 When peace Like a river Attendeth my way When saw like see good afternoon. Good evening. Hope you all are doing I still say I Still say that's the best intro on YouTube or right here. I don't care what anybody says. I don't care what anybody says you go to a channel You ain't gonna find a better one So oh and oh by the way the singing also is good. I'm with the radio drum, but how are you all doing as well? Hope you all are doing wonderful Want to go ahead and jump into this. This is something that Always kind of perplexing to me in the past and that is David and David's treatment Not necessarily by saw but it's treatment to saw How many of you all? Being in David's position how many of you all if given the chance When you have the opportunity to take saws life saws after you unjustly and he's trying to kill you You have already been anointed as king Though it hadn't happened yet, but you know, it's going to happen and the spirit comes upon you How many of you would just so you know what saw I've given you a shot. You try to kill me once Maybe the first time I would have killed you But you know what after the first time the second time I see you're gonna keep doing it, you know what? Let me go ahead and in this I'll be honest I'm pretty sure I would have I'm pretty sure that I would have but this this just really speaks to David's character at least at that time and so Again, I'm pretty sure. I'm not the only one. I'm not the only one that thought that I'm not the only one that would not go after not go after Saul Rebecca said killing someone is a bit extreme. You know, what's more, you know, it's more extreme than killing someone being killed Yeah, I would rather listen. I would deal with the grief. I'd get over it because you can't get over But being killed for I would Lord forgive me But gotta go gotta go. That's just that's just me. But again, that's why I'm not David That's why I'm me but When you kind of compare the two and then you think because there's really more to it There's something to why David does not kill Saul and he keeps referring to Saul as the Lord's anointed We're gonna talk about why he calls him the Lord's anointed and even more so why he just does not kill Saul Most of us if we're honest would do the exact same thing. So sorry, but you have to go So let's go to pick up in first Samuel 23 This is the last. This is the last Bible study session that will be in first Samuel Starting on next week or the next session will be in second Samuel and then we're gonna see We're gonna begin to see the third element of the Abrahamic covenant bear out Yes, I know you're thinking wait a second Aren't we under the nuke of the old covenant at this point? They are under the old covenant However, the old covenant does not vitiate does not get rid of or nullify the Abrahamic covenant That covenant stays in effect as a matter of fact That particular covenant is the covenant that governs the old covenant Governs the David David covenant governs a new covenant governs everything going forward You didn't have to nullify that even to bring in the new cover You'd have to nullify it to bring in the dead Davidic of it You'd have to nullify it to bring in the old covenant Davidic of it. What is the Davidic covenant? We have never heard of the Davidic covenant. Well, we will on Next week. This is where we're going to see God's plan beginning to unfold even more so and again Yes, there is a Jewishness to this and someone asked well, Corey Are you are why do you seem to be so concerned with Israel truth? We told him really not I'm really not it's not that I don't sit and think about Israel all the time what I think about though is how we read and We want to make sure that we are applying the scriptures the way God applied them the way the people that are hearing it Applied the way people that are writing it and saying it the way they applied it And so that way we can see even God's promises for ourselves. We can be true to his to his word So that being the case Let's go to first Samuel chapter 23 And it says and they told David being saying behold the Philistines are fighting against Kila and Are plundering the threshing threshing floors? So David Inquired of the Lord saying shall I go and attack these Philistines and the Lord said to David? Go and attack the Philistines and deliver Kila now what you want to see what you're going to see is something about David At least initially David would inquire of the Lord David was not trying to act on his own accord David was not trying to take things in his own hands So I said I notice I said initially initially David is not trying to take things into his own hands He is waiting on the Lord now when you compare that you compare that to someone like a saw What a saw do if we go back to first Samuel, let's go 159 here's an example 159 but saw and the people spared egg egg and the best of the sheep this the oxen The fatlings the lambs and all that was good and we're not willing to destroy them utterly But everything despise and worthless they utterly destroyed it So here's him thinking on his own taking things into his own account similarly in In first Samuel 13 8 is it matter of fact, let's go there as well as put that on the screen first Samuel 13 8 He is told to wait on Samuel Saul does not now he waited verse 8 He waited seven days according to the point in time said by saying but Samuel did not come to Gilgall and the people were scattering from him So Saul said bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings and offer the burnt offering and as soon as he finished Offering the burn off and behold Samuel came and so what was Samuel's issue with with Saul one He's not supposed to do those things that a priest supposed to do to just wait I said I'm coming and so he's gonna come but Saul is impatient Saul is a couple things We said before Saul is insecure He is impatient and because of those those two combinations cause them to be idiotic to be Foolish as they can be ignorant and that shows up verses if you compare that with David David was trusting matter of fact David showed more restraint than the average person could especially under those conditions Big D Connelly keeps change That is first Samuel 13 and 8 and also first Samuel 15 and 9 those were those two passages And so now in first Samuel 23, let's go back to it We see what David is doing David here. It says that that David inquires of the Lord Amen Anytime that we see people in the Bible inquiring of the Lord They get and if that is if the Lord also responds the Lord responds directs them and they have success in what they're doing When we see people taking matters their own hand or just forgetting about the Lord ignoring him Then what do we see we see everything else bad that could happen? And so we here we see and saw and saw and in first Samuel 23 1 Of 232 I'm sorry that David inquired of the Lord and so and so the Lord says to go and deliver them But David's men said to him behold we are afraid here in Judah How much more than if we go to Kila against the ranks of the Philistines then David inquired of the Lord once more and The Lord answered and said arise go down to Kila for I will give the Philistines in your hand Now David has been known to do that David has been known to go and to inquire of the Lord as a Lord to seek the Lord What shall I do Now some of us take the take the opposite approach Rather than not asking what shall I do? Well, because the Lord didn't say not to do that Because he didn't give me guidance Well, then I can do what I want to do as a matter of fact Let's be honest. That's kind of how we live our lives anyway. If there's something that we don't have Complete guidance or something that we see very clear We go and take matters into our own hand Instead of inquiring of the Lord or just simply just praying What's wrong with praying? How long is it going to take you to pray? Well, I can tell you this it won't take you as long to pray as it will to recover From doing these bad or from committing bad decisions It won't be as long of the prayer time and the waiting time is nowhere near as long as the consequences from doing something rash or Hastly and so here we see David having that now David is still a pretty relatively young person However, he's not as young as we as we may have thought Let's go back to first Samuel 13 and notice because this is this is towards the end of Saul's reign Saul is soon to die and notice how old Saul is the Bible says in chapter 13 Saul is 30 years old when he began to reign and he reigned 42 years so we're not talking about a young pup here David because if this is at 42 years of his reign and David is with them for the bulk of that time. Well, then guess how old David is at least at least 40 years old plus the time Plus his age when he was first discovered when he was first anointed So David is getting up there. David is not a spring chicken anymore either So Sometimes I think we ascribe to David as being some young guy some, you know, no David is David is mature David understands what's going on. And so here we see we can know that yeah, David's not a young pup So going back to chapter 23, let's just read a little bit more. We're not gonna read all of 23 We're gonna read just just a few more passages and then we'll go to 24 so David and his men went to Kila and fought with the Philistines and And he led away their lives. I can struck them with a great slaughter Thus David delivered the inhabitants of Kila now it came about first six When ABA father son of a hemilek fled to David at Kila That he came down with an effort in his hand when it was told that saw I'm sorry when it was told saw that David had come to Kila saw said God has delivered him into my hand Okay, that's just horrible thinking because he's already been told at least twice He knows as a matter of fact this is going to verify this we may not read it But this is going to say between now and 30 that he knows that God has given David the kingdom and that at some point in time he will be the king and Even after and think about this after as Saul is approaching the end of his reign Now he doesn't know it's the end of his reign But what he does know it's been a couple of decades since he's been king And he's still not secure. He's still insecure Insecurities are not overcome by your accomplishments Because you're insecure you can you can still grow in your insecurities You can you can get all the things that you go after and look for get these different accomplishments and accolades But because you're insecure you're still insecure in those you can be a homeless insecure person And that insecure person wins a lottery comes a millionaire and he's still insecure Think about the guy wasn't Howard Hughes who was so insecure that he was that he was paranoid Always wondering thinking that someone's gonna come after him and kill him And so what does he do he pretty much starves himself to death because he's wondering someone's gonna poison his food Yeah, that's kind of what we see here with with Saul Again, you could have had all these things But because of who you are but then again He's just like us sometimes even more so so continuing I says a guy he thinks that God has delivered him into his hands For he shut himself in in by entering a city with double gates and bars So Saul summoned all the people for war to go down to Kila and besiege david and his men Now david knew that Saul was plotting evil against him So he said to aviate the other priests bring the f out here Then david said oh lord, oh god of israel. So what is david doing again? Instead of panicking instead of running. What have you? David consults the lord, huh You think that would be something that maybe we all ought to learn from go and consult the lord I understand asking this person contacting this person contacting your parents I get that god gives us those people for a reason There is wisdom in the multiple counsel But there's no greater wisdom than the counsel of the lord And so just pray if nothing else that you can that when you deal with situations There can be a calmness there can be a peace One thing and this is me a little bit on my soapbox, but this is good for everybody including myself One thing that is bothersome Is dealing with someone even in the midst of things that are happening when they're emotional I've been around people that Literally all heck was breaking loose And they didn't have their wits about themselves And they're just panicking and screaming and yelling and I understand the situation the gravity of certain situations But I get upset when you don't understand you're screaming and yelling and so forth It ain't gonna help it. Let's just calm down and think about it Me and people will say well core you don't seem to have a lot of emotions. Well, I do But we've got something to do To scream about the house being on fire versus calmly going and get something to put the fire out Which one makes more sense? And so this is what david is doing. This is what david is exemplifying And so he goes to the lord. Oh god of israel servant has heard for certain that saul is seeking to come to keelah To destroy the city on my account Will the men of keelah surrender me into his hands? Will swall come down just as their service is heard. Oh lord. Oh lord god of israel. Excuse me I pray tell your servant and the lord said to him he'll come down God said he will come down Then david said Will the men of keelah surrender me and my men into the hand of saul and the lord said they will surrender you now He's not saying that this is what's gonna happen. He's he the lord is recounting or letting him know This is their plan. He the god god is not saying that they will be that you will be delivered into their hands He's simply saying this is what they mean to do uh, then david Uh, and all and his men about 600 or now think about it There's only 600 men and when they go and fight all 600 rarely go and fight together About 600 men arose and departed from keelah and they went wherever they could go when it was told saul That david has escaped from keelah. He gave up pursuit So this wasn't a prophecy from god This isn't god And I and I want to deal with this at some point in time because people are thinking that certain things don't seem to transpires they think that there are some sort of False prophecies or god not carrying out his word. He absolutely does and so this is one of those examples that I've seen people bring up Uh god is not giving a prophecy. He's just stating are these men? Is this what they come is just what they're coming to do? And so god says yes david stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of ziff And saul saw him every day, but god did not deliver him into his hands And david probably should have taken more under now god and david wasn't asking am I going to die today? Am I going to be him? No, are they coming to do this and god says yes Not that that david thought that he was going to be turned over No, because god david understands that god is a god who keeps his word who says what he says it means what he says Chapter 23 verse 15 now david became aware that saul had come out to to seek his life While david was in the wilderness of zeff at hores And jonathan saw his son arose and went to david at horse and said encourage him in god Bessie said do not be afraid because the hand of saul my father will not find you And you will be king over israel and I will be next to you and saw my father knows that also so Jonathan's let note listen Saul knows daddy knows that you are going to be king at some point in time and oh by the way I'll be with you Not so much jonathan But at least part of what jonathan is saying is correct, but again jonathan's not a prophet But Verse 19 then the zip fights came up to saul and give you a saying is david not hiding With us in the stronghold at orish on the hill of hikala Which is the south of jeshamon now the king now then oh king come down according to all your all the desires of your soul to do To do so i'm sorry and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hands so saul said Uh, may you be blessed of the lord isn't that crazy? To to know that you are literally going against um who the who the lord is anointed and he says may you be blessed the lord? No, you won't be by the way For you have had compassion on me go now make more sure and investigate and see his place where he where his haunt is Uh and who has seen him there for I am told that he is very cunning So look and learn all about all the all the hiding places Where he hides himself and return to me with certainty and I will go with you And if he is in the land I will search him out among all the thousands of juda Then they rose and went to zip before saul now david and all his men were in the wilderness of moan In arabi in the south of jeshamon when saul and his men went to seek him They told david and he came down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of my own And when saul heard it he pursued david in the wilderness of my own saul went on one side of the mountain and david on uh and his men on the other side of the mountain And david was hurrying to get away from saul for saul and his men were surrounding david And his men to seize them but a messenger came to solve saying now look at this Notice what's happening A messenger from saul comes up just it just so happens That the phyllisings have raided the land Doggone it now we cannot pursue after david we have we have more important things Otherwise the phyllisings are going to take over destroy our land and come after us So we got to turn around and go fight. Hmm Is there any wonder who might be behind that? Oh, I don't know because i'm god is not going to deliver as he says deliver him into the hands of the Of saul first swing so saul returned from pursuing david and went to meet the phyllisines Therefore they called the place the rock of escape david went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of in getty so Here we see this picture of of chase of tag hide and go seek The person's being sought after Is david who happens to be the person that god has chose Versus the person who the people chose who wants to get rid of david who because he's insecure of david And he was insecure of david not because something david did but because people praised him more again when someone praises you Um, and others get upset about they're not your friends If you are upset because someone else is getting praised you're not that person's friend It works both ways If when someone else gets some sort of accolade or someone gets some sort of blessing If someone else is mentioned And let me just say here say here for a second because it's related to our scripture reading If someone else is mentioned If someone else has talked about if someone else is written about Don't be so envious that you want to that you want them gone or you want to supplant them There are people that literally even want to be mentioned Just like people who are going through something nowadays. It's always been this case But people even like to talk about as though they're going through something bad If this person is going through some struggles, I want to go through some some struggles Think about what we're seeing today. We see a lot of you now matter of fact think about this We see a lot of young people Who are out marching and protesting and talking about injustices and having lived but this long Why Because one misery does love company but two they want to be able to say that they've had struggles been part of a struggle It's amazing people can be envious of people's good And of people's bad and it's not a new thing because even as older folks will say we'll talk about who had it worse Well, I had it worse and you know what back in well in my day. We had it this way Well, no in my day. We did this back in my day We didn't even have toilets each well in my day We didn't have houses with toilets in my day. There was always something some sort of comparison of who had it worse The reason why I'm bringing that up is because what do we what is one of the issues that come up every week literally every week in our discussions People wanting to be israel Why because they're being mentioned And I want to be part of or not just people being wanting to be israel People wanting to be one of the prophets people wanting to be one of the apostles People wanting to be one of the people that have had some sort of move of god in them People who want people who want to be like simon the sorcerer in ax eight Who want to read themselves into the scripture? If you read yourself into the scriptures, you're going to miss what god is trying to say And also oh by the way if you think that's you in the scriptures Well, then you won't know what god is doing for you in reality. So therefore Let the scriptures say who they're saying it about let them be about who who it's about Don't be like sol don't be envious. Don't be jealous Be you be you and be cool. Hey man chapter 24 This is where sol should be dead This is where if god had anointed cori to be king over israel Saul would have been gone. Wouldn't have been they wouldn't talk about man. Did you see how cori killed sol? sol was it sol was in the bathroom Speaking of not not not having a house with a toilet sol was in the bathroom And david shows up I got him right there I got him right but again as As matt channeler said you're not david and so because of that I'm not there to end sol's life But that's what it says in chapter 24 verse 1 now when sol returned from pursuing the philistines He was told saying behold david is in the wilderness of engandy He is so consumed with killing david you can't even the reason why people are showing up to raid your land Is because you're not taking care of your first duty You are a horrible king when you're not at your post and that's what's happening So he says he's told behold david is in the wilderness of engandy Then sol took 3 000 chosen men From all israel and went to see david and his men in front of the rocks in the wild ghosts Now interestingly enough, and we don't talk about this enough. We may cover the matter of fact We will cover this more as we get into First and second kings We'll talk about this more But david is literally a part of who? He's a part of a tribe called juda The way this is supposed to work is you don't have tribes warring against other tribes You don't you know what this group going out because now sol is a benjamin. It's from the tribe of benjamin Those in the tribe of juda should have said wait a second. This is our brother Don't you do that? Now this happens more when you when we get the first and second kings You're gonna see this more than one going against each other Kind of clicking up. This is our group versus your group But then also then also them coming to the aid of each other because they recognize that even though we are Uh We're part of the the whole family This section of cousins versus this section of cousin at some point in time they want to have a family reunion and remember that but David's family is not coming after to help them So he says verse two then sol took three thousand chosen men from all of isra and went to seek david and his men In front of the rocks of the wild ghost He came to the shepherds on the way where there was a cave and sol went in to relieve himself And the word that's used here. It doesn't mean it's told in english to relieve himself, but it says that he Pulled his pants his his clothes weren't down to his legs. He covered his feet up How you cover your feet you you you are using the bathroom That's why says he's relieving himself Now david and his men were sitting in the inner recess of the cave The men of david said to him behold This is the day Of which the lord said to you behold I'm about to give your enemy into your hand and you shall do it to him as it seems good to you Then david arose and cut off the edge of sol's robe secretly Uh, it came about at now the men are wanting david to go and kill him to go and end it David didn't do that. He's so close to david And I understand I understand sol is doing something sol is preoccupied So much so that he's not paying attention that david is literally have a has a hold of your robe And cut a piece off of it So It came about afterwards that david's conscience bothered him because he had cut off the edge of sol's robe So he said there's been far be it for me because of the lord Notice what he says Far be it for me and notice what's highlighted because of the lord Very important Because of the lord that I should do this thing to my lord the lord's anointed. Why are you calling him the lord's anointed? He ain't anointed anymore So may she ask this question Think about this for a second Is sol still the lord's anointed? It's a very good question And so because of that I want to see how you how you all answer Is he the lord's anointed? And so just to kind of get it understand. I want to see what you guys think about that Do you all think that he is the lord's anointed? scott says yes Thou is in my same failure or failure failure says no kather says yes Uh saris says until his death stevie Yes dw2 at one time. No monkey moves. Yes This is a good question. This is the kind of question that anybody taking a test would like This is one of those questions that anybody taking a test would like Because the answer is yes and the answer is no Wait a minute. Cory. It can't be yes and no it can't be yes and no Well, yes, depending on what do you mean by anointed and no depending on what you mean by anointed Yes, he is the no, well, I go I go to the yes part second No, he's not anointed in the sense that the lord that the spirit is over him No, he's not anointed in that sense David has been anointed be king just not happened yet And so the lord's anointing his covering by his spirit is no longer oversaw but And this is what david understands that yes, he is anointed because the understanding is that god puts especially rulers kings in their place God is the one that put him there. And so what is god going to do? God will be the one that takes him out. And so when david looks at there's two There's two ways that david looks at saw one. He loves him david is loyal david is loyal And in this case, maybe Some some might say even to a fault and so he's loyal But at the same time david recognizes that this is the lord's doing god is the one who has Put david put put saw here because remember what does david also know? It's like everyone else knows that the lord was the one Who had samuel to verify or to pick saw? So this is saw was chosen Really in a sense by god. Yes, the people wanted a man But they didn't say hey, we want this man. We want that man and they had a they had a an election That's not how that worked God said oh, fine. I I've chosen god has chosen this man from the tribe of benjamin This choice man who's tall and so forth probably had a bunch of hair too God is the one who did so and so the so david recognized that and so the anointing or being anointed Anointed is not necessarily guys. I want you to know this anointed is not necessarily referred to a spiritual term Anointed doesn't that necessarily mean spiritual because in In secular society and even pagan societies the word anointed would be used also So sometimes we take words that are in the bible We think that those are biblical words. Those are christian terms or those are jewish terms. No, they're not These are words that were that are used all over and so he's anointed mean that he's been selected He's been chosen now the anointing refers to a smearing And so no, he's not anointed in I mean that he has this anointing of the lord over And by the way the word anointing literally means a smearing Well, there's nothing smeared on on on saw other than some well, whatever But the spirit is upon david and so in that regard. No, he's not anointing He didn't have the anointing but in terms of anointed mean chosen And held held by god in that position Yes, he is and so david recognized that now if the lord were to tell david to kill him Then he would But the lord has not and so david is going to we're going to find out we're going to read that david is trusting of the lord To work this out. That's why at this point in time david keeps inquiring of the lord Amen, so Let's continue reading. So he says far be it for me Because of the lord because of the lord I'm not going to go against what the lord is doing That I should do do do this to my lord the lord's anointed to stretch out my hand against him since he is the lord's anointed Because he's the lord's anointed I won't stretch out my hand against him david persic persuaded his men With these words and did not allow them to rise because they wanted to kill him Fine david if you won't do it. Let me do it. Let me david. Let me help you out. I'll do it. No, not gonna do it We're not gonna do it now. He's not king yet So but they're following him because they know he is david verse uh eight Now afterwards david arose and went out of the cave and called after saw saying my lord the king And when saw looked behind him david bowed his face to the ground and prostrated himself Uh david said to saw why do you listen to the words of the men saying behold david seeks to harm you behold this day? All of a sudden my Hmm Fly out of the sneeze Behold this day your eyes have seen the lord the look that the lord has given you today Into my hands in the cave and some said to kill you but my eye had pity on you And I said I will not stretch out my hand against my lord for he is the lord's anointed And so david is trying to comfort us. I'm not after you leave me alone because I'm not trying to mess with you And he even calls him the lord's anointed to his face That's just comforting and maybe it does. I don't know. Maybe he's just lying Um, he says now see my father see indeed see the edge of your robe in my hand for in that I cut off the edge of your robe and did not kill you No one perceive that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands and I have not sinned against you Though you are lying in ways to take my life May the lord judge between you and me and may the lord avenge me on you But my hand shall not be against you. So what is david saying david saying? I'm putting this in the hands of the lord. I'm not after you And so what does sol do? He kind of repents Kind of not really just publicly. He makes a statement Uh verse 14 after whom has the king of isra come out Whom are you pursuing a dead dog a single flea the lord therefore be judged and decide between You and me and he may see and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand. So he's invoking the lord When david finished speaking sol says Is this your voice my son david? My son You're not trying to kill your sons. If I was your son, you wouldn't be trying to kill me He said to david, uh, you are more rights than I verse 17 for you have dealt with me while I have dealt with you And he was he say I won't come after you I will not I'm I'm through pursuing you verse verse 19 Uh for if a man finds this in me will he let him go away safely May the lord therefore reward you with good in return for what you have done to be this day Navajo, I know that you will surely be king. So he says You will surely be at some point in time. You are going to be the king But You couldn't let it you couldn't now again He's been king He's been king for going on 40 years He has been not quite 40 yet But he's been king for going on 40 years and that's not enough for him Now swear to me, uh by the lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me Uh And that you will not destroy my name from my father's house And so david swore and sol went to his home, but david and his men went to the stronghold So Therefore he makes a promise and by the way david keeps a promise We're gonna see that david is going to keep that promise even more So david goes out of his way to make sure that there is a descendant in the house Of sol We'll deal with that later Well, but I just want you to remember that because we're going to come back to this later Then samuel died 25 verse one Then samuel died And all israel gathered together and mourned for him Now we'll leave that there because it's very important and i'm sorry i didn't put on the screen chapter 25 chapter 25 verse one Now in the meantime They bring up a story about a man named nabal Which the word literally means fool So fool and abagail are married The bible says that she's a beautiful woman And she's intelligent. She's wise Now while david's men were out NABAL's men were around and david's men protected NABAL's men So when david comes looking for some nourishment some help Help with david out NABAL says no So david says fine I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you Since you won't do for me what I did for you I'm gonna kill you Thank god for this godly woman Who comes to david And please brings a gift and please with him And so let's go to chapter 25 Uh Let's see Yeah 25 let's start in verse 32 Abigail is speaking to him and then david in turn responds back to her then david said Blessed be the lord god of israel who sent you this day to meet me and blessed be your discernment and Blessed be you who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand What he says you've kept me from avenging myself By my own hand This is a lifelong lesson that all of us can get not an old testament lesson Not a new testament lesson, but a life lesson He says you have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself By my own hand I've stated in the past I'll continue to state so That Your knee jerk response Even when someone has done you wrong Your knee jerk response should be To let the lord defend you now sometimes in in Allowing the lord to defend you he'll cause you to give a defense for yourself It doesn't mean that you never defend yourself It doesn't mean that you never speak a word in defense of yourself It doesn't mean that you never physically defend yourself It never means that you never go on the attack for the sake of what you're doing. That's not what it means I'm saying your knee jerk response shouldn't be if someone says something to you you say something back Eye for an eye two four two tick tit for tat because that's really what it ends up becoming tit for tat If someone someone makes a video about you you got to make a video about them Someone gives a negative comment about you you got to give a negative comment about them That's not how it should be someone post something on facebook you post something back Someone blocks you you block them We're grown people we're adults and more than being adults. We are Godly adults now. There are some teenagers here, but still we want we want to act godly We want to be godly we want to protect ourselves a certain way And so we don't want to necessarily Go and avenge ourselves. Let someone else defend you Because one If god defends you no one else no one else going to do a better job of doing anything than he can If he doesn't want to defend you or didn't want you to be defended He wants to see that one. How are you going to respond or two? Maybe you maybe you got coming what they're giving you So David shows some restraint And it was brought on because of this wise woman named Abigail. Thank god for Abigail for abby Nevertheless as the lord of god of israel lives who has restrained me from harming you unless you had come quickly to meet me Surely there would not have been left to navel until the morning light as much as one male So david received from her hand what she had brought him and said her go up to your house in peace See i have listened To you and you're in your request now. He's going to allow the lord to handle it. And so what happens he dies Let's drop down Well, let's keep reading then Abigail came to navel and and behold he was holding a feast in the house Because he thinks he's he's a king basically Like the feast of a king and navel's heart was very merry with him For he was very drunk So she did not tell him anything at at all until the morning light But in the morning when the wine had gone out of navel his wife told him these things and and his heart died within him So that he became a stone about 10 days later the lord struck navel and he died Sometimes just wait sometimes you can let the i get it. I but lord you're taking too long And oh by the way lord, I don't like the way you did it I don't like the way you handle that Have you all ever watched a movie and we do this we watch a movie and it's a bad person and we want them to get it We want them to get it and if they get it they don't get it the way we wanted to get Recently the the uh the guy in whoever this guy was in main the mass shooter He goes and he kills these people apparently it was some sort of retaliation against his next girlfriend They don't make men like they used to they and let's just be they don't make men like they used to Men who get so upset so can't handle rejection can't move on can't this came that they want to just they want to kill her and kill everybody else up You are a weak person And I mean the people that are that are still alive that will one day be like that And a lot of us were so enraged because a lot of the youth were killed And he kills himself there are people said no, I wish he hadn't killed himself. We should have killed him We want we wanted to see it go down worse Because we can we can be a little bit blood thirsty We can be you know, we you know lord you're not doing it the way we want to be done We want more. Well, what if the man would have what if he would not have killed himself? And then kept shooting more people So We have to let god Handle things. This is where and it's where it gets hard Trusting god trusting god is hard letting him do what he wants to do That's hard. Why? Because If I were god, I would do it differently if I were god No, if I if I were god, there wouldn't be a there there wouldn't be russia There wouldn't be hamas. There wouldn't be afghanistan. There wouldn't be iran or no Well, there are a lot of innocent people there that aren't evil in those countries There are there are christians in those countries as well And so I would act harshly. I would be I would be newsflash I would make a terrible god If I were god, I'd be a horrible god But also if you were god, you'd be a horrible god And so this is where we recognize this and we just trust god now The good thing for david though david waited patiently And he also got the girl because what does the bible say? He married Abigail. Abigail becomes one of his wives. Now at this point in time David is going to have three wives. Well, three and a half He's he's going to have three wives. He marries abigail. He also in verse 43 david also takes takes Uh, I had known I let me know what let me read the Hebrew word because The english word her name is Aki Aki no, um, Aki no Let me see. Aki no, um, Aki no, okay Or Aki no, um, okay. No, Aki no, um, Aki no, that is a okay. Listen ladies Gentlemen, when you have children do not name your daughter that name Yes, not going She's not getting married At least not here in america but, um Aki no, um Marries him as well So he's got two wives Plus his first wife michael You know sol's wife and I said two and a half because what happens? sol takes his wife michael and gives him to another person Verse 44 now sol had given michael his daughter david's wife to pouty the son of laish Who was from gallium? We haven't gotten there yet But it's not going to be a happy long lasting marriage with uh Who with michael and pouty? So we'll we'll see that later Again david is going to become king and so he's going to get the girl back Now he might not have wished that he got her back Matter of fact, he probably will wish that he hadn't gotten her back, but anyway now go to chapter 26 and again Sol has an opportunity to do the right thing But he doesn't he pursues david and david also again has the opportunity to kill sol Chapter 26 verse 1 then the zeppites came to sol at gibbia saying it's not david hiding in the hill of haquila Which is before jeshamon. So sol arose and went down Uh went down to the wilderness of zepp having with him 3000 chosen men of israel to search for david Sol camped in the hill of haquila Which is before jeshamon before the road And david was staying in the wilderness when he saw that sol Came after him in the wilderness david sent out two spies Uh, and he knew that sol was definitely coming then david arose And came to the place where sol had camped and david saw the place Where sol lay an abner the son of nair The commander of his army and sol was lying in the circle of the camp and the people were camped around him So sol this time is he was supposed to be surrounded by all of his leaders surrounded by the men Abner his commander is there and so what happens David and someone else just walks through david and abashai just walks through Verse seven so david and abashai came to the people by night and behold sol lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp With this spit now this isn't a small this isn't like five people or 15 people or remember he takes 3000 men And he's in the middle Now how are they evenly distributed or if they were don't know but there's 3000 men there and nobody is on guard Nobody they all should be fired So david Came and behold Sol lay sleeping in the circle of the camp with the spear Stuck you know the same spear that that he likes to throw at people Stuck in the ground at his head an abner and the people were lying around him Then abish abashai said david today got a deliverer in me into your hand now Therefore, please let me strike. Let me let me do it david. Please. Let me. Please. Please. Please. Please david. Let me do it And so what's david say I will not strike him the second time But david said to abashai do not destroy him for who can stretch out his hand against the lords anointed and be without guilt There is there's that lord david you and that whole lords anointed stuff. There you go again You know where you david just turn your back. Let me do it. You can just I'll just I'll say it slipped I'll say the knife slipped out of my hand No If you do so you will not be without guilt god will deal with you So david said also as the lord lives surely the lord will strike him Or his day will come that he dies Look what david just said as the lord lives. Surely the lord will I promise you the lord is going to deal with him Or he will go down into battle and perish The lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the lords anointed But now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water and let us go So what happens he takes the spear the jug of water And then he goes to the other side a good distance away And he yells and says listen abner You didn't you guys are horrible. You're a horrible commander and your men You should all die all of you should die because I just walked in and took your king spear and his jug of water I don't know what was in the water. I don't know if he had some tea in there and lemonade kool-aid. Who knows but I shouldn't have it I shouldn't have and so verse 15 are you not a man and who was like you in israel Why didn't have you not guarded your lord the king for one of the people came to destroy the king your lord He speaks of Abishai this thing that you have done is not good as the lord lives All of you must surely die because you did not guard your lord the lord's anointed And so what happens saw recognizes again Saul sees that now Saul does make a pledge Saul does say that I won't I won't pursue you again because david david then leaves now I want to show you something and and this is this is short But I want to show you something about david one David is flawed I want to read this passage to you This is interesting Because I don't want you to one thing that that david is so pristine that david doesn't mess up that david doesn't make mistakes um Now what'd you say? Jeff um Notice this chapter 27 verse 1 david leaves there and goes to you know what fine. Let me go kick it with the philistines I'm going to hang out with the philistines Now notice this uh Verse 1 now I will perish one day by the hand of saw I'm sorry, then david said to himself now. I will perish one day by the hand of saw There is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the philistines Now, I don't know why david said that but this is just him recounting because again, he still is human So why why is he thinking that he's going to you just said salt is going to be killed by the lord And so I also indicated you also know that you are going to be king So you're not going to perish by the hand of the of uh of saw remember this david remember in chapter 16 verse 13 Then samuel took the horn of the oil and anointed him That's david in the midst of his brothers and the spirit of the lord came mightily upon david From that day forward and samuel arose and went to rama. So david knows that he was anointed But then you come back and you just said that that uh saw will be killed God will take care of it. But you say Now I will perish one day by the hand of saw there is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the philistines So let me go ahead and leave before this man kills me Saw then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of israel and I will escape from his hands So david arose and crossed over he and his 600 men who were with him. So again, david didn't have a lot of people with him Now he goes to akish or akish The son of maok the king of gath. These are the philistines And david verse three lives with akish at gath. He and his men they say they're about Almost a year and a half One year and six months no one year and four months 16 months Even david with his two wives Um Verse three Ahi no, I'm I don't like her name In abigale. I like her name Uh the carmelitis navel's widow Now it was told saw that david had fled the gas. So he no longer searched for him. He's not going he's not going into the land of philistines Now look at this port and this is where david Is not forthright not truthful Then david said to akish If now I have found favor in your sight Let me let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country that I may live there For why should your servant live in the royal city with you? So akish gave him ziklag that day therefore ziklag has belonged to the kings of judah to this day the number of days That david lived in the country of the philistines was a year and four months Now david and his men went up and raided the uh guess your rights And the guerzites and the malachites So notice who david is raiding Listen listen what the bible says the recounting of who david raided Uh for they were the inhabitants of the land from ancient times as you come to sir Even as far as the land of egypt david attacked the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive And he took away the sheep the cattle the donkeys and the camels and the clothing Then he returned to and came to akish Now akish said where have you made a ray today? And david said against negab of judah and against negab that that's south he worked for south south of uh jarameelites And against south of the kenites david did not leave a man or woman alive to bring uh to gath saying otherwise They will tell about us saying so has david done done and so has been his practice all the time He lived in the country of philistines david lied David lied david did not attack those those are his people David did not raid his people, but why does he lie? Well, he's kind of currying favor With them they are thinking okay now. Yeah, he's he's with us. He's not with them anymore He's he's even attacking and raiding his own people But that's not the case. So akish believed david Saying he has surely made himself odious among his people israel therefore he will become my servant forever No, he's not No, he's not and the point is I just wanted to kind of bring that out so that you can see that Yet david is not as upstanding as we as some may wonder but he's a man. He's a human being He is flawed He does things he lied. He didn't have to He didn't have to um So But why he's trying to curry favor and it's going to happen uh that they're going to end up Pushing david away. He didn't work. Anyway, it doesn't work as much as david things because when they're ready to go to battle They don't take david his generals. They still don't they still don't trust david because this is the same david that killed phil Goliath, this is the same david that killed 200 philistines and took 104 skins of theirs. This is that same david that's been fighting against him and killing us Yeah, we don't trust them. I don't care who he said he's raided. We don't trust it But now here's something interesting and somebody because somebody's going to want to ask this question In chapter 28. So we need to deal with this in 28 verse one Now it came about in those days that the philistines gathered their armed camps for war to fight against israel And they kiss said david now surely that you will go With me to the camp you and your men now. This is where they say the men come up and they said no We don't we don't want david fighting with us Nope, we don't want that to happen But looking what happens in verse three in verse three now samuel was dead and all israel had lamented Uh, lamented him in his even in his own city of ramah and saw had removed from the land those who were mediums in spirits By the way, that was illegal all the way back from deuteronomy You could not have these those these these mediums these sorcerers these witchcraft people. No, you could not have them And even saw outlawed that but There's no samuel. He just needs someone to talk to so the philistines gathered together and uh and came and camped Shoenim and saw gathered all of israel together and they camped in gboa When saw saw the capital philistines, he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly when saw inquired of the lord The lord did not answer him either by dreams or by urem or by prophets Then saw said to his servants Seek for me a woman who was a medium That I may go to her and inquire of her And his servants said to him behold there is a woman who was in who was a medium at endor Then saw disguised himself by putting on other other clothes and went He and he and two men with him and they came to the woman By night and he said conjure up for me Please and bring up for me whom I shall name but the woman said behold, you know that you know what solace done How he has cut off those who are mediums and spiritists from the land Why are you laying a snare for my life to bring about my death? So he disguised himself because he comes to saw And asked her to bring him up Well, then she's gonna know like no no so i'm not i'm not i'm not even a medium medium spirit is who me No, no you're looking for miss clloe. That's not me. That's somebody else No, he needs her to think that it's okay And she says well, so you're gonna get me killed. He says no, you know Solve vowed to her by the lord saying as the lord lives no punishments will come upon you for this thing I don't know how he makes his promise or why she thinks He can make this promise, but Maybe she's just anxious to do it. Anyway, then the woman said whom shall I bring up for you and she's and he said Bring up samuel for me And then the woman said, I know who you are now Then the woman saw samuel She cried out with a loud voice and the woman spoke to sol saying why have you deceived me for you or not? Sol now quick question Do you guys i just want to know Do you guys believe that she actually brought up samuel? Some say there are some that say yes, she did some say no, she didn't that that was uh, maybe they thought it was Maybe some sort of demonic spirit and maybe Wasn't saying what do what do you guys think you all think that she actually did Bring up samuel interesting point Because where is samuel? So as a matter of fact, yeah, let me just let me just see what you guys think you all think that she actually brought up samuel uh Let's see TT says no scott says yes the w says yes um Jeff says nope the lord brought the vision um Maybe god maybe what would you say? Maybe got a loud and exception. No god did it. No, uh, i vote i It was definitely ai I think she did know but i'm not sure it what uh, if it isn't clear. It doesn't matter arsenal says yes Yes, robert twosie with the greatest prison name in the history of non inmates says yes, um Well, what does the bible say What and i'm only asking this question because People will come to you and say this or say that but what does it say? The bible says let's go back to it. Then the woman said whom shall I bring up for you? And she said bring up for me samuel. Then the woman saw samuel Well, wait a second She's not writing this Saul isn't writing this The bible says The writer of samuel now who finishes this There's debate as to who finished this There is debate. Maybe this is a writer for samuel We'll deal with that later. As a matter of fact, we'll cover it later when we get the second samuel but The accounting is that she saw samuel She cried out with a loud voice And the woman spoke to saw saying why have you to see me for you are not for you are solved the kings said to her Do not be afraid But what do you see and the woman said to saw I see a divine being huh Coming up out of the earth. He said to her. What is his form? And she said an old man is coming up And he is wrapped with a robe and saw knew that it was samuel And he bowed his face to the ground and did homage now notice then samuel said so Who was she speaking who's speaking to he's speaking to actual samuel? now She brought him up, but obviously it's the lord's allowance to do so So this doesn't happen outside of Outside of the lord's doing and so it cannot be taken also that she has the ability to do so if she can do it at You know at anyone's beckon call that she can do it whenever she wants to No, it can't it can't be taken that way. It can't be taken That she can do it on command. She can know it. No But Samuel has a message for saw then Samuel said Samuel said Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up and saw answers? I am greatly distressed for the phyllis things are waging war against me and god has departed from me And no longer answers me either through prophets or by dreams Therefore I have called you that you may make known to me What I should do Samuel said why then do you ask me since the lord has departed from you? And has become your adversary you already know what the deal is The lord has done accordingly and he has spoken through me For the lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given to your neighbor david You already know this so why are you coming to me? We're not your friends anymore As you did not obey the lord and did not execute his fierce wrath on amalek So the lord has done this thing to you this day more over This is how you know this is this is legitimate. Look what he says more over the lord will also give over israel along with you Into the hands of the phyllis things therefore tomorrow You and your sons will be with me Indeed the lord will give over the army of israel into the hands of the phyllis things So Guess what's going to happen to you mr. Saul? Now you didn't really did it You messed up by Not waiting seven days You messed up by Acting like a priest and not and not utterly destroying the amalekites and agak Now you did this Now i'm going to mess you up. Well, wait a second. How is it possible? How is it possible that? Samuel could be brought up I mean he's dead Does that mean that someone can be brought up from the dead now Well again, and we won't go to it, but recall in John three Jesus makes a statement He says that no one has ascended to the father I mean no one has ascended to heaven except he who has descended the belief that Enoch And even Elijah by the way some of you guys were wondering if I said I kept saying a lot. No, I was saying Elijah But my Elijah sound like a zh and when I say Elijah Elijah But Elijah But he takes Elijah up into the sky And Enoch was taken away But Jesus is clear Neither of them went to be with the father at that moment. None of them went to heaven yet They were in what's called the abode of the dead and there are two parts Those who are on their way to be with the father to be in heaven and those who are destined for hell after that So they're in the grave. Both parts are called the grave Just what which part of are you on the south side of the grave or the the north side of the east side of the west side? Are you on the good part or the bad side? They are on he is going to be in the grave with him And his access obviously is going or his or his destinations obviously going to be different But he says you're going to be with me in the grave tomorrow you and your sons So therefore Uh get yourself ready Get yourself get yourself ready Now Jesus kind of makes mention this Jesus helps us out when um at his death He says to the people on the cross Today you will be with me in paradise. Well, we're paradise. That's heaven, right? Well, it is now But then no, why do we say that because remember when Jesus is has uh resurrected? Mary grabs hold of him and says let go of me for I have not yet ascended to my father So it hadn't happened yet At the time of jesus's resurrection then later he ascends To the father and who does he take? He takes those people in the grave The sandals The eliges the moses who after that point we never see them again We see Elijah and moses show up. Um at at the transfiguration. We see that After the ascension no one's brought back up. So That's why Samuel is able to be brought up then not now you can't you can go look for samu if you want to you're not gonna find them Uh, the only way that you're gonna ever find samuel Is if you die and go to heaven So but if you're looking for samuel in the grave You might not you might be on the wrong track. So that being the case and so he goes to see him And now what happens samuel is killed as a matter of fact, let's go to Yeah, let's go ahead and read that let's go ahead and read that chapter 30 one Now the phyllis's were fighting against israel and the men of israel fled from the phyllis deans and fell slain on mount Gboa the phyllis deans overtook sol and his sons and the phyllis deans killed jonathan and abinadab And malchishua the sons of sol the battle went heavily against sol in other words. They were getting whooped Then sol said to his is on rare draw your sword and pierce me through with it Otherwise these uncircumcised will come and pierce me through and make sport of me But his armor bearer would not for he was greatly afraid So sol took his sword and fell on it when his armor bearer saw that sol was dead He also fell on his sword and died with him Thus sol died with his three sons his armor bears and all his men on that day Now the reason why we had to read that it's important because on next week On next week we have to talk about Hit sol's death And then david Being installed as king And the importance of second samuel is vitally important It is going we're going to have to go back to Galatians genesis 12 I said there's three elements to What was prophesied of what god tells abraham? To say that those things you'll be a great nation your name is going to be great There's three things that have to happen or three elements of that. There's there's a land promise of that There's a people there's a promise of people and there's a promise of a kingdom We haven't seen it totally we've seen it kind of work its way there But we're going to see it established in second samuel chapter two And then we're going to get close to this covenant that's going to be made That's called the davidic covenant. We're going to see that we're also going to see david's fall his failure We've already seen a few times where david is he's a flawed man. He's a he's a man. He's a human being And he does some things that are not correct all the time Initially though his reliance on the lord is superb Even when he messes up he still focuses on the lord. He still Runs to him and looks to him for his guidance And so Even when dealing with sin even when dealing with a sinful person such as a saw His reliance on god is just called just top notch. It's where our should be when our enemies deal with us It's where our should be. It should be focused lord. What should I do? Um, yeah, when I saying lord, I need you to speak audibly to me I need you to rain down some angels and so forth. That's not necessarily what we're saying What we're saying is lord moving my heart If if you feel like you can impress upon me and I want to tell you something on I want to give you a story at some point in time about something the lord did with me And you all know I'm not a I am The least charismatic that you might find no, I take it back. I'm not the least charismatic. No, I'm not. I shouldn't say that but but He still moves It's just that is he moving the same way that others say and if so then it's always going to be evident but you want to Pray to the lord. You want to be led by the lord remember Jesus makes he tells him how to pray And lead us not into into temptation. Keep us from sinning Keep us from doing wrong work in us walk in us moving us lord god That's what we want. That's what we see david doing now even more so with us than with david Why because while the spirit was upon him With us the spirit is in us And so there's never a reason Never a reason Why we should ever go without being able to consult the lord and ask him for his guidance for his leaving There should never there's never but we do feel it. Let's be honest. We fail all the time. We literally have Um closer than a cell phone the answers Think about it. We can hold the cell phone in our hand And closer than that that we're literally holding on to We have an answer closer to that and we don't always consult him But david does and so he establishes kingdom through david And there's a reason why not that david was so great. It is not because david was so awesome So wonderful none of that stuff. It was because god's plan Is starting to unfold and he's using david. He's working in david. Amen all right guys, so There was no organs played in this one. There was no uh super dramatic stuff Next week though, there's going to be some some stuff I like I like I like to kind of tie things together This over here and this over here it had fits together had moves and it's not really spiritualizing anything It's not really just looking and saying how wow and kind of making things up. No, it's not what we're doing Um, but I like to just show how the scripture is really unfold. Um, so that's what I want to do on We're going to do it now. I wonder what the bible's going to have us to do so on next week By the way, thank you so much. Um Lashonda and jeff. Thank you. He says get some coffee in the cup brother. No, there's coffee in here See, yeah matter of fact the other day My daughter she got me some, um, what do you call that stuff? I call it I call it uh sissy sauce Soft soft coffee You know what soft coffee is soft coffee is that uh ice frappuccino mocha latte um whatever Yeah that from starbucks But listen i'm i'm too tough I'm too i'm too i'm too much of a man to be drinking starbucks coffee out of a starbucks coffee container so To toughen my coffee up to toughen my starbucks coffee up. What do I do? I just simply pour it in here The moment that little soft soft coffee Leaves a starbucks container and goes into this prison cup. It becomes tough It becomes tough. Yeah, something happens to the particles in it Something happens to it and it just it just changes It just changes. Thank you child. You don't care what you say Oh the depths of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of god how unsearchable it isn't it Don't go on it child By the way, I have to tell you this I have to tell you this um I had went and something was wrong with it with the deal and I went ahead and and and paid for that britain's um lxx that britain's obtuse it And it's I have it here I had the english translation But not the greek side of it and I guess I guess a quarter doesn't have it I've got I literally have the greek side on the on logos So and I asked him what was the deal They emailed me back says well the reason why you can't download it because I paid for it and downloaded it And the reason why you can't download it because you already have it Do I and I said yes, it's the exact same thing. So the picture that shows the english and the greek beside it I don't know what greek that is, but it's not that they don't have his greek uh lex i'm his greek septuagint so And I would use my logos more on screen. It's just that when I pull up logos. It just it jumps around It's just not the best for for you guys. So that's the only reason. So anyway What happened? Hold on Catherine crick and her what did she say her? It oh i'm sorry wrong one Catherine crick is horrible It's just horrible I saw a video youtube sent me a video of her Now it was on the home page. So I clicked on it. It literally said q and a And I thought to myself, huh? q and a And and this isn't the bible study, but I have to say this. I have to say this When you see these people The Catherine cricks of the world Even the isaias of the world the daniel Adams when you see them Do you know what you don't usually see? You don't usually see scriptures You don't see them going down now. She was doing a q and a and guys this q and a it was hilarious Because it was all opinions no going to the scriptures. Hey, what is this? What is that and then actually pulling up scriptures and going through it? It's weird. It is so weird. It's like wow, do you know how devoid of scriptures? You have to be the thing that she is um biblically sound but But and for her to say that about Someone who's autistic I don't know what it is about these people. There's no low that they won't sink So that you're going so now you're going to cast this autistic demon out of kids Okay, but again, listen Will this is where this is what we have to be like david This is where we have to be like that the lord will deal with them That doesn't mean that we don't say anything at all. That doesn't mean that we don't say anything No, we are still we're gonna do our job. We should do more in the body But as I told someone else before who no longer listens to me, it's not our job to bring them down. I can't bring down Um catholic rick. I can't bring down bitty him The job now is to warn the other people so they don't they don't get bit by the wolf But god will take care of them in due time. So anyway guys Yeah, they call they there's this there are people out there that are saying that that autism is a demon and we can cast that demon out Yeah, what they won't do because when you look at someone who's autistic It's not like you see it, you know, you don't have a certain look There is one thing they won't do Now not not that attacking and I think I I think it's attacking autistic children. I think it is But they don't do some of the other Uh debilitating things that people have to suffer with such as down syndrome They don't they don't call that a demon do they? Because they because immediately people know that that you are a fraud And they are And they are uh, they don't they don't attack demons of other things that are obvious and apparent That they cannot get rid of so Horrible person horrible person horrible people they really are But god will deal with them in the meantime guys. I love you so much and I will see you later Bye-bye