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the offering and bless the gift and again in Jesus name amen.

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Alright, will you turn in your Bibles please to the book of 1st Samuel and we're reading in chapter 23.

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1st Samuel 23 today. As is our custom, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse 1.

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Please read along silently with me in 1st Samuel chapter 23.

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And in 1 Samuel chapter 23, the Bible reads,

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then they told David, saying, behold, the Philistines fight

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against Kala, and they robbed the threshing floors.

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Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying,

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shall I go and smite these Philistines?

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And the Lord said unto David, go and smite the Philistines

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and save Kala.

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And David's men said unto him, behold,

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we be afraid here in Judah.

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How much more than if we come to Cala against the armies of the Philistines?

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Then David inquired of the Lord yet again.

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And the Lord answered him and said, Arise, go down to Cala, for I will deliver the Philistines into

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thine hand. So David and his men went to Cala and fought with the Philistines and brought away their

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cattle and smote them with a great slaughter.

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So David saved the inhabitants of Cala.

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And it came to pass when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech

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fled to David to Cala,

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that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

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And it was told Saul that David was come to Cala.

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And Saul said,

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God hath delivered him into mine hand,

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for he is shut in by entering into a town

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that hath gates and bars.

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And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Cala, to besiege David and his men.

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And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief against him. And he said to Abiathar the

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priest, bring hither the Ifad. Then said David, O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly

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heard that Saul seeketh to come to Cala, to destroy the city for my sake.

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Will the men of Cala deliver me up into his hand?

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Will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard?

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O Lord God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant.

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And the Lord said, he will come down.

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Then said David, will the men of Cala

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deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?

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And the Lord said, they will deliver thee up.

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Then David and his men, which were about six hundred,

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arose and departed out of Cala,

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and went whither soever they could go.

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And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Cala,

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and he forbear to go forth.

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And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds,

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and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph.

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And Saul sought him every day,

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but God delivered him not into his hand.

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And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life, and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

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And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

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And he said unto him, Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee, and thou shalt be king over Israel.

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And I shall be next unto thee, and that also Saul my father knoweth.

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and they too made a covenant before the Lord.

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And David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

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Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying,

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Does not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood,

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in the hill of Chahila, which is on the south of Jeshimun?

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Now therefore, O King, come down according to all the desire of thy soul

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to come down, and our part shall be to deliver him.

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into the king's hand. And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the Lord, for ye have compassion on me.

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Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know, and see his place where his haunt is.

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And who hath seen him there? For it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.

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See therefore and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself.

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And come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you, and it shall come to pass,

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if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah."

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And they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. But David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon,

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in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.

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Saul also and his men went to seek him.

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And they told David, wherefore he came down into a rock

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and abode in the wilderness of Maun.

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And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David

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in the wilderness of Maun.

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And Saul went on this side of the mountain

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and David and his men on that side of the mountain.

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And David made haste to get away for fear of Saul.

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for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them. But there came a

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messenger unto Saul saying haste and come, for the Philistines have invaded the land.

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Wherefore, Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines.

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Therefore they called that place Sela Hamalekoth.

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and David went up from vents and dwelt in strongholds at and Getty. Brother Alex, will you pray for us?

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Amen. We're in 1 Samuel chapter 23. Look at verse number one. The Bible says,

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Then they told David, saying, Behold the Philistines fight against Aquila,

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and they rob the threshing floors. And so we're basically right on the heels of, in the last

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chapter, a biathar comes to David, and he's rightfully the new high priest.

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I don't know if it's official yet, but his whole family got killed in the last chapter,

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so he's basically the only one left to tell the tale.

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And then David found out that he was partly responsible, just in the way that he maybe

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shouldn't have said things.

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If he knew do I...

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It was wrong or that it was a risk to tell things in front of the way

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He probably shouldn't have said those things in front of him

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But obviously God doesn't hold that against them evil men do evil things and just because they do evil things

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They use the things that we give to them to do evil doesn't mean that we have part in that with them

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so obviously

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And God never mentions the fact that it was something wrong on David's part. So

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But it is fulfilling prophecy because God already said that Eli's posterity would be cut off

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because he loved his sons and honored them more than God. And he let his reprobate sons continue

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to be preached even though he knew that they were doing wicked things. They were reprobates,

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obviously. The Bible says that they were sons of Belial. And so that was part of the prophecy,

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basically, all those people dying.

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is part of the prophecy basically and so Biatar is really the only one left in his family.

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So he is by right the high priest and David makes him the high priest, a co-high priest

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with Zadok.

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And Zadok actually becomes, so at that time, I think it might be the only time that there

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was actually two high priests but maybe I'm wrong about that, but it was done by David

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first so.

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And then obviously Abiathar later on betrays David by trying to back one of his other sons

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that he wasn't supposed to be backing.

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And then Solomon denounces him and that's when he finally, when that whole line is done

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being the high priest and it transfers over to Zadok.

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So which turned into the Sadducees later on.

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So that's unfortunate.

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They go from being the high priest to...

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not believing in any of the miracles of God or anything like that.

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So anyway, so that's kind of just a little bit about a biathart and who this guy is.

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And so my first point tonight is pray before big decisions. Pray before big decisions.

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Look at verse one again. It says,

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Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah,

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and they robbed the threshing floors. Therefore David inquired of the Lord,

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saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said unto David, Go.

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and smite the Philistines and save Kila. So I mean, pray before big decisions. I mean,

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this is a pretty big decision. David's got 400 men and they're still not quite the mighty men yet,

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because they say that they're afraid later on in the passage here.

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And so they're still not quite what they will become later on.

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because I don't think the mighty men ever say anything like that after this, that they're afraid.

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But David is inquiring of the Lord and he's proving himself to be a great leader and

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how is he doing that? Well, he's probably using the priest that he just attained by.

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proxy here and God's just kind of moving everything toward David's way. It might not seem that way to

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David and his men because Saul just kind of seems to be getting away with attacking him and going

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after him and they're just basically having to run from place to place and hide. So but David asks,

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should I go up? And that's a good question to ask. Should I actually do this? And I think a lot of

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times as Christians that we

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Unfortunately, we don't pray about the things we should pray about, and we pray about the

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things that don't need to be prayed about.

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And you're like, well, what do you mean, Pastor Thompson?

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Like, we should pray about everything.

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Really?

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I don't think so.

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When the Bible says to read your Bible, you know, that we're supposed to meditate in

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His Word day and night, I don't think we need to pray about that.

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That's just something that God's already said to do.

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So the things that God has clearly already told us to do in the Bible, we don't have

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to pray about those things.

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Should I go soul winning?

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Yes, you should because the Bible says you should.

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You know, should I pray?

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Yeah, you should pray.

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I mean, David's given us an example here.

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Should I tie? Should I do anything that God says to do in the New Testament

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and that's left over from the Old Testament, which is a lot still,

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those things we should still do. And we don't need to pray about that.

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So, but when David's like, well should I get into this big fight

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and, you know, endanger my men against this

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host of Philistines, I mean the Philistines were the baddest dudes on the block.

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I mean they were...

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Even after losing Goliath and losing that battle and losing some battles with Saul,

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they're still pretty formidable foes.

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I mean, they end up killing Saul and all his sons and then defeating the Israelite army

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later on, obviously because God is upset with Saul and because he kills Saul because of

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going to the witch finally at the end there.

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But David has the right thing though.

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He's inquiring of the Lord.

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Saul inquires of the Lord too.

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It's just God just won't answer him.

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He hasn't quite got to that point yet,

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but he's going to get to that point where he just stops

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answering what Saul asks about.

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because he's not right with God. And David is right with God. And so he's making sure,

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hey, is this something I should actually do? And God just, I like how God just plainly tell,

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when he's inquired of like this, he doesn't speak in mysteries. He doesn't speak in code.

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He just flat out tells them exactly, very clearly what to do. What does he say? Go and smite the

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Philistines and save Kila.

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I mean, that's pretty, it's pretty plain, right?

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I mean, to me, there's no more interpretation of that.

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You know, go kill them and save this city.

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All right.

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And so, and it says David's men said unto him,

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behold, we be afraid here in Judah.

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How much more than if we come to Kila

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against the armies of the Philistines.

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So they're afraid.

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And this is why I think that David asks

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and inquires one more time.

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I think maybe just for their sakes,

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but sometimes, you know, we want to have confirmation

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and this happens.

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happens in the Bible quite a bit. Gideon, he asked for multiple miracles just to make

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sure God's... I mean, when you're faced with unsurmountable odds, it can make you doubt

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things. Gideon is going up with 300 men against the whole army of the Midianites, and it says

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that there is the sands of the sea.

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that he just took 300 guys, they broke some pots,

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God's made them afraid in their hearts and they ran,

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and that's how Gideon was able to defeat them.

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But it was through God's providence that that was possible

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But so I mean I can see where Gideon would have a little bit of like well

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Let's just make sure you know have this miracle happen have you know what was it the cotton or whatever the wool?

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Was damp one night, and then the next night it wasn't yeah

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So that's the that's the miracles the two miracles that he asked of but he asked twice and sometimes we asked twice and

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There's nothing wrong with that. You know just to make sure

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that you're asking for the right thing

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or that your path is clear.

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Because God does not talk to us in audible terms

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as far as like, he's not just saying,

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hey, yes Eli, do this.

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Yes, Sean, you should go so wanting to,

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no, we don't have to pray about that.

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But anyway, yes, you should do this.

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Or yes, you shouldn't do that.

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Or no, you shouldn't do that.

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I mean, he doesn't speak to us in that way.

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He does speak to us through his word.

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So.

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We know that anything that we ask for that's according to God's Word,

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again, there's no reason to ask for it, but even if you did, it's like,

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well, there's your confirmation.

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But we're supposed to also be led by the Spirit.

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And so, if we're led by the Spirit, we won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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So, if God says to be led by the Spirit, that means it's possible to be led by the Spirit,

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right?

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And so sometimes we just have to follow the Spirit's lead on things, but the Spirit's

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not going to lead us into some, you know, unclear, necessarily situation where He's

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just not going to tell us what...

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You know, it's going to be known to us when we inquire of the Lord what He wants from us,

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or what is the right thing. And sometimes people put it in the terms of, well, you're trying to

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knock down doors that are closed to you. You know, if you ask God for something and then He

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completely closes the door on that, that should be make some confirmation that maybe that's

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just not the place for you, or that's not what He wants. Because in the Old Testament,

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God would tell them yes or no, and then sometimes he'd be silent and wouldn't say anything.

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And usually that was because of sin, but sometimes just because, you know, we're supposed to wait on the Lord and be patient when we're inquiring of him.

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But...

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So, you know, we still kind of get confirmation in similar ways, but it's not through some

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ephod that somebody is wearing and some, the omen and the thumen, and it's not going to

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– we don't have to inquire of a priest, you know, we just have to inquire through

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the high priest, which is the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And we are priests as far as God's concern.

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and we are able to inquire of him at any time.

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But again, he doesn't always just audibly tell us,

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or he never audibly tells us.

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If you are getting audibly told,

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you need to check into an asylum.

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But he's gonna tell you through the word

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and through the leading of the spirit.

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And I'll get to some examples here in just a little bit.

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But let's move on here.

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It says, and David, so.

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But David inquired of the Lord yet again. So he inquires again. He got a clear answer the first

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time. And the Lord answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines

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into thine hand. So more detail, but same thing. He said, just do it, just go, arise, go,

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and I will deliver them. I will. And then he told him to save Keilah the last time.

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So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their cattle and smote them with a great slaughter.

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So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

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So he did what God told him to do.

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He inquired, he got two very clear answers, and he did that. So, but again, we should also,

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when it comes to like a big decision, that's a big decision, should I risk all these men's lives

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for this city? And when God says yes, then he did it. But we should also inquire of the Lord of big

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things like that also. And I think that sometimes people will just move away without like,

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even just checking to see if there's a good church in the area.

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That's like kind of a pet peeve of mine.

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And then, you know, people will just go and say,

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well, I'm thinking about moving here because of this and this and this and this.

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And it's like it's everything but the good church that doesn't exist there.

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And to me, that's always a no.

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I mean, if God wants us to be in a great church,

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If God wants us to be spiritually minded and that we're not doing things because of the

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love of money, we're not doing things to be rich, well then how does it make sense to

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make a decision like that based upon money?

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So.

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Pastor Menzies always used to say that whenever you make a decision based upon money, it's

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always the wrong decision.

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Which I agree with them.

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I think that if that's your sole reason for doing something, for moving someplace or doing

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something like that, then I think it's, I mean, again, there's nothing wrong with moving.

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But do you have a good place to go?

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And they're like, well, there's an old IFB church there that's pretty cool.

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And they kind of believe some of the stuff that we do.

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But, you know, I'll just be quiet and not, you know, look, you're going to get sussed

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out.

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It's going to happen every time.

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And then eventually they will turn on you.

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I mean, pretty much every time that happens, any time we, you know, we go soul hunting

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on some big soul hunting marathon or something and there's another pastor from a life beat

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church there, they always turn against us every single time.

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So I can't even think of a time that it hasn't happened, except for Pastor Messler.

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Pastor Messler's the only one I think that I can think of that we've done big, soul-winding stuff with that he, you know,

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he was already kind of leaning in our direction on some things, but he wasn't all the way there.

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I mean, he still liked Trump at that time, as Brother Alex fully well knows.

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So, and then he was also pre-treated when we first met him, but he changed his stance.

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on that and stuff, but he didn't have to do that just to be my friend or be our friends.

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So I mean moving your whole family someplace that there's no spiritual good place to go

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to church is just a bad move every time. I will never recommend that someone does that

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for any reason. So I think that God wants us to be spiritual. It's just like taking

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a job where you can't go to church. You know, oh I got this job offer for this great

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Thanks for watching!

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opportunity to make a lot of money and I can do this and I can do that. It's like, well,

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can you ever go to church? Well, then it's a bad decision. So you shouldn't make decisions

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that are going to keep you out of church. That just doesn't make sense.

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Because look, God will provide a way for you, just like he provided David a place in the wilderness.

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Every time, you know, something was about to go wrong, God would, at the end of this chapter, what's he do?

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He sends a messenger to get Saul away from him, because Saul was about to catch him.

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Saul had him enclosed. He had him circled. There was no way out.

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And then this messenger comes and says, hey, hurry up and get out. We've got to get out of here.

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The Philistines are attacking. It's like God is moving.

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in our direction, especially when we're making decisions based upon things that he already wants from us.

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It's like if you're going to stay in his will, then of course he's going to make things and provide ways for you,

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and maybe that's just not the right job for you.

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If the job is taking you away from your family and taking you away from being able to attend church,

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it's just a bad decision.

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And obviously God can work things out in the place that you take a job out.

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But like, if you're full time, never gonna be able to get off that shift,

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you're only gonna go to church once a week.

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It's just, to me, it's...

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Look, God's got something better for you.

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He really does.

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He has something better for you right around the corner.

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And you just have to have faith.

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And sometimes we'll take...

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Like, I took a job one time after I'd already taken a job,

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and it was a bad decision.

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I'd already got hired for the one...

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It was a good spot.

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I just thought that the other one was better.

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And so when I did that, it was a big mistake.

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And it was nine months of being totally, completely miserable, working for a woman feminist that

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hated my guts and gaslit me all day long.

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And I couldn't wait until I could leave that job.

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I was looking daily for new jobs because...

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You know, the pay might have been better,

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the benefits might have been better.

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But in the end, it wasn't better.

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It was awful.

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And she was like an evil tyrant that finally got fired,

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I heard, so I was happy to hear that.

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But she was so bad that there was men at that place that

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were on anti-anxiety medicine because of her.

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That's how bad she was.

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Like, I knew two guys that were like, yeah, I had to go see.

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a psychiatrist or something.

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I was just like, dang, you must really need this job, man,

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because there's no way I would stay at a place for that long.

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I mean, I went to Human Resources about her twice,

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because she was just so bad.

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And she was my only direct report.

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And she was a nightmare.

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She would send me an email.

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And I mean, I got pretty high marks in reading and language,

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English.

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And so I'm pretty sure I understand how to read an email.

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But she's like, that's not what I said to do.

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It's like, I mean, it's right here.

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You take a look.

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You know?

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But she was just a, you know, sometimes she could be really

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cool, which was weird.

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She gives me this horrible review and then gives me a

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raise.

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It's like, I must not be that bad.

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So if I'm that bad, you're not going to give me a raise.

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You're going to fire me.

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But that's just kind of the way she operated, you know, it's like very strange.

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So anyway, so David inquires, he goes down, he saves Keela.

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David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their cattle and so on and so forth.

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And it came to pass when Abiathar the son of the Himalek fled to David to Keilah that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

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So it's kind of backtracking us back to when he first met up with David.

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But it's giving us a crucial piece of information here.

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And what is that? Well, that he fled to David from Keilah and he came down with an ephod in his hand.

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So he had the actual

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outfit that he's supposed to be wearing as the high priest to be able to inquire of the Lord.

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So to me I think that this is telling this out of order and so I think that we should interpret

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that that David was already inquiring of the Lord by that ethod.

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So, again, this is how you inquired of the Lord.

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You didn't just personally get to come talk to him.

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That's why the priesthood existed.

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That's why, you know, if God appeared to people through an angel of the Lord, that was on

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a special occasion.

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He didn't just do this for every leader.

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He didn't just have...

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It's not like Moses who talked to him face to face all the time.

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I mean, even when Joshua became the leader, he said, you're not, you know, you're not

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going to be able to talk to me like I talked to Moses.

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Moses was a special case and he was that way because he also pictured the Lord

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Jesus Christ in the sense that when it said that a prophet like unto me it

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would rise up that that's you know someone that talked with him face to

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face someone that had a really super close personal relationship with him

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like that

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And so God didn't just talk to everybody in the sense that you might...

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Because when it says, well, David, God said this,

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I don't think He's directly telling that to David necessarily.

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I think He's telling it probably to a biother who's telling it to David.

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And I don't know how...

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Because the Bible doesn't really explain how this whole system works,

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but I'm going to try to explain it to you a little bit tonight.

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And just there's some things that we just don't know.

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And I think God doesn't want us to know these things because he doesn't want us to try to,

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he doesn't want people to try to inquire of the Lord in ways that are done away with.

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So why would he give us all this information about something that we're not supposed to do

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anymore? Because for sure people would do it. They're like, I got these rocks, man. And then,

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you know, I'm making a special vest. They did it in the Old Testament.

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People, and we'll go there and we'll see that. So let me move forward here. It says,

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And it came to pass when the son of the himalaya fled to David, to Keilah.

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He came down with the ephod in his hand.

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So again, he's got to do this through the right way.

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And it says, it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah.

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And Saul said, God had delivered him into mine hand for he is shut in by entering into

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a town that hath gates and bars.

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So I mean...

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I guess if you're not saved and you're, you know, that you could think that that process is true.

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But Saul is saved. And for him to say something wild like this, like, yeah, God's delivered him

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into my hands. Like, you already know that that's not true. You've already been denounced that your

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days are numbered as the king. And it's just, it's just the fact that he's crazy now.

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that he's saying stuff like this because he can't really believe that this is true.

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And if he does really believe it's true, he's really crazier than he's letting on.

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So, I mean, he just got done ordering all the priests and their families to be killed,

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including all their animals. So, I mean, he's really gone off the deep end here

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to think that God is helping him catch David. So...

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You know, and if anything, God is silently behind the scenes in a lot of ways, helping David,

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which isn't specifically spelled out. Kind of like when it says a messenger comes and tells Saul,

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hey, you know, make haste, we got to go fight the Philistines. That was totally of God. It doesn't

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say that, but of course we have to know that that's true because God is working things out to,

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in order for David to escape these situations.

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And it's like he's in an impossible situation, but God keeps getting him out of these impossible situations.

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And so that's something that prayer can do for us also.

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That's something if you're right with God and you're living the Christian life,

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God's going to be more entreating towards you in the things that you are inquiring him of.

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And like Saul, you know, if you're so bad that you're like Saul,

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then you're thinking things are true that aren't true.

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You're thinking God's on your side

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and he's helping you do stuff that he's not really helping you do.

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So now the ephod, I'm going to go into this a little bit.

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The high priest ephod was an important thing because

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it symbolically tied the breastplate of judgment.

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which housed the Urim and the Thumim.

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If you remember when I preached through Exodus,

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we went through all those passages, but it's been a while.

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But these were like physical objects that were meant to be

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used by the priest to direct and give definitive answers from God to them.

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So and that was usually crucial.

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things that were like big inquiries. I don't think that David just inquired of him, hey,

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you know, should I wear this sword with this, with these shoes or, you know, that's not,

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those aren't big things to inquire the Lord about. You know, you see the leaders there,

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when they go to inquire the Lord, it's usually something that's a big ask. It's something that

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is not super clear.

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And it's something that's, you know, it's not just run-of-the-mill prayer requests or something.

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So, and you know, when a leader wanted to know God's will, that's what they would do. They would

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ask the priest and they would bring forward the ephod and then they would inquire of the

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Lord on his behalf. And this happens a lot of times in the Bible, probably more times

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than you actually realize.

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I think that Samuel had to stand before the Lord.

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Multiple times you'll see people standing before the Lord and he's being inquired of.

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When it says that they're standing before the Lord, that's what it's talking about.

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The priest is inquiring of God for them and it's a formal situation.

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Let's look at Exodus chapter 28 real quick.

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Exodus chapter 28.

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Thanks for watching.

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And if you remember, the high priest had a special ephod that had all these different things.

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Not every priest had all the same vestments on them that the high priest did. They didn't have

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the umun and the thumun. They didn't have all that other stuff. They didn't have like the

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breastplate that had all the different stones on it. They didn't have that. It was just like a linen

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ephod, a white.

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colored ephod. So, Exodus 28 verse 4 says,

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And these are the garments which they shall make a breastplate

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and an ephod and a robe and a broidered coat,

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a miter and a girdle. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother and

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his sons

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that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. And they shall take gold

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and blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen.

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And these are representative of what? Well,

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Well, how about the gold representing, you know, that Jesus Christ is the King of Kings and Lord

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of Lords and the blue and the purple, the bruises that he received from being beaten and tortured.

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And the scarlet, of course, and the scarlet was representative of what? The blood of Christ.

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And so why do they have to wear this? Because it represents that

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it's representative of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And so they're in the place there of inquiring of God

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like he's doing for us now forever.

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And then you have the fine twine linen with cunning work.

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So the fine twine, when it says fine linen,

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it's always talking about this very white,

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very bright white colored linen.

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And of course Jesus was wrapped in that. He was wrapped in that and he was bruised when he was wrapped up after he died.

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And I'm sure that the cloths that he was mummified in or you know that they put over his body like that, they were had blood and bruised.

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You know he was still bruised and beat up and bloody when they when he did that.

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And then he appeared unto heaven to God.

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on our behalf. And so again, this is a physical representation of those things.

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So now let's turn to Exodus 28, verse 29 and 30.

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So it's the same chapter, just skip down to verse 29 and 30.

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So, and the purpose of the breastplate...

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It was fastened to the ephod. It was specifically for judgment and decision making. That's what it says

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Here in Exodus chapter 28 verse 29 and 30 it says

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And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel and the breastplate of judgment upon his heart

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When he goeth into the holy under the holy place for a memorial before the Lord continually

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Thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment

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The Urim and the Thumim and they shall be upon Aaron's heart

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when he goeth in before the Lord, and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon

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his heart before the Lord continually." So he was the one that was supposed to bear these things

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onto the Lord and these are the representations of that.

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Later on, when you see David in another crisis with the Amalekites, where the Amalekites

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come and take his whole family, and we'll get through that chapter at one point here,

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but David uses the same exact protocol.

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Look at 1 Samuel chapter 30 verse 7.

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1 Samuel chapter 30 verse number 7.

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So David had a habit of doing this when it's not like he just went off on his own and did

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things without asking God first on the big decisions. And that's the way we should be as

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Christians also. It's a good example to us that we don't just do things willy-nilly.

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We don't just make these huge decisions. You don't get married, you know, before you probably ask,

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hey God is this the right person to marry you know maybe he's

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things that you might be going through hard times with your kids and you need some direction.

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There's lots of different things that we should inquire the Lord about.

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Again, I'll go through that list here in just a little bit of things that I thought about.

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But it says, And David said to Abiathar the priest, a hemlock son, I pray thee, bring

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me hither the ephod.

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and a biathor.

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brought thither the ephod to David, and David inquired of the Lord, saying,

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Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him,

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Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

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So David, again, he's in this really crazy situation.

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The people are talking about stoning him to death.

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What's he do?

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He, first, I know he encourages himself in the Lord because he's very depressed and upset

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about the situation and everybody's looking to him like it's his fault for whatever reason

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because people always want to blame the leader for everything.

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But then it says, God answered him, you know, pursue.

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for thou shalt surely overtake them without fail and recover all."

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So I mean he gets a clear answer, but how is he inquiring though?

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He asks the Biothor to come and he asks him to bring the ephod with him.

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So the ephod is directly something that is required when he's inquiring of the Lord.

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This is something that's required.

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Okay?

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And David is trying to do the right thing and do it right.

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So...

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Somehow he's able to divine these things through the vestment that he's wearing.

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So it does have something to do with it.

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How do the Urim and Thumim function?

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Well again, we don't know everything about it, but it possibly means lights and perfections,

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which kind of makes sense.

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Thanks for watching.

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you know, like God gives you the light that you need and light is knowledge and then and

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perfections. So he's going to give you that perfect judgment that you need. I don't know if that's

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exactly, I don't obviously speak Hebrew, I just looked this up. So, but there were sacred objects

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deposited inside the breastplate which was physically fastened to the high priest's ephod.

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While the Bible does not describe their exact material shape, it outlines their function as judgment.

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or a decision-making mechanism through the priest.

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So in Scripture, you know, it usually shows that through the Scriptures, it tells us that

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God's either going to say yes or no, and He's going to give a little bit.

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It's not like He goes through this big long thing of what to do. It's one sentence.

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You know, yes, go up.

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Yes, deliver them. Yes, fight against the Philistines.

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He's not like giving them these big long messages because,

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and again, I'm not sure how this exactly worked and what,

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the Bible doesn't even tell us what shape they were,

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what exactly they were.

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It's really a big mystery to us.

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All we know is that God told them to put these things

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into the breastplate and then when they inquired of the Lord,

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Somehow these things gave them the answers that they were looking for. I don't know how that worked

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I don't know if one lit up and said yes

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Lit up and said no, it doesn't really explain that to us

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But it does explain that they needed it and it does explain that that's what they were required to wear in order to inquire of him

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so and again, so

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In the New Testament, we don't need these things anymore, so I think that that's again

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why it's kind of like the pole.

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When God had made a brazen pole and they put the snake on top of it, that was used for

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a specific thing at a specific time.

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You look at the pole, it's like look unto Jesus, it represented Jesus of course.

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which had a snake on it, which is another explanation for another time.

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But they started to worship that later on because they kept it.

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So obviously people will just do the wrong thing if they got these little sacred devices or something.

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They're going to use it in some weird wrong way at some point.

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That's why I believe that Moses' body was hid.

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I don't think it's because he's one of the two witnesses.

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witnesses I think it's because

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They didn't want people to worship him and kiss his bones or whatever like, you know,

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the orthodox priest and stuff have you do.

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So I think that they no doubt would have worshiped Moses.

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They would have had some kind of shrine built for him.

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It would have been the ultimate shrine because, I mean, they're still, the Pharisees were

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still claiming to believe in Moses, but they didn't even believe in the things that he

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wrote.

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So they didn't even believe what he said about Jesus.

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It was just kind of some idolatrous thing that they were involved in.

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But yeah, I mean, what big decisions should we pray about?

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Well, marriage would be a good one.

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Child rearing in some decisions.

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Obviously, God tells us what to do with child rearing, but sometimes, you know, you're faced

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with hard...

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problems that you might not normally face.

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Major business decisions like switching jobs or what kind of job to take,

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buying a house, buying cars.

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Those are major financial decisions and

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you know I don't think God cares what color your car is.

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I don't think God cares what color your house is. I think that

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it's the fact that you're reliant.

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upon him for major decisions that I think that he likes.

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And so he wants us to inquire of him.

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We have a way easier time.

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We don't need some priest with an ephod to come tell us with some things that we don't

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even know what they are, the umun and the thumun.

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But whatever they were, that's how it was inquired of.

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We just have it way easier in the New Testament than they did in the New Testament, I mean

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in the Old Testament about certain things.

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So.

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But again, there's things we don't have to pray about,

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but I already covered that.

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So, and again, it does amaze me that people will do things

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without praying about it.

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You know, they'll make these huge decisions

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and just be like, oh, well, I mean,

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that's just what I'm gonna do.

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Because people, in the long run,

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they just do what they wanna do a lot of times.

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That's why it says that our hearts lust to envy and that we should pray for the things that we need.

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We have not because we ask not. And sometimes we ask amiss. We're asking for the wrong things.

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We're asking, we're trying to break down again, knock down doors that aren't necessarily open to

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us because that's what we want to do. That's why people opinion shop.

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So what do you think about me moving here?

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They'll ask all the pastors that they know,

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what do you think about me?

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And then they're waiting for that one person

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to tell them something similar to what they want.

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And they're like, aha, that's it, I'm doing it.

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God has spoken to me.

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It's like, no, you've spoken to yourself.

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You spake thus within yourself because you

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wanted to do something.

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And a lot of times people do things because they think that the grass is greener on the other side.

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I've preached about this before where people just think that, well, this place has a lower cost of

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living, so this is going to be a better place for us to live. And it's like, not necessarily. It might

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be the most ghetto area that you could think of, and you don't really want to live in that neighborhood.

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I mean, have you ever thought of it that way? Or maybe the weather is way worse than what we have here.

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I moved out to the high desert for a while,

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and Brother Eli knows exactly where I'm talking about,

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because you lived in the Tri-Cities, right?

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And I mean, comparatively speaking,

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you're smelling onions and all these different farm smells.

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And after, you know, whatever.

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I mean, sometimes that stuff can smell good.

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But you know what I like to smell?

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The smell of the cascades when I come back to this area.

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Because the.

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As soon as it seems seems like as soon as you hit right around where Sean lives in the promised land right there

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You get that waft of fresh air and if you've been breathing high desert air for a while

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You know, it's just like a it's a refreshing smell. It's not something that you normally know if you don't if you live here

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You don't even really notice it anymore

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But it's kind of like if you live in a house filled with cat pee, you just stop noticing the cat pee after a while.

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You know? I'm just like sometimes...

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If you ever walked into someone's house and their house is just really like, ah! It's like a cat pee ammonia.

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And it's like, oh, how can they live here?

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And they don't notice it anymore because they're just immune to it now.

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It's just cat pee is the normal smell of their house. So they just have gotten accustomed to it.

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But it's like...

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And I remember just coming back whenever I'd come back here when I lived in high desert it was like

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You know I just missed the fresh air so much. I'm like oh, it doesn't smell like onions

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It smells like fresh mountain air

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But my point is this is that people just think that other places are better when they might not necessarily be better

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And I just like, you know, something will get you.

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Some other type of bill.

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I don't want to speak about something that I know about specifically, but it's true though.

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And I'm not saying that they move that, you know, someone moved there for whatever reason,

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but you would think that like, you know, in a place like the Northwest where it rains

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quite a bit, that they wouldn't charge you more than any other place in the world for

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water.

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you

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when it's free. It like literally runs down.

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I mean, you can put a barrel outside,

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but they made that illegal in Portland

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that you can't have rain barrels

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because they want you to pay, you know,

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$300 every two months or whatever for the water.

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And then when something goes wrong with the system...

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You've got to pay for that too, even though you're paying supposedly the high prices

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you are so that they can maintain the system, but then they want you to maintain the system

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once something goes wrong.

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We had a crew leader that I worked with at the city and he was telling me how he had

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to pay $16,000 and this was 10 years ago or something.

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$16,000 for them to redo the block everybody had to pitch in a certain amount for the

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Contractors or whoever's coming to do it to do the repairs and it's because all the sewer pipes were were bad

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so

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They charged him

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$16,000 for I

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mean

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something that should be within,

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you know, that you should be getting paid for

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because that's what you're paying these high prices for.

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When you pay utilities, you're not just paying

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for the electricity that you get every month,

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you're paying for their systems

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and the people that work for them and all that stuff.

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And so, like I said, if you live in the Northwest,

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especially if you live in Portland or Seattle

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or anywhere on the I-5 corridor like that,

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water should not be as much as it is.

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So, but you go to a different area.

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I remember I went to a place in Nevada with a friend and he was telling me that his water

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bill was only like $10 or $12 a month.

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I was like, are you on some sort of subsidy or something?

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He's like, no, that's just how much it is.

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It's like you live in the desert.

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You live in like...

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Doesn't Nevada have like a hard time having getting water? So how is their water bill $12 a month and ours is 300 every two months?

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Please explain that to me

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And I just the point I'm making is though is that every place has its pitfalls

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Every place has something that you're not gonna like about it, and I was like I'm so sick of the rain

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I can't wait to move here, and I when I moved over there. I was like then it the wind blew every day

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And anytime the sun would come out, the wind would blow.

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You remember that, don't you?

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And then you're like, got sand in your ears,

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in every place of your body.

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It's like, how did this sand get here?

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Well, the wind just was blowing on you all day.

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You're always having to have chapstick on your lips and stuff

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because the wind's blowing all the time.

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When the wind blows, you get wind burnt.

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And when it's 90 degrees outside and the wind's blowing,

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you're going to get wind burnt.

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And if you've never been wind-burnt before, then...

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Have you ever been wind-burnt before, Brother Eli?

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Oh. Yeah.

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Well, sunburn and wind-burn are kind of simultaneously things that happen,

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but it's the wind that's blowing on you and the sun's beating on you,

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so you're all chapped and burned at the same time.

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So that's what I call it.

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I just made that word up, I guess.

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But it's not fun, I'll tell you that.

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But again, there's a pitfall in every area that you go to.

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You're like, oh, the cost of living

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is so much cheaper at this place.

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And it's like you get there and the water's like $500

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every two months or whatever.

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It's like, ah.

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So my point is that we should inquire

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of the Lord for the things that he wants us to do.

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because

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the grass is not always greener on the other side.

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And the bills aren't always cheaper on the other side,

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but guess what?

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They might be cheaper, but guess what?

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The pay is cheaper too.

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Have you ever noticed that, like in these places?

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Like the, you know, it's like Washington has like the high,

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one of the highest per hour, what is it?

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17, 18 bucks an hour for minimum wage here.

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That's crazy compared to a place like Texas where it's probably like $5 an hour or something.

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It might be more than that. But I'm just saying that these places that have low cost of living

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also have low wages and lower quality of life because, you know, why would it be cheaper?

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If you live in California, you know why it's way more expensive? Because it's way nicer there.

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But then the people that are scummy move in and they make the place not nice.

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So, you know, you're going to get got one way or the other, wherever we live, because

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we live in a sinful world, you know?

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So anyway.

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That's just a little bit of wisdom that I've learned over the years.

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So the judgment of the Thumans.

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So when Joshua succeeded Moses, God established that Joshua would not have the same face-to-face

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communication that Moses had, and instead he had to stand before the priest.

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Let's look at Numbers chapter 27 verse 21.

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Numbers 27 verse 21.

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And God will answer, but He does have the right to refuse to answer.

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He is God after all, and He doesn't have to answer you when you want it.

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Sometimes we get really impatient about things that we want.

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Hey, will you just hurry up and tell me the answer?

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It's yes or no.

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It's just like God doesn't operate like that.

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You're not telling Him when He's going to answer.

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He's telling you what the answer is and he's going to tell you when he feels like it.

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So anyway it says, and he shall stand before Eliezer the priest, who shall, this is talking

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about Joshua, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the Lord.

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So again before the Lord, the judgment of Urim, you have to have...

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the ephod on for that and it says,

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at his word shall they go out

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and at his word shall they come in,

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both he and all the children of Israel with him,

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even all the congregation.

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So what happened with Joshua

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when he didn't inquire of the Lord?

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Remember those Canaanites came

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and they pretended like they were wearing...

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They brought all ratty clothes and stuff that was all worn out, and they lied to Joshua

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and the children of Israel and pretended they were from some faraway country when they were

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just from around the block.

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And so because he didn't inquire of the Lord, he ended up breaking God's promise.

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commandment to go and destroy and kill everybody in those areas because he didn't inquire of the

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Lord that time. That was like one time when Joshua just didn't do it. I'm sure he learned his lesson.

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Joshua was a great leader. The children of Israel followed him, but he was he had to do what he said

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he was going to do. He promised to protect them and that promise went all the way up through the

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all through the Old Testament. When Saul killed those people...

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judgment was required after Saul was long dead, David ends up having to kill some of

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Saul's relatives to suffice for what happened for what Saul did to them. We'll get to that

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again at some point in the future. But 1 Samuel chapter 28 verse number 6, the Bible says

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when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams nor by Urim nor

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profits.

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So does he have the right to not be inquired of? Yeah, Saul tried to inquire of the Lord,

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but God just continued to not answer him. He just stopped talking to him because he was being so

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wicked. And then you have in Judges 8.27, you don't have to turn there, but you can if you want.

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I'm just trying to hurry up here. Judges 8.27, and Gideon made an ephod thereof and put it in

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the city, even in Ofra, and all Israel went thither a-whoring after it.

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which thing became a snare unto Gideon into his house.

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So they asked Gideon to become their king and he's like,

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no, the Lord is your king.

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And that was all good, but then he makes this

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ephod and then what do the children of Israel do?

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They start whoring after it.

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So instead of going to the temple and going and inquiring like they're supposed to,

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they think that they're just going to go to this ephod that Gideon made.

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They're already just trying to get rid of the system of the judges and make him the king and

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end up being a snare unto them that he made this and they went whoring after it. So I don't think

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Gideon's purpose was to get them to worship this ephod but that's just what happened. That's what

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it says they went whoring after it. Judges 17 verse 5 says, and the man Micah had a house of gods.

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That's a mistake already and made an ephod and a terafim

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and consecrated one of his sons who became his priest.

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So he's really circumventing all the rules. He's like,

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yes my son you are now the priest. It's like they're not they're not even Levi's.

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So and then it says in the day in those days there was no king in Israel but

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every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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And so that and look if we won't be led by God that's what people will do.

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Instead of just being led by the Lord they will try to they'll just start

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doing that which is right in their own eyes.

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That is obviously not what God wants. So and especially in the New Testament. We have no excuse to not be led by God and

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In you know should we inquire of big things of course we should and God will answer us

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It says in Jeremiah 33 verse 3 call unto me

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And I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou know us not

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So look God will answer our questions call unto me and ask of me

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and He will do those things. It says in Isaiah 65 verse 24,

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and it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer.

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And while you are yet speaking, I will hear. And so that's a blessing when God's just ready to

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answer before you even call, He's ready to give you the answer.

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That just shows that someone is in good standing with them.

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Psalm chapter 91 verse 15 says,

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He shall call upon me and I will answer him.

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I will be with him in trouble.

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I will deliver him and honor him.

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Matthew 7 says, ask and it shall be given you.

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Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

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So, I mean there's just tons of verses in the Bible that teach us that we should go

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to God and He's going to answer us.

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Mark 11, 24 says, Therefore I say unto you that whatsoever ye desire when you pray, believe

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that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

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Matthew 21, 22 says, In all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing ye shall

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receive.

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James 1 6 but let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea

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Driven with the wind and tossed so when we ask God we should ask in faith

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We should ask him in spirit. We should ask him in truth and we should align

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With God's will and character don't ask him for dumb things, you know, I mean you can ask

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But he's going to say no.

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You know, I always use the Ferrari analogy.

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Like, you know, if you like to drive faster,

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God just give me a Ferrari.

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He's not going to give you a Ferrari.

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Or God let me win the lottery.

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It's like he knows what you're going to do with it.

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You're going to end up with some ghetto family

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and you're going to be broke and in jail or something.

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So, 1 John 5, 14 says,

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And this is the confidence that we have in Him,

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that if we ask anything according to His will,

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He heareth us.

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And if we know that He heareth us whatsoever we ask,

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we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.

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I'm gonna read that again.

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That's some good stuff.

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1 John 5, 14 says,

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And this is the confidence that we have in Him.

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that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us.

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So he doesn't always hear the things that we ask,

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because especially if it's not in God's will.

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God, will you please make sure that my enemy is killed?

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It's like, you're supposed to love your enemies.

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You're supposed to pray for them.

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You're supposed to...

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That's not what God's wanting us to do.

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So that's not according to his will, is it?

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So if you ask anything according to his will, he heareth us.

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And if we know that he heareth us, whatsoever we ask...

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We know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.

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So that's very key in our doctrine of prayer and asking for things.

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John 15,7, If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you,

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ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

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So if we ask, if you ask what ye will, it shall be done unto you.

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if you Biden me.

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So there's an if there, isn't there?

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If you abide in me, and my words abide in you.

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But if you don't care about his words,

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you don't care about abiding in him,

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why is he gonna answer you?

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He just won't.

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He just doesn't care.

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He's just not gonna do that.

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So there are ways, there's still like rules,

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I guess, of...

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of going to God. We don't have to wear an ephod. We don't have to put some special stones in it or anything like that.

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But he does want to make sure that we're praying in his will and we're praying for things that, you know, we're not praying for dumb things.

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We should pray for other people.

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You know, we should pray for other people and make sure that we cover them in prayer.

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Obviously, we're not just praying for ourselves and praying for the right of our own family

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all the time, but there's other people. We're supposed to think about other people.

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James 5 16 says, confess your faults one to another and pray one for another

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that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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What is the key to that passage? Well, it's the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man

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availeth much. So if you're not those things, then it's not availing much, is it?

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So he's trying to cue us in a little bit, you know, that, you know, we have faults and,

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you know, we should pray for each other and...

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and do that the right way. So Psalm 34 verse 17,

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the righteous cry and the Lord hearth and deliver them out of all their

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troubles.

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Psalm 145 verse 18, the Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him

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to all that call upon Him in truth.

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See, it's not just that God just does whatever he does. He's not a genie

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waiting to jump out of the bottle every time you rub it.

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He does have some requirements and he wants us to pray for the right reasons, in the right

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spirit, for the right people.

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And he wants us to do these things in truth.

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And the fervent prayer, if you're just like, Dear Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, amen,

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like if that's your prayer, that's not really covering anything.

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That's just saying something without really saying anything.

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And, you know, let's move on in chapter 23, though, verse number 10.

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It says, and then said David, O Lord, God of Israel, thy servant has certainly heard

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that Saul seeketh to come to Kila to destroy the city for my sake.

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Will the men of Kila deliver me up into his hand?

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Will Saul come down as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant."

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And the Lord said, he will come down. So a man of few words, God, he just says he will come down.

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That's his answer. And David asks multiple questions here. And then he said, then David said,

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will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the Lord said,

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they will deliver the up.

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So, again, God's just not giving all these big run-on sentences.

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He's making it short and sweet.

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He's just saying, yep, He's going to come down.

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Yes, they will deliver you.

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And so, so much gratitude after David just saved all their lives.

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I mean, David saves their city from being destroyed by the Philistines.

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He frees them of all this.

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then...

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As soon as Saul comes down, they're just going to hand him over to Saul.

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I mean, and sometimes the people that you do the most for betray you the worst, which

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is unfortunate.

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It's just something that, you know, people have in them that they, you know, are self-preserving.

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And they, you know, they'll say that they care about other people, but in reality they

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care more about themselves than anybody else.

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And they're throwing David, they're willing to throw David under the bus.

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not just under the bus but under the sword to get killed.

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This is, God confirms that this is true.

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And David obviously had a fear that this would happen

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because, I mean, what other reason would he have to ask this question?

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So why would he think that after they just, so much gratitude after I saved

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your life so many times? You know, it's just like...

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It's just unfathomable probably to people that are with them like, you know, after all we've done.

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And so I'm sure there's people that you've done nice things for that did you evil afterwards.

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It's like, why though? But why?

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And again, it's just an unfortunate side effect of sin in this world.

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And some people just aren't loyal. They're only loyal to you in the good times.

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They're only loyal to you when it benefits them, but they're not going to be loyal to

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you when it comes time to them having to stand with you for some big fight.

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And sometimes we get betrayed by other Christians, we get betrayed by other so-called Christians,

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we get betrayed by our own family members.

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I mean people that we've raised.

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People that we've loved, people that have loved us, people that raised us, people that said they love you.

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And then they betray you.

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But when it comes to Christ, Christ is the big divider in this world, and people will betray you over that.

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I mean, they'll betray you over Donald Trump nowadays.

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I mean, cancel Thanksgiving because, you know, don't let so-and-so come to Thanksgiving

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because they voted for Trump or whatever. It's just like, that's just bizarre.

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I mean, obviously you can have some feelings about stuff like that, but those shouldn't

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be things that you would not invite a family member over for Thanksgiving for.

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It's just weird.

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And people just get so wrapped up in politics, but they also get wrapped up in, you know,

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Jesus said that this would happen.

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He came not to bring peace, but a sword.

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and sometimes our family.

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betrays us the worst and you'd think that they would never do it but they do.

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Sometimes friends you've had for a long time, they'll betray you.

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And it might not even just be over

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Jesus, it could just be over other things but, you know, friends are, you know,

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I've said this before, you're not going to have the same friends necessarily that you grew up with.

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And when kids are young they think these are going to be my best friends forever.

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But it's really just not true.

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You might keep one of your best friends forever,

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but the likelihood of that actually happening

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is very slim.

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And it's not just because your friends always betray you,

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sometimes just people just grow apart.

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Sometimes just people just stop hanging out

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for whatever reason, but sometimes they do betray you.

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Sometimes fellow church members betray you.

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Sometimes work associates betray you.

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I'm sure you've worked with people and then you found out that they were talking about about you to the boss. It's like

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What's why would you do that because people are ambitious people want what you have people want?

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Maybe the boss likes you and they don't like them as much or they feel like they have to stab their way to the top

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Or whatever it's just people are just

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You know kind of scumbaggy sometimes and we but we shouldn't be like that

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We should be different because we're Christians, obviously,

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do unto others as you'd have them to do unto you.

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That's kind of like the golden rule.

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You know, if we want someone to be a good friend to us,

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we should be a good friend to them.

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It shouldn't be based upon whether they were a good friend to us or not.

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A friend loveth at all times.

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So, and obviously, you know, things...

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Like this happened, families betray us, church members, work associates, and we should, you know, sometimes it's easy to get discouraged about these things because, you know, nobody wants to be betrayed.

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Nobody wants to have a friend that they've had for a long time betray them like that, but we shouldn't still let that stop us from being who we actually are and stop us from having Christian character or stop us from giving up.

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on helping people. You know, you're like, well, I helped that person, but they, you know, they did

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this or they, I lent this person money and they didn't pay me back. And, you know, but that doesn't

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mean you should stop being that type of a person. So, and obviously we reap what we sow. And those

01:05:11.680 --> 01:05:17.680
people will reap what they sow. And we're going to reap what we sow too. But a lot of times, you know,

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Jesus said to do good unto those that...

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you know, that hate, that despise you and and despitefully treat you and things like that.

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That's the hard thing about being a Christian is that Christ expects us to be different.

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And when we're being just like the world or we're being just like other people, we're,

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you know, we're like have the Samson mentality where, well, they did this to me, well, I'm

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going to do way worse to them now. That's just not the way, that's not the attitude that we should have.

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You know, and it's hard sometimes because we're human beings and we're sinful,

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but that is not what God has called us to be like. You know, we should be the friend,

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we should be the family member, we should be the church member, we should be the work associate

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that we want others to be. So it says

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In Galatians 6-7 it says,

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Be not deceived, God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth,

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that shall he also reap.

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For he that soweth to his flesh shall reap of the flesh corruption,

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but he that soweth of the flesh shall have the Spirit reap life everlasting.

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And let us not be weary in well-doing,

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for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

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So we don't want to faint and fall out from being that type of person.

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You know, it says that let us not be weary in well-doing.

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Weary means that you're tired of

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I'm tired of doing good things for people because they always screw me over.

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I'm tired of doing all these nice things.

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I'm tired of being like this because this happened and that happened.

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It's like, look, don't be weary and well-doing because in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

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But we don't want to faint out. We want to continue to do well.

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And that means helping people, that means loving people, that means not being like them,

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not letting our spirit get destroyed over things like this, because we should still continue to be

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the Christian that we're supposed to be. As we have therefore opportunity,

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let us do good unto all men. So if we have the opportunity, let's do good, especially unto them

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who are of the household of faith. So you know, God puts the people of God...

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over people that are not. I mean, that's very clear. So, let us do good unto all men, especially

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unto them who are of the household of faith. So, who should we be doing the most things for and

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being the best to? Obviously, the household of faith. That's other saved people.

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So, then, okay, verse 15, David saw that Saul come out to seek his life and David was in

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the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

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And Jonathan saw, Jonathan saw his son arose and went to David in the wood and strengthened

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his hand in God.

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So a friend in need is a friend indeed, right?

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So Jonathan came this one last time and this is the last time that they meet, this is the

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last time that they ever speak.

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face to face is in this moment and it says,

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and he said unto him, fear not, for the hand of Saul,

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my father shall not find thee, and thou shalt be king over Israel,

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and I shall be next unto thee, and that also Saul my father knoweth.

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And they too made a covenant before the Lord, and David abode in the wood,

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and Jonathan went to his house.

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So it was good timing on Jonathan's part.

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Again, Jonathan's a really great guy.

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He gives up his titles and all the things to be friends with David and essentially is telling him here,

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I know you're going to be the king and Saul knows it too. My dad knows it too.

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And Saul has basically betrayed both of them in reality, but he still has to stick by his dad to a certain extent because

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you know, Saul is his dad. He's supposed to still honor and respect him to whatever capacity he can,

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and he dies fighting alongside of his dad. So it's just, and again, that's kind of a good picture of

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John the Baptist and Jesus, but moving on here, verse 19,

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It says, then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah saying, doth not David hide himself

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with all with us in strongholds in the wood in the hill of Hekela, which is in the south of

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of Jeshamon. So now these guys that are just, you know, they're in the woods here and they

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know these Ziphytes, these people from Ziphyte.

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just decide to just go betray David just for the heck of it.

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And the Bible doesn't really talk about these people very much,

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and maybe there's a reason why, because of them doing this,

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but there's a person named Zif that that place is named after

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in 1 Chronicles chapter 5, I think,

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but there's not much really known about them.

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They just kind of show, you know, David goes there

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and they just kind of show up and betray.

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David in secret. So they pull like a Judas move on him basically. But the Bible says

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if God be for us, who can be against us? You know people might be plotting secret things

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against you, saying things behind your back, but you know God will recompense these things.

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So we don't really have to worry about these things because God is the one that avenges

01:10:25.400 --> 01:10:30.400
us. And we have to keep that in mind. So he says...

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It says in verse 30, now therefore, O King, come down according to all the desire of thy

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soul to come down, and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hands.

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I mean, this is full on Judas stuff here.

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Because where are they at?

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They're in Judah.

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These are people that should be, you know, pretty loyal to David.

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But they're not being loyal to David. They're just looking for an occasion to betray him

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to Saul. And so they set up this secret thing saying, hey, come down and we'll deliver him

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into the king's hand. And Saul said, bless be of the Lord for you have compassion on me.

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Finally, somebody cares about poor old Saul.

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He's like, doesn't anybody care about me?

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Doesn't anybody care that my son has done this and David is...

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Like, in the last chapter he was whining about that stuff and then now someone finally wants

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to come help him out and he's like, bless be thou of the Lord, for you have had compassion

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on me.

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Like, you've helped me to try to murder somebody that doesn't deserve to be killed.

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It's like, again, he's just weird.

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Go, I pray you, prepare yet and know, and see his place where his haunt is, and who has

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seen him there.

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For it is told me that he dealeth very subtly."

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So, you know, they're trying, he says to spy him out and find out where his haunt is.

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What his haunt is, is basically the places where he's known to be.

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And Jesus was like that too, when he was, you know, early on in the New Testament.

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and all throughout. It's like Jesus had little specific places that he would go for sanctuary

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too, right? He would go to Marian Martha's, he would go to certain, he would go to the Mount

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of Olives. Jesus was always going to these little different places too where it was comfortable for

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him. And so, I mean, you can kind of see the similar things here that David is also doing

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the same thing, but he also had, Jesus also had people trying to betray him all the time too.

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and

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People that were supposed to betray him and arrest him.

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And he just kept slipping through their hands because his time has not yet come.

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Thanks for watching!

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So it says, Go, I pray you prepare yet and know and see his place where his haunt is

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and who has seen him there.

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For it is told me that he deals very subtly.

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See therefore and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself and

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come ye again to me with the certainty and I will go with you.

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And it shall come to pass if he be in the land that I will search him out throughout

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all the thousands of Judah.

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And they arose and went to Ziph before Saul.

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But David and his men were in the wilderness of Mahon.

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in the plain on the south of Jehshaman.

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Saul also and his men went to seek him, and they told David,

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wherefore he came down into a rock and abode in the wilderness of Maon.

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And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

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And Saul went on the side of the mountain, and David and his men on the

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other side of the mountain, and David made haste to get away.

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for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take him."

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So, I mean, they're literally on one side of the mountain and the other. He's just kind of

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one step away from death at every moment. It says,

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And there came a messenger unto Saul saying, Haste and come, for the Philistines have invaded

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the land. Wherefore, Saul returned from a pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines.

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Therefore they called the place Sila Emma Lekoth.

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which means the rock of escape and

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David went up from vents and dwelt in strongholds at Anguetti

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And and getty I looked up at that man

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And it means the spring of the kid and what it means kid it means like a baby goat, right?

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so

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I looked up where that place is and it actually looks pretty cool.

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But one thing that I was thinking about though, the places that it's calling strongholds,

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I think that people actually lived in these places.

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It wasn't just that David's like found the only spring, you know, in the desert and nobody

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else happens to live there.

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No, I think other people lived there.

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I think people live there because those are strongholds.

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Because most of the time you need, you know, in those times, you know, people will come up and

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wage war against you and you got to have some sort of a water source to be able to hold out because

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people are going to siege you and they're going to encamp against you. And so even in Keyla,

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it had like walled fences and it had walled defenses and things like that.

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But Saul was like, yeah, well, it's good that he's there because he can't really escape.

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And so basically David is just running from stronghold to stronghold, one step between him and death at all times.

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And in this chapter he's had two different people.

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Well, Keylaw didn't even have a chance to.

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betray him because he didn't give him a chance to because he already asked God and God directed him away from that place

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but they would have if they could have so and then you had the Ziphytes where the Ziphytes did come and try to

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betray him and

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Just for no reason like it doesn't really explain why and in our lives

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we're gonna have people that do things against us, and we don't know why and

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It's unfortunate, but that's again. It's just the way that the world is

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it's the world of sin that we live in but it's not always gonna be like that for us because

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Sometimes I think that we forget that we have all eternity without having to deal with these things but in this life

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Yeah, there's a lot of treachery. There's a lot of betrayal

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But, I mean, I think it's very clear that we're still supposed to just keep on keeping

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on and not let these things get us down, not let these things shell shock us into not helping

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people and not, you know, look, the devil wants us out of church, he wants us out of

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serving and he wants to destroy our lives.

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And we can't give in to those things and allow

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him to get the upper hand in that way. Because he's going to try multiple different things,

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you know, and he's always searching for ways to devour people, to devour Christians, and we should

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never give up who we are, and we should always do our best to be good friends to people, good family

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members, good church members, good brothers and sisters in Christ to each other, and God's going

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going to direct our paths.

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You know, when we seek Him, when we seek Him early, when we are trying to make a big decision,

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we should always go to God and make sure that, is this really the right thing that I should

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be doing or am I just doing this because I want to?

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And there's a big difference between our will and God's will.

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And God's will is what we should be living by and God's direction.

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the guiding of the Holy Spirit and not our own lust and our own flesh. Let's pray. Lord, we thank

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you so much for this chapter and the great things that it teaches us. Lord, help us to

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inquire of you on the big things and the little things.

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I pray that you'd help us and direct our lives and help us to maintain the Christian character

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that we have and help us to be good friends, help us to be good family members, help us

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to be good church members and good brothers and sisters in Christ to each other and not

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being weary and well-doing, Lord. Help us to continue our good works and our faith.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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Let's end with one final song, 145 in the red or the green.

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Number 145.

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145, let me find it.

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Here we go.

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All right.

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145, it is well with my soul.

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45 everyone on the first when he's like

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You may be dismissed.

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Oh, let's end.

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Brother, would, Jesse, would you pray for us and our sermon?