WEBVTT - No Weapon 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:07.840 Are you ready for this Elevation Nights twenty twenty two 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:13.720 Spring Tour. It's on the way. Come on, give God praise, 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:22.280 whoo shout. If you know somebody within one hundred miles 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:30.440 of these cities, the ones I'm about to name, we're 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.559 gonna be starting this tour on April twenty sixth, go 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:41.680 to Elevation Nights dot com and find out if tickets 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.879 are available in your area. It's gonna be powerful. I 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.519 know because we did it last year. So last year 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.519 when I announced it, I said it's gonna be powerful, 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.680 and I was just saying that by faith. But this 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.280 year I know by experience, because we did it. I'm 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.440 gonna be preaching. The team is going to be there. 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:15.120 We're gonna be in Chicago, Illinois, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Indianapolis, Columbus, Ohio, DC, Reading, Pennsylvania, Newark, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:23.520 New Jersey, and Boston. So do me a favor. If 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.200 you know somebody around there, send them a lane. Elevation 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.200 Knights tell them, tell them you gotta do. If you 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.479 have to sell some shoes to get a ticket, if 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.800 you have to make some beds to get a ticket, whatever, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.080 moss some lawns It'll be worth it because God is 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.720 gonna do an amazing thing Elevation Nights dot com that 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.480 starts April twenty six That's my little brother's birthday, so 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.640 I'm gonna fly him out. I haven't told him this yet, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.200 but he watches his service every week he's in. He's 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.920 stationed in the Air Force in New Jersey. So I'm 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.520 gonna fly him out to New Jersey, where he already lives, 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.640 and get him a ticket to that show. You're welcome, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.800 Happy birthday, I got you. I'm gonna get you a 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.880 backstage pass. You're gonna get to meet the pastor. I 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:14.520 want that be awesome. Oh man, well, we don't have 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.160 to wait till April twenty sixth. There is a word 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.080 from the Lord. The presence of God has been powerful 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:27.920 already today, and I heard from God what I'm going 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.840 to share with you, and he confirmed it through multiple sources. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:37.040 So this is going to be absolutely life changing. In 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:42.920 Fee Samuel, chapter thirteen, it has been a while since 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:48.960 I've preached a good old Testament battle story. I haven't 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:53.960 even preached one yet this year. So what better Sunday 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:58.080 to preach about killing and slaughter than Valentine's Day weekend. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:06.000 But I did wear a red That's good. That's good. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:13.120 You ready for Samuel thirteen. I'm going to read a 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:21.640 long scripture. Okay, all right? For Samuel thirteen sixteen, Saul 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.760 and his son Jonathan and the men with them were 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.440 staying in Gibeah in Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at mcmash. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.800 Raiding parties went out from the Philistine camp in three detachments. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.520 One turned toward Oprah in the vicinity of Shul, another 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.840 toward Bethelron, and the third toward the borderland, overlooking the 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:49.920 valley of Zaboyem facing the wilderness. Not a blacksmith could 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.040 be found in the whole land of Israel, because the 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:58.240 Philistines had said otherwise, the Hebrews will make swords or spears. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.080 So all is went down to the Philistines to have 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:07.480 their plowpoints, mattocks, axes, and sickles sharpen. The price was 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:12.480 two thirds of a shekel for sharpening plow points and maddox, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.240 and a third of a shekel for sharpening forks and 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.200 axes for repointing goats. Now this is a ripoff because 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.080 we don't measure in shekels. But this is entirely too 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:29.400 much to pay to get your goats sharpened. So verse 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.960 twenty two. On the day of the battle, not a 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:39.200 soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:44.599 in his hand. Only Saul and his son Jonathan had them. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.240 So on the day of battle, this is bad. This 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.520 is bad to be in a day of battle and 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:58.359 to not have a sword or a spear. On the 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.200 day of the battle, not a soldier with Saul and 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.680 Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand. Only 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.480 Saul and his son Jonathan had them. I want to 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:15.279 ap preach to you today from the subject no weapon, 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:24.479 no weapon. Somebody shout no weapon. In Jesus' name, you 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:31.479 may be seated no weapon. You know, usually when we 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:38.680 shout that no weapons exciting and it's a promise from 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:43.159 God that no weapon formed against you will prosper. But 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.359 maybe you heard it different in the context where I 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.880 just talked about how on the day of the battle, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:54.680 not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword 0:05:54.760 --> 0:06:01.240 or spear in his hand. No weapon. This message is 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:07.520 for somebody who is in a war without the weapons 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:12.720 that you need for that war. I have no idea 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.240 what area of your life this will apply to. My 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.680 first thought goes to financial, My second thought goes to relational. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:26.880 My third thought goes to emotional. Okay, I think I 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:31.920 covered everybody in those three when I said you're in 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:37.280 a war, but you don't have the weapons. And if 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.200 that has been you lately, and you have been thinking 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:47.360 things along the lines of what the am I supposed 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:53.640 to do right now? Things that you have been thinking 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.800 about lately, then this word is for you because you're 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:02.000 in a war that you don't have have the weapons for. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.280 And the question I want to work with a little 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:10.480 bit today is where are your weapons? Where are your weapons? 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.000 Every once in a while, I like to revisit a 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.440 passage that was a part of my past, drag it 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.440 into my present, and see if God has given me 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.800 any perspective in the space between. The funny thing about 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.160 this passage is it's a story I've been preaching since 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:33.520 I was sixteen years old. I outlined First Samuel fourteen. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.760 I know I read to you from thirteen, but I 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:41.320 preached from First Samuel fourteen for the first time when 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.120 I was sixteen. What brought it back to my mind 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.280 was that we celebrated our church as sixteenth anniversary last weekend. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.840 Not only that, my oldest child is sixteen years old. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.000 So now I got a kid that's at the stage 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.280 of life that I was at the first time I 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.160 preached this. The first time I preached it, it had 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:10.400 twelve points when I preached for it. The first time, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:15.480 I set all twelve points and didn't make one. Now 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.040 I miss the whole thing that I can see now 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.920 some things that God wasn't able to show me at 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.560 the time because I wasn't ready to see it. Now, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.240 having a son at sixteen years old that is smarter 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.120 than I am, more talented than I am, taller than 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.320 I am. See, I'm not changing out any of the 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.480 pictures of my family in my house from this point 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.280 forward because I wanted all to be right at that 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.920 last time that he came up to my nose, just 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.400 so he doesn't never think he can beat me. I 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.640 got to keep that mental edge, that psychological advantage. But 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.360 the passage that I read, do you mention as a 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.000 father and a son you might reckon nice to name Saul. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.680 He was the first king that Israel ever had. He 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.080 was the first king that Israel had and God didn't 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.000 want them to have him, but they just had to 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.280 have one. Like that car you're making payments on for 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:18.520 the next seventy six years, you just had to have one. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.560 I'm not going to go to the person that you 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:26.559 are sitting next to. You just had to have them. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:33.200 Valentine's Day. But when we look at the text as 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.120 a father and son is really powerful because you have Saul, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.960 who was the first king, Jonathan his son, who is 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.040 supposed to be king next from a human perspective, but 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.439 can't be king because God has chosen David and rejected Saul. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.199 And it provides a contrast which has been eye opening 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.720 for me to study this week. It's been eye opening 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:01.880 for me to study for a couple reasons. One the 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.960 other day, I was saying something to one of my kids, 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.600 and the Spirit of the Lord told me, nicely, shut up, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.200 said it nicer than that. But the way I'm saying 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.720 it to you is shut up. What I was doing 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.800 in the middle of telling my son something was I 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:28.600 was visiting my insecurity on them and making it a 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:33.920 limitation that did not apply for their life. I was 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.920 kind of having one of those moments where I thought 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.040 I was telling them the way things are. But what 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.120 I realized in the middle of saying it is that 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.880 is the way things were for you. That does not 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.839 have to be the way it is for them. And 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:55.160 the Spirit of the Lord said, shut up. Don't say that. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.800 Don't speak that over them. Go scream it in your pillow, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.400 go tell it to a counselor go write it down 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:09.280 and scratch it out. But for God's sake, don't put 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:15.800 your stuff on them. Don't weigh them down with your 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.920 own unmet expectations of life so that they have to 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:24.559 carry with them your resentment about things you didn't experience, 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.560 but maybe I want them to. And the Spirit of 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:35.080 the Lord said, shut up, shut up. In First Samuel thirteen, 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.200 the Bible says there was no weapon in the hands 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.920 of God's people. What a horrible place to be to 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.800 have an enemy attacking you, not just from one side, 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.840 not just from both sides. But the Bible says there 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:54.280 were three detachments that had gone out from the Philistines. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.440 You recognize the name Philistine from the famous Philistines in 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.960 the Bible. Goliath, but he hasn't showed up yet. He's 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.760 in One Samuel seventeen, and he gets killed by David 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.800 with a little tiny stone that he didn't think could 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.360 do anything to him. But he found out that when 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.920 God gets behind something, it has enough momentum to kill 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:22.640 any enemy, regardless of scale, size or strength. Phil like preaching. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.040 Can I preach? Can I preach? Deliath hasn't showed up yet, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:32.320 but he's a Philistine. Also, you might remember Delilah, Remember 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:38.560 Delilah Shah the haircut just for us, just for us, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:45.680 and uh. But yet there were Philistines all over the 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.079 place in this passage, one in Orpha, one in Bethon, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.199 and one in that other place. I can't remember the 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:52.720 name of it, but starts with a Z, and I 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.800 practice pronouncing it, but I can't remember it right now. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:13:02.000 And they're coming from everywhere against the Israelites. They're actually 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.400 so strategically occupied in the land of Canaan that they 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.880 have blocked off the passages by which the Israelites can 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:16.360 move about. They've blocked off the passages in opposition to 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.160 Israel's possession of the land. So when God moved his 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.320 people into the Promised Land, he didn't guarantee that none 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.560 of their enemies would live there too. The relevance of 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.400 this for us is God does not promise that He's 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:34.120 just going to give us everything automatically. God never promised 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.360 you for one moment that you wouldn't have to fight 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.240 for joy through the feelings of despair. God never promised 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.400 you for one moment that you wouldn't have to fight 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.880 for an optimistic perspective in the face of a negative 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.600 default setting. God never promised you for one moment that 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.320 you would not have to fight for influence in the 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.200 face of things that make you feel like who am 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.240 I to speak anything? Who am I to be anything? 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.840 Who am I to do anything? God never promise that. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:07.760 He only said that it's possible. Shout is possible, but 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.359 the fact that it's possible doesn't mean that it's automatic. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:16.640 Possible is not automatic. If I had never invited her 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.160 to be on my summer Impact team, she would have 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.760 never fallen in love with me on the bus. And 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.960 if she never fell in love with me on the bus, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.400 we never would have walked down the aisle. And if 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.800 we never walked down the aisle, she could not have 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:40.560 experienced the gift of the goodness. So what I'm trying 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.520 to say to you is there are some things that 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.400 God has given you, but you still have to go 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:55.640 for them. Go for it, Go for it, go for it. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.240 If God was something in your heart, you will have 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.440 to go for it. But but but I've got God's grace. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.440 You've got God's grace to empower you to go for 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.880 what He's given you. That's what the grace is for. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.240 I got my coffee this morning. I'm ready. I'm ready, 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:21.520 I'm ready. And yet, with the passage of time, I've 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.400 come to see this passage a little differently than I 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.920 did when I was sixteen. Okay, because when I was sixteen, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.760 I felt like Jonathan. But twenty five years later, that's 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:41.080 a quarter of a century. I saw myself as Saul 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:46.400 this week, and I want to read you both, and 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.520 I want to see which one you've been acting more likelyately, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.040 and then we'll talk about that, and then the Holy 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.360 Spirit will show you what he needs to show you, 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.960 and I'll be out of your way and I won't 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:02.840 bother you anymore for at least seven days. But first, 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:11.720 Samuel fourteen says something so interesting that one day, one day, Jonathan, 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.720 son of Saul, said to his young armor Beard, come 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.800 let's go over to the Philistine outpost on the other side, 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.120 but he didn't tell his father. Saul was staying on 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.120 the outskirts of Gibea. That's where he was from. It's 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.560 from the tribe of Benjamin. He never asked to be king. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.880 All indications are he never fully accepted his role as king. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.760 All indications are his insecurity kept him from embracing his 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:45.120 God given destiny. And this is the guy that I 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.120 felt like this week, all right, And I'm once you 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:54.600 contrasted to because it's a very powerful picture. Here Saul 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.040 was staying on the outskirts of giving him under a 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:03.120 pomegranate tree. In with him were about six hundred men, 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.639 among whom was a Hija who was wearing an ephot. 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.360 He was a son of Ichabod's brother, a high top, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.040 son of Phineas, the son of Eli, the lord's priest 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:19.000 in Shiloh. No one was aware that Jonathan had left. 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.240 On each side of the pass that Jonathan intended to 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.720 cross to reach the Philistine outpost was a cliff. One 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.400 was called Bozaz, the slippery one, and the other Sinna 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:35.240 the thorny one. One cliff stood to the north toward Mickmash, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:40.240 the other to the south. Toward Geba Verse six has 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.720 been a source of many sermons for this preacher. Jonathan 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.840 said to his young armor bearer, come, let's go over 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.680 to the outpost of those uncircumcised men. The first time 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.040 he talked about him, he called them politely, the Philistines. 0:17:55.480 --> 0:18:00.119 Now he's talking trash, those uncircumcised enemies of the Living God. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.840 They don't have a covenant we do. Let's go. They 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.520 don't have the God of Heaven fighting for them. We do. 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:15.480 Let's go. Perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.280 Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.480 or by few. Do all that you have in mind. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.800 As armor bearer said, go ahead, I am with you, 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:31.639 heart and soul. Jonathan said, come on there. I like 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.760 it when you tell me to do whatever I have 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.080 in my mind because it makes me feel less crazy. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.720 Let's go over together, cross over toward them, and let 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.840 them see us. If they say to us, wait there 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:48.640 till we come up to you, we will stay where 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.800 we are and go up to them. But if they 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.080 say come up to us. If they say come up 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:58.679 to us, we will climb up, because that will be 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.879 our sign that the Lord has given them into our hands. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:08.200 So both of them showed themselves to the Philistine outposts. Look, 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.320 said the Philistines. The Hebrews are crawling out of the 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.679 holes they were hiding in. The men of the outposts 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.760 shouted to Jonathan and his armor bearer, come up to 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.520 us and we'll teach you a lesson. They need some 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:27.840 trash talking tips. This is very PG. So Jonathan said 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:31.520 to his armor bearer, climb up after me. The Lord 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:38.280 has given them, we'll give, has given them, is gonna give, 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.720 has given them into the hand of Israel. How do 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.600 you know because they threatened us. How do you know 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.359 because they insulted us. So the insult I'm just showing 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.359 you this from the Philistines is a sign to Jonathan 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.680 and an invitation for what God can do the impossible. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:08.080 Just giving you some context. Jonathan climbed up using his 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:12.840 hands and feet, with his armor bearer right behind him. 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:17.320 The Philistines fell before Jonathan and his armor bearer followed 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:22.520 and killed behind him. In that first attack, Jonathan and 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:27.199 his armor bearer killed some twenty men in an area 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:33.720 of about half an acre. So that's Jonathan. He moves 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:40.560 toward the Philistines with one weapon, and let's hear it 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:47.919 for the armor bearer, he had no weapon. That's the 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:50.119 one to me in the passage who ought to be celebrated, 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:56.080 the one who had to climb behind this young man. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:58.400 A friend of mine asked me. I told him, I'm 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.760 preaching on Jonathan and first Samuel forty this week, how 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:02.919 he went over to the Philistines and said, perhaps the 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:04.639 Lord will act, and how he stepped out and he 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:06.320 wasn't really sure, but he had to leave that in 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:07.800 God's hands and do what he could do. And I'm 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:09.440 appreach to people and tell them you're in a situation 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:10.879 where you're not really sure right now, and you have 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:12.560 to go through a slippery, thorny place and you have 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.199 to go up and you have to expose yourself, and 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:15.719 you have to be willing to be seen, and you 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:17.040 have to be willing to try something, and you have 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:18.200 to be wanting to make a move and can't just 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:19.680 sit around waiting for it. And I'm gonna talk about 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:20.760 how he made a move in that direction and God 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.120 gave him a miracle, but got to give a miracle 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:23.920 for me. I'm going off on my friend. And then 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.639 my friend said, what do you think made Jonathan able? 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:32.480 To do that, and the Lord gave me on the 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:36.560 spot and alliterated outline. What made this young man able 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:42.920 to do that? One was development. He wasn't twenty five yet, 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:50.840 and your prefrontal cortex doesn't fully develop until you're twenty five. 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.840 And so the first thing that Jonathan had going for 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:04.080 him was that he was dumb. He was dumb enough 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:09.040 to do something based on the assumption that God can 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.760 do anything. He felt happy when I said it. He 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:17.000 was dumb enough to do something based on the assumption 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:20.639 that God could do anything. And so everybody over twenty 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:27.000 five makes some noise because your prefrontal cortex is to 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:32.960 developed for you to step out on a perhaps because 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:37.119 your primary question is what if it doesn't work? And 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:41.359 Jonathan is like, what if it does? What if God 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:44.800 does say yes? What if God does deliver? What if 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:48.480 we do get a victory? What if something amazing does happen? 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:52.159 What if this is the time? What if this does work? 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:00.520 The second thing that Jonathan had going for him, in 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:08.000 my mind was psychological term detachment. To me, is interesting 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:11.800 that the text says three detachments of Philistines. That's the enemy. 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:14.680 So they go out in detachments because there's thousands of them, 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:17.920 but they go out separately. Detachments, detachments to the Bible 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:22.000 calls them. Well. Jonathan had a sense of detachment as well. 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:24.439 The major world religions all co op this term, but 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:26.680 I'm using it in the Christian sense because I am one. 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:29.560 And so there's a sense in which Jonathan had to 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:36.720 detach from the outcome and move forward by faith. How 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:39.879 do you climb up to the enemy, how do you 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:42.720 climb out of insecurity? How do you climb past what 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.720 other thing? Other people told you? What impossible? One step 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:52.480 at a time. And Jonathan understands, you know, I know 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:59.040 God can, and I think he might. Let's go. That 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:03.800 is some ad advanced level detachment to go all right, 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:05.200 this one. I'm gonna do this one. We're gonna do 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:07.160 and go up. I'm gonna show ourselves. If they say 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:10.040 we're coming down to you, we're not going up. If 0:24:10.040 --> 0:24:11.680 they say come up to us, we'll go up and 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:12.920 God to give us the victory and that'll be the 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:17.199 sign that He's given into our hands. But there is 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:20.080 a part of this that has to be left in 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:26.000 God's hands. Detachment. But the third thing I told my friend, 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:32.480 I said it was desperation because they had no weapons, 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:39.280 and he knew if we stay here under this pomegranate tree, 0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:45.440 we will surely die. They will surely plunder us. Now, 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:50.960 if we go over there, God might give us the victory. 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:56.320 So I'm gonna move toward the might. Now, who is 0:24:56.359 --> 0:25:00.960 this for? You need to move toward the possibility of victory. 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:05.840 And a lot of times we can't do this because 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:10.440 while Jonathan is moving toward Philistine's enemies battles challenges. While 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:15.000 while Jonathan is moving toward that, remember where his father was. 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:22.040 While Jonathan is moving toward Philistine's Saul is sitting under pomegranates. 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:27.720 I don't know if this will make sense, but I 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:36.240 want to ask you pomegranates or Philistines. You're like, what's 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:41.800 so wrong with pomegranates, Preacher, You've got against pomegranates. Pomegranate 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:44.199 is a perfectly acceptable fruit, and there's nothing wrong with 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:47.480 sitting under the tree. I agree with you. In fact, 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:50.200 I so agree with you that I want to show 0:25:50.200 --> 0:25:53.280 you a Bible verse about pomegranates. All right, So let 0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:55.800 me sit there thinking I'm hating on pomegranates. I got 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:58.879 prejudice toward pomegranates. I love pomegranates as much as the 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:03.600 next guy. They're messy, but I like them so much 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:06.119 so that when the spies. Do you remember when the 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:09.520 spies first went into the Promised Land and Moses told 0:26:09.600 --> 0:26:11.440 him bring back some of the fruit of the Promised Land, 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.720 because they're coming out of Egypt. Remember when they came 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:17.600 back carrying this pole full of the produce of canaan, 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:19.679 the fruit of what God was giving them. And do 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:21.719 you remember it said they brought back a cluster of 0:26:21.760 --> 0:26:24.920 grapes that they had to carry between two of them 0:26:24.920 --> 0:26:27.640 because the cluster of grapes was so big. But watch 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:31.000 what else was on that pole? In numbers, chapter thirteen, 0:26:32.280 --> 0:26:34.960 Give me numbers thirteen, y'all. They went up through the Negev, 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:39.280 came to Hebron, where the descendants of Anak lived. Now 0:26:39.320 --> 0:26:42.000 go on to the next first place. The next part 0:26:43.920 --> 0:26:45.720 that gave him the wrong verse? I think I gave 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:52.399 him the wrong verse. Hold on, that's the one. Yeah. 0:26:52.520 --> 0:26:54.760 When they reached the there it is, when they reached 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:57.359 the valley of Eshkol, they cut off a branch single 0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:00.560 cluster of grapes to them, carried it between them, two 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:04.320 of them carried it between them and including on the 0:27:04.320 --> 0:27:10.320 pole with some pomegranates. Really don't see the need in 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:14.000 pointing out that they were pomegranates. Pomegranates don't grow in Egypt. 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:19.800 This is new fruit for a new place that God 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:26.440 is taking them by faith. So when I saw Saul 0:27:26.520 --> 0:27:30.320 sitting under the pomegranate tree, it served as a reminder 0:27:30.440 --> 0:27:34.679 to me that he was sitting under something that God 0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:42.160 gave him. He was sitting under something that represented God's promise. 0:27:42.640 --> 0:27:45.720 Take this the Bible class this week, ask about the pomegranates, 0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:48.880 because the pomegranates are not only a sign of the promise, 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:51.359 but it's what the priest wore on the edge of 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:54.920 their ropes. There was a vestiment called an ephid. You 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:57.560 saw them for Samuel fourteen as well, and the priest 0:27:57.560 --> 0:28:00.720 would wear the ephid with the twelfth stone that represented 0:28:00.720 --> 0:28:03.359 the twelve tribes. And he had urim and thumbium that 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:05.800 represented the will of God. And all of this is 0:28:05.960 --> 0:28:10.200 under the pomegranate tree with Saul, long after God has 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:13.400 brought his people into the Promised land. Can I teach 0:28:13.440 --> 0:28:16.080