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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. Reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Said God, bless you,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for letting us come into your homes. And

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Speaker 1: if you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. I promise you

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Speaker 1: it will make you feel right at home. But thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in, and thank you again for

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Speaker 1: coming out. I like to start with something funny and

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Speaker 1: heard about this pastor. He was raising funds for a

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Speaker 1: new auditorium. He said to the congregation, anyone who will

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Speaker 1: give one thousand dollars can pick out the next three hymns.

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Speaker 1: This little old lady in the back raised her hand, said, Pastor,

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Speaker 1: I'll do it. He was so excited, said thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. Now, which three hymns would you like? She

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Speaker 1: looked over the congregation said I'll take him and him

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Speaker 1: and him hold up your bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says,

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Speaker 1: I am. I have what it says I have, I

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Speaker 1: can do what it says I can do. Today I

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Speaker 1: will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess

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Speaker 1: my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about the King

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Speaker 1: is looking for you. Life has a way of pushing

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Speaker 1: our dreams down. We can make mistakes and get off course.

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Speaker 1: We're not where we thought we'd be, and it's easy

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Speaker 1: to live guilty, condemned down on ourselves. Sometimes it wasn't

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Speaker 1: our fault. Another person because of what they've done put

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Speaker 1: us at a disadvantage. It left hurts and scars. Now

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Speaker 1: it's affecting our self image, our sense of confidence, and

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Speaker 1: too often we go through life nursing our wounds, blaming

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Speaker 1: other people, sitting on the sidelines, making excuses. But nothing

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Speaker 1: that's happened to you is a surprise to God. He

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Speaker 1: saw every injustice, every bad break. He knew every mistake

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Speaker 1: we would ever make. God is not in the condemning business.

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Speaker 1: He's in the restoration business. He wants to put you

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Speaker 1: back on the right path so you could still become

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Speaker 1: who you were created to be. You may be on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines thinking, look what I've been through, I've had

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Speaker 1: these bad breaks, I'm stuck in life. Can I tell

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Speaker 1: you the King is looking for you. The god who

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Speaker 1: created the universe is about to pick you back up,

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Speaker 1: breathe new life into your dreams, and propel you towards

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Speaker 1: your destiny. This is what happened to a young boy

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Speaker 1: in the scripture named maphibus Chef. He was the grandson

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Speaker 1: of King Saul and the son of Jonathan David's best friend.

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Speaker 1: He was born into royalty, destined to one day take

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Speaker 1: the throne. His future looked so bright, but at the

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Speaker 1: age of five, everything changed. His father and his grandfather

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Speaker 1: were killed in a battle on the same day. After

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Speaker 1: out all of Saul's family. When word reached back at home,

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Speaker 1: Maphibischeff's nurse grabbed him as fast as she could took

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Speaker 1: The nurse was trying to do the right thing. She

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Speaker 1: had good intentions, but she tripped. Her mistake cost him

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Speaker 1: his mobility. Life is not always fair, Like Maphibischef, somebody

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Speaker 1: may have put you at a disadvantage. They didn't mean to.

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Speaker 1: They would take it back if they could, but they tripped.

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Speaker 1: And now you struggle with addictions, with bad habits, with

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Speaker 1: things that were passed down, or they weren't there to

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Speaker 1: protect you when you needed them the most. Now you

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Speaker 1: struggle with your self worth, with your sense of value.

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Speaker 1: They tripped, but we have to pay for their mistake.

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Speaker 1: Maphibus Chef became lame in both of his feet. If

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Speaker 1: we're honest, all of us have some area of lameness

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Speaker 1: to overcome something that could hold us back. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to make excuses, especially when it wasn't our fault, Joel.

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Speaker 1: If they hadn't have tripped, if they would have raised

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Speaker 1: me better, if my loved one wouldn't have died, if

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Speaker 1: that coach would have treated me fairly. We can blame

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Speaker 1: may not have been fair, but God knows how to

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Speaker 1: turn it and use it to your advantage. Too many people, though,

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Speaker 1: of the time, the reason Mama and Daddy didn't give

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Speaker 1: it is because they didn't have it to give. Nobody

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Speaker 1: gave it to them. The problem with blaming others is

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Speaker 1: the people you're blaming are blaming the people that raise them,

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Speaker 1: and they're blaming the people that raise them. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you rise up and put an end to that negative cycle.

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Speaker 1: You can be the difference maker. You can be the

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Speaker 1: one to set a new standard for your family. In

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Speaker 1: an instant, Mamphibius Cheff's whole world turned upside down. Not

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Speaker 1: only lost his father and grandfather, not only would he

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Speaker 1: no longer take the throne, but he was crippled. He

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Speaker 1: How was he going to take care of himself. He

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Speaker 1: ended up living in exile, in hiding in a place

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Speaker 1: called Lodobar that was one of the poorest, most run

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Speaker 1: down cities of that day. Lodobar means without pasture. There

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Speaker 1: was no greenery, no trees. You couldn't grow anything there.

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Speaker 1: It was a wasteland. Here, mamphibis Chef is the grandson

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Speaker 1: Your location doesn't change your identity. Maphibischeff was living in Lodobar,

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Speaker 1: but he was still royalty. Other people may not have

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Speaker 1: seen it. He could have thought nothing special about me anymore,

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Speaker 1: but none of that changed who he really was. See

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Speaker 1: our son Jonathan is an O'stine in the church, and

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Speaker 1: In the same way, when you gave your life to Christ,

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Speaker 1: you were born into a royal family. The Most High

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Speaker 1: God breathed his life into you. He put a crown

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Speaker 1: of favor on your head. The scripture says He's made

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Speaker 1: us kings and priests unto him. You may kind of

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Speaker 1: feel like you're living in Lodobar today, things coming against you,

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Speaker 1: circumstances you don't like. Let me encourage you. Nothing that's

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Speaker 1: happened to you has changed your identity. No person that

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Speaker 1: has changed your name. You are still a child of

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Speaker 1: the most taighed God. You still have royal blood flowing

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Speaker 1: let Lodobar get in you. That's where you are, That's

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Speaker 1: not who you are. Mephibis chef. He was stuck practically speaking,

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Speaker 1: He couldn't get out. He had no family, nobody to

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Speaker 1: help him. It looked like that was his lot in life.

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Speaker 1: Years later, King David was on the throne. One night

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Speaker 1: reminiscing about old times, and he remembered his good friend Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: asked his staff if anyone was still alive. From the

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Speaker 1: House of Saul, they said. The only one we think

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Speaker 1: but he's crippled and he's living in Lodobar. David said,

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Speaker 1: go get him right now and bring him to the palace.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine a dozen of David's top military officers

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Speaker 1: take off to Lodibar. When they arrived, it's big news.

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Speaker 1: The whole city is buzzing. Everybody's talking of all places.

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Speaker 1: The King has sent men into Lutabar, the slums, the outcast.

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Speaker 1: One of the officials asked sternly, where is Maphibis Chef.

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Speaker 1: They point them in the right direction. Maphibis Chef, here's

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Speaker 1: are you Maphibis Chef. He answers cautiously, yes, I am.

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Speaker 1: The guard says, come with us. The King is looking

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Speaker 1: for you. His heart sinks. He thinks, all great, they

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Speaker 1: finally found me. Now I'm as good as dead. He said,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can't come. I can't walk. Don't you see,

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Speaker 1: I'm crippled. Guard said, don't worry, we're gonna carry you. Now,

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Speaker 1: that he he sent people to the slums to not

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Speaker 1: to the palace. I must really be in trouble. Jesus

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Speaker 1: told a parable about a shepherd that had one hundred sheep.

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Speaker 1: If one of those sheep went astray, the shepherd would

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Speaker 1: leave the ninety nine to go look for the one.

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Speaker 1: He would search and search night and day, high and low.

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Speaker 1: He wouldn't return until he found that one lost sheep.

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Speaker 1: When life has pushed you down, somebody tripped and put

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Speaker 1: you're off course. You don't think you could ever reach

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Speaker 1: your destiny in the natural. That may be true. But

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Speaker 1: the good news is the shepherd has left the ninety

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Speaker 1: nine and he's coming after you. You know why, because

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Speaker 1: your home is not lodobar. Living addicted is not your home.

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Speaker 1: Living depressed, angry in self pity always in life, that's

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Speaker 1: not where you belong. People around you may be that way,

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Speaker 1: but there's something different about you. You are royalty, You

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Speaker 1: have the DNA of Almighty God. And even when you

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Speaker 1: can't get there by yourself, God is so good. He'll

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Speaker 1: have somebody to carry you, somebody to help you do

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Speaker 1: what you could not do on your own. A friend,

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Speaker 1: a neighbor, even a stranger. He's looking for you. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing about God. He's not going to give up

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Speaker 1: He doesn't just try once or twice. He's going to

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Speaker 1: keep looking, keep pursuing, keep calling. He loves you too

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Speaker 1: much to leave you alone. He knows who you really are.

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Speaker 1: He's the one that breathed life into you. Maphibischeff finally

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Speaker 1: arrived at the palace. The guards set him in the

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Speaker 1: entryway and notified King David. He was nervous, afraid, worried.

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Speaker 1: He asked the guard, are you sure he sent for me? Yes,

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Speaker 1: we're sure. Well, does he know there's something wrong with me?

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Speaker 1: Does he know I'm crippled, that I can't walk? Yes,

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Speaker 1: he knows that. He's confused thinking why would he send

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Speaker 1: for me? What do I have to offer him? The

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Speaker 1: only thing that makes sense is he's going to pay

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Speaker 1: me back for what my grandfather tried to do to him.

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Speaker 1: He had heard how again and again his grandfather, King

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Speaker 1: Saul had tried to kill David. About that time, the

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Speaker 1: door opens, the guard comes to attention. It's the moment

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Speaker 1: he's dreaded. David comes walking in. Maphibis Chef falls flat

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Speaker 1: on his face, laying prostrate to show respect. David sees

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Speaker 1: him shaking there. He says, maphibis Chef, don't be afraid.

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Speaker 1: I didn't come to harm you. I brought you here

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Speaker 1: to be good to you, to restore you all the

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Speaker 1: land that belonged to your father, Jonathan, and all the

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Speaker 1: land that belonged to your grandfather, King Saul. I am

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Speaker 1: giving it back to you. Not only that, from this

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Speaker 1: time forward, every night you will eat dinner at my

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