1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,880 Chapter 18. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:11,920 We are going to continue on in our study being pray for Pastor Josh 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,440 as he and his family are having their. 4 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:20,080 We getting away for a little bit. 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:25,680 Pray that he will be rested up and restored and his family will 6 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:26,880 not drive him crazy. 7 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:27,200 No. 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:31,480 Or vice versa. 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:32,000 That's right. 10 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:34,800 Pray they all get good rest tonight. 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:41,840 We're going to start here in chapter number 18, verse number nine. 12 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,320 Trying to pick up where we left off the very first week that 13 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,680 we came to this chapter just for. 14 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:51,440 Since we've, we've been a couple weeks now. 15 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:57,090 So to set the scene here, as you know, in First Samuel, First 16 00:00:57,090 --> 00:01:02,850 Samuel, chapter 17 was Goliath the giant that fell by the hands 17 00:01:03,090 --> 00:01:09,890 of this small shepherd boy who did an impossible feat seemingly. 18 00:01:10,130 --> 00:01:16,090 And then the great question that King Saul comes to is how in 19 00:01:16,090 --> 00:01:17,250 the world did you do this? 20 00:01:18,130 --> 00:01:20,560 And then we, we talked. 21 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,560 We looked there at the very first verses of how the, the knitting 22 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,800 of Jonathan and David's soul and how they too form this partnership, 23 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:36,640 this bond between two men, both young and old, coming together 24 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:45,680 in a one mind mindset because of their, their devotion to God, 25 00:01:46,370 --> 00:01:49,490 their path of life, their way of life. 26 00:01:49,570 --> 00:01:53,090 Everything just lined up in these two men's lives. 27 00:01:53,490 --> 00:01:55,970 And Jonathan admired that. 28 00:01:57,490 --> 00:01:59,210 David admired that. 29 00:01:59,210 --> 00:02:03,490 In Jonathan and these two men, their souls were knit. 30 00:02:04,290 --> 00:02:08,170 And then we see just the responses is really what we looked 31 00:02:08,170 --> 00:02:09,050 at last week. 32 00:02:09,050 --> 00:02:14,330 It was the response of three individuals to the working of God. 33 00:02:14,330 --> 00:02:17,530 And we're going to kind of stick with that same theme this week 34 00:02:17,930 --> 00:02:20,090 as we try to finish this chapter. 35 00:02:20,890 --> 00:02:22,330 God works. 36 00:02:23,450 --> 00:02:27,050 How do we respond in life? 37 00:02:27,529 --> 00:02:29,810 Okay, we had three different responses. 38 00:02:29,810 --> 00:02:34,530 We had Jonathan's response, we had King Saul's response, and we 39 00:02:34,530 --> 00:02:35,690 had David's response. 40 00:02:35,770 --> 00:02:37,610 David is the one getting caught up in all this. 41 00:02:38,060 --> 00:02:41,460 But today what we're going to look at and we're going to focus 42 00:02:41,460 --> 00:02:44,540 on is King Saul and his response. 43 00:02:44,540 --> 00:02:46,620 We talked a lot about the character of Jonathan. 44 00:02:46,940 --> 00:02:53,180 Now we're going to talk about how Saul leaned into this resisting 45 00:02:53,340 --> 00:02:58,940 of God's will, this resisting of what God was doing. 46 00:02:59,020 --> 00:03:04,190 Because what King Saul came to the conclusion of, especially at 47 00:03:04,190 --> 00:03:09,190 the end, I would say he did not necessarily come to a perfect 48 00:03:09,270 --> 00:03:13,990 conclusion, but he began to suspect what he had. 49 00:03:14,150 --> 00:03:14,630 Fear. 50 00:03:15,510 --> 00:03:20,510 The words that I get reminded of were kind of what Job said about 51 00:03:20,510 --> 00:03:23,590 his suffering and his day of calamity. 52 00:03:23,830 --> 00:03:27,750 The day that I have fear, that I've always feared has come. 53 00:03:28,390 --> 00:03:32,270 Now King Saul is experiencing that fear. 54 00:03:32,270 --> 00:03:37,750 He was waiting for this day to come because this day had technically 55 00:03:37,750 --> 00:03:39,550 been foretold. 56 00:03:39,870 --> 00:03:43,150 Samuel had already told him Saul, you've messed up. 57 00:03:43,710 --> 00:03:44,750 God has forsaken. 58 00:03:45,070 --> 00:03:47,790 God has taken away the kingdom. 59 00:03:48,190 --> 00:03:54,990 And so as we come to this second part, we see Saul doing this. 60 00:03:54,990 --> 00:03:57,900 And this is what the title of tonight's sermon is, Fighting what 61 00:03:57,900 --> 00:03:59,140 God is doing. 62 00:03:59,140 --> 00:04:01,540 The spear in Saul's hand. 63 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:05,620 Now, I look for a spear around here and I didn't really find one. 64 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:10,780 I found a walking stick and I didn't bring it, but it probably 65 00:04:10,780 --> 00:04:15,060 wouldn't have done justice, you know, to a spear in my hand. 66 00:04:15,060 --> 00:04:19,460 The intimidation of some weighted, you know, hand carved, 67 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:23,230 metal worked spearhead. 68 00:04:24,340 --> 00:04:25,220 I don't know what you're saying. 69 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:27,140 My wife's giving me a signal. 70 00:04:27,460 --> 00:04:28,580 Does he have a spear? 71 00:04:28,660 --> 00:04:31,820 He doesn't have it up here, sadly. 72 00:04:31,820 --> 00:04:32,420 No spear. 73 00:04:32,660 --> 00:04:35,300 I wanted to intimidate you, but that wasn't. 74 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:36,900 That's not going to happen with just a stick. 75 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:40,340 Okay, the spear though, in Saul's hand, that's what we're going 76 00:04:40,340 --> 00:04:42,660 to look at tonight. 77 00:04:43,380 --> 00:04:45,140 So let's pray and we'll start. 78 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:48,340 Our heavenly Father, Lord, pray and ask that you would help 79 00:04:48,340 --> 00:04:49,780 us to understand your word tonight. 80 00:04:50,770 --> 00:04:57,130 But Lord, what we want to know from this passage specifically is 81 00:04:57,130 --> 00:05:01,810 how we are to respond whenever you are doing something in our life, 82 00:05:02,370 --> 00:05:05,170 in our circumstances, or in the lives of others that we are coming 83 00:05:05,170 --> 00:05:09,170 in contact with or just in general, Lord, when you are doing 84 00:05:09,170 --> 00:05:11,330 something, what is our response to it? 85 00:05:11,330 --> 00:05:12,810 Lord, I pray that we are not asking. 86 00:05:12,810 --> 00:05:13,490 Saul was. 87 00:05:13,970 --> 00:05:17,650 But Lord, that we are receptive and surrendered to your 88 00:05:17,650 --> 00:05:17,970 will. 89 00:05:18,050 --> 00:05:21,960 And whatever that may be, Lord, pray and ask that you would 90 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:23,120 help us to understand that tonight. 91 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:24,240 Jesus name we pray. 92 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:25,120 Amen. 93 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:31,480 The spear in Saul's hand, or as I learned just from a little bit 94 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:36,960 of research, the spear in Sha' ul's hand. 95 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,560 That's the proper name in Hebrew of King Saul. 96 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:41,920 It's shall O. 97 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,080 It's an interesting word. 98 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,370 I don't expect you to remember that and call him that. 99 00:05:47,450 --> 00:05:49,250 From here on out, it's King Sha'. 100 00:05:49,250 --> 00:05:49,610 Ul. 101 00:05:49,610 --> 00:05:53,730 You know, but it's very interesting that, you know, the way 102 00:05:53,730 --> 00:05:57,290 the, the English and the, or rather probably the Greek translation 103 00:05:57,450 --> 00:06:00,730 is, is translated and moves in names. 104 00:06:01,290 --> 00:06:08,330 But tonight one of the things that we want to look at is this resistance 105 00:06:08,490 --> 00:06:12,450 that King Saul put up fighting what God is doing. 106 00:06:12,450 --> 00:06:14,770 That's the question that I would ask us tonight. 107 00:06:14,770 --> 00:06:17,250 Are we fighting what God is doing? 108 00:06:18,370 --> 00:06:21,570 And subpoint of this is this. 109 00:06:21,650 --> 00:06:22,850 God is in control. 110 00:06:23,810 --> 00:06:25,010 God is in control. 111 00:06:25,490 --> 00:06:29,890 And part of this probably leans a lot on just understanding 112 00:06:29,890 --> 00:06:32,530 what that means to us as Christians. 113 00:06:33,330 --> 00:06:37,570 What does it mean whenever we say that God is in control. 114 00:06:38,610 --> 00:06:42,710 What does it mean to say that God is sovereign, that he rules, 115 00:06:42,710 --> 00:06:47,510 that he reigns, that nothing is out of his power, out of his grasp, 116 00:06:47,830 --> 00:06:48,230 that. 117 00:06:48,310 --> 00:06:51,190 That God is the one who does all things. 118 00:06:51,590 --> 00:06:54,630 That's what we're going to focus on this. 119 00:06:55,190 --> 00:06:58,670 We cannot defeat what God has determined to do. 120 00:06:58,670 --> 00:07:02,750 The question is, are we surrendering to God's work or resisting 121 00:07:02,750 --> 00:07:03,030 it? 122 00:07:03,590 --> 00:07:10,140 Now, many of us are going through life, and you have experienced 123 00:07:10,140 --> 00:07:14,980 the same thing that perhaps King Saul experienced or in any other 124 00:07:14,980 --> 00:07:19,420 circumstance where something did not go according to plan. 125 00:07:21,180 --> 00:07:23,820 We all face disappointment, right? 126 00:07:24,460 --> 00:07:27,420 We all come across disappointment in our daily lives. 127 00:07:27,820 --> 00:07:31,340 And the question is, how did this happen? 128 00:07:32,790 --> 00:07:33,670 Why did this happen? 129 00:07:34,070 --> 00:07:36,230 That's some of the things that we want to ask. 130 00:07:36,950 --> 00:07:46,150 You know, why did we hit every single red light on the way to work 131 00:07:46,150 --> 00:07:46,870 this morning? 132 00:07:47,510 --> 00:07:49,830 Why was every single. 133 00:07:50,310 --> 00:07:52,990 You know, you only call it a red light because it's. 134 00:07:52,990 --> 00:07:53,910 It's red, right? 135 00:07:53,910 --> 00:07:55,070 That's the reason why we call those. 136 00:07:55,070 --> 00:07:57,710 You only see it whenever it's red because that's when you notice 137 00:07:57,710 --> 00:07:57,990 it. 138 00:07:59,060 --> 00:08:00,420 Why did we have to do that? 139 00:08:00,420 --> 00:08:03,060 Or maybe worse, you know, why we. 140 00:08:03,060 --> 00:08:05,540 Did we get in an accident? 141 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:13,060 Why did this individual do this egregious sin to me? 142 00:08:13,060 --> 00:08:14,940 Why did my boss respond? 143 00:08:14,940 --> 00:08:17,540 Why did my boss promote this person and not me? 144 00:08:18,500 --> 00:08:20,980 There are many questions that we go through. 145 00:08:21,220 --> 00:08:25,710 Why did I get home and my water, Peter, explode, and now it's 146 00:08:25,710 --> 00:08:26,910 flooded my entire base? 147 00:08:26,910 --> 00:08:28,030 Why did that have to happen? 148 00:08:28,110 --> 00:08:28,910 That didn't happen. 149 00:08:30,110 --> 00:08:33,790 But those are some good questions that you may have asked 150 00:08:33,790 --> 00:08:34,830 in your lifetime. 151 00:08:35,390 --> 00:08:35,790 Why? 152 00:08:37,870 --> 00:08:39,310 What is in God's control? 153 00:08:40,110 --> 00:08:44,270 And then how are we reacting to it? 154 00:08:44,910 --> 00:08:46,670 Saul begins his assault. 155 00:08:46,670 --> 00:08:49,630 Look there in verse number nine is where we're going to start. 156 00:08:50,370 --> 00:08:51,730 That's where we ended. 157 00:08:52,370 --> 00:08:54,130 He says here in verse number nine. 158 00:08:54,130 --> 00:08:56,810 And Saul eyed David from that day forward. 159 00:08:56,810 --> 00:08:58,010 Now why was he eyeing David? 160 00:08:58,010 --> 00:08:59,330 Well, David was getting praise. 161 00:08:59,730 --> 00:09:01,450 The people were coming together. 162 00:09:01,450 --> 00:09:04,930 They're welcoming the soldiers as they were ought to do in that 163 00:09:04,930 --> 00:09:05,250 day. 164 00:09:05,490 --> 00:09:08,530 They were welcoming them home, lining up on the streets. 165 00:09:08,530 --> 00:09:11,570 The women were dancing and singing with tambourine. 166 00:09:11,650 --> 00:09:15,650 And they said, saul has killed his thousands, but David his 10,000. 167 00:09:16,420 --> 00:09:21,380 And King Saul said, they've ascribed to me thousands, but David, 168 00:09:21,380 --> 00:09:22,340 ten thousands. 169 00:09:22,740 --> 00:09:24,660 They've given more honor to him. 170 00:09:25,060 --> 00:09:26,900 What more can he have but the kingdom? 171 00:09:27,220 --> 00:09:30,100 And Saul I, David, from that day forward, verse 10. 172 00:09:30,180 --> 00:09:32,700 And it came to pass on the morrow that the evil spirit from 173 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:34,100 God came upon Saul. 174 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:36,180 And he prophesied in the midst of the house. 175 00:09:36,340 --> 00:09:39,140 And David played with his hand, as at other times and there 176 00:09:39,140 --> 00:09:41,300 was a javelin in Saul's hand. 177 00:09:41,810 --> 00:09:45,170 And Saul cast the javelin, for he said, I will smite David even 178 00:09:45,170 --> 00:09:46,290 to the wall with it. 179 00:09:46,370 --> 00:09:49,250 And David avoided out of his presence twice. 180 00:09:50,130 --> 00:09:58,290 So Saul, in his rage, in his mindset and his jealousy, Saul watches 181 00:09:58,370 --> 00:10:01,010 David through those jealous eyes. 182 00:10:01,730 --> 00:10:03,530 Now, what Saul needed. 183 00:10:03,530 --> 00:10:06,770 What we have to understand about Saul is that Saul's problem 184 00:10:06,850 --> 00:10:10,300 began before he ever picked up the javelin. 185 00:10:10,540 --> 00:10:13,820 It began with how he looked at David. 186 00:10:14,380 --> 00:10:16,340 The women's song singing. 187 00:10:16,340 --> 00:10:19,100 David has killed his thousands and Saul has ten thousands. 188 00:10:19,340 --> 00:10:25,820 That did not create the insecurity in Saul that exposed it. 189 00:10:26,380 --> 00:10:31,900 From that moment, everything David did was interpreted suspiciously. 190 00:10:32,380 --> 00:10:38,430 That's what we call having junk up here, clutter in your brain 191 00:10:38,430 --> 00:10:39,750 as you think about people. 192 00:10:40,070 --> 00:10:44,070 You know, that can seriously affect how we interact with one another. 193 00:10:44,630 --> 00:10:50,350 Someone does something to you or does something in general, and 194 00:10:50,350 --> 00:10:52,870 we immediately form that opinion of them. 195 00:10:52,950 --> 00:10:57,910 And now we can't see them doing anything else outside of that 196 00:10:57,910 --> 00:10:58,710 one opinion. 197 00:10:58,710 --> 00:11:00,720 That is called junk in the attic. 198 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:01,200 Okay? 199 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:02,280 It is clutter. 200 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,600 It's garbage in your mind. 201 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:06,320 It is your filter that has been clogged. 202 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:14,560 Well, this one little thing caused Saul in his insecurity that 203 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:19,840 already existed, in his fear that God was going to judge him one 204 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:25,840 day, in his pride, it caused that to bubble up and it exposed 205 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:27,680 that to him. 206 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:33,840 What David did from that moment on, everything was interpreted 207 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:39,480 in that light of what is this guy trying to do in my King, David's 208 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,399 victories were no longer victories of Israel. 209 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,080 It wasn't, hey, look at this guy who has done this, these great 210 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,280 defeats and accomplishments for Israel. 211 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:49,440 He's winning our battles. 212 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,290 That was what it was with Goliath, but no more. 213 00:11:53,370 --> 00:11:58,090 In Saul's mind, these were real threats to him. 214 00:11:58,890 --> 00:12:01,850 And so it brings us to that same question. 215 00:12:02,570 --> 00:12:08,410 Someone else at work gets promoted or someone else gets. 216 00:12:09,050 --> 00:12:10,650 Someone else gets blessed. 217 00:12:11,290 --> 00:12:14,010 What is our reaction to that? 218 00:12:14,650 --> 00:12:20,960 Can I celebrate when God uses someone else in whatever position? 219 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:26,240 Do I become suspicious when another person receives recognition? 220 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:33,440 Has comparison caused us to misjudge someone who has done perhaps 221 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,280 no wrong to you personally? 222 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:43,840 That application of what is in our heart coming up to the surface, 223 00:12:44,970 --> 00:12:49,610 that is what you and I as Christians have to be wary of. 224 00:12:50,490 --> 00:12:53,370 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. 225 00:12:53,610 --> 00:12:57,290 And the opposite of these things are something like self love, 226 00:12:58,090 --> 00:13:01,770 frustration instead of gentleness. 227 00:13:01,770 --> 00:13:02,810 There's harshness. 228 00:13:03,290 --> 00:13:06,810 These things, though, only come up to the surface whenever we 229 00:13:07,130 --> 00:13:12,820 as Christians are put in places of pressure to squeeze us. 230 00:13:13,540 --> 00:13:14,380 That's whenever. 231 00:13:14,380 --> 00:13:18,980 I mean, when are you, when are you ever supposed to experience peace? 232 00:13:19,860 --> 00:13:21,660 When Good things are happening. 233 00:13:21,660 --> 00:13:22,860 That's what we often would think. 234 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:24,500 Oh yeah, oh, there's some peace. 235 00:13:24,740 --> 00:13:26,100 Is that real peace, though? 236 00:13:27,460 --> 00:13:29,940 Is that a necessary peace? 237 00:13:31,140 --> 00:13:33,140 Is that a real peace? 238 00:13:33,220 --> 00:13:38,290 No, you only experience real peace, peace when circumstances in 239 00:13:38,290 --> 00:13:45,090 life are going horrible and you are able to remain peace, at 240 00:13:45,090 --> 00:13:48,450 peace and calm because God is taking care of you. 241 00:13:48,450 --> 00:13:49,970 That's what real peace is. 242 00:13:51,090 --> 00:13:55,810 You're only able to show love whenever there's a need. 243 00:13:56,850 --> 00:14:01,730 You're only able to really show love whenever there is someone 244 00:14:01,730 --> 00:14:03,330 who needs that love. 245 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:05,840 That is a pressure point. 246 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,520 And it is in those moments that when we are squeezed, you have 247 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:10,320 to ask that question. 248 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:11,440 What comes out? 249 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,760 Well, what came out of King Saul? 250 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,400 Well, his pride, his insecurity, his. 251 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:25,200 His fear and what was really raging on the inside, that's what 252 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,880 came out of King Saul. 253 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:32,170 And then we come here to this spear in his hand, number one. 254 00:14:32,330 --> 00:14:37,050 Saul's jealousy became fear and spiritual torment. 255 00:14:38,490 --> 00:14:43,970 Whenever he is sitting here at the, the throne room with his spear 256 00:14:43,970 --> 00:14:50,890 in hand, he begins to be attacked, so to speak. 257 00:14:51,050 --> 00:14:54,810 It says here in verse number 10 that the evil spirit from God 258 00:14:54,890 --> 00:14:58,400 came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house. 259 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,000 And David played with his hand, as at other times. 260 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,200 You will remember this from chapters before where David, they 261 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,880 called for a person who was skilled with the harp to come in 262 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,720 and play and soothe the song. 263 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,200 And that always worked before. 264 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,920 David had already done this before. 265 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,480 Music was the soothing note. 266 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,840 What is the prophesying that Saul did? 267 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,960 That's some of the questions that we get. 268 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,520 We get a few different questions here. 269 00:15:25,060 --> 00:15:26,820 Says here that he prophesied. 270 00:15:26,980 --> 00:15:30,740 It says that the evil spirit from God came upon him. 271 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:33,940 And then you also probably have to ask the question, why, why 272 00:15:33,940 --> 00:15:36,020 was there a javelin in his hand to begin with? 273 00:15:37,060 --> 00:15:39,180 That, that would be probably another good question. 274 00:15:39,180 --> 00:15:43,300 You know, you're supposed to appease the king, but be careful. 275 00:15:43,540 --> 00:15:45,380 He's got a javelin in his hand. 276 00:15:45,540 --> 00:15:48,980 I think all of us would look at that and take it with some regard. 277 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:51,830 We would probably go in very carefully. 278 00:15:52,150 --> 00:15:55,550 You know, that's a lot of people, you know, they, they look 279 00:15:55,550 --> 00:15:58,790 at this, this passage and they say, well, why did King Saul recognize 280 00:15:58,950 --> 00:16:01,470 David from the other times that he played the harp in front 281 00:16:01,470 --> 00:16:01,910 of him? 282 00:16:01,990 --> 00:16:03,950 And some people will say, well, maybe because, you know, he 283 00:16:03,950 --> 00:16:07,030 played behind a curtain, he wasn't allowed into the king's presence. 284 00:16:07,350 --> 00:16:08,430 You know, it's the king. 285 00:16:08,430 --> 00:16:11,030 You're not just allowed to go in there willy nilly. 286 00:16:11,110 --> 00:16:12,390 So he's behind a curtain. 287 00:16:12,710 --> 00:16:15,910 So maybe that's what was happening and he didn't recognize 288 00:16:15,910 --> 00:16:16,390 David. 289 00:16:16,980 --> 00:16:21,380 But anyways, David comes in and he has that javelin in his hand 290 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:27,940 and it says that King Saul prophesied and that an evil spirit 291 00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:29,700 from God came upon him. 292 00:16:29,860 --> 00:16:34,020 Now, the way that we normally look at prophecy, we normally look 293 00:16:34,020 --> 00:16:34,340 at. 294 00:16:34,740 --> 00:16:37,940 We see different examples of this with King Samuel prophesying. 295 00:16:38,260 --> 00:16:41,780 We look at other prophets who would prophesy. 296 00:16:42,220 --> 00:16:47,060 We looked at even at the beginning of King Saul's rule, whenever 297 00:16:47,060 --> 00:16:52,140 they asked, is King Saul among the prophets because he was prophesying. 298 00:16:52,380 --> 00:16:56,940 And usually prophesying is in the sense of a good thing. 299 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:02,620 They are prophesying not in the sense of foretelling the future, 300 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:07,660 you'll understand, but rather in the sense of proclaiming what 301 00:17:07,740 --> 00:17:08,860 God has said. 302 00:17:09,430 --> 00:17:14,510 That can include like the prophets who as. 303 00:17:14,510 --> 00:17:18,950 As the prophet Daniel prophesied of the future to come. 304 00:17:19,190 --> 00:17:21,830 That can be foretelling what will come. 305 00:17:21,910 --> 00:17:25,670 But it means that they were speaking the words of God. 306 00:17:25,990 --> 00:17:28,950 But there's another definition of this word prophecy. 307 00:17:29,270 --> 00:17:37,030 This word to prophesy doesn't necessarily mean in a good sense, 308 00:17:37,110 --> 00:17:38,550 in every single term. 309 00:17:38,710 --> 00:17:43,830 It is simply meaning you're under the influence of spirit. 310 00:17:45,590 --> 00:17:49,390 I will not say the spirit, I won't say a spirit, but you are under 311 00:17:49,390 --> 00:17:51,510 the influence of spirit. 312 00:17:51,750 --> 00:17:53,030 It is spirit control. 313 00:17:53,430 --> 00:17:54,270 That is what they did. 314 00:17:54,270 --> 00:17:58,110 They sung praises, they pronounced a divine proclamation 315 00:17:58,110 --> 00:18:00,870 that God wanted them that would put me put in their mouths. 316 00:18:01,470 --> 00:18:07,150 And in a sense, it was not necessarily a. 317 00:18:14,350 --> 00:18:17,710 Was not necessarily this calm action. 318 00:18:18,910 --> 00:18:23,590 This would have been a scene, okay, when someone proclaimed this 319 00:18:23,590 --> 00:18:27,070 was a serious thing, they were proclaiming what God was saying. 320 00:18:27,460 --> 00:18:29,500 This was not something that was casual. 321 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:32,660 It was something that was serious to be taken underneath. 322 00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:33,380 It was. 323 00:18:33,380 --> 00:18:34,900 Inspiration happened. 324 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:37,300 It was a raving. 325 00:18:37,300 --> 00:18:40,180 In some ways it was, we're going to sing the praises of God 326 00:18:40,180 --> 00:18:41,940 and we're going to also pronounce God's words. 327 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:45,860 So in some ways, there's a little bit of chaos in this. 328 00:18:46,740 --> 00:18:53,100 This prophesying, though we read, comes not because God's spirit 329 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:55,340 is resting on King Saul. 330 00:18:55,740 --> 00:18:58,940 We already read that the past chapters that God's spirit was taken 331 00:18:59,180 --> 00:19:00,060 from Saul. 332 00:19:00,060 --> 00:19:07,580 And we see here that an evil spirit came on Saul and it says that 333 00:19:07,580 --> 00:19:09,500 this evil spirit came from God. 334 00:19:09,740 --> 00:19:11,580 So this is more questions. 335 00:19:12,060 --> 00:19:21,380 Saul's rebellion against what God had told him to do made him forfeit 336 00:19:21,940 --> 00:19:25,380 the power of the spirit on his life. 337 00:19:26,420 --> 00:19:28,340 That's what Samuel told. 338 00:19:29,140 --> 00:19:32,620 Now you'll have to remember going back whenever Saul was first 339 00:19:32,620 --> 00:19:33,300 chosen. 340 00:19:33,380 --> 00:19:36,420 What was Saul like whenever he was chosen? 341 00:19:36,820 --> 00:19:37,940 He was courageous. 342 00:19:38,020 --> 00:19:41,460 He stepped up front and center and Said I want to be king, right? 343 00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:44,180 No, he was hiding in the stuff. 344 00:19:44,580 --> 00:19:46,020 He had no leadership. 345 00:19:46,390 --> 00:19:48,230 He lost his dad's donkeys. 346 00:19:48,870 --> 00:19:51,110 I mean the guy wasn't put together. 347 00:19:51,910 --> 00:19:53,830 And now he became king. 348 00:19:54,710 --> 00:19:59,910 And all the people were like, okay, Saul's the king. 349 00:20:00,150 --> 00:20:05,310 And then Saul started to step out of character and he started to 350 00:20:05,310 --> 00:20:07,030 lead these people. 351 00:20:07,350 --> 00:20:12,790 Remember, he gathered them all up and everyone came together underneath 352 00:20:12,790 --> 00:20:15,710 his leadership to fight against the Philistine. 353 00:20:16,270 --> 00:20:21,950 This was a man who exhibited extreme giftedness in leadership 354 00:20:22,350 --> 00:20:25,950 and in all areas of being a king. 355 00:20:26,990 --> 00:20:28,270 What was the big deal? 356 00:20:28,590 --> 00:20:30,190 The spirit of God was on him. 357 00:20:31,390 --> 00:20:33,950 The spirit of God was empowering Saul. 358 00:20:34,270 --> 00:20:39,750 It was molding, making him, enabling him to do all the things 359 00:20:39,750 --> 00:20:41,440 that God has called us to do. 360 00:20:41,750 --> 00:20:44,550 Called him to do in the same thing would be with us. 361 00:20:45,430 --> 00:20:47,030 We are called to do something. 362 00:20:47,350 --> 00:20:49,030 We need the spirit's help. 363 00:20:49,190 --> 00:20:53,710 We need to be empowered and enabled in order to do what God has 364 00:20:53,710 --> 00:20:54,550 called us to do. 365 00:20:55,350 --> 00:21:00,230 For the past, I don't know, like three, three months there from 366 00:21:00,230 --> 00:21:05,750 April, February to April, I went out looking for business for 367 00:21:06,150 --> 00:21:07,670 my photography and video business. 368 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:15,340 And I went to every single place I could possibly canvass to 369 00:21:15,340 --> 00:21:16,100 try to sell. 370 00:21:16,580 --> 00:21:20,660 I went to so many places and none of those people bought for me. 371 00:21:21,380 --> 00:21:23,860 Why, why was I hindered? 372 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:26,420 Well, what had to happen? 373 00:21:27,060 --> 00:21:29,500 That wasn't what God's plan was for my life. 374 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:33,820 I had better success and other days before this when it was perfectly 375 00:21:33,820 --> 00:21:37,580 within God's plan, plan and will for me to, to be working in. 376 00:21:37,740 --> 00:21:40,780 But I got to thinking about this about a week ago. 377 00:21:40,940 --> 00:21:43,580 Why in the world did no one buy from me? 378 00:21:44,460 --> 00:21:45,300 Why, why did. 379 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:48,340 I went to so many people, I went to restaurants, I went, I, I 380 00:21:48,340 --> 00:21:49,980 mean I had great portfolio. 381 00:21:49,980 --> 00:21:50,460 I had. 382 00:21:50,620 --> 00:21:51,500 What happened? 383 00:21:52,060 --> 00:21:55,340 I wasn't, didn't go in there with unconfident. 384 00:21:55,420 --> 00:21:56,780 What happened? 385 00:21:56,940 --> 00:21:58,300 Well, I'll tell you what happened. 386 00:21:58,300 --> 00:22:02,810 God prevented that from actually happening. 387 00:22:03,450 --> 00:22:07,210 I went and signed up for a job that I was supposed to get. 388 00:22:08,010 --> 00:22:09,610 I matched all the criteria. 389 00:22:10,090 --> 00:22:12,730 I matched the character of what they wanted. 390 00:22:13,450 --> 00:22:18,090 I matched the lifestyle, the culture, everything perfect. 391 00:22:18,330 --> 00:22:23,050 None of that went through, none of that was successful. 392 00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:29,960 And I thought to myself, why God didn't want God did not desire 393 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:31,720 for that to happen. 394 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,960 What do you do whenever God doesn't want you to do something? 395 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,120 And that point is a point in of itself. 396 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:47,240 But then to understand how reliant we are on God for everything 397 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:48,840 was a bombshell to me. 398 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:55,060 I need to be asking God for his help in every single little thing. 399 00:22:55,060 --> 00:22:57,260 Because he is my enabler. 400 00:22:57,420 --> 00:22:59,020 He is the Strength. 401 00:22:59,180 --> 00:23:01,980 He is what's going to give me any kind of confidence. 402 00:23:02,140 --> 00:23:03,900 He is the one who is going to do. 403 00:23:04,220 --> 00:23:06,220 And that's what Saul was getting. 404 00:23:06,860 --> 00:23:08,619 Saul was getting enabled. 405 00:23:08,619 --> 00:23:15,020 And he didn't know all of his strength and the source of his power, 406 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:16,380 his success. 407 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:21,560 It was all in God enabling him to do that. 408 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:23,480 You know, you. 409 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,640 You can say, you know, you're in sales, so you know, you're relying 410 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,360 on yourselves to get your income. 411 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:33,240 Well, no where you're relying on God, you can have a job for. 412 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,560 I mean, a good salary job, and it's all laid out. 413 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,360 You get paid this much, you have these duties, the paycheck's 414 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:40,080 always going to be there. 415 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:41,480 And you think, well, I'm secure. 416 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:44,360 You're secure. 417 00:23:44,910 --> 00:23:47,390 You're about as secure as God wants you to be secure. 418 00:23:48,030 --> 00:23:50,830 What's stopping you from falling down and breaking your knees 419 00:23:50,990 --> 00:23:54,510 and literally being paralyzed and not being able to go to work 420 00:23:54,510 --> 00:23:55,230 the next day? 421 00:23:55,550 --> 00:23:59,510 There's nothing but God himself who enables us to do everything 422 00:23:59,510 --> 00:24:00,110 that we have. 423 00:24:00,350 --> 00:24:03,790 Everything that we have is because of the mercy and the blessing 424 00:24:03,790 --> 00:24:04,270 of God. 425 00:24:04,350 --> 00:24:06,430 It comes because God is good. 426 00:24:06,990 --> 00:24:11,390 It came on Saul because that God was good to him. 427 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,480 Now that's not there anymore. 428 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,240 Now Saul is not enabled to be courageous. 429 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,560 Now Saul is not enabled to have administration underneath his 430 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,040 belt and be in the spirit of leadership. 431 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,560 Saul's rebellion left him spiritually tormented. 432 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:37,440 And what happened to Saul was the natural progression, the natural 433 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:43,860 progress, consequence to what can happen to anyone. 434 00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:48,660 Now, what I mean by that is life has consequence. 435 00:24:49,620 --> 00:24:57,020 God, thankfully, does not allow us to experience all of the 436 00:24:57,020 --> 00:25:00,980 consequences of every single action that we. 437 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:05,170 Or else I tell you, I would not be there's mercy. 438 00:25:05,730 --> 00:25:08,650 That doesn't mean that God has to you. 439 00:25:08,650 --> 00:25:10,290 You understand that. 440 00:25:10,290 --> 00:25:14,050 King Pharaoh hardened his heart continually. 441 00:25:14,290 --> 00:25:16,610 He hardened his heart again. 442 00:25:16,690 --> 00:25:18,770 He hardened his heart again. 443 00:25:19,090 --> 00:25:21,650 This is what King Pharaoh wanted. 444 00:25:21,970 --> 00:25:23,890 And so God said, okay, have it. 445 00:25:25,090 --> 00:25:25,930 Harden your heart. 446 00:25:25,930 --> 00:25:27,210 I will harden it for you. 447 00:25:27,210 --> 00:25:27,970 It's done. 448 00:25:28,530 --> 00:25:31,530 That's what God does in circumstances. 449 00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:34,250 Some circumstances in over. 450 00:25:34,250 --> 00:25:36,730 In Romans, chapter one, we read about this. 451 00:25:36,730 --> 00:25:43,930 How God gives them over to what they have indulged him, that 452 00:25:44,090 --> 00:25:45,729 you are wanting this. 453 00:25:45,729 --> 00:25:46,970 Okay, have it. 454 00:25:47,930 --> 00:25:48,570 Take it. 455 00:25:49,530 --> 00:25:51,210 Have the natural consequences. 456 00:25:51,850 --> 00:25:53,770 You don't get my protection anymore. 457 00:25:53,770 --> 00:25:55,290 That's what happened to Saul here. 458 00:25:56,710 --> 00:26:02,710 What Saul had was a position without God's presence. 459 00:26:04,070 --> 00:26:10,550 He had a position without God's empowerment. 460 00:26:11,110 --> 00:26:19,110 And what that led to was someone who was susceptible to temptation, 461 00:26:19,750 --> 00:26:24,460 someone who was susceptible to evil, and someone who ultimately 462 00:26:24,780 --> 00:26:27,500 was going to receive the end of their consequences. 463 00:26:29,580 --> 00:26:31,620 Saul still possessed the throne. 464 00:26:31,620 --> 00:26:35,300 But he no longer enjoyed that in spiritual empowerment that once 465 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:36,060 accompanied. 466 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:40,460 And so this evil spirit comes upon God. 467 00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:43,780 Comes rather upon Saul from God. 468 00:26:43,780 --> 00:26:44,860 But what does that mean? 469 00:26:45,180 --> 00:26:47,980 Does that mean that God sends evil spirit? 470 00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:51,500 Wouldn't that therefore make God evil? 471 00:26:51,660 --> 00:26:53,660 Is that what is happening here? 472 00:26:53,740 --> 00:26:56,140 Turn over in Your Bibles to First King, Chapter 22. 473 00:26:56,700 --> 00:27:03,820 There's an interesting story, First kings, chapter 22. 474 00:27:10,380 --> 00:27:19,800 And in this story the prophet Micaiah is prophesying the way he 475 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:20,720 is supposed to. 476 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,880 And he tells Ahab that your doom is coming upon you. 477 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,840 And all these other prophets are saying, no dooms coming upon 478 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:29,440 you, Ahab. 479 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:30,560 Don't worry about it. 480 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,320 And the prophet Micaiah says, yeah, they are. 481 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,600 And in fact I know firsthand exactly what is happening. 482 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,240 All these prophets are all saying the same thing is because 483 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,710 there's a lying spirit in their mouth. 484 00:27:44,710 --> 00:27:46,070 Look there in verse number 19 it says. 485 00:27:46,070 --> 00:27:48,750 And he, he said, hear thou therefore the word of the Lord. 486 00:27:48,750 --> 00:27:52,030 I saw the Lord sitting on the throne and all the hosts of handings 487 00:27:52,190 --> 00:27:55,550 of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. 488 00:27:55,950 --> 00:28:00,470 And the Lord said, who shall persuade Ahab that he may go up and 489 00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:02,110 fall at Ramoth Gilead? 490 00:28:02,350 --> 00:28:05,030 And one said on this manner and another on that manner. 491 00:28:05,030 --> 00:28:07,950 And there came, for the spirit stood before the Lord and said, I 492 00:28:07,950 --> 00:28:08,750 will persuade him. 493 00:28:08,990 --> 00:28:10,510 And the Lord said unto him wherewith? 494 00:28:10,510 --> 00:28:13,230 And he said, I will go forth and I will be a lying spirit in the 495 00:28:13,230 --> 00:28:14,270 mouth of all his prophets. 496 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,240 And he said, thou shalt persuade him and prevail also. 497 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:18,600 Go forth. 498 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,320 Do so. 499 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,320 Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the 500 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:23,760 mouth of all these thy prophets. 501 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,080 And the Lord has spoken evil concerning thee. 502 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:37,800 So this lying spirit goes forth and puts this lying word in 503 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,120 all of these prophets. 504 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,720 Now who was this lying spirit? 505 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,320 Well, Number one, we understand that God in him no evil 506 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:47,960 dwell. 507 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,560 That would be our first basis whenever we reach these hard passages 508 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:53,400 of scripture. 509 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,680 We have to interpret scripture by what we already know God to be. 510 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:57,320 And true. 511 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,120 So who is this lying spirit? 512 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,080 This lion spirit could have been Satan. 513 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,000 We understand that spirits would frequently come forward before 514 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,000 the throne of God. 515 00:29:09,230 --> 00:29:12,190 And when asked, God, can I do this? 516 00:29:12,670 --> 00:29:14,430 You're familiar with the passage of Job. 517 00:29:14,590 --> 00:29:18,510 The sons of God came and presented themselves before God. 518 00:29:18,910 --> 00:29:22,350 And he asked them, what have you been doing? 519 00:29:22,830 --> 00:29:25,150 Give an account for what you've been doing. 520 00:29:25,630 --> 00:29:31,230 And then the permission that Satan receives to go and tempt Job. 521 00:29:32,430 --> 00:29:39,430 So there is the permission that that is granted by God by someone 522 00:29:39,430 --> 00:29:41,470 who is evil to do something. 523 00:29:41,790 --> 00:29:44,270 And we have to ask the question, well, why would God allow 524 00:29:44,270 --> 00:29:44,670 that? 525 00:29:45,710 --> 00:29:50,510 The definition of peace is the fruit of the spirit could be summed 526 00:29:50,510 --> 00:29:55,390 up in this free from harm in body, soul and spirit. 527 00:29:56,350 --> 00:30:00,350 What we often view as harmful to us in our life. 528 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,840 Did you know that God doesn't do it? 529 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:08,640 It's hard, the breaking of our outer man to reveal the image of 530 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:09,000 Christ. 531 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,920 That's never a comfortable thing. 532 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,400 That's never something that is easy. 533 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,080 It hurts, it's miserable at times. 534 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,160 We pray for things to pass. 535 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,480 We pray for hardship to go away. 536 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,640 We pray that God would provide and rescue us out of this need. 537 00:30:26,770 --> 00:30:30,050 And we view it as harmful. 538 00:30:30,930 --> 00:30:36,210 Does God view as harmful as he sees the inner man, as he sees Christ 539 00:30:36,610 --> 00:30:37,570 breaking forth? 540 00:30:38,770 --> 00:30:39,170 No. 541 00:30:40,210 --> 00:30:46,290 Did God view what Satan was doing to Job as harmful? 542 00:30:48,130 --> 00:30:48,770 He did. 543 00:30:49,410 --> 00:30:54,620 Satan thought it was Satan was giddy over what he was going to get 544 00:30:54,620 --> 00:30:57,340 to do to one of God's precious servants. 545 00:30:58,220 --> 00:31:02,220 And yet God said, no, this is okay. 546 00:31:03,260 --> 00:31:04,380 This is okay, Job. 547 00:31:05,340 --> 00:31:06,540 This is for your good. 548 00:31:07,660 --> 00:31:10,540 And that's what it means to be conformed to the image of Christ 549 00:31:11,020 --> 00:31:12,860 that all things work together for. 550 00:31:14,060 --> 00:31:17,460 And so whenever we come to some of these passages, we have to 551 00:31:17,460 --> 00:31:21,840 understand what God allows into our life. 552 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,720 Doesn't necessarily mean that God is automatically evil because 553 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,720 he allowed it, or every bad thing. 554 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,440 We would say, well, God's evil for this, God's evil for that. 555 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,880 It says in verse number five of Isaiah, chapter 45, I am the Lord 556 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,200 God and there is none else. 557 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,000 There is no God beside me. 558 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,760 I girded the though thou has not known me. 559 00:31:44,610 --> 00:31:48,890 Speaking of King Cyrus, he says that they may know from the 560 00:31:48,890 --> 00:31:51,730 rising of the sun from these that there is none beside me. 561 00:31:51,730 --> 00:31:55,010 I am the Lord and there is none else. 562 00:31:55,090 --> 00:31:58,290 Trying to drive home this point of there are no other Gods. 563 00:31:58,690 --> 00:32:01,410 There is no good God, There is no bad God. 564 00:32:01,490 --> 00:32:04,210 Satan is not the opposite of God. 565 00:32:04,690 --> 00:32:09,730 He is himself and only the one on earth. 566 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,200 And then he says, I form the light and create darkness. 567 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,000 I make peace and create evil. 568 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,440 I, the Lord, do all these things. 569 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:29,320 What Isaiah is trying to reign in and home in on is this one point. 570 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,880 There is no dualistic God. 571 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,400 It is God is in control. 572 00:32:36,550 --> 00:32:41,990 It is not two forces working in a sense of yin and yang, good 573 00:32:41,990 --> 00:32:42,710 and bad. 574 00:32:42,790 --> 00:32:49,510 No, there is one God who allows and controls all things. 575 00:32:50,870 --> 00:32:57,870 That is the trust that you and I must then therefore hate you And 576 00:32:57,870 --> 00:33:00,790 I have to trust in who God is. 577 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:07,160 The book of James says that in him is no darkness whatsoever, that 578 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,760 there is no shadow of turning, no variableness. 579 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:10,840 There's no changing. 580 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:15,840 He is the good and gracious God from eternity past who does not 581 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:16,160 change. 582 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:23,640 The evil is calamity that comes in our life, the evil that 583 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:24,960 comes in Saul's life. 584 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:32,150 At this moment, Saul is besieged by some evil spirit who 585 00:33:32,150 --> 00:33:35,630 was allowed to influence his life. 586 00:33:36,030 --> 00:33:42,630 He was besieged by some evil influence that wanted to hurt God's 587 00:33:42,630 --> 00:33:43,150 servant. 588 00:33:43,550 --> 00:33:47,310 And that's what happens in the life of Saul. 589 00:33:47,310 --> 00:33:53,070 Here he is given over to the natural consequences of his sin. 590 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:58,440 He's given over to the natural consequence of the direction of his 591 00:33:58,680 --> 00:33:59,080 life. 592 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,320 Saul is given over to this evil spirit. 593 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:09,160 And then of course, because of that influence depressing him, pushing 594 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:13,160 him down, not necessarily making him put and pick up the spear 595 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:14,360 and throwing it. 596 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:24,649 But King Saul goes in an, in a way, acts on his anger, acts on all 597 00:34:24,649 --> 00:34:29,369 the things that are bubbling up to his mind about this David playing 598 00:34:29,369 --> 00:34:30,289 for him now. 599 00:34:30,369 --> 00:34:31,729 Who does he think he is? 600 00:34:31,889 --> 00:34:35,649 Who is this David that is trying to take over the kingdom? 601 00:34:35,969 --> 00:34:38,889 And he's just, it's, it's literally just fuming in his mind. 602 00:34:38,889 --> 00:34:42,729 And then of course, the, the specter is thrown, the javelin is 603 00:34:42,729 --> 00:34:43,089 thrown. 604 00:34:44,129 --> 00:34:48,349 At this very moment, Saul begins that assault which he did, 605 00:34:48,349 --> 00:34:51,029 goes until just about the end of his life. 606 00:34:52,469 --> 00:34:55,389 At this very moment that Saul launches this assault. 607 00:34:55,389 --> 00:34:56,469 What is David doing? 608 00:34:57,269 --> 00:34:59,949 He's found doing what he's been called to do. 609 00:34:59,949 --> 00:35:03,309 He's faithful in his servant, performing the duties that the king 610 00:35:03,309 --> 00:35:05,029 had commandment commanded. 611 00:35:05,509 --> 00:35:08,629 David had chosen to submit to the king. 612 00:35:08,869 --> 00:35:11,749 You have to think about where David is at this point in his life. 613 00:35:11,749 --> 00:35:14,270 He's killed Goliath, he's leading armies. 614 00:35:14,350 --> 00:35:18,510 Saul is causing him to come out and go wherever he tells him 615 00:35:18,510 --> 00:35:18,830 to. 616 00:35:18,830 --> 00:35:22,710 He's got a nice position now, and now he's back in the throne room 617 00:35:22,710 --> 00:35:23,870 playing on the har. 618 00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:31,590 Instead of maybe perhaps being filled with pride over his new positions, 619 00:35:31,590 --> 00:35:35,750 he's submitting to the king instead of being filled with pride 620 00:35:35,750 --> 00:35:36,670 over that new position. 621 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,560 And what we get from this is another glimpse into the character 622 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,320 of who David is. 623 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,560 And then maybe perhaps into our own character and question that 624 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:55,800 we would ask ourselves, is whatever happens in our life, where 625 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,400 did we receive that goodness from? 626 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:05,180 Or where did we get blessed from that? 627 00:36:05,180 --> 00:36:05,940 With whom? 628 00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:10,340 Who was the one who blessed us with that goodness? 629 00:36:10,420 --> 00:36:15,140 And the question is, do we maintain our own integrity? 630 00:36:15,780 --> 00:36:20,740 Do we still retain our sense of humility? 631 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:27,140 Or are we rather, in Saul's case, given over to pride? 632 00:36:27,460 --> 00:36:32,140 We remain accountable for our character regardless of how we're 633 00:36:32,140 --> 00:36:36,180 treated now in some of our situations. 634 00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:39,380 If you were in this throne room Playing for song. 635 00:36:39,860 --> 00:36:42,100 And this javelin was thrown at you. 636 00:36:42,820 --> 00:36:44,500 Put yourself in David's shoes. 637 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:45,860 What would you have done? 638 00:36:47,060 --> 00:36:48,940 Some of us, we might have. 639 00:36:48,940 --> 00:36:49,580 I mean, you think about. 640 00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:51,060 David's a seasoned warrior, right? 641 00:36:51,780 --> 00:36:54,180 Some of us may have thought, well, David should have just picked 642 00:36:54,180 --> 00:36:55,540 the spear up and threw it back. 643 00:36:55,780 --> 00:36:56,820 You want to kill me? 644 00:36:57,270 --> 00:36:59,190 I mean, we could see David doing that. 645 00:36:59,190 --> 00:37:02,350 We could see perhaps him saying, you know, king Saul, you 646 00:37:02,350 --> 00:37:03,510 just threw that at me. 647 00:37:04,390 --> 00:37:08,070 You know, I stood up to Goliath and I was not afraid. 648 00:37:08,470 --> 00:37:11,190 And God slew Goliath by my hands. 649 00:37:11,190 --> 00:37:13,110 What would stop me from slaying you? 650 00:37:13,110 --> 00:37:14,790 Who would try to kill me now? 651 00:37:15,590 --> 00:37:17,510 Yeah, that's not what David does. 652 00:37:18,150 --> 00:37:23,500 It says here that he escaped out of that circumstance twice. 653 00:37:24,860 --> 00:37:26,020 So get this. 654 00:37:26,020 --> 00:37:31,740 He gets the spear thrown at him, and he says, I didn't play hard 655 00:37:31,740 --> 00:37:32,060 enough. 656 00:37:32,060 --> 00:37:33,980 I guess I got to play a little bit different. 657 00:37:34,140 --> 00:37:37,020 And so he switches notes and tries to play some more. 658 00:37:37,580 --> 00:37:39,340 Says he gets thrown twice. 659 00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:40,380 Yeah. 660 00:37:40,940 --> 00:37:42,620 What would you do in that situation? 661 00:37:43,740 --> 00:37:46,860 Saul feared verse number 12. 662 00:37:47,420 --> 00:37:48,860 That's what happens with Saul. 663 00:37:49,210 --> 00:37:54,450 He fears because he sees someone who isn't reacting the way 664 00:37:54,450 --> 00:37:57,770 that he would have reacted. 665 00:37:57,930 --> 00:38:02,050 He sees someone who the Lord is upon. 666 00:38:02,050 --> 00:38:05,209 And look there in verse number 12, it says, Saul was afraid of David 667 00:38:05,209 --> 00:38:09,610 because the Lord was with him and was departed from Saul. 668 00:38:10,010 --> 00:38:14,490 He was afraid of this person who he could not provoke. 669 00:38:15,380 --> 00:38:20,820 Saul had the position without God's presence, and David had God's 670 00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:22,420 presence without the position. 671 00:38:23,780 --> 00:38:27,780 David was the one who was now being filled with the spirit. 672 00:38:28,580 --> 00:38:33,220 David was the one who God was working from. 673 00:38:33,460 --> 00:38:38,060 Saul's tear did not stem from David's prowess in battle or his 674 00:38:38,060 --> 00:38:39,060 fame among the people. 675 00:38:39,060 --> 00:38:42,420 Rather, he was unsettled because David possessed the very 676 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:46,380 thing that God had, the favor of God. 677 00:38:47,180 --> 00:38:49,020 David stood as a visible. 678 00:38:51,260 --> 00:38:59,420 A visible picture of what he was supposed to have and what he 679 00:38:59,660 --> 00:39:00,060 was. 680 00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:05,740 It showed Saul's own spiritual failure and his disobedience. 681 00:39:06,220 --> 00:39:10,380 We can imagine the thought process, process behind Saul's madness. 682 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,360 The question, this didn't used to happen. 683 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,560 I didn't used to feel like this. 684 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,520 I used to be a capable individual. 685 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:21,960 I used to be able to lead. 686 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,000 Why has the Lord's protection departed from me? 687 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,840 Why am I abandoned to the affliction of this evil spirit? 688 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:33,160 Does the Almighty not shield the one he is anointed as king? 689 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,320 The Lord preserved David from every violent assault. 690 00:39:38,310 --> 00:39:40,550 Jehovah is no longer standing with me. 691 00:39:41,110 --> 00:39:43,030 Instead he's standing with David. 692 00:39:43,190 --> 00:39:45,910 The favor of God remains upon David. 693 00:39:48,310 --> 00:39:53,469 The bombshell to Saul is that the Lord has rejected my house and 694 00:39:53,469 --> 00:39:56,790 established rather the son of Jesse. 695 00:39:57,510 --> 00:39:58,630 And then the alt. 696 00:39:58,790 --> 00:40:00,390 I must eliminate this. 697 00:40:01,830 --> 00:40:04,690 This person who would try to usurp my. 698 00:40:05,570 --> 00:40:09,330 You just see the madness raging inside of Saul. 699 00:40:09,330 --> 00:40:11,490 I must eliminate this threat. 700 00:40:11,570 --> 00:40:14,850 He's going to take my position as king. 701 00:40:14,930 --> 00:40:19,650 He's going to take my son's position as future king and wretch. 702 00:40:19,730 --> 00:40:22,130 Pull it out of my family's house. 703 00:40:22,610 --> 00:40:25,570 I have to eliminate and face with this conviction. 704 00:40:25,730 --> 00:40:29,330 Saul then still even at this point, has two paths. 705 00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:32,700 He could humble himself in repentance and yield to the Lord's 706 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:33,340 sovereignty. 707 00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:38,540 And the second, he could strive to destroy the one who enjoyed 708 00:40:38,540 --> 00:40:40,140 the blessing that he had lost. 709 00:40:40,140 --> 00:40:43,340 And tragically, Saul chooses this second path. 710 00:40:44,380 --> 00:40:47,660 And that's the kind of path that you and I face. 711 00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:52,220 Do we accept God in his sovereignty for what he has done 712 00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:57,130 or what he is doing or will do, or do we reject it? 713 00:40:57,690 --> 00:41:02,130 I believe it's by a guy named by the name of Dr. Don Sisk. 714 00:41:02,130 --> 00:41:04,650 He has a book that says, bitter or better. 715 00:41:05,210 --> 00:41:08,370 You know, when life circumstances come, that is your 716 00:41:08,370 --> 00:41:08,890 option. 717 00:41:09,770 --> 00:41:13,130 Rough times, you're going to become bitter or are you going to 718 00:41:13,130 --> 00:41:14,170 become better? 719 00:41:14,810 --> 00:41:16,090 Saul becomes bitter. 720 00:41:16,330 --> 00:41:18,810 Saul tries to then lay out traps. 721 00:41:19,290 --> 00:41:20,570 But David is blessed. 722 00:41:21,860 --> 00:41:22,100 Why? 723 00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:27,220 Well, because David prospered because the Lord was with him. 724 00:41:27,380 --> 00:41:28,820 It says there in verse number 13. 725 00:41:29,140 --> 00:41:32,260 Therefore Saul removed him from him and made him his captain 726 00:41:32,260 --> 00:41:32,900 over a thousand. 727 00:41:32,980 --> 00:41:35,060 He went out and came in before the people. 728 00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:37,660 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways, and the Lord 729 00:41:37,660 --> 00:41:38,340 was with him. 730 00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:43,060 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he 731 00:41:43,060 --> 00:41:44,820 was afraid of him again. 732 00:41:45,060 --> 00:41:50,870 It's amazing how many times that fear comes up in this passage 733 00:41:50,950 --> 00:41:52,470 of Saul's afraid. 734 00:41:52,710 --> 00:41:53,670 Saul eyes. 735 00:41:53,670 --> 00:41:56,390 Saul is even more afraid here in verse number 15. 736 00:41:56,390 --> 00:41:58,390 The fact that he says he was afraid of him. 737 00:41:58,470 --> 00:42:01,030 This was that awe, striking fear. 738 00:42:01,510 --> 00:42:04,150 It was that, that wow. 739 00:42:04,310 --> 00:42:07,030 I. I'm so afraid of this individual. 740 00:42:07,030 --> 00:42:08,950 But it's in a sense of amazement. 741 00:42:09,350 --> 00:42:12,070 It is a striking fear. 742 00:42:12,590 --> 00:42:16,110 But verse number 7:16 says, but all Israel and Judah loved David 743 00:42:16,350 --> 00:42:18,150 because he went out and came in before them. 744 00:42:18,150 --> 00:42:21,950 And Saul said to David, behold my elder daughter Mara. 745 00:42:22,030 --> 00:42:24,670 Her I will give thee to wife only be thou valiant for me, and 746 00:42:24,670 --> 00:42:28,350 fight the Lord's battles, for I will give thee to wife. 747 00:42:29,230 --> 00:42:32,510 For Saul said, let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of 748 00:42:32,510 --> 00:42:34,510 the Philistines be upon him. 749 00:42:34,990 --> 00:42:39,730 Saul's terror intensified as David prosper. 750 00:42:40,290 --> 00:42:42,970 The hearts of the people, they're knit with David. 751 00:42:42,970 --> 00:42:47,570 And Saul is increasingly fearing him more and more. 752 00:42:48,210 --> 00:42:51,010 And there in comes the deadly traps. 753 00:42:51,410 --> 00:42:54,770 Saul begins to devise these lethal snares. 754 00:42:54,770 --> 00:42:57,090 And you see how he devises. 755 00:42:57,650 --> 00:43:02,530 He puts it in so many ways, of, this is for the good of Israel. 756 00:43:02,610 --> 00:43:04,050 You've done this once, David. 757 00:43:04,410 --> 00:43:05,930 You've went up against Goliath. 758 00:43:06,090 --> 00:43:08,890 Now will you not continue to fight the Lord's battles? 759 00:43:09,130 --> 00:43:11,130 But what was Saul's motivation? 760 00:43:11,450 --> 00:43:15,450 Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines 761 00:43:15,450 --> 00:43:16,650 be upon him. 762 00:43:17,370 --> 00:43:18,810 And this is an interesting point. 763 00:43:19,450 --> 00:43:23,690 Saul disguised murder as ministry. 764 00:43:24,330 --> 00:43:28,090 Saul disguised murder as ministry. 765 00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:36,340 Saul used the language of serving God to hide a private murderous 766 00:43:36,420 --> 00:43:37,140 agenda. 767 00:43:37,220 --> 00:43:38,820 Now, keep with me, because we're gonna. 768 00:43:38,820 --> 00:43:41,300 We're gonna hit this a little bit more with a different perspective. 769 00:43:42,180 --> 00:43:46,980 He said that you will be serving God in doing this. 770 00:43:47,060 --> 00:43:52,020 But privately he wanted this individual to be killed in the service. 771 00:43:54,100 --> 00:43:57,300 That is what we obviously would call spiritual manipulation. 772 00:43:57,970 --> 00:44:00,170 The public message was, fight the Lord's battles. 773 00:44:00,170 --> 00:44:02,810 The private motive was, I hope the Philistines kill it while he's 774 00:44:02,810 --> 00:44:03,170 out there. 775 00:44:03,970 --> 00:44:07,570 Religious language cannot make a selfish agenda righteous. 776 00:44:08,450 --> 00:44:12,850 This reminds us, or at least it reminds me all too well, of another 777 00:44:12,850 --> 00:44:18,970 spiritual manipulation that happens in the next book whenever 778 00:44:18,970 --> 00:44:22,290 we see David using spiritual manipulation. 779 00:44:22,370 --> 00:44:25,140 Go out and fight for me, Uriah. 780 00:44:25,460 --> 00:44:27,540 Go out and fight God's battle. 781 00:44:27,780 --> 00:44:32,500 It's interesting that the same thing that Saul tried to do when 782 00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:36,420 he was in sin and running from God, David. 783 00:44:36,420 --> 00:44:41,620 When David was in sin and running from God, trying to cover 784 00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:46,100 his tracks, he commits the same heinous crime. 785 00:44:47,620 --> 00:44:49,220 Here's my older daughter Miriam. 786 00:44:50,090 --> 00:44:53,530 Saul had promised to give his daughter to the man who killed Goliath. 787 00:44:54,970 --> 00:45:00,610 And in this, Saul decides to make good on that promise, offering 788 00:45:00,610 --> 00:45:02,410 the older daughter Marib to David. 789 00:45:02,570 --> 00:45:04,090 It was smart in the flesh. 790 00:45:04,490 --> 00:45:11,050 Said, this is going to be a snare to him if he goes out and fights 791 00:45:11,050 --> 00:45:12,330 against these Philistines. 792 00:45:12,490 --> 00:45:14,810 He may fall by these Philistines. 793 00:45:15,060 --> 00:45:17,140 But what do we see David do? 794 00:45:17,140 --> 00:45:19,300 Well, we see David and his. 795 00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:22,340 His response is a profound humility. 796 00:45:23,380 --> 00:45:26,140 David had already been anointed as Israel's future king, 797 00:45:26,140 --> 00:45:29,180 but he did not treat God's promise as an excuse for entitlement. 798 00:45:29,180 --> 00:45:33,940 He said, is it a little thing that I should be that my father and 799 00:45:34,100 --> 00:45:37,180 my family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king? 800 00:45:37,180 --> 00:45:39,220 There in verse 18, is that a little thing? 801 00:45:39,860 --> 00:45:44,380 Now, this was, in a way, in effect, small snare to David because 802 00:45:45,180 --> 00:45:50,780 this would be requiring of him to be able to afford a dowry. 803 00:45:50,780 --> 00:45:53,500 This could bankrupt David's family. 804 00:45:53,740 --> 00:45:56,180 So David didn't have a lot of wealth. 805 00:45:56,180 --> 00:45:58,780 He didn't have a lot of resources. 806 00:45:58,940 --> 00:46:00,540 This could literally bankrupt. 807 00:46:00,860 --> 00:46:04,540 He says, this isn't something necessarily that I am able to do. 808 00:46:05,260 --> 00:46:07,900 And then we see the, the. 809 00:46:07,980 --> 00:46:12,060 The gift taken back, if you will, there in verse number 19. 810 00:46:12,460 --> 00:46:14,900 But it came to pass at the time when Mirab, Saul's daughter, 811 00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:17,980 should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel 812 00:46:17,980 --> 00:46:19,980 the meholathite, to wife. 813 00:46:20,540 --> 00:46:25,219 So we see further the deceit and the disgrace that Saul tries 814 00:46:25,219 --> 00:46:26,780 to use against David. 815 00:46:27,260 --> 00:46:31,100 We see again another attack on David. 816 00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:37,780 In all of this I can't help but see Saul goading David, trying 817 00:46:37,780 --> 00:46:40,220 to get a reaction out of him. 818 00:46:40,540 --> 00:46:45,220 It's not don't let my hand be upon him, but rather let the Philistines 819 00:46:45,220 --> 00:46:46,540 hand be upon him. 820 00:46:46,620 --> 00:46:50,540 Well, maybe I can throw my spear at him and maybe he'll retaliate. 821 00:46:50,540 --> 00:46:51,580 He's a man of war. 822 00:46:52,060 --> 00:46:55,100 He is a man who is accomplished. 823 00:46:55,100 --> 00:46:56,780 He could defeat me very easily. 824 00:46:56,780 --> 00:46:58,060 Maybe he'll commit treason. 825 00:46:58,540 --> 00:47:01,820 Let me offer my daughter to him and then let me just take it 826 00:47:01,820 --> 00:47:02,140 back. 827 00:47:03,220 --> 00:47:04,820 All of this to go. 828 00:47:05,540 --> 00:47:12,500 Trying to go David into committing some heinous response. 829 00:47:13,220 --> 00:47:16,820 And that's what we see here, that David was wrong, but he refused 830 00:47:17,140 --> 00:47:20,980 to become wrong in response. 831 00:47:21,940 --> 00:47:27,060 How do we respond whenever circumstances in our life are like 832 00:47:27,060 --> 00:47:29,870 this, when people are goading us on? 833 00:47:30,190 --> 00:47:33,710 We can learn a lot from the way that David responded to Saul. 834 00:47:34,350 --> 00:47:37,350 He had been attacked physically, humiliated publicly, 835 00:47:37,350 --> 00:47:41,870 but still Saul could not provoke him into rebellious conduct. 836 00:47:43,949 --> 00:47:48,910 Then we see Michael, lastly, David's marriage to Michael. 837 00:47:49,710 --> 00:47:55,010 Again, another weaponization, if you will. 838 00:47:55,170 --> 00:48:00,610 Saul weaponized Michael's love and made her a snare to David. 839 00:48:00,850 --> 00:48:04,610 Again he says in verse number 20, Michael, Saul's daughter loved 840 00:48:04,610 --> 00:48:04,890 David. 841 00:48:04,890 --> 00:48:06,530 And they told Saul the thing pleased him. 842 00:48:06,530 --> 00:48:09,810 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, 843 00:48:09,889 --> 00:48:12,130 that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. 844 00:48:12,130 --> 00:48:15,530 Wherefore Saul said to David, thou shalt be this day my son in 845 00:48:15,530 --> 00:48:16,930 law, the one in the twain. 846 00:48:17,330 --> 00:48:20,860 And then again David's honor comes up and his humility I can't 847 00:48:20,860 --> 00:48:21,340 do this. 848 00:48:21,340 --> 00:48:22,580 Is it a light thing? 849 00:48:22,980 --> 00:48:27,380 And Saul's underhanded secretiveness comes out. 850 00:48:28,260 --> 00:48:33,340 Go servants and talk to David and get him and convince him to be 851 00:48:33,340 --> 00:48:35,940 my son so that this again would be a snare. 852 00:48:36,820 --> 00:48:39,780 And then David's honor I can't do this. 853 00:48:40,180 --> 00:48:41,780 I can't afford the dowry. 854 00:48:42,660 --> 00:48:44,900 And then the underhanded secret. 855 00:48:45,380 --> 00:48:47,750 The king, he doesn't require any doubt. 856 00:48:48,230 --> 00:48:53,350 Just, just go out and kill 100 philistines, skin them in an unconventional 857 00:48:53,350 --> 00:48:53,830 manner. 858 00:48:55,510 --> 00:48:59,790 And you do this, that'll be enough proof that you can be the 859 00:48:59,790 --> 00:49:01,470 son of King Saul. 860 00:49:01,470 --> 00:49:02,390 No dowry. 861 00:49:03,990 --> 00:49:05,750 And so David does. 862 00:49:06,630 --> 00:49:11,430 And so through all of this, we see Saul trying to manipulate his 863 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,360 his way into control. 864 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,640 Everyone literally became a pawn. 865 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,360 And Saul's struggle to maintain control, he David used, 866 00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:25,400 or Saul used, David's loyalty, Mar's marriage, Michael's love, his 867 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:30,600 own servants, the Philistine army, constantly trying to manipulate 868 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:35,800 David into doing something that would cause him to react against 869 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:41,960 him and so that he could get that control again, so that he could 870 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,560 be number one. 871 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:49,960 So that's what his motive and what we have to understand as Christians 872 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,440 is what are our modes look like? 873 00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:58,600 You know, tonight we've painted Saul a pretty horrible viewpoint. 874 00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,560 A lot of the things that he did was built off of manipulation, 875 00:50:04,910 --> 00:50:07,150 trying to maintain control. 876 00:50:07,950 --> 00:50:12,830 And really what we see is someone resisting the hand of God 877 00:50:13,630 --> 00:50:16,350 in everything that God was doing at that. 878 00:50:16,830 --> 00:50:21,790 And what it looks like whenever we resist what God? 879 00:50:22,350 --> 00:50:24,430 You remember that's what they said about the apostles. 880 00:50:25,150 --> 00:50:26,670 You can't fight against them. 881 00:50:26,670 --> 00:50:30,150 If this is of God, you'll be fighting against God. 882 00:50:30,630 --> 00:50:32,870 If it's of man, this will disperse. 883 00:50:33,110 --> 00:50:34,590 There will be no movement. 884 00:50:34,590 --> 00:50:36,270 This Jesus thing will go away. 885 00:50:36,270 --> 00:50:41,030 But if this is of God, beware, lest you be found fighting against 886 00:50:41,510 --> 00:50:41,990 God. 887 00:50:43,270 --> 00:50:47,190 God overruled every trap and caused David to rise. 888 00:50:47,670 --> 00:50:51,030 He was victorious over every snare. 889 00:50:51,590 --> 00:50:55,510 And the final outcome is resistance that Saul has. 890 00:50:55,590 --> 00:51:01,900 Resistance hardens Saul, but again, it cannot stop God's purpose. 891 00:51:02,380 --> 00:51:02,900 Look there. 892 00:51:02,900 --> 00:51:10,220 Verse number 28 says, Saul knew, he saw and knew that the Lord 893 00:51:10,380 --> 00:51:11,580 was with David. 894 00:51:11,580 --> 00:51:13,340 Saul did not lack evidence. 895 00:51:14,220 --> 00:51:19,220 He saw David's deliverance from his own hand, his wisdom under 896 00:51:19,220 --> 00:51:22,660 pressure, his military victories, his popularity among the 897 00:51:22,660 --> 00:51:26,880 people, his marriage into Saul's own family, his success in 898 00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,320 every single area, his continued divine preservation. 899 00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,600 Saul knew that the Lord was with David. 900 00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:36,360 He knew it. 901 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,320 But knowledge did not produce surrender. 902 00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:47,560 Imagine how much we know about God that people in the Old Testament 903 00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:48,200 didn't know. 904 00:51:49,330 --> 00:51:53,690 You know so much more as a Christian today than you did when 905 00:51:53,690 --> 00:51:54,770 you first got saved. 906 00:51:54,930 --> 00:51:56,610 How's that affected our surrender? 907 00:51:57,250 --> 00:52:01,770 How are we not surrender to God greatly because of all the stuff 908 00:52:01,770 --> 00:52:02,610 that we know? 909 00:52:03,330 --> 00:52:07,290 But Saul's a good picture here of knowledge does not necessarily 910 00:52:07,290 --> 00:52:08,690 mean surrender to God. 911 00:52:09,170 --> 00:52:12,690 Just because you know more about God or how God acts doesn't 912 00:52:12,690 --> 00:52:14,930 necessarily mean that you are surrendered to that. 913 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:17,720 How will you respond? 914 00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,040 Jonathan surrendered, David Steward. 915 00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:21,320 Saul resisted. 916 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,480 Are we resisting what God is doing? 917 00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,040 How did that work out for Saul? 918 00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:29,800 Saul's fear deepened. 919 00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:34,280 It says, and Saul was yet the more afraid of David. 920 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,560 Saul was yet more afraid of David. 921 00:52:41,490 --> 00:52:45,970 The repeated ideas through this is constantly the Lord is with 922 00:52:45,970 --> 00:52:46,450 David. 923 00:52:46,610 --> 00:52:49,490 Saul becomes increasingly afraid of David. 924 00:52:49,570 --> 00:52:51,970 David continues behaving wisely. 925 00:52:52,210 --> 00:52:55,570 Every trap that Saul devises, it fails. 926 00:52:55,890 --> 00:53:00,930 We cannot defeat what God has determined to do. 927 00:53:01,490 --> 00:53:03,890 Resisting God destroys us. 928 00:53:04,210 --> 00:53:08,790 Trusting God enables us to remain faithful while he accomplished 929 00:53:08,790 --> 00:53:09,790 his purpose. 930 00:53:10,430 --> 00:53:15,550 Familiar with that last passage in or that one parable of 931 00:53:15,550 --> 00:53:15,990 Jesus? 932 00:53:15,990 --> 00:53:18,510 The stone, the rock. 933 00:53:19,230 --> 00:53:21,070 That is what Jesus said. 934 00:53:21,150 --> 00:53:22,270 We must fall. 935 00:53:23,630 --> 00:53:27,790 And he says, whoever falls on this rock will be broken. 936 00:53:28,350 --> 00:53:32,670 But if this rock falls on them, it will be ground to pout. 937 00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:38,120 That resisting God, that's the powder. 938 00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:43,360 The person who surrenders to God and what God wants, that's the 939 00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:43,960 broken. 940 00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:50,200 And we as Christians, we have to determine where we are in that. 941 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:51,360 That. 942 00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:51,720 That. 943 00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:52,440 That field. 944 00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:58,080 Are we those that would resist God and have the stone fall on us 945 00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,160 and be ground to powder? 946 00:53:59,330 --> 00:54:03,530 Or are we those who would fling ourselves onto the rock and 947 00:54:03,530 --> 00:54:04,370 be broken? 948 00:54:04,930 --> 00:54:06,810 All of it that happens in our life. 949 00:54:06,810 --> 00:54:09,090 That is God's will for us. 950 00:54:09,490 --> 00:54:10,530 Do we resist? 951 00:54:11,650 --> 00:54:14,610 Do we desire God's will rather? 952 00:54:14,690 --> 00:54:17,570 Do we surrender to God's will rather? 953 00:54:17,730 --> 00:54:23,650 Or are we in the position of Saul hating God for what he is doing 954 00:54:24,860 --> 00:54:29,900 and desiring God basically to just go away? 955 00:54:30,060 --> 00:54:32,140 Where are you at in your Christian walk? 956 00:54:32,220 --> 00:54:34,820 I think we can learn a lot of different things here from the life 957 00:54:34,820 --> 00:54:37,020 of Saul and the life of David and these men.