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Good morning.

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There's nobody here.

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Every last day you go around, turn back to face. With the darkness all that's in front, still I will sing.

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What's the name of the Lord? What's the real name? What's the name of the Lord? What's the real God in your name?

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Let there be a place in the land that is massive and full of the wishes of a violent soul.

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Let there be a place.

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Let there be a place. When I'm out in the desert, when I'm walking alone, let there be a place.

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Every last day you go around, turn back to face. With the darkness all that's in front, still I will sing.

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What's the name of the Lord? What's the real God in your name? What's the real name of the Lord? What's the real God in your name?

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Let there be a place in the land that is massive and full of the wishes of a violent soul.

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Breaking out from the children of freedom. Every race and every nation singing out, singing to you, hallelujah.

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Let us sing love to the nations. Breaking out from the race that excretes us.

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Making war and making bravest. Sing it out, sing anew, hallelujah.

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Let the hearts get to turn to rise. Let the heart beat to the other side.

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Let the heart beat to the other side. Let the heart beat to the other side.

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And when you hear that's a new song. Breaking out from the children of freedom. Every race and every nation.

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Singing out, singing anew, hallelujah.

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I'll give you all my worship. I'll give you all my praise. You Lord I long to worship. You Lord are worthy of my praise.

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I'll give you all my worship. I'll give you all my praise. You Lord are worthy of my praise. You Lord are worthy of my praise.

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I will sing you upon my head for all of my days. And I will live and I will follow all your ways.

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I'll give you all my worship. I'll give you all my praise. You Lord I long to worship. You Lord are worthy of my praise.

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Alright, so this is our time for our experience. This is what happens today. It's going to go by fairly quickly.

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I did hand out to all of the adult teenagers that were available at that time this quiz. I promise they'll be on Tuesday.

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So if you were here on Tuesday and you know this material, let's start with just the bottom section.

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I'm going to ask you to have all the answers right now. But if you are here and you think you know all of the answers,

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right here, 100%, and you can get them. Is there anybody that can say yes?

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Okay, that's fine. So this is the ones.

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RJ is not her say confident in a couple of them. If you think he knows, he's not sure.

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It's up to you. Do you want to take a stab at it? Maybe you'll get them all right?

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Alright, so the first one is David's son who abstained.

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Absalom is correct. So if you want to get these answers on right now, that will help you later.

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Prophet who almost spoke God's wisdom.

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One of the hardest ones.

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Hold on.

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That is correct.

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So it's two for two. The prophet who...

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Absalom both looked at him and said he spoke wisdom.

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He spoke from the mouth of God or the word of God.

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This man was loyal to David, a priest, but was sent back to Jerusalem.

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This is the time.

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That is incorrect. Jason, you know it?

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Here we go. It is a die. So you're going to pick up from there when your dad left off.

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Oh, that is what I put down.

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Oh, I see.

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Okay, here we go. Put school of God. Everyone knows that one, right?

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The Ark of the Covenant. That's right. From Gath, David killed him.

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Tim, who did David kill from Gath? Remember?

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Goliath. That's right. Goliath was from Gath and David killed him.

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It's probably the most famous one-on-one battle in the Bible.

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Gath, but became David's general. Jason? It's a die.

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That's correct. It's a die is correct.

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This person cursed Ahithophel begging God.

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No. Anybody know it? Jason?

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It's David. That's correct.

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David cursed Ahithophel begging God. This person is probably the hardest name on the list.

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Zadok's son, the messenger. He was one of Ahithophel's messengers.

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That's correct. Very good, Jason.

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The last one was a little bit tricky. This person committed suicide.

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The only person in this entire list who committed suicide.

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That is incorrect.

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Is that anybody?

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That is correct. It was Ahithophel. That's a little bit tricky.

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That one was used quite. Also, you'll notice that Jonathan, Saul, and Samuel, which are very famous

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Bible names, none of them were used because they're not in there.

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The map is up here. I'm not going to do the map right now. Do this quiz for yourself.

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Listen, here's the thing. The bottom ones are not as important. Maybe they're

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important because they're biblical like that. Knowing this map, where these things are located at,

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is hugely important. I will illustrate that to you for a second.

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You look right smack in the middle of your map where it says, Philistia.

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You'll see the letter F and the letter E. Did anybody get the letter E?

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That is incorrect. F is gap.

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Normally you would know. You're like, that's weird.

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What is there? Go ahead.

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It's Gila, which is where David and Gila had fought.

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Now you can see that's gap just inside the border there.

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To give you an idea, on this map, take your fingers and go like this.

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Go from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. See that?

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Now take a guess how far that is in real life. Does anybody know how wide the promised land is?

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Gath and Gila are not very far away.

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Goliath was from Gath. He was that far from home when he met

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David and they fought and David killed him. This is 70 miles.

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It's probably talking about 5 to 10 miles to be my guess. Not very far.

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And almost in his hometown.

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And whose hometown is that? Whose hometown is Bethlehem?

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So you've got Gath, Gila, and Bethlehem.

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So basically what you've got is a situation where a guy from Bowling Green and a guy from Toledo got together

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and they fought and one killed the other. And the guy that won the fight was from

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like, let's see, maybe Grand Rapids. Not so far, right?

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So you've got a place where you can go and you can read the Bible.

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And when you read the Bible, you can read the Bible.

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And you can read the Bible, and you can read the Bible.

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And you don't have to worry about it. These are hometown boys and you'd better believe it's spread.

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So knowing those locations, knowing where these things are on this map when you're reading the Bible, you can know

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like it says the army marches from here to there. If you in your mind know where here is and there is,

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you know what that looks like. And you should. And it's Bible intake time, baby.

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Or you don't watch a police show and it's like Hawaii Five-O and you just forget

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that it's Hawaii. Because in those opening scenes, they show all those pictures of Hawaii,

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right? So you know it's Hawaii. You know it's not like this is not like Midwest America.

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It's Hawaii, right? And they have an NCIS for all of these different

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locations. And if you watch those shows, they highlight the culture

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and the geography and what things look like in those areas.

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And so we need to know where the Bible is taking place. If you can't look

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on a map, by the way, Gaza's on here. Pretty famous place.

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The newsletter H on the map. Pretty famous place in the world.

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Right now, right? Not just in the world. And then Jerusalem is on here.

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Pretty famous place in the world right now, right? And so if you

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watch the news and you're like, oh gosh, I didn't realize, did you realize

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that Jerusalem is not that far from Bethlehem where Jesus was born.

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And there's war there right now still. I mean off and on for centuries, right?

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Millennia. There's been war there. There's war there now. Not that far from where the King

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of Peace was born and David was born and where David killed

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Goliath. It's not far from where they're fighting today. You understand?

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So you can put that in perspective. It adds another dimension, another

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level of understanding. Now we study these things on these nights. If you're not able to come on these

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nights, then you've got to do the work yourself, right? You can get the worksheets online.

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You can watch it on Facebook. We do try every week and we've been pretty good about that

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a couple times ago when we lost the audio. But it's

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been pretty good. So you can get that information. And I'll tell you what, you can't

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go to churches. There's not a lot of churches out there. They're going to teach you the setting

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of the Bible or they're going to teach you the teachings of the Bible. They'll teach you exactly like a train.

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They'll teach you so that you can know exactly what God is saying from the text. We're not making this stuff up.

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This is real. This actually happened. It's historical. You can learn it.

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week. Within a couple of weeks of the outside, if you're not able to come on Tuesday nights and you're

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gonna do the work yourself, in a couple weeks of the outside, you should be able to get 100% on this

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quiz. You should know where every one of these locations are. And when we did it on Tuesday,

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we had another eight to ten locations on there, okay? So let me encourage you to learn and grow

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in the Lord and taking your Bible. All right, we're gonna pray at this time. We move on to the time

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and offering, then I spring from dude, darüber, as we pray. Our Lord, thank you for taking in

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Blessed offering as we pick it up.

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We thank you, Lord, for everything you have given us.

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We appreciate it all.

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Everything you have given us.

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And now, watch over us.

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Thank you.

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Piano imitations...

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I am so sorry.

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I have to open up the chorus.

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Don't go there.

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Worship God.

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Don't get him off the plane.

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Morning stars, they're wet.

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Morning sun, they're still.

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The Savior of the world has come.

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His body on the cross

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His blood poured out over us

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The weight of that weight does upon him.

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One final breath it gave

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His heaven looked away

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The sun of God was laying in darkness

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A battle in the grave

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The war on death was waged

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The power of hell forever broken

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The ground began to shake

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The soul was thrown away

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His breath did not touch the earth

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Now that when you're saved

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Our resurrection king

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Has raised his crown of freedom

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Forever he is

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His power has come

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Forever he is

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His power has come

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He is alive

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The ground began to shake

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The soul was thrown away

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His breath did not touch the earth

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Our resurrection king

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We sing hallelujah

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We sing hallelujah

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Theavors overcome

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The airl preset overcome

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The mountain hands are straight, the snow is all the way

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This heart that knows it cannot be broken

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Forever he is the rest that has

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Forever he is free and set

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Forever he is the rest he is forever

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Every secret, every shame, every fear, every pain

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We were meant for more than this

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Make the most of the time we have alive

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We are the light of the world

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We are the city on a hill

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We are the light of the world

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We got it, we got it, we got it, let the light shine

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We are the light of the world

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We are the city on a hill

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We are the light of the world

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We got it, we got it, we got it, let the light shine

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Let your light shine, let your light shine

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We are called to spread the news

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Tell the world the simple truth

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Jesus came to save

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His freedom is His name

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We are the light of the world

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We are the city on a hill

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We got it, we got it, we got it, let the light shine

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We got it, we got it, we got it, let the light shine

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Jesus, you are the light

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She was alive, she was alive

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We will live to write and shine, shine, shine

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We are the light of the world

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We are the city on a hill

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We are the light of the world

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And we gotta, we gotta, we gotta let the light shine

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We are the light of the world

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We are the city on a hill

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We are the light of the world

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And we gotta, we gotta, we gotta let the light shine

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Who knew love's sin

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And we might become

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His righteousness

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We don't know themself

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Carry the cross

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Love so amazing

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Love so amazing

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Jesus Messiah

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Reign above all things

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Blessed, raging, above

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Rescue for sinners

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Ransom for better

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Jesus Messiah

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Reign above

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Reign above

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This town of red

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This town of red

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This flood of wine

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Broken and poured out

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The Lord of

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Reign above

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This town of red

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This flood of wine

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Broken and poured out

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This town of red

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Broken and poured out

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Blessed, raging, above

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Rescue for sinners

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Ransom for better

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Lord of all

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My life of love is in you

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My life of love is in you

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My life of love is in you

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My life of love is in you

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The life of love

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Jesus Messiah

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Alright, before we get started, I need a few volunteers.

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So I need two volunteers who think that they might be just a hint of artsy-craftsy.

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We can take Josh, okay I'll take Tyler, but we're going to try to leave Josh out of it

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if we can because we know Josh is artsy-craftsy because he's called of God to be artsy-craftsy.

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So I've got Tyler so far, I need one more.

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Alright Alex, if the two of you are going to come up here.

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Okay I'm going to need a third volunteer, someone that considers themselves to be a

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little bit physical and you might get hurt so don't volunteer unless your parents give

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you permission.

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So you're going to take these and you're going to take this.

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Alright, what you want to do is go back corner over there and I need you guys to turn this

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into a cage.

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Okay I've already made five sides for you and then here's the rest of the pieces and

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you're going to be a three-dimensional cage.

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Okay, alright go ahead.

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Alright who is the courageous one?

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Okay you're going to be my courageous one?

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Alright I'm going to come up here.

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Okay you're going to go back there right just in front of the garbage can.

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They're going to work on their cage.

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Alex and Tyler listen to me for a second.

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You can only work on the cage while Haley is either doing push-ups, sit-ups, or jumping

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jacks.

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If she stops you have to stop.

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Understand?

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Okay go ahead.

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You volunteered, go back there in front of the garbage can.

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Be quiet about it because we're going to be doing things up here.

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So you all got to listen while you're crafting and don't build unless she's either doing

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sit-ups, push-ups, or jumping jacks.

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She can't do jumping jacks, she's afraid she'll fall on her face.

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So okay jumping jacks it is.

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Alright you guys hurry up because she's going to get tired.

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Okay so today's Bible story comes out of the book of 1 Samuel.

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We know that the book of 1 Samuel is essentially where we see David getting ready to come

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to kingship.

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And Samuel was the high priest who anointed David with oil and told him you will be king.

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When he first chose David, David was a boy.

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All of his older brothers might have been king but he wasn't.

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But they weren't.

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They chose David.

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They didn't choose the handsome, didn't chose the physically strong, they chose the one

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who would eventually be a man after God's own heart.

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At this point in time in the story where we're picking it up, David is on the run for his

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life.

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He's got about 600 guys with him, faithful warriors, and he is on, don't talk please

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because we're talking up here.

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So he's got about 600 guys with him, faithful warriors, and they're on the run from Saul.

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He doesn't want to kill Saul.

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He figures God will take care of Saul.

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And then David is staying out in the fields and he runs into, he and his men run into

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the shepherds and guards of a certain individual.

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And they do not molest them, they don't have anything to do with their animals, they don't

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take from them in any way, they protect them from predators, that kind of thing as anyone

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might do who is a responsible military man in the wilderness.

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And then we pick up from there.

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So if you grab your Bibles and maybe get just a little bit excited with me, say a little

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hallelujah and amen or something as we go to 1 Samuel chapter 25.

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Thank you very much.

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This is the word of God.

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If you allow it, this experience of just reading this text, and I'll break it down a little

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as we go, but just reading this text will change your life.

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God's word never goes out and comes back without fruit.

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And so here we go.

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And we're going to begin reading in 1 Samuel chapter 25 and verse 2.

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It's a kind of long text, but I'll just make sure I explain things as we're going along,

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but I'm not going to break down every verse because we'd be here for a long time if I

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did that.

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So there was a man whose business was in Carmel.

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Does anybody know on that map where Carmel is?

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Yeah, neither do I.

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So we don't actually know where the story is taking place.

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Boy, wouldn't it be good if we did?

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We should probably learn that, right?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So there was a man whose business was in Carmel, and the man was very rich, and he had 3,000

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sheep and 1,000 goats, and that's a lot.

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And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

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Now the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail, and the woman was intelligent

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and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings.

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And he was a Calebite.

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That means he was a descendant of Caleb.

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Who was Caleb?

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There were two spies that came back and gave an accurate report, and 10 that lied because

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they were afraid, right?

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The two spies that gave the accurate report were Joshua and Caleb.

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So this guy is a descendant of Caleb, and he's shrewd, but he's also kind of mean and

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evil.

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So he's smart.

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He knows how to do business, but he doesn't do business in a godly way, per se.

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He's always out for himself.

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He's got a beautiful and intelligent wife, verse 4, that David heard in the wilderness

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that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

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So now this is shearing time.

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So all the sheep are getting their wool cut off.

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How many sheep were there?

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3,000.

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This is not a one-day project.

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It doesn't matter how many people you have doing it.

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Probably it's not a one-day project.

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And so this is like a festival.

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It's ongoing, the shearing of all the sheep, taking all the wool off.

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And then this is also a time of great festivities.

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So this is a celebration because people are getting rich.

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The workers are getting well paid.

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The owners of the sheep are getting well paid.

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Everybody is getting rich.

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So they feast and they celebrate and they drink, especially at night and so on.

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Now verse 5.

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So David sent ten young men and David said to the young men, go up to Carmel, visit Nabal

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and greet him in my name.

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And thus you shall say, have a long life.

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Peace be to you and peace be to your house and peace be to all that you have.

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And those are pretty good blessings from an anointed one of God, a person chosen of God

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to be the king over his people, verse 7.

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And now I have heard that you have shearers, now your shepherds, have been with us and

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we have not insulted them, nor have they missed anything all the days that they were in Carmel.

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Ask your young men and they will tell you.

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Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a festive day.

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So in other words, y'all are partying and getting rich.

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So our men are coming.

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Have a good feeling toward them.

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Show them your love and care.

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Please give whatever you find at hand to your servants and to your son David.

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When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in David's

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name.

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Then they waited.

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But Nabal answered David's servants and said, who's David?

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And who is the son of Jesse?

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There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master.

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Okay, now we gotta stop there for a second before we go on and understand what's going

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on.

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So the ten men come to Nabal and they ask exactly as David suggested that they ask.

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And they...

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Almost there.

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Almost there.

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Almost there.

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It's good.

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There we go.

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David, David blesses you today.

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Blessing to you and all your people and all your lands.

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Please give to us in this great festive time.

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We have 600 men living in the wilderness and we don't have crops and we don't have sheep.

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We don't have goats.

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Please give to us.

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Nabal says, nah, who is this guy?

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A son of Jesse?

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I'm not giving nothing.

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In fact, he says to the ten men who are David's men, he says, understand, a lot of people

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are breaking away from their master right now.

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You hear what he's saying?

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He's saying you don't have to go back and be with David.

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You can stay with me and I'll take care of you.

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Right?

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Not only that, he's saying, David?

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So he's breaking off from Saul.

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So he's one of those men.

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So if you, if you think, well, I wouldn't break off from David and stay with me, well,

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then now you're stuck because David's breaking off from Saul who you're loyal to.

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So this whole idea of breaking off from your master, that's what David's been.

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He's breaking off from Saul.

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So if you'd say you wouldn't break off from David and join me, then what would you say

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about David who's breaking off from his master, Saul?

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See?

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So they're kind of stuck.

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They don't really pay him any attention.

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They expected that he would respond positively and he doesn't.

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Verse 11 says, shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered

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for my shears and give it to men whose origin I do not know?

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So David's young man retraced their way and back and they came and told him, according

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to all these words, they said to David, this is what the guy said.

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And David said to his men, each of you gird on your sword.

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So each man girded on his sword and David also girded on his sword.

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And about 400 men went up behind David while 200 stayed with the baggage.

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So of the 600 men, 200 stayed with the baggage.

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That's all their luggage, their backpacks, their camping gear, all that kind of stuff

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stay there.

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And 400 of us are going to go with our swords and we're going to go out and take a, we're

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going to pay this Nabal a little visit.

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14.

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But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife.

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So now Abigail, remember she's beautiful and intelligent.

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And one of the young men told Abigail this, behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness

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to greet our master and he scorned them.

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So this is one of Nabal's guys and he sees a problem developing.

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And so he's going to tell Nabal's wife and he says to Abigail, he scorned them.

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Yet the men were very good to us.

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So while we were in the fields, they did take care of us.

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And while we were not insulted, nor did we miss anything as long as we went about with

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them while we were in the field.

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So we know that these are good guys and maybe their requests should have been honored.

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00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:53,900
Verse 16.

489
00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:57,220
They were a wall to us by both night and by day.

490
00:36:57,220 --> 00:36:59,380
All the time we were with them tending the sheep.

491
00:36:59,380 --> 00:37:02,020
We were always taking care of them.

492
00:37:02,020 --> 00:37:03,020
Verse 17.

493
00:37:03,020 --> 00:37:11,260
Now therefore know and consider what you should do for evil is plotted against our master

494
00:37:11,260 --> 00:37:17,020
and against all his household and he is such a worthless man that no one can speak to him.

495
00:37:17,020 --> 00:37:18,180
Do you hear that?

496
00:37:18,180 --> 00:37:26,220
So Nabal, by his own wife, she's being told by this guy, he's his servant, our master,

497
00:37:26,220 --> 00:37:27,220
we are in trouble.

498
00:37:27,220 --> 00:37:28,460
This is not going to be good.

499
00:37:28,460 --> 00:37:32,180
These men are going to come against us because it makes sense because we didn't honor all

500
00:37:32,180 --> 00:37:34,820
that sacrifice and work that they did for us.

501
00:37:34,820 --> 00:37:36,860
And no one can talk to Nabal for all of our effort.

502
00:37:36,860 --> 00:37:38,580
For all of our effort, we can't even talk to him.

503
00:37:38,580 --> 00:37:40,180
We can't get through to him.

504
00:37:40,180 --> 00:37:41,180
Verse 18.

505
00:37:41,180 --> 00:37:45,180
Then Abigail hurried and took 200 loaves of bread, two jugs of wine, five sheep already

506
00:37:45,180 --> 00:37:51,740
prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and 200

507
00:37:51,740 --> 00:37:52,740
cakes of figs.

508
00:37:52,740 --> 00:37:54,620
She loaded them on donkeys.

509
00:37:54,620 --> 00:37:56,660
She said to her young men, go on before me.

510
00:37:56,660 --> 00:37:58,420
Behold, I am coming after you.

511
00:37:58,420 --> 00:38:01,340
But she did not tell her husband Nabal, so she's going without his knowledge.

512
00:38:01,340 --> 00:38:05,260
And it came about as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by the hidden part

513
00:38:05,260 --> 00:38:08,700
of the mountain, that behold, David and his men were coming down toward her.

514
00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:11,220
So here comes the 400 men armed with swords.

515
00:38:11,220 --> 00:38:12,700
And she's on the back of a donkey.

516
00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:15,500
She's got a few guys in front of her and she's got the stuff that she's taken to David.

517
00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:16,500
Verse 21.

518
00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:21,740
Now David had said, surely in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness

519
00:38:21,740 --> 00:38:27,420
so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him and he has returned me evil for good.

520
00:38:27,420 --> 00:38:32,380
So David says, surely we did all this now that Nabal refuses to do good by us.

521
00:38:32,380 --> 00:38:33,380
22.

522
00:38:33,380 --> 00:38:38,460
May God do so to the enemies of David and more also if by morning I leave as much as

523
00:38:38,460 --> 00:38:41,260
one male of any who belonged to him.

524
00:38:41,260 --> 00:38:48,600
David said, we're going to kill every living male in Nabal's mansion compound employ.

525
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,220
Every living man is going to be killed.

526
00:38:50,220 --> 00:38:51,220
23.

527
00:38:51,220 --> 00:38:55,100
When Abigail saw David, she hurried, dismounted from her donkey, fell on her face before David

528
00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:56,740
and bowed herself to the ground.

529
00:38:56,740 --> 00:38:58,340
So let's be clear about this.

530
00:38:58,340 --> 00:38:59,340
Make sure we understand what happens.

531
00:38:59,340 --> 00:39:00,340
24.

532
00:39:00,340 --> 00:39:04,620
Here is a man who has a promise from God that he will be king over God's people.

533
00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:05,620
He has a promise from God.

534
00:39:05,620 --> 00:39:08,020
He's not fulfilled yet, but he has a promise from God.

535
00:39:08,020 --> 00:39:09,020
Who does that sound like?

536
00:39:09,020 --> 00:39:10,300
Do we have a promise from God?

537
00:39:10,300 --> 00:39:12,020
We have a promise from God, do we not?

538
00:39:12,020 --> 00:39:15,380
So here is a man who has a promise from God and he's going about with the servants of

539
00:39:15,380 --> 00:39:19,220
this wicked man and they have done good to the servants of the wicked man.

540
00:39:19,220 --> 00:39:23,140
The wicked man behaves to them now wickedly by David's estimation.

541
00:39:23,140 --> 00:39:27,900
By the estimation of the man who has a promise from God, he has been mistreated.

542
00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:30,980
His servants, his family, the people with him, they have been mistreated.

543
00:39:30,980 --> 00:39:37,140
So a man who has a promise from God has been mistreated by a wicked man and his estate.

544
00:39:37,140 --> 00:39:39,620
And he's going to exact his revenge.

545
00:39:39,620 --> 00:39:41,940
He's going to deal justice to Nabal.

546
00:39:41,940 --> 00:39:44,460
Even Nabal's man thinks it's justice.

547
00:39:44,460 --> 00:39:45,980
Abigail is who?

548
00:39:45,980 --> 00:39:47,820
She is the wife of the wicked man.

549
00:39:47,820 --> 00:39:49,640
So she's close to the wicked man.

550
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,340
She lives in his house.

551
00:39:51,340 --> 00:39:53,900
She does not have a promise from God like David does.

552
00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:54,900
You follow this?

553
00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:58,820
She's going to go out and she's now going to try to arrest the vengeance.

554
00:39:58,820 --> 00:40:01,140
She's going to try to stop the vengeance.

555
00:40:01,140 --> 00:40:02,140
You follow?

556
00:40:02,140 --> 00:40:04,900
So she's going to go to the man who has a promise and speak to him.

557
00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:05,900
That's where we're at.

558
00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:10,980
Verse 24, she fell at his feet and said, on me alone, my Lord, be the blame.

559
00:40:10,980 --> 00:40:11,980
So what does she do?

560
00:40:11,980 --> 00:40:13,260
She humbles herself.

561
00:40:13,260 --> 00:40:17,220
And please let your maidservant speak to you and listen to the words of your maidservant.

562
00:40:17,220 --> 00:40:22,220
Please do not let my Lord, that's David, pay attention to this worthless man.

563
00:40:22,220 --> 00:40:24,140
So what is she asking David to do?

564
00:40:24,140 --> 00:40:28,140
She's asking David to essentially forget him, to have nothing to do with him, to not deal

565
00:40:28,140 --> 00:40:32,580
justice, to not interact with Nabal at all.

566
00:40:32,580 --> 00:40:34,100
That's what she says.

567
00:40:34,100 --> 00:40:40,220
Please do not let my Lord, that's David, pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for

568
00:40:40,220 --> 00:40:42,340
as his name is, so is he.

569
00:40:42,340 --> 00:40:43,700
And Nabal means folly.

570
00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:46,780
Nabal is his name and folly is with him.

571
00:40:46,780 --> 00:40:51,740
But I, your maidservant, did not see the young man of my Lord whom you sent.

572
00:40:51,740 --> 00:40:54,380
So I was there, but I missed it when they came.

573
00:40:54,380 --> 00:40:59,100
Verse 26, now therefore my Lord and the Lord lives as the Lord lives, that Lord there,

574
00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:01,540
the capital L-O-R-D, we learned about that.

575
00:41:01,540 --> 00:41:02,540
Remember what that means?

576
00:41:02,540 --> 00:41:03,540
Anybody remember?

577
00:41:03,540 --> 00:41:06,060
We see the capitals all in capitals like that.

578
00:41:06,060 --> 00:41:09,460
It's God, specifically the creator God, Yahweh.

579
00:41:09,460 --> 00:41:10,940
So the word there in the text is Yahweh.

580
00:41:10,940 --> 00:41:13,300
Whenever they do that, that makes the word Yahweh.

581
00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:17,680
Now therefore my Lord and the creator God, the one who created everything, lives.

582
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,140
And as your soul lives, since the Lord has restrained you from shedding blood and from

583
00:41:22,140 --> 00:41:27,200
avenging yourself by your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek evil against

584
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,200
my Lord be as Nabal.

585
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:34,860
So in other words, if you will not go and destroy Nabal, then God will take care of

586
00:41:34,860 --> 00:41:36,660
these other enemies for you.

587
00:41:36,660 --> 00:41:38,900
That's what she's asking for, 27.

588
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:44,520
Now let this gift with your maid servant has brought to my Lord be given to your young

589
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,580
man who accompany my Lord.

590
00:41:46,580 --> 00:41:48,340
Please forgive the transgression of your maid servant.

591
00:41:48,340 --> 00:41:51,000
So the mistakes I have made, forgive me, she says.

592
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:56,240
For the Lord will certainly make for my Lord an enduring house because my Lord is fighting

593
00:41:56,240 --> 00:42:00,000
the battles of the Lord and evil shall not be found in you all your days.

594
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,000
You see that?

595
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,460
What she is arguing is that David is not ordained king to fight for David.

596
00:42:05,460 --> 00:42:08,180
That he's not ordained king to fight for God's people.

597
00:42:08,180 --> 00:42:10,980
That he is ordained king to fight God's battles.

598
00:42:10,980 --> 00:42:11,980
You follow that?

599
00:42:11,980 --> 00:42:12,980
That's what she's saying.

600
00:42:12,980 --> 00:42:16,980
And if you are the person who is ordained to fight God's battles, then God will fight

601
00:42:16,980 --> 00:42:17,980
your battles.

602
00:42:17,980 --> 00:42:19,260
That's what she's saying.

603
00:42:19,260 --> 00:42:20,260
Verse 29.

604
00:42:20,260 --> 00:42:24,260
And should anyone rise up to pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my Lord shall

605
00:42:24,260 --> 00:42:28,740
be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies

606
00:42:28,740 --> 00:42:31,740
he will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

607
00:42:31,740 --> 00:42:35,180
And it shall come about when the Lord shall do...

608
00:42:35,180 --> 00:42:36,660
You guys okay back there?

609
00:42:36,660 --> 00:42:37,740
Are you about done?

610
00:42:37,740 --> 00:42:38,740
She's still working?

611
00:42:38,740 --> 00:42:40,980
She's still going?

612
00:42:40,980 --> 00:42:43,700
You can do almost the whole thing without the tape probably.

613
00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:45,580
Alright, focus.

614
00:42:45,580 --> 00:42:47,020
We're almost to the point we need it.

615
00:42:47,020 --> 00:42:51,060
We should have had Haley making it and Ty doing the pushups, huh?

616
00:42:51,060 --> 00:42:53,500
Michael's like, yeah, that's how we should have done it.

617
00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:54,500
Okay.

618
00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:55,500
Alright, here we go.

619
00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:56,500
Alright, so 30.

620
00:42:56,500 --> 00:42:59,780
And it shall come about when the Lord shall do for my Lord according to all the good that

621
00:42:59,780 --> 00:43:00,980
he has spoken concerning you.

622
00:43:00,980 --> 00:43:05,920
In other words, when God fulfills his promises for you and shall appoint you ruler over Israel,

623
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:11,820
that this will not cause grief or a troubled heart to my Lord, which is David, both by

624
00:43:11,820 --> 00:43:15,900
having shed blood without cause and by my Lord having avenged himself.

625
00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:20,060
So if David went and avenged himself and dealt justice to Nabal and his household, then she

626
00:43:20,060 --> 00:43:22,240
says that'll trouble you when the time comes.

627
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:25,000
But if you don't do it now, then it won't trouble you then.

628
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,660
When the Lord shall deal well with my Lord, then remember your maid servant.

629
00:43:28,660 --> 00:43:32,940
In other words, when the promises God has made to you are fulfilled, when that has happened,

630
00:43:32,940 --> 00:43:35,080
then don't forget that I was the one, I was here.

631
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,080
Now 32.

632
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,500
David said to Abigail, blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent you this day to meet

633
00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:44,820
me and blessed be your discernment and blessed be you who have kept me this day from bloodshed

634
00:43:44,820 --> 00:43:47,700
and from avenging myself by my own hand.

635
00:43:47,700 --> 00:43:49,580
That's huge right there, by my own hand.

636
00:43:49,580 --> 00:43:53,460
Nevertheless, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from harming you, unless

637
00:43:53,460 --> 00:43:58,300
you had come quickly to meet me, surely there would not have been left in Nabal until morning

638
00:43:58,300 --> 00:44:00,140
light as much as one male.

639
00:44:00,140 --> 00:44:01,660
In other words, I was gonna keep my promise.

640
00:44:01,660 --> 00:44:03,660
I was gonna go and kill every man.

641
00:44:03,660 --> 00:44:07,300
So David received from her hand what she had brought him and he said to her, go up to the

642
00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:10,620
house in peace, see I have listened to you and granted your request.

643
00:44:10,620 --> 00:44:11,860
So he sent her back home.

644
00:44:11,860 --> 00:44:12,860
Verse 36.

645
00:44:12,860 --> 00:44:17,460
Abigail came to Nabal and behold he was holding a feast in his house like the feast of a king.

646
00:44:17,460 --> 00:44:18,700
That's kind of ironic isn't it?

647
00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:20,740
He didn't let the king come to the feast.

648
00:44:20,740 --> 00:44:24,260
And Nabal's heart was merry within him and he was very drunk.

649
00:44:24,260 --> 00:44:27,140
So she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light.

650
00:44:27,140 --> 00:44:32,620
But it came about in the morning when the wine had gone out of Nabal that his wife told

651
00:44:32,620 --> 00:44:38,100
him these things and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone.

652
00:44:38,100 --> 00:44:40,100
Now scholars have dug into that really hard.

653
00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:42,100
It doesn't say like he's not comatose.

654
00:44:42,100 --> 00:44:45,060
He's just like, it's more an idea of dread.

655
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:48,180
It's a poetic way of saying like he realizes he really is in trouble.

656
00:44:48,180 --> 00:44:49,180
Verse 38.

657
00:44:49,180 --> 00:44:54,180
It says about 10 days later it happened that the Lord struck Nabal and he died.

658
00:44:54,180 --> 00:44:55,660
So God killed this man.

659
00:44:55,660 --> 00:44:57,600
He's not the only person God ever killed.

660
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:58,740
God killed this man.

661
00:44:58,740 --> 00:44:59,740
Verse 39.

662
00:44:59,740 --> 00:45:05,060
When David heard that Nabal was dead he said, Blessed be the Lord who has pleaded the cause

663
00:45:05,060 --> 00:45:07,220
of my reproach from the hand of Nabal.

664
00:45:07,220 --> 00:45:12,260
Remember the guy had treated him badly but God took care of it he says and has kept back

665
00:45:12,260 --> 00:45:13,660
his servant from evil.

666
00:45:13,660 --> 00:45:16,780
God restrained David from going and doing it himself.

667
00:45:16,780 --> 00:45:21,180
The Lord has also returned the evil doing of Nabal on his own head.

668
00:45:21,180 --> 00:45:25,100
Then David sent a proposal to Abigail to make her as his wife.

669
00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:26,460
Okay, that's the whole story.

670
00:45:26,460 --> 00:45:29,660
RJ, why don't you go back there and see if you can help them kind of button it up.

671
00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:31,380
Since it's three teenagers.

672
00:45:31,380 --> 00:45:32,380
Alright, okay.

673
00:45:32,380 --> 00:45:37,100
So we've read a relatively long text and in the text we have a few interesting characters.

674
00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:38,820
We have a guy who's received a promise.

675
00:45:38,820 --> 00:45:39,820
Guess what?

676
00:45:39,820 --> 00:45:40,820
I'm a guy who's received a promise.

677
00:45:40,820 --> 00:45:41,820
Tim is a guy who's received a promise.

678
00:45:41,820 --> 00:45:43,180
Alicia is a gal who's received a promise.

679
00:45:43,180 --> 00:45:44,980
Tommy is a guy and we go all the way around.

680
00:45:44,980 --> 00:45:47,260
We're all people like David who have received a promise.

681
00:45:47,260 --> 00:45:53,660
The ultimate goal is that we will see God when we die and be judged as innocent because

682
00:45:53,660 --> 00:45:56,300
of the blood of Jesus Christ and be in heaven for eternity.

683
00:45:56,300 --> 00:45:57,340
That is the goal.

684
00:45:57,340 --> 00:45:58,660
That's the promise that we have.

685
00:45:58,660 --> 00:46:02,860
That we will be found innocent, not based on our own virtues, but based on the virtue

686
00:46:02,860 --> 00:46:06,020
of the blood of Jesus Christ shed for us.

687
00:46:06,020 --> 00:46:07,400
So we have a promise.

688
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,060
But there are people in this world who are living differently.

689
00:46:11,060 --> 00:46:12,980
They're living in a way that will hurt you.

690
00:46:12,980 --> 00:46:16,700
They're living in a way that will lead you to a bad place or hurt you physically, psychologically,

691
00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:18,140
emotionally, etc.

692
00:46:18,140 --> 00:46:22,660
More often than not, we know a right thing to do.

693
00:46:22,660 --> 00:46:26,220
If it's not you, if you're not the one at stake, if you're not the problem solver right

694
00:46:26,220 --> 00:46:32,020
now, if I jumped on the phone, if I text Trina, if I call Amalia, if I call Tim, whatever,

695
00:46:32,020 --> 00:46:34,500
and I say, hey, what should I do in this case?

696
00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:38,340
As long as you're not the one who has everything at stake, as long as it's not your livelihood,

697
00:46:38,340 --> 00:46:42,100
it's not your life, it's not your health, whatever, you can right away go, oh, you should

698
00:46:42,100 --> 00:46:43,100
do this.

699
00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:44,100
It's no problem, right?

700
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:47,100
But when we get in the moment and we're now dealing with our own issues, now we've got

701
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:50,580
all the emotions, the psychology, the anxiety, our own addictions, our own struggles, our

702
00:46:50,580 --> 00:46:53,940
own sin, our own troubles, our own financial burden, well, I should just do this.

703
00:46:53,940 --> 00:46:54,940
Well, that'll cost me 500 bucks.

704
00:46:54,940 --> 00:46:56,380
Where's that money gonna come from?

705
00:46:56,380 --> 00:46:57,380
I should do this.

706
00:46:57,380 --> 00:47:00,700
Well, if I spend that money, how am I gonna know for sure I'll have money for retirement,

707
00:47:00,700 --> 00:47:03,580
money for food later, money fixing my car, right?

708
00:47:03,580 --> 00:47:08,380
So we know, usually know what the good thing is to do, but quite often when we know what

709
00:47:08,380 --> 00:47:12,580
the good thing is to do, it's muddied by all of the possibilities.

710
00:47:12,580 --> 00:47:16,140
And so we say, well, I know what the good thing to do is, but here is like a choice.

711
00:47:16,140 --> 00:47:19,740
There's really about seven or 10 or 15 things I could do here.

712
00:47:19,740 --> 00:47:24,620
And you're gonna pick the one that is gonna get the most return that I can see that the

713
00:47:24,620 --> 00:47:27,700
best result I can possibly see with the least expenditure.

714
00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:28,700
Is that not what we do?

715
00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:29,700
Right?

716
00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:31,860
So I'm gonna get the best return with the least expenditure.

717
00:47:31,860 --> 00:47:34,820
It's always kind of like give and take, push and pull.

718
00:47:34,820 --> 00:47:39,140
But Jesus said, when in doubt, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

719
00:47:39,140 --> 00:47:41,020
That's Matthew 7-12, it's the golden rule, right?

720
00:47:41,020 --> 00:47:42,020
It's how we should manage everything.

721
00:47:42,020 --> 00:47:45,340
So in other words, when you're dealing with somebody else, whether it be a wicked person

722
00:47:45,340 --> 00:47:47,780
or not, and you're gonna, how do I handle them?

723
00:47:47,780 --> 00:47:48,780
What do I say?

724
00:47:48,780 --> 00:47:49,780
How do I act?

725
00:47:49,780 --> 00:47:51,780
You do unto them what you would have them do unto you.

726
00:47:51,780 --> 00:47:54,220
So there's no vengeance or justice in that.

727
00:47:54,220 --> 00:47:56,980
There's no repercussions for what they've done incorrectly.

728
00:47:56,980 --> 00:48:01,940
In the Bible, we have the very first story of the very first murder in Genesis chapter

729
00:48:01,940 --> 00:48:03,100
4.

730
00:48:03,100 --> 00:48:07,060
And it's Cain and Abel, it's that classic story, you probably already knew that.

731
00:48:07,060 --> 00:48:12,900
And after he deals with Cain, he deals with exactly what we're talking about today.

732
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:17,140
So in chapter 4 and verse 6, he says this, he says to Cain, the Lord said to Cain, why

733
00:48:17,140 --> 00:48:18,140
are you angry?

734
00:48:18,140 --> 00:48:20,220
See, Cain was upset because his offering wasn't well received.

735
00:48:20,220 --> 00:48:21,820
He says, why are you angry?

736
00:48:21,820 --> 00:48:23,060
And why has your countenance fallen?

737
00:48:23,060 --> 00:48:24,860
In other words, why does your face look so downcast?

738
00:48:24,860 --> 00:48:25,980
Why are you slumped over?

739
00:48:25,980 --> 00:48:30,860
Verse 7, if you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up?

740
00:48:30,860 --> 00:48:32,580
Will not your countenance be lifted up?

741
00:48:32,580 --> 00:48:35,860
In other words, will not God take care of you?

742
00:48:35,860 --> 00:48:38,140
Will God not fight your battles for you?

743
00:48:38,140 --> 00:48:39,300
Will God not be there for you?

744
00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:42,380
Will God not keep His promises?

745
00:48:42,380 --> 00:48:45,100
Why has your countenance fallen?

746
00:48:45,100 --> 00:48:48,260
And if you do well, in other words, if you do the right thing, will not your countenance

747
00:48:48,260 --> 00:48:49,260
be lifted up?

748
00:48:49,260 --> 00:48:55,220
And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door and its desire is for you, but

749
00:48:55,220 --> 00:48:56,780
you must master it.

750
00:48:56,780 --> 00:49:03,060
See from the very beginning, it was simply this, do well, do the good thing, do right.

751
00:49:03,060 --> 00:49:05,660
And from the very beginning, that is not what Cain does.

752
00:49:05,660 --> 00:49:10,500
See, he had a choice between working a little harder, honoring God, being found faithful,

753
00:49:10,500 --> 00:49:13,300
doing the things that he was supposed to do and not worrying about what was happening

754
00:49:13,300 --> 00:49:17,540
with Abel, or he could do the other way, he could go and kill his competition.

755
00:49:17,540 --> 00:49:18,620
And that's what he did.

756
00:49:18,620 --> 00:49:21,660
And then of course, we know it doesn't go well for him.

757
00:49:21,660 --> 00:49:24,840
When in doubt, just do unto others as you would have them to do.

758
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:29,180
But be very aware that when it's us, when it's our situation, when we're struggling

759
00:49:29,180 --> 00:49:32,700
with what we're supposed to do, we mess it up.

760
00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:34,220
We confuse it.

761
00:49:34,220 --> 00:49:38,260
Righteousness is called for by everyone's sense of justice.

762
00:49:38,260 --> 00:49:40,340
Listen, has anybody got money in your pocket right now?

763
00:49:40,340 --> 00:49:42,740
Okay, how about if I come over and smack you in your head and take it?

764
00:49:42,740 --> 00:49:44,540
No, I'm your grandpa, so I could probably get away with it.

765
00:49:44,540 --> 00:49:47,540
How about if Joss comes over and smacks you and you take it, what are you going to do?

766
00:49:47,540 --> 00:49:48,540
That sound right?

767
00:49:48,540 --> 00:49:49,540
Are you going to run?

768
00:49:49,540 --> 00:49:50,540
Maybe?

769
00:49:50,540 --> 00:49:51,540
If you can get out of the way in time, right?

770
00:49:51,540 --> 00:49:52,540
You tell your parents?

771
00:49:52,540 --> 00:49:53,540
Tell me?

772
00:49:53,540 --> 00:49:57,380
Righteousness is called for by everyone's sense of justice.

773
00:49:57,380 --> 00:50:01,700
Every teenager thinks they know better than every adult what the right thing to do is

774
00:50:01,700 --> 00:50:03,780
in every situation.

775
00:50:03,780 --> 00:50:05,340
That's a reality.

776
00:50:05,340 --> 00:50:06,340
Righteousness is called for.

777
00:50:06,340 --> 00:50:09,000
You have an idea, you have a standard that was ingrained in you.

778
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:14,420
But all of this takes us to the logical extension that your sense of justice is perverted by

779
00:50:14,420 --> 00:50:16,440
temporal success.

780
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:22,100
You think you know what's right right now because you can't see what's right and what's

781
00:50:22,100 --> 00:50:24,220
going to affect what down the road.

782
00:50:24,220 --> 00:50:26,620
The last $10 in your pocket, God says give it away.

783
00:50:26,620 --> 00:50:29,540
He says, I can't because I've got to buy bread and milk and blah, blah with that.

784
00:50:29,540 --> 00:50:30,980
I've got to do whatever with that.

785
00:50:30,980 --> 00:50:34,940
But God knows already He would give you $100 if you gave up the $10.

786
00:50:34,940 --> 00:50:39,340
And everybody's like, oh, I can't because my sense of justice says, well, I am responsible.

787
00:50:39,340 --> 00:50:41,380
I have to take this step, whatever.

788
00:50:41,380 --> 00:50:43,060
And so we miss out on the late.

789
00:50:43,060 --> 00:50:44,060
Look at Nabal.

790
00:50:44,060 --> 00:50:46,100
Nabal was a shrewd businessman.

791
00:50:46,100 --> 00:50:50,060
He had grown his herds to be 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats strong.

792
00:50:50,060 --> 00:50:51,620
They were having a huge festival.

793
00:50:51,620 --> 00:50:52,620
He was eating as a king.

794
00:50:52,620 --> 00:50:53,620
Was he doing well?

795
00:50:53,620 --> 00:50:54,620
Everybody looked at Nabal and said, hey, there's a good man.

796
00:50:54,620 --> 00:50:55,620
He knows what he's doing.

797
00:50:55,620 --> 00:50:56,620
He knows how to do business.

798
00:50:56,620 --> 00:50:57,620
He's got it all going on, right?

799
00:50:57,620 --> 00:51:03,140
And in the midst of that, instead of being gracious toward David and his men who had

800
00:51:03,140 --> 00:51:07,060
served his men in the field, he just said, shrewd, I can't do that.

801
00:51:07,060 --> 00:51:08,660
I can't just go spending money on nothing.

802
00:51:08,660 --> 00:51:10,380
So what a waste that would be.

803
00:51:10,380 --> 00:51:14,180
No, I built up my fortune because I'm smart, because I'm strong, because I know better

804
00:51:14,180 --> 00:51:15,740
than to take these steps.

805
00:51:15,740 --> 00:51:20,260
See, righteousness is called for by everyone's sense of justice, but everyone's sense of

806
00:51:20,260 --> 00:51:23,780
justice then is perverted by their temporal success.

807
00:51:23,780 --> 00:51:25,700
So you need a standard that goes beyond that.

808
00:51:25,700 --> 00:51:26,700
Look at David.

809
00:51:26,700 --> 00:51:28,060
David said, this guy abused me.

810
00:51:28,060 --> 00:51:30,340
God's going to make me king over all Israel.

811
00:51:30,340 --> 00:51:31,340
I'm going to rule all the tribes.

812
00:51:31,340 --> 00:51:32,340
I'm going to sit on the throne.

813
00:51:32,340 --> 00:51:34,420
I'm going to rule all the tribes of Israel.

814
00:51:34,420 --> 00:51:35,420
How dare he?

815
00:51:35,420 --> 00:51:37,020
And my men are hungry.

816
00:51:37,020 --> 00:51:39,220
Why can't we go and take what it is that we need?

817
00:51:39,220 --> 00:51:40,220
We can.

818
00:51:40,220 --> 00:51:42,900
We offered when all this plenty was going on.

819
00:51:42,900 --> 00:51:46,540
We've got all this meat, all this, all of this, right?

820
00:51:46,540 --> 00:51:48,140
We've got it all.

821
00:51:48,140 --> 00:51:50,220
And David said, that's wrong.

822
00:51:50,220 --> 00:51:51,220
That is wrong.

823
00:51:51,220 --> 00:51:56,260
And if it's wrong, if it's wrong, I'm going to do something about it because I'm going

824
00:51:56,260 --> 00:51:57,260
to be king.

825
00:51:57,260 --> 00:51:58,860
I've got the promises of God.

826
00:51:58,860 --> 00:52:01,100
I can do what I need to do to fix this situation.

827
00:52:01,100 --> 00:52:03,260
David goes, put on your swords, men.

828
00:52:03,260 --> 00:52:04,740
We're going to go kill them all.

829
00:52:04,740 --> 00:52:09,900
But understand that he who profits illicitly troubles his own house, Proverbs says.

830
00:52:09,900 --> 00:52:14,540
So if you do good for yourself and for your family and for your finances and for your

831
00:52:14,540 --> 00:52:17,420
health and whatever, you do good, you will pay.

832
00:52:17,420 --> 00:52:18,540
Are we okay back there?

833
00:52:18,540 --> 00:52:22,540
I'm going to call it to close in about 30 seconds.

834
00:52:22,540 --> 00:52:27,980
Brother Chris could have built it three times by now.

835
00:52:27,980 --> 00:52:33,500
If you profit by not doing good, you will trouble your own house, Proverbs says.

836
00:52:33,500 --> 00:52:36,620
Doing the right thing should prompt reciprocating actions.

837
00:52:36,620 --> 00:52:38,780
Look at the situation with Nabal and David.

838
00:52:38,780 --> 00:52:42,380
Haley, you just do jumping decks and shh.

839
00:52:42,380 --> 00:52:48,540
So David had a right to expect that good would be done back to him by Nabal and his men because

840
00:52:48,540 --> 00:52:51,640
David's men had done good to Nabal's men.

841
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,660
So it makes sense.

842
00:52:53,660 --> 00:52:59,280
And the Bible says in Proverbs 3.27, do not withhold good from those to whom it is due

843
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,220
when it is in your power to do it.

844
00:53:01,220 --> 00:53:02,220
You understand?

845
00:53:02,220 --> 00:53:06,100
We have a responsibility to do good to those who have done good to us.

846
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:07,100
And that makes sense.

847
00:53:07,100 --> 00:53:09,580
We see that, we're like, oh, but it costs money.

848
00:53:09,580 --> 00:53:13,260
But you know, so they come and they fix your car and they say they'll do it for free and

849
00:53:13,260 --> 00:53:14,940
you're like, oh good, I got it for free.

850
00:53:14,940 --> 00:53:16,540
But the Bible says a workman is worth his wages.

851
00:53:16,540 --> 00:53:17,540
So you're going to pay?

852
00:53:17,540 --> 00:53:19,020
You're going to pay when you don't have to pay?

853
00:53:19,020 --> 00:53:21,460
All right, you can bring it up here if you would.

854
00:53:21,460 --> 00:53:24,140
It even has a functioning door.

855
00:53:24,140 --> 00:53:27,740
Okay, we're going to just put the door on the bottom.

856
00:53:27,740 --> 00:53:29,300
That works fine for us.

857
00:53:29,300 --> 00:53:30,820
It works fine for our purposes.

858
00:53:30,820 --> 00:53:31,820
Thank you very much.

859
00:53:31,820 --> 00:53:34,220
I know you guys went through a real trial back there.

860
00:53:34,220 --> 00:53:36,220
Haley just burnt like a million calories.

861
00:53:36,220 --> 00:53:40,940
I just put a little man inside the cage in there.

862
00:53:40,940 --> 00:53:41,940
All right.

863
00:53:41,940 --> 00:53:42,940
Okay.

864
00:53:42,940 --> 00:53:46,460
And so we have an expectation of good actions back.

865
00:53:46,460 --> 00:53:48,500
When we do good, we expect somebody to say thank you.

866
00:53:48,500 --> 00:53:49,500
We expect gratitude.

867
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:52,020
It is just the way things are in the world.

868
00:53:52,020 --> 00:53:55,740
But we ought not and we ought not to, Proverbs says, withhold good from those to whom it

869
00:53:55,740 --> 00:53:56,740
is due.

870
00:53:56,740 --> 00:53:59,260
Doing the right thing can keep someone else from doing the wrong thing.

871
00:53:59,260 --> 00:54:00,420
Look at what Abigail did.

872
00:54:00,420 --> 00:54:02,540
She goes out and she says, look, you don't want to do this.

873
00:54:02,540 --> 00:54:03,540
You don't need to do that.

874
00:54:03,540 --> 00:54:04,540
Just ignore him.

875
00:54:04,540 --> 00:54:05,540
Right?

876
00:54:05,540 --> 00:54:06,540
I was there when you asked.

877
00:54:06,540 --> 00:54:07,540
I'm sorry.

878
00:54:07,540 --> 00:54:08,540
I screwed that up.

879
00:54:08,540 --> 00:54:09,540
Please forgive me for that part.

880
00:54:09,540 --> 00:54:13,060
I should have been paying attention there in the middle of all that partying and all

881
00:54:13,060 --> 00:54:16,580
that that they got going on and he's not going to listen to anybody.

882
00:54:16,580 --> 00:54:18,020
He's just, just ignore him.

883
00:54:18,020 --> 00:54:19,020
Just ignore him.

884
00:54:19,020 --> 00:54:20,020
You don't need to do this.

885
00:54:20,020 --> 00:54:21,020
You're going to be king.

886
00:54:21,020 --> 00:54:22,060
Do you want to have on your resume?

887
00:54:22,060 --> 00:54:25,460
When I was waiting to become king, I went and slaughtered an entire, entire household

888
00:54:25,460 --> 00:54:28,420
of young men, many of whom probably would have been fine with giving you everything

889
00:54:28,420 --> 00:54:31,380
you asked for, but because they were in a ball service, you killed them all.

890
00:54:31,380 --> 00:54:32,980
Does that, is that where you want to be?

891
00:54:32,980 --> 00:54:33,980
That's what you want in your background.

892
00:54:33,980 --> 00:54:37,940
So she does the right thing and keeps him from doing the wrong thing.

893
00:54:37,940 --> 00:54:39,860
And we need to do that.

894
00:54:39,860 --> 00:54:44,180
Concern for people's wellbeing and victims caught in the crossfire.

895
00:54:44,180 --> 00:54:47,540
Understand that if you would take vengeance, if you would do bad back to bad, if you would

896
00:54:47,540 --> 00:54:51,300
deal justice, when you deal justice, people pay and not just the person you're dealing

897
00:54:51,300 --> 00:54:53,420
justice to, even though they deserve it.

898
00:54:53,420 --> 00:54:57,980
Every person that's in jail has a family and they have friends and yes, they probably have

899
00:54:57,980 --> 00:55:01,060
to be in jail to keep them from doing what they're doing wrong again.

900
00:55:01,060 --> 00:55:04,100
But it's very hard to discern exactly how long, right?

901
00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:06,180
And what's going to, bad things happen.

902
00:55:06,180 --> 00:55:09,300
And so if somebody goes to jail for a crime that's relatively mild, they come out maybe

903
00:55:09,300 --> 00:55:12,740
a hardcore criminal because they had to do whatever they had to do to survive.

904
00:55:12,740 --> 00:55:14,500
It can happen that way.

905
00:55:14,500 --> 00:55:19,060
Concern for the wellbeing of victims caught in the crossfire should make us slow to act

906
00:55:19,060 --> 00:55:20,380
in dealing justice.

907
00:55:20,380 --> 00:55:22,900
Doing the right thing avoids the wrath of God.

908
00:55:22,900 --> 00:55:24,420
Look at Nabal and David.

909
00:55:24,420 --> 00:55:26,740
If Nabal had just done the right thing, he'd be dead.

910
00:55:26,740 --> 00:55:30,180
If you just take care of David and his mad, if you've just been hospitable, been kind,

911
00:55:30,180 --> 00:55:34,180
whatever, been a little less shrewd in that moment, he'd still be alive.

912
00:55:34,180 --> 00:55:36,020
And God killed him.

913
00:55:36,020 --> 00:55:37,020
Take that phrase again.

914
00:55:37,020 --> 00:55:40,220
God, who is love, God is love.

915
00:55:40,220 --> 00:55:41,220
Killed this man.

916
00:55:41,220 --> 00:55:42,220
So he didn't love Nabal, right?

917
00:55:42,220 --> 00:55:43,220
Yes, he did.

918
00:55:43,220 --> 00:55:44,220
God loves everybody.

919
00:55:44,220 --> 00:55:48,220
So that means Nabal was in a circumstance where there was nothing left to be done except

920
00:55:48,220 --> 00:55:49,860
for God to deliver his wrath.

921
00:55:49,860 --> 00:55:53,940
And I submit to you that circumstance was that Nabal did not do the right thing and

922
00:55:53,940 --> 00:55:56,660
no one on earth took vengeance against him.

923
00:55:56,660 --> 00:55:58,600
Everyone left it in God's hands.

924
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:03,540
Doing the right thing is the only thing that stops the trap from forming around us.

925
00:56:03,540 --> 00:56:05,100
The wicked are trapped.

926
00:56:05,100 --> 00:56:09,820
And we basically should have nothing to do with them other than to free them if we can.

927
00:56:09,820 --> 00:56:11,380
Just as I put a man in this cage.

928
00:56:11,380 --> 00:56:13,500
And this cage might be made of bills.

929
00:56:13,500 --> 00:56:14,900
It might be made of paychecks.

930
00:56:14,900 --> 00:56:16,380
It might be made of health concerns.

931
00:56:16,380 --> 00:56:19,500
It might be made of family members said this or that to me that I didn't like.

932
00:56:19,500 --> 00:56:21,300
It might be made of my own mental state.

933
00:56:21,300 --> 00:56:23,500
It could be made of all of these different things that affect me.

934
00:56:23,500 --> 00:56:24,820
And I'm trapped inside this cage.

935
00:56:24,820 --> 00:56:28,860
So when you see a person trapped in a cage how do you feel toward that person?

936
00:56:28,860 --> 00:56:32,980
Oh gosh well I should hurt him because he's a liar and a thief and an abuser and I should

937
00:56:32,980 --> 00:56:33,980
hurt him right?

938
00:56:33,980 --> 00:56:34,980
He deserves justice.

939
00:56:34,980 --> 00:56:38,460
No when you see a person trapped in a cage how do you feel toward that person?

940
00:56:38,460 --> 00:56:40,220
You should feel compassion right?

941
00:56:40,220 --> 00:56:43,460
When a person's locked in jail you should be like oh they're getting what they deserve.

942
00:56:43,460 --> 00:56:45,380
No you should be like that's horrible.

943
00:56:45,380 --> 00:56:46,380
We don't want that.

944
00:56:46,380 --> 00:56:47,700
We don't want anybody in jail ever.

945
00:56:47,700 --> 00:56:49,540
We don't want anybody chained up ever.

946
00:56:49,540 --> 00:56:51,220
We don't want anybody in slavery ever.

947
00:56:51,220 --> 00:56:53,300
We don't want anybody in poverty ever.

948
00:56:53,300 --> 00:56:55,340
We don't want anybody stuck in loneliness ever.

949
00:56:55,340 --> 00:56:56,340
We don't want any of that.

950
00:56:56,340 --> 00:57:00,860
Jesus came to walk the earth to make it so that never has to be so.

951
00:57:00,860 --> 00:57:03,180
And so when we see that we see it's pity.

952
00:57:03,180 --> 00:57:04,180
What a shame.

953
00:57:04,180 --> 00:57:06,340
What a waste of a human being.

954
00:57:06,340 --> 00:57:07,340
What a waste of a person.

955
00:57:07,340 --> 00:57:08,980
And so let's go back to the story.

956
00:57:08,980 --> 00:57:09,980
What are we actually looking at?

957
00:57:09,980 --> 00:57:13,260
We're talking about a person who is acting in wickedness.

958
00:57:13,260 --> 00:57:16,900
So we see a person acting in wickedness rather than us saying oh we got to deal justice.

959
00:57:16,900 --> 00:57:17,900
We got to get vengeance.

960
00:57:17,900 --> 00:57:19,540
They hurt me I got to hurt them back.

961
00:57:19,540 --> 00:57:22,500
Rather than that we should say no we see a person locked in a cage.

962
00:57:22,500 --> 00:57:25,820
They're locked in a cage of their own wickedness.

963
00:57:25,820 --> 00:57:27,020
They're stuck there.

964
00:57:27,020 --> 00:57:30,460
And the truth is I was having a conversation with Ariana just about a week ago.

965
00:57:30,460 --> 00:57:32,820
We're talking about some people who are getting away with some things.

966
00:57:32,820 --> 00:57:33,820
And they're hurtful things.

967
00:57:33,820 --> 00:57:36,860
And they hurt her and they hurt other classmates of hers and they're getting away with it.

968
00:57:36,860 --> 00:57:38,260
They've learned how to get away with it.

969
00:57:38,260 --> 00:57:39,900
And I said oh they're not getting away with it.

970
00:57:39,900 --> 00:57:41,540
So what but they're not getting in trouble.

971
00:57:41,540 --> 00:57:42,540
There's no school suspensions.

972
00:57:42,540 --> 00:57:43,540
There's no detentions.

973
00:57:43,540 --> 00:57:44,540
The teachers don't know.

974
00:57:44,540 --> 00:57:45,540
People tell the teachers they don't believe.

975
00:57:45,540 --> 00:57:46,540
Whatever it's like they don't know.

976
00:57:46,540 --> 00:57:49,620
There's persecutions happening against Christians and other good students.

977
00:57:49,620 --> 00:57:50,620
And they're getting away with it.

978
00:57:50,620 --> 00:57:51,860
I said oh they're not getting away with it.

979
00:57:51,860 --> 00:57:53,780
Because God sees all of it.

980
00:57:53,780 --> 00:57:57,620
And so we talked about how when you see a person that's doing wrong and seems to be

981
00:57:57,620 --> 00:57:58,620
getting away with it.

982
00:57:58,620 --> 00:57:59,620
What is your response?

983
00:57:59,620 --> 00:58:00,860
Our response is I'm mad.

984
00:58:00,860 --> 00:58:01,860
I'm angry.

985
00:58:01,860 --> 00:58:04,380
I'm upset because they're doing wrong and they're getting away with it.

986
00:58:04,380 --> 00:58:05,540
I don't want that.

987
00:58:05,540 --> 00:58:07,180
That's not your response.

988
00:58:07,180 --> 00:58:08,180
At least not to that point.

989
00:58:08,180 --> 00:58:09,940
If you want to be mad you want to be angry.

990
00:58:09,940 --> 00:58:14,620
You realize that that is a person that is trapped in a cage of their own wickedness.

991
00:58:14,620 --> 00:58:16,860
And there's only one thing that you could do for them.

992
00:58:16,860 --> 00:58:18,660
If anything at all it is free them.

993
00:58:18,660 --> 00:58:22,340
It is deliver the truth of the gospel and free them from a cage of their own wickedness.

994
00:58:22,340 --> 00:58:27,540
And if they will not be freed then you take Abigail's advice and have nothing to do with

995
00:58:27,540 --> 00:58:28,540
them.

996
00:58:28,540 --> 00:58:30,940
Because they're choosing to be stuck in a cage of their own wickedness.

997
00:58:30,940 --> 00:58:33,940
And once they're chosen to be stuck in a cage of their own wickedness there really isn't

998
00:58:33,940 --> 00:58:35,860
anything that you can do for them.

999
00:58:35,860 --> 00:58:37,460
But do realize they are trapped.

1000
00:58:37,460 --> 00:58:41,220
And at some point in time they might realize they are trapped.

1001
00:58:41,220 --> 00:58:42,900
Abigail realized she was trapped.

1002
00:58:42,900 --> 00:58:43,900
She came to David humbly.

1003
00:58:43,900 --> 00:58:47,500
She got down and she said my Lord my servant I am your servant.

1004
00:58:47,500 --> 00:58:48,820
I will be your servant.

1005
00:58:48,820 --> 00:58:50,420
I wasn't there when you came.

1006
00:58:50,420 --> 00:58:52,060
He didn't ask Abigail.

1007
00:58:52,060 --> 00:58:53,340
Did she have any real sin?

1008
00:58:53,340 --> 00:58:56,740
Was there anything really wrong that she just wasn't there to be asked?

1009
00:58:56,740 --> 00:58:58,820
But she claimed Nabal's sin.

1010
00:58:58,820 --> 00:58:59,820
Her husband.

1011
00:58:59,820 --> 00:59:00,820
She took it on herself.

1012
00:59:00,820 --> 00:59:04,580
She humbly said I'm the one who needs your mercy and grace.

1013
00:59:04,580 --> 00:59:05,620
Please forgive me.

1014
00:59:05,620 --> 00:59:07,740
She didn't put it on the men around her.

1015
00:59:07,740 --> 00:59:09,620
Oh it's so easy to play the blame game.

1016
00:59:09,620 --> 00:59:10,620
Pass on.

1017
00:59:10,620 --> 00:59:13,540
When somebody is upset with you for something that went wrong and you're like well I didn't

1018
00:59:13,540 --> 00:59:14,540
do it.

1019
00:59:14,540 --> 00:59:15,540
We taking it out on me for.

1020
00:59:15,540 --> 00:59:17,900
Why are you raising your voice to me?

1021
00:59:17,900 --> 00:59:20,940
And you're defending yourself because you're going to throw under the bus whoever actually

1022
00:59:20,940 --> 00:59:21,940
did what was wrong.

1023
00:59:21,940 --> 00:59:22,940
Do you have to do that?

1024
00:59:22,940 --> 00:59:25,700
No by the way when you do that and you throw under the bus whoever actually you know what

1025
00:59:25,700 --> 00:59:28,060
that Bible calls that is gossip and slander.

1026
00:59:28,060 --> 00:59:29,660
You say well I didn't do it.

1027
00:59:29,660 --> 00:59:30,660
Bob did it.

1028
00:59:30,660 --> 00:59:31,940
You just slandered and gossiped about Bob.

1029
00:59:31,940 --> 00:59:35,460
You said well that's true but what I said about was Bob is true and Bob deserves his

1030
00:59:35,460 --> 00:59:36,980
justice and that's true.

1031
00:59:36,980 --> 00:59:41,300
But if Bob actually did it Bob is in a cage of his own wickedness and he does not deserve

1032
00:59:41,300 --> 00:59:45,020
he does not need as a human being to receive justice from that unless he's going to receive

1033
00:59:45,020 --> 00:59:46,020
it from God.

1034
00:59:46,020 --> 00:59:47,980
And when you take it in your own hands to tattle.

1035
00:59:47,980 --> 00:59:51,260
We take it in your own hands to gossip or slander about somebody that did wrong.

1036
00:59:51,260 --> 00:59:54,540
You take it in your own hands to visit justice upon that person.

1037
00:59:54,540 --> 00:59:55,860
You're missing the point.

1038
00:59:55,860 --> 00:59:59,420
If they choose to be trapped there's nothing we can do for them but if they choose to be

1039
00:59:59,420 --> 01:00:00,740
free we can help.

1040
01:00:00,740 --> 01:00:03,040
We know the person who frees.

1041
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:06,820
We know the person who has the keys to everything and Jesus said he would share them with us.

1042
01:00:06,820 --> 01:00:12,260
For this reason leaving place for God to avenge is a matter of avoiding offense when God's

1043
01:00:12,260 --> 01:00:13,820
right place is otherwise observed.

1044
01:00:13,820 --> 01:00:18,100
In other words if you think you need to have vengeance at best you're stealing God's job.

1045
01:00:18,100 --> 01:00:22,340
If you think you need to deal justice at best you're stealing God's job.

1046
01:00:22,340 --> 01:00:23,740
Now you need to protect your family.

1047
01:00:23,740 --> 01:00:24,740
You protect yourself.

1048
01:00:24,740 --> 01:00:26,180
Somebody busts in your house with a gun or a knife.

1049
01:00:26,180 --> 01:00:27,180
You do what you got to do.

1050
01:00:27,180 --> 01:00:28,180
Right?

1051
01:00:28,180 --> 01:00:29,180
Somebody's taking a swing at you.

1052
01:00:29,180 --> 01:00:30,180
You do what you got to do.

1053
01:00:30,180 --> 01:00:31,180
You defend yourself.

1054
01:00:31,180 --> 01:00:34,340
I'm not saying to become a punching mat or whatever but what I am saying is we don't

1055
01:00:34,340 --> 01:00:39,140
go looking for dealing justice or vengeance because those people they will get their

1056
01:00:39,140 --> 01:00:40,140
justice.

1057
01:00:40,140 --> 01:00:41,140
God will get his vengeance.

1058
01:00:41,140 --> 01:00:44,900
You may know in the New Testament in Hebrews 10 and another place that we'll quote in a

1059
01:00:44,900 --> 01:00:48,180
moment that it says, Vengeance is mine saith the Lord.

1060
01:00:48,180 --> 01:00:53,940
But did you know that that's quoting Deuteronomy 32 where it says vengeance is mine and retribution

1061
01:00:53,940 --> 01:00:54,940
in due time.

1062
01:00:54,940 --> 01:00:56,400
This is what he says.

1063
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:57,400
Vengeance is mine and retribution.

1064
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,260
In other words God's going to repay.

1065
01:00:59,260 --> 01:01:05,360
He says in due time their foot will slip for the day of their calamity is near and the impending

1066
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:09,760
things are hastening upon them for the Lord will vindicate his people and will have compassion

1067
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,860
on his servants when he sees that their strength is gone.

1068
01:01:12,860 --> 01:01:17,660
In other words when you stop taking it upon yourself that's when God will enter into the

1069
01:01:17,660 --> 01:01:19,260
fight on your side.

1070
01:01:19,260 --> 01:01:23,660
And when there is none remaining bond or free and he will say where are their gods?

1071
01:01:23,660 --> 01:01:25,260
The rock in which they sought refuge.

1072
01:01:25,260 --> 01:01:26,900
In other words they're believing in other things.

1073
01:01:26,900 --> 01:01:28,780
They're choosing other things over God.

1074
01:01:28,780 --> 01:01:29,780
Where's that?

1075
01:01:29,780 --> 01:01:31,300
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices?

1076
01:01:31,300 --> 01:01:34,220
Who drank the wine of their drink offering?

1077
01:01:34,220 --> 01:01:37,260
Let them rise up and help you.

1078
01:01:37,260 --> 01:01:38,460
Let them be your hiding place.

1079
01:01:38,460 --> 01:01:42,260
These false gods, these things, you think you're finding your sustenance in watching TV or

1080
01:01:42,260 --> 01:01:44,240
in sports or recreation or money.

1081
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,460
You think you're feeling better because of any of those things.

1082
01:01:46,460 --> 01:01:47,460
That's called idolatry.

1083
01:01:47,460 --> 01:01:52,420
And you tell me how when you're on your deathbed dying of stage 4 cancer or when you've been

1084
01:01:52,420 --> 01:01:56,860
sick for weeks on end and you don't know the source, when you have a fever of 103.5 and

1085
01:01:56,860 --> 01:01:58,500
even the doctors can't get rid of it.

1086
01:01:58,500 --> 01:02:05,980
You tell me how football, money, games, any of the things, cars, women, your wife or your

1087
01:02:05,980 --> 01:02:10,260
husband, you tell me how any of that is going to solve the problem that you don't know how

1088
01:02:10,260 --> 01:02:11,260
to solve.

1089
01:02:11,260 --> 01:02:15,180
My wife and I were sitting in our living room less than two weeks ago, about 11 days ago.

1090
01:02:15,180 --> 01:02:17,980
And we had a list of three things that we've been praying about and they don't seem to

1091
01:02:17,980 --> 01:02:18,980
be getting answered.

1092
01:02:18,980 --> 01:02:20,180
And we're begging God.

1093
01:02:20,180 --> 01:02:21,180
We're talking about it.

1094
01:02:21,180 --> 01:02:23,300
And she said, I just don't know the answer.

1095
01:02:23,300 --> 01:02:26,020
And I said, I don't either.

1096
01:02:26,020 --> 01:02:27,020
Here we are.

1097
01:02:27,020 --> 01:02:28,020
We have these three things.

1098
01:02:28,020 --> 01:02:29,020
We can't get them solved.

1099
01:02:29,020 --> 01:02:30,020
We're begging God.

1100
01:02:30,020 --> 01:02:31,620
And so we decided that that is the answer.

1101
01:02:31,620 --> 01:02:34,660
The answer is we will beg God to intervene on those things.

1102
01:02:34,660 --> 01:02:36,260
God will either intervene or He will not.

1103
01:02:36,260 --> 01:02:40,060
And if He does not, we will still not bow down to the items of this world.

1104
01:02:40,060 --> 01:02:43,500
The same thing Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego said, we're not going to bow down to your

1105
01:02:43,500 --> 01:02:45,100
golden statue.

1106
01:02:45,100 --> 01:02:49,380
And God will, you throw us into the furnace, God is able to save us from the fiery furnace.

1107
01:02:49,380 --> 01:02:51,700
God alone is able to save us from the fiery furnace.

1108
01:02:51,700 --> 01:02:54,180
But if He does not, we will still not bow down to your golden statue.

1109
01:02:54,180 --> 01:02:55,180
So go ahead, burn us.

1110
01:02:55,180 --> 01:02:58,780
And when we start thinking like that and stop trying to build justice in this world, stop

1111
01:02:58,780 --> 01:03:05,260
trying to become combat the culture and realize we just must follow God, God would end out

1112
01:03:05,260 --> 01:03:09,780
that same passage of scripture by saying, rejoice, O nations with his people, for we

1113
01:03:09,780 --> 01:03:14,460
will avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance on his adversaries and

1114
01:03:14,460 --> 01:03:17,120
will atone for his land and his people.

1115
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:18,860
That God said He will do.

1116
01:03:18,860 --> 01:03:24,060
God's position in that is that those who are doing what is right in their own eyes are

1117
01:03:24,060 --> 01:03:25,980
actually trapped in a cage of weakness.

1118
01:03:25,980 --> 01:03:26,980
Will you fix it?

1119
01:03:26,980 --> 01:03:27,980
Will you deal with that?

1120
01:03:27,980 --> 01:03:28,980
Will you be the right thing?

1121
01:03:28,980 --> 01:03:29,980
Will you raise your voice?

1122
01:03:29,980 --> 01:03:30,980
Will you break something?

1123
01:03:30,980 --> 01:03:33,700
Will you come across as angry to force the situation to be what it is that you think

1124
01:03:33,700 --> 01:03:34,700
it should be?

1125
01:03:34,700 --> 01:03:35,700
Will you do that?

1126
01:03:35,700 --> 01:03:37,460
If you will do that, then you are doing what is right in your own eyes.

1127
01:03:37,460 --> 01:03:42,060
And God says that the one who is doing right in his own eyes, like in Isaiah 53, like in

1128
01:03:42,060 --> 01:03:45,540
the entire book of Judges, as they kept spiraling down in ascent, always doing right was in

1129
01:03:45,540 --> 01:03:49,380
their own eyes, that you are a person trapped in a cage of wickedness.

1130
01:03:49,380 --> 01:03:53,700
If all you can do is what is right in your own eyes, then you are a person trapped in

1131
01:03:53,700 --> 01:03:54,700
a cage of wickedness.

1132
01:03:54,700 --> 01:03:59,340
But if you will sit under God's teaching, if you will submit under God's direction,

1133
01:03:59,340 --> 01:04:04,700
and you will let God fight your battles for you, then, then God will redeem his people.

1134
01:04:04,700 --> 01:04:07,100
Then God will strike our adversaries.

1135
01:04:07,100 --> 01:04:11,620
Proverbs 15-29 says, the Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayers of the

1136
01:04:11,620 --> 01:04:12,620
righteous.

1137
01:04:12,620 --> 01:04:15,700
Because the wicked are far away from God, Immanuel.

1138
01:04:15,700 --> 01:04:18,020
Because it got to the point where everybody had strayed.

1139
01:04:18,020 --> 01:04:20,300
Everybody was doing the wrong thing and we all needed a Savior.

1140
01:04:20,300 --> 01:04:21,500
Jesus came.

1141
01:04:21,500 --> 01:04:24,660
When earth got real far away from heaven, Jesus came.

1142
01:04:24,660 --> 01:04:25,660
That's why we needed it.

1143
01:04:25,660 --> 01:04:28,460
Some years ago, we were playing Nightball Tag at my house.

1144
01:04:28,460 --> 01:04:30,540
This is before, even before I started playing with the youth group.

1145
01:04:30,540 --> 01:04:32,180
I was probably about 13 or 14 years old.

1146
01:04:32,180 --> 01:04:35,300
It happened to be one of the games where I was caught fairly early and we went around

1147
01:04:35,300 --> 01:04:36,620
and we looked for everybody.

1148
01:04:36,620 --> 01:04:39,340
We found all but like one person, like maybe one person.

1149
01:04:39,340 --> 01:04:40,340
We just walked around.

1150
01:04:40,340 --> 01:04:41,340
Olly olly oxen free.

1151
01:04:41,340 --> 01:04:44,340
As we were saying when we were kids, now we just say, you can come out now, game's over.

1152
01:04:44,340 --> 01:04:45,340
But that's what we say, olly olly oxen free.

1153
01:04:45,340 --> 01:04:47,460
You can come out now, you can come out now.

1154
01:04:47,460 --> 01:04:50,340
We went everywhere and then we got back together and we still couldn't find them.

1155
01:04:50,340 --> 01:04:51,340
We're like, they must be hiding.

1156
01:04:51,340 --> 01:04:54,860
And we were playing a really big field, so way back to the creek and way off into the

1157
01:04:54,860 --> 01:04:56,100
neighborhood and stuff.

1158
01:04:56,100 --> 01:05:00,340
So we all decided we'd all go to one location or another and look and see if they were there

1159
01:05:00,340 --> 01:05:04,500
and call out in that area so we could get the message to everywhere that that person

1160
01:05:04,500 --> 01:05:07,020
might be hiding, that that person didn't want to come out.

1161
01:05:07,020 --> 01:05:09,860
But actually they did want to come out because they had won and they wanted to come out and

1162
01:05:09,860 --> 01:05:13,300
they could gloat a little bit and declare their victory because nobody found them and

1163
01:05:13,300 --> 01:05:15,060
then they got to pick who was it the next game.

1164
01:05:15,060 --> 01:05:17,660
So they did really want to come out, but they just didn't know they wanted to come out because

1165
01:05:17,660 --> 01:05:20,740
they didn't understand it was time for the fulfillment of the game.

1166
01:05:20,740 --> 01:05:24,500
And so we all split up and we went to the far corners of the playing field, all crying

1167
01:05:24,500 --> 01:05:29,420
out Ali Ali Aksan free, you can come out now, you can come out now, freedom, you can come

1168
01:05:29,420 --> 01:05:31,460
out now, you won.

1169
01:05:31,460 --> 01:05:34,940
And finally somebody found them and they came out and they picked who was it the next game

1170
01:05:34,940 --> 01:05:36,940
and they gloated a little bit and everything was good.

1171
01:05:36,940 --> 01:05:39,660
I submit to you, this is what we are church.

1172
01:05:39,660 --> 01:05:41,780
We have to go everywhere that people are.

1173
01:05:41,780 --> 01:05:46,580
We have to take Jesus everywhere that people are, into prison, into senior homes, into

1174
01:05:46,580 --> 01:05:49,540
restaurants, into grocery stores, you know, retail.

1175
01:05:49,540 --> 01:05:52,460
Like people who work restaurant and retail and if they work overtime, they kind of have

1176
01:05:52,460 --> 01:05:54,940
like no life because the schedule is all over the place.

1177
01:05:54,940 --> 01:05:59,540
You got to go find them, find them where they're working and tell them freedom is available

1178
01:05:59,540 --> 01:06:00,540
through Jesus Christ.

1179
01:06:00,540 --> 01:06:02,940
You don't have to live in a cage of wickedness.

1180
01:06:02,940 --> 01:06:04,380
You can be free.

1181
01:06:04,380 --> 01:06:10,020
Jesus said to the Jews that had believed on him that if they came and followed him, he

1182
01:06:10,020 --> 01:06:11,020
would teach them the truth.

1183
01:06:11,020 --> 01:06:13,540
They would know the truth and the truth would set them free.

1184
01:06:13,540 --> 01:06:15,300
And they come back and they said, well, what are you saying?

1185
01:06:15,300 --> 01:06:17,060
We've never been slaves our whole lives.

1186
01:06:17,060 --> 01:06:22,740
And then he said, truly, truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave

1187
01:06:22,740 --> 01:06:23,740
of sin.

1188
01:06:23,740 --> 01:06:25,820
The slave does not remain in the house forever.

1189
01:06:25,820 --> 01:06:27,500
The son does remain forever.

1190
01:06:27,500 --> 01:06:30,940
I was reading that and the spirit left in my heart and I see what it says.

1191
01:06:30,940 --> 01:06:31,940
You see what it says?

1192
01:06:31,940 --> 01:06:33,380
Don't you want to be a son of God?

1193
01:06:33,380 --> 01:06:37,140
Jesus is in the house forever, making intercession for us and we have the right to be called

1194
01:06:37,140 --> 01:06:41,980
children of God and we will make it through because he does not wear out or give in or

1195
01:06:41,980 --> 01:06:42,980
quit.

1196
01:06:42,980 --> 01:06:43,980
He's the eternal Savior.

1197
01:06:43,980 --> 01:06:48,700
There's more there because everyone who commits sin is slave of sin and the slave does not

1198
01:06:48,700 --> 01:06:49,740
remain in the house forever.

1199
01:06:49,740 --> 01:06:54,340
So what if I become a slave of righteousness and I decide to do the right thing day in

1200
01:06:54,340 --> 01:06:55,340
and day out?

1201
01:06:55,340 --> 01:06:56,340
I'm going to do the right thing.

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I'm always going to do good.

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I'm going to be honest.

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I'm going to do the best.

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I'm going to be a slave of righteousness.

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Well, that's a problem because the slave does not remain in the house forever.

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So all this talking about doing good and we do good, we can and should and we're coming

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into the conclusion and I'll explain that in a second.

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But the bottom line is if you chose to do good every day, that would not be enough.

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You would be a slave in the house and the slave does not abide forever.

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But because of Jesus Christ, you can be a child in the house of God.

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You can be a child and the child abides forever.

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Malachi 4 says, Behold the day is coming burning like a furnace and all the arrogant and every

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01:07:32,140 --> 01:07:36,020
evildoer will be chaff and the day that is coming will set them ablaze, says the Lord

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of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

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But for you who fear my name, the sun, S-U-N, of righteousness will rise with healing in

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01:07:47,500 --> 01:07:48,500
its wings.

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That means when we do the right thing, those who bear his name, when we do the right thing,

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healing comes.

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God acts on our behalf.

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01:07:54,460 --> 01:07:57,660
And you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stalls.

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You will tread down the wicked for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the

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day which I am preparing.

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I submit to you this, if you get nothing else, track with me on this one point, your whole

1225
01:08:07,060 --> 01:08:12,980
sense of justice, your whole desire to see people do poorly or for you to do better over

1226
01:08:12,980 --> 01:08:16,860
top of somebody who is doing wrong, for you to overcome liars and thieves, that whole

1227
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thing is just your soul hearkening for this moment in time which is predicted by God already.

1228
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And just like David will look at Nabal and say, what?

1229
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We did all that protecting, I'm going to be king over all of Israel.

1230
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We did all that protecting of them and they will now not take care of us.

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How dare they strap on your swords.

1232
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We're going to teach not just Nabal but everyone who will mock David, everyone who will take

1233
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David's service and make nothing of it, everyone who will persecute the would-be king, everyone

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who will go against God, we're going to bring them down to the grave.

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And all David was doing was yearning for that moment in time which God was going to keep

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his promises.

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I don't think David was even distrusting that God was going to keep his promises.

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I think David thought he was going to a little bit bring them about by himself.

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When I was a kid, I remember one scene in particular where we were leaving a little

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hotel in the middle of the motel, actually, you drive your car, your car was parked right

1241
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outside the door.

1242
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We were leaving a little motel.

1243
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My dad was walking up to the front door and something had happened and I don't even know

1244
01:09:09,420 --> 01:09:14,980
what it was that happened and he was singing, excuse me, but you see back in old Napoli,

1245
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that's a more.

1246
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You know what a more is?

1247
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A more is a social rule.

1248
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It's a rule of society.

1249
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And when people break mores, other people get offended.

1250
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Society has its own sense of justice, even a moral right.

1251
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It's almost always in conflict.

1252
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People are fighting all the time about what's right because people do not see eye to eye.

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The moral standard is proof that there is a standard of morals that's higher, that there

1254
01:09:34,980 --> 01:09:38,660
is one standard of what's right and it's God's standards.

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But the moral standard in our society will not save or even benefit when the choices

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arising from that moral standard are actually wickedness to God.

1257
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So if what you do in response to somebody else's evil is evil in God's sight, you are

1258
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trapped in a cage of wickedness.

1259
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And if you've been set free from a cage of wickedness to do good, then you're free.

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Do good.

1261
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But that good is not necessarily to be rewarded right now in this moment.

1262
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So if you then allow the situations that you're facing to affect your choice of what good

1263
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you do and you do the best thing you can do with the least cost to you, you will be trapped

1264
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again in a cage of wickedness.

1265
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If that is your standard, I'm going to do the best thing I can do.

1266
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God has told me to go and take care of the poor.

1267
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So I'm going to do as much as I can without actually impacting my family, finance, retirement,

1268
01:10:23,140 --> 01:10:26,580
faith, freedom, feelings, whatever is most concerning to you today.

1269
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This doesn't interfere with my recreation, my physical activity, whatever.

1270
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And if that's the standard, then you will find yourself doing wickedness in God's eyes.

1271
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Which is why God said, bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.

1272
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Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.

1273
01:10:41,740 --> 01:10:43,660
Be of the same mind toward one another.

1274
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Do not be haughty in mind but associate with the lowly.

1275
01:10:46,180 --> 01:10:47,940
Do not be wise in your own estimation.

1276
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Never pay back evil for evil to anyone.

1277
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Listen to that again.

1278
01:10:51,220 --> 01:10:54,980
Never pay back evil for evil to anyone.

1279
01:10:54,980 --> 01:10:56,980
Respect what is right in the sight of all men.

1280
01:10:56,980 --> 01:11:00,740
If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

1281
01:11:00,740 --> 01:11:04,580
Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God for it is

1282
01:11:04,580 --> 01:11:07,780
written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

1283
01:11:07,780 --> 01:11:09,340
But if your enemy is hungry, feed him.

1284
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And if he's thirsty, give him a drink.

1285
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For in so doing, you will keep burning coals on his head.

1286
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:17,540
Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.

1287
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So do good, not to be rewarded, but because we are good now.

1288
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Paul wrote to Titus, for the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men.

1289
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Listen to this, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly,

1290
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righteously, and godly in this present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing

1291
01:11:36,460 --> 01:11:41,140
of the glory of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us

1292
01:11:41,140 --> 01:11:46,700
from every lawless deed and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession.

1293
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Zealous, that means we have high energy and a great desire to do, zealous for good deeds.

1294
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Do good now, not because it's convenient, but because we are good now.

1295
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If not that, then do good out of the fear of the Lord.

1296
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If for no other reason, if you realize you're trapped in a cage of wickedness, then right

1297
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now begin to do good.

1298
01:12:06,020 --> 01:12:10,220
Fear most that He will let you go, that He'll let you go and stop trying to win your heart.

1299
01:12:10,220 --> 01:12:12,800
That you'll just wander the earth like Cain.

1300
01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:17,020
No hope of eternal salvation, no hope of saving grace through Jesus.

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If you keep doing it by your own standard and not doing it by God's standard, you keep

1302
01:12:20,780 --> 01:12:24,340
trying to solve problems yourself and not submitting to the Lord's methods, then you

1303
01:12:24,340 --> 01:12:26,420
got to realize that's where you could wind up.

1304
01:12:26,420 --> 01:12:29,860
God say, okay, go ahead, just go ahead, do whatever you want to do.

1305
01:12:29,860 --> 01:12:32,260
Go to one of those big churches that doesn't really teach the gospel.

1306
01:12:32,260 --> 01:12:33,900
Don't share Jesus with anybody.

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Whatever you want to do, just go ahead.

1308
01:12:35,660 --> 01:12:37,580
When you stand before me, we'll talk about it then.

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In the meantime, just go ahead and do what you want.

1310
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No, fear God and do right.

1311
01:12:41,580 --> 01:12:45,140
The wicked are wicked, but by their own testimony of word.

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01:12:45,140 --> 01:12:48,340
Actually, they even know that what they're doing is wrong, but they do it because it

1313
01:12:48,340 --> 01:12:49,660
seems like the best thing they can.

1314
01:12:49,660 --> 01:12:52,980
They choose the lesser of two evils, but they do not do what is right.

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01:12:52,980 --> 01:12:57,100
We don't judge them, but the separation occurs naturally because we can't be a part of the

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01:12:57,100 --> 01:12:58,340
choices that they're making.

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When someone betrays you, when someone lies to you, you can get mad at them, but that

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01:13:02,860 --> 01:13:04,980
makes you a part of what they're doing.

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Or you can say, well, that's really a shame.

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01:13:07,060 --> 01:13:08,580
It's terrible that it's like that.

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01:13:08,580 --> 01:13:11,980
Pray that God will break them out, offer the gospel, offer the truth of Jesus, and pray

1322
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that God will break them out of the cage of their wickedness.

1323
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:18,620
We choose what's right and we submit to Jesus in faith.

1324
01:13:18,620 --> 01:13:21,460
We believe He is the only way and we win.

1325
01:13:21,460 --> 01:13:25,940
Just as He told the Jews who were unable to hear it, in that same passage He says, you

1326
01:13:25,940 --> 01:13:27,480
cannot hear it.

1327
01:13:27,480 --> 01:13:29,260
They were trapped in a cage of their own wickedness.

1328
01:13:29,260 --> 01:13:31,500
He said He would leave them alone.

1329
01:13:31,500 --> 01:13:34,980
So He told the disciples on the other hand that He was going to prepare a place for them.

1330
01:13:34,980 --> 01:13:37,180
Do you want God to leave you alone so you can do what you want to do?

1331
01:13:37,180 --> 01:13:40,460
Or do you want God to give you tickets to the mansion that He's preparing for you in

1332
01:13:40,460 --> 01:13:41,460
heaven?

1333
01:13:41,460 --> 01:13:42,820
That's the very choice that we're making.

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Choose to do good.

1335
01:13:43,820 --> 01:13:45,740
It's a good place that He prepares for us.

1336
01:13:45,740 --> 01:13:48,820
He's a good God and we are His good people.

1337
01:13:48,820 --> 01:13:52,500
And it is good that we go there when we are done doing good here.

1338
01:13:52,500 --> 01:13:57,580
Our good choices, taking pity on those who do not know Him and will miss the ride when

1339
01:13:57,580 --> 01:13:58,580
the time comes.

1340
01:13:58,580 --> 01:14:01,180
We're not taking vengeance, but we're sharing the truth.

1341
01:14:01,180 --> 01:14:05,140
And if we will love like that, we just might save some of them along the way.

1342
01:14:05,140 --> 01:14:07,100
And then we'll see the end that He has prepared for us.

1343
01:14:07,100 --> 01:14:08,100
Thank you very much.

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God bless you all.