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Thank you moderators. Thank you for joining. Thank you for holding it down in the chat. I do appreciate that Welcome also Facebook family. I see my son up in the place, but what's going on? My brother was good man. Good to see you man David McGee and also who else that should be it. I think so far, but anyway, so And on the YouTube side sister Shonda brother Dave college. How you doing my brother? Hope my brother is doing well He was he was down with I think you said laryngitis. Hope you're doing good now David rector good to see you man again sister Shonda miss Bobby good to see you as well Lady Saturn brother proverbs, of course. What's going on my brother J. Will Sister Shireen good to see you my sister and thank you so much sis. They look great. They look great pure dopeness Brother Darrell was going on man let's see and See okay Denver Nuggets. Okay. Good to see you as well Let me see who else anyone else anyone else anyone else Think we got some stragglers coming in Testimony's of course my brother good to see you as well. All right, so go ahead hit that like button hit the Hit the like button hit the share button also on YouTube and also on the Facebook side moderators you have the con Handle it as as necessary. We've already discussed the obvious Individual may come in trying to stir up confusion. You already know how to handle that as well Just asked it would get to see you good to see you get to see you. All right, so So what I want to make an announcement real quick. I need to Make maybe a cup of announcements first and foremost first and foremost yesterday's live Regarding is Seiko was a Christian. Okay Some of some of you may had wondered what was that all about well, that was a response to the mob in response to those who have been supporting The mob and supporting people who have made videos about me and things that have in that nation. So my my whole philosophy and mentality was of following Proverbs chapter 26 verse 5 which says Answer a fool according to their folly Lest they be wise in their own eyes and so of course verse 4 says don't answer a fool Unless you'd be like them But then verse 5 says that same chapter answer a fool according to their folly Let's to be wise in their own eyes So that there comes a time when you have to respond to fools according to their own foolishness and Sometimes come down to their level without sinning in the process to show them their idiocy and also to expose them for the frauds and for the Fools that they are and so that's what I did on on yesterday We're now I'm pivoting back to to verse 4 So going forward unless the Lord leads and does does does or says differently Anyone that wants to see me they're gonna have to come up with me Simple as that if they if they want to make accusations and make videos and things like that then this came up Let's have a conversation so far only one person did it Unfortunately her logic and her reasoning is not to be desired, but it was Shantae furlough aka miss furlough speaks Even though she didn't show her face, but she did at least come on the on the channel We had a conversation so I thought it was a respectful one, but of course subsequently then she you know makes other videos and Miss represent miss represents and then has the mob Come on there. Even though they didn't show their face. They just was making comments in the chat But nonetheless for me going forward for me these people individuals want to have have a Conversation or debate or I want to confront me about quote-unquote sins or whatever the case might be then then let's just come up Simple as that show your face If not, I'm not even gonna waste my time So that's the first thing. Secondly, I need to make a public apology to a miss Catherine Destuette yesterday again on that same live in the same broadcast I Erroneously and accidentally Included her name with the John McArthur situation being idolatry and all that kind of stuff So my my public apologies to you Sister adding your name to that That wasn't the reason why you unfollowed me That wasn't the reason why you unfriended me and my wife the reason why you unfriended me and my wife is because I was Exposing G Craig Lewis and exposing Clemente Sosa who was abusing his wife And who was abusing his children and who was messing around and so was G Craig Lewis And so you didn't like the fact that I was exposing the Clemente Sosa You felt that I was I was putting his business out. Well, no actually I didn't his wife at the time did and so the whole point of me Exposing him and also G Craig Lewis was because of the damage that they were inflicting upon other people and this is the same Clemente Sosa who Tried to put a hit out for me and and wanted to try and try to kill me. So You were defending a man a married man who was basically Trying to plot and put out a hit on me with other with other co-conspirators And and he got exposed for that. So So I have the wrong Wolf I had the wrong predator that I attached you to and so my apologies for attaching you to John MacArthur I meant to submit I meant to mention your name Alongside the G Craig Lewis situation and the Clemente Sosa because you were publicly defending him and And I don't know why you're caping for him But anyway, but nonetheless do what you want, but I apologize to you for regarding mixing you with the wrong situation Different different situation same, you know concept of defending wolves and and And and spiritual predators. So oh she blocked she unfriended you to Rodney. I didn't know that That's interesting. What did you do? You don't really bother anybody, bro Oh Man So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we got a talk, bro I be I be tripping Darrell out y'all there Darrell is new to the challenge So y'all y'all, you know, we're kind of like feel Darrell in on some of the stuff that I've been going through. Yeah Yeah, man, I'm gonna send you a link because I had some former members of G Craig Lewis's church Matter of fact, one of the one of the guys he's a police officer and he was a part of the security security detail at G Craig Lewis's church and he heard them say this and Clemente Sosa was the individual who said I want to kill Seiko and I'm you know and took the brother to his trunk showed him the his semi-automatic, you know semi-automatic rifles and in all of that and Said if I came up to ABC That he was going to find a way to take me out Yeah Absolutely. Yep. So this is so so these people that and I don't I don't play the martyrdom complex I don't I mean, I'm two-way all day every day. You know, I'm saying I don't go looking for trouble I don't because I understand with that with that reason what that leads to but you're not gonna bring trouble over here and think that I'm just gonna lay down and Also people like Kada. So, you know, I have you know receipts and stuff of him Making these little subliminal sub shots and stuff like that about me not being a pastor. No, Kada You can't be a pastor You can't My wife didn't bust me for cheating your wife busted you for cheating, bro Okay, she's the one called you hypocrite. She didn't my wife never caught me that So you You get you got outed by your own wife and Let the record reflect and show anybody that I expose I don't expose I don't drop receipts on anyone because I disagree with them That's very weak That's that's really that's that's puppy pee week name one person name one person That I've dropped receipts on because I've disagreed with them But I can name several people and drop many receipts on people who have betrayed and who have tried to Slander me and try to destroy my name my reputation my ministry my character and think I was gonna lay down and just be quiet and Put my hand over my mouth and not say anything and just you know, pray and trust God No, I'm afraid trust God and I'm awesome respond I can do both I can chew and walk and chew gum at the same time. I can do it all so Ladies and gentlemen, if you try to if you try to destroy what God has built over here Let it be let it be known and let the record reflect and show that I will respond Accordingly and whenever necessary make no mistakes about it. Don't get it twisted. Don't let anybody deceive you or tell you otherwise Please don't now No, this this his wife his K-dove's wife put up post about him Sneaking and talking to other women and she accused him of cheating she did It was it was that it was that bad to the point to where he had to take that he had to take his channel down his Social media countdown and this was the time when we were in a in a in a group chat And people in a group chat. I was in the group chat. I believe puny John was in the same group chat proverbial life Edwin Ramirez. That's what he goes by What is his name? Ricky Caldwell was in the same group chat April Chapman was in that same group chapter I believe and these people were asking where where's K-dove man? What happened to K-dove? What happened K-dove and so I reached out to the cat and I say man, you're right and so he told me what happened and I remember seeing the post his wife put him out on on on blast on social media. So it wasn't me his wife did that His own wife outed him his own wife whose own wife exposed him and called him a hypocrite and said that he he's a liar He's a hypocrite. He's this and the end. That's what he that's what he said. I mean, that's what she said so That's what dang man. That's you know, that's it. What did you he said? No, I was talking to other women and I shouldn't have done that and and I never told my wife Okay, what bro? I mean, you know, hey And I didn't say a word until He tried to destroy he tried to misrepresent and and try to you know, slander my character after the echoes and soundbites party So I'm sitting up and I'm like, wait a minute, bro I was I was you know, there for you and and and checking in on you making sure you good And this is how you try to do me. You try to you try to make it like I'm the okay. All right No problem, bro. No problem. So so anyway I Basically, you know responded accordingly and and and let it be no No, bro. I wasn't the one that out of you. Your wife did your wife did so To make to make a long story short. That's how that situation happened same thing with April same all of them all of them All of them. There's nobody That I have exposed or drop receipts on or conversation that I have released They did not deserve it not one not one not one so if you're getting mad at me because I Record conversations. Yeah, I'm gonna record conversations of people that I don't trust or people that I think that's gonna be sussing He's gonna try to turn and flip on me and by God's grace so far. I've been I've been Been pretty I've not had any regrets so far So far I haven't and so if you get mad about that because you got something to hide not me It just is what it is Here's the rule of thumb and I think all of us would agree with this Don't flip on people that you call your friends and think that you're not going to have to receive their consequences for such Flippage Thank you very much, sweetheart dear and there are things he hasn't released Yes exactly Exactly so So Let's not go there Let's not go there and let me just go ahead and say this as well, too There's some of these people that's gonna say oh we've done stuff for Seiko and Sharon. Yeah, it's called body life. It's called Meeting needs bearing burdens and meeting needs like we don't do for other people as well, too But we'll just walk around Broadcasting and advertising get why because that violates Matthew chapter 6 verse 1 Letting your righteousness be made known and be seen for all men God says don't do that God says don't don't announce what you're doing people don't don't don't go around trying to you know Showcase and high cap and all that kind of stuff because he said you get your reward already here on earth You won't get it in heaven Okay, so again, if you're if you're going to if you're going to do this kind of stuff Then Understand the motive behind why you're doing it There there's no one that we walk around and we we just dropping names of who we've done stuff for yes Some people have given have given my wife and I money and helped us, you know financially, but we have as well, too But we're not gonna walk around and name dropping and say well this person We've given money to this person because that's number one then what what what why did you do it? Why did you do it? That shows that your heart wasn't in the right place in the first place Anything we do for people we do it because we love the body of Christ and again Again That's what we're called to do if it's a need and we're and we are able to meet it We do it and we're supposed to do it because we love the brethren. I don't know what These people are on nowadays. I really do not know I Don't I don't know what these people are probably you said I speak to females on the phone daily What what I have to do to bring it to the level of entertaining female callers I don't know bro. I don't know. Yeah, it's clearly one genuine in the first place. Simple as that simple as that But yeah, I mean it's it's Again so I'm putting that out there because we have nothing to hide Nothing particularly myself. I don't we do things for people because we're we're supposed to do it That's what the Bible says if we have the world's goods and we see our brother or sister in need and we don't do it God says if we close our heart the King Jesus says close our bowels first John 3 He says then how does the love of God abide in us? Answer it doesn't if I see a need if we see a need and we know that we're able to meet it And we just don't do that. That's the pattern of culture of our life. Then we're not saved They're not saved But it's interesting that somebody's saying people that we have help They have flipped and they have now sided with the mob and our and our now acting as though. Oh, well, you know, he's not He's not real pastor. What what does that mean? What I Was a real pastor you came to me for counseling. I was a real pastor. You came to me for advice I was a real pastor when you needed support. You need to help I was a real pastor then I was a real pastor. We took hours upon hours of Conversing with these people taking time away from our family from our children from our girls to talk to somebody's same people who have now flipped And it's just funny to me because this is how church folk are y'all and So you can't you can't change because some people Mess over you or some people try to act as though, you know, you're the you're the criminal You're the villain. No, you just keep it moving. You know I'm saying you just keep it moving You don't deal with them more and you keep pushing But I don't I don't I don't stop doing what God has called me to do because I got some fakers And this whole I mean the G Craig situation the Marcus Roger situation and now the John McGregor the John McGregor the situation has Really exposed people's true colors for what they really are I mean, it really has because none of these people want to come up and challenge me on any other stuff They want to make videos, but I mean, okay, anybody make a video, but let's see how quick you are on your feet Let's talk about ecclesiology. Let's let's talk about the qualifications of a pastor Let's talk about that. Let's talk about theology. Let's talk about these accusations and see if they really line up. I Mean you want to talk about tone and being harsh Get out of here with that. I'm not even I'm not even dealing with that. So I said all that to say Ladies and gentlemen, I'm pivoting back on my progress 26 for okay I'm pivoting back on my progress when it's 6-4 and You basically for me, I I am not Going to waste my time with people if they're not willing to come up And so therefore let me Recall the rule here and I believe it is right here the BCV rule Any and all guests who make disrespectful comments in the chat in the chat. That's this right here And refuse to come up upon invitation requests will be banned immediately If you're making smart comments and then I say hey came up and you freeze it came up Then I'm just gonna kick you out. I'm gonna ban you whenever have to return again. Simple as that, but that's the rule That's the rule on this channel on this platform in this house deal with it. All right, so That is it all right, so I Want to move on let's talk. Let's go into our little Bible study Glad you all are here and I appreciate those of you who have joined tonight, but we're going to Talk about this subject and it's basically for those who you who are discouraged a word to the discouraged a word to the Discouraged can y'all see that I think you can Have to make a adjustment here a word to the discouraged a word to the Discouraged and so I Would I would probably venture and if I were Betty man I would say to you how many of you if I were to poll you How many of you have have faced discouragement matter of fact if we were honest some of you may right right now be battling and fighting with discouragement and Discouragement is a very serious and a real thing. I mean if 2020 didn't didn't discourage you Man, I don't I don't know. I don't know what else could have because Yeah, yeah, there were a lot of discouragement discouraging moments That may have blown the wind out of many of our sales and people may have died have been passed on and Jobs have been lost businesses have been destroyed careers have been cancelled ministries have been shut down all because of Individuals or all because of situations beyond your control and I believe I believe one of the hard things or the hardest things to deal with Regarding discouragement is when it comes upon you and there's nothing you can do about it There's nothing you can do about it. There's a sense of helplessness there's a sense of you know You feel immobile you you're not able to Be free. I'm pretty sure that many of you can identify with that There's a sense of helplessness Frustration, you know, you want to do something but you you can't You you want to do something you wish you had the power to do it You wish you had the power to change it if only you were there Before that discouragement moment happened, whatever the case might be it could be relational it can be Occupational it can be Whatever the case might be all of us have faced and have been in Discouraging moments and if you haven't like the old folks say keep on living Keep on living because life has a way of knocking you on your behind. Oh Believe me. I Mean if you let it you can you can also become Suicidal, oh I know I know we don't want to talk about this kind of stuff But it can it can it can take you there, but for the grace of God if he doesn't let it But there are people who are in the in the In the belly of the beast if you will with discouragement with the loss they don't they don't see their way out and This is this is hard for them to to grasp to deal with But hopefully tonight, there's hope I Believe it is as long as as long as you and I have Place our faith and trust in Jesus Christ We're not exempt from trouble. We're not exempt from persecution. We're not exempt from problems We're not exempt from discouragement, but we have something that the unbeliever we have something that our unbelieving counterparts and neighbors and friends and loved ones don't have we have Christ and There may be some of you that may be watching this channel and may watch this stream and you are not a Christian Let me just say to you right now You don't have to end this day. You don't have to end this stream You don't have to even leave right now without making that a right before God tonight today The right of Hebrew says today if you hear his voice do not harden your heart If you know that you are not a Christian number one You are under the wrath of God his wrath the bides on you You but you don't have to stay enemies of God. You can be his child You can now be a friend of God You can be placed from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his beloved son into the kingdom of life But you must recognize and you must Acknowledge that you are a sinner that you are an enemy of God that your righteousness even on its best day are filthy rags in his sight That there's nothing you can do to please a thrice holy God his standard for entering into the kingdom of heaven is Absolute perfection and since you and I could not do that. He sent his son Jesus Christ's second person of the Godhead He came to this earth Sinless he came to this earth born of a virgin He came through this earth fulfilling all of the righteous Requirements that God demanded man to do but man could not do it And so if you can't if you want something done right you got to do it yourself And that's exactly what God did. He did it in his son Jesus Christ And so now when he went on that cross He took the wrath that you and I should have taken upon himself those three hours of darkness he himself was Encouraging the wrath that you and I and receiving the wrath that you and I should have received We owed a debt that we could not have paid and it would have taken us all eternity to pay it off And so God loved us so much. He loved his children He loved his elect so much that he sent his son Jesus Christ to die and To be the propitiation the the satisfaction He is the lamb that takes away the sins of the world of all who believe But you must you must acknowledge that you must confess that what Christ did on that cross. He did it for you He did it for you. He did it for me But if you're not a Christian you must acknowledge that You must acknowledge that he took your sin that But he didn't stay on that cross. He was buried He was buried in a borrowed tomb and On the third day he rose at all power in his hand all resurrection power So when he rose we rose with him in newness of life Roman chapter 6 And so now you and I once we place our faith and trust in Jesus Christ At that moment he takes us from the slave market of sin From the slave market of wrath and judgment and damnation and places us here. He adopts us Into his family And there are people right now that know and Thank God for the joys and the blessings of being adopted. Well, you know what? That's us We have been adopted we have we have a new daddy. We have a new father Our father was a devil when we weren't saved And so now we have a new father. We have a new master We're in a new kingdom We're righteousness in in peace and joy dwell and so for us When we leave this life whether Christ comes or We go with him through death That's not all that there is To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord Pressures in the sight of the Lord is the death of his holy ones his saints So there's no Condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus Romans 8 Romans 5 also says we have been we have been made we have peace with God Being justified by faith. We have peace with God And there's no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus when Christ took on our debt God sees us now in his son He who knew no sin became sin for us that we may become the righteousness of God in him And so I just want to tell you before this live stream is over You don't have to wait for an appeal. We don't we don't have an altar card, but we're appealing to you right now Turn to Christ repent of your sin turn from your old way and You know that the Lord is calling upon your heart and he's pricking your heart That's not this bald-headed guy with the glasses on telling you to do it. That's that's the spirit of God He's just using me as his mouthpiece as his parrot But everything I'm telling you can be backed up and buttressed in the scriptures But don't leave here. Don't turn this off Thinking that you have tomorrow that is Satan's master pimp game trust me There are many people that wish they had Tomorrow and they died today Because they assumed They put soon and they assumed on God's mercy tomorrow, it's not promised to any of us So if you hear this message if you hear this this this plea I'm telling you You don't have to like me contrary what people may say about me one thing. I love its souls My style notwithstanding, but I rather tell you the hard truth than to peddle you a soft lie If you die tonight Apart from the saving grace and work of God through Jesus Christ on the cross on your behalf You will spend eternity in hell. I'm not gonna tell you you're gonna be eternally separated from God No, no, no, no, you're going to hell and that is a holding tank Okay, the second death is what you're going to experience in the lake of fire That is eternal and there's no coming back from that. There's no purgatory You can't you can't pray this away Nobody else can intercede for you right now. We're interceding for you to turn to Christ Whoever you are wherever you are and whatever you are doing if you're hearing this stream And you're watching this replay You can't say that you were not told the truth because you're being told the truth right now So I give you Christ. That's all I can give you Salvation is free to us, but it costs our savior everything. And so as it is as his ambassador as His spiritual parrot. I tell you Turn and trust in Christ Confess your sin call it what it is and plea upon the mercy of God And he says those who call upon him will be saved that is a promise, but you must mean it I'm not gonna give you no prayer to pray. I Believe this when I wrong someone I don't need somebody to write out a script and me to read it off No, when I wrong someone when I sin against someone That should come from my heart on what I did and then ask for that person's forgiveness So there's no repeat after me Lord Jesus Christ No, no, no, you go before God and you make it right with your Creator Before it is too late so hopefully you heard it and That's what I wanted to say about that now I want to talk about again. Like I said discouragement. Okay there's a passage in scripture that I was reading and I Remember preaching it years ago But it's just like anything when you when you preach a lesson or teach a sermon or something like that It never gets old and God opened your eyes to see new things. That's what makes the word of God so living, right? So my Bible is open to and I hope yours is open here to first Samuel chapter 30 first Samuel chapter 30 First Samuel chapter 30. We're gonna look at verses one through six. We're not gonna read the entire Passage, but I just want to focus on verses one through six And I titled it again a word to the discouraged a word to the discouraged I'm gonna read a verse started verse one It says didn't happen when David and his men came to zig lag on the third day That the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and on zig lag and had overthrown zig lag and burnt it with fire And they took captive the women and all who were in it both small and great without killing anyone and carried them off and went their way When David and his men came to the city behold it was burned with fire and their wives and their sons and their daughters have been taken captive Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep Now David's two wives had been kept and been taken captive a haenoham the Jesualitis and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite verse six more over David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him For all the people were embittered each one because of his sons and his daughters And here's we want to hang the text right here in verse six to be clause But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God But David strengthened himself in the Lord His God Again a word to the discouraged a word to the discouraged Let me give a little bit of background to this to this text David is on the run Okay, David is on the run. He's running from Saul. Saul has been had been trying to to kill him Ever since he had been Anointed as king. He made a couple of attempts on his life. Of course, Jonathan Came to his defense and spoke up for his friend And once Jonathan found out that his father's motives and his intent was to kill David Jonathan helped David escape and David is now on the run David is an exhausted man. David has been Going through if you will And one of the things we find out about David David is loyal Not perfect. We know that right but David is loyal. David is loyal sometimes to a fault Put him in a situation to where he has to prove his loyalty Yeah, he may do it in some unorthodox and some Some unorthodox and and unconventional ways We find here in verse in chapter 30. He's in ziklag What are you doing in ziklag? David Should be the question that every bible reader has. Well, he's on the run. Like I said, he's running. He's now He's now serving King akish The philistines what yeah Yeah, he's now partnered up with the philistines and the philistines are about to go to war Against israel wait a minute They're about to go to war and david is partnered with the philistines. Yeah Yeah, he did. Let's go to chapter 27 to give you some context and some background And then that way it can bring you up to speed and what we are um In chapter 30 is that all right chapter 27 Then david said to himself Now I 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 Y'all see this so so david is thinking like look I got to get out of here I might as well go to my enemies because those who are probably my friends Are treat me like my enemies. Let me shut up. Let me shut up. I I ain't mean to go there my fault lord My fault lord Put us in the text Why is he going to his enemies? running from people who's supposed to be his friends Because sometimes people betray you that you think are your friends and will try to kill you And you may think that they're your friends Especially those that you have not done anything to what did david do to saw answer nothing Nothing nothing at all But he's on the run He's on the run He says there is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the philistines Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of israel and I will escape from his hand And notice verse 2 so david arose and crossed over he and 600 men who were with him to akish the son of mayach king of gath And david lived with akish at gath He and his men each with his household even david with his two wives a hen o'am the jesrealitis and abigail the carmelitis Nabal's widow Now i was told saul that david had fled to gath so he no longer searched for him Then david said to akish if if now i have found favor in your site 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 don't forget ziklag chapter 30 That's where he lived ziklag is now destroyed and burnt down with fire But in chapter 27 verse 6, that's where he was given to live verse 6 So akish gave him ziklag that day therefore ziklag has belonged to the kings of juda to this day Okay, so you see that And so now he goes to war In battle verse 9 david attacked the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive And he took away the sheep the cattle the donkeys the camels and clothing then he returned and came to akish Now he's not killing israelites. These are these are other enemies. Okay, notice right here in verse In verse 8 now david and his men went up and raided the gurgashite the gursherites Excuse me and the gursites and the malachites For they were inhabitants of the land from ancient times as you come to sure even as far as the land of egypt So he attacks these people Disposes of them gets rid of them annihilates them verse 10 Now akish said where have you made a raid today? And david said against the nega of juda and against the nega of the germa lights And against the nega of the kenites David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring to gath saying otherwise They will tell about us saying so has david done and so has been his practice all the time He has lived in the country of the philistines So akish believed david notice this man is not proving his loyalty To a national enemy, but he's on the run And don't we find ourselves before we start clucking our tongues and shaking our head like david you tripping Uh, let's let me let me just look at you in your eyeballs for a second If we were honest When we are desperate, don't you don't we find ourselves doing things that we don't we normally wouldn't do in ideal circumstances Do you think david really wanted to do this? Do you think david really wanted to be on the run for his life? Do you think david wanted to partner with the ones that he at one time killed It's the same philistines that goliath is a part of it's this ken folk And we're gonna find out in just a minute So he's in a very he's in a very precarious situation, but he's desperate He's on the run for his life And he's doing things That he in ideal circumstances situation he would not do So let's not let's not get too trippy on on on david. All right Let's put ourselves in that same situation. What would you do? What would I do? Now we can say what we would do until we're in those situations. Isn't that what we always do I wouldn't do this. I wouldn't do that. Well, because we're not in that situation We're reading a story now. We're not a part of the story. We're just reading this and we're we're looking at a man's life Um and what he had gone through And what situations he was placed in and also out of desperation and fear put himself in But let's continue on He said so akish believed david saying he has surely made himself odious among his people israel notice He has akish believing that he's loyal to him and no longer loyal to israel He has surely made himself odious among his people israel Therefore he will become my servant forever in chapter 29 skip over one chapter Now the philistines gathered together all their armies to affect While the israelites were camping by the spring which is in jezreel and the lords of the philistines were proceeding Was proceeding on by hundreds and by thousands and david and his men were proceeding on in the rear with akish Then the commanders of the philistines said What are these hebrus doing here? And akish said to the commanders of the philistines is this not david the servant of saul the king of israel Who has been with me these days or rather these years? So notice this man has been with akish for a minute. It wasn't one night one night thing He says rather these years and i have found no fault in him from the day he deserted to this day But the commanders of the philistines were angry with him that is with akish And the commanders of the philistines said to him make the man go back That he may return to his place where you have assigned him and do not let him go down to battle with us Or in the battle he may become an adversary to us So they're like like look we will fight the israelites man. Look now come on king will take care of ken And it continues for what with for with what could this man make himself acceptable to his lord Would it not be with the heads of these men? Man, he'll he'll kill us verse five. It says is this not david Like when we got this man's memo, we got this man's rap sheet It is not david of whom they sing and the dancers saying saw that slainist thousands and david his tens thousands Like bro, you ain't read the israelite radio. You ain't listen to the israelite radio It's all on it's all on you know israelite spotify and and and all on you know, uh It was like you too, I mean everybody everybody spinning his uh his record The naked verse six called david and said to him as the lord lives you have been upright and you're going out And you're coming in with me and the army are pleasing in my sight If I have not found evil in you from the day of your coming to me to this day nevertheless nevertheless You are not pleasing in the sight of my lords now therefore return and go in peace That you may not displease the lords of the philistines david said to akish But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day when I came before you to this day that I may not go and fight Against the enemies of my lord the king. Do y'all see what david is doing? Wait y'all listen listen listen, I don't think y'all got this yet. I don't think y'all see this I don't I I don't think y'all see what is going on Listen, let me let you see me. I'll pay for a second listen David is right to die, right? But he's right to die For the wrong side, but he's desperate The kings generals or commanders Are telling the king. Hey man. He don't need to be going with us This dude is a warrior And when the block get hot he gonna flip and he gonna kill us And cut our heads off Don't bring him with us. Send him back to send him back to zig lag. Send him back, man Don't don't don't let him come with us. Now acres is going to david say hey man. Listen listen, bro You I don't have no issue with you. I don't have no problem with you, bro But I can't let you ride with us. I can't let you ride out I can't let you ride out with us. Why why why I can't go. I mean, what have I done? Did I do something wrong acres like nah dawg you ain't doing that wrong But when my man's they they they want to let you go They're telling me I can't let you go my military advisors won't let you go with me And david is trying to go but the king And his commanders the enemies of israel won't let him go to fight against his own people Y'all ain't getting it Y'all not getting it the king Who's the enemy of israel? And their commanders Are telling david he has to go home david wants to fight against his people to prove his loyalty But the king and the commanders won't let him go Do y'all not see the sovereignty of god in this Because that is exactly what it is ladies and gentlemen God's sovereignty is all throughout that text Do y'all see this David like man, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go like yeah, I know you're ready to go, but you can't go You you you sure I can you don't want me to go. No bro. You can't go. You can't go verse 10 Verse 10 Verse 9 for context it says but a cassette to david I know that you are pleasing in my sight like an angel of god this man This man is even talking religious to the to david. He knows david serves and worse of xiawei He says look bro. You like an angel of god. Nevertheless the commanders of the philistines have said He must not go up with us to the battle now Now then arise early in the morning With the servants of your lord Who have come with you and as soon as you have arisen early in the morning and have light depart I need you up at the crack of dawn need you to go I need you to go verse 11 So david arose early he and his men to depart in the morning to return to the land of the philistines And the philistines went up to jezreel now. We're in chapter 30. That's the background. That's the context Then it happened Then it happened what happened When david and his men When david and his men Came to ziklag on the third day That the amalekites had made a raid on the negef and on ziklag and had overthrown ziklag and burned it with fire And it took captive the women and all who were in it both small and great Without killing anyone And carried them off and went their way When david and his men came to the city behold it was burned with fire And their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive Then david and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep Now david's two wives had been taken captive in henowem the jezreelitis In abigale the widow of naebol the karmelite more over verse 6 david was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him For all the people were embittered each one because of his sons and his daughters But david in spite of what he is experiencing in spite of what he is going through in spite of him Uh people plotting and now wanting to take him out and kill him He encouraged himself the king james says But david encouraged himself and the lord his god and the lord His god there's four things. I want us to talk about in this text There's four number one. I want to talk about the devastation number two I want to talk about the distress number three I want to talk about the disgruntled And then number four I want to talk about the disposition Okay, those four things the devastation The distress the disgruntled and then lastly the disposition. Let's get into it Verse one through three. We're going to talk about the devastation verse one verse one Then it happened When's when david and his men came to zig lag on the third day that the malachite That made it right on the negative and on the zig lag and now overthrown zig lag and burned it with fire And when and it took captive all the women who were in it both small and great without killing anyone And carried them off and went their way when david and his men came to the city Behold it was burned with fire. They're seeing the destruction. They're seeing the devastation I mean, can you imagine Can you imagine returning home and you see the billows of smoke You you you see ash you you see What you used to see now destroyed and and and all you see is utter devastation I'm reminded of the of the tornadoes that came and and and this rip through Mississippi Leaving untold destruction for miles and miles and miles Away That's devastation untold devastation helpless devastation Imagine now you return home And your wives and your children and everything that you own Is is is gone. They're gone. You don't know if they're alive You don't know if they are well, you don't know what Condition or what welfare they are in what state of mind they are in And our minds go there we we we automatically go to the to the extreme we go to where they're dead Because all we see is destruction all we see is devastation all we see is rubble and so these men Return back home and what they had and what they consider was home all those years Is gone gone Some of you have been met with devastation Some of you have experienced devastation I'm pretty sure if this was a testimony service You can tell The class you can tell us What kind of devastating experiences you you may have had What you thought that you couldn't go on but by God's grace you're still here But this kind of devastation that these men are experiencing They didn't know what to do Just like when we experienced devastation when we experienced loss when we experienced destruction It puts us in a helpless place It puts us in a helpless situation And these are warriors by the way These are fighting men david david is a fighter. I'm pretty sure That if these men would have came And david And his 600 men that were with him were there They don't take care of business. It would have been no problem But isn't that what happens when the enemy comes he catches you when you're not around When you when you're doing something else He comes and causes and wreaks devastation and havoc and destruction in your life in your family Your business your relationship your church Things that nature You weren't expecting it You you were you were doing what you were supposed to do whatever But the enemy came When you weren't looking when you weren't around As he usually does Because remember that you know the strong man he must be bound up In order for his plunder and his proper to be to be plunder rather than taken The enemy can't can't come in and take somebody's goods unless he binds up the strong man and so The enemies come the amalekites that is they come They ravaged his city Take his wives and children and and the wives and children of his of his warriors their soldiers their men their fighting men Wipes them out takes away everything leaves nothing and then burns the city with fire as though Taking everything wasn't enough They leave nothing Absolutely nothing to survive off of Look at the text verse two The be the be clause of verse one they overthrew zig lag and burnt it with fire And they took captive the women and all who were in it both small and great Both small and great without killing anyone and carried them off and went their way When david and his men came to the city behold it was burned with fire And their wives and their sons and daughters had been taken captive Listen, I would not wish that on my worst enemy I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy To experience that kind of destruction And then it brings fear it brings helplessness as as I said before So we see the devastation here untold devastation Devastation that I'm pretty sure david never had imagined But now he's He has to come to grips with it And can I just say to you when situations like this happen in our life Don't act like it doesn't exist. Don't don't get into this this name and then claim it. I'm not receiving that No, you lost your job No, I know I'm not receiving I'm not receiving it. No, your house is gone No, he or she is gone. No, he or she is not coming back Except the devastation for what it is Don't try to don't listen. Don't try to nice it up. Don't try to distill it. Don't try to sweeten it up Don't try to pulper it up Excepted for what it is the text says that the city was overthrown and it was burned with fire And everything that they had was gone Call it what it is Don't be so delusional and act as though you and I cannot experience Situations like this god, you know god forbid, of course, I don't want to wish it on anybody But there are people right now that don't have anything Like I mentioned earlier these storm victims these tornado victims in mississippi and and and other parts of our country In kansas and other of what they call tornado alley It's all about god's grace a lot of us have not experienced the things that some of some others have experienced But you know what that tells us that tells us that god He tailor makes trials and situations to the individuals that he has equipped to deal with it Because some of us couldn't deal with that and the lord knows that and we need to thank him for that But it does not mean that we don't act as though that we can't care that we should not come alongside and help and support in any way we can Because that's what christians do Let alone human beings The call is stuff for what it is When you experience tragedy when you experience devastation in your life Don't try to shirk it off. Don't try to ignore it. Don't and let don't let nobody try to tell you Don't claim this don't claim that no call it what it is. No, you're gonna have to claim this Because god in this sovereignty allowed it to happen And he's the ultimate cause of everything that happens both good bad and ugly He's he's the ultimate cause nothing happens in this world Unless god sovereignly Causes it to happen. He still holds man responsible for his decisions for his choices, but ultimately nothing happens in this world absolutely nothing Unless unless god signs off on it and he approves it for his purpose for his purpose according to his will ultimately for his glory And for our good Whatever that is Whatever that is Nothing happens unless god sovereignly Causes it to happen But we're to come alongside our those who have been Experiencing these kinds of these kinds of devastations and so this is the first thing I want us to see In verses one to three the devastation David and his men Are experiencing a devastating situation A very devastating situation Helpless situation But the second thing I want us to see I want us to see the distress The distress verses four The five What did david do and his men do when they saw this verse four and five Then david and the people who were with them lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep The king james says until they had no more power to weep Now david's two wives had been taken captive ahinom the judge realitis and abigail the widow of naebol The karma light Do you see what these men did? Their response to devastation Was to weep and cry And it wasn't a cry it wasn't a quiet cry. They are hollowing. They are wailing They are moaning and groaning. They are weeping loudly Look at the text again verse four Then david and the people who were with him these men Lifted their voices and wept Until there was no strength in them to weep have you been there? Have you been there have you been there to where life has knocked you on your knees? To where all you can do is cry all you can do is fall on your face and utter grief and sadness I mean to the point to where you cry yourself to sleep I don't know if any of you have been there That you've cried yourself to sleep as you experienced that kind of loss that all you can do is cry Ladies and gentlemen Just in case you didn't see What kind of people these were? Let's look at verse four again Then david is david a woman or is he a man? I would assume he's a man Then david and all the and and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep These are men crying not women Pretty sure they were crying when they were taking captive and taking away But the text shows us the holy spirit is showing us in this text that these are men masculine men manly men Warrior men and they are crying like babies and I'm not saying that in a negative sense I'm saying that in a descriptive sense the text says that they Lifted their voices and wept till there was no strength in them to weep That's how broken they are this situation Took them to the point to where they couldn't cry anymore. They cried themselves out Remember that song from Lisa Lisa and called jam all cried out over you. You remember that? I know I'm going back all cried out These men are at their breaking point In their minds they've lost it all In their minds there's nothing else to live for in their minds Their legacy is gone in their minds because what they see Is utter devastation utter destruction that is what they see And so in their minds they're thinking what what I wish I was here. I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure these men wish they were there To defend their wives and their children because a real man would Real men protect women. Let me just put a pin in there for a second Real men protect women and children real men do not allow women and children to be harmed or abused or hurt Yeah real men fight For their families real men protect the weak and the innocent And the helpless and the defenseless. They don't let the enemy come and ravage And take advantage and overpower the weak and the defenseless Under their watch and under their care real men don't do that Real men will fight to the death for what has been entrusted to them That's true And the natural and it should be true In the ecclesiastical it should be true in the church of god You should not have women being abused and men sit idly by and do nothing about it That is weakness that is cowardice and that is a punk These men aren't punks these men Are in a helpless situation They wish they could have been there to protect their women and their children But they weren't But have they been there it had been war and had been smoking the city You can believe that But they're proven men they're proven warriors But the text shows us that these men Are crying so much that they have no more strength in them to cry And I am encouraged to know that these men are not by themselves Because we have the ultimate man We have the man of all men Jesus himself who in john chapter 11 verse 35 When his friend Lazarus died Although he knew he was going to raise him up But that didn't matter because That was his friend and he experienced the pain that his that his friends and and and families of Lazarus experiences were too and the text says that jesus wept Jesus wept Yeah, the son of god Shortest shortest verse in the entire scripture Entire bible jesus wept And he wouldn't just know one No, no, no, that's not how I look. No, he he is crying. He is weeping. He feels the pain Of his friend that's no longer there Although he knows although jesus knows he's going to do it That's the amazing thing Although jesus has the power he's still able to relate to those who feel powerless. Oh, thank you lord Although god has the power he's still able to relate to those who don't have power Yeah, that a preach because He is our great high priest And he's able to sympathize. He's able to feel what we feel Yeah Yeah This man the god man He's crying. He's weeping He's not just sitting there and standing there watching everybody else cry. I don't know what y'all crying about y'all nobody get him up I mean, I'm but I told him I get him up. I'm gonna get him up. No, no, no, no. No, that's not that's not our lord He's able to feel how we feel Psalm chapter six verse six Psalm six six Psalmist says I am weary with my sighing eat every night. I make my bed swim I dissolve my couch With my tears Some of y'all ain't been there Some of us have but some of y'all haven't some of y'all haven't been there to where your pillow is just soaking wet this this this is the kind of This is the kind of tears That you know when a person is going through I mean The pillow's wet. The face is just like they've been they've been baptized Hey, have you ever been laying next to your spouse or whatever and you can hear the tears Plop on the pillow. You have you I mean where it's so quiet I've heard it. I'm pretty sure my wife have heard it as well too And on all you can do is come and console them but notice This is how it says I dissolve my couch with my tears chapter 42 of psalm verse 3 He says my tears have been my food day and night My tears have been my food day and night Yes, yes Amen later saturday. Yeah, it's definitely heartbreaking Some of us have been there and that's why we can relate to others who have gone through But I want to share something with you um As we are in this study Because there's a blessing, you know, God gives us tears uh as as for a gift Don't don't don't ever think that when you are crying that that shows weakness It doesn't and it showed you in in john 1135 jesus himself. He cried. He wept He was weeping with those who were Who were experiencing the death of a friend the loved one Like Lazarus But there there's a there's a study. I want to share with you and um, it is titled. Let me go here Let's see let's go here and uh Look at it here. I wanted to read this this a portion of this article. I believe it's very helpful in in addressing what we're talking about uh today It's crying good for you It's crying good for you It's from the harvard health blog. It says from uh leo newhouse He says it's safe to say that 2020 gave us more than enough to cry about yet even prior to last year seems that we were crying fairly often Researchers note that on average american On average, excuse me american women cry 3.5 times each month while american men cry about 1.9 times Each month these figures may make some of us May take some of us by surprise, especially as our society has often looked at crying Particularly by men as a sign of weakness and lack of emotional stamina But here the benefits of of crying health benefits of crying as a phenomenon That is unique to humans crying as a natural response to a range of emotions from deep sadness and grief to extreme happiness and joy But it's crying good for your health The answer appears to be yes Medical benefits of crying have been known as far back as the classical era Thinkers and physicians of ancient Greece and Rome posited that tears work like a purgative Draining off and purifying us today's physiological thought It says largely concurs emphasizing the role of crying as a mechanism that allows us to release stress Excuse me psychological psychological Um thought uh mechanism that allows us to release stress and emotional pain Crying is an important safety valve largely because keeping difficult feelings inside What psychologists call repressive coping can be bad for our health Studies have linked repressive coping with a less resilient immune system cardiovascular disease and hypertension as well as with medical health conditions including stress anxiety and depression Crying has also been shown to increase attachment behavior Encouraging closeness empathy and support from friends and family And i'm just going to scroll down near the end he says As challenging as it may be the best way to handle difficult feelings including sadness and grief Is to embrace them it is important to allow yourself to cry if you feel like it Make sure to take the time to find a safe space to cry if you need to Many people associate crying during grief and depression When it can actually be a sign of healing teaching boys and young men that it's okay to cry May reduce negative health behaviors and help them have fuller lives if crying becomes overwhelming or uncontrollable See a doctor or mental health professional for evaluation and treatment. Just wanted to read that. I think that was very helpful because again These are some of the health benefits, but we see in scripture That god is going to put our tears in the bottle We know ultimately it won't be no more crying or pain, but that's when we are in In a new heaven and new earth in eternity But these men are experiencing Crying and they are devastated So devastated that they are without strength And that that's when you know ladies and gentlemen that that's when you know you have You're you're you're you're suffering you're you're going through a lot of loss and um and sadness So we see the devastation, right? We see the distress, but now we're going to look at the disgruntled the disgruntled. Let's go to Verse Verse four here the disgruntled Go back here the disgruntled verse six, excuse me verse six well, look at the at the a clause verse six Moreover verse six David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him for all the people weren't bitter Each one because of his sons and his daughters Disgrunted it. They're they're angry. They're mad They're they're pissed off They're blaming david for what happened It was a text says more over david was greatly distressed Because the people spoke of stoning him. Wait a minute. They were just crying and grieving Without any strength a minute ago now these 600 men Have you ever had 600 people pissed off at you? And not listen and not just 600 people but 600 people who can do something about it huh 600 fighting warrior men The odds are very bleak If you can say that 600 to one The text says that all of these men Are speaking are speaking about stoning this man. They're thinking that they're thinking about killing this man their leader And isn't that isn't that interesting? um When things go good The leader is cool Everybody loves the leader, but when things go bad and it can listen and it don't even have to be the leader's fault Oh You sorry so-and-so so-and-so Y'all I don't know why we follow you. No, I mean it's it's always when when things go bad when things tank Then people look at the leader As the problem and the leader is experiencing the same loss As those who are following them It's not like david His property and his people weren't taken. No, he lost His property he lost his family. So he thinking I mean His family's gone like the rest of them Why are they blaming him? Same is true at all the time. Listen people always blame those at the top It just comes with it comes with But these men These men Want to kill david? They want to kill them They're blaming him For something that listen he had nothing to do with He didn't cause this Not not in the ultimate sense. He didn't he didn't cause this He's experiencing the same destruction the same devastation the same distress That they are Excuse me, but they're not He's not flipping and turning on them But that's how folk are That's that's how folk are they're with you until things Don't go their way And then they're ready to take you out and take you down and blame you for everything Although you had nothing to do for what has happened And ladies and gentlemen, this is a part of leadership Everything is cool until it's not Everything is cool until it's not people were happy with moses when they were eating But then when they got tired of eating the same most stuff they started complaining They had no problem with the water until the water started running dry And then they started blaming moses when they killed moses And what did moses do moses and a cedar for these people? Yeah, this is this is why This is why If god calls us to be a leader We don't have the luxury to take things personal We don't now we deal with sin we deal with people holding people accountable But we don't we we don't have the luxury to respond the way Those who follow us respond Because we're called to a different level Called to a higher level to who much is given Much is required So notice what david didn't do david didn't get into an argument with these men Very smart move david very smart move He didn't get to argument with these men. He didn't he didn't you know, uh start tripping on them because they were tripping on him He basically is looking at these men Knowing that these men want to kill him Which brings us to the fourth point The disposition how did david respond How did he respond his disposition? Look at the b clause verse six But david encouraged or strengthened himself and the lord his god king james says but david encouraged himself and the lord his god He strengthened himself Ladies and gentlemen, can I can I just talk to you for a second? Can we can we camp out here for just a moment? If you don't mind There are going to be times in your life and in mine where People that we think Should be there to encourage us Won't be Won't be It can be your spouse God can have it to where they can't even encourage you. You're going to have to encourage yourself You're going to have to find your source Of encouragement yourself And it can't be in folk It can't be in things. It can't be in places. It must be in the person Of christ. It must be in god Because when all else fails And when the bottom falls and drops He is the only one that you and I can rely on and you and I can trust Because trials have a way of bringing the real you and I out This situation, although momentarily Brought these men to a place where they wanted to kill their leader Trials do that Trials do that Like the illustration of the teabag What's in our teabag is going to come out when we are in hot situations Cold situations what's in us will come out eventually Whatever that is And so we can't rely on people Yes, god has given us relationships But he never called relationships to be our god or be our idol And this is why when we get discouraged or when we get depressed we need to ask ourselves Did god promise me this Did he promise me that this person is going to always be here? Did he promise me that I'm going to always have this job? Did he promise me that I'm going to always have these children that's going to behave or oh Did he promise I'm going to have children at all? Did he did he promise me this? If he promised us he'd be found in his word Because all the promises are yes and amen If god makes a promise he will fulfill it, but it must be in accordance with his will ultimately in his word Because his word is his bond that is what we hold god to And this is why understanding and interpreting scripture is important because some things that we read ain't for us Yes, all things that we read are for our learning we can glean from it Just like this passage Can I find new testament text to show encouragement for the believer? Of course I can Of course I can read paul's epistles Read jesus He says in this life you will have tribulation but take courage. I have overcome the world so yes We can glean we can learn we can we can Take what we see in the lives of other people But we gotta be very careful what we claim And this is one of the reasons why I didn't I didn't go through the rest of this chapter because yes I could I could I could went down to and and brought you know five uh Or six points to this to this study and dealt with the divine direction When it when david asked for uh, uh Asked for him to bring the the uh lennon e father ebi a father And I could say okay, you know my my fifth point is the divine direction Because the urmin of theumen was was were were stones that were used to discern the will of god But we don't use ephods anymore We have his word. We had a spirit of god He gives us situations and circumstances that we can use to glean and to into discern but ultimately We don't have to have a fleece to discern what god is going to do or nothing like that However, however We need to understand this That although we can glean from this story I wouldn't I would be wrong to tell you it'd be a dereliction of my spiritual duty as a teacher of god's word And as a christian content creator If I were to read the story what david was told to go back and recover all and then tell you on this channel God told me to tell you To go and recover all that the enemy told Oh that the enemy stole and took from you. No, I can't do that Can't do that Now it could be for some But not for all But this right here All of us can relate to this All of us Can relate to this and understand When we go through these things Our attitude Our disposition By god's grace we need to pray Lord Help me to encourage myself In you Don't let me get my encouragement from my wife From my husband from my children from my job From my money from my looks Because all of these things you gave me On loan And you have a right to take What is rightly yours You have a right to take back whatever you're giving me So so never let me find my my ultimate encouragement In what you have given never let me never let me have that never let me find my ultimate encouragement and strength and stuff Or in people never Why because then that's idolatry Because what happens when you take it away lord then i'm going to walk away from you And then that shows me what's really in me Was not really him It was whatever he gave me so thank you sugar daddy for giving me this but now I don't want to be around you anymore because you took away whatever But it was never mine to own in the first place. I'm a steward. I'm a steward over everything I have everything So my encouragement must be in god and this is what david's this is what david's disposition is he can't respond And retaliate and get into a spit fight with these men He now has a turn his gaze and his disposition to the one that he knows has the answer To his situation into his problem and that is god So he encourages himself in the lord his god Can we honestly say that tonight When things go awry when things don't go our way Who do we ultimately find our encouragement in? Who do we ultimately find our encouragement in? And if we were honest, it's not always god How do I know that? How we respond How we act How we think What we do what we say the lack of communion the lack of Conversation with the lord We we act like jonah yeah Yeah, we act like jonah when when jonah had his had his shade Excuse me when jonah had the shade taken from him. Oh, he was mad He he was he was mad And then god asked jonah jonah, which are you mad? Yeah, I'm mad enough to die This is what jonah is saying jonah didn't plant this god gave it to him Because he didn't get what he wanted because what he had what was comfortable for him was taken away He was angry And all of us we always we have to examine our hearts. We had to check our hearts We had to check our hearts The the challenge for a lot of us is We know that if god were to take these things from us We wouldn't want to walk with him anymore Because that is our source of encouragement and that that is our That's our life David knew that these these things couldn't be his life That's why he had to make god his source of encouragement It's interesting also because There was a time Um, I believe in first samuel. Let's turn there for a second First samuel 23 There was a time when david was getting encouraged But then his encouragement He had to he had to leave and and jonathan saw son first samuel 23 verse 16 And jonathan saw son arose and went to david at horish and encouraged him in god Remember he's on the run and so David is getting encouraged He's being encouraged by his friend jonathan Their brothers and sisters ladies and gentlemen, there's gonna come a time when you're gonna have to encourage yourself I'm gonna have to encourage myself I'm gonna have to encourage myself. I can't I can't go to anybody I'm gonna have to go to god god is going to be my source of encouragement and I'm going to have to fight to stay encouraged Let's look at some other scriptures Uh, jenesis shall the 39 we look at uh date. Uh, excuse me um I'm gonna look at joseph's story just briefly jenesis 39 verse 2 the three Notice we all know what joseph went through right his own his own brothers tried to kill him through a minute pit sold him to ishmaelites But notice through all of this through all of this the text says The lord was with Joseph I had to remind my daughter now of that aka snoopy nose When she was going through her trial a year or so ago I said through all that through all the lying and in the in the conniving and people trying to set you up and all of that The lord was with you girl People calling you a racist people calling you this and and ain't nothing racist about that girl Had her be suspended from her job for a lie and and all of that reputation and name Try to be destroyed and and and maligned because she took a stand for for righteousness Took a stand for for godliness And and brothers and sisters because you take a stand for godliness does not mean that you're not going to be set up Does not mean you know you won't still lose your job Does mean that you're not going to lose things All that desire to live godly in christ jesus will suffer persecution in the bible says But the text says right here verse 2 the lord was with joseph The lord was with joseph verse 3 now his master saw that the lord was with him verse 21 verse 21 But the lord was with joseph That's in here for a reason ladies and gentlemen The lord was with joseph Let's look at the psalms psalm 27 Verse 13 and 14 Psalm is right So I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living Wait for the lord Be of a good courage verse verse 14 the king james says Wait on the lord be of a good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart That's a promise y'all Just wait That's what all of us need to do look lord teach me to wait And those when we pray that he's going to put us in in some waiting situations Because as we wait he strengthens us he teaches us more and more Dependency upon him not upon people upon him Acts chapter 7 verse 9 Luke records the story of joseph here the patriarchs became jealous of joseph and sold him into egypt yet God was with him In spite of all of that god god was with him through those trials and through those Times of testing as a young man He wasn't an old man joseph wasn't he was a young man teenager Hebrews 13 verse 5 make sure that your character is free from the love of money being content what you have for he himself Had said i will never desert you I will never leave the nor forsake the king james says That's good news ladies and gentlemen I know it is for me I know it is for me But let's go back to the text for just one second because i want you to see this I don't want to i don't want us to go over this too too quickly This one portion In first samuel 30 in verse 6 Notice the text said But david and he he encouraged or he strengthened himself notice in the lord here it is his god personal relationship with god Ladies and gentlemen Can you say that can I say that Is he your lord? Is he your god? Is he the one where you find ultimate strength and encouragement and peace? In and from when we go through these things I hope and pray that we do and oh by the way This only applies for those who are believers Those who are believers those of us Who derive our strength and things gonna fade We're gonna be the the parable of the soils We're not gonna be the good soil The rocky soil when when when tribulation and trials come we're gonna we're not gonna last we're not gonna endure But those that the sea was planted in the good soil is gonna produce a crop 30 some 60 some 100 fold they ain't gonna do with money as everything to do about growth and maturity fruit But I want to draw some application from this and then I'll let you all go There's two points of application I do have some scripture to attach to it, but there's two points number one Number one in light of all of this there's just some thoughts that I have Some some give you a spiritual doggie bag to go home with First thing I would I would encourage us to do was when we Go through these things that we rely on god We rely on god. That's the first thing rely on god Psalm 31 14 Psalm 31 in verse 14 But as for me I trust in you, oh lord, I say you are my god Verse 15 says my times are in your hand Chapter 40 verse 4 How blessed is the man who has made the lord his trust? How blessed is the man who has made the lord his trust? chapter 44 verse 6 For I would not trust in my bow nor will my sword save me Yeah, I'm 2a, but I trust in the one Who created all things What's the sense of having weapons if you if you can't If you can't use it Don't know how to use it. Don't have the ability to do it. Don't have the proficiency to do it. God gives us all of that Psalm 56 verse 3 When I am afraid I will trust in thee and god whose word or in god. I will praise his word In there says in god whose word I praise in god I have put my trust verse 4. I shall not be afraid. What can mere man do to me Psalm 91 verse 2 Psalm 91 verse 2 I will say to the lord my refuge and my fortress My god notice all personal ladies and gentlemen He's not talking about somebody else's god They was talking about him my god and whom I trust And whom I trust So that's the first thing Rely on god when when we find ourselves discouraged and we will when we face moments of discouragement Rely trust lean rest and god number two Number two When we find ourselves discouraged i'm trying to give us some practical some practical examples here Recall your song Recall your song and if you don't have your song then remix one and make it yours Make it yours Recall your song in other words Sing to yourself unto the lord Find a song It's amazing. It's amazing when we go through what music does to the soul And i'm not talking about just any come to my music That's going to build us up that's going to encourage us that's going to give us what we need Contrary to what some people may think listen, I love listening to the old winemates I mean Old winemates old fred old yolanda Old clark sisters, um, man Old andre crouch motor city mass mississippi mass uh, darryl coley Yeah, yeah, I can I can get with I can get with that. I mean those Contrary with what they thought theology may be the the music and the lyrics Um, if you if you have that because you know, I can't play in this stuff on youtube but, um The winemates when I when I want to listen to that, uh, the heart and soul album or their return album And what? Please I mean it just it just does something to the soul Recall your song recall it bring it to memory And start letting it feed your soul. Yes, brooklyn tabernacle absolutely Yes, ma'am, um So Recall your song Find find your song Find your song And encourage yourself Encourage yourself. Let's look at some scriptures um Psalm 28 and verse 7 Psalm 28 verse 7 The lord is my strength and my shield my heart trusts in him and I am helped Therefore my heart exalts and with my song I shall thank him Chapter 40 verse 3 He that is god put a new song in my mouth a song of praise to our god Chapter 98 verse 1 Oh sing to the lord a new song. Why? For he has done wonderful things For he has done wonderful things Huh 118 in verse 14 The lord is my strength And song And he has become my salvation And one more one more scripture. I want to read to you Because some of us don't think you should do this, but we you can't you can't you should when you find yourself going through talk to yourself Mm-hmm talk to yourself talk to yourself verse 5 David did verse 5 Why are you in despair? Oh my soul And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in god For I shall again praise him for the help of his presence Oh my god, my soul is in despair within me Therefore, I remember you from the land of the jordan And from the peaks of herman from mount missar Deep calls at the sound of your waterfalls and at your breakers and waves have rolled over me The lord would command his loving kindness in a daytime and his song will be with me in the night A prayer to the god of my life He is talking to himself y'all And to god but talking to himself. I will say to god my rock. Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go morning because of the oppression of my of the enemy? As the shattering of my bones my adversaries revive me why they say to me all day long. Where is your god? Why are you in despair? Oh my soul verse 11 again And why have you become disturbed within me? What's wrong with you? Hope in god. He's talking to himself Hope in god for I shall yet praise him the help of my countenance And my god ladies and gentlemen That's what we're called to do That's what we Have the ability to do We can by god's grace encourage ourselves In the lord and I pray I pray that when these times come that we recall these things to mind And always by his holy grace Draw from his fountain And he has enough for all of us to get to get a drink. He never is wrong. He never runs out And he charges us nothing because it's all I've been paid for at Calvary's fountain Amen A to the man. All right, so I'm done ladies and gentlemen I appreciate it. This one to share this with you all tonight um Please like subscribe and share the video. 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