1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 to serving Christ. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,000 And that's what they're doing. 3 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,440 Our whole goal for youth group is to train for godliness. 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:07,520 And that's what they're doing. 5 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,080 I'm seeing them become stronger and stronger in their faith. 6 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:11,640 And I pray that you see that too. 7 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,360 And it's a beautiful, beautiful blessing. 8 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,400 Because teens matter. 9 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,160 And teens make an impact. 10 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:19,760 And teens change the world. 11 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:21,640 So it's important that we invest in our teens 12 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,840 and we can see God using them. 13 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,760 Well, if you will, turn with me to 1 Samuel chapter 24. 14 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,000 1 Samuel 24. 15 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,520 And we're in our David series. 16 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,640 And one of the big points that we get from David 17 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,040 is that David is, well, more so, 18 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,160 that God is concerned with the heart of David. 19 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:42,040 And even bigger than that, 20 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,960 that God is concerned with the heart of man. 21 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,320 And David is a man after God's own heart. 22 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,320 We've seen that he's trusted God. 23 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,400 That he defeated the giant. 24 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,760 That he trusted God during the highs and highs of life. 25 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,640 And he trusted God during the lowest lows of life. 26 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,960 He's making a choice to trust God. 27 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:03,840 And I really wanna focus on that key element, 28 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,880 that idea of making a choice to trust God, 29 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,360 making a choice to surrender to God. 30 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,520 You know, we make choices every day, every day. 31 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:13,520 And that's not a new thing. 32 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,240 We make a lot of minor choices of what clothes 33 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,200 I'm gonna wear, what dinner I'm gonna eat, 34 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:18,120 am I gonna brush my teeth, 35 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,600 or I'm gonna hope no one notices. 36 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,280 Where am I gonna sit when I get to church? 37 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,560 We make big decisions of whom I'm gonna marry. 38 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,880 I got a good one, I love it, love her. 39 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,960 And we have make decisions for our job, right? 40 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:33,960 We make decisions for school. 41 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:35,000 What school we're gonna go to? 42 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:35,960 We make decisions for what we're gonna do 43 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:37,400 with our finances, those are bigger ones. 44 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,360 And what I've seen about the choices I make, 45 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,120 especially those big choices, those monumental choices, 46 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,080 those character trait choices, 47 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,360 is choices reveal the inside of who we are 48 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,160 and what we're prioritizing. 49 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,200 And I wanna illustrate this with a story. 50 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:55,800 Hit me with that next slide, Logan. 51 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,640 So we got a jungle gym, right? 52 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,680 How many have been on a jungle gym before? 53 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:01,520 Okay, all right. 54 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:02,520 So they look really innocent. 55 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:04,080 I try to get the most innocent picture I could. 56 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:05,880 Look how happy these kids are. 57 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,280 But in reality, a jungle gym is absolutely a death trap, 58 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,840 especially the jungle gym that I grew up with. 59 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,680 It was probably about, I don't know, 10 feet tall. 60 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,840 It was huge, but it was made out of metal 61 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,040 and you could get tetanus just by looking at it. 62 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,440 It wasn't great. 63 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,240 And I remember we would all, through recess, would go 64 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,440 and we would play on the jungle gym 65 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:29,920 and we would try to impress each other. 66 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:32,480 And there was one day I had my best friend with me 67 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,880 and we were about in third grade and we went to the top. 68 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:37,920 The cool people went to the top of the jungle gym. 69 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,360 So naturally, I wanted to be one of the cool guys. 70 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,240 So I got to the top of the jungle gym 71 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:42,240 and we're hanging out there 72 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,360 and then there were like these two girls that came 73 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,320 and I was like, hey, hey, we should impress the two girls. 74 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,320 So they came up and we talked to them, 75 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:52,040 I guess as third graders do, but I was like, 76 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,640 okay, I got to do something really cool and really manly 77 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:55,880 and I'm going to impress the girls. 78 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:56,880 I was like, what can I do? 79 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:58,680 Well, I was feeling a little parched, so I said, 80 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,240 well, I'm going to get some water from the water fountain. 81 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,920 But what I'm going to do is I'm going to jump off 82 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:07,720 from the very top and show them how manly, how strong I am. 83 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:09,520 I might even do a back flip in the air 84 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:10,640 and they're just going to be amazed 85 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:12,880 and fall in love with me automatically, right? 86 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,560 Okay, and that's how my third grade mind thought. 87 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:16,640 And I did it. 88 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:18,720 I was like, I got ready, I got to the top. 89 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,680 I got my stance and I jumped off 90 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,240 and it was glorious for a few seconds. 91 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,920 I was in midair, it was great. 92 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:29,120 But I remember my leg did something weird. 93 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,080 I don't know what it did, but it started to pop a little bit 94 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,680 and it all was in slow motion. 95 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,840 So I feel my leg popping out and I said, 96 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,240 that's probably not going to be a good thing. 97 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,680 And then I hit the ground and as soon as I hit the ground, 98 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,440 my leg just snaps. 99 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,640 And it's just, now I didn't think I'm off or anything, 100 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,280 but it was pretty badly broken, right? 101 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,720 It did not feel great. 102 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,440 And I remember I was lying there and I was like, 103 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,080 I'm sure I impressed the two girls 104 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,240 that were just above their watch and they're like, 105 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,080 what is he doing? 106 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,760 I remember I was trying to not cry, 107 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,240 but I had all this emotion built up. 108 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,560 So I was like, what am I supposed to do? 109 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,480 I remember I was just trolling around in circles for a while 110 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,120 and the girls were like, what is that guy doing? 111 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,600 Like, why is he down there? 112 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,840 And my mom was a teacher there. 113 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,400 And I remember she came and she was looking. 114 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:15,720 She's like, what is my son doing? 115 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,040 He's just laying there on the ground going in circles. 116 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,480 I was like, mom, I really, really think my leg is broken. 117 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,920 And it was, it was very badly broken. 118 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,120 And I eventually got a, I was in, 119 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,960 I think I was in a wheelchair for six months 120 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,560 because I was really, really, really small. 121 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,800 And it just took forever to heal. 122 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,320 So they kept me in a wheelchair that did not fit me. 123 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,400 And I had like a glow in the dark cast. 124 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,240 That was pretty cool. 125 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,400 But I remember that and it's so vividly attached to my mind. 126 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,760 And I remember that it was just that one choice 127 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:47,720 where I was like, I can impress them. 128 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:48,600 I'm gonna make the choice. 129 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:49,720 I'm gonna follow through with this. 130 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:50,560 I'm gonna do it. 131 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:51,380 This is a great idea. 132 00:04:51,380 --> 00:04:53,160 It was not a great idea by any means. 133 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,440 But I remember that I think about that. 134 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,120 I know that choices matter 135 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,440 and that choices yield results, 136 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,360 whether good or bad. 137 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,080 And I remember when you make choices 138 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,640 that are so me centered focused on me, 139 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,240 they often, I don't know if you've noticed this, 140 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,080 but they lead you down a hard path 141 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,240 because when we're me centered, 142 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,200 things don't usually go well. 143 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,600 And as a Christian, we should have this desire 144 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,720 to surrender fully to God's will. 145 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,560 And our choices truly reflect our desire 146 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,640 to be surrendered to him. 147 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,320 If, if, if, with the choices we make should be about 148 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,280 what he desires and what he has planned for us. 149 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:32,440 That brings us to our main point for tonight. 150 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,600 We can possess a heart surrendered to God's will 151 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,840 to what God wants by carefully making four choices. 152 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:41,560 Now, this isn't mutually exclusive. 153 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:42,760 This isn't like the only four choices 154 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,080 you could ever make to have a surrendered heart 155 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:46,160 to God's will. 156 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,760 But we see these from the story of David. 157 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,720 And David makes four choices. 158 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,560 And they're actually choices that I believe 159 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,360 each one of us will have to make. 160 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:55,640 And we have to make the right choice 161 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,040 with a surrendered heart. 162 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:58,480 And who agrees it's much better 163 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,400 to follow God's way than our own. 164 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,600 So let's start with our first point. 165 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,080 David's first choice. 166 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,720 His first choice is, I'm gonna follow the crowd. 167 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,040 Or am I gonna follow my conscience? 168 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,080 Follow the crowd or follow your conscience? 169 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:14,320 Let's make sure we know the context. 170 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:15,880 So we're hopping into a story here. 171 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,080 And what we've learned from the pastor 172 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,920 and from Pastor Cory's amazing sermon 173 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,680 is that we see that Saul is out to kill David 174 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,640 and he's still out to kill David. 175 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,080 And in chapter three, we see that it's the story 176 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,200 of where David's on one side of a mountain 177 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:32,680 and Saul's on another side 178 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,920 and they're trying to find each other 179 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,160 and they're getting so close to meeting each other. 180 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,040 And Saul gets news that the Philistines are attacking. 181 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,720 He says, okay, David, I'll be back, 182 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,200 but I'm gonna leave, but I am coming back for you. 183 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,760 And that's what chapter 24 is all about. 184 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,000 So look at me at verse one in chapter 24. 185 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:53,200 And it came to pass when Saul was returned 186 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,320 from following the Philistines, 187 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:56,600 that it was told him saying, 188 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,520 behold, David is in the wilderness of Ingeti. 189 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,400 Then Saul took 3,000 chosen men out of Israel 190 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,320 and went to seek David and his men 191 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,720 upon the rocks of the wild goats. 192 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,560 And he came to the sheep goats, by the way, 193 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,960 where was a cave and Saul went into cover's feet 194 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,600 and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. 195 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,240 All right, let's set this picture here. 196 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,320 Saul is coming back and he's searching for David. 197 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,560 He doesn't know where David's at, but he's know he's near. 198 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:21,640 He knows he's close. 199 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,960 And that leads us to the valley of Ingeti. 200 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,520 And go ahead and hit me with that picture up there. 201 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,480 This is what the valley of Ingeti 202 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,840 would have looked like a lot back then. 203 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,760 It was a noasis, it was beautiful. 204 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,680 And David was hiding, we don't know exactly 205 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,400 where he was hiding, but he was hiding in a cave. 206 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,320 It could have been the cave right behind this waterfall 207 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,040 here, it could have been somewhere close by. 208 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,120 But he's in Ingeti and he's looking for somewhere peaceful, 209 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,880 a beautiful oasis, but David is looking to hide. 210 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:47,400 He doesn't want to be found. 211 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,960 But Saul, what has crazed me that I noticed reading this 212 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,920 is that Saul took 3,000 men. 213 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,720 And we see in chapter 23 that David only has 600. 214 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:57,960 So that's a lot. 215 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:58,960 He's overcompensating. 216 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,280 And what we see is that Saul is actually 217 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,400 very, very, very paranoid. 218 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,600 And he's thinking that David is this great 219 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,640 and malicious threat and there's all these thoughts 220 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,040 going through his head. 221 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,160 And he's after David and he wants to kill David 222 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:13,720 at no matter the cost. 223 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,000 And he thinks David wants to kill him as well. 224 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,000 But we see in verse 3 that Saul goes and covers his feet. 225 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,040 There's some debate about what that means. 226 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,040 And what I think it means, it could either mean 227 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,240 that he's going to sleep or that he's going to the bathroom. 228 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:29,960 When I was looking through further study, 229 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:31,480 it makes more sense to me that he would be 230 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,520 going to the bathroom, that's why he was alone. 231 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,920 He would have never left a king alone when he was asleep. 232 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:38,360 But Saul, so that's funny to me, if you think about it. 233 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:39,960 Saul is literally going to the bathroom. 234 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,520 He finds a cave and he goes to relieve himself. 235 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,200 And what's interesting is even kings go to the bathroom. 236 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:48,040 It's kind of humbling. 237 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,320 Like Saul was this great guy, 238 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,440 yeah but he still had to go to the bathroom. 239 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,240 And David was hiding back there. 240 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:55,840 And it must have been a huge cave 241 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:57,040 because David would have fit 600 men 242 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,640 in the very back of the cave. 243 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,080 But picture this, the men are watching, 244 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,080 David's men are watching, David's watching. 245 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,240 And Saul comes in, he doesn't know what Saul first, 246 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,600 he's like, there's a guy coming into our cave. 247 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,080 Now the guy's using the restroom. 248 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,920 Now the guy's Saul and now everything just changes. 249 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,440 It's like a plot twist. 250 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,840 And look with me at verse four. 251 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:18,920 And the men of David said unto him, 252 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,600 behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, 253 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,560 behold, I would deliver thine enemy into thine hand, 254 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:28,000 that thou mayest do to him, as it shall seem good unto thee. 255 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,440 And David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe, 256 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:31,520 prively. 257 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,800 So these are David's men, his allies, his soldiers, 258 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,160 and probably his close friends, 259 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:38,600 these are people he's living with. 260 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,000 And they're asking him saying, all right, David, 261 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,560 he's very vulnerable, what are you gonna do? 262 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:44,800 What are you waiting for? 263 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,000 Go go kill him. 264 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,200 This is your bitter enemy, this is your time, 265 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,960 jump on this chance, he's making your life miserable. 266 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:53,840 And you can kill him, it's not gonna be hard. 267 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:55,800 They're his soldiers away off in the distance, 268 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,680 you can get this done and we can be safe. 269 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:01,840 And his friends declare that God said 270 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,960 he would deliver Saul over, 271 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,320 and then Saul's gonna be delivered over, David, 272 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,080 so you do whatever you want to do, 273 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,760 and it won't matter if you kill Saul. 274 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,240 And what's interesting, verse four, 275 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,480 is it seems like they're quoting something in the past, 276 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,760 but there's no record of what they would be quoting. 277 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:21,880 It seems like these men have just taken some pious language 278 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:23,760 and have tried to twist it, it may have happened, 279 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,720 and God truly made a promise that David would be anointed, 280 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,720 but what his friends are doing is they're taking this 281 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:29,880 and they're twisting it and saying, 282 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,000 David, you can go do this, it'll be okay. 283 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,800 God won't mind, choose to do it your way. 284 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,920 And they partially convinced David, 285 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,520 because look what it says at the end of the verse, 286 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:40,920 it says, then David arose 287 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,360 and caught off the skirt of Saul's robe, prively. 288 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,240 David liked this idea, he's like, yeah, 289 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,560 I could get up to him, and I can get up to him close, 290 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:51,200 and I think about it, I was like, 291 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:52,920 you have to get up really close to cut it off. 292 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:54,400 I think I have a picture up here, 293 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,400 it's a small recreation of it, 294 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:57,800 but I don't know how it was, 295 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,080 like how he was able to get to Saul without anyone noticing, 296 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,760 but he does, and what he does is very interesting. 297 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,480 He doesn't go immediately for the killer blow, 298 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:09,560 the fatal blow, but he goes and he gets the part of the robe, 299 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:11,560 the hem of the robe, and cuts it off, 300 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:13,160 and that's incredibly symbolic, 301 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,160 that's not just for any reason. 302 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,080 What that robe did is it identified a royal king 303 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:19,720 that had authority. 304 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,040 If you were a king, you had this robe, 305 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,440 and it was to show that you have this authority 306 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:25,800 above everyone else. 307 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,400 And what David's saying right here is that Saul, 308 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,880 I got your little robe, your little symbol of authority, 309 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,720 and I'm coming for your kingdom next. 310 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,280 That's what would have been thought through. 311 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:36,440 And think about what's happening, David, 312 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,200 because it's very similar to what happens with us. 313 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:39,760 He was tempted. 314 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,840 He had people tempting him, but also his own sinful flesh, 315 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,400 thinking it won't hurt just a little bit. 316 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,120 You deserve it, David, you went through all this pain. 317 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:50,560 I'm sure God won't mind this, like, 318 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,640 one time you do your own thing. 319 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:53,480 I mean, who's gonna know? 320 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,240 We'll just know, David, but we'll keep it a secret. 321 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:57,560 And that's like the human condition, 322 00:11:57,560 --> 00:11:59,280 because that's just like us. 323 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,760 When we are led astray to follow after sin, 324 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,440 and we have this thought in our head 325 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,440 that one small taste of a secret's not gonna matter. 326 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,120 Well, what's so interesting is his friends 327 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:12,760 weren't influencing him. 328 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,000 And this is a perfect message for a youth service, right? 329 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,640 Because it's important that you have the right friends. 330 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,600 And a large, if we really think about it, 331 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,840 a large majority of the people in this world 332 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,120 are doing the wrong thing. 333 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:26,920 That's not a happy thought, but it is. 334 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:28,240 It's true. 335 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,640 And we have to be careful about who we're associating with. 336 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,200 Not that we don't want to spread the gospel, 337 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,880 by no means is that what we're saying, to just reclude, 338 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,400 but we have to make sure we know 339 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,440 that we can be easily influenced. 340 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,720 I mean, it can be teens, like, it could be going to, 341 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:44,960 it's just a party, it's just a taste, 342 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,200 it's just a little click of something 343 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,280 I know I shouldn't watch. 344 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,400 But adults, let's not act like it's just a teen thing 345 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:50,560 that they need to watch out for their friends. 346 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:51,960 It's us too. 347 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,760 That one friend that you know is a little too risque 348 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:56,160 and they go right over the line, 349 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,440 but you still stay with them because they're funny. 350 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,640 Right, it's that coworker that makes you 351 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:01,480 just feel a little bit different. 352 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:02,320 You can kind of take a break 353 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,280 from being a Christian for a little while. 354 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,160 It's that family member that you just act differently with. 355 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:08,880 I don't know what it is, but I know that adults 356 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,600 are also very easily influenced. 357 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,800 Case right here with David, he's influenced. 358 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,000 He actually went and did the wrong thing. 359 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:16,960 Sometimes I think about a story 360 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,800 and I just assumed David was perfect through it all. 361 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,360 That's not true at all. 362 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,520 We see that he did the wrong thing. 363 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,320 He succumbed to the temptation, 364 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,160 but what made all the difference is the next verse, verse five. 365 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:30,960 It says, it came to pass afterward 366 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,120 that David's heart smote him 367 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,920 because he had cut off Saul's skirt. 368 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,720 Well, that's saying his heart smote him. 369 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,360 That means his conscience pricked him. 370 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,160 And a conscience isn't just like the little cricket 371 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:43,680 from Pinocchio, right? 372 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:45,880 It's the sense of right and wrong. 373 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,160 It's even bigger than that when we are Christians. 374 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,880 Our conscience is not on just a moral sense, 375 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:51,840 but as Christians it's the Holy Spirit 376 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:52,880 and dwelling with us. 377 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,040 What we see going back to the David's context 378 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,960 is that his heart was truly, 379 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:58,400 in the verbiage that Hebrew was saying, 380 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,280 that it was struck down that his heart sank 381 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,280 because he knew he was in the wrong. 382 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,600 I don't know if you've ever been there, but I felt that. 383 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,040 Like I've said something really, really fast 384 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,560 to someone that it didn't process in my head 385 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:11,680 and I said something really mean to someone 386 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:12,920 or maybe it did process in my head 387 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:14,080 and I still said it, right? 388 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,200 And I said it and as soon as I said it, I'm like, 389 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,200 oh, that was a jerk thing to say. 390 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,760 Are you going, I do this action that I know was wrong 391 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:23,960 and then as soon as I do it, I don't get the sweet, 392 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,960 oh, that felt good, I get, oh, that was wrong. 393 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,200 And that's some ways a good place to be 394 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,880 because it means the Holy Spirit's working in you, right? 395 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,640 That this man, David, had a relationship with God. 396 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,120 That's what changed, that was what pricked his conscience. 397 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,440 But he does the hardest thing that for any of us to do 398 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,240 is say, I was wrong. 399 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,400 And how could he admit it? 400 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,840 This is David, like he is the hero of the faith. 401 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,360 He has a deep relationship with his Lord 402 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,240 and that's how he knew, man, I'm not perfect. 403 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:54,720 But my Lord is and I need to straighten up, 404 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,440 I need to do what I'm supposed to do. 405 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,760 And we see in verse six, he even says to the men, 406 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,480 he says, the Lord has anointed Saul. 407 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,400 God will take Saul down when it's time. 408 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,360 It's not my responsibility to put things in my hands. 409 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:08,880 It's in God's hands. 410 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:10,800 And then verse seven, look at it with me. 411 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,040 So David stayed his servants with these words 412 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,720 and suffered them not to rise against Saul. 413 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,400 But Saul rose up out of the cave and went on his way. 414 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,520 That word stayed there is when you look it up, 415 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,320 it's divided or split. 416 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,360 And it's another way of like, he persuaded his men 417 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:27,720 with a really stern tone. 418 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:29,760 He said, he went up to his men and said, 419 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,760 I am not doing this temptation. 420 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,080 I am not falling into this. 421 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,040 This is wrong and I'm telling you it's wrong 422 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:36,560 and we're not changing. 423 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,040 He had resolve. 424 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:39,280 He had resolve because he said, 425 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,480 I'm not following the crowds, I'm following God. 426 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:45,520 There are crowds in our life. 427 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,120 And if it's not for God, we would be so led astray. 428 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,720 But when we say, I'm with God and I will not go this way. 429 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:53,440 That was the first choice he made. 430 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:55,680 He said, I'm going with my conscience. 431 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,640 Then we continue reading and we get to the second choice. 432 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:02,280 The second choice is that, should I leave this problem alone 433 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:04,400 or should I deal with the problem? 434 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,480 We see at the end of verse seven, 435 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,760 is that Saul leaves the cave, that brings us to verse eight. 436 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,720 Continuing the story, it kind of shifts. 437 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,200 David also rose afterward and went out of the cave 438 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,760 and cried after Saul saying, my Lord, the king. 439 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:19,800 And when Saul looked behind him, 440 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,800 David stooped with his face to the earth 441 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,920 and bowed himself. 442 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:24,880 David confronts him. 443 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,960 This seems like totally illogical 444 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,280 because first he didn't kill him. 445 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,600 It's like you could have killed him, David. 446 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,400 Now you're going out to meet him. 447 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,480 But David made a choice. 448 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:35,960 He says, I'm not going to leave the problem alone. 449 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,080 I'm actually going to go and confront it. 450 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,120 I want to face up and deal with a difficult situation. 451 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,480 Not, not hostily, but I'm going to be bold. 452 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,000 I'm going to be careful, but I need to deal with the problem. 453 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,080 Let's get to what this problem is that he's addressing. 454 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,240 We see that as we continue reading. 455 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:53,000 He says in verse eight, 456 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,160 and David also rose after, went out of the cave 457 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,760 and cried after Saul saying, my Lord, the king. 458 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:58,600 Interesting. 459 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,320 He still has respect. 460 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:01,160 Keep that with you. 461 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,400 That's going to lead into our third point. 462 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:04,520 But he continues and says, 463 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,000 and when Saul looked behind him, 464 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,480 David stooped with his face to the earth 465 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:08,920 and bowed himself. 466 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:10,080 Saul was vulnerable. 467 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:11,920 Now David's making himself vulnerable. 468 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,080 He's showing, hey, Saul, 469 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:15,480 you're getting a little crazy right now, 470 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,600 but I still have respect for you. 471 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,480 And we continue in verse nine. 472 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:21,400 David said to Saul, 473 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,400 wherefore hearest thou men's words saying, 474 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,080 behold, David seeketh thy hurt? 475 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:29,680 What was happening is that there were false rumors spreading 476 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,480 about David wants to kill you, Saul, 477 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,520 so you need to take him out as fast as possible. 478 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,480 Now this could have been just like other rumors, 479 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,360 people around Saul's counsel, his friends, his crowd. 480 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:42,160 It could have been Saul's paranoia that he thought this. 481 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,400 But whatever it is, there was this false rumor going around 482 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,600 and David says, I need to address this 483 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,400 and not just let it go. 484 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,400 You know, there are two types of people in the world. 485 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,240 And it can be a bad thing, it can be a good thing. 486 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,080 There's people who really love confronting people. 487 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:00,440 And in confronting me just for that, 488 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,600 it's going up to someone to deal with the problem. 489 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,240 And it can be done in a good way or a bad way. 490 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,880 Or there's people who really don't like confrontation. 491 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,080 Like they just really don't want to be near confrontation 492 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,200 because it makes them feel awkward. 493 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:12,040 Right? 494 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,200 There's a lot of, I would say there's more people 495 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,840 who really just don't like confrontation. 496 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,080 And they're timid and they find themselves in a problem 497 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,200 in a hurting relationship and they think this, 498 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,760 I think this because I tend to fall this way as well, 499 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:27,560 is that a problem happens and I say, it'll blow over. 500 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,040 Like it'll be fine, just let it go. 501 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,040 It'll work out. 502 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,000 But what I found is that if you don't deal with the problem, 503 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,960 it usually just doesn't work out. 504 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,720 Like just magically, like everything's just better. 505 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,600 What often happens is instead of actually 506 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,040 the problem working out and me just ignoring 507 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:45,080 and living on with my life, 508 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,480 I actually start complaining to others about it. 509 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,440 And then I start developing this bitterness 510 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,000 and resentment as well. 511 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,480 And what we see here is that David says, 512 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,280 I'm going to the source and I'm dealing with this problem. 513 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:58,640 And he's not doing disrespectfully. 514 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,120 If anything, he's being very respectful. 515 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:02,200 He's bound himself saying my Lord the King, 516 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:03,360 he's not putting him as God, of course. 517 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,240 He's just saying that disrespect. 518 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,640 And he's saying Saul, I'm not trying to kill you. 519 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,760 Like Saul was not feeling threatened at this point. 520 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:13,360 David could have come out very threatened and say, 521 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:15,160 hey, I got you a little, little hemorrhobe, 522 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:16,680 I got a sword here, I got 600 men, 523 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,360 I could kill you very fast, you better run. 524 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:24,120 And he says, my Lord the King, I'm not trying to kill you. 525 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:26,400 People are telling you that, but that's wrong. 526 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,600 So what we see is that David is choosing, 527 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,440 continually the right path. 528 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:31,880 And he's choosing to promote truth 529 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,200 as he goes down the right path. 530 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:34,280 He's not following the crowd. 531 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,040 He's following his conscience. 532 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:37,800 And as he follows his conscience, 533 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,040 he's seeking to promote the truth. 534 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:41,680 That leads us to our third point. 535 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,800 David had to choose, disobey God's command 536 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,720 or surrender to God's plan. 537 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,520 This is alluded to through the whole chapter, 538 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,640 verse six very much hits on this, 539 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,280 that David had a right perspective, first of God, 540 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,720 who God was, and that God's above everything, 541 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,160 but he also had a right perspective of Saul. 542 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,160 Look at me at verse 10. 543 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,120 Behold this day thine eyes have seen that the Lord 544 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:09,480 had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave. 545 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,240 And son bade me kill thee, but my eyes spare thee. 546 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,000 And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my Lord, 547 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,320 for he is the Lord's anointed. 548 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,360 Over my father, see ye, see the skirt of thy robe 549 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:24,200 in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe 550 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,160 and killed thee not, know thou, and see that there is 551 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,040 neither evil nor transgression in my hand. 552 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,240 And I have not sinned against thee, yet thou huntest 553 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,160 my soul to take thee. 554 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,280 We see that David is saying in verse 10, 555 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,000 I could have killed you, I did not kill you. 556 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,960 And this question is, well, why didn't you do that, David? 557 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:44,160 Well, he says in verse 10, he said, 558 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,240 and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my Lord, 559 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,720 for he is the Lord's anointed. 560 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,000 And you go all the way back to 1 Samuel 10, 561 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,140 it says that Saul was anointed, rightfully so. 562 00:20:56,140 --> 00:20:58,640 David also was, but that doesn't mean that Saul right now 563 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,120 had stopped being king. 564 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:04,800 And there's commands in Exodus 20 to 28, it talks about this, 565 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,640 that you're supposed to surrender to people 566 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,120 who are in charge of you, you're supposed to honor them. 567 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:13,000 And he says in verse 11, I have this hymn, 568 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,120 I could have killed you. 569 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:17,840 I show, he shows the possibility of what could have been. 570 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,840 And he also confesses the action, hey, I messed up, 571 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,960 I could have done this, I was very close to doing this. 572 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,240 But I didn't, and he's not doing that to say, 573 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,320 look how amazing I am, I didn't kill you. 574 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,360 He's saying, no, no, I'm treating you like, 575 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:32,320 you're actually an authority. 576 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,000 And this is Saul who's like absolutely crazy right now. 577 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,440 But it's very interesting, if we look in verse eight, 578 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:44,320 David says to Saul, my Lord, he says in awesome verse eight, 579 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,800 my king, and he says in verse 11, my father. 580 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,680 Those each are very meaningful. 581 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,480 The first one is showing respect. 582 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,360 I actually am honoring who this guy is, 583 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:56,560 I'm not insulting him, I'm not belittling him. 584 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,000 And then he submits to him with the king, 585 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,760 he's saying, you're still king, not me. 586 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,680 And that'd be really hard, he's like, I should be king 587 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,560 and I could be better than you Saul, but he submits. 588 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,600 And then he says, father, there's this care and affection. 589 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,040 It is technically his father-in-law, right? 590 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,600 There is this relationship that was there. 591 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,960 What he doesn't say is God, you were wrong, 592 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,400 I'm not honoring this man. 593 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:19,440 No, he surrenders. 594 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,100 He surrenders, says, God, this is your man, 595 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:25,440 this is your country, your plan, I'm here to serve you. 596 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:27,240 You know, I was thinking about this, 597 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,280 and I got really convicted, to be honest, 598 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,200 because I was thinking about how I treat those 599 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:35,700 in authority above me. 600 00:22:35,700 --> 00:22:38,600 I think about how I treat people in the government 601 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,040 and my gut reaction is to insult and belittle, 602 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,300 if I'm gonna be honest, right? 603 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:44,480 And part of that, you're like, well, 604 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,000 those are just harmless jokes. 605 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,880 What it shows is that we're not respecting, right? 606 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,800 And in no way get like, myles next to the government 607 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,880 is going perfect, no, I don't, at all, right? 608 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,040 There are so many problems, there's sin in the world, 609 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,000 but what we are shown in scripture 610 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,080 is that maybe we could argue, 611 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:00,800 the people in our government are not necessarily, 612 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,840 the Lord's anointed, they were anointed king, 613 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,120 and it was poured over them, right? 614 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:06,120 But they are who the Lord allowed. 615 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:08,720 In Romans 13, we're told to honor the government. 616 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,280 And I think about how Jesus would have responded 617 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:11,600 to his government, he actually did, 618 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,840 and said, running under Caesar's, what is Caesar's? 619 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,760 In a much worse time than we were. 620 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,360 And I think about that, and I don't do that. 621 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:20,680 And that's for all areas, that's for if you have a boss, 622 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,400 if you have a teacher, if you have a leader somewhere, 623 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,300 and you really don't like what they're doing, 624 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:26,840 but you're not gonna let it to their face. 625 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:27,680 And that makes you feel better, 626 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,000 because like we didn't say it to the face, 627 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,160 but I said this really passing bitter remark 628 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,960 to my friend over there, and we kind of laughed about it 629 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,320 and joked, or had this silent bitterness like, 630 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:36,840 man, I'm just really mad about them. 631 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,440 They'll never know, but I'll know, 632 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,600 and I'll make sure I am bitter towards them. 633 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:42,440 But I think about it, I'm like, 634 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,320 when do I ever pray for people in charge of me? 635 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,920 It's actually commanded in scripture to do that. 636 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,480 We have leaders, and we are commanded to honor 637 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,640 and respect them, and we don't honor them 638 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,860 because they're perfect, no one deserves honor, 639 00:23:55,860 --> 00:23:58,040 but no one's perfect. 640 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,160 But we go because God says they are put in charge of you, 641 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,280 and because of that, I want you to honor them. 642 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:04,280 It's not because of who they are, 643 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,600 but it's because of the position they hold. 644 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,000 And he continues, and says, 645 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,880 No thou, and see that there is neither evil 646 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:12,480 nor transgression in my hand, 647 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:13,720 I have not sinned against thee, 648 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,880 yet thou huntest my soul to take it. 649 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,160 David very much understands that the person in charge 650 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,960 is a really horrible man. 651 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,720 Like he's not good, and he should probably get 652 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,440 what he deserves, but just because there is wrong leadership, 653 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,720 which I do not condone, doesn't mean we get an excuse 654 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:30,840 to stoop down to the level 655 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,840 and still treat them the same way. 656 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:33,800 God is the true leader, 657 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,520 and that's the person I put my trust in. 658 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,840 And then everyone else I pray for. 659 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,520 I don't belittle, I don't tear down, 660 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,880 it's just scriptural, it's not natural. 661 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,240 It's very much not natural, 662 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,040 because that gives me a little bit of authority. 663 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:48,800 If I insult someone that's in charge of me, 664 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,920 I'm like, yeah, I showed them, 665 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:52,680 didn't do anything, they have no idea I did it. 666 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:53,960 But it makes me feel better, 667 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,120 because yeah, like I can do better than them. 668 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:58,400 That's not at all what Jesus would have done. 669 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,280 It's actually not what Jesus did at all. 670 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,320 We pray for those. 671 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,320 We can't solve everything when that's opposed to. 672 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,280 We are to choose and surrender and obey 673 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,560 and not go our own way. 674 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,400 And that leads us to our final point. 675 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,480 To, David had this decision, 676 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,640 was he gonna seek vengeance, 677 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,880 or was he going to show mercy? 678 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,240 What was he gonna do? 679 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,120 There's this very subtle temptation 680 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:26,120 that we all have to get even. 681 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:27,080 And I wanna illustrate this, 682 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,960 because we all have different reactions 683 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,400 to when things happen to us. 684 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,600 So, I got who my three volunteers are. 685 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,600 I got Madison, I got Anna, and I got Luke. 686 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:37,880 Come on up. 687 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,600 All right, guys remember what your thing was? 688 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:41,440 Got it? 689 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,080 All right, so here's what we're gonna do. 690 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:44,560 Okay, make sure you don't show it yet, 691 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,600 and make sure you get in your positions, you got this, okay? 692 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,560 I want us to see the different responses we have 693 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,120 to when people wrong us, okay? 694 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,400 So go ahead and think into your mind, okay? 695 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,960 We're thinking about us. 696 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,120 Someone's just wronged you, 697 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:58,160 someone's just gone up to you, insulted you, 698 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,240 thrown you down, said something bad about you, anything. 699 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,320 You can fill it in. 700 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,640 It's not hard to try and think of examples, okay? 701 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,480 The very first thing we have, Miss Anna, go ahead and show us. 702 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:08,400 Okay, is attack. 703 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,320 We're like, okay, they said something mean to me, 704 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,240 I'm going right at them, 705 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,720 and they're gonna feel the punch, the power, 706 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,920 and I'm gonna bring them down with me. 707 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,720 And you're like, okay, chill, all right? 708 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,720 No, it's like, that's really what we do, 709 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,320 is that we say, you insulted me, I mean, 710 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,600 I'm about to bring you down with me, 711 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,640 we're going down together, right? 712 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,360 And we're just so hop onto it, I'm like, man, I'm ready. 713 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:30,880 I'm ready for a fight, let's do it, right? 714 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,320 And that's some of us, okay? 715 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,680 Some of us fall into this category, go ahead Luke, 716 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,120 is we're just super passive aggressive, 717 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:39,720 like we're just like, I'm not gonna say it to their face, 718 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,800 but I'm gonna go over here and give them a sign of treatment, 719 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,600 and they'll know that I'm at it then, all right? 720 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:44,440 I'm not gonna talk to them, 721 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,840 and I'm gonna say little sneaky insults, 722 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,360 and they're gonna be like, hey, everything okay? 723 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:48,920 Yeah, everything's fine. 724 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,040 I really don't like that guy, right? 725 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,880 It's just really passive, aggressive, 726 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,800 and it's just manipulating behind the scenes 727 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,000 to try to make someone just feel bad 728 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,480 and to feel the revenge, and like, you wronged me, 729 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,840 and now I'm gonna make you know it for a really long time, 730 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,760 and you're gonna always be upset and wondering, 731 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,720 like, is this ever gonna pass over? 732 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,000 It's not. 733 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,240 So we have these two reactions we fall into, 734 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,000 and if you're truly honest with yourself, 735 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,720 and I'm truly honest with myself, 736 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,040 is I fall into both of these, 737 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,800 depending on the situation, sometimes I do both, 738 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,800 and I get mad at someone who wronged me, 739 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:20,920 and I say, I gotta fix this, 740 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,760 and I gotta yell at them, make them feel bad, 741 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,160 and then I'm gonna keep it with me for a really long time. 742 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,440 But we see what David does, let's go ahead, Madison, 743 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,360 is merciful. 744 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:33,800 David comes up and has mercy. 745 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,880 Mercy is, you weren't given what you deserved. 746 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:36,960 What does Saul deserve? 747 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,960 He'll be killed, 100%. 748 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,360 Well, David says, no, no, that's not what we're about. 749 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:45,840 That's not, more importantly, that's not what God is about. 750 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,000 He's about mercy. 751 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,040 More so, let me give everything to God's authority. 752 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,080 He'll take care of it, send His hands, I surrender, 753 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,600 I'm showing mercy. 754 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:54,440 All right, good job, teens, 755 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,240 you can put that on the seat for me, great job. 756 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:01,080 All right, so let's keep going with this idea of revenge. 757 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,360 Okay, we see in verse 12, let's look at it together. 758 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:06,800 The Lord judge between me and thee, 759 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,800 and the Lord avenge me of thee, 760 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,240 but my hands shall not be upon thee. 761 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,760 And he's basically saying, 762 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:18,760 Saul, you messed up and you deserve punishment, 763 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,480 but it's not my job to give it. 764 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,360 And he says in verse 13, he quotes this proverb, 765 00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:27,240 he says, if I was really as wicked as they say, 766 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,320 man, I'd kill you right now. 767 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,560 But verse 14, I don't have the authority to do that. 768 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,240 I'm like a dead dog or a small fleet. 769 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,960 The authority is God's. 770 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,080 You know, we tend to think that we have more authority 771 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,960 than we actually have. 772 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,880 We think that I'm in charge of my life, my family, 773 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,520 everything, and in some ways, yes, 774 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:46,760 we are in charge of things, 775 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,000 but we think that we're the greatest authority. 776 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,400 That's not true at all. 777 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,840 That we're no king, there's a greater king, 778 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,080 and he has all the authority. 779 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,040 It's God, he's in charge. 780 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,120 We are not the judge during executioner, 781 00:28:58,120 --> 00:28:59,480 God is in charge. 782 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,760 And David says, I'm fully surrendering to God. 783 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,560 In verse 15, he says, I'm gonna show mercy 784 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,320 and trust in the Lord's deliverance. 785 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,920 And real quickly, we'll summarize what happens 786 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,200 when Saul responds. 787 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,440 We see that in verse 16, he's weeping. 788 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,080 And then verse 17, and he said to David, 789 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,520 thou art more righteous than I, 790 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,320 for thou hast rewarded me good, 791 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,200 whereas I have rewarded the evil. 792 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,160 He says, you repaid me good. 793 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,240 And I looked at you and I repaid you evil. 794 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,200 And it's this idea of payback that Saul had, 795 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,720 the wrong idea of payback, and was like, 796 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,320 I'm gonna bring David down, 797 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,080 but David says my response is different from that. 798 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,040 In verses 18 through 19, we see that Saul 799 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:46,040 is just utterly amazed by David's mercy. 800 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,840 And he says, I hope the Lord will reward you. 801 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,440 And it was this, there's still, 802 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,760 if you read it very carefully, the sense of selfishness, 803 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,200 because what Saul's really caring about is that he's safe. 804 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,400 He's grateful for David that he didn't kill him, 805 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,000 but he's also saying, I'm really glad it didn't die. 806 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,720 He doesn't care too much about David, 807 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,120 running away for months and months at a time, 808 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,880 and David escapes, and David almost being killed. 809 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:08,960 He doesn't apologize for that. 810 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,120 He just says, thank you for not killing me. 811 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,480 And then verse 20, he actually admits, 812 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,240 which is amazing and interesting, 813 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,000 is that David, I know you're gonna be king, 814 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,480 but when you become king, verse 21, 815 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,440 when you are, just don't cut off my offspring. 816 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:23,280 Just don't kill them. 817 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,120 That was very typical. 818 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,960 A new king comes in, old king's gone, 819 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,840 and by gone, they're dead. 820 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,480 They killed, they're executed. 821 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,120 But he says, don't do this. 822 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,680 And David agrees. 823 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,800 You know, we read that, I was like, man, 824 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,520 that really worked out well. 825 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:37,960 But I don't think it did. 826 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:38,800 Actually, I know it didn't, 827 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,440 because we continue on the story of David, 828 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,120 and Saul just comes right back. 829 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,520 And we see that in verse 22, it's alluded to. 830 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,240 So David swears unto Saul, he says, I will do this, 831 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:49,680 I won't kill your offspring, 832 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,120 but look about where they go. 833 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,520 And Saul went home, and David and his men 834 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,560 got them up into the hold. 835 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:56,400 It's a fancy way of saying it. 836 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,960 They went to the stronghold in Getty. 837 00:30:58,960 --> 00:30:59,960 They didn't go home with Saul. 838 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:02,240 It was like, oh, lock arms, we're going together. 839 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:03,080 We can go back home. 840 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,400 Everything's back to normal. 841 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:05,840 That's not at all what happens. 842 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,600 He says, Saul, I'm glad. 843 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,380 And I promise I won't kill your offspring, 844 00:31:09,380 --> 00:31:10,640 but I'm not going back with you. 845 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,000 I'm going back to my stronghold, 846 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,320 because you're not in your right mind. 847 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,040 And I know that you're still a wicked man. 848 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,480 And I'm still having these standards. 849 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,360 He doesn't just blindly trust. 850 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,760 And we see Saul does shift later again. 851 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,720 But David doesn't let his enemy, whom he loved, control him. 852 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,240 You know, there's this question I was thinking. 853 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,920 I was like, what if David did kill Saul? 854 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:33,800 What would have happened? 855 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,640 Because the temptation is like, oh, well, nothing. 856 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:36,640 It would all been fine. 857 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,720 He would have been king and everybody would have been happy. 858 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,360 The thing about that would have changed his kingship. 859 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,240 He about starting off a kingship disobeying God. 860 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:44,680 It doesn't usually go well. 861 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:45,880 He about his reputation. 862 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,600 You don't think that would spread? 863 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,080 600 men wouldn't go telling, yeah, 864 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,840 David killed him in his helpless, vulnerable state. 865 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,240 Some of you would be like, yeah, he deserved it. 866 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,600 And other people would be like, David, 867 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,160 that's not what you're supposed to do. 868 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,440 And also think about David's guilt 869 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,400 and how he would feel, oh, I did this. 870 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:03,720 And it stuck with him for the rest of life. 871 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,480 There's no going back. 872 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,280 We see that David made a choice. 873 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:15,560 I can say without a doubt, we have all gone hurt by others. 874 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,440 In fact, Jesus says this will happen to Christians 875 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:24,360 and there's this so subtle of a temptation to get them back. 876 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,840 It's so subtle that we don't think, oh, that's not a big deal. 877 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:27,960 I don't do that. 878 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,200 And we tend to think that it's counterintuitive. 879 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,640 It's counterintuitive to the world 880 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,560 to be when someone wrongs you, they show them kindness back. 881 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,080 That's very counterintuitive. 882 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,400 That was revolutionary when Jesus said to love your enemies. 883 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,560 What people did is you hurt me. 884 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:44,840 I'm not showing you kindness and mercy. 885 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:45,920 I'm gonna bring you down. 886 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,000 You put me in the hospital. 887 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,600 I'm gonna put you into the morgue. 888 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,360 Like we're gonna make this even worse. 889 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,640 And I'm gonna make this person regret crossing me. 890 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,200 But maybe I'm the only one, but I don't believe I am 891 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,240 because we struggle so much with wanting to avenge ourselves. 892 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,280 And I know this happens because Paul addresses it 893 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,120 very clearly in scripture. 894 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,480 Very clearly saying, hey, church, you're struggling with this. 895 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,240 Humans more so struggle with this. 896 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,240 Romans 12, 19 says, dearly beloved, 897 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,600 avenge not yourself, but rather give place under wrath. 898 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:23,000 For it is in vengeance's mind, our repay, saith the Lord. 899 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,400 That beloved there is interesting 900 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,120 because it seems like he's referring to Christians. 901 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,400 He's talking to Christians. 902 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,320 Don't avenge and say, I'll take care of it. 903 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:32,760 No, give it to God. 904 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,120 And I think about that and I say, 905 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,720 well, why does God get to be the judge? 906 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,400 Because he's perfect and just. 907 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:40,240 He's the best judge. 908 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,040 He's the only one we would truly want as judge. 909 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,680 No, revenge is a detrimental disease. 910 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,240 And it says that I am worth more than you. 911 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,160 And rather than you experiencing the same grace 912 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,480 of Christ I experienced, me giving that to you, 913 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,600 I want you to face wrath and pain. 914 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:58,960 And it's so selfish. 915 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,280 And it's like revenge is as if we're any better, right? 916 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:03,440 Because I get mad at someone, 917 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,960 but I conveniently forgot just an hour ago 918 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,400 the awful and selfish thing I committed and I did. 919 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,040 I mean, this person's way worse than me. 920 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,840 And I forget the two sins I just committed 921 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,760 even three seconds ago. 922 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,740 The reality is we're all deserving of judgment. 923 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,480 Romans 6.23 says that, for the wages of sin is death. 924 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,120 We all deserve it. 925 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,800 We all have wronged God. 926 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,520 Us, our enemies, our friends, 927 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:29,760 we must be punished. 928 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:31,960 We can't leave out the verse, right? 929 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,880 You can't stop there because it gets too good. 930 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,880 But the gift of God is eternal life 931 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,120 through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 932 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,240 We have grace. 933 00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:41,460 God showed us grace. 934 00:34:41,460 --> 00:34:42,760 We deserve punishment. 935 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,760 But what happened is that God showed mercy. 936 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,600 And by showing mercy, he didn't throw out the justice. 937 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,000 The justice had been satisfied. 938 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,800 His wrath had to be satisfied. 939 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,000 That's why Jesus came and took that punishment. 940 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,440 And we get to experience God's mercy. 941 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,000 Jesus took the wrath for us. 942 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,880 How dare we seek revenge for our small problems 943 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,200 and forget the grace that saved us from God's wrath 944 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:07,960 and eternal destruction. 945 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,380 Revenge has no place in a Christian's life. 946 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,580 It doesn't work with Christianity. 947 00:35:14,580 --> 00:35:15,680 It falls apart. 948 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:18,920 David had had some choices to make. 949 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,560 He had a choice whether he was gonna follow the crowd, 950 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:23,920 or he was gonna follow our conscience. 951 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,880 You have that same choice. 952 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,160 You follow what the crowd is doing, 953 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,320 or what God tells you to do. 954 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,040 You gotta make the choice of am I going to leave it alone 955 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,240 and just stay in the falsehood? 956 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:37,440 Am I gonna deal with it and promote the truth? 957 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,480 Am I going to disobey God? 958 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:40,840 What he, I know he's telling me. 959 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,040 He's been very clear what he's told me to do. 960 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,180 Or am I gonna surrender to what he said? 961 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,480 Am I going to take matters into my own hands? 962 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,680 Am I gonna give it over to God? 963 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,020 The choices you make indicate whether you are 964 00:35:56,020 --> 00:35:57,580 following God's will. 965 00:35:57,580 --> 00:35:59,540 See at the core of all of these choices 966 00:35:59,540 --> 00:36:03,260 is that David was truly, truly surrendered 967 00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:05,660 over to God's will. 968 00:36:05,660 --> 00:36:09,580 He said it is God's way, God's truth, God's plan, 969 00:36:09,580 --> 00:36:13,100 God's timing, and we so often think about our own way 970 00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:15,020 and that I go the way I want to do, 971 00:36:15,020 --> 00:36:16,900 ignore the problems, ignore God's plan. 972 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:18,220 It doesn't matter who I heard in the path 973 00:36:18,220 --> 00:36:20,420 as long as it's about me. 974 00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:25,420 And what we see through this example of David 975 00:36:26,580 --> 00:36:30,180 is that he had a surrendered heart. 976 00:36:31,220 --> 00:36:33,140 I hope you have a desire as well 977 00:36:33,140 --> 00:36:34,820 to have this surrendered heart where you say, 978 00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:36,980 I'm making this choice in my life 979 00:36:36,980 --> 00:36:38,700 through these temptations that will come up. 980 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:40,140 It's not if, it's a win, 981 00:36:40,140 --> 00:36:42,860 but when these temptations come up, 982 00:36:42,860 --> 00:36:43,980 I'm gonna surrender. 983 00:36:44,860 --> 00:36:46,420 You know, the choice is simple. 984 00:36:46,420 --> 00:36:51,300 It's gonna be your way on your timetable. 985 00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:53,700 And that's often how we think, right? 986 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:56,540 That we're, it's my way or the highway, 987 00:36:56,540 --> 00:36:58,340 and it's my timing and things have to happen 988 00:36:58,340 --> 00:36:59,860 the way I want them to go. 989 00:37:00,820 --> 00:37:03,140 That's not biblical, that's not scriptural, 990 00:37:03,140 --> 00:37:04,660 that's not godly. 991 00:37:04,660 --> 00:37:06,140 It's the next part that really just like, 992 00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:07,460 oh, it's awesome. 993 00:37:07,460 --> 00:37:09,140 God's plan for God's glory. 994 00:37:09,140 --> 00:37:11,580 Because what that says, it's no longer about me, 995 00:37:11,580 --> 00:37:13,540 but it's about his plan that leads way better 996 00:37:13,540 --> 00:37:14,580 than I could ever go. 997 00:37:14,580 --> 00:37:16,380 And then I give him the glory for it. 998 00:37:16,380 --> 00:37:19,620 Because this is our God, who's better than him, no one. 999 00:37:19,620 --> 00:37:21,700 So may I just trust him and surrender, 1000 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:25,020 because his plan, his timing, is better. 1001 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:29,420 It's God's plan for God's glory. 1002 00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:32,980 You know what dictated his choices, 1003 00:37:32,980 --> 00:37:35,660 is that David knew he needed God alone. 1004 00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:39,900 And we need to surrender to God alone. 1005 00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:46,900 If you will, bow your head and close your eyes with me.