WEBVTT 00:00:00.430 --> 00:00:07.530 God's choice of David and I guess his rejection 00:00:07.530 --> 00:00:12.509 of Saul and then the immediate effect of the 00:00:12.509 --> 00:00:15.630 spirits rushing on David what effect that had 00:00:15.630 --> 00:00:20.429 on what happened so we'll have to I guess the 00:00:20.429 --> 00:00:23.690 the questions that we'll want to have answered 00:00:23.690 --> 00:00:27.469 is what What does it mean when the spirit rushes 00:00:27.469 --> 00:00:29.429 on David? What does it mean when the spirit leaves 00:00:29.429 --> 00:00:32.090 Saul? What is the evil spirit that comes upon 00:00:32.090 --> 00:00:38.460 Saul? Those are, I think, the questions that 00:00:38.460 --> 00:00:43.079 will arise from the reading of the chapter. But 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:48.280 the big picture, remember, is that we've known 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:53.960 that... or that there would be a king in Israel 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:58.240 since the beginning of Samuel in Hannah's song. 00:00:58.780 --> 00:01:03.039 God is working to establish a king in Israel. 00:01:03.140 --> 00:01:06.459 Saul was not his choice. He was the people's 00:01:06.459 --> 00:01:14.099 choice. And so David is God's choice, and it's 00:01:14.099 --> 00:01:17.170 through David that he's going to work. We're 00:01:17.170 --> 00:01:19.590 going to see, I really don't understand exactly 00:01:19.590 --> 00:01:23.390 how this chapter fits into the bigger storyline. 00:01:26.250 --> 00:01:29.989 There are things in here like Samuel is concerned 00:01:29.989 --> 00:01:34.530 that if he goes down to Bethlehem to see Jesse's 00:01:34.530 --> 00:01:36.689 family that Saul will get wind of it and there'll 00:01:36.689 --> 00:01:40.890 be a problem. So it's not exactly chronological 00:01:40.890 --> 00:01:44.980 in the narrative. So I'm not, you know, it almost 00:01:44.980 --> 00:01:49.000 seems like this is kind of a synopsis of everything 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.370 that's going on. And an introduction then to 00:01:53.370 --> 00:01:58.650 the way that God's going to work to bring David 00:01:58.650 --> 00:02:02.489 to the throne. So we don't need to get into all 00:02:02.489 --> 00:02:05.290 those types of questions, but if in your reading 00:02:05.290 --> 00:02:11.080 now or at any time in the future. The chapter 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.580 doesn't claim to be, the book doesn't claim to 00:02:13.580 --> 00:02:17.180 be a narrative chronological history of Israel 00:02:17.180 --> 00:02:20.900 in the time of Samuel. That doesn't affect at 00:02:20.900 --> 00:02:25.719 all whether or not it's an accurate portrayal 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:30.330 and revelation of what was going on. When you 00:02:30.330 --> 00:02:33.250 do, if you do, and you probably will come across 00:02:33.250 --> 00:02:36.689 that in other places if you notice it, then the 00:02:36.689 --> 00:02:40.599 question that should come to mind is why? Why 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:44.520 is it that the writer here has given us instances 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:48.449 out of chronological order? And the obvious answer 00:02:48.449 --> 00:02:51.889 is because he's not as interested in chronology 00:02:51.889 --> 00:02:56.189 and a timeline as he is in emphasizing something 00:02:56.189 --> 00:03:01.270 in this chapter. And the thing that's being emphasized 00:03:01.270 --> 00:03:04.449 in this chapter, then, is the sovereignty of 00:03:04.449 --> 00:03:08.590 God in choosing David. Choosing him, bringing 00:03:08.590 --> 00:03:13.000 him. preparing him to be king in Israel. That's 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:17.960 the author's primary concern, and so that's the 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:23.439 thing that ought to hold our attention. All right, 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:27.639 then let's begin our reading. Verse 1, And the 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:30.659 Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn 00:03:30.659 --> 00:03:33.659 for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning 00:03:33.659 --> 00:03:37.430 over Israel? Fill thine horn with oil, and go. 00:03:37.550 --> 00:03:41.000 I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:45.250 I have provided me a king among his sons. And 00:03:45.250 --> 00:03:48.229 Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hear it, he 00:03:48.229 --> 00:03:51.150 will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer 00:03:51.150 --> 00:03:54.210 with thee and say, I am come to sacrifice to 00:03:54.210 --> 00:03:59.180 the Lord. And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and 00:03:59.180 --> 00:04:02.060 I will show thee what thou shalt do. And thou 00:04:02.060 --> 00:04:12.860 shalt anoint me him whom I name unto thee. Immediately 00:04:12.860 --> 00:04:19.019 then we see that Samuel has been mourning and 00:04:19.180 --> 00:04:24.139 that God says, I have in the King James provided. 00:04:24.579 --> 00:04:30.540 I think the word provided is not so much a translation 00:04:30.540 --> 00:04:37.720 as it is to explain what's going on there. You 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:44.370 may have seen, you have selected. Nobody has 00:04:44.370 --> 00:04:48.959 seen then in their Bible translation? Okay, so, 00:04:49.060 --> 00:04:52.819 and that really is the literal translation. I 00:04:52.819 --> 00:04:59.420 have seen me a king among his sons, among the 00:04:59.420 --> 00:05:03.240 sons of Jesse. And that word seen, you'll notice 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:05.459 as we read through here, that it comes up again 00:05:05.459 --> 00:05:08.180 and again, the seen. God doesn't see the way 00:05:08.180 --> 00:05:11.519 men do. Men see things, Paul sees, or Saul sees 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:15.839 things. The seeing, what is the truth that's 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.939 being relayed to us there? What does God mean 00:05:18.939 --> 00:05:22.079 when he says he has seen or he has provided me 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:32.120 a king? Okay, so this isn't just happenstance. 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.620 This isn't as though God has looked out searching 00:05:35.620 --> 00:05:38.779 for a king somewhere. Is there somebody who's 00:05:38.779 --> 00:05:41.220 ready to be king? Is there someone who by nature 00:05:41.220 --> 00:05:45.819 is the king that Israel needs? And the answer 00:05:45.819 --> 00:05:48.850 would be no. That's not the way that God operates. 00:05:48.930 --> 00:05:52.769 God has prepared David. He created David. He 00:05:52.769 --> 00:05:55.029 has David where he is now, and he intends to 00:05:55.029 --> 00:05:59.389 bring David to the throne. He's a man of choosing. 00:06:00.449 --> 00:06:11.750 Where is it? Later on he says, in verse 7, The 00:06:11.750 --> 00:06:14.069 Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh 00:06:14.069 --> 00:06:17.029 on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh 00:06:17.029 --> 00:06:25.259 on the heart. But there's nothing here that God 00:06:25.259 --> 00:06:30.060 says, I found a strong man, a man of strong will, 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:34.040 a man who is by nature going to be a good leader. 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:38.100 There's none of that in there. The narrative 00:06:38.100 --> 00:06:42.019 passage here doesn't really say even what it 00:06:42.019 --> 00:06:44.860 is about his heart. God looks on the heart. God 00:06:44.860 --> 00:06:47.959 looks on the inner man. But it doesn't in any 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.600 way want to give us the impression that, There 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.300 was something in David that God saw that made 00:06:53.300 --> 00:06:57.040 him choose David to be king. Earlier on, remember 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.399 when Saul was rejected, God said that he was 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:07.339 going to bring a king. Well, let's just read 00:07:07.339 --> 00:07:11.240 it. I'm going to misquote it. Chapter 13, verse 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:16.620 14. But now thy kingdom shall not continue. The 00:07:16.620 --> 00:07:19.040 Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart. 00:07:19.620 --> 00:07:22.259 The Lord hath commanded him to be captain over 00:07:22.259 --> 00:07:26.639 his people. because thou hast not kept that which 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.839 the Lord commanded thee. So there's a little 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.860 bit of indication there, but again, it's not 00:07:31.860 --> 00:07:34.860 exactly what is the heart, except that it's a 00:07:34.860 --> 00:07:40.639 heart after God. So in this chapter, in God's 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:46.160 declaring David is going to be my man, we should 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.240 get the impression and be certain that it's not 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:52.160 by anything in David. Just like it's nothing 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:55.959 in me that would cause God to choose me. God 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:59.439 prepared and chose David because God is God. 00:07:59.540 --> 00:08:02.639 And he was the man that God intended to use to 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:07.209 bring about his purposes. So that's a principle 00:08:07.209 --> 00:08:10.029 that will apply throughout the Bible and throughout 00:08:10.029 --> 00:08:18.839 your life. Any questions there? We could just 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:21.120 also take a real quick lesson on this morning. 00:08:21.300 --> 00:08:23.839 We're not told why Samuel was mourning, but apparently 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.389 his mourning was not... displeasing to the Lord 00:08:27.389 --> 00:08:31.389 so in some kind of way he was saddened and mourning 00:08:31.389 --> 00:08:34.690 over the whole state of affairs that were going 00:08:34.690 --> 00:08:40.809 on there and that was acceptable or okay until 00:08:40.809 --> 00:08:45.409 God had a purpose and instruction and something 00:08:45.409 --> 00:08:49.470 for Samuel to do and when that happened he was 00:08:49.470 --> 00:08:55.659 told to go and to do it so just A general principle, 00:08:55.860 --> 00:08:58.860 in our mourning, Jesus says, Blessed are those 00:08:58.860 --> 00:09:02.259 who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Obviously, 00:09:02.340 --> 00:09:05.399 that's not a blanket statement that a person 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:08.960 that's mourning over the loss of an opportunity 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.340 to sin is going to receive some kind of comfort 00:09:11.340 --> 00:09:13.139 or encouragement from the Lord. That would be 00:09:13.139 --> 00:09:16.870 ridiculous. But someone who is mourning over 00:09:16.870 --> 00:09:21.929 sin or over the effects of sin, Properly with 00:09:21.929 --> 00:09:25.889 what? With an eye towards God. A heart that knows 00:09:25.889 --> 00:09:28.929 that it is God that's in control. And so when 00:09:28.929 --> 00:09:31.509 God comes to Samuel, the time for mourning is 00:09:31.509 --> 00:09:36.149 over. But even in the mourning, his eyes must 00:09:36.149 --> 00:09:39.169 have been to the Lord who was working out his 00:09:39.169 --> 00:09:42.710 purposes. So it's fine to mourn. It's never fine 00:09:42.710 --> 00:09:46.149 to mourn outside the context of who's in control. 00:09:46.269 --> 00:09:50.059 What is God doing? So maybe that in some kind 00:09:50.059 --> 00:09:55.399 of way. Will help us in our mourning. That's 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:58.279 honoring to the Lord. To trust in him. To trust 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:06.080 in his way. Okay. Where are we at? We're in verse 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:11.120 4. So God tells him to go to Bethlehem. And Samuel 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:14.059 did that which the Lord spake. And came to Bethlehem. 00:10:14.620 --> 00:10:18.080 Immediately. It's always an encouragement to 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.659 us. You notice that. God says go. And Samuel 00:10:20.659 --> 00:10:25.399 goes. It's not anything like. Saul's relationship 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:28.259 with the Lord. Hopefully it's nothing, hopefully 00:10:28.259 --> 00:10:32.000 it's exactly like the ideal that we have in our 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.840 mind of what we do when we hear the voice of 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:39.980 the Lord. We obey immediately. Samuel did that 00:10:39.980 --> 00:10:42.340 which the Lord spake and came to Bethlehem and 00:10:42.340 --> 00:10:44.620 the elders of the town trembled at his coming 00:10:44.620 --> 00:10:49.350 and said, comest thou peaceably? Now again, we're 00:10:49.350 --> 00:10:54.169 not told why. This was like, you know. So Samuel, 00:10:54.309 --> 00:10:56.570 we know he traveled around and it wasn't that 00:10:56.570 --> 00:11:00.169 far away from Ramah where he lived. And he's 00:11:00.169 --> 00:11:03.029 going into the town and everybody gets scared. 00:11:03.889 --> 00:11:07.450 So again, we don't know if that's because Saul 00:11:07.450 --> 00:11:11.230 knew about David. And so if they were thinking, 00:11:11.289 --> 00:11:13.110 oh, what's going on here now? You know, we don't 00:11:13.110 --> 00:11:16.250 know that. All we know is that he came into the 00:11:16.250 --> 00:11:20.860 town and he talked to these elders. And I think 00:11:20.860 --> 00:11:23.429 the reason that this is in here is because Who 00:11:23.429 --> 00:11:29.169 was conspicuously absent from the elders? Now, 00:11:29.210 --> 00:11:36.340 who are the elders? Not by name, but in general, 00:11:36.379 --> 00:11:41.889 what are the elders? Well, those are the prominent 00:11:41.889 --> 00:11:44.110 people in the city, the people with authority, 00:11:44.330 --> 00:11:46.509 the people with influence, the people who matter, 00:11:46.690 --> 00:11:50.669 is the way the world would claim it. And Jesse's 00:11:50.669 --> 00:11:57.299 not there. Okay, verse 5, and he said, He answers 00:11:57.299 --> 00:11:59.419 him, comest thou peacefully? And Samuel says, 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.500 peaceably. I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord. 00:12:03.460 --> 00:12:08.330 Sanctify. Does everybody have sanctify? Consecrate. 00:12:08.389 --> 00:12:11.389 Okay. Consecrate yourselves and come with me 00:12:11.389 --> 00:12:16.720 to the sacrifice. So what's the instruction then 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.700 here to the elders? What does it mean to consecrate? 00:12:25.230 --> 00:12:30.059 Consecrate. Consecrate yourselves and come with 00:12:30.059 --> 00:12:34.179 me to the sacrifice. Anybody know? Nobody knows? 00:12:35.210 --> 00:12:45.409 Chris, you had no idea. Okay, very good. Brave 00:12:45.409 --> 00:12:50.690 young man. Okay, so under the old covenant economy, 00:12:50.950 --> 00:12:55.009 you didn't just walk out of the field and then 00:12:55.009 --> 00:12:57.529 walk to a sacrifice. That's not the way it worked. 00:12:58.149 --> 00:13:03.940 Anybody know why it doesn't work that way? Now 00:13:03.940 --> 00:13:07.500 in our day, is that the way? Can we worship the 00:13:07.500 --> 00:13:11.919 Lord straight from the field and into a place 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:19.220 of worship? It's kind of a trick question. Yes, 00:13:19.220 --> 00:13:22.019 we can, but what? Even our work in the field 00:13:22.019 --> 00:13:24.679 is described by the New Testament writers as 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:30.049 what? Worship, right, and sacrifice. The entirety 00:13:30.049 --> 00:13:34.649 of our lives is, or should be, dedicated to the 00:13:34.649 --> 00:13:37.269 service of the Lord, which is a reasonable act 00:13:37.269 --> 00:13:40.850 of worship. But in the Old Testament, where we 00:13:40.850 --> 00:13:43.690 have types and shadows of what's going on, you 00:13:43.690 --> 00:13:47.289 don't just walk into the presence of God with 00:13:47.289 --> 00:13:51.649 any kind of, uncleanness. And so what Samuel 00:13:51.649 --> 00:13:56.830 was instructing them was either they were ready 00:13:56.830 --> 00:13:59.070 for sacrifice, and he's saying stay that way, 00:13:59.169 --> 00:14:01.889 or he's saying go do whatever ritual washings 00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:03.970 you need to do. We're going to sacrifice to the 00:14:03.970 --> 00:14:06.889 Lord. Now that's good news for you and for me 00:14:06.889 --> 00:14:11.179 in the New Covenant era. Because God calls us 00:14:11.179 --> 00:14:15.850 to worship. And so what does that mean? We must 00:14:15.850 --> 00:14:22.759 be what? Okay, I'm thinking of a word that starts 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:32.070 with W. The second letter is A, washed. And how 00:14:32.070 --> 00:14:37.019 have we been washed? In the blood of Jesus. It's 00:14:37.019 --> 00:14:41.759 the blood of Jesus that makes us ready and prepared 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:45.980 to worship the Lord. So you can rejoice in that. 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:49.759 What's gone on in the past, or what's gone on 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:53.639 in the recent past, or what you are currently... 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.460 Doing does not affect whether or not you have 00:14:56.460 --> 00:14:59.850 been washed by the Son. In your recent past, 00:14:59.990 --> 00:15:04.330 it may require confession of sin. It may require 00:15:04.330 --> 00:15:09.360 that, but you are in your standing, washed and 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:12.279 clean and ready. You must be because who dwells 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:18.960 within you? The Holy Spirit? Just the Holy Spirit? 00:15:24.289 --> 00:15:27.350 Well, Jesus said what? The Father and I will 00:15:27.350 --> 00:15:30.070 commune with you, right? Indwelt by the Holy 00:15:30.070 --> 00:15:32.480 Spirit. So in the presence of the triune God, 00:15:32.620 --> 00:15:38.340 we are clean. We must be. Okay. That's just an 00:15:38.340 --> 00:15:42.720 aside. It's a little bonus. Now this next word 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:47.659 is in the last part of verse 5. I have sanctified. 00:15:47.659 --> 00:15:49.980 Does everyone have sanctified? And he sanctified 00:15:49.980 --> 00:15:56.299 Jesse. Everybody has sanctified. You have consecrated 00:15:56.299 --> 00:15:59.659 there too. I believe that's a different word. 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:05.139 And let's just read it first. And he sanctified 00:16:05.139 --> 00:16:08.019 Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice. 00:16:10.789 --> 00:16:18.039 So what's the meaning there? And then we're going 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:23.820 to start reading. Then we're going to start reading 00:16:23.820 --> 00:16:28.240 the narrative of the selection of David. So I 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.399 think the best explanation for that is that the 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:34.320 sanctifying, the setting aside that Samuel is 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:38.529 going to do to Jesse and to his family. is going 00:16:38.529 --> 00:16:41.610 to be described to us in what goes on. So he's 00:16:41.610 --> 00:16:44.409 been set aside, Jesse and his family, for some 00:16:44.409 --> 00:16:46.809 special purpose, and it's that thing that Samuel's 00:16:46.809 --> 00:16:49.250 doing. That seems to make sense to me. There 00:16:49.250 --> 00:16:53.570 was no cleansing or consecration that needed 00:16:53.570 --> 00:16:59.970 or that could be done by Samuel to them. So let's 00:16:59.970 --> 00:17:01.730 understand it that way. What does it mean that 00:17:01.730 --> 00:17:04.910 he sanctified Jesse and his sons? Well, let's 00:17:04.910 --> 00:17:08.099 read it and find out. And it came to pass when 00:17:08.099 --> 00:17:11.660 they were come, so he's called him, that he looked 00:17:11.660 --> 00:17:15.079 on Eliab and said, surely the Lord's anointed 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:27.670 is before him. So what does that tell us? Well, 00:17:27.789 --> 00:17:32.509 did Samuel hear from the Lord? This is my guy? 00:17:33.069 --> 00:17:38.150 Is that in the narrative? He must have looked 00:17:38.150 --> 00:17:41.130 pretty good. There was something about Eliab 00:17:41.130 --> 00:17:46.299 that Samuel said, no. Here's the next king. So 00:17:46.299 --> 00:17:50.400 not only did all of Israel not know the ways 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.799 of the Lord, even Samuel was confused. And he 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.460 thought that the Lord's choice was going to be 00:17:55.460 --> 00:17:59.720 someone who outwardly appeared ready to be king. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:05.950 And what? Eliab was the which son? He's the eldest 00:18:05.950 --> 00:18:12.150 son. So naturally, in our thinking, or especially 00:18:12.150 --> 00:18:15.650 in... The ancient world is thinking what? This 00:18:15.650 --> 00:18:20.660 first son holds prominence. And in the Dickman 00:18:20.660 --> 00:18:26.009 family. I'm just kidding. The first son, right, 00:18:26.109 --> 00:18:28.049 he's the one that gets the inheritance. He's 00:18:28.049 --> 00:18:32.500 the one that gets everything. Now, is there anything 00:18:32.500 --> 00:18:35.099 in Israel's past history that would lead us to 00:18:35.099 --> 00:18:37.339 believe that that may not be the case? And it 00:18:37.339 --> 00:18:42.910 is certainly not the case always. Okay, give 00:18:42.910 --> 00:18:51.450 us an example. Just a name. Joseph. Joseph, very 00:18:51.450 --> 00:18:58.700 good. Another one, anybody? Jacob. There's bound 00:18:58.700 --> 00:19:06.390 to be more. Who else? True. Ishmael is his first. 00:19:07.069 --> 00:19:12.309 Okay, so we have three names there already. So 00:19:12.309 --> 00:19:16.740 Samuel might have been, if he was paying attention 00:19:16.740 --> 00:19:20.680 more closely, he might have suspected that the 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:24.809 Lord's anointed may not necessarily be the firstborn. 00:19:27.269 --> 00:19:29.890 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his 00:19:29.890 --> 00:19:32.849 countenance, or on the height of his stature, 00:19:33.009 --> 00:19:36.769 because I have refused him, or rejected him. 00:19:38.170 --> 00:19:41.269 For the Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man 00:19:41.269 --> 00:19:43.710 looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord 00:19:43.710 --> 00:19:47.900 looketh on the heart. Then Jesse called Abinadab, 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:50.380 and made him pass before Samuel, and he said, 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:53.970 Neither hath the Lord chosen this. Then Jesse 00:19:53.970 --> 00:19:57.309 made Shammah to pass by, and he said, Neither 00:19:57.309 --> 00:20:01.230 hath the Lord chosen this. Again, Jesse made 00:20:01.230 --> 00:20:04.049 seven of his sons to pass before Samuel, and 00:20:04.049 --> 00:20:07.269 Samuel said unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen 00:20:07.269 --> 00:20:13.309 these. So Samuel was at least a quick learner. 00:20:13.690 --> 00:20:16.190 He didn't hear from the Lord when Eliab passed 00:20:16.190 --> 00:20:19.589 by, and that was the end of his trying to guess 00:20:19.589 --> 00:20:22.750 which one would be the Lord's anointed. He just 00:20:22.750 --> 00:20:26.180 then waited. and trusted that the Lord was going 00:20:26.180 --> 00:20:29.640 to let him know. And Samuel said unto Jesse, 00:20:29.819 --> 00:20:33.619 Are these all thy children? And he said, There 00:20:33.619 --> 00:20:36.859 remaineth yet the youngest, and behold, he keepeth 00:20:36.859 --> 00:20:40.359 a sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:43.000 fetch him, for we will not sit down till he come 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:47.109 hither. And he sent and brought him. Now he was 00:20:47.109 --> 00:20:49.869 ruddy and withal of a beautiful countenance, 00:20:49.890 --> 00:20:54.509 and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, 00:20:54.509 --> 00:21:00.309 anoint him, for this is he. So it doesn't mean 00:21:00.309 --> 00:21:10.059 that the Lord only chooses ugly people. But the 00:21:10.059 --> 00:21:12.500 outward appearance of David had nothing to do 00:21:12.500 --> 00:21:15.779 with why the Lord chose him. But when he did, 00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:18.960 the word came immediately to Samuel, this is 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:24.000 he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:26.839 him in the midst of his brethren. And the Spirit 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:29.720 of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. 00:21:30.230 --> 00:21:35.609 So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah. So apparently 00:21:35.609 --> 00:21:41.009 after that, he anoints him. Samuel rises up. 00:21:41.049 --> 00:21:44.130 I suppose that he must have rose up to go and 00:21:44.130 --> 00:21:46.470 to do the sacrifice. And then when he was finished 00:21:46.470 --> 00:21:49.869 with the sacrifice, then he went back to his 00:21:49.869 --> 00:21:58.750 home. So we have this phrase in here that the 00:21:58.750 --> 00:22:03.650 spirit of the Lord came upon David. continuing 00:22:03.650 --> 00:22:06.130 from that day forward. Hopefully you remember 00:22:06.130 --> 00:22:14.880 this is, there's only Saul, David, and Samson, 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:19.640 where this phrase is used about how the spirit 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:24.599 comes upon a man. In these cases, he rushes upon 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:29.640 him. Now in the case of Samson, immediately he 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:34.720 killed the lion. In the case of Saul, he prophesied. 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:39.599 He was supposed to go and make war with the Philistines. 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:43.259 He did that eventually. In the case of David, 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:46.759 the Spirit rushes upon him, and what's the immediate 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:58.799 result? We don't see too much, do we? Whether 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:01.720 David was aware that the Spirit had rushed upon 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:06.839 him, it seems likely that he did, but there was 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:11.849 no command given to him by Samuel. And so then 00:23:11.849 --> 00:23:14.650 no command from the Lord for anything for him 00:23:14.650 --> 00:23:20.130 to do except to be. And so then the question 00:23:20.130 --> 00:23:25.250 is, now, when the Spirit rushed upon these three 00:23:25.250 --> 00:23:28.029 men, or when the Spirit came upon other people 00:23:28.029 --> 00:23:35.019 in the Old Testament, it was, what was, how would 00:23:35.019 --> 00:23:38.990 you, or how are we supposed to understand the 00:23:38.990 --> 00:23:42.819 work of the Spirit? In the Old Testament. And 00:23:42.819 --> 00:23:45.640 on these men. Well and even in the New Testament. 00:23:46.500 --> 00:24:02.609 What's the spirit doing? Okay. So always. If 00:24:02.609 --> 00:24:04.829 anything is going to be accomplished. For the 00:24:04.829 --> 00:24:06.809 Lord. And according to his purpose. Through the 00:24:06.809 --> 00:24:09.789 means of men. Where does the power come from? 00:24:10.089 --> 00:24:15.299 It comes from God. It comes from the spirit. 00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:20.700 So that should be encouraging to us. That whatever 00:24:20.700 --> 00:24:23.519 the Lord has called us to do. He's going to give 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:27.480 us. the equipping to do that he's going to have 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:32.619 the spirit in faith we wage war right in faith 00:24:32.619 --> 00:24:36.440 we do everything that we do because we know that 00:24:36.440 --> 00:24:39.740 apart from faith if it's just in us then we're 00:24:39.740 --> 00:24:43.220 going to fail and god never uses the arm of the 00:24:43.220 --> 00:24:46.660 flesh to accomplish his purpose it's always the 00:24:46.660 --> 00:24:51.369 spirit in the man that accomplishes god's work 00:24:51.369 --> 00:24:55.140 okay so that's one thing power The power of God 00:24:55.140 --> 00:24:59.339 within the person. What else? Think bigger picture. 00:25:07.390 --> 00:25:10.549 Well, let's think to Jesus. Remember, he was 00:25:10.549 --> 00:25:13.990 baptized. The Spirit came upon him in greater 00:25:13.990 --> 00:25:15.829 measure than anyone else. And then what did he 00:25:15.829 --> 00:25:22.519 do? He went into the wilderness and then he continued 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:28.470 what? In his earthly ministry, right? And he 00:25:28.470 --> 00:25:33.160 came, I think it was our Hebrew study where you 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:38.099 emphasize the preparation. Am I right? prepared 00:25:38.099 --> 00:25:41.420 for the sacrifice. Jesus came prepared to the 00:25:41.420 --> 00:25:45.920 cross by the work of the Spirit. So God was what? 00:25:46.099 --> 00:25:49.240 He was working out and accomplishing his plan 00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:54.920 in his Son by the Holy Spirit. So it's the same 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:58.099 thing here that when the Spirit rushes upon Samson, 00:25:58.119 --> 00:26:01.619 when the Spirit comes upon a man, it's why? Because 00:26:01.619 --> 00:26:06.369 God is going to use the Spirit to accomplish 00:26:06.369 --> 00:26:09.990 his purposes and in the case of David what is 00:26:09.990 --> 00:26:14.309 the purpose or purposes what's God accomplishing 00:26:14.309 --> 00:26:17.660 what's the first thing he's going to accomplish 00:26:23.509 --> 00:26:39.450 those are all things that happen and all those 00:26:39.450 --> 00:26:45.730 things happen so that what can happen okay so 00:26:45.730 --> 00:26:48.490 we're to understand then that everything that 00:26:48.490 --> 00:26:51.730 happens to David from here on out until he becomes 00:26:51.730 --> 00:26:55.869 king is the work of God By providence or by miracle 00:26:55.869 --> 00:26:59.029 or by anything else in order to bring David to 00:26:59.029 --> 00:27:02.369 the throne. He's God's anointed. He's God's choice 00:27:02.369 --> 00:27:05.650 for king. He's got to become king. So the spirit 00:27:05.650 --> 00:27:09.769 works in that way. So it's not, again, happenstance. 00:27:09.769 --> 00:27:12.210 It's not coincidence. It's not just the way things 00:27:12.210 --> 00:27:15.410 happen. It's God at work in his creation to bring 00:27:15.410 --> 00:27:20.630 David to the throne. And then what? So now David's 00:27:20.630 --> 00:27:25.839 on the throne. And the Spirit continues with 00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:30.880 him. What happens? What's the next thing that 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:38.039 God's going to accomplish? Okay, but those are 00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:40.539 all, everything, every individual thing that 00:27:40.539 --> 00:27:45.609 David does results in something. What is that 00:27:45.609 --> 00:27:51.210 result? What does he prove to, he proves to Israel 00:27:51.210 --> 00:27:56.259 or he, yeah, so throughout the course of his 00:27:56.660 --> 00:27:58.640 kingship then. He's faithful to the Lord. He's 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:00.539 a man after God's own heart. He never goes after 00:28:00.539 --> 00:28:02.559 the Baals. He makes all kinds of mistakes. He 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:06.059 sins. But he never turns his back on the Lord. 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:12.339 I read somebody, Psalm 51, take not thy Holy 00:28:12.339 --> 00:28:15.799 Spirit from me. He probably had in mind that 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.539 when the Spirit left Saul, the replacement was 00:28:18.539 --> 00:28:21.299 not good for Saul. David didn't want the Spirit 00:28:21.299 --> 00:28:24.099 leaving him and then having that same result 00:28:24.099 --> 00:28:27.660 for him. But, So David did all kinds of things 00:28:27.660 --> 00:28:30.920 wrong. But in the end, what? God established 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:34.700 a dynasty in David, right? There would never 00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:39.059 fail to be a son of David on the throne. So God 00:28:39.059 --> 00:28:42.799 the Holy Spirit then worked in such a way that 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.900 David was faithful to the Lord throughout that 00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:49.880 so that God could establish this dynasty in him. 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:55.809 And who was the ultimate then son of David? Who 00:28:55.809 --> 00:29:00.890 sits upon the throne? Jesus. So Messiah, Jesus, 00:29:01.049 --> 00:29:06.819 would come into the world and rule and conquer 00:29:06.819 --> 00:29:10.619 and then sit down forever at the right hand of 00:29:10.619 --> 00:29:13.160 the Father with all authority given to him. He 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:18.920 is David's greater son. So that was the importance 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:23.640 of David in God's purposes and plan. He was a 00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:27.529 means. He wasn't. It wasn't because he was particularly 00:29:27.529 --> 00:29:29.750 special. It wasn't because he was good looking. 00:29:29.910 --> 00:29:33.690 God said, I'm going to bring my son into the 00:29:33.690 --> 00:29:35.990 world in the line of David. And if that's going 00:29:35.990 --> 00:29:38.089 to happen, David is going to have to become king. 00:29:38.529 --> 00:29:41.130 David is going to have to remain faithful. And 00:29:41.130 --> 00:29:45.289 then his son is eventually going to be Jesus 00:29:45.289 --> 00:29:49.950 who will save his people from their sins. So 00:29:49.950 --> 00:29:53.529 the spirit works to accomplish God's purposes 00:29:53.529 --> 00:29:58.259 always. And you have to read the narrative to 00:29:58.259 --> 00:30:01.640 see what is God's purposes. It's not always spelled 00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:05.410 out explicitly to us. But that's why the Spirit 00:30:05.410 --> 00:30:09.329 comes upon. Remember, in the beginning, God created 00:30:09.329 --> 00:30:11.109 the heavens and the earth. And what? Then the 00:30:11.109 --> 00:30:14.710 Spirit comes and hovers upon the waters. God's 00:30:14.710 --> 00:30:18.910 purpose is to bring into existence a world into 00:30:18.910 --> 00:30:22.960 which He can send His Son. Who can and will save 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:29.990 his people from their sins? Alright, that's the 00:30:29.990 --> 00:30:33.529 rushing of the Spirit. Any questions there in 00:30:33.529 --> 00:30:59.880 these first 13 verses? Well, I said that we don't 00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:01.720 really know why it is that Samuel thought his 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:03.519 life might be in danger. It doesn't really make 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.450 sense chronologically. David's this unknown and 00:31:07.450 --> 00:31:10.869 Jesse's this... unimportant family that lives 00:31:10.869 --> 00:31:13.650 in a small town, the small town of Bethlehem, 00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:17.640 why would Saul care if he goes down there? So 00:31:22.789 --> 00:31:31.250 we did say that. And we said in verse 3 that 00:31:31.250 --> 00:31:33.670 the Lord had a command for Samuel that he was 00:31:33.670 --> 00:31:39.809 supposed to go down to Bethlehem. Now, the anointing 00:31:39.809 --> 00:31:41.690 there, it doesn't say that David was anointed 00:31:41.690 --> 00:31:48.579 king, does it? So, David, there's three anointings 00:31:48.579 --> 00:31:52.859 of David. One's here. Once he gets anointed by 00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:59.170 the elders, I think it's the elders, and then 00:31:59.170 --> 00:32:01.269 he gets anointed by all of Israel. Or no, he 00:32:01.269 --> 00:32:03.829 gets anointed by the elders of Judah to be king 00:32:03.829 --> 00:32:06.109 of Judah. And then he gets anointed by all of 00:32:06.109 --> 00:32:08.369 Israel to be king of Israel. And that's when 00:32:08.369 --> 00:32:12.049 he ascends to the throne and officially becomes 00:32:12.049 --> 00:32:18.109 the king of Israel. In God's mind, And I think 00:32:18.109 --> 00:32:20.569 in the writer's mind, Saul's not king anymore. 00:32:22.569 --> 00:32:29.269 God's rejected him. So he's acting king, but 00:32:29.690 --> 00:32:33.369 he's no longer God's anointed, which I guess 00:32:33.369 --> 00:32:37.109 we're going to read here in verse 14. Chris, 00:32:37.150 --> 00:32:41.990 that's an answer to your question. Did you have 00:32:41.990 --> 00:32:43.730 something specific in those two verses that you 00:32:43.730 --> 00:33:19.440 wanted me to address? Oh, when he asked? It doesn't 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:22.500 seem to me that it's expressing any kind of fear. 00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:26.869 It's just... Asking the Lord. How this is going 00:33:26.869 --> 00:33:30.619 to work out. And then. The Lord gives him his 00:33:30.619 --> 00:33:39.210 answer. And he goes. I didn't read it as a negative 00:33:39.210 --> 00:33:43.730 comment on Samuel. Or hesitancy to go. Verse 00:33:47.789 --> 00:33:50.230 14. But the spirit of the Lord departed from 00:33:50.230 --> 00:33:54.680 Saul. And an evil spirit from the Lord troubled 00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:58.849 him. And Saul's servant said unto him. Behold 00:33:58.849 --> 00:34:02.150 now. An evil spirit from God troubleth thee. 00:34:02.329 --> 00:34:09.539 And the last verse. Verse 23, it says, And it 00:34:09.539 --> 00:34:12.280 came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:15.360 upon Saul, that David took an harp and played 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:18.280 with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was 00:34:18.280 --> 00:34:20.820 well, and the evil spirit departed from him. 00:34:23.329 --> 00:34:26.489 So, is it only possible for the Holy Spirit to 00:34:26.489 --> 00:34:31.880 inhabit one person? Is it only possible for one 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:33.699 person to be indwelled by the Spirit? Is that 00:34:33.699 --> 00:34:40.710 why he had to leave Saul to go to David? Come 00:34:40.710 --> 00:34:49.070 on. Come on. Ben? No. Okay, very good. We better 00:34:49.070 --> 00:34:56.619 hope that's not the case. So then, if the Spirit 00:34:56.619 --> 00:34:59.980 then is rushing upon David to accomplish his 00:34:59.980 --> 00:35:02.179 purpose, what does that tell us about the Spirit 00:35:02.179 --> 00:35:13.099 leaving Saul? Saul was no longer being used as 00:35:13.099 --> 00:35:16.360 a means to accomplish God's purposes. David was 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:25.110 the focus of God's work. Comments, questions? 00:35:32.590 --> 00:35:36.070 It's not to say that Saul was suddenly outside 00:35:36.070 --> 00:35:41.659 of God's sovereignty any more than anything else 00:35:41.659 --> 00:35:45.239 is outside the sovereignty of God. Okay, then 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:47.519 we have this evil spirit. Does everybody have 00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:58.019 evil spirit in their translations? Okay. Distressing. 00:35:59.349 --> 00:36:02.349 Okay, so in the King James where it says evil, 00:36:02.429 --> 00:36:05.559 that evil would be what? What part of speech? 00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:13.159 Adjective. So it's a word describing what kind 00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:19.449 of spirit. I am a tall man. That's describing 00:36:19.449 --> 00:36:23.630 the height of a person. It's an adjective. When 00:36:23.630 --> 00:36:27.010 you have distressing, a distressing spirit, that's 00:36:27.010 --> 00:36:31.289 not an adjective at all, is it? That's saying 00:36:31.289 --> 00:36:35.230 that the function of the spirit or the result 00:36:35.230 --> 00:36:38.510 of the work of the spirit upon the person is 00:36:38.510 --> 00:36:45.980 what? Distressing. You understand the difference? 00:36:50.329 --> 00:37:01.880 Yes. Okay. So an adjective describes the state 00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:06.260 of something, right? What something is. I'm not 00:37:06.260 --> 00:37:08.320 even sure what the distressing spirit, I'm not 00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:10.019 sure what part of speech that would be. I didn't 00:37:10.019 --> 00:37:12.719 do that part of the homework. But that is describing 00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:17.360 the result of the spirit upon the person. So 00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:21.420 the consequence of this spirit on Saul was that 00:37:21.420 --> 00:37:25.269 he was distressed or grieved. It was a bad thing, 00:37:25.329 --> 00:37:33.119 an evil thing. I'm not saying that that is going 00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:35.460 to give us all the answers or if that's going 00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:39.079 to answer the question of whether or not exactly 00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:42.800 what the spirit was. My personal belief is that 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:46.090 it was a demon. Does anybody have a difference 00:37:46.090 --> 00:37:54.239 of opinion on that? Is that what you think? Sure. 00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:58.000 Okay. I only believe there's two types of spirits. 00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:04.090 Angels and demons. Very good. Also, what else 00:38:04.090 --> 00:38:08.130 could it be? Well, if the result, it just depends 00:38:08.130 --> 00:38:11.659 on what you think the distressing was, I suppose. 00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:19.800 It doesn't say that the spirit was, I mean, we 00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:24.710 talked about loneliness at Turkey Hill, right? 00:38:24.789 --> 00:38:28.110 That would be distressing. That would be, and 00:38:28.110 --> 00:38:31.070 yet that's a chasing of the Lord, right? And 00:38:31.070 --> 00:38:34.599 we're told that this was from the Lord. So, it's 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:40.289 at least conceivable that an angel could have, 00:38:40.590 --> 00:38:46.800 under God's authority, done some kind of work 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:50.550 that resulted in Saul's change of demeanor, I 00:38:50.550 --> 00:38:53.650 guess is what we'd say. Could it be an evil angel? 00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:58.360 Well, that would be a demon, then, point blank. 00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:00.969 But it's from the Lord? It's from the Lord. So, 00:39:01.070 --> 00:39:03.969 okay, so then that's our next question. What 00:39:03.969 --> 00:39:17.389 does that mean? Two basic questions. That's right. 00:39:17.909 --> 00:39:38.869 Holy and wicked. Sure. Could be. Sure. Yeah. 00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:52.460 That's right. Yeah, that's what I think. principalities, 00:39:52.460 --> 00:40:00.039 powers, spirits of wickedness in high places. 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:06.030 There's at least three. So in what way, then, 00:40:06.090 --> 00:40:11.190 this is from God? And that's really the crux 00:40:11.190 --> 00:40:15.099 of the issue. That's really where the question 00:40:15.099 --> 00:40:20.420 would come into play. So somebody explain that 00:40:20.420 --> 00:40:30.989 to me. Okay, God has all authority, and even 00:40:30.989 --> 00:40:34.550 the wicked spirits, principalities, powers, even 00:40:34.550 --> 00:40:39.090 the devil himself, Answer to God. And can only 00:40:39.090 --> 00:40:42.849 do. Whatever it is that God allows. And God only 00:40:42.849 --> 00:40:46.550 allows. What will accomplish his purpose. So 00:40:46.550 --> 00:40:52.239 unwittingly. This spirit. Who I believe is a 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.760 demon. I don't know which one. What his ranking 00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:00.659 was. But unwittingly or unknowingly. He was accomplishing 00:41:00.659 --> 00:41:04.199 God's purpose. Of ultimately. Bringing his son 00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:08.019 into the world. And crushing. the head of the 00:41:08.019 --> 00:41:11.000 devil himself, according to the prophecy of God 00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:17.800 back in Genesis. So this evil spirit was sent 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:21.860 by God in the sense that God allowed him to trouble 00:41:21.860 --> 00:41:26.099 Saul in some kind of way. And that troubling 00:41:26.099 --> 00:41:33.380 did what? Well, let's read and see. Are we all 00:41:33.380 --> 00:41:35.000 in agreement there? Is that enough said there? 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:39.929 We could say what it's not. Does that make Saul 00:41:39.929 --> 00:41:42.630 not responsible for what he does when the spirit 00:41:42.630 --> 00:41:48.610 troubles him? Does he get a free pass? The devil 00:41:48.610 --> 00:41:53.630 made me do it. So he does it. He's always in 00:41:53.630 --> 00:41:57.409 the narrative. He's portrayed as responsible. 00:41:57.469 --> 00:42:00.869 It's his choice in what he does. So if he hurls 00:42:00.869 --> 00:42:03.210 a javelin at David, it's because he chose to 00:42:03.210 --> 00:42:06.550 do that. It wasn't that the spirit overcame him. 00:42:07.139 --> 00:42:10.980 And forced him against his will to do that. So 00:42:13.570 --> 00:42:17.130 the passage isn't saying that God sent this particular 00:42:17.130 --> 00:42:22.250 demon to trouble Saul. That's not what you're 00:42:22.250 --> 00:42:31.230 saying. Yes. It's under God's control. I don't 00:42:31.230 --> 00:42:39.179 know. It's like in the Amos. Does a bridge fall? 00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:41.639 I think it's a bridge. Does a bridge fall in 00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:44.079 Israel? People die and it's not from the Lord. 00:42:45.659 --> 00:42:49.679 So, I mean, ultimately, everything traces its 00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:55.480 being or its... There's nothing outside of God's 00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:57.820 control. So in Job, when the spirits come and 00:42:57.820 --> 00:43:01.159 they say, we want to do this, God allows it, 00:43:01.179 --> 00:43:06.730 sends them. What do you think is being portrayed 00:43:06.730 --> 00:43:20.210 there? So God called him from somewhere and said, 00:43:20.269 --> 00:43:24.559 go to Saul. That's not, I mean, I didn't look 00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:28.400 it up. That's just my, what I get out of the 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:33.210 reading. Yeah, I think when we talk about the 00:43:33.210 --> 00:43:35.530 attributes of God, I think we said, I mean, there's 00:43:35.530 --> 00:43:38.829 no, I don't have a problem with you stating it 00:43:38.829 --> 00:43:41.730 that way at all. You're essentially saying the 00:43:41.730 --> 00:43:45.469 same thing no matter what you say. Nothing happens 00:43:45.469 --> 00:43:49.409 except God makes it happen. So God made happiness. 00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.559 He's not, but he's not responsible for sin at 00:43:54.750 --> 00:43:58.510 all. If the devil could make you sin and God 00:43:58.510 --> 00:44:01.010 sent the devil to trouble you, or the demon, 00:44:01.150 --> 00:44:03.210 to trouble you, then it would be God that would 00:44:03.210 --> 00:44:05.809 be responsible for what you did. And we know 00:44:05.809 --> 00:44:09.289 that that cannot be the case. So yeah, that's 00:44:09.289 --> 00:44:18.599 fine. We're not trying to shield God. Not disagreeing 00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:26.760 with that. I mean, Saul... Saul didn't need a 00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:30.099 demon to be rebellious against God, did he? But 00:44:30.099 --> 00:44:33.039 he did need a demon to disturb him in some kind 00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:37.199 of way. To make necessary David coming to him, 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:46.619 right? That's why the demon was sent. Saul's 00:44:46.619 --> 00:44:52.019 servants. You notice in all these stories about 00:44:52.019 --> 00:44:54.940 Saul, it's always everybody around Saul that 00:44:54.940 --> 00:44:58.400 is aware of what's going on. And it's never Saul 00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:03.079 himself. So the spirit departs from Saul. Now 00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:05.460 certainly, and then it's replaced by this evil 00:45:05.460 --> 00:45:08.639 spirit. It's hard for me to believe that Saul 00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:13.159 was unaware. Maybe he was, that the Holy Spirit 00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:16.059 had left him, and now the spirit that was moving 00:45:16.059 --> 00:45:21.239 him was causing him great distress. But his servants 00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:24.760 notice it right away. His servants say to him 00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:27.500 in verse 15, Behold now an evil spirit from God 00:45:27.500 --> 00:45:30.639 troubleth thee. And then they go on, Let our 00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:33.440 Lord now command thy servants which are before 00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:36.039 thee to seek out a man who is a cunning player 00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:39.400 on the harp. And it shall come to pass when the 00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:42.280 evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall 00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:45.940 play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. And 00:45:45.940 --> 00:45:48.760 Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a 00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:51.239 man that can play well, and bring him to me. 00:45:52.130 --> 00:45:57.960 Okay, so now again, he doesn't argue with the 00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:00.079 servants who say it's a demon that's troubling 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:04.940 him. Now, what would the normal response of any 00:46:04.940 --> 00:46:08.360 person, Christian, not Christian, who believed 00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:12.519 in the existence of spiritual beings? What would 00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:17.710 be the response there? Somebody find me some 00:46:17.710 --> 00:46:19.969 kind of solution to this problem that I'm having. 00:46:21.059 --> 00:46:25.219 Right? Saul had to know what the solution was. 00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:28.840 He'd been confronted by Samuel with the sin of 00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:31.659 rebellion and disobedience to God. You would 00:46:31.659 --> 00:46:33.800 think that Saul would have immediately said, 00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:39.079 let me prostrate myself before the Lord in repentance 00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:43.199 and plead for mercy and grace. But he doesn't. 00:46:44.070 --> 00:46:47.869 All of his solution is from the exterior, the 00:46:47.869 --> 00:46:50.269 external. Just I'm going to find me somebody 00:46:50.269 --> 00:46:52.710 that can play it heart really well so I can be 00:46:52.710 --> 00:46:58.090 comforted in my distressing. So again, it's a 00:46:58.090 --> 00:47:01.130 real simple lesson for us and it's a legitimate 00:47:01.130 --> 00:47:04.789 lesson. When trouble comes in our life, we don't 00:47:04.789 --> 00:47:08.610 look to the world or to the flesh for the solving 00:47:08.610 --> 00:47:11.570 of that problem. That's only going to make things 00:47:11.570 --> 00:47:15.599 worse. It's only going to prolong. The discomfort, 00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:18.440 the distressing. Saul dealt with it for the rest 00:47:18.440 --> 00:47:22.750 of his life until the Lord took him. So quickly 00:47:22.750 --> 00:47:24.969 we want to turn to the Lord. Quickly we want 00:47:24.969 --> 00:47:27.269 to seek his solution. Quickly we want to ask, 00:47:27.389 --> 00:47:29.949 Lord, what's the problem here? What is this? 00:47:30.349 --> 00:47:33.670 Why am I in this circumstance? And what is it 00:47:33.670 --> 00:47:39.000 that I am to seek from Jesus for my relief? Saul 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:42.280 looks for somebody to play on the harp. But that's 00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:45.869 how God worked to bring David into the... Throne 00:47:45.869 --> 00:47:49.860 room of Saul. Verse 18. Then answered one of 00:47:49.860 --> 00:47:52.179 the servants and said. Behold I have seen a son 00:47:52.179 --> 00:47:55.599 of Jesse. The Bethlehemite. That is cunning and 00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:58.360 playing. And a mighty valiant man. And a man 00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:02.440 of war. Now again. Now you notice. That this 00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:06.219 can't just be a chronological. Happening of what 00:48:06.219 --> 00:48:10.800 has been going on. A mighty and a valiant man. 00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:13.559 A man of war. And prudent in matters. And a comely 00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:18.960 person. And the Lord is with him. Now, if David 00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:21.760 was going to be king in Israel, what was going 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:25.170 to have to happen? What had to happen was Saul. 00:48:27.090 --> 00:48:30.409 He had to meet the approval of all the people. 00:48:30.510 --> 00:48:34.030 And so the Spirit working on David is already 00:48:34.030 --> 00:48:36.550 accomplishing that, where David has come into 00:48:36.550 --> 00:48:40.760 even Saul's liking. But his servants and the 00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:43.139 people, he's got this reputation. He's being 00:48:43.139 --> 00:48:45.500 known of the people. The Spirit is working to 00:48:45.500 --> 00:48:49.510 bring David into a place where... He can be anointed 00:48:49.510 --> 00:48:54.929 and accepted as king in Israel. Verse 19, Wherefore 00:48:54.929 --> 00:48:58.349 Saul sent messengers unto Jesse and said, Send 00:48:58.349 --> 00:49:01.670 me David thy son, which is with the sheep. And 00:49:01.670 --> 00:49:04.550 Jesse took an ass laden with bread and a bottle 00:49:04.550 --> 00:49:07.849 of wine and a kid and sent them by David his 00:49:07.849 --> 00:49:11.269 son unto Saul. And David came to Saul and stood 00:49:11.269 --> 00:49:15.260 before him and he loved him greatly. And he became 00:49:15.260 --> 00:49:18.630 his armor bearer. And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, 00:49:18.809 --> 00:49:21.630 Let David, I pray thee, stand before me, for 00:49:21.630 --> 00:49:31.980 he hath found favor in my sight. And it came 00:49:31.980 --> 00:49:34.360 to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon 00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:36.739 Saul, that David took an harp and played with 00:49:36.739 --> 00:49:39.860 his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:52.309 and the evil spirit departed from him. Yeah. 00:49:54.260 --> 00:49:56.940 So the Holy Spirit is working, and now we're 00:49:56.940 --> 00:49:59.320 going to, in the rest of this, in the rest of 00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:01.739 1 Samuel, we're going to see how the Spirit continues 00:50:01.739 --> 00:50:05.269 to work, cause things to happen. Bring events 00:50:05.269 --> 00:50:08.949 that will bring David into favor with the people 00:50:08.949 --> 00:50:14.889 and will demonstrate his heart to us before the 00:50:14.889 --> 00:50:20.780 Lord. Any questions? We're done. It seems like 00:50:20.780 --> 00:50:27.869 the spirit went away kind of easily. From Saul? 00:50:29.769 --> 00:50:37.329 Easily? Oh, the evil spirit. Yeah. Yeah, that 00:50:37.329 --> 00:50:41.599 was in the providence of God. God sent him away, 00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:48.769 and then he came back. Okay?