1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,600 Turn our Bibles to First Samuel, chapter 18. 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:07,760 First Samuel, chapter 18. 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:12,720 We're just going to pick up where we're normally studying. 4 00:00:29,290 --> 00:00:29,770 You know what? 5 00:00:29,930 --> 00:00:36,250 Take, just take a quick little step back there to chapter 17, starting 6 00:00:36,250 --> 00:00:42,730 in verse number 57 says, and as David returned from the slaughter 7 00:00:42,890 --> 00:00:47,970 of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with 8 00:00:47,970 --> 00:00:50,250 the head of the Philistine in his hand. 9 00:00:50,730 --> 00:00:55,080 And Saul said to him, whose son art thou, thou young man? 10 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:01,320 And David answered, I am the son of thy servant, Jesse the Bethelite. 11 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:08,279 So where we pick up in our story of David in the life of Saul 12 00:01:08,279 --> 00:01:12,040 and the life of the people here at Israel at this time in their 13 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:19,110 lives, we pick up at the end of the battle of Goliath, and we 14 00:01:19,110 --> 00:01:26,790 end it here with David, a young man presenting himself before 15 00:01:26,790 --> 00:01:32,070 King Saul to basically tell him who he is. 16 00:01:32,310 --> 00:01:36,790 And what in the world have you done that you could do this great 17 00:01:36,790 --> 00:01:37,270 feat? 18 00:01:37,350 --> 00:01:39,190 I want to know who you are. 19 00:01:39,510 --> 00:01:42,990 Not only have we promised things to you, but I got to know 20 00:01:42,990 --> 00:01:44,230 more about your story. 21 00:01:45,450 --> 00:01:47,450 And then we go in chapter 18. 22 00:01:48,170 --> 00:01:53,450 And it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking unto 23 00:01:53,450 --> 00:02:00,609 Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of 24 00:02:00,609 --> 00:02:01,130 David. 25 00:02:01,610 --> 00:02:04,650 And Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 26 00:02:04,970 --> 00:02:08,330 We're going to focus on three main characters tonight. 27 00:02:08,570 --> 00:02:11,850 We're going to talk about the character of Jonathan, character 28 00:02:11,850 --> 00:02:17,570 of David, and the character of Saul, and how these three people 29 00:02:18,130 --> 00:02:22,930 all had very different responses to what God was doing in 30 00:02:23,090 --> 00:02:23,770 their lives. 31 00:02:23,770 --> 00:02:25,250 So let's pray and we'll start. 32 00:02:25,250 --> 00:02:29,450 Our heavenly Father, for we come to you and we ask for help to 33 00:02:29,450 --> 00:02:30,330 understand your word. 34 00:02:30,330 --> 00:02:35,650 We ask that you would show us what it means, what it is that we're 35 00:02:35,650 --> 00:02:37,090 supposed to glean from it tonight. 36 00:02:38,060 --> 00:02:43,980 Lord, how we can look at these men's lives and see how they reacted 37 00:02:44,140 --> 00:02:47,900 to the circumstances of life in a way, but reacted to how what 38 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:49,740 you were doing in their life. 39 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:51,540 I just pray and ask that you would help us. 40 00:02:51,540 --> 00:02:53,539 Give us your grace in Jesus name. 41 00:02:53,539 --> 00:02:54,620 We pray them. 42 00:02:55,740 --> 00:03:01,660 So what we have are three men that are in a way, bound together. 43 00:03:03,110 --> 00:03:03,990 Their character. 44 00:03:03,990 --> 00:03:07,470 All three of them have in some ways a little different character. 45 00:03:07,470 --> 00:03:09,910 One is completely different than the others. 46 00:03:10,390 --> 00:03:18,870 But we have an honorable son, a successful servant, and an insecure, 47 00:03:19,350 --> 00:03:20,790 guilty king. 48 00:03:21,590 --> 00:03:26,030 That's your spoiler alert for every single one of those three people 49 00:03:26,030 --> 00:03:26,550 tonight. 50 00:03:26,870 --> 00:03:29,830 That is the context of how we are going to look at them. 51 00:03:30,490 --> 00:03:35,130 So what we see in this chapter is we see number one, a bond is formed. 52 00:03:35,530 --> 00:03:41,050 We see jealousy in Saul, begins in his Life, we see that jealousy 53 00:03:41,050 --> 00:03:44,650 breed contempt, murderous plots. 54 00:03:44,970 --> 00:03:47,610 And now Saul's beginning to try to kill David. 55 00:03:47,610 --> 00:03:51,370 In this chapter, we see Saul trying to lay traps. 56 00:03:51,530 --> 00:03:55,450 And then finally we see the betrothal that David was promised 57 00:03:55,890 --> 00:04:01,090 for killing Goliath and that betrothal to Saul's daughter. 58 00:04:01,810 --> 00:04:09,330 But in this, all three men come to a realization, I believe, 59 00:04:10,050 --> 00:04:13,490 of what is going on in their life. 60 00:04:14,050 --> 00:04:15,810 Now, has that ever happened to you? 61 00:04:16,130 --> 00:04:16,850 You know, you're. 62 00:04:16,850 --> 00:04:19,530 You're trying to go and do different things. 63 00:04:19,530 --> 00:04:21,170 The things start adding pop. 64 00:04:21,900 --> 00:04:23,660 And then all of a sudden it hits you. 65 00:04:24,220 --> 00:04:28,180 That's kind of the awakening, the light bulb moment that is going 66 00:04:28,180 --> 00:04:30,380 on in all three of these men. 67 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:33,980 And in their mind, that awakening. 68 00:04:34,140 --> 00:04:38,620 Jonathan in this has a reaction and a response. 69 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:41,900 David has a response. 70 00:04:42,220 --> 00:04:46,380 As if you will, destiny is thrust upon him. 71 00:04:47,350 --> 00:04:53,110 But as God's plans are enacted in David's life, David has a response. 72 00:04:53,350 --> 00:04:57,430 And then, of course, Saul has a response to all of this. 73 00:04:57,830 --> 00:04:58,430 Look there. 74 00:04:58,430 --> 00:05:00,870 Let's look first though, at the bond. 75 00:05:01,670 --> 00:05:07,510 All three of these people eventually realize what God is doing. 76 00:05:07,910 --> 00:05:12,430 But the question I want to pose to you tonight is what do you 77 00:05:12,430 --> 00:05:16,980 do when the will of God changes your position? 78 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:21,220 This can come through a host of different ways. 79 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:25,220 This can come through job placement, this can come through 80 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:26,820 people taking your job. 81 00:05:27,860 --> 00:05:31,300 This can come through just the circumstances of life. 82 00:05:31,380 --> 00:05:34,380 But that is the question I want to pose to you tonight that 83 00:05:34,380 --> 00:05:36,660 I think that we will see in the lives of these three men. 84 00:05:36,660 --> 00:05:40,750 What do you do when the will of God changes your position? 85 00:05:41,630 --> 00:05:45,990 So there in that very first verse, he says, it came to pass when 86 00:05:45,990 --> 00:05:48,550 he made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan 87 00:05:48,550 --> 00:05:50,390 was knit with the soul of David. 88 00:05:50,390 --> 00:05:52,070 And Jonathan loved him at his own soul. 89 00:05:52,070 --> 00:05:53,550 So we're going to look at Jonathan first. 90 00:05:54,270 --> 00:06:00,270 The friendship that is formed at this time. 91 00:06:00,350 --> 00:06:03,630 It says that Jonathan, the soul of Jonathan, was knit with a 92 00:06:03,630 --> 00:06:03,870 soul. 93 00:06:03,870 --> 00:06:08,860 This is very similar actually to in the book of Ruth with Naomi 94 00:06:08,860 --> 00:06:09,340 and Ruth. 95 00:06:09,820 --> 00:06:14,260 You know, Ruth said, I'm clinging to you, Naomi, and that 96 00:06:14,260 --> 00:06:20,220 form, that mother and daughter in law bond to where they were in 97 00:06:20,220 --> 00:06:21,740 that point, inseparable. 98 00:06:22,540 --> 00:06:27,100 And with this, these two characters, there are some things 99 00:06:27,100 --> 00:06:29,580 that we can kind of clear up right away. 100 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:33,180 But there is a bond, a friendship that is happening. 101 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:38,120 But so in the life of Jonathan here, we have to kind of take a step 102 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,040 back and look at him as we assess this bond as friendship. 103 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:49,480 So in this friendship, I mean, I grew up with flannel graph. 104 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,640 You probably all grew up with flannel graph, right? 105 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:53,320 I'm not alone in that. 106 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,360 And these two little figures on the flannel graph were two little 107 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:03,490 boys, you know, frolicking together, comrades in arms. 108 00:07:03,490 --> 00:07:07,730 That's kind of the idea that people often get, that these are 109 00:07:07,730 --> 00:07:12,370 two young men that were just going to be best friends for life. 110 00:07:12,770 --> 00:07:15,810 But that's not exactly the, the truth though. 111 00:07:15,810 --> 00:07:19,570 That's not very accurate picture of what is actually happening. 112 00:07:19,890 --> 00:07:23,890 David was not old enough to go out to battle. 113 00:07:24,540 --> 00:07:26,300 He was at home taking care of the sheep. 114 00:07:26,620 --> 00:07:29,900 His brothers treated him with pure disdain. 115 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:31,660 Why are you here, David? 116 00:07:32,060 --> 00:07:36,660 Little boy, you know, so, you know, I've seen things get taken 117 00:07:36,660 --> 00:07:39,660 way too far and it's a little 10 year old boy out there throwing 118 00:07:39,660 --> 00:07:40,220 a sling. 119 00:07:40,300 --> 00:07:43,500 I don't think he was quite that young because he's considering 120 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:45,180 marriage here at the end of this chapter. 121 00:07:45,820 --> 00:07:49,180 But David is a young man for sure. 122 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:54,190 I would like to say that, you know, I think he's probably 17, 18 123 00:07:54,190 --> 00:07:54,790 years old. 124 00:07:55,190 --> 00:07:58,310 His brothers certainly think that he's not old enough to even 125 00:07:58,310 --> 00:07:59,390 be on the battlefield. 126 00:07:59,390 --> 00:08:01,910 Why aren't you with the sheep like you're supposed to be? 127 00:08:02,470 --> 00:08:04,630 But we could leave room here. 128 00:08:04,630 --> 00:08:06,710 We say he's about 16, 17. 129 00:08:07,590 --> 00:08:10,310 Jonathan, however, is completely different. 130 00:08:10,870 --> 00:08:14,270 Jonathan is in Saul's army. 131 00:08:14,270 --> 00:08:17,280 You had to be at least 20 years old to be in the army at this 132 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:17,600 time. 133 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,760 And Jonathan was leading men into battle. 134 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,120 It actually says that he, in, in, in one portion, that he was already 135 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,600 establishing warriors, commanding over a thousand men. 136 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,880 Whenever we first meet him, he's that warrior, a seasoned warrior 137 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,880 who's going out and conquering already. 138 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,720 You remember the, the, the story there in chapter 14, I believe 139 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:45,759 it is, where he goes with his armor bearer and fights by themselves 140 00:08:46,479 --> 00:08:51,319 against the Philistines in a battle that the Lord gives him the 141 00:08:51,319 --> 00:08:52,079 victory of. 142 00:08:52,639 --> 00:08:55,999 So Jonathan is not a youth. 143 00:08:56,159 --> 00:08:59,679 And in first Samuel David is called that youth. 144 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:04,199 Jonathan is already that successful military commander and 145 00:09:04,199 --> 00:09:05,919 he had been that way for some time. 146 00:09:07,599 --> 00:09:11,610 A lot of commentators, and which is most likely accurate, think 147 00:09:11,610 --> 00:09:16,570 that at least 10 to 15 years separate Jonathan and David. 148 00:09:17,370 --> 00:09:23,210 So at the best that we have here, for a calculation of age, you 149 00:09:23,210 --> 00:09:27,770 have a 16, 17 year old boy with a 30 year old grown man. 150 00:09:29,050 --> 00:09:33,290 And this friendship, this bond takes place. 151 00:09:34,490 --> 00:09:39,010 What I see in this is a bond of discipleship. 152 00:09:39,650 --> 00:09:46,530 I mean Jonathan is knit with David and he sticks and holds fast 153 00:09:46,610 --> 00:09:47,410 to David. 154 00:09:47,650 --> 00:09:51,410 This is that bond of I want to spend time with this individual. 155 00:09:52,050 --> 00:09:58,090 And this picture that we get, it just parallels so much on how 156 00:09:58,090 --> 00:10:03,820 discipleship needs to happen amongst Christians in general and 157 00:10:03,820 --> 00:10:05,020 especially in our church. 158 00:10:05,580 --> 00:10:11,100 We, as a body of believers grow the most whenever discipleship 159 00:10:11,420 --> 00:10:12,380 is happening. 160 00:10:12,860 --> 00:10:15,660 You know, I can read and study the Bible on my own. 161 00:10:16,060 --> 00:10:18,860 I can, you know, find different helps. 162 00:10:19,340 --> 00:10:21,420 I could even go to YouTube at times. 163 00:10:22,780 --> 00:10:24,860 But number one, is any of that personal? 164 00:10:26,460 --> 00:10:29,420 Is that any of that strengthening the body of Christ 165 00:10:29,420 --> 00:10:31,980 here, if I'm listening to some outside source? 166 00:10:32,740 --> 00:10:37,860 And then number two, the amount of experience that is received 167 00:10:38,420 --> 00:10:45,300 by someone else pouring in to another individual's life, that experience 168 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:49,460 being poured into that life is something that should not be taken 169 00:10:49,540 --> 00:10:50,180 lightly. 170 00:10:50,580 --> 00:10:57,940 And so all of us in here have something to give, something to pour 171 00:10:58,350 --> 00:11:01,390 into the life of a younger person. 172 00:11:02,030 --> 00:11:08,430 Now, it doesn't always have to be this 15, 20 year old gap of, you 173 00:11:08,430 --> 00:11:10,430 know, the old man taking an apprentice. 174 00:11:10,750 --> 00:11:11,270 All right? 175 00:11:11,270 --> 00:11:14,030 Discipleship is also peer to peer. 176 00:11:14,670 --> 00:11:18,390 You know, you know, something that I probably don't know that you 177 00:11:18,390 --> 00:11:20,510 could possibly share that. 178 00:11:20,990 --> 00:11:24,030 Sharing is what discipleship is about. 179 00:11:24,510 --> 00:11:28,310 And as we approach the New Testament, that is what Jesus commands 180 00:11:28,310 --> 00:11:28,910 us to do. 181 00:11:29,230 --> 00:11:32,750 He commands us to go forth and teach all nations. 182 00:11:33,150 --> 00:11:36,710 That is what the Great Commission is, is a commission to 183 00:11:36,710 --> 00:11:38,030 go and make disciples. 184 00:11:38,910 --> 00:11:44,670 I fear that so often churches have gotten caught up that on that 185 00:11:44,670 --> 00:11:48,670 Great Commission, meaning something other than what it is. 186 00:11:49,550 --> 00:11:52,710 And I would be careful here because I don't want you to get the 187 00:11:52,710 --> 00:11:54,430 wrong idea of what I am saying. 188 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:05,000 The Gospel is preached, souls are saved, but that is not the end. 189 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:11,080 And so many times we get so consumed with, well, how many people 190 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,000 have you won to the Lord this year? 191 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,280 Have you won anyone to the Lord this year? 192 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,480 No, unsuccessful Christian. 193 00:12:20,610 --> 00:12:24,770 That's not really the question that we should be asked. 194 00:12:25,650 --> 00:12:30,690 The question is, have we decided someone this year? 195 00:12:31,090 --> 00:12:35,170 Have we made it our intention to decide someone this year? 196 00:12:35,810 --> 00:12:37,890 Because we're already halfway through the year. 197 00:12:38,370 --> 00:12:42,850 The purpose of the New Testament church is to go forth, 198 00:12:43,090 --> 00:12:45,810 preach the Gospel, see soul saved. 199 00:12:46,220 --> 00:12:49,660 But God is the one who is in charge of that fruit. 200 00:12:50,140 --> 00:12:52,780 God is the one who is the Lord of the harvest. 201 00:12:53,020 --> 00:12:58,140 He is adding to the church daily, such as should be saved. 202 00:12:58,540 --> 00:13:03,900 As is said in Acts, you and I are not in charge of the harvest. 203 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:09,660 Apollos watered, Paul, Paul planted, Apollos watered, but God 204 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:10,540 gives the increase. 205 00:13:11,180 --> 00:13:17,130 You and I are our servants going forth to teach and to number 206 00:13:17,130 --> 00:13:18,250 one, be able to teach. 207 00:13:18,250 --> 00:13:19,890 I would probably be the first requisite. 208 00:13:19,890 --> 00:13:22,650 You have to be growing your own relationship with God. 209 00:13:22,810 --> 00:13:27,410 But to teach people, to teach everyone that we come in contact 210 00:13:27,410 --> 00:13:30,570 with and to have that grow in discipleship lesson. 211 00:13:31,050 --> 00:13:32,970 And so that's really what I see here. 212 00:13:33,610 --> 00:13:38,860 Two people getting together Jonathan has experienced, you know, 213 00:13:38,860 --> 00:13:43,780 David doesn't really have per se war experience. 214 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:45,540 Jonathan does. 215 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:52,820 But the one thing that David does have is he has trust and faith 216 00:13:52,820 --> 00:13:53,380 in God. 217 00:13:53,620 --> 00:13:54,980 And that's really what I believe. 218 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:58,260 We see that Jonathan takes notice of. 219 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:03,700 So it works in this thing, this, this relationship. 220 00:14:03,700 --> 00:14:05,940 You know, you would ask him how in the world does this ever even 221 00:14:05,940 --> 00:14:06,260 happen? 222 00:14:06,850 --> 00:14:09,010 It works because of the character of John. 223 00:14:09,810 --> 00:14:13,650 He is a person ready to do this work. 224 00:14:13,890 --> 00:14:16,170 And that's part of the question that you really have to 225 00:14:16,170 --> 00:14:19,410 ask yourself a year from now. 226 00:14:20,130 --> 00:14:22,930 Can you see yourself discipling someone and pouring into 227 00:14:22,930 --> 00:14:27,210 someone else's life, let's say just for a second that you imagine 228 00:14:27,210 --> 00:14:32,650 that yeah, I can see myself, I'm discipling a person and I'm in 229 00:14:32,650 --> 00:14:33,970 their life pouring in. 230 00:14:34,310 --> 00:14:35,270 How does that even work? 231 00:14:36,630 --> 00:14:40,550 It works because of the character that you already possess. 232 00:14:40,950 --> 00:14:43,630 And there, there are three character traits here that Jonathan 233 00:14:43,630 --> 00:14:45,990 really shows I want to focus in on. 234 00:14:46,070 --> 00:14:49,710 And these are different areas that we can imitate as well because 235 00:14:49,710 --> 00:14:53,870 Jonathan is really, he's imitating what Christ imitates. 236 00:14:53,870 --> 00:14:56,870 He represents a godly character. 237 00:14:57,110 --> 00:14:58,670 Now there's three different categories here. 238 00:14:58,670 --> 00:15:01,680 There's a love of godlies, godliness number one. 239 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,800 There's a self giving love number two. 240 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,080 And then lastly a humility that Jonathan really possesses here. 241 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,360 First of all a love of godliness. 242 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,280 And this is very important. 243 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,040 You know, there's different definitions and everyone really likes 244 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,040 to have their own definition. 245 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:19,360 So I'm not going to be any different. 246 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,160 I'm going to give you my definition of what godliness is. 247 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,610 Godliness is the, the definition I would assign to. 248 00:15:27,610 --> 00:15:31,650 It is God minded. 249 00:15:32,450 --> 00:15:35,650 Okay, God minded. 250 00:15:36,210 --> 00:15:40,370 You're mindful about what God wants. 251 00:15:40,450 --> 00:15:41,250 That's your question. 252 00:15:41,569 --> 00:15:42,530 Is this what God. 253 00:15:43,170 --> 00:15:44,690 Is this how God wants me to. 254 00:15:45,090 --> 00:15:46,610 Is this what God wants me to do? 255 00:15:47,090 --> 00:15:50,370 What if God was right here, would he want me to do this? 256 00:15:50,370 --> 00:15:51,170 You're constantly. 257 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,120 That is your meditation of your heart. 258 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,760 And Jonathan, he has a love of godliness. 259 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,120 What does that mean, a love of godliness? 260 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:06,800 Well, you love the things of God by application. 261 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:14,000 You love those who love God and have a godly mindset. 262 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,720 Love of godliness can't stand to be in the presence of, of the 263 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:23,120 proud ful, the arrogant, the wicked, those who curse and blaspheme 264 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:23,400 God. 265 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:24,720 I don't want to be anywhere near that. 266 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,400 I love godliness and I have that love of God. 267 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,560 I want to be around people who love God. 268 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,560 Those are the people I want to spend my time with. 269 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:33,480 So we asked this question. 270 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,240 Why is the bond form. 271 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,200 Why did Jonathan care for this young David? 272 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:40,280 Because he killed Goliath. 273 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,360 And Jonathan, too, was a person who was a conqueror as well. 274 00:16:45,460 --> 00:16:48,020 But how did Jonathan conquer his battle? 275 00:16:48,420 --> 00:16:49,940 He asked for a sign from God. 276 00:16:50,260 --> 00:16:54,660 He said, God, we're going to trust in you for this victory. 277 00:16:54,900 --> 00:16:59,380 He told his armor bearer, we'll go and we'll say, we'll ask 278 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:02,500 them if they want to come up or if we should go down. 279 00:17:02,740 --> 00:17:05,860 And we will take this as a sign from God, because God is the 280 00:17:05,860 --> 00:17:08,100 one who is going to fight our battles. 281 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:10,900 That was Jonathan's mindset. 282 00:17:11,750 --> 00:17:13,430 Now we look here. 283 00:17:14,310 --> 00:17:17,430 When did Jonathan attach himself to David? 284 00:17:17,990 --> 00:17:21,590 It's not, wow, David just killed Goliath. 285 00:17:21,590 --> 00:17:23,190 I gotta go meet this guy. 286 00:17:23,830 --> 00:17:32,070 No, it says that after, when he made an end of speaking unto Saul, 287 00:17:32,390 --> 00:17:37,150 that the soul of Jonathan was then knit with the soul of David. 288 00:17:37,540 --> 00:17:42,820 It's after the speech Jonathan wanted to hear. 289 00:17:43,540 --> 00:17:48,900 What does this person have to say about this victory? 290 00:17:49,540 --> 00:17:50,660 Are they going to boast? 291 00:17:51,540 --> 00:17:54,700 Are they going to say, you know, saw you, saw me in my great 292 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:55,260 works. 293 00:17:55,260 --> 00:17:58,900 Hey, give me the things that you promised me because I'm worth 294 00:17:58,900 --> 00:17:59,220 it. 295 00:17:59,860 --> 00:18:03,140 Was there going to be a humility? 296 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:09,360 Perhaps, Jonathan thought, I gotta know how this person did that. 297 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:10,520 No different than Saul. 298 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:12,760 Saul had to know. 299 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:17,800 He had to know how this young man had done this. 300 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:24,480 So whenever we see this explanation, you know, first of all, 301 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:26,840 it ends there at the end of chapter 17. 302 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,780 And then it begins at verse one. 303 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:35,060 But, you know, David didn't just say, well, you know, my father's 304 00:18:35,060 --> 00:18:37,820 the son of Jesse, I'm a shepherd boy. 305 00:18:38,460 --> 00:18:39,540 I trusted in God. 306 00:18:39,540 --> 00:18:40,380 And that was it. 307 00:18:40,540 --> 00:18:43,060 You know, there had to be a conversation with that that wasn't 308 00:18:43,060 --> 00:18:43,660 all the end. 309 00:18:43,660 --> 00:18:46,900 You realize we don't have every single conversation fully written 310 00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:48,220 out in all of its glory. 311 00:18:48,460 --> 00:18:51,260 It would be neat, but this book would never end. 312 00:18:51,420 --> 00:18:56,170 That's what John says, I reckon, that the entire world could 313 00:18:56,170 --> 00:18:58,490 not fulfill even all the works that Jesus did. 314 00:18:58,570 --> 00:18:59,610 We don't have everything. 315 00:19:00,250 --> 00:19:03,370 But clearly there was a lengthy conversation that could have. 316 00:19:03,370 --> 00:19:04,810 That had to have happened. 317 00:19:05,050 --> 00:19:09,370 I mean, surely Saul wanted to know, does this guy have superpowers? 318 00:19:09,610 --> 00:19:11,810 Is he some sort of skilled? 319 00:19:11,810 --> 00:19:13,450 Is he always been this. 320 00:19:13,450 --> 00:19:14,530 What, you're a shepherd? 321 00:19:14,530 --> 00:19:16,970 I mean, there's a lot of stuff here that's happening. 322 00:19:17,130 --> 00:19:22,740 So Jonathan heard David give this extended explanation of his 323 00:19:22,740 --> 00:19:27,100 heart, his faith in the living God, because that's what was built. 324 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:28,140 This was built on. 325 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:34,420 It was built on David saying, how does this Philistine would. 326 00:19:34,420 --> 00:19:38,099 How could he defy the armies of the Living God. 327 00:19:38,099 --> 00:19:41,500 How can he say such blasphemy against the living God? 328 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:47,140 That was the thing that David spearheaded as he went out to fight 329 00:19:47,140 --> 00:19:47,820 this guy. 330 00:19:48,660 --> 00:19:51,300 And so this speech comes out. 331 00:19:52,340 --> 00:19:57,940 Now people judge us by the speech that comes out of our mouth. 332 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:04,580 You know, I think James tells us very plain that the tongue is 333 00:20:04,580 --> 00:20:11,300 a very small thing, just as that rudder is a very small thing. 334 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:17,000 And yet it turns a ship that is hundreds of thousand times its 335 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:17,360 size. 336 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:19,000 I mean, it is a huge thing. 337 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,120 You ever seen how small rudder is in comparison to the biggest of 338 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:23,680 ships? 339 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:24,560 It's nothing. 340 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,040 And it's just a small little thing. 341 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:28,640 It's the same thing with our speed. 342 00:20:29,839 --> 00:20:32,240 Be careful how we talk. 343 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:40,770 Jonathan hears this and then the knitting, if you will, happens. 344 00:20:41,250 --> 00:20:45,250 And with Jonathan, that love of godliness comes out. 345 00:20:45,250 --> 00:20:48,810 Jonathan knew that he and David had the same heart at this 346 00:20:48,810 --> 00:20:49,170 point. 347 00:20:49,730 --> 00:20:52,850 That's really what bonded their hearts together. 348 00:20:53,170 --> 00:20:55,170 That's really what bonded their souls. 349 00:20:55,250 --> 00:20:59,850 There could be no such close friendship until Jonathan knew that 350 00:20:59,850 --> 00:21:01,730 one part about God. 351 00:21:01,890 --> 00:21:03,250 And that's pretty good advice. 352 00:21:04,290 --> 00:21:08,910 Sometimes we get ourselves in trouble because we will become such 353 00:21:08,910 --> 00:21:13,270 close friends with people who don't care anything about God. 354 00:21:14,630 --> 00:21:18,870 And this is not necessarily speaking about, you know, trying 355 00:21:18,870 --> 00:21:20,470 to witness to some people. 356 00:21:20,790 --> 00:21:25,030 You know, I've had close friends, so to speak, but they're 357 00:21:25,030 --> 00:21:28,350 not friends that I want to spend all my time with because I 358 00:21:28,350 --> 00:21:32,070 know what they're, what they're doing and vice versa. 359 00:21:32,510 --> 00:21:34,630 I don't think that I'm the kind of friend that they want to 360 00:21:34,630 --> 00:21:38,430 spend their time with because there's an awkwardness to them. 361 00:21:38,830 --> 00:21:41,470 That was one of the first things that happened after I got 362 00:21:41,470 --> 00:21:41,830 saved. 363 00:21:41,830 --> 00:21:45,150 All the friends deserted me like that, just gone. 364 00:21:45,870 --> 00:21:51,310 I had one friend who stick or stuck around until the bitter end. 365 00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:55,750 And then it just was kind of like just a silent departing, the 366 00:21:55,750 --> 00:21:59,000 silent understanding of, all right, this, this is, we're not going 367 00:21:59,000 --> 00:21:59,800 the same direction. 368 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:00,840 That that was it. 369 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,600 And that's what Jonathan here, he sees. 370 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,800 This is a guy who's going in the same direction as me. 371 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,800 This is a guy who cares about the same thing as me. 372 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:13,360 His heart reveals that heart full of love, trust and joy in their 373 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:13,800 God. 374 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:18,520 So what we do with our words, that it reveals our heart, but then 375 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,160 there's also a self giving love. 376 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,800 And in that self giving love, this is something that all of us 377 00:22:26,410 --> 00:22:28,410 should be trying to imitate with Christ. 378 00:22:28,810 --> 00:22:30,130 That's what real love is. 379 00:22:30,130 --> 00:22:30,730 That's what the. 380 00:22:30,730 --> 00:22:33,050 That's a fruit of the spirit love. 381 00:22:33,850 --> 00:22:37,290 Not the opposite, the work of the flesh, which would Be self love, 382 00:22:37,850 --> 00:22:41,850 but real genuine love that expects nothing in return. 383 00:22:42,810 --> 00:22:48,610 James says that again, pure and undefiled religion is this taking 384 00:22:48,610 --> 00:22:50,090 after widows and orphans. 385 00:22:50,490 --> 00:22:50,890 Why? 386 00:22:52,660 --> 00:22:54,660 Widows and orphans don't have anything to give back. 387 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:58,780 You and I, if we give to a widow or for an orphan, they can't 388 00:22:58,780 --> 00:22:59,460 pay us back. 389 00:23:00,180 --> 00:23:02,500 They can't supply some need. 390 00:23:02,660 --> 00:23:05,380 I'm going to do this fair for you, but then you, I need you to 391 00:23:05,380 --> 00:23:06,580 come in through for me. 392 00:23:06,580 --> 00:23:08,540 You know, that's not it. 393 00:23:08,540 --> 00:23:10,900 Widows and orphans have nothing for the most part. 394 00:23:12,260 --> 00:23:16,500 So you understand what real love is, what real religion is? 395 00:23:16,820 --> 00:23:21,910 It is caring for those who cannot do anything for you in return. 396 00:23:22,470 --> 00:23:25,030 And this is kind of what Jonathan imitates. 397 00:23:25,670 --> 00:23:28,310 You see the self love that he says there. 398 00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:33,510 He says that he loved David as his own soul. 399 00:23:33,990 --> 00:23:40,710 You know, some of us, in some ways we kind of have a problem with 400 00:23:40,710 --> 00:23:41,030 this. 401 00:23:41,590 --> 00:23:43,750 We don't exactly love ourself that much. 402 00:23:43,830 --> 00:23:47,660 I understand there's an aspect of humility, but there's a lot of 403 00:23:47,660 --> 00:23:49,860 people who don't even really love themselves. 404 00:23:50,260 --> 00:23:53,820 And I think that in order to love someone as your own soul, you 405 00:23:53,820 --> 00:23:55,700 got to love yourself a little bit, you know. 406 00:23:56,020 --> 00:23:59,220 And Jonathan, he loves him as his own soul. 407 00:24:00,180 --> 00:24:07,780 He cares for him and he does for David in such a way that what 408 00:24:07,860 --> 00:24:12,750 he would have done for himself, he would do for others. 409 00:24:13,230 --> 00:24:18,630 And in the life of David, that self, that selfless love, that self 410 00:24:18,630 --> 00:24:20,590 giving love comes out. 411 00:24:21,470 --> 00:24:25,830 It says that this relationship is obviously a mutual feeling. 412 00:24:25,830 --> 00:24:28,110 Both of them loved one another. 413 00:24:28,110 --> 00:24:32,270 It says in 1st Samuel, chapter 20 that David loved Jonathan, loved 414 00:24:32,270 --> 00:24:34,590 David better than his own life. 415 00:24:34,670 --> 00:24:36,190 That's self sacrifice. 416 00:24:36,190 --> 00:24:39,150 That's the sacrifice that says, I'll give you anything. 417 00:24:39,150 --> 00:24:41,070 I will lay down my life before you. 418 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,600 In 2nd Samuel, chapter 1, verse 26, it says that Jonathan and 419 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,440 David had a love. 420 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,760 And David compared that love more than a woman. 421 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,200 He couldn't, said I couldn't even imagine loving a woman as much 422 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:55,560 as I love my friend. 423 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,080 I would do anything for this individual. 424 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:04,200 Now we have to address the elephant in the room because this 425 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,800 is a conversation that you will often have with people as you 426 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,440 talk about Jonathan and David. 427 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,800 Many have tried to interpret this as a homosexual relationship. 428 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:24,120 And in this world and day and age, you and I cannot avoid that 429 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:24,480 question. 430 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,440 This is going to come up. 431 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,440 You and I cannot avoid that. 432 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,930 And there's tons of debate about, well, what isn't? 433 00:25:34,930 --> 00:25:35,930 You know, that you get. 434 00:25:35,930 --> 00:25:39,570 People say that, well, God never commanded that in the New Testament. 435 00:25:40,050 --> 00:25:44,370 And you know, there's just tons of arguments about God God doesn't 436 00:25:44,370 --> 00:25:45,170 hate people. 437 00:25:45,250 --> 00:25:49,329 And especially in today's politics, we have a lot of that of 438 00:25:49,329 --> 00:25:51,730 saying, why can't we just, you know, let people live together? 439 00:25:51,810 --> 00:25:53,570 And why is this such a big deal? 440 00:25:53,570 --> 00:25:54,130 Why can't. 441 00:25:54,130 --> 00:25:55,970 Why do you Christians have to hate me so much? 442 00:25:57,890 --> 00:26:02,620 What we see here in the life of Jonathan and David is a deep friendship. 443 00:26:02,940 --> 00:26:08,460 There's nothing that is that way of this. 444 00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:11,980 The same idiom is used in Deuteronomy, chapter 13, verse 6, 445 00:26:11,980 --> 00:26:12,300 actually. 446 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:18,060 This love for another person with such deep affection. 447 00:26:18,460 --> 00:26:23,020 And there's much modern cultural pressure to accept this 448 00:26:23,820 --> 00:26:27,260 lifestyle, if you will, as an appropriate alternative lifestyle, 449 00:26:27,260 --> 00:26:30,390 something that is is acceptable. 450 00:26:30,390 --> 00:26:34,990 The Bible, though, lists it as a destructive lifestyle out of the 451 00:26:34,990 --> 00:26:37,430 will of God for his creation. 452 00:26:37,830 --> 00:26:41,830 Now, we cannot answer the question of why are people like this? 453 00:26:42,230 --> 00:26:44,070 Why do they have this inclination? 454 00:26:44,390 --> 00:26:47,030 The one thing that I would tell us is that every single one 455 00:26:47,030 --> 00:26:50,870 of us are sinners and every single one of us struggle with some 456 00:26:50,950 --> 00:26:51,430 sin. 457 00:26:53,350 --> 00:26:53,990 That's it. 458 00:26:54,630 --> 00:26:56,790 Every single one of us are born a certain way. 459 00:26:57,430 --> 00:27:00,470 We have lusts and fights of the flesh. 460 00:27:01,030 --> 00:27:04,310 And every single one of us don't struggle in the same way. 461 00:27:04,870 --> 00:27:11,670 It is a struggle against the flesh to resist doing sin. 462 00:27:12,230 --> 00:27:13,670 That is at the end of the day. 463 00:27:13,910 --> 00:27:17,710 But we understand that this violates the commands of God. 464 00:27:17,710 --> 00:27:21,720 It violates number one, the command of Joseph, chapter one, to 465 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,000 be fruitful and multiply. 466 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,360 That's got to be a mom and daddy in order to multiply. 467 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,920 It has to be that command. 468 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,080 Then of course it's judged in Genesis, chapter 19 beside and Gomorrah. 469 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:40,080 We understand there from that story what Sodom and Gomorrah was 470 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,480 doing was great wickedness. 471 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,120 Now this is a great opportunity for the skeptic to say, 472 00:27:46,370 --> 00:27:48,970 but Sodom and Gomorrah wasn't destroyed because of that. 473 00:27:48,970 --> 00:27:50,610 They were destroyed because of pride. 474 00:27:51,010 --> 00:27:52,530 It says so in Ezekiel. 475 00:27:52,530 --> 00:27:56,210 It says they were destroyed because they were evil and they were 476 00:27:56,210 --> 00:27:57,650 had prideful hearts. 477 00:27:58,690 --> 00:28:01,410 And I would say that, yeah, they probably were. 478 00:28:01,410 --> 00:28:03,970 That was part of the equation of why they were destroyed. 479 00:28:04,290 --> 00:28:09,090 Second Peter says that they turn that God turned the cities of 480 00:28:09,170 --> 00:28:12,610 Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, 481 00:28:12,610 --> 00:28:16,710 making them an example unto those that should live ungodly. 482 00:28:17,350 --> 00:28:20,150 That was the problem with Sodom and Gomorrah. 483 00:28:20,230 --> 00:28:22,390 They lived ungodly lives. 484 00:28:23,030 --> 00:28:30,030 They lived lives that did not care about who God was, what God 485 00:28:30,030 --> 00:28:30,630 wanted. 486 00:28:30,870 --> 00:28:33,350 They wanted to do their own thing. 487 00:28:33,750 --> 00:28:37,230 It says they delivered just lot vexed with the filthy conversations 488 00:28:37,230 --> 00:28:40,270 of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling among Them 489 00:28:40,270 --> 00:28:43,710 and seeing and hearing vex his righteous soul from day to day with 490 00:28:43,710 --> 00:28:45,470 their unlawful deeds. 491 00:28:46,190 --> 00:28:50,990 And then in the book of Jude, it talks more about what this sin 492 00:28:50,990 --> 00:28:51,310 is. 493 00:28:51,390 --> 00:28:54,710 In verse number seven says, even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the 494 00:28:54,710 --> 00:28:58,829 cities about them in like manner giving themselves over not 495 00:28:58,829 --> 00:29:05,990 to pride, not to wickedness and just doing bad stuff, but to 496 00:29:05,990 --> 00:29:11,390 fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth as an 497 00:29:11,390 --> 00:29:13,870 example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 498 00:29:14,110 --> 00:29:15,390 If there's any doubt. 499 00:29:15,390 --> 00:29:21,670 I think Jude 7 is a really good indicator of why they were burnt 500 00:29:21,670 --> 00:29:22,030 up. 501 00:29:22,590 --> 00:29:26,310 It's because of the fornication and the going after a 502 00:29:26,310 --> 00:29:27,150 strange flesh. 503 00:29:27,790 --> 00:29:34,910 So Sodom Gomorrah is one argument that is used a lot, I feel 504 00:29:34,910 --> 00:29:37,960 like, to say that, oh well, they weren't killed for that, they 505 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,080 were killed because of their pride. 506 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,880 No, the rest of scripture says why they were killed as well, says 507 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:47,160 that they were killed because of this chapter number three, or 508 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,440 point number three rather of that. 509 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,440 It characterizes pagan worship and culture. 510 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,400 It reveals a self centered in independence from God. 511 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:05,110 And so there's many different things that are tools in our belt. 512 00:30:05,110 --> 00:30:08,270 This is definitely not, I don't want to go to tons and tons 513 00:30:08,270 --> 00:30:08,710 of details. 514 00:30:08,710 --> 00:30:10,350 This is not what I'm preaching about tonight. 515 00:30:10,590 --> 00:30:14,830 Just a side note here about Jonathan and David in the relationship. 516 00:30:15,310 --> 00:30:22,830 But as I said, God's love and forgiveness is to all fallen creatures, 517 00:30:22,990 --> 00:30:25,230 all fallen beings, all humanity. 518 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,800 I mean, homosexuality is not the unpardonable sin. 519 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:38,480 And Christians do have to handle that sin no different than 520 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,720 we handle all sin. 521 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,440 We have to act accordingly. 522 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,680 We have no right to act hateful or arrogant towards that 523 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:49,840 particular sin. 524 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,620 Especially when it is obvious that all of us sin. 525 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:57,900 You know, everyone can look at someone else and say, well, their 526 00:30:57,900 --> 00:30:59,420 relationship with God's horrible. 527 00:30:59,980 --> 00:31:02,620 Have we looked at our own relationship with God lately? 528 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:07,820 You know, the beam in our own eyes sometimes cloud our judgment. 529 00:31:08,620 --> 00:31:15,140 That doesn't mean that we should as a church affirm and say, 530 00:31:15,140 --> 00:31:18,660 you know, it doesn't matter what you're doing, if any one of 531 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:24,590 us sins, the other should call that sin to obedience. 532 00:31:25,070 --> 00:31:28,110 That is a person to person action. 533 00:31:28,430 --> 00:31:29,870 It's called church discipline. 534 00:31:29,870 --> 00:31:34,350 And it starts with you seeing sin in that person's life and you 535 00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:37,550 going to that person and saying, hey, I noticed this. 536 00:31:38,430 --> 00:31:39,470 That's where it began. 537 00:31:40,270 --> 00:31:42,670 And so we are called to holiness. 538 00:31:42,670 --> 00:31:44,230 We are called to godliness. 539 00:31:44,230 --> 00:31:46,430 We are called to edify one another. 540 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,960 We are called to disciple one another in that discipleship, in 541 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:51,960 that edification. 542 00:31:52,600 --> 00:32:00,280 There's no wiggle room if you will to allow sin to continue to 543 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:01,000 fester. 544 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,560 Now, I understand that there are things such as stronghold. 545 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,480 All of us have stronghold, by the way. 546 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,940 There are things that are hidden from other people that other 547 00:32:13,940 --> 00:32:16,860 people can't see because it's not on the outside. 548 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:19,980 There are some sins that are on the outside and everyone sees 549 00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:20,220 it. 550 00:32:20,540 --> 00:32:23,380 It's easier to work with those people because it's so blatant what 551 00:32:23,380 --> 00:32:25,980 they're doing and they can see it so easily. 552 00:32:27,580 --> 00:32:33,940 We as Christians are to approach every single sinner, if 553 00:32:33,940 --> 00:32:42,480 you will, with prayer, concern, meekness, humility and compassion. 554 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:48,480 This is where that gift of mercy extends to all believers, even 555 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:54,920 the hardest black and white perceiver who knows what truth and 556 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,360 wrong are and wants to call that out and wants to address that 557 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:03,640 even they have to be tempered with a compassion that is able to 558 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:09,150 tell that person what they are doing is wrong and yet still able 559 00:33:09,150 --> 00:33:12,510 to show the love of Christ, because that is exactly what Jesus 560 00:33:12,510 --> 00:33:15,190 did as he dealt with individuals. 561 00:33:15,830 --> 00:33:22,830 So as we go forward, it's a good topic to study along with the 562 00:33:22,830 --> 00:33:26,710 many other debates that people like to talk about in the workplace. 563 00:33:27,270 --> 00:33:28,870 That question is going to come up to you. 564 00:33:28,870 --> 00:33:31,030 You're just going to be sitting there working, mind your 565 00:33:31,030 --> 00:33:32,690 own business, and they're going to say, wait a minute, you 566 00:33:32,690 --> 00:33:34,130 over there, it's a church, don't you. 567 00:33:34,450 --> 00:33:35,810 What do you think about it? 568 00:33:37,730 --> 00:33:38,690 I've been there before. 569 00:33:39,010 --> 00:33:41,330 It's quite uncomfortable if you're not prepared. 570 00:33:43,250 --> 00:33:49,890 But Jonathan genuinely loved David and had decided that this love 571 00:33:49,890 --> 00:33:51,970 would make him do anything for him. 572 00:33:52,290 --> 00:33:53,650 And that's the type of love here. 573 00:33:53,650 --> 00:33:58,420 Love that would protect, love that would give, love that would 574 00:33:58,420 --> 00:33:59,380 give anything. 575 00:33:59,380 --> 00:34:00,940 And that's what we're going to see here next. 576 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:07,220 If the issue of who will be the next king were not settled in 577 00:34:07,220 --> 00:34:10,860 the hearts of Jonathan and David, they never could have had 578 00:34:10,860 --> 00:34:16,780 this kind of close love and friendship, because that was certainly 579 00:34:16,860 --> 00:34:17,900 going to come up. 580 00:34:18,460 --> 00:34:22,940 Because at this point in time, David had already been anointed as 581 00:34:23,589 --> 00:34:23,909 king. 582 00:34:24,549 --> 00:34:28,349 Jonathan, knitting his soul with David, would have learned this 583 00:34:28,349 --> 00:34:29,989 information quite early. 584 00:34:30,549 --> 00:34:35,149 And it's perhaps at this moment that God even told John, this 585 00:34:35,149 --> 00:34:37,509 is the next man that I have crowned to be king. 586 00:34:37,989 --> 00:34:43,269 Saul knew that he no longer would be king. 587 00:34:43,989 --> 00:34:45,269 It was not an if. 588 00:34:45,589 --> 00:34:47,509 It was really just a matter of when. 589 00:34:47,749 --> 00:34:51,429 Samuel had already come and told him, the kingdom has been rent 590 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,640 out of your hand because of your disobedience. 591 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,960 And what we see here in the life of Jonathan David, the story 592 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:03,520 of Jonathan David shows so many enduring principles about what 593 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,080 real love is. 594 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:10,200 Real Love wants a commitment, and commitment will show itself in 595 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:10,840 covenant. 596 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,440 Real love will not hide its covenant or commitment. 597 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,760 Their friendship was for everyone to see. 598 00:35:17,570 --> 00:35:22,170 Everyone had that open understanding of, wow, the king's 599 00:35:22,170 --> 00:35:28,010 son has taken an interest in raising up this young man in Saul's 600 00:35:28,010 --> 00:35:28,450 army. 601 00:35:28,690 --> 00:35:31,010 Real love will give and receive gifts. 602 00:35:31,170 --> 00:35:35,170 Real love will clothe the poor with robes of royalty. 603 00:35:35,410 --> 00:35:37,650 And David was a poor shepherd boy. 604 00:35:38,050 --> 00:35:40,930 Real love will give armor to fight with. 605 00:35:41,010 --> 00:35:43,890 And this kind of brings us to the gifts aspect of it. 606 00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:48,700 And Jonathan's last trait is humility, is humility. 607 00:35:49,740 --> 00:35:55,540 So we gather that this time Jonathan understands that David is 608 00:35:55,540 --> 00:35:59,420 going to be king just because of the gifts that Jonathan gives 609 00:35:59,500 --> 00:35:59,900 to. 610 00:36:00,860 --> 00:36:01,820 To David. 611 00:36:02,220 --> 00:36:06,140 It says that Saul took him that day and would let him go no 612 00:36:06,140 --> 00:36:07,660 more home to his father's house. 613 00:36:08,300 --> 00:36:10,220 He's not going to be a shepherd for anymore. 614 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,680 Saul wants this man in his army. 615 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,280 He is way too valuable. 616 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,880 Saul probably wants to look good. 617 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,120 I got to have good men. 618 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,360 I've been looking for men like this that can fight in battles and 619 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,200 can win them. 620 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,080 I want you. 621 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,480 You don't get to go home anymore. 622 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:26,240 You're in my service. 623 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:27,800 Says in verse three. 624 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:33,160 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as 625 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:34,000 his own soul. 626 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,020 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and 627 00:36:38,020 --> 00:36:41,980 gave it to David into his garments, even to a sword, his bow 628 00:36:42,220 --> 00:36:43,500 and his girdle. 629 00:36:43,580 --> 00:36:49,820 This is the whole package of royal attire, royal armor. 630 00:36:49,900 --> 00:36:52,940 I mean, I feel like some people would be attached to their 631 00:36:52,940 --> 00:36:57,460 sword, especially since Saul and Jonathan were the only few people 632 00:36:57,460 --> 00:37:01,420 who actually had iron weapons and iron armor at this time. 633 00:37:01,740 --> 00:37:03,420 This would be kind of an attachment. 634 00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:05,900 And Jonathan doesn't look at it as that attachment. 635 00:37:06,580 --> 00:37:08,740 He gives it to David freely. 636 00:37:08,820 --> 00:37:13,700 It says here that he made that Jonathan and David made a covenant. 637 00:37:14,180 --> 00:37:20,580 The Hebrew word karath is more properly cut a covenant, not made 638 00:37:20,580 --> 00:37:21,140 a cup. 639 00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:24,220 Now, obviously it's the same thing, but there's some nuance there 640 00:37:24,220 --> 00:37:27,540 that you miss whenever you have this word translated. 641 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:30,300 It's to cut a covenant. 642 00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:31,140 Why was that? 643 00:37:31,630 --> 00:37:37,550 But covenant, covenanters, covenanters, they first they swear 644 00:37:38,110 --> 00:37:43,150 and then they cut the beast in twain, passing between the parts 645 00:37:43,150 --> 00:37:47,510 thereof and wishing so to be cut in piece pieces themselves. 646 00:37:47,510 --> 00:37:48,670 If they ever falsified. 647 00:37:48,830 --> 00:37:53,070 You remember the covenant that Abraham made with God. 648 00:37:53,550 --> 00:37:57,550 Abraham took the beast, cut it, and then went to sleep. 649 00:37:58,310 --> 00:38:02,630 God put him to sleep, and God made him stay over here. 650 00:38:02,790 --> 00:38:05,430 And God walked in between. 651 00:38:05,430 --> 00:38:09,430 The spirit of God moved in between those pieces to signify that 652 00:38:09,430 --> 00:38:12,710 this covenant was something that God was doing that wasn't how 653 00:38:12,710 --> 00:38:13,390 covenants were. 654 00:38:13,390 --> 00:38:16,590 That's not the covenant that Jonathan and David made here they 655 00:38:16,590 --> 00:38:18,350 both went in between the cov. 656 00:38:18,350 --> 00:38:22,350 The pieces of the beast and the Old Testament there with Abraham 657 00:38:22,350 --> 00:38:22,870 and God. 658 00:38:23,110 --> 00:38:27,730 God went through it to show that this is his covenant and that 659 00:38:27,730 --> 00:38:29,930 there was no works on Abraham. 660 00:38:30,410 --> 00:38:33,570 There was no hey, I'm going to do this and you do this and then 661 00:38:33,570 --> 00:38:34,810 we'll, we can come together. 662 00:38:35,050 --> 00:38:36,170 No, it was Abraham. 663 00:38:36,170 --> 00:38:36,930 You sit right here. 664 00:38:36,930 --> 00:38:38,810 I'm doing this all by myself. 665 00:38:39,290 --> 00:38:41,610 That's not the government that Jonathan and David made. 666 00:38:41,610 --> 00:38:43,770 But they do cut a covenant nonetheless. 667 00:38:44,170 --> 00:38:48,810 They pass through wishing to be cut in pieces if ever they falsified 668 00:38:48,890 --> 00:38:49,850 from that covenant. 669 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,760 Jonathan's willingness to surrender his position. 670 00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:01,040 It also symbolizes the self emptying that the humility of Christ. 671 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,800 You reread in Philippians chapter two. 672 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,600 Who being in the form of God made himself of no reputation, but 673 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,720 took rather the form of a serpent. 674 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,120 John, the battles he must increase, but I must decrease. 675 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,200 That was humility that he had. 676 00:39:15,850 --> 00:39:20,370 And when Jonathan gave David his robe and his armor, he was basically 677 00:39:20,370 --> 00:39:24,410 saying, you're in it, you're going to be the next king. 678 00:39:24,730 --> 00:39:26,330 I'm wearing royal clothes. 679 00:39:26,490 --> 00:39:30,170 But David, you're the one who's going to be royal. 680 00:39:30,650 --> 00:39:33,450 You're the one who should be wearing these things. 681 00:39:33,450 --> 00:39:34,970 God's hand is on you. 682 00:39:35,050 --> 00:39:37,130 These things rightfully belong to you. 683 00:39:38,010 --> 00:39:43,580 Because Jonathan surrendered to God, he could see the hand of 684 00:39:43,580 --> 00:39:44,980 the Lord upon David. 685 00:39:45,220 --> 00:39:49,700 He knew David's destiny and he was perfectly fine willing to lay 686 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:53,540 ambition aside to honor God's choice. 687 00:39:55,380 --> 00:40:03,140 You and I as believers, how do we react with God honors someone 688 00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:03,620 else? 689 00:40:05,380 --> 00:40:07,780 Because Jonathan, he had every. 690 00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:10,500 He was the expected next king. 691 00:40:11,060 --> 00:40:14,020 He was David's, Saul's son. 692 00:40:14,340 --> 00:40:17,620 He was the one who would naturally inherit the throne. 693 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:23,460 That was an expectation that he had probably up to that point. 694 00:40:23,780 --> 00:40:28,980 Whenever he saw David's speed, the slaying of Goliath, that was 695 00:40:28,980 --> 00:40:33,260 his every expectation of yeah, Dad's ruling and reigning and one 696 00:40:33,260 --> 00:40:36,550 day he's going to step down and allow me to take the throne. 697 00:40:36,790 --> 00:40:38,150 I'm the next in line. 698 00:40:38,550 --> 00:40:40,950 All that went away when David stepped on the scene. 699 00:40:41,430 --> 00:40:44,230 It really has to ask make you ask that question. 700 00:40:44,390 --> 00:40:49,590 What would you do if this person took your place? 701 00:40:50,710 --> 00:40:53,910 Would you go and make this person your best friend ever? 702 00:40:54,390 --> 00:40:56,950 Or would there be some resentment to that? 703 00:40:57,430 --> 00:41:00,230 Clearly self ambition is laid aside. 704 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:07,400 And then we get these, these, these three responses here we get 705 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,520 the response of Jonathan surrendering to what God was doing. 706 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:17,720 We get Saul later in these next verses resisting what God is 707 00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:18,080 doing. 708 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,280 And David, he's in the middle of all. 709 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,600 He wasn't expecting any of this. 710 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:24,960 He was a poor shepherd. 711 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,660 So now we kind of have to ask the question, what is David's response? 712 00:41:30,780 --> 00:41:34,620 David's response to all of this is completely new. 713 00:41:34,620 --> 00:41:38,060 And this is where it begins, the jealousy of Saul. 714 00:41:38,620 --> 00:41:42,940 It begins with the successful servant of David, because that's 715 00:41:42,940 --> 00:41:43,740 what David is. 716 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:46,740 He is a successful servant, says in verse number five. 717 00:41:46,740 --> 00:41:50,580 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him and behaved 718 00:41:50,580 --> 00:41:51,660 himself wisely. 719 00:41:51,820 --> 00:41:53,580 This all set him over the men of the war. 720 00:41:54,050 --> 00:41:57,730 And he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also 721 00:41:57,730 --> 00:41:59,170 in the sight of Saul's servants. 722 00:41:59,330 --> 00:42:02,450 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from 723 00:42:02,450 --> 00:42:04,090 the slaughter of the Philistines, that the women came 724 00:42:04,090 --> 00:42:08,530 out of all the cities of the Israel singing and dancing to meet 725 00:42:08,530 --> 00:42:12,290 King Saul with tablets, with joy, and with instruments of music. 726 00:42:13,570 --> 00:42:16,290 And the women answered one another as they played and said Saul 727 00:42:16,530 --> 00:42:20,920 had slain his thousands and David his ten thousands. 728 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:28,080 This says here that David went out wherever Saul said, now David 729 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,040 knew I've been anointed king. 730 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,280 And here he was underneath some other king. 731 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:40,520 What was going on in David's mind was his mindset, a mindset of, 732 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,760 you know, I'm this next crowned king. 733 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,720 When's God going to get rid of this guy so I can step up? 734 00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:51,360 I mean, aren't we supposed to go ahead and get be done with this? 735 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,480 It's highly unusual that I get anointed while Saul's in power. 736 00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,600 You be asking questions like, is he going to die soon? 737 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,160 Is God going to kill him? 738 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,360 God's got this thing all prepared out, right? 739 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:03,760 It's his sovereignty. 740 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:04,440 It's his will. 741 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,320 God's the one calling the shot and saying, when is this going to 742 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:07,560 happen? 743 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:14,240 And yet he just goes and continues doing whatever Saul wants 744 00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:15,010 him to do. 745 00:43:15,010 --> 00:43:19,890 And it says his attitude and all this is one of behaving wisely. 746 00:43:20,370 --> 00:43:25,490 David was fully submitted to Saul, and he sought to serve that 747 00:43:25,490 --> 00:43:28,210 master Saul wisely. 748 00:43:29,010 --> 00:43:32,290 He sent him all over the people of war. 749 00:43:33,570 --> 00:43:37,170 And in this remarkable promotion that we see here, you know, 750 00:43:37,170 --> 00:43:41,370 this is like, this will surely make all the other employees mad 751 00:43:41,370 --> 00:43:41,730 at work. 752 00:43:41,730 --> 00:43:45,310 You know, you get the one new guy that comes in and they, they. 753 00:43:45,630 --> 00:43:49,470 He does one day on the job, and then they set him over everybody 754 00:43:49,470 --> 00:43:49,750 else. 755 00:43:49,750 --> 00:43:53,230 Like I've been working here for 15 years pouring into this guy's 756 00:43:53,230 --> 00:43:55,150 back pocket, making him a dollar. 757 00:43:55,230 --> 00:43:56,670 And this is what happens. 758 00:43:56,670 --> 00:43:57,230 You know, you. 759 00:43:57,230 --> 00:44:00,230 You would think that would be the case, that all the Soldiers in 760 00:44:00,230 --> 00:44:01,390 this army are like, this is. 761 00:44:01,390 --> 00:44:02,350 This is horrible. 762 00:44:02,350 --> 00:44:04,190 How dare he set this guy over us. 763 00:44:04,190 --> 00:44:05,950 But that's exactly what he does here. 764 00:44:06,270 --> 00:44:12,150 It says that he sets him over all the men of war and in this remarkable 765 00:44:12,150 --> 00:44:15,550 promotion, they're all pleased with it. 766 00:44:15,950 --> 00:44:17,110 They all love him. 767 00:44:17,110 --> 00:44:20,230 Now, surely it wasn't everyone, obviously, but for the 768 00:44:20,230 --> 00:44:24,990 most part, surely this is a consensus of the, the hearts of the 769 00:44:24,990 --> 00:44:25,310 people. 770 00:44:26,190 --> 00:44:28,750 They love David. 771 00:44:28,910 --> 00:44:30,110 They are happy. 772 00:44:30,270 --> 00:44:33,550 It says he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also 773 00:44:33,550 --> 00:44:35,550 in the sight of Saul's servants. 774 00:44:36,430 --> 00:44:36,670 The. 775 00:44:36,750 --> 00:44:40,830 This is a gaining popularity for David. 776 00:44:41,390 --> 00:44:44,910 And we see two different reactions to that popularity. 777 00:44:45,070 --> 00:44:48,270 You see David react and you also see Saul react. 778 00:44:48,990 --> 00:44:54,030 And this is kind of that whole proverb of if you want to test a 779 00:44:54,030 --> 00:44:59,070 person in their character, give them power, give them wealth, 780 00:44:59,070 --> 00:45:04,200 give them influence, give them something like this that is in so 781 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:05,840 many ways greater than themselves. 782 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,400 Give them that power. 783 00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:10,240 That's what David gets here. 784 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,880 And then we see his reaction. 785 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,040 We see Saul's reaction to this. 786 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,960 Of course, in verse eight, you know, these people come in, they're 787 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:23,320 singing and dancing there in the streets as they would normally 788 00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,920 do with the, the, the, the armies would come in and they're 789 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,240 saying, saul's slain a thousand, but David, he's slain 10,000. 790 00:45:30,900 --> 00:45:35,860 There's this great popularity swelling for David. 791 00:45:36,660 --> 00:45:40,100 And it says here in verse 8 that Saul was very wroth of this. 792 00:45:40,100 --> 00:45:41,620 The saying displeased him. 793 00:45:41,780 --> 00:45:44,620 And he said, they have ascribed unto David ten thousands, 794 00:45:44,620 --> 00:45:46,580 and to me they have ascribed a thousands. 795 00:45:46,740 --> 00:45:51,300 And what can he have more but the kingdom and Saul? 796 00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:54,900 I, David from that David from that day and forward. 797 00:45:56,190 --> 00:46:04,030 So what we see here is the life of someone who is envious, proud, 798 00:46:06,750 --> 00:46:07,470 confused. 799 00:46:08,270 --> 00:46:12,630 Maybe it's a typical overreaction seen in the proud, the 800 00:46:12,630 --> 00:46:14,670 arrogant, the insecure, if you will. 801 00:46:14,670 --> 00:46:15,630 That's what we're looking for. 802 00:46:15,630 --> 00:46:16,270 Insecure. 803 00:46:16,910 --> 00:46:20,550 Saul could have thought in this moment, well, David has done 804 00:46:20,550 --> 00:46:20,870 well. 805 00:46:20,870 --> 00:46:21,950 He killed Goliath. 806 00:46:21,950 --> 00:46:24,790 I've set him out over the, the men of war. 807 00:46:24,870 --> 00:46:26,950 He's going out, he's fighting battles for me. 808 00:46:27,030 --> 00:46:28,470 This is good for David. 809 00:46:28,870 --> 00:46:31,270 This is the man that I hire. 810 00:46:31,830 --> 00:46:33,230 This is the man that I got. 811 00:46:33,230 --> 00:46:35,270 This is exactly what I want him to do. 812 00:46:35,350 --> 00:46:36,830 He'll get his glory today. 813 00:46:36,830 --> 00:46:37,830 He deserves it. 814 00:46:38,070 --> 00:46:41,190 I'll continue serving the Lord, and then I'll have that praise 815 00:46:41,190 --> 00:46:42,630 and popularity one day. 816 00:46:42,870 --> 00:46:46,150 But that's, that's just not the attitude that comes out for Saul. 817 00:46:46,150 --> 00:46:49,230 Instead, he overreacts and it says, now what more can he have but 818 00:46:49,230 --> 00:46:49,830 the kingdom? 819 00:46:50,990 --> 00:46:54,190 There's that insecurity that happens. 820 00:46:55,470 --> 00:47:00,590 There's that insecurity that happens in the mind of those who 821 00:47:00,750 --> 00:47:01,310 compare. 822 00:47:01,390 --> 00:47:06,510 Saul shows us the poison of comparison. 823 00:47:07,550 --> 00:47:08,310 Ever heard of that? 824 00:47:08,310 --> 00:47:10,030 Comparison is the thief of Jordan. 825 00:47:10,990 --> 00:47:14,710 Start comparing yourself with what you have or with what someone 826 00:47:14,710 --> 00:47:15,310 else has. 827 00:47:15,590 --> 00:47:16,710 It's a thief of joy. 828 00:47:17,990 --> 00:47:22,790 Yeah, I can do this, but they can do so much better than me. 829 00:47:23,670 --> 00:47:25,710 And the mindset is completely wrong. 830 00:47:25,710 --> 00:47:26,550 It is a poison. 831 00:47:28,230 --> 00:47:32,630 But in this, there's also another dynamic work in the life 832 00:47:32,630 --> 00:47:33,270 of Saul. 833 00:47:33,430 --> 00:47:36,710 And that's lastly, a guilty conscience. 834 00:47:37,510 --> 00:47:38,390 He knows. 835 00:47:39,110 --> 00:47:43,960 He remembers the prophet Samuel telling him, the Lord has 836 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,880 rejected you from being king over Israel. 837 00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:51,760 Saul knew his sin had disqualified him from being king. 838 00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:57,600 And he was hanging on the throne by a thread, by the energy 839 00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,000 of his flesh, what he could do. 840 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,440 He was hanging on to the throne. 841 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,880 An honorable man may would have sat down. 842 00:48:07,830 --> 00:48:11,110 But if Saul was an honorable man, he wouldn't be in the mess to 843 00:48:11,110 --> 00:48:11,750 begin with. 844 00:48:12,390 --> 00:48:15,270 Instead, Saul constantly worked. 845 00:48:15,750 --> 00:48:17,030 Is today the day? 846 00:48:17,910 --> 00:48:18,710 I don't know about you. 847 00:48:18,710 --> 00:48:19,190 I've. 848 00:48:19,430 --> 00:48:21,190 I've lived like that in different ways. 849 00:48:21,190 --> 00:48:23,710 Have you ever lived your life looking over your shoulder, just 850 00:48:23,710 --> 00:48:25,750 waiting for judgment to come? 851 00:48:26,630 --> 00:48:31,190 Living your life waiting for that one person to finally notice? 852 00:48:31,190 --> 00:48:34,630 You know, it's kind of like when you go back to your hometown 853 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,520 and you try to go into the Walmart and you see. 854 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:42,040 You're just hoping you don't see your high school friends or the 855 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:43,240 people that you used to see. 856 00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:44,520 You just don't want to see them. 857 00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,000 Is anyone else in here like that? 858 00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:47,880 Am I the only one that's like that? 859 00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,680 I don't want to see those people anymore. 860 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,440 Those are bridge chiefs that I have one person who agrees with me. 861 00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,080 Those are bridges that have been long burned. 862 00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:56,760 They burned them. 863 00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:57,240 I don't want to say. 864 00:48:57,240 --> 00:48:59,520 I just want to get in, buy my milk and then leave. 865 00:49:01,290 --> 00:49:04,810 That overlooking of the shoulder can come from many different 866 00:49:04,810 --> 00:49:05,770 reasons in your life. 867 00:49:06,170 --> 00:49:09,850 In the life of Saul, it was the guilty conscience. 868 00:49:10,170 --> 00:49:14,050 It was the understanding that God has decreed that I am no longer. 869 00:49:14,050 --> 00:49:15,690 But how serious was he? 870 00:49:16,249 --> 00:49:17,530 Surely he is serious. 871 00:49:18,330 --> 00:49:19,930 When is that day going to come? 872 00:49:20,490 --> 00:49:27,550 And as David begins to rise in popularity, as Saul says, sees and 873 00:49:27,550 --> 00:49:29,390 fears, we'll see later on. 874 00:49:30,430 --> 00:49:37,550 He had the anointing of God on his life and that was the indicator 875 00:49:37,550 --> 00:49:38,270 for Saul. 876 00:49:38,750 --> 00:49:41,390 He realized, this is it. 877 00:49:42,269 --> 00:49:44,350 This is the person that I've been waiting. 878 00:49:45,230 --> 00:49:48,270 The day has come that I have feared for so long. 879 00:49:49,390 --> 00:49:52,510 God is finally going to take the kingdom from my hands. 880 00:49:52,690 --> 00:49:54,770 And this, you can think of it. 881 00:49:54,770 --> 00:49:57,730 Saul's like 45, maybe 50 years old. 882 00:49:57,970 --> 00:50:01,970 It's like this boy is coming to take my place. 883 00:50:02,930 --> 00:50:04,210 How dare you. 884 00:50:04,290 --> 00:50:06,850 Just see the hate, the rage building. 885 00:50:06,850 --> 00:50:10,410 And Saul, we see the rage building us all in the next few verses 886 00:50:10,410 --> 00:50:10,850 of this. 887 00:50:11,330 --> 00:50:13,930 But the poison that is seeping through. 888 00:50:13,930 --> 00:50:14,330 Saul. 889 00:50:14,330 --> 00:50:18,050 Saul, you can write a novel, a dark novel about the character of 890 00:50:18,050 --> 00:50:18,530 Saul. 891 00:50:19,110 --> 00:50:23,510 The poison that is raging in this king's mind, the hate that he 892 00:50:23,510 --> 00:50:25,590 began to have for David. 893 00:50:25,910 --> 00:50:31,110 And yet this man was someone that he would have admired in any 894 00:50:31,270 --> 00:50:33,030 other circumstance. 895 00:50:33,430 --> 00:50:37,310 He would have delighted to have this person as one of his servants 896 00:50:37,310 --> 00:50:39,030 in any other circumstance. 897 00:50:39,270 --> 00:50:45,360 And yet the knowledge that God is with this person and this person 898 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:52,720 is probably going to take my place, that just destroyed Saul. 899 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,480 And we see David, who's in the position of receiving such praise, 900 00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:01,120 his response in all this, it says that in verse number 14, David 901 00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:04,240 behaved himself wisely in all his ways. 902 00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:09,280 Though pride could have entered in, David handled this situation 903 00:51:09,930 --> 00:51:10,250 wise. 904 00:51:10,810 --> 00:51:17,890 And so that is where we see the three characters in this book, 905 00:51:17,890 --> 00:51:19,450 if you will, really come to. 906 00:51:22,890 --> 00:51:24,250 Really come to the surface. 907 00:51:24,570 --> 00:51:29,570 We see Jonathan surrendering to what God has done and what God 908 00:51:29,570 --> 00:51:30,010 is doing. 909 00:51:30,410 --> 00:51:36,610 We see David just stewarding what God had done in his life and 910 00:51:36,610 --> 00:51:37,610 had commanded him to do. 911 00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:43,480 And then we see Saul resisting what God was doing with every fiber 912 00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:45,080 of his being. 913 00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,280 We see these people and we have to ask ourselves, where are 914 00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:49,760 we at? 915 00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:50,840 Where do we fit at? 916 00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:55,960 Because, no, you don't have a king that is trying to kill you today, 917 00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:56,520 perhaps. 918 00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:03,000 No, you don't have someone who is usurping your position and taking 919 00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,770 what, by all rights should technically be your position. 920 00:52:06,850 --> 00:52:07,890 Maybe that's not it. 921 00:52:07,970 --> 00:52:12,130 And no, maybe you don't have some whippersnapper coming up and 922 00:52:12,210 --> 00:52:17,490 taking something out of your hands because of your dumb deeds. 923 00:52:17,970 --> 00:52:19,650 Maybe that's not your situation. 924 00:52:19,810 --> 00:52:23,890 But God still is changing things in our life. 925 00:52:24,450 --> 00:52:25,810 God is still directing. 926 00:52:25,810 --> 00:52:26,930 God is still moving. 927 00:52:27,250 --> 00:52:30,680 The questions that we have to ask ourselves is, what do you do 928 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,040 when the will of God does change your position in such a way? 929 00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,760 What do you do whenever your life goes pop? 930 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:41,240 What do you do whenever what your plans that you may have so meticulously 931 00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:41,800 laid out? 932 00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,080 What do you do when those things just fall apart and things 933 00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,320 don't go your way? 934 00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,240 That is the question that we have to ask ourselves tonight.