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It says his anger was kindled greatly. Picture of fire. So what did he do after that? He was like, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm. This is a bad spirit. No, it's God's spirit. Amen. And sent them throughout all the coast of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent. Yeah, you better believe it. Right. They're like, you had me a hello! Okay. Where is the enemy? I'll take him out right now, King Saul. Look, this is all when the Spirit of God was on him. It's like basically like the president, let's say the president of the United States, okay? He comes out and he hears that like, people are reproaching the name of God, and they're threatening our land, and they're mocking Jesus Christ. Let's say we had a righteous president, and he just gets a dog and just hews it in pieces. It's like, whosoever does not come to fight against this army, I'm gonna chop up your little chihuahua too. Okay? Especially what he's doing. And they all came with one consent. He didn't go recruit them, he just said, look, if you don't come out, this is what's gonna happen to your oxen. PETA would just like, just die. Okay? But I want you to notice, this, folks, to send the pieces of the yoke of oxen throughout all of Israel is very creative. It's the spirit of ingenuity. I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. Referring to the spirit of God. You know, when the spirit does things, he doesn't do them like all boring. He's just like, spirit of God falls upon them, 12 yoke of oxen, you know, 12 yoke of oxen, chop them up, send them out. They'll understand what I mean by that. He gets the message across. Well, that's a bad spirit, wrong. Go to 1 Samuel 16. This is when Saul was right with God. And when Saul was right with God, folks, the spirit of God would come upon him, and he would fight against the enemies of God. He would threaten them, he would fight against them, he would preach and prophesy, he would be turned into another man. That's what he did. Oh, you bring this Saul back today? Independent fundamental Baptist today would be like, oh, you got a bad spirit. That's not the kind of spirit that I would want to have in my church. You must be a post-stripper. That's very contentious, Saul. Now, obviously, we know that Saul backslid hard, right? He backslid super hard. And he wasn't right with God. He began to disobey the commandment of the Lord, okay? Look at verse 13. And Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren, referring to David, and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah. But the spirit of the Lord, look what it says, departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. And Saul's servants said unto him, behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. Go to chapter 18. So what does he, when he backslides, he receives another spirit, an evil spirit. Now, this doesn't mean he's not saved. Doesn't mean he lost his salvation. We obviously understand that the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is not something that took place until the New Testament, okay? Old Testament saints were still saved the way New Testament saints are. That doesn't change. But we see that God sends an evil spirit upon Saul because of his rebellion, his disobedience, and it troubles him. So we see that when the spirit of God comes upon him, how does that manifest itself in Saul's life? By taking out the enemies of God? By hewing a yokel box in pieces? Well, let's see how it manifests itself when he has the evil spirit. Look at verse eight of 1 Samuel 18. And Saul was very wroth. And the saying displeased him, and he said, they have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands. And what can he have more but the kingdom? So what do we see? Envy? Envy? And Saul eyed David from that day and forward. And it came to pass on the morrow that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house, so he's still preaching. And David played with his hand, as at other times, and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the javelin, for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice. So what is the manifestation of an evil spirit upon Saul? He tries to go after God's man. So, if we're gonna apply that, because look, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. That which was written the fourth time is for our admonition. So when people say, you have a bad spirit, well, am I attacking good men of God? Am I envious of Bob Gray Jr.'s church? Am I envious of all these other great men of God who are winning souls? Do you see me doing anything like that? No. What does the bad spirit characterize when you start attacking good men? Great men. Right? Oh, like Bob Gray Jr., who, for no reason, has decided to attack me. A person who is my friend, who took sweet counsel together. My own friend. Folks, I didn't even know he was gonna do that podcast. The last I heard from him, I said, I love you. That's what I told him. When I took down the video. And look, I didn't take down the video because it was inaccurate. I took it at his request because I wanted to honor what he wanted. He didn't even ask me to take it down. He was just like, eh, eh, eh, eh. I'm like, do you want me to take the video down? And he said this, or you can make a new one. That's what he said. You can make a new one. And I'm thinking to myself, like a new one saying the same thing? Like, what's gonna change? You want me to change the color grading? You want me to put background music? Lower thirds, or like, you want me to enhance it a little bit? You think I didn't look very sharp in there? Like, you want me to shave, or what? What's the problem? And you know what, when we left that conversation, I told him I loved him, and that was it. And then he gets on this podcast and begins to rail against me, against the movement that he knows that I'm a part of. Why? Oh, because he has the bad spirit. Not me. I do not have a bad spirit. Yeah, but you're angry. Yeah, but anger is part of getting angry at sin, false doctrine, heretics, damnable heresy. That's because I'm filled with the spirit. When you see me getting mad and angry and calling out wicked false teachers like Manly Perry and calling him out of the carpet for a stupid heresy, and you see me spit and cry and yell, that's because I'm filled with the spirit. That's what it is. The spirit of God has come upon me, and I'm angry at that. Well, how do you know if you have an evil spirit? When I start attacking my friends. Yeah. When I start going after men who love the Lord, who are preaching right, who have done nothing against me, who are not preaching damnable heresy, they're winning souls to Christ, and just attack them for no reason whatsoever. Folks, no one knows the definition of loyalty anymore. People don't know what loyalty is anymore. I don't have a bad spirit. Look, anybody here knows after church, half the time I'm just laughing too much. I'm having a blast. I'm just laughing my head off and just having a good time and joking around with the brethren. I'm not an angry person at all. I'm angry when the spirit of God comes upon me to rip on sin, to rip on false heretics, to rip on these people who are just wicked. That's when God says, let me just give them a portion of my spirit to rip on this so the congregation knows how I feel about this situation. Don't tell me I have a bad spirit. No, folks, Saul has the bad spirit. Because Saul's attacking David, because Saul's envious of David, because Saul is eyeing David, because Saul's trying to kill David. Saul's trying to take him down. So he has the bad spirit. You know what, Bob Gray Jr.? You have the bad spirit.