drop that. 2075 01:55:12.199 --> 01:55:15.359 Understand that God's silence is not absence, Trust in his timing, 2076 01:55:15.359 --> 01:55:18.720 and continue to seek him faithfully. All right, and let's 2077 01:55:18.760 --> 01:55:27.479 go ahead and check about just check on some connecting scriptures, 2078 01:55:27.479 --> 01:55:30.960 which are we have Deuteronomy eighteen, verses ten through twelve. 2079 01:55:31.000 --> 01:55:32.399 Let no one be found among you. 2080 01:55:32.640 --> 01:55:36.039 I've already talked about this first Isaiah eight, verse nineteen, 2081 01:55:36.079 --> 01:55:38.279 when men tell you to consult the spirits of the 2082 01:55:38.359 --> 01:55:41.760 dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter. Should not 2083 01:55:42.000 --> 01:55:46.880 people consult their God James one five. If any of 2084 01:55:46.920 --> 01:55:50.359 you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously 2085 01:55:50.479 --> 01:55:51.680 to all without. 2086 01:55:51.359 --> 01:55:54.720 Finding fault, it will be given to him. Okay. 2087 01:55:54.880 --> 01:55:57.720 So not only do you have the Old Testament saying 2088 01:55:57.800 --> 01:56:00.920 warning against that, we also have the New Testament wrening 2089 01:56:00.920 --> 01:56:01.319 against that. 2090 01:56:01.600 --> 01:56:01.880 Okay. 2091 01:56:03.600 --> 01:56:06.520 And there's also lots of warnings against witchcraft and sorcery 2092 01:56:06.600 --> 01:56:11.000 and pharma keia in the New Testament. So what an 2093 01:56:11.039 --> 01:56:14.039 awesome couple chapters there. It looks like we're gonna have 2094 01:56:14.720 --> 01:56:17.560 what twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty one. We'll probably get 2095 01:56:17.600 --> 01:56:20.279 the Second Samuel if we only have those next week. 2096 01:56:20.399 --> 01:56:24.399 So one year anniversary, Happy one year anniversary. 2097 01:56:24.439 --> 01:56:25.239 All glory to God. 2098 01:56:25.279 --> 01:56:29.159 What a blessing to be able to present go through 2099 01:56:29.159 --> 01:56:32.720 a so much different knowledge for you guys through the Bible. 2100 01:56:33.560 --> 01:56:36.119 Praise God for that. But like we always do, let's 2101 01:56:36.199 --> 01:56:39.199 end this in prayer. So, Father God, in the name 2102 01:56:39.239 --> 01:56:41.279 of Jesus, thank you so much for everything you do 2103 01:56:41.399 --> 01:56:46.039 for us. I pray that we have discernment and that 2104 01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:50.000 we seek wisdom in the correct way by seeking it 2105 01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:52.920 through You. I pray that anybody that's listening that ever 2106 01:56:53.000 --> 01:56:56.720 thought about going to a psychic or a medium or 2107 01:56:56.760 --> 01:56:59.880 anything like that. Lord, if you please could assist everybody 2108 01:57:00.239 --> 01:57:03.479 just come to you only supernaturally stop them from even 2109 01:57:03.640 --> 01:57:07.000 thinking thoughts like that. Don't allow the devil to creep in. 2110 01:57:07.359 --> 01:57:10.199 Sometimes we do pray and maybe we're waiting on an answer, 2111 01:57:10.319 --> 01:57:12.479 and then some people they just get impatient and they 2112 01:57:12.520 --> 01:57:15.399 want to go different routes in different ways and speak 2113 01:57:15.439 --> 01:57:18.560 to the dead and necromancy and speak to ir spirits 2114 01:57:18.560 --> 01:57:21.079 and stuff like that. So Lord, I just asked that 2115 01:57:21.119 --> 01:57:24.600 you help anybody that's going through any witchcraft, anybody that's 2116 01:57:24.600 --> 01:57:28.560 praying against our podcast, praying against this Bible study. Lord, 2117 01:57:28.600 --> 01:57:30.680 I asked that you rebuke them in the name of Jesus. 2118 01:57:31.000 --> 01:57:32.000 I know there's probably some. 2119 01:57:31.920 --> 01:57:33.800 People that maybe are doing that. 2120 01:57:33.880 --> 01:57:36.479 You know, there might be some witches that might hear this, 2121 01:57:38.600 --> 01:57:41.079 or sorcerers or anything like that of the sort. They 2122 01:57:41.159 --> 01:57:43.720 might be listening to this podcast and not like the 2123 01:57:43.760 --> 01:57:47.720 fact that I talked about, you know, and verse Samuel 2124 01:57:47.720 --> 01:57:49.560 twenty eight. They might not like that, you know, but 2125 01:57:50.079 --> 01:57:51.479 you know, it is what it is, you know, And 2126 01:57:51.680 --> 01:57:54.239 all the verses that I was speaking about. 2127 01:57:53.960 --> 01:57:55.359 That rebuke, that kind of action. 2128 01:57:55.439 --> 01:57:57.119 They might not like it, but Lord, I just asked 2129 01:57:57.119 --> 01:57:59.600 that you flick them off like little bugs, because I 2130 01:57:59.640 --> 01:58:02.640 know that these little demons that try to come and attack, Lord, 2131 01:58:02.640 --> 01:58:04.840 they're nothing to you. So Lord, just flick them off 2132 01:58:04.840 --> 01:58:07.439 like little bugs, like they deserve. And I just want 2133 01:58:07.479 --> 01:58:09.960 to say, Lord, I appreciate everything you do for me, 2134 01:58:10.439 --> 01:58:12.760 everything you do for everybody that listens to this show. 2135 01:58:12.800 --> 01:58:15.840 Thank you for one year of Sunday service. Lord, and 2136 01:58:15.920 --> 01:58:17.600 I just want to ask that you give us another 2137 01:58:17.720 --> 01:58:19.239 year of Sunday service. 2138 01:58:19.319 --> 01:58:21.880 Allow us to finish the Bible at least. 2139 01:58:22.159 --> 01:58:25.319 Lord, allow us to finish the Bible at least. And 2140 01:58:25.479 --> 01:58:28.159 I would love to continue, but I just want to 2141 01:58:28.159 --> 01:58:30.880 ask that you at least, Lord, that's the goal. Finish 2142 01:58:30.960 --> 01:58:33.920 the Bible all the way through from Genesis to Revelation. 2143 01:58:34.399 --> 01:58:37.119 And Lord, please allow me to do my very best 2144 01:58:37.119 --> 01:58:40.199 to teach the word. I appreciate everything you do for me, Lord, 2145 01:58:40.319 --> 01:58:42.520 and everything you do for everyone that's listening. I love 2146 01:58:42.560 --> 01:58:47.640 you in Jesus' name. Amen, thank you guys for listening. Yeah, 2147 01:58:48.239 --> 01:58:50.640 so happy and excited. I just want to thank could 2148 01:58:50.680 --> 01:58:55.119 the Conspiracy Podcast for one year of Sunday Service. And 2149 01:58:55.159 --> 01:58:57.600 also I want to thank God for one year of 2150 01:58:57.640 --> 01:59:00.000 Sunday Service. And I want to thank all of you 2151 01:59:00.039 --> 01:59:03.039 because this show would be nothing without everybody that's listening. Okay, 2152 01:59:03.119 --> 01:59:06.359 so please give me a comment below if you want 2153 01:59:06.399 --> 01:59:09.319 to say congratulations on fifty two weeks or one year 2154 01:59:09.600 --> 01:59:12.119 of Sunday Service. I definitely appreciate it. This is episode 2155 01:59:12.119 --> 01:59:14.079 fifty two and this is the end of it. Thank 2156 01:59:14.159 --> 01:59:15.760 you everybody for tuning in. 2157 01:59:16.000 --> 01:59:16.760 God bless you.