 said before and let me just go ahead and put it on the screen when we look at the timeline that we're going through as a matter of fact let me move this over here you got you guys have no idea what I'm doing but I'm messing up so you can't see it thank God you can't see me messing up okay but as we look at the timeline you'll notice where we are you we are in first Samuel and in first Samuel we are take it is around the if I can move this out of my way so I can see myself first Samuel well let's go through chronological order we have Genesis exes numbers Josh Wood judges first and second Samuel this is where things start to get a little bit heavier this is where we start going more in-depth into some of the things that are drawing out now as I said before and let me just say this because some people don't get a chance to watch this because we are on Saturday mornings things might be happening so some of you guys who are typically not able to watch live on Saturday mornings but you can watch now happy to have you here but a couple things that we're doing one as we're going we cannot talk about what is yet to happen in other words we can't talk about what's gonna happen in second Samuel although there's a lot that's gonna be important in second Sam we can't talk about what happens in Jeremiah or Malachi we can't talk about anything in the New Testament we don't even know the name Jesus does for all we are doing is placing ourselves in the same place that the writers and the characters that are being spoken to we're placing ourselves in the same place they are the reason why is we don't we want to have kind of a similar understanding a similar view how do you divorce yourself from any preconceived notions how do you divorce yourself from what your pastor your preacher grandma whoever may have taught you or read to you how do you do how do you eliminate what you heard in the past well the only way to do so is just to ignore those things about now it doesn't mean that what you know is incorrect I mean that but so that you don't read into because I don't care who you are I don't care how how much fidelity you have to the scriptures it is hard it's difficult not to read into the scriptures what you already know so when we read what's happening in in Matthew Mark Luke and John before Jesus gets on the cross we have we it's hard to not read into not knowing or not know or think about him overcoming the cross it's hard to not think about the coming Holy Spirit as a result problem is sometimes we also read into when we know it's gonna happen we also read into it our doctrines our theological statements and so forth and so we want to kind of get away from that we've had some people and this is true from the beginning who did not initially believe that Jesus was God they came in and thought that you know Jesus is not God there's no Trinity and so forth and of course we have not used the Trinity the term Trinity in this study there's no need to we don't have to use the Trinity in order to find the truth but we've gone through scriptures and we've keep seeing these nuggets being dropped where we see this person shows up who was being called God they call them God even when God is telling the story to Moses to tell us he's calling him God and so therefore what we're doing is we're eliminating this corner of Baptist this corner of Methodist these Calvinists these Armenians these dispensations and all we're doing is just going up the scriptures and we're and what we are doing is even though people object to it no one is objected just yet because we are doing we are going with a plain reading because guess what that's how we tend to read 99% of what you're going to read is going to watch us at 99 most what you're going to read you're going to use a plain reading and we haven't told you that you had to do that but it's just kind of how it works out okay so that being the case we are in first senior we're going a little slower in some of the areas because there's some things that are going to get pulled out some things that we're spoken of previously and you're going to see how they're going to start kind of coming together hey ma'am so that being the case remember what we said what is as we've said before what is can anyone tell me Matt let me put on the screen what is rule number one we've got one rule what is and I'm just I'm hoping that everyone gets because then the reason why this is important because this is our guide from Genesis all the way through what we learn is we learn about God's character we see how he operates we see what he does and God's character God's traits his attributes do not change absolutely right above all else God is sovereign thank you monkey moves thank you TT thank you spider monkey above all else God is sovereign and so what does that mean he is the one that's in control not us we're not sovereign what does that mean in a nutshell how do we say it he can do what he wants when he wants to whom every once just cuz he wants now he has more of a reason than just that but he didn't tell us everything he didn't give us all of his reasons all his rationales all we know is he is sovereign he alone is sovereign sometimes we forget that just like he is sometimes kids forget who the parent is sometimes we forget that God alone is sovereign amen so that being the case God has made some things plain to us and as we read the scriptures sometimes we forget sometimes we forget what God has said so because of that we're going to look at some of the things that God has said so let's go ahead and jump back into first Samuel we'll recap a little bit of what we talked about on last week regarding first Samuel some of the passengers in first Samuel we go to first Samuel 18 and here we have Jonathan and David now came back to 18 verse one when he had finished speaking to Saul that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David and Jonathan loved him as himself do not let anyone tell you that this has anything to do with some sort of because that's how the world is going today the world is so wacky that they'll twist this into being some sort of almost homosexual type relationship where Jonathan and David no this they love each other like brothers how many of you males have brothers that you love and so this is all this is this is it some people it's amazing how people can take something and go so far left with it that's not what this is but Jonathan and David loved each other Saul took him that day and did not let him return to his father's house then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David with his armor including his sword and his bow and his belt so David went out wherever Saul sent him and prospered now there's a little bit of a theme that's woven in here that you're going to keep seeing and it is important and it was pleasing in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul so everyone could see this they could see something about David it's almost like they could say yeah this boy's got something the boy's going somewhere they could see it on continuing verse six now what happened is they were coming when David returned from from killing the Philistine that the women came out of all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet Saul with tambourines with joy and musical instruments how many problems have been because between two men have been because of women well here's where it's starting it's not not where it's starting but we're gonna see why Saul hates David and we talked about Saul's character on last week there were three things that we talked about Saul about we talked about one we noticed that Saul is insecure well all of us are insecure to some degree there's not a human being on the planet that is not insecure to some degree all of us are Saul even more so he's insecure he's also impatient we looked at that on last week he is certainly impatient we too at some point in time have been impatient but him more so as a matter of fact that caused a big problem we'll go back and look at that again as well and then also because you're insecure and you're impatient what does it do it causes you to act ignorantly it causes you to act foolish it causes you to be a fool to be an idiot and so that's the thing that happens with with excuse me with Saul so going back to it the women saying as they played and said Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands then Saul became very angry for this saying this pleased him and he said they have ascribed to David ten thousand but to me they have ascribed to they have ascribed thousands now what more can he have but the kingdom Saul looked at David with suspicion from that day on so now everyone everyone um notices what David did remember Saul you didn't go out and kill the Philistine David did and so David has been victorious in battle but no one is no one is faulting Saul remember the only person that knows that the kingdom is going to be ripped from Saul's hands thus far is Saul and Samuel I'm sorry also David and as well as Jesse but the people don't know Saul is the king as a matter of fact Saul ruled as king for quite a long time and so he is because of his insecurities he didn't like the fact of what was told to him by Samuel but even more so now the women the people not just the people but even the women are singing this song and the song bothered him and so verse 10 now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from God here we go an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul and he raved in the midst of the house while David was playing the harp with his hand as usual and a spirit was in Saul's hand now before we continue we talked about on this one last week so if so if you want to catch up on what we talked about about this the spirit guys this spirit literally does come from God now what we're not totally sure of is this a demonic spirit or is this the spirit of the Lord coming upon him and causing him to have bad thoughts the Bible doesn't say all we can all we can ascertain from this is that this evil spirit is from the Lord okay that that's all we can uh well yeah uh we see spirit uh Elohim Ra so now the in the Hebrew construct we can figure out that this is from uh or of the Lord and so that's why it'll say in your in your verses evil spirit came from the Lord because of this what we call this Hebrew construct that is of the Lord well it's hard to make the case it'd be kind of hard well i'll take it back no it wouldn't let me let me not misspeak it's not hard to make the case that this is a demonic spirit but again this says this is a spirit of Elohim wicked or evil okay let me put it back on the screen so you can y'all see that this is this word right here Ruach obviously this is he this is the word for spirit Elohim that's God and then Ra'a so Ruach Elohim Ra'a which is this Hebrew construct so you would just throw in of in there and so that's likely what this is and so what we have happening is God is doing this God is doing this now we're going to deal with the question as to why God is doing this and i said before one of the rules that we have is that we don't go to anything unless we earn it but now i want to just we earned it on last week um we talked about on last week i want to do something that we never that we really don't do a lot and that is jump ahead but i want to jump ahead because this is kind of in keeping so that no one can think that well no god just sent a demon to do it it could have been he it could have been that he sent a demon or it could have been that that he sent the spirit or the spirit overpowered him to give him this this these evil thoughts this bad feeling but this isn't keeping with who god is let's go let's jump forward let's let's put a time on let's let's pause time yeah i'm breaking the rules i'm sergeant a i've got to break the rules but let's pause the time and let's jump ahead this is in romans nine you also you know the pastor i'm going to this is verse 18 he says so then he has mercy on whom he desires and he hardens whom he desires okay god we should understand can do what he wants if he wants to harden the heart if he wants to send a distressing or a evil spirit to someone he can do so if he wants to send a calming spirit on if he wants to put the spirit upon someone who is not a godly person can the spirit of god come upon an ungodly person sure god can and oh by the way he has done so so i just want i want to make it abundantly clear and that's the reason why we stated early on that above all else rule number one above all else god is sovereign that's why it's important above all else god is sovereign and so whatever he desires to do for the benefit of his glory and to accomplish his good purpose not yours not mine not if we got together and holy hell and decided what we want to do no he's not consulting us we go to him and ask him what's going on and he may or may not share with us okay uh here's a question did sol already have evil in his heart much like pharaoh and hardening of his heart well i don't to what degree now obviously sol's a man sol's a human being sol had his own proclivities sol had his own characteristics that part is true but wouldn't we say that that that god hardened pharaoh's heart and that otherwise in his own it's because pharaoh pharaoh had already hardened his heart well that said that that would be to diminish the role that god had in hardening his heart to say that well god made god made this person ugly but he was already ugly or god made this person mad but he was already mad or god made this person happy but he was already happy no if god does some if the bible says god did something well then that means that god is either doing it from the beginning from the outset that he's the cause of it or even more so so we see with pharaoh yes pharaoh's inclination was not to let them go but in the beginning pharaoh wanted to let him go and then what did god say he's going to do i'm going to harden your heart so he tells moses that yes uh you're going to do these things and then rather than rather than pharaoh relenting god steps in and hardens his heart even more so so there would have been times where pharaoh would have let them go and then even after he lets him go what does god do harden his heart some more to cause him to go after them why because god said he wants to utterly destroy them and so that's what else so in this case did saw have some issues towards david well sure i mean again he's an insecure person a jealous person uh and so he would probably prone to not like david if david is getting too much shine than saw was getting uh but the bible says that the spirit left him and went to david and then what did god do replace it with a distressing or or an evil spirit so even more so and so now he it causes look what it says that it caused him let's go back to it uh it caused him says he raved in the midst of the house so he was having a conniption he was having a fit he was just so this this this was a distressing um spirit much like we'd see would never connexer who listen it was not his desire to go out and eat eat grass in the field it was not his desire to go out and graze but that was gods do it amen so continuing so saw was so saw was was uh going crazy in the house david was playing a harp the reason why david said playing the harp in the first place the reason why david was brought there in the first place because when the when the kingdom was taken from him we'll go back to it a little bit and this spirit comes upon him what has got what does god do it why does god send this distressing spirit on him to bring david in to play the harp to soothe him and so what is he doing now he's keeping david around as well so now this time though um a spear was in saw's hand you don't really want a weapon in the hands of a lunatic but as we have here so saw hurled the spear for he thought i will pin david to the wall but david escaped from his presence now saw was afraid of david for and i want you to notice when we see this for the lord was with him but he departed from saw so david leaves his presence but the lord is with david and for me it takes me back to genesis when joseph is thrown in the dungeon and we keep reading as joseph is there in potterford's house and then even in the the bottom of the jail what's the thing that we keep seeing but the lord was with him and so here we see the lord is with david by the way won't cover this too much like we did last week but even to state that the lord can be with you today and not be with you tomorrow the spirit can be upon you today and leave you tomorrow just as we saw with other people with with uh saw we saw it with samson and so this is possible this is not like what we're going to see later on later on win kory well i can't tell you because we haven't earned that so therefore saw removed him from his presence and he appointed him as commander of a thousand and he went out and came in before the people so get away from me david uh and so he appointed him to be commander of his armies david was was prospering all his ways for the lord was with him the lord was with him the lord was with that remember that when the when saw saw that he was prospering greatly he dreaded him now even more so when people who want something as a matter of fact this is just a good rule of thumb in life there are people there are people uh matter of fact by the way guys do the favor and i i want to make sure i remember to say this that if you do have a question put a q or question but make sure it's it's regarding what we're covering okay don't go to the new testament we're not talking about uh anything but this amen but um when someone is insecure and there are a lot of people today who are insecure because people don't know how to cope people have not been told no and so when you show up and you have no designs on what they have you are not really all that concerned about them you're going to have people that are going to have designs on you to tear you down and break you down and even more so if they see that god is blessing you think about the story we talked about it on last week because we had to so that yeah last week not because um well we met have met we actually jumped forward last week talking about king aga and his his descendants which is going to be Heyman and Esther uh but the more that Heyman noticed that uh Mordecai was prospering or in perfect peace and that the lord was with him it bothered him all the more when people see that you are in with the lord and that god is prospering you either physically financially uh certainly spiritually you having a godly smile on your face bothers a lot of people as a matter of fact let me just say this and then we'll move on let me just give you guys a billion dollar tip it'll save you a whole lot of headache when you're in the lord and you're smiling you just noticed make sure you notice the people who frown because you're smiling and you're in the lord those are people you want to make a note of not not throw away but make sure make sure you learn how to distance yourself from those people anyone that cannot be happy at your spiritual growth is a person that you need to stay away from Heyman and this is what's happening with Saul he does not like what what god is doing with David and again he understands who David is he knows uh what god is doing with David remember the bible says that this is a person that god has chosen unlike Saul being chosen so all of Israel and all of Judah love Davis then Saul said to David here is my older daughter Mirab I will give her to you as wife only be a valiant man for me and fight the lord's battle for Saul thought my hand shall not be against him but let the hand of the Philistines be against him what he's saying is because I I've now made him commander of over mine of my people of my armies I'm gonna put him out there on the battlefield and I'm gonna put him where it's thickest I'm gonna put him where it's dangerous and then let the Philistines kill them that's the goal and so that's that's his plan but David said verse 18 uh who am I and what is my life or my father's family in Israel that I should be the king's son-in-law he's he's he's pretty humble at the time so it came about at the time when Mirab Saul's daughter should have been given to David that she was given to Adriel uh the mehalothite for a wife don't ask me to say that name again the mehalothite for a wife who was this guy nobody all that important verse 20 though now michael Saul's daughter loved David well of course she did everybody else did when they told Saul the thing was agreeable to him Saul thought I will give her to him that she may become a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him so he thought that if the Philistines don't get them then she could also help to be a snare on his side uh therefore Saul said to David for a second time you may be my son-in-law today for a second time Z clearly a man of his word right then Saul commanded his servants speak to David secretly saying behold the king delights in you and all his servants love you now therefore become become the king's son-in-law so Saul's servants spoke these words to David but David said is it trivial in your sight to become the king's son-in-law since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed again he said he's lightly esteemed think I want you to think about the humility there think about the he knows he was literally anointed by Samuel he knows what that that God has chosen him he hears what the people are saying he got he gained victory for Israel by killing the Philistine giant and in going off to battle and killing more but he says I'm it's just poor little mean lightly esteemed okay uh the service of Saul reported to him according to the words which David spoke then Saul said in thus she said to David the king does not desire a dowry except 104 skins of Philistines to take advantage I'm going to take vengeance on the king's enemies by the way that's gross 104 skins of now the Philistines they were fighters so don't just kill them you got to get up close and personal to kill them and sort of bring them uh the four skins of these Philistines does Jacob prophesy into uh about him being ravenous well no not really now because to say that he'd be only benjaminite who is who is crazy that you know it might it might it might I wouldn't say that that is totally off the table um we are going to look at later on we are going to look at the prophecies of all of the children of Israel that he prophesied for I don't think that this necessarily is it for uh for benjamin because and by the way we're going to go to that point just a little bit because Saul is from the tribe of benjamin we will come to that though we will come a little bit to that and we will talk about all of the other tribes how Jacob's uh prophecies played out so Saul really wants David up close and personal so that he can be killed now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines verse 26 when his servants told David these words it please David to become the king's son-in-law before the days had expired David rose up and went he and his men and struck down 200 men among the Philistines and David brought their four skins and they gave them in full number to the king that he might become the king's son-in-law so he goes out quick that that's all I got to do is kill a bunch of them and therefore okay fine fine now me I would have if I were David I'm killing them and having someone else do the four skin stuff that's just that's just me but again different time different place so when Saul saw and knew here it is knew that the lord was with David and that Michael Saul's daughter loved him then Saul was even more afraid of David thus Saul was David's enemy continually so now David is hated by Saul because Saul recognizes that David is someone that God has his hand on we talked about before that the bible says that David is a man after God's own heart not to mean that David has God's heart he has a heart like God that's not what that meant that means to say that David is someone that was chosen by God why do we know that that's what this means we're gonna talk about that just a little bit we're gonna like start wrapping some things up some of the things we've already we've already connected some of these dots before but for some people they may not have heard this so we're gonna see how all this stuff is played out and why it's important that we see what was said in Genesis in Exodus Leviticus Numbers and so forth how that all plays right into Matthew Mark Luke and John how that all plays into Ephesians how that plays in the 1st and 2nd Corinthians how that plays in the 1st and 2nd Thessalonians how that plays in the revelation how all this stuff didn't just pop up you know what let me just write a book and fill in the pages no God is doing something remember the the the characteristics that we have that that God has communicable and incommunicable attributes and his incommunicable attributes those are attributes that he does not share or communicate with us those are attributes such as he's omnipotent all powerful he's omniscient all knowing in the other one what we say he is everywhere omnipresent meaning he's everywhere at the same time now what does that mean that means that he's not only in in texas while at the same time is in california while at the same time he's in canada while at the same time his presence is in Ethiopia while at the same time his presence believe it or not is in israel and Gaza his presence in china oh by the way while his presence is here all these places everywhere his presence is also everywhere in the past present as well as future so when god is telling us these things understand that when god says something he didn't have to cloak it he didn't have to have you spiritualize what he's saying he didn't have to have you to read into what he's saying he didn't have you try to figure it out when he says what he's going to do then he's going to do what he says again he's not and i want us to get that into our head god when he promises what's the result yes and amen it's not huh god i thought well god did you change your mind he is the same yesterday today forever he does not change his mind he does not change period amen so going back to it uh then the commanders of the philistines went out to battle and it happened as often as they went out that david behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of saw so his name was highly esteemed interesting because he said that he was lightly esteemed so now verse verse one of chapter 19 now saul told jonathan his son and all his servants to put david to death but jonathan saw son greatly delighted in david because remember he loves david as a matter of fact let me pull something up he loves david and so you get the picture not only did he love david but he was certainly he felt as though david was far more honorable and we're gonna see this that he was far more honorable than his own father we're gonna see that matter of fact all throughout if growing up this is not a shock to him to see how his father's behaved and so uh going back to chapter 19 let's go to verse one uh but jonathan saw son greatly delighted in david so jonathan told david saying saw my father is seeking to put you to death now therefore please be on guard in the morning and stay in a secret place and hide yourself i will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are and i will speak with my father about you and if i find out anything then i will tell you then jonathan spoke well of david to saw his father to him do not let the king sin against his servant david since he has not sinned against you and since his deeds have been very beneficial to you in other words jonathan saying don't do this wrong thing plus he has benefited you why in the world would you cut off your nose despite your face don't do that and so what is saw's response verse five for he took his life in his i'm sorry uh yeah verse five for he took his life in his hand and struck the philistine and the lord brought about a great deliverance for all of israel you saw it and rejoice he just reminded him even you were happy you saw it and rejoice uh why then will you sin against innocent blood by putting david to death without a cause saw listen to the voice of jonathan and saw vows as the lord lives he shall not be put to death huh as the lord lives so now you're gonna make a vow if you're gonna bring the you're gonna invoke the lord's name as the lord lives i swear to god i promise to god cross my cross my heart hope to die stick a needle in my that's really what he's saying even with any more with more uh force are the philistines the same as the palestinians uh no i wouldn't say that then again i don't know i don't know you'd have to get some sort of anthropologist some sort of some some uh scientist to figure out i have no idea nor do they just like we don't know who all um are actual um biological genetic jews we there's no way to know there there is no way to know they they've been hooking up with each other for thousands of years just like we have to so uh verse seven so jonathan then jonathan called david and jonathan told him all these words and jonathan brought david to saw and he was in his presence as formally huh not for long though verse eight when there was war again david went out and fought against the philistines and defeated them with a great slaughter so that they fled before him now there was an evil spirit from the lord on saw as he was sitting in the house so the evil spirits back and david was playing the harp with his hand saw tried to pin david to the wall with the spirit but slipped away out of saw's presence so that he struck the spirit to the wall and david fled and escaped so again david when you see saw with the spirit just leave then saw sent messages to david's house to uh to watch him in order to put him to death in the morning but michael david's wife told him saying if you do not save your life tonight tomorrow you will be put to death so michael let david down through a window and he went out and fled and escaped michael took the household idol and laid it on the bed so she covered it took the idol now what is this household idol we don't know we we have no idea what the household idol is is so is this something that is ungodly don't know because the the term idol doesn't necessarily always refer to i don't know some some foreign gods idol okay so i don't want i don't want and now could it could but i doubt it i doubt it and the bible doesn't say so so anyway so she covers up the this little figurine up it's probably all it was just a figurine she covers it up puts some hair and whatever wraps around it clothes around it to to fool people but her father later on comes and finds out that she is lying and so he says to her so saw says michael why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go so that he has escaped and michael said to saw he said to me let me go why should i put you to death well david never said that so his wife is lying but she's trying to protect her but she's also trying to protect her husband now david fled and escaped and came to samuel at rama and told him all that saw had done to him and he and samuel went and stayed in nile and it was told to saw saying behold david is in nile in rama then saw sent messages to take david but when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying with samuel standing and presiding over them the spirit of god came upon the messengers of saw and they also prophesied so what happens saw says and listen this term for messengers this term for messengers um that's where we get the word malak which is where we get the term for angel i mentioned this only because we've covered this before to show you that there are times where the term angel or messenger is used and it's not referring to actual to actual angels you know little beach of your babies with wings and harps those kind of the stereotypical angel so he sends his men after them he's there david is there with with saw and the prophets and so what does saw's men do they begin prophesying why because the spirit of the lord comes upon them as the bible says that the spirit of god came upon the messengers of saw and they prophesied so anyone to whom the spirit of the lord comes upon god can cause that person to start prophesying what sort of prophesying were they doing were they saying in five years in five weeks thus said the lord the lord told me that someone has a bad back the lord told me that you're going to be blessed no that's not what they're doing they're just giving a revelation of god now what was the exact revelation don't know we don't know exactly what the revelation was so therefore we can't we can't really read into it what it is but again most revelation most prophets in the bible is of a fourth telling and not a fourth telling and so we would just go with what the natural prophecy is all right so that being the case let me read this oh divine creations that would be Leviticus 1711 so continuing when it was told saw he sent other messengers and they also prophesied so saw sent messengers again the third time and they prophesied so he keeps sending messengers and the messengers that he sends the spirit of the lord comes upon them and they prophesy amen then and this is where we're going to start going back and looking back at what has been happening in the past verse 23 he proceeded there to naoth in rama and the spirit of god came upon him this is all so so that he went along prophesying continually until he came to naoth in rama he also this is all he also stripped off his clothes and he too prophesied before sanio and laid down naked all that day and all that night therefore they say is saw also among the prophets why is it important because this was prophesied before this is the second time that saw did this remember let's go back to first sanio 10 6 this is when saw has been chosen and sanio was told that he's going to do this on 10 6 chapter 10 verse 6 then the spirit of the lord he says will come upon you mightily and you shall prophesy with them and be changed now as he's leaving it happens verse 10 I'm sorry then it happened as he turned back to leave sanio God changed his heart that is saw and all those signs came about on that day when they came to the hill their beholden prophets met him and the spirit of God came upon him mightily so that he prophesied among them and it came about when all who knew him previously saw that he prophesied now with the prophets what do they say what has happened to the son of kish is saw also among the prophets so his prophecy is going to happen and so it's almost like what's the word it's almost kind of like mocking and making fun and picking at saw saw you're supposed to be remember what you did saw when it first happened now you're prophesying again the difference is this was before prior to you becoming king now this is going to be prior to david becoming king and it's going to kind of look it's not a good look for saw and people are going to remember this saw remember the spirit of the lord came upon you and you prophesied now notice though the spirit of the lord came upon him in chapter 18 i'm sorry 19 and saw prophesied so what's happening we see the spirit of God coming upon him to have him prophesied we see the spirit of God coming upon him bringing an evil spirit upon him again above all else god is sovereign why is god doing these things that's the question that i want to ask before you guys that i put before you on the floor why is god doing these things very important god is not just having saw to be made a complete fool of himself god is not just doing this just so you can see that hey i'm god god knows he's god god is comfortable enough in himself to show or to know that i don't have to prove that i'm god the only people that are trying to prove something to you are people who are unsure of it themselves god didn't have to prove anything so when god does something he's not showing something to show that he's god he's doing it if it's furthering his plan if as far as if it's going to bring about his glory so why is god doing all of this well do you want to back up a little bit guys i want us to back up a little bit because we're coming to an end but i want you all to see this some of you guys saw a little bit of this on last week or the week before some of you all haven't seen this we're going to cover some more stuff but why does god do this well let's think about this and i want to point out something that we don't really cover a lot matter of fact i haven't covered this a lot i i made a slight mention a glancing mention about this but i want to show you something let's go all the way back let's go back to genesis chapter three now we've covered this passage before we've covered genesis 3 15 uh a lot but i want to cover something else about genesis 3 15 that we don't talk about a lot and i want to show you this titi says show us he says remember he's got adam and eve and the serpent lined up this is a weird lineup isn't it adam eve and the serpent all three of you in trouble one of you in more trouble than the other notice what he says and i will put emity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed he shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel now i don't know if you caught that tell me if you caught that not what we've covered before but something that we kind of made slight mention to and this pertains to what god is doing this is pertaining to what god is doing again all those words that are written in your bible they're there for a reason this is why is godly important to make sure we read it and take it for what it says let's go back to it there's one little small word one small word that we ought to really focus on let's find it let me let me find it in the Hebrew matter of fact let me let me highlight it in the Hebrew put a yellow mark on it y'all see that mark right there that is the Hebrew word for who who does anybody know what who in Hebrew means i know layman seminary is probably in the chats if he's still in chats he knows so layman you can't say what the answer is but does anybody know what who in Hebrew means who this Hebrew word is the whole point of why we are here in 1st Samuel 16 17 18 19 20 this is the whole point of why we are here that is so right spider monkey uh by uh dutch also he it means he now in Hebrew you don't have to put the he there you do not have to put uh the the he there the reason why you have the he though is to get to gain extra emphasis and so in this case the he is for a specific reason who in the world is the he we don't know who this he is now we're not there yet obviously we've got a bible we can open our bible and keep turning the pages we can go to Galatians 3 16 and see who the he is but i want you all to see what's happening so as we go from Genesis 3 he or in this phase to Hebrew who is important i understand i don't want you to think of the who in english but you know what fine who in english refers to the who in Hebrew which refers to literally he in english are you with me i know it sounds confusing but this he is mightily important and how he god is going to bring the who that is he to fruition what is the goal what is the plan what is he trying to do he is trying to glorify that who who he he's trying to grow glorify him that is jesus what do i mean by that well he says that he shall bruise you on the head how is that going to happen i said before that we don't want to get ahead of ourselves we don't want to go somewhere we haven't earned it but we are going to do it today how is he going to bruise his head well he is going to defeat the enemy in one final fail swoop at the end where he kicks him out of this world and throws him where the temperature is pretty hot in the lake of fire and also he's going to throw in there all of his luggage ever seen somebody get put out of the house and all their luggage tossed out with them too well in this case so what happened with the serpent he'll get kicked out and so too will all of his luggage namely death also now before we go to that though i don't want to go too far let's stay in genesis and let's go to genesis chapter 12 why is that important because it's still all about he the who now the lord said to arum go forth from your country and from your relatives and from your father's house to a language i will show you and i will make you a great nation and i will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing and i will bless those who bless you and all those and the ones who curse you i will curse and all the families of the earth will be blessed all of the families of the earth will be blessed not everybody not every single chinese person not every single japanese person not every single american not every single pygmy although that would be nice if every single pygmy made it in just be interesting keep it keep it light and interesting so we're going to have some tall people and some pygmies but not everybody's going to make it in but every single family is going to be blessed as a result of who he the one that is in highlight in genesis three now why is it important well remember the reason why we even have children of israel and why they are in this land is there was some things that happened that transpired there's something that transpired before israel has some wealth israel is in a land how did israel get in that land well they were in slavery so let's drop it back because remember there was a boy who had a dream he had a dream and told it to his brothers and his brothers were jealous and they got rid of him and so he finds himself in slavery i'm sorry being sold in slavery in Asia at the very end when things when they're being reconciled and jacob is getting ready to die and he's blessing his kids kind of like what roshan was asking about i say i said we're going to go to that a little bit so let's go to genesis and let's go to 49 there's a promise that's made remember israel chose for themselves a king but it's not as though god was caught off guard god tells samuel it's not as though they have rejected you but they have rejected me they wanted a king like every other nation fine god says because again god is one of his attributes one of the incommunicable attributes god is omnipresent not just everywhere at the same time but every time at the same time and so therefore when they make this statement when they make the audacious demand that we want a king like every other nation fine you shall have a king and then i shall have a king and then i will even do better than that king and have another king but now this king must come from a certain lineage and so in genesis 49 10 the bible says this prophecy that jacob gives the scepter shall not depart judo again we've talked about before what scepter since there is no kingdom well the king and the kingdom that these jews want to have like them that will rule the people that god has planned or promised Abraham to have in the land that god said as a matter of fact before we go then let's go back to genesis 12 implicit in this he says and i will make you a great nation well what do you need to have a great nation you got to have people problem is Abraham you don't have any kids you also need you also need land i'm going to give you this land he's telling about the land and i'm going to give you this kingdom this rulership well it looks like that's what we're going to get with joseph not joseph with uh sol problem is sol is from the tribe of benjamin what does the prophecy say the prophecy says that the scepter shall not depart from judo not from benjamin but who is david from david is from the tribe of judo so here we have this prophecy coming to fruition and notice what he says the scepter should not depart from judo nor the rulers staff from between his feet until silo comes and to him shall be the obedience of the people what's happening where are they by the way they are they are in silo they're in this area of silo by the way you can't go and visit silo now silo is not what silo is not what it used to be silo is like gary indiana gary indiana used to be something now it's not i would say the same thing there's there's some other major cities that aren't like they used to be i don't want to say those cities because somebody might get upset with me but this silo is very important um because what's happening now but also what we need to remember is what's happening in verse 11 not just 10 he says he ties his fold to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine he washes his garments in wine and his robes in the blood of graves remember what is jesus that he that was speaking of what is he going to be doing this also referring to is piggybacking on what jesus is going to do about coming in in this glorious his triumphal entry on the back of a colt now remember god doesn't just say what he says just to be saying it there is a purpose there's a reason for what he's doing uh as will says because he's keeping his promises amen and we think that his we think that his promises or his prophecies are special and they are they are but to god that's just a tuesday that's just a thursday to him that's just every day it's his word his word is his word he keeps his word amen what he says he's going to do is just going to happen by the way whether you agree with it or not and so he says this scepter shall not depart well this is long before there is a kingdom this is long before there's a saw this is long before there's a david but god has determined has purpose that this is going to happen why has god purposed this god has purposed this going back to genesis 315 for he who he jesus to glorify him so why are they in in why are they in egypt matter of fact matter of fact why are they why are they even having this conversation and why are we in first Samuel what well the reason why we're having this this conversation is because Saul i'm sorry that's all uh jacob gave a prophecy to uh over the children of israel concerning Judah why did jote the god did jacob give this prophecy jacob gave this prophecy because israel is in egypt why is israel in egypt at this time the reason why egypt is in i mean israel is in egypt at this time is because of a famine why is there a famine at this time that brought israel into egypt the reason why they're in israel because of this famine the famine happens because god wanted to send israel out of their land into egypt why why is egypt let me ask you guys this question again let me see if you guys are i know you guys got this why was egypt i'm sorry egypt why was israel in egypt in the first place why did god bring about a famine because god is the one that makes it rain why did god cause a famine to send israel into egypt let's see if you guys remember this and we've covered this so i'll give you guys a second to type it won't take you long it won't take you long because you guys are as we say smart christians why is israel in egypt at this time well because of a famine why did god cause his famine to send israel into egypt i'll tell you why all because all because joseph had a dream joseph had a dream that made his brothers jealous that would cause them to send him into slavery into egypt where he becomes second in charge because god was with him just like we read that god was with david because god was with him or why was god with him because god is setting something up well why is that even happening why did his brothers get jealous i'll tell you why this goes back to not just joseph having a dream this goes back to abraham having a question what was abraham's remember god made a promise to abraham he said i'll make your great nation and i'll bless you but abraham's scratching his head god what gives how am i going to be a great nation please help me out well i'll tell you how abraham asked god he says oh lord in chapter 15 verse 2 what will you give me since i am childless you said i'm going to be a great nation the reason why they're there the reason why joseph had a dream is because abraham had a question how am i going to how are you going to bless me since i'm childless and the heir of my house la's are of damaskus how's it going to be and abraham says since you have given me no offspring like you said god you said you was going to give me an offspring you said i was going to be a great nation you said i was going to be blessed all these things hadn't happened god how will i know the one born in my house there's nobody born in my house my heir then behold the word of the lord came to him saying this man will not be your heir but one who will come forth from your own body he shall be your heir he took him outside and said now look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them and he said to him so shall your descendants be then he believed in the lord and he reckoned to him as righteousness huh now god is speaking about a lot of things right here one you're gonna have a whole bunch of descendants you're gonna even though you don't have any right you're gonna have a whole bunch of descendants and at that moment in time now remember this is the same abraham who has told some other king that his wife is really his sister which that's not the case we've covered that before abraham did not marry his biological sister she wasn't even she wasn't even a half so we covered it before but so then he believed the lord and he reckoned to him as righteousness so at that point in time that after the other times all this time that i've been talking with your lord and you first spoke with me no now at this point he believed and it was a count of him righteous now continue he says i am the lord who brought you out of the ear of the caldeans to give you this land to possess it that's the land they're in right now in first samuel uh he said oh lord god how may i know that i will possess it abraham wants to keep asking questions fine abraham god would say god i answered for you so he said to him bring me a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old female goat and a three-year-old ram and two turtle doves and a parter in the pear tree no he did not say that and a young pigeon then he brought all three of these all these to him and he cut them into and laid each half opposite the other uh but did not cut the birch now let's drop down now the sun was going down and deep sleep fell upon abraham and behold terror and great darkness fell upon him god said to abraham no for certain since you want to ask questions mr no for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs where they will be enslaved and oppress 400 years but i will also judge the nation whom they will serve and afterwards they will come out with many possessions as for you you shall go to your father in peace you'll be buried in a good old age in the fourth generation they will return here for the iniquity of the amorite is not yet complete now all of that's important why because we're going to see an encounter as a matter of fact yeah we're going to see an encounter uh with samuel and saul saul tells samuel to do something but he disobeys he couldn't wait going back to first samuel chapter 13 he was told to wait seven days for samuel to show back up saul could not wait and so what did he do he actually had an offering where he performed the duties of a priest but he's not supposed to so in verse 10 as he finished offering the burnt offering behold samuel came and saul went and to meet him and to greet him so saul's playing dumb but samuel said to him what have you done and saul said because i saw that the people were scattering from me and that you did not come within the appointed days which he did and that the phyllisines were assembling at mikmosh therefore i said now the phyllisines will come down against me at gilgoth notice what he says verse 13 samuel said to saul you have acted foolishly you have not kept the commandment of the lord your god which he commanded you for now the lord would have established your kingdom forever would have established but but it's not going to happen now because how are you acted does that mean that god that that that god at some point in time had designs on making him king forever no because again he's omnipresent he knows exactly what saul's going to do so he says but now your kingdom shall not endure the lord has sought out for himself a man after his own heart and the lord has appointed him as ruler over his people because you have not kept what the lord commanded now there's something else important saul is going to disobey again so they are going to come back samuel is going to come back and he's going to anoint him again let me find this passage i believe it's in 16 verse 15 give me one second i want to find the or saul or saul saul where samuel comes back and is getting ready for battle i think it's make sure all right here it is first samuel 15 we need to see this point as well and then we're almost through then samuel chapter one verse i'm chapter 15 verse one then samuel said to saul the lord has sent me to anoint you as king over his people over israel now therefore listen to the words thus says the lord of hosts i will punish amalek for what he did to israel how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up out of egypt now go and strike amalek what is he speaking of anybody have any idea we covered this on last week what is he speaking of well as they were on their way out the there was a the amalekites as he said stood in their way and god made a promise that i'm going to deal with you god did not deal with the amalekites at that point in time but at this point in time now he is so as a matter of fact what does he say he tells him to go and utterly destroy all of them now go and strike amalek amalek and utterly destroy all that he has and do not spare him but put to death both man and woman and child and infant and ox and sheep and camel does he do so no he does not as a matter of fact samuel has to show back up and he has to kill him and of course we see that he didn't kill all of them because we see his descendants there in the book of ester hayman who is a descendant of agaic the king of of of of the king of amalek why is all this important so far we are seeing how god is tying together what he said he's going to do and how is culminating in hadn't happened yet in the person of jesus we don't know who jesus is but we're going to see this happening because in the next few weeks we're going to start seeing how this kingdom is going to come together the reason why this is important guys because everything that's taken place is happening exactly exactly like god said it would and it's leading to the heat it's leading to ultimately it's going to culminate in who he the he in genesis 315 the he that's going to crush the head of the serpent the he who went before the people in egypt and led them out of the land the he who literally met haygar and spoke about her child the he who spoke to abram and said he's going to bless him the he who made a promise not only abraham but also visited isaac as well as jacob the very same he that wrestled with jacob the very same he that spoke with joshua the very same he that was there with gideon the very same he that was there with moses at the burning bush you know that he the one who says that he is the i am that he all of this has to transpire to bring about a kingdom a scepter for not david nor solomon but for jesus and so all of this stuff guys is going someplace someone asked a question is what we're seeing in israel is does this pertain to in times prophecy not yes but not really no what is it really pertain to is old time revelation what god says is going to happen israel because god made a promise let's go back to this and this where we're going to end uh this promise to abraham where he says and i will make you a great nation and bless you and make your name great so that you should be a blessing he says i will bless those who bless you and those who curse you i will curse this right here this this is where our joy comes in and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed so when we say that no what's happening in israel right now is not an end it's not to fulfill an end times prophecy is to fulfill an old time revelation what god says he's going to do here we have him saying in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed this is where god is going to how he's going to bless all the families of the earth by doing what he's going to do with israel by giving him a partial hardening and by working with dealing with the Gentiles making ultimately making them uh those that will cause the jews jealous so that his promise to abraham isaac and jake will be fulfilled as well as genesis 12 3 will be fulfilled as well why is all that's going to happen again to highlight to glorify he that is jesus amen all right guys so next week we'll go a little bit further in depth we'll deal with i think on next week we'll get into sol actually dying and then we'll go into to david's kingdom being established second samuel is where we're going to see this new covenant not a new covenant but another covenant being spoken of as well we're going to see the rise and the fall of david as well probably take us about two weeks to go through that as well because at this point in time we're going to stop and cover some important parts we're going to look at the prophecies that are going to start showing up more and more we're going to start seeing prophecies relating to modern times what's going to happen with jesus on the cross and even the end and then also harkening back to what israel did in the past so if you want to take notes i would suggest you do but in the meantime guys thank you guys so much now i've got to go and prepare for a for a study for a meeting in the meantime guys be blessed