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He calls out to Abner and he said in verse number 14 and David cried to the people and to Abner the son of Nur saying answer is thou not Abner then Abner answered and said who art thou that cries to the king David said to Abner art not thou a valiant man He's kind of talking bad about this guy and who is like to be in Israel Wherefore then hast thou not kept by Lord the king Where there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord This thing is not good that that was done as the Lord liveth again. That's a pretty strong statement, isn't it? Ye are worthy to die Wow Because you have not kept your master the Lord's anointed and now see where the Kings spear is in the cruise of water That was at his bolster Now this is a really interesting portion of this chapter here where David is rebuking Abner severely Okay. Now here's a couple things you have to understand First of all, that doesn't mean he hates Abner But Abner is worthy to be strongly rebuked because he's worthy of death He literally allowed Saul to be killed and he's by grace David was someone that wouldn't kill him I mean if it was anybody but David Saul would have died and so would probably of Abner. Okay, and What we have to understand is that David preserved both of their lives, you know, Abishai is like let's go You know, I'm ready to get this guy because he's the son of Zeruiah. All right That's a different sermon. But here's the thing you have to understand. It's very interesting about this sermon. Okay Who's Abner? Abner is the guy that's with Saul Abner is Saul's right-hand man Abner is his most valiant guy Do you know who preserves Saul's life better than Abner David? David preserves Saul's life more Than Abner and this is what I'm going to tell you. Yes, men are not your greatest offender You know your greatest offender the guy who's rebuking you The guy that telling you that you're wrong. Go through the Proverbs 27 verse 7 think about this You know people get so mad at someone like me I find a saved pastor and I point out him being a grievous error and They act like I'm attacking him or hurting him You know is attacking and hurting that guy the Abner's in his life that are the yes, men Pretending like what they're doing is good Allowing them to go to these battles and you know the yes, men he's not gonna tell you when you have a problem He's not gonna tell you when you have a grievous error. He's not gonna actually preserve you look at Proverbs 27 verse 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful You know, it's better than a kiss a wound Because if all you get is kisses from Abner he's gonna let you die But notice the wounds from David will actually preserve you not only the David literally preserve him But David allows Saul to realize hey Abner's sucking at his job Abner's not doing his job. You're right in man doesn't really care about you. Look at this horrible error He let you commit look at the horrible error He commits, you know the guy that actually cares about you and loves you will rebuke you when you do something wrong Bible says that you shouldn't hate your neighbor in your heart I'm not supposed to suffer sin upon him. What are you supposed to do rebuke him? Tell him that he's wrong and you know people get all mad. They're like, why would you rebuke a pastor? Why would you talk negative about a man? It's like this is like well, do you want me to be an Abner? Abner's not really his friend Abner's not really preserving him. I'm just gonna allow this guy to get destroyed You know if I'm doing something wrong, please help me, you know Why would I want a bunch of yes men to let me just walk off the cliff? You know the guy that really preserves Saul better is David Even when David has been pushed out even when David's not his, you know in his like current service He's still preserving his life more than Abner That's crazy to think about Abish. I wanted to kill him But David preserved him and notice Abner didn't preserve him from anybody Abner's just asleep on the wheel, you know, and you know, there's a lot of Christians that are asleep at the wheel today They will let their master be destroyed because you know what? They're just a yes, man