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Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your

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Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at BibleStudyHeadquarters.com. Today we're

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Speaker 1: continuing our look at the book of 1 Samuel, and

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Speaker 1: today we'll be in chapter 16. And here in chapter 16,

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Speaker 1: we'll notice that this is a portion of Scripture where

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Speaker 1: God chooses David and his spirit departs from Saul. And

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Speaker 1: so if you would, take your Bibles and turn with

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Speaker 1: me to 1 Samuel 16. I'm going to start by

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Speaker 1: reading the first five verses, and then we'll work our

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Speaker 1: Samuel 16, starting with verse 1, this is what God's

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Speaker 1: Word says to us today. The Lord said to Samuel,

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Speaker 1: How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have

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Speaker 1: with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse

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Speaker 1: the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king

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Speaker 1: among his sons. And Samuel said, How can I go?

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Speaker 1: Lord said, Take a heifer with you and say, I

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Speaker 1: to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you

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Speaker 1: shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom

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Speaker 1: I declare to you. Samuel did what the Lord commanded

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Speaker 1: and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came

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Speaker 1: to meet him trembling and said, do you come peaceably?

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Speaker 1: And he said, peaceably, I have come to sacrifice to

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Speaker 1: the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them

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Speaker 1: to the sacrifice. Let's pray. Father, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for the privilege to be able to look at this

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Speaker 1: portion of your word together today. And we pray that

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Speaker 1: as we do so, that you would prepare our minds

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Speaker 1: would grow in our walk with you as we look

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Speaker 1: at what you've revealed in your word. And Lord, we

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Speaker 1: pray that you would help us to learn to trust you.

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Speaker 1: But also, Lord, when you call us to a task,

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Speaker 1: we pray that we would be faithful with the task.

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Speaker 1: We know that this is one of those portions of

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Speaker 1: also see the results of lack of faithfulness. And so,

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Speaker 1: We know that there's cautions for us here, but Father,

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Speaker 1: we know that wherever we are in your word, that

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Speaker 1: your entire word is pointing us to your son, Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: So help us to make those connections today as we

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Speaker 1: look at this passage from the book of 1 Samuel.

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Speaker 1: And we thank you, Lord, for your presence with us today.

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Speaker 1: We pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen. So this

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Speaker 1: week has been a week of celebration, lots of fun

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Speaker 1: things for our family, lots of joy in our family.

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Speaker 1: It's involved multiple days in a row. of significant family

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Speaker 1: events with people that we love. We even have some

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Speaker 1: of our family members from New York and from Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: and all other places with us even this morning as

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Speaker 1: we're gathered here. And so I'm grateful for weeks like this.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun, very joyful, and grateful for

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Speaker 1: our church family in the midst of weeks like this.

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Speaker 1: But even in the midst of weeks that are extremely joyful,

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Speaker 1: whether for you personally or for your family or for

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Speaker 1: a church or whomever it may be, we also know

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Speaker 1: that there are some weeks in our lives that are

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Speaker 1: the exact opposite of that, where they don't seem all

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Speaker 1: don't seem all that happy. They, in fact, sometimes seem sad.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at the way 1 Samuel 16

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Speaker 1: us that Samuel's mourning over Saul. Now to give you

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Speaker 1: the context here, Samuel had been serving as judge over

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Speaker 1: they said, you're getting too old. We don't trust your sons.

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Speaker 1: We would like to have a king like the other nations.

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Speaker 1: Lord said, no, it's not you that they're rejecting. They're

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Speaker 1: grieving over it. Even though initially he grieved over the

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Speaker 1: other nations, he's now grieving that the king that God

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Speaker 1: this fact. Saul remains on Israel's throne, but God has

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Speaker 1: already announced that his kingdom is not going to continue,

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Speaker 1: all this potential. He looked impressive. He began with all

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Speaker 1: now he was rejected. He was going to be removed

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Speaker 1: this to Samuel to set this up. So this is

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Speaker 1: how this chapter begins. Verse one tells us, how long

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Speaker 1: the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king.

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Speaker 1: among his sons. Now, again, if you were Samuel, if

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Speaker 1: you would say his grief is understandable. You would feel

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Speaker 1: praying for him regularly, instructing him. correcting him, and then

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Speaker 1: But he does tell him, look, the time has come

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Speaker 1: reveals to Samuel, I've already chosen another king. I've already

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Speaker 1: But I also think there's an important reminder here whenever

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Speaker 1: I think human sin, which is something we all wrestle

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Speaker 1: interesting thing about it is it can't overturn God's plan.

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Speaker 1: So it does have lasting consequences, but God's plan remains intact.

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Speaker 1: So Saul, as king over Israel, may have turned away,

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Speaker 1: ability to do things like recover his reputations. or preserve

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Speaker 1: his dynasty. Two things he's going to attempt to do.

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Speaker 1: The scripture tells us God has provided a king, and

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Speaker 1: Samuel to Bethlehem. And we know lots about Bethlehem in

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Speaker 1: And Samuel's concerned that Saul is actually going to hear

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Speaker 1: Samuel arrives in Bethlehem, the elders tremble. Did you wonder that? Like,

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Speaker 1: reason that they tremble is because when a prophet comes

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Speaker 1: I wonder what he's here to do. Is he here

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Speaker 1: we're about to find out because God speaks through this man?

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Speaker 1: the Lord for those people, even if they tell you

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Speaker 1: some challenging things. But Samuel here arrives in Bethlehem, and

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Speaker 1: then the chapter also turns back to Saul. When you

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Speaker 1: upon David, but we're told now the spirit of the

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Speaker 1: the Lord tormented him. Now that's a portion of scripture

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Speaker 1: that people try and wrap their minds around. I'll do

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Speaker 1: my best to explain it. But this verse is describing

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Speaker 1: the serious consequences of Saul's rejection. God's spirit had been

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Speaker 1: empowering Saul in a very unique way so that he

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Speaker 1: could operate as king. Do you ever realize the benefit

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Speaker 1: that you and I have living under the new covenant

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Speaker 1: in this era since Christ came to this earth, lived

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Speaker 1: the perfect life, atone for our sin and shed his

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Speaker 1: blood on the cross, inaugurating the new covenant, rising from

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Speaker 1: the grave. And now we live under the new covenant.

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Speaker 1: And you're like, all right, well, what difference is there

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Speaker 1: in my day-to-day life from someone who lived under the

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Speaker 1: old covenant? Well, if you lived under the old covenant,

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, what he would do is he would

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Speaker 1: come upon people for certain tasks and certain periods of time.

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Speaker 1: But it was very, like his role in that moment

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Speaker 1: was very Task-centered, you could say. But under the new covenant,

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, he indwells you permanently. So not temporarily. Under

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Speaker 1: the old covenant, he would temporarily come upon people so

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Speaker 1: they could do something specific. Under the new covenant that

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Speaker 1: you and I live under, he lives in you permanently. Meaning,

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Speaker 1: as we're seeing David empowered, as we're seeing Saul empowered,

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Speaker 1: and now Saul lose that empowerment... lose that anointing, understand

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Speaker 1: that you get to go throughout all your days indwelled

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Speaker 1: by the Holy Spirit, empowered for the work that God

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Speaker 1: wants you to do. From the moment you trusted in

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ till your last day on earth, he lives

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Speaker 1: within you and he won't leave you. I like living

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Speaker 1: under the new covenant. I'm super grateful for the indwelling

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Speaker 1: presence of the Holy Spirit. But understand under the old

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Speaker 1: covenant that they were living under, the Holy Spirit, his

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Speaker 1: ministry operated differently. during that era of time. And when

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Speaker 1: God rejected Saul, the Spirit's empowerment was withdrawn, and it

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Speaker 1: was given to David. That's what he did. The Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 1: the third person of the Trinity, he came upon David

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Speaker 1: and empowered him. But this scripture also tells us that

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Speaker 1: in the absence of the Holy Spirit operating within him. Now,

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Speaker 1: the harmful spirit that's referenced here, understand, so you could

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Speaker 1: look at this and you could say, I guess this

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Speaker 1: was some demonic spirit that comes upon Saul. And that's,

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Speaker 1: I believe, an accurate way to look at this. But

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Speaker 1: also understand that even the demons have to operate under

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Speaker 1: God's sovereign authority. So scripture doesn't try and suggest that

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Speaker 1: evil operates independently or that God somehow becomes morally evil.

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Speaker 1: What it's actually showing us here is that God remains

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Speaker 1: holy while even using spiritual forces that are hostile as

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Speaker 1: instruments of judgment. So Saul's torment here shows the misery

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Speaker 1: of resisting God, the misery of rejecting God, the misery

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Speaker 1: of attempting to hold a position that God has removed

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Speaker 1: from you. And in a sense, this is what I

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Speaker 1: think when I look at this portion of Scripture. In

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Speaker 1: was given exactly what he asked for in that moment.

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Speaker 1: Because consider what he's been doing up to this point.

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Speaker 1: His heart persistently rejected God and embraced evil. So in

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Speaker 1: many respects, you could say God was allowing him to

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Speaker 1: experience the very thing that he had been asking for

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Speaker 1: all along. And Saul's servants, as they see this going on,

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Speaker 1: they recommend finding someone who could play the lyre. Now,

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Speaker 1: sometimes I call it the lyre. It sounds funny to

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Speaker 1: call that musical instrument the lyre, but that's probably the

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Speaker 1: more proper way to say it. L-Y-R-E, it's spelled. And

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Speaker 1: one servant describes David as a skilled musician, a man

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Speaker 1: good presence. And most importantly, the servant says this, when

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Speaker 1: you look at verse 18, it says, Behold, I've seen

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Speaker 1: a son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing,

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Speaker 1: a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech,

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Speaker 1: and a man of good presence, and the Lord is

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Speaker 1: with him. So this person is saying to Saul, you

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Speaker 1: ought to bring this guy, when this evil spirit that's

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Speaker 1: bothering you torments you, bring David and he can play

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Speaker 1: the lyre for you. Do you know what a lyre

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Speaker 1: looks like? Don't look at your spouse. Don't look at

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Speaker 1: your siblings right now. The instrument, the instrument looks something

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Speaker 1: like this. Looks a little like this. So it's like

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Speaker 1: a stringed instrument, something along the lines of, you know,

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Speaker 1: like a harp or a guitar stringed instrument along those lines.

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Speaker 1: So it probably looked similar to this particular picture. But here,

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Speaker 1: when you look at what we're told in the scripture,

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Speaker 1: the description summarizes David's qualities that had been developed over

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Speaker 1: time as the Lord had been working in his life.

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Speaker 1: But the central emphasis is very, very clear when you

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Speaker 1: look at what's said here. The Lord is with him.

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Speaker 1: The Lord is with him. David's greatest qualification wasn't his

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Speaker 1: ability to play music, wasn't his courage, wasn't his manner,

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Speaker 1: his beautiful eyes, his manner of speaking. None of that.

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Speaker 1: The greatest qualification was that God was with him. And

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Speaker 1: so Saul sends messengers to Jesse and he requests David's service.

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Speaker 1: And we're also told in 1 Samuel 16 that at

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Speaker 1: as armor bearer. Now, I'm about to blow somebody's mind

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Speaker 1: with this statement, but if he's appointing him as armor bearer,

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Speaker 1: do you think he's just like a little boy who's

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Speaker 1: coming into Saul's court? In the next chapter, it talks

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Speaker 1: as if he was like 12, when he's like, all right,

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Speaker 1: I'll take on this giant, right? In the previous chapter,

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Speaker 1: it says he's Saul's armor bearer. He's young, but he's

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Speaker 1: a young man. He's not a little boy, right? And

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Speaker 1: so when David describes himself, and even when he puts

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Speaker 1: next chapter. And David's like, I don't know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: used to using this stuff. But Saul didn't recognize, like,

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Speaker 1: Saul didn't look at David and say, you know, like, hey, 12-year-old,

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Speaker 1: you know, put this on. He wasn't some 12-year-old kid.

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Speaker 1: He was a young man. But regardless, Saul loves him

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Speaker 1: at this point, appoints him as his armor bearer, brings

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Speaker 1: him in. David is someone who's going to play music

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Speaker 1: for him. Whenever the harmful spirit troubles Saul, you have

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Speaker 1: David playing the lyre. and Saul receives relief. The spirit

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Speaker 1: departs from him. And then you look at this, and

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Speaker 1: you'd be like, why is this whole thing being orchestrated

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Speaker 1: like this? Do you see the sovereign hand of God

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Speaker 1: orchestrating all kinds of details for his glory and for

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Speaker 1: the benefit of his people, even through this particular circumstance?

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Speaker 1: That that servant would know that David was a skilled musician?

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Speaker 1: That David developed the hobby of playing the liar and

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Speaker 1: getting good at that? And that somehow that info would

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Speaker 1: be passed along to Saul and Saul would say, get

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Speaker 1: him in here? What's happening in this context? David is

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Speaker 1: the man that the Lord has chosen to replace Saul.

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Speaker 1: And now, without Saul realizing that his replacement is right there,

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Speaker 1: he's inviting him into the inner court of what's going on.

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Speaker 1: David isn't plotting against Saul. He's actually supporting Saul. He's

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Speaker 1: serving him faithfully. But basically, you have the Lord bringing

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Speaker 1: David into the palace through music, not through an army.

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Speaker 1: And while David's there, think about what he's going to

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Speaker 1: get to see and experience. He's going to learn about

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Speaker 1: royal life. He's going to learn about building relationships with

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Speaker 1: people of influence. He's going to learn about serving the

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Speaker 1: king while still waiting on God's promise for one day

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Speaker 1: him to be king over the people of Israel. You

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Speaker 1: look at this, you can see that every part of

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Speaker 1: this arrangement is under God's direction. The whole thing, God's

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Speaker 1: sovereign hand is completely upon this. Even though the people

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Speaker 1: who are involved in this can't see where this is going,

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Speaker 1: we can see this in retrospect. They can't see it

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Speaker 1: in the moment. This is one of those things that

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Speaker 1: should give us great peace about how the Lord's orchestrating

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Speaker 1: our steps. I don't know what season of your journey

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Speaker 1: on this planet you think you're in right now. Understand

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Speaker 1: that the people that you know, you don't know them

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Speaker 1: by accident. Understand the things that the Lord's making you

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Speaker 1: good at or even developing an interest within you. It's

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Speaker 1: not by accident. If you submit yourself over to him,

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Speaker 1: you're going to watch him put you in places that

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Speaker 1: you can't predict. He's going to introduce you to people

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Speaker 1: or give you circumstances and tasks to fulfill throughout the

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Speaker 1: course of your life. He's going to orchestrate all sorts

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Speaker 1: of things that you will only be able to have

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Speaker 1: a better perspective of ultimately in heaven, but certainly later

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Speaker 1: at another season of your life. In the moment, you

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Speaker 1: might not even realize what he's doing. But if you

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Speaker 1: submit yourself to him, you can understand that every single

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Speaker 1: thing that happens in your life, even the tough stuff,

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Speaker 1: is on purpose. Because David's going to go through some

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Speaker 1: very difficult things, but it's going to make him strong.

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Speaker 1: And better than making him strong, it's going to develop

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Speaker 1: his faith. He's going to be able to say, the

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Speaker 1: Lord delivered me from it all. I saw the hand

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Speaker 1: of the Lord at work in my life in ways

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Speaker 1: that amaze me. You're going to see David say things

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Speaker 1: like that later in his life. But David's service also

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Speaker 1: reveals something else here. Reveal something about godly leadership. Some

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Speaker 1: of you are already being used by the Lord in

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Speaker 1: leadership capacities, and some of you he's going to raise

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Speaker 1: up at another season of your life. Notice what's going

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Speaker 1: on with David, and please remember it for when it's

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Speaker 1: your turn. Before David commands others, he does what? He serves.

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Speaker 1: Before he commands, he serves. Before he receives public honor,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to receive plenty of honor throughout the

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Speaker 1: course of his life, before any of that, He cares

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Speaker 1: for sheep, and he plays music for a troubled king.

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Speaker 1: That's what he's doing at this season of his life.

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Speaker 1: And you're like, all right, these are like really hidden

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Speaker 1: years for David in some respects. But you're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're hidden years, but they're part of God's preparation for

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Speaker 1: his heart, for his character, and for when he leads.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can be a good leader until

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Speaker 1: you learn to serve first. And even when you become

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Speaker 1: a leader, if you stop cultivating a heart of service,

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Speaker 1: you've forgotten how Jesus is leading you. And so that's

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Speaker 1: what the Lord wants us to remember, and he will

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Speaker 1: raise you up in leadership, many of you, if that's

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Speaker 1: something that you keep straight in your mind. Now, this

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Speaker 1: also doesn't mean that David is sinless, because later chapters

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Speaker 1: start to reveal very serious failures in David's life, but

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Speaker 1: there's a difference in how he handles sin and how

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Speaker 1: Saul handled sin. Scripture tells us David was a man

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Speaker 1: after God's own heart. Okay, well, what does that look like? Well,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that David always lived perfectly. He goofed

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Speaker 1: up a lot of things in his life. But it

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Speaker 1: does mean that David's heart was fundamentally orientated toward God.

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Speaker 1: When Saul sinned, Saul would try and come up with excuses.

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Speaker 1: He would try and hide it, deny it, and continue

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Speaker 1: to sin without repentance. When David sinned, what would he do? Lord,

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Speaker 1: I goofed up. I'm bringing it before you. I'm just

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Speaker 1: straight up admitting it. When he was confronted with this sin,

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Speaker 1: he admitted it. And he asks the Lord to help

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Speaker 1: him with repentance. And in Psalm 51, he even says

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Speaker 1: to the Lord, because again, he's living under the old covenant.

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Speaker 1: He's saying, Lord, please don't take your spirit from me.

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Speaker 1: I know I've goofed up. Please don't take your spirit

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Speaker 1: from me. By the way, aren't you grateful that even

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Speaker 1: on your lowest day, the spirit of God isn't going

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Speaker 1: to leave you? He's not going to leave you. David

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Speaker 1: becomes Israel's great king in this era. But one other

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Speaker 1: thing we have to note before we finish up today,

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Speaker 1: and it's more important than anything we've even said thus far,

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Speaker 1: 1 Samuel 16, it's pointing beyond him. And maybe you've

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Speaker 1: noticed this as we've been looking at it. The nation

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Speaker 1: needs more than just a better version of Saul. It

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Speaker 1: needs a king whose heart is perfectly aligned with the Father,

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Speaker 1: whose obedience never fails and whose kingdom never ends. And

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Speaker 1: that's Jesus. Jesus is referred to in Scripture as the

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Speaker 1: promised son of David. He's the king God ultimately provides.

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of interesting because there's foreshadowing here because

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Speaker 1: like David, where does Jesus come from? From an earthly sense,

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Speaker 1: from Bethlehem. Just like David. Do you think the Old

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Speaker 1: Testament is trying to give us hints of what's about

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Speaker 1: to happen? The prophet Micah, in fact, foretold that a

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Speaker 1: ruler would come from that small town whose origins are,

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Speaker 1: look what he says in Micah 5.2. But you, O Bethlehem, Ephrathah,

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Speaker 1: who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,

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Speaker 1: from you shall come forth for me one who is

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Speaker 1: to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from

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Speaker 1: of old, from ancient days. What is he saying? The

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Speaker 1: one who has always existed before we started measuring time.

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Speaker 1: God the Son, the Messiah, is going to take on flesh.

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Speaker 1: He's going to come to you Through Bethlehem, God who

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Speaker 1: took on human nature is going to enter David's royal line.

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Speaker 1: And when Jesus came, keep in mind how people evaluated him.

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Speaker 1: Many people evaluated him by outward standards. Isaiah prophesied that

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Speaker 1: when the Messiah came, there'd be nothing about his physical

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Speaker 1: appearance that would draw people to him. He would purposely

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Speaker 1: come looking as average as possible. He didn't arrive with

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Speaker 1: the appearance of a conquering political ruler. He was raised

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Speaker 1: in Nazareth. He worked as a carpenter. He lived without wealth.

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Speaker 1: He lived without status. Certainly the status that people would

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Speaker 1: associate typically with a political king. And so people would

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Speaker 1: look at him and they're like, we see a regular

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Speaker 1: looking guy from a very ordinary town. And yet there

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Speaker 1: was God who had taken on flesh, revealed in his

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Speaker 1: beloved son, the rightful king of Israel. David was anointed

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Speaker 1: with oil. We see that happen here in 1 Samuel 16.

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Speaker 1: And then after he was anointed with oil and set

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Speaker 1: apart as Israel's king, God's spirit rushed upon him. Well,

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Speaker 1: Jesus is the Christ. You know what the term the

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Speaker 1: Christ means? We're saying he's the Christ. We call him

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Why do we call him the Christ? The

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Speaker 1: title Christ means the anointed one. At his baptism... What

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Speaker 1: do we see taking place? The Spirit, the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 1: descends upon him and the Father declares something. And behold,

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Speaker 1: a voice from heaven said, this is my beloved Son

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Speaker 1: with whom I am well pleased. Now understand, as Jesus

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Speaker 1: is demonstrating these things, he didn't receive the Spirit temporarily

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Speaker 1: or imperfectly. He carried out his entire ministry in complete

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Speaker 1: fellowship with the Father and in the power of the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Meaning the Father directed Jesus implemented the direction

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Speaker 1: and the Holy Spirit empowered the work. And when Jesus

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Speaker 1: was walking on this earth, he proclaimed the good news.

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Speaker 1: He healed the sick. He freed people from demonic oppression.

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Speaker 1: That's oddly reminiscent of how David was being used in

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Speaker 1: Saul's life. And Jesus did something else. He also announced

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Speaker 1: God's kingdom. He announced the coming of the kingdom. So

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Speaker 1: coming back to 1 Samuel 16, here you have David's

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Speaker 1: music bringing Saul temporary relief from spiritual torment. And that's

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Speaker 1: lovely and that's fine. But understand that in Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: we've received everlasting deliverance from that very thing. Ongoing, not momentarily, everlasting.

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Speaker 1: Jesus has authority over every spiritual power. Jesus frees his

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Speaker 1: people from sin's dominion. Colossians chapter 1, we're studying Colossians

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday nights together. And in Colossians 1.13, it says

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Speaker 1: of Jesus, It says of the Father, working through Jesus,

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Speaker 1: he has delivered us from the domain of darkness and

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Speaker 1: transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son. So

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Speaker 1: in Christ, what's happened? We've been delivered from spiritual torment.

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Speaker 1: Coming back to David once again, David served before he reigned. Well,

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Speaker 1: what does Scripture tell us about Jesus and what he did?

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Speaker 1: He came to this earth, how? As a servant. But

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Speaker 1: his service is greater than David's. Jesus said that the

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Speaker 1: Son of Man came, how? Again, Mark 10, verse 45,

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Speaker 1: for even the Son of Man came not to be served,

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Speaker 1: but to serve and to give his life as a

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Speaker 1: ransom for many. So what did Jesus do? He didn't

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Speaker 1: come to this earth to selfishly grasp an earthly throne

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Speaker 1: or to seek power through violence or all the things

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Speaker 1: that people of that era seemed to be thinking that

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Speaker 1: he would do. He is one with the Father. He's

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Speaker 1: one with the Spirit. And he submitted himself to the

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Speaker 1: Father's will and operated in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 1: He endured rejection. He went to the cross. The crown

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Speaker 1: that he wore was made of thorns. But the sign

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Speaker 1: above him identified him as King of the Jews. And

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Speaker 1: his crucifixion appeared to be a defeat, certainly a defeat

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Speaker 1: of his royal claims as people were observing what was

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Speaker 1: taking place, but it was part of his victory. And

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Speaker 1: many of the people didn't realize it at the time because, again,

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Speaker 1: we have a habit of looking at outward appearances and

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Speaker 1: not recognizing the deeper things taking place right before our eyes.

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Speaker 1: In that moment, Jesus bore the judgment that our sins deserve.

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Speaker 1: Then on the third day, he rose bodily from the grave,

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Speaker 1: defeating death. The Father exalted him. He now reigns at

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Speaker 1: the Father's right hand. His kingdom won't collapse. Saul's kingdom

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Speaker 1: collapsed through disobedience. It was turned over to another. Christ's

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Speaker 1: kingdom won't collapse, and it won't be weakened by sin

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Speaker 1: like David's kingdom was weakened by sin. The kingdom of

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Speaker 1: Christ isn't weakened by sin, and it won't collapse through rebellion.

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Speaker 1: I love looking at 1 Samuel 16 because it's a

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Speaker 1: chapter that reminds us that God often works through people

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Speaker 1: and places that others commonly overlook. It also reveals to

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Speaker 1: us that God sees beyond appearance. He knows our hearts.

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Speaker 1: He knows our greatest need. But when you look at

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Speaker 1: this portion of Scripture, it also reveals to us that

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Speaker 1: the goal of life isn't to somehow prove that our

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Speaker 1: hearts are better than Saul's, because the truth is we're

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Speaker 1: in the same exact spot that Saul was in. We

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Speaker 1: have the tendency to rebel against our Lord, and we've

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Speaker 1: all done that. Our hearts are also affected by sin.

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Speaker 1: Our hearts are also unable to meet God's perfect standard,

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Speaker 1: which means we need a king who whose heart is

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Speaker 1: perfectly righteous. And so that's what Jesus came to be.

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Speaker 1: He obeyed where Saul rebelled, and he remained faithful where

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Speaker 1: David failed. And through faith in him, we receive forgiveness.

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Speaker 1: Through faith in Christ, we also receive a new heart.

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Speaker 1: Through faith in Christ, we also receive, as we already mentioned,

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Speaker 1: the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. So that means

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Speaker 1: that you get to spend the rest of your life

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Speaker 1: forgiven with a new heart, empowered, to do the work

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Speaker 1: that God has called you to do. And he's not

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Speaker 1: looking at the metrics that other people use. He's looking

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Speaker 1: at the heart that you have within you, but he's

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Speaker 1: looking at the heart that he gave you that's within you.

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Speaker 1: David was anointed long before the whole nation recognized him

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Speaker 1: as king. And that's kind of what this chapter is

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Speaker 1: leading us to understand. But Jesus is already the risen

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Speaker 1: and already the reigning king, even though the world does

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Speaker 1: not yet fully acknowledge his authority. Now, a day is

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Speaker 1: coming when his rule is going to be openly displayed.

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Speaker 1: And every knee will bow to Christ as Lord. But

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Speaker 1: understand when we look at a chapter like this today,

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Speaker 1: that the search for a king doesn't end with a

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Speaker 1: young shepherd standing before Samuel in Bethlehem. Sometimes I've heard

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Speaker 1: this passage preached and taught as if that's kind of

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Speaker 1: like the ultimate lesson of the story, but that's not it.

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Speaker 1: You have David's anointing here, carrying us forward to Christ,

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Speaker 1: giving us foreshadowing of ultimately who was going to come

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Speaker 1: and rescue us. It wasn't David. It's the one who

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Speaker 1: came to be the perfect son of David. God the

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Speaker 1: Son who took on flesh, the servant king who came

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Speaker 1: to rescue us in ways that we couldn't rescue ourselves.

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Speaker 1: And understand this, that if you are in Christ, if

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Speaker 1: you have trusted in Christ, you now get to spend

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Speaker 1: your present and your eternity under the righteous rule of

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Speaker 1: the one whose kingdom will never end. And he's offering

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Speaker 1: you the privilege to rule and reign with him. It's

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Speaker 1: a beautiful thing that scripture reveals about the work that

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Speaker 1: Christ is doing in our lives. And that's something that

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Speaker 1: he invites us to embrace and be reminded of, even

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Speaker 1: as we look at a portion of scripture like this today.

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Speaker 1: Let's pray. Father, thank you so much for allowing us

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Speaker 1: to look at a portion of scripture like this today,

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Speaker 1: where we can see how you operate. We can see

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Speaker 1: the things that you did in Saul's life and David's

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Speaker 1: life and Samuel's lives, Samuel's life. During the course of

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Speaker 1: their lives, Lord, we're grateful for the things that you

802
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Speaker 1: demonstrated through them. But Father, we also know that even

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Speaker 1: though these events took place about 3,000 years ago, these

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Speaker 1: are things that we could look at right now and say,

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Speaker 1: there's absolutely a direct application to concepts that you want

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Speaker 1: us to learn in the present. Lord, we're also grateful

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Speaker 1: for the fact that as men and women who live

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Speaker 1: under the new covenant, We are permanently indwelled with your spirit.

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Speaker 1: We see a foreshadowing of that reality. We see a

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Speaker 1: foretaste of that in a passage like we looked at

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Speaker 1: today from 1 Samuel 16. But our day-to-day reality is

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Speaker 1: that literally, you have made us a new creation in

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Speaker 1: you through faith in your son, Jesus Christ, who is

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Speaker 1: the perfect king, the perfect son of David, the perfect ruler,

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Speaker 1: the perfect leader. Through faith in your son, our sins

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Speaker 1: are completely forgiven. We're given a new calling. And we're

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Speaker 1: empowered to live out that calling in the midst of

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Speaker 1: a world that doesn't recognize your hand or your work.

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Speaker 1: But Father, we see what you're doing. And we're grateful

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Speaker 1: that you do this work in and through us. We

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Speaker 1: know we don't deserve it. We know that we have

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Speaker 1: hearts that are hard and rebellious, just like Saul's was.

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Speaker 1: But we also know that we have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: respond to you like David did. You called David a

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Speaker 1: man after your own heart, and that's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 1: But we also know that he had a desire to

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Speaker 1: live with repentance. When he noticed things, when things were

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Speaker 1: pointed out to him that didn't belong in his life,

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Speaker 1: he came before you and repented. And at times, Lord,

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Speaker 1: he would look at what you were doing in his

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Speaker 1: life and he would just say, why? Why did you

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Speaker 1: select me? Why are you doing these things through me?

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Speaker 1: Why have you chosen to bless me like this? And Father,

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Speaker 1: I pray that that same kind of awe would be

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Speaker 1: something that would be very much present in our minds

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Speaker 1: as well, that we would look at our lives, even

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Speaker 1: when we're going through the tough stuff, that we would

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Speaker 1: look at our lives and say, Lord, it's still very

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Speaker 1: clear that you're steering my life. It's very clear that

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Speaker 1: you're putting circumstances in my path that are going to

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Speaker 1: strengthen me and remind me to trust in you. It's

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Speaker 1: very clear that you're using me in ways that go

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Speaker 1: far beyond my natural abilities. So, Lord, thank you for

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Speaker 1: doing that for us. But again, Father, we know that

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Speaker 1: our reconciliation to you, this relationship that we have with you,

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Speaker 1: it begins as we trust in your Son, Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for the grace that You have applied

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Speaker 1: to our lives to open up our eyes to even

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Speaker 1: see our need for your son. We know that you

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Speaker 1: initiated that. We didn't initiate that. You initiated it. So, Father,

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Speaker 1: we're grateful for that. And, Lord, today and each day,

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Speaker 1: we pray that we would learn to walk with you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you again for this new life that we have

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Speaker 1: through your son, Jesus Christ. We're grateful for your presence

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Speaker 1: with us. We pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.