Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey, hello again. I'm here to say you guys need to pray harder. 'cause Pastor Rod's voice is still not fixed yet. It's still Saturday in our world. Yeah, I guess that's true. That's fair. In all fairness, it's about 10 minutes after we asked you to pray last time. Yeah, it's it's Monday and it's Monday of. Passion Week. Passion Week being the week of the Lord's passion, his suffering on our behalf. And again, just the way that they, it worked out with our preaching schedule and everything. We focused a little bit on the beginning stages of the crucifixion this past Sunday, and then we get to anticipate that all the way through Friday as we move towards the Lord's Supper. And Good Friday, inquiring Minds Wanna know why Jesus was so stoked to go to the

cross?

Yeah. Why do they call

it Passion Week?

Yeah. Yeah. Different different used the words passion there. Passion being his equated with his suffering. Not passion as in zeal the the pathos, the emotion that the yeah the suffering ordeal of the entire week. When you hear that, it's not that Jesus was like, yes, let's go. Which is important. In fact, that's what we're talking about. What we did talk about rather yesterday AT church is just, there was. Pain there was physical suffering. And that's what, when the writer of Hebrews says he despised the shame of the cross, the, there was tangible, real shame of the cross. And Jesus did not just walk out of the garden of Gethsemane and straight onto the cross and just hop up there and say, okay God, go ahead and pour out your wrath. And I'm done. There, there was an ordeal that it was the father's will for him to endure. And that was, that was the whole thing. That was the trials that was condescending to allow Pilate to pronounce judgment over him. That whole scene of just telling Pilate, you would not be in the position that you're in if God had not brought us to this moment in time. That the mockery from the soldiers, the beating the flagellation, all of it's just this is. This is something that is so much bigger than just, I say just, and I don't mean to demean it at all, but it's more than the hours on the cross that Jesus was hanging there. It was everything from his betrayal to his arrest, to the trials, to the beating, to carrying his own cross to the hill, to being nailed to the cross, to raised up, to suffering, to dine all of it. And we began to look at it yesterday and we will. Finish our look at it with part two here on on Friday evening, which hopefully you're planning to join us for. It's gonna be at six 30 over at Founder's Classical Academy, and it's gonna be a shorter service, just an hour long. We do have childcare available for some of them not all. Yeah, I believe it's five and under. We'll have childcare available. Everybody else will be in service with us. We'll do some worship in song and then have a more abbreviated message focused on the cross of Jesus from the the second half of this this two part message here. So chapter 19 of John. So it's a heavy week, but it's a good week for us as Christians. And it's, I think, appropriate for us to feel the weightiness of it as we anticipate the cross, and then to feel the joy on Sunday morning of the resurrection. Let's jump into our daily Bible reading. We are in first Samuel 21, 22, 23, and 24. So four chapters today. First cha chap, first Chamal words. I. Words. Yep. First, first Samuel chapter 21. David is again, running for his life. Remember contextually where we're at. So David has Jonathan confirmed what David suspected? Saul wants him dead. I don't know how David suspected that other than a couple of spears that were thrown at him. A couple of things like that. But while he's on the run, verse two, David lies to the priest there. Pastor Rod, what do we do with this? Is this similar to what we figured out with the other circumstance that we looked at recently of telling a partial truth, not telling the whole truth? 'cause David lies to Alek here about why he was there. He says the king sent me, the king didn't send him. The king was trying to kill him. Yeah. We'd have to

distinguish this one from the other one. This one doesn't. Sit the same way because God doesn't tell him to do this. And David recognizes he owns, at least part of this. He says, I've occasioned the death of these men. Or it is because of my words that I've caused this. So David owns this later on. This is not a good move. And even though you could justify it in some ways and say I understand why he did it, man I, he really put himself in a really bad spot because again he is secondarily, I believe, responsible for the death of these men. And it would've been better for him just to be honest and say, look I'm on the run, I'm on the lamb. I need help here. I.

Yeah. Yeah, it is interesting. The bread of the presence was not meant for David. It was meant for the priests. And yet a Alek gives some to David and to his men here, and Jesus is actually gonna commend a alek for doing that. In Matthew chapter 12, verses three through seven, you just preached through that passage. It any notes from the what Jesus, the connection Jesus makes there in, in Matthew 12,

only that Jesus Jesus isn't violating the law. So when Jesus does it they use it in terms of, there are a agree argument against him about violating the Passover. And so Jesus responds with saying, look there are times when there's other laws that supersede the law that you're focusing on in particular the Sabbath. And so Jesus makes the point just as David I. Righteously used the bread of the presence, which wasn't lawful for him in a technical sense. The sanctity of life demanded that take place. And there was no breaking of the law there, there was no sin held against David or a Bimal, Alek for that. It was a right move. And so I think what I heard. One of my old pastors say about something like this is that there are commands that compete with one another, and it takes wisdom to know which command supersedes the other. And to do that well requires you to know your Bible so well, that you could say, okay, how does God's mind think? And therefore, how do I respond to those things? And it doesn't mean that God is saying, do A and then do B at the same time. This is not contradiction, but that laws can often be in conflict and one is weightier and one is less weighted. This is why Jesus says something like. Like you, you tie the mint in cumin, but you neglect the weightier matters of the law. You're gonna do the small thing, but you get rid of the big thing, you're missing the point. So I think that's the idea here. The weight of your, the weight of your responsibility was a pre preservation and protection of life. I.

Yeah, yeah. Getting well spoken first female 21 7. Notice this guy do that. Mite shows up. He's a, just a wretched individual and he witnesses all of this happening. And so just put a pin on that. 'cause he runs to tell Saul and that's gonna have some devastating consequences later on. As David's leaving though, he says, Hey, do you have a weapon? And the guy says, actually, yeah, I've got the weapon of all weapons for you. It's Goliath's sword and you. We're the one that took down Goliath. So David now has Goliath's sword in his possession, which Goliath was a large man. So David must have been pretty stout at this point in time in his life to be able to wield that thing. And then in first Samuel chapter 21. Then from here on verses 10 through 15 David's on the run again and finds himself this time amongst the Philistines. Now David and Goliath background there, Philistines are not gonna love him too much and they recognize him. And so David begins to act like a crazy man to escape their ire. So here. Yeah, I think there's a couple things in Chapter 21, not super commendable for David. Number one, he's lied to Alek. And then number two here when he acts crazy in the presence of the Philistines I, this is, again, God is not involved in this. David is not seeking God's will going, Hey God, do you want me to, to Dr. Dribble down my beard and act like a psycho person so that they let me go? He's trusting himself rather than trusting in the Lord. And even though in yesterday's podcast we talked about the fact that he is trusting in the Lord, so often it's not. Perfectly, and this is an example of where he takes things into his own hands. And we can be tempted to do that too. When life gets difficult, we can think, okay, Lord, rather than seeking your way out of this, let me pull myself up by my bootstraps. Let me pull the ripcord myself on this parachute and get myself out of the trouble that I'm in. I think that's what David is doing here in Chapter 21. Not the best situation. Chapter 22. Then David, you'll notice here collects quite the crew of people to himself. These are not people that you would draft right away to say, Hey, these are the types of people that I want. He gets a crew of desperate men men that society had rejected in outcast and some unsavory characters. And they all come to him at the cave OFM there. Meanwhile do the mite runs and tells Saul what a Himalaya had done in that help. Alek had helped David. And so Saul ordered somebody to go and kill the priests. And no one amongst his men wants to obey. They understand the gravity of this. And here's the wicked man Dogue, who volunteers and kills them all, except for this man of Bahar who escapes to David and ends up being David's connection. David's priest there while David is on the lamb. Yeah, chapter 22, Saul in his blood thirst is ex growing excessively. Um. It just. It's evil, it's wicked, and it's seen here in the murder of all of these priests. And Doug's just a wretched guy. He doesn't share Saul's thirst vengeance against David. He doesn't have a dog in the fight. He just is an evil, despicable person and there's no other way around it. Aside from that chapter 23, then verses one through six, David delivers a town there in the area of Philistia named Keila, K-E-I-L-A-H, after receiving confirmation from the Lord that he would give him victory there over the Philistines who were attacking the town. And so he goes out and he delivers them, he spares them, he saves them. Saul discovers that he's there and this is an interesting circu circumstance because David asks and seeks the Lord. He says, Hey, if I stay here, are they gonna turn me over? And God says, yeah, if you stay there, they're gonna. Turn you over. And the zip fights are the inhabitants and David ends up running and flees into the wilderness of may own eventually making his way to an area called in Getti. But meanwhile here, there's another interaction between David and Jonathan in verse 15 through 18. As Jonathan hears that he's there and goes to him where he is, and again, affirms his loyalty and reconfirms the covenant that they had made together there at, while they're taking refuge there with the, in the wilderness of Ziff. We don't have cool names like that anymore. Have you noticed that Pastor Rob the wilderness of Ziff? Oh, we've got places like Grand Prairie and Italy. You and Grand Prairie. I found that from somebody that they used to live there. So it's like your, you took issue with money. It's your town now. Yeah, it is. I guess so. You like Grand Prairie?

Grand Prairie. What's the other Curtis, Chris, Kyle. Kyle, Texas. Cool places. Yep. You're talking about that.

Did you know there's a Corinth, Texas? Yes. Yep. Yes, I did see that on the map. Not Corinth. Don't call it Corinth. It's Corinth. Oh, okay. Yep. It's over there. Near. That'll be easier

because we know Corinthia.

Yeah.

So it just feels like it. That's more natural.

Near Flower Mound, we got Flower Mound, Texas. We've got

no to flowers over there.

Yep. Ponder Texas. There's a good steakhouse up there.

I like the guy who does the weather

ponder on weather.

Yeah.

Does he live in Ponder? I know he should. He should. Yeah. Making his McKinney actually. Otherwise it's false advertising. Oh. Anyways. Yeah. So chapter 24. Then David is at this cave in Getty and it was cool in 2019 I got to go there to in Getty to the springs of, in Getty, and we don't know the exact cave where he and his men were. Were taking refuge there. But it's a narrow canyon that you truck back into. And at the end of it is a waterfall and it's a refuge. It's not far from there is the Dead Sea. And the Dead Sea is very arid and dry, and the territory is very desert-like. So when you think of a desert, that, that is very similar to what the territory around in Getty is. And yet in Getty is this little oasis. It's this outcropping, it's green as you walk back in there and it's well fed and it's fed by these springs. And so David, it's natural that David and his men would take. Refuge there, takes shelter there. And that's what they do. And in chapter 24, Saul comes upon him there, and Saul enters the cave where David and his men happened to be camped out and doesn't understand, doesn't realize it, and goes to relieve himself. And David cuts off a corner of his robe. And yet David's heart is struck. So Pastor Rod talks to us a little bit about David's guilt over cutting off a corner of Saul's robe because to, to us that's that's, that seems pretty base. That's not a big deal. You ruined his robe, maybe.

Yeah, I, and I scratched your car a few times and I have felt no compunction about that. Yeah, I feel totally fine, so I get it. David understands and appreciates the role and the position of the king. And because he honors the King of Kings, he can look at that role and say, I can. I can distinguish the man from the position to the point that I can respect the role even if I don't respect the man. And so David has such a high regard for God's authority and God's role in and solves life, that he's unwilling even to give the impression that he. Intends any harm on Saul's life. 'cause ultimately he knows God has to do the work. God's gonna remove him or exalt him. David knows that God has to be the actor in this situation, and he doesn't even want to get close to stepping on God's toes in this. So I think this is David's piety. This is a good time, a good experience of something that David does. It just really shows his heart toward God and his heart, in this case, toward the man's soul. Yeah. And it's actually gonna be effective in softening Saul's heart. Toward him, at least in this particular moment.

Yeah, in this instance. Yeah, for sure. 'cause Saul says there, he says in verse 20, he says, now behold, I know that you shall surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. And then he asks. David, something similar to what Jonathan did. Swear to me therefore, that you'll not cut off my offspring after me. You'll not destroy my name outta my father's house. David, it says, swore this to Saul there in verse 22. But yeah, this is this is a highlight of David, David being a man after God's own heart. It's actions like this that we see that. Born out for us. So David's gonna have an op another opportunity not too far from now to end up taking Saul's life. And again, he's gonna spare Saul's life. So, yeah. Alright, let's let's pray and then we will be done with this episode. God we are grateful for the example that we find in David, both the good and the bad. We're thankful for the reality that you call a man like David, a man after your own heart, even though he wasn't a man who was perfect by any stretch of the imagination. That gives us, and it encourages us. It gives us that encouragement to continue to press on and to to follow you. And to follow you with everything that, that we're able to do. And so even as we just strive to be faithful to to our roles as husbands or wives or wherever we may find ourselves, students or whatever that is, God, we want to be able to, at the end of our life, have somebody say they were a man after, or a woman after God's own heart. And so help us to live such a life and to lean on your grace as we're not able to do that with perfection, but to, to trust that you will enable us to be more like Jesus with each passing day. We pray in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See ya. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said