1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: it gives you perspective to see God is moving in 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: your life. Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 2: This week's sam as Psalm on I got some good news. 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 2: My oldest son has fallen in love with an album, 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 2: something I feared may never happen because you know, we 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 2: live in the day of the single. Nobody listens to 11 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 2: albums anymore. But my son, having impeccable good taste, mostly 12 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 2: informed by his genetic code, has fallen in love with 13 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 2: an album. If we weren't in church, i'd tell you 14 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 2: that it's a Kendrick Lamar album. But what was so 15 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: good to me about that is I was scared that 16 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 2: he would never have the experience that I had when 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: I was about his age. He's twelve, and he uh 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: and he would just listen to songs, you know, Spotify 19 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 2: stream songs and just you know, garbage stuff that's out 20 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 2: there now. I didn't know if he'd get into good 21 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 2: quality music and and and I never knew if he 22 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 2: would have the moment that Eric and I had growing 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 2: up in the mean streets of Monks Corner, South Carolina, 24 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 2: falling in love with. 25 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: With an album. Uh. 26 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 2: The first album that I fell in love with was, 27 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 2: of course by the great Christian worship band Guns n' Roses. Uh. 28 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:33,479 Speaker 2: The prophet Axel Rose was the first preacher whoever touched my. 29 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: Soul in a powerful way. 30 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 2: And I wanted him to have that experience, to really 31 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 2: get into the music. And and he looked at me 32 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: the other day he said, I just feel like Kendrick 33 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 2: gets me. Compton and Wax are just to light. But 34 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: that point aside, it was good. It was good to 35 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 2: me to see him get into I wanted him to 36 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: know that, you know, I wanted him to feel that 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 2: I've I wanted him to know that it's not just 38 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 2: because see like in this series, I want you to 39 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 2: know that God gets you, and I want you to 40 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 2: get into God. Can you see how excited I am, 41 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 2: or caffeinated or something in some combination of caffeine and 42 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. You got me fired up to tell you 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 2: that God gets you and touch somebody and say I 44 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 2: don't get you. 45 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: Thank God he does. 46 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 2: And the more you get into God, you realize that 47 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: God gets you all of you. And yet when we 48 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 2: come into church, sometimes we read little fragments of scriptures 49 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 2: and phrases and things that sound good. It's like people 50 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: who say, oh, I don't listen to the lyrics, I 51 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 2: just like the beat. 52 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: I hate those people. 53 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 2: You don't understand the depth the backstory. 54 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: You just like the beat. 55 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 2: And sometimes we're like that in church. You know, I 56 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 2: will bless the Lord at all times, and his praise 57 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 2: shall continually be in my mouth, not thinking about what 58 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 2: that says. 59 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: You're just like how it sounds like, yeah, I will. 60 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: Bless the Lord as occasionally once in a while on 61 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 2: Sunday for twenty eight minutes. I will bless the Lord 62 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 2: at all time. I mean all the time, not all times, 63 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: not like all the time all the time. I'm not 64 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 2: going to get in front of people and do it 65 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: or anything like that. But you know, I'm not not 66 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 2: gonna lift my hands or any but you know it 67 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 2: sounds good. 68 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: I like to beat. So I thought what we do today. 69 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: Last week we were focused on Psalm fifty nine, which. 70 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: Was a banger. 71 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 2: We discovered that not only is David a shepherd, but 72 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: he is a goat, the goat the greatest. 73 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: Of all times. 74 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: Some people were offended by that assertation that David was 75 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 2: the greatest rapper of all time. 76 00:03:58,680 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: I stand by it. 77 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 2: We are rocking to his mixtape, The Book of Psalms. 78 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: Free Millennia. 79 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 2: After he pinned these words, they still resonate in our souls. 80 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 2: But this week we're going to look at some things 81 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 2: that he said that might surprise us. In Psalm one 82 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 2: and this is more of a ballad. 83 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: The tempo is a little slower. 84 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 2: Because David is conflicted and he cries out to God 85 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 2: about it. I want to read all seven verses from 86 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 2: Someone forty two where David says, I cry aloud to 87 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 2: the Lord. I lift up my voice to the Lord 88 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: for mercy. I pour out before him my complaint. Before him, 89 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 2: I tell my trouble. When my spirit grows faint within me, 90 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 2: it is you who watch over my way. In the 91 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 2: path where I walk, people have hidden a snare for me. 92 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,239 Speaker 2: Look and see there is no one at my right hand. 93 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: No one is concerned for me. I have no refuge. 94 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 2: No one cares for my life. Elijah, nobody's praying for me. 95 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 2: I looked around for help, and all I found was hardship. 96 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 2: I cry verse five to you, Lord, I say you 97 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 2: are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. 98 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 2: Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. 99 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: Rescue me from those who pursue me, for they are 100 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 2: too strong for me. Set me free from my prison, 101 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 2: that I may praise or name. 102 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: I want to so. 103 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 2: Bad, but I can't right now. Set me free. Only 104 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 2: you have the keys to do it. Then the righteous 105 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 2: will gather about me because of your goodness to me. 106 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 2: One more thing I want to read you before we 107 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 2: talk about it for a few moments from for Samuel 108 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 2: twenty two. This is the backstory. This is the backstory 109 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 2: to the to the beat, and just one verse for 110 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 2: now for Samuel twenty two, verse five. But the prophet 111 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 2: God said to David, do not stay in the stronghold, 112 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 2: go into the land of Judah. So David left and 113 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 2: went to the forest of hered My subject for today is. 114 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: The setup in the stronghold. 115 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 2: When we started song, I don't know if you found 116 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 2: yourself like me, wanting to tell. 117 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: David that you're not allowed to do this. 118 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 2: When he cries aloud to the Lord in verse one 119 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 2: and lifts up his voice to the Lord for mercy 120 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 2: in verse one. 121 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: At this point in. 122 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 2: The psalm, I have predicted this predicament. It is in 123 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 2: verse two that I'm a little surprised when David says, 124 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 2: I pour out before him my complaint. At this point, 125 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 2: I want to pull David aside and say, didn't you 126 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 2: know that you were supposed to bless the Lord at 127 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 2: all times and his praise continually be in your mouth? 128 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: And David said back to me, yeah, I wrote that 129 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 2: psalm too, that Psalm thirty four. But this one's a 130 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 2: little different, because sometimes before my mouth can be filled 131 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 2: with praise, I have to pour out something else to 132 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 2: make room for what I know seeing now disappoint of 133 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 2: the sermon where people start getting real confused on me, 134 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: because we have been taught sometimes that unless we can 135 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 2: come to God the right way, we can't come to 136 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 2: him at all. And the fact of the matter is 137 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 2: a lot of us don't pray, don't worship, and don't 138 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 2: enter into the presence of God in that specific and 139 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 2: tangible way wherein He can heal the issues of your heart, 140 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 2: because we are scared of what would happen if we 141 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 2: really opened ourselves up and told him. In fact, I 142 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 2: was talking to my friend. I'm not going to say 143 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 2: his name. I don't want embarrass Eric Phillips, but we 144 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: were talking the other day how for us, it's very 145 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 2: difficult for us sometimes to tell God how we're feeling. 146 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 2: Which is funny because I have a feeling that he 147 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,679 Speaker 2: already knows how I'm feeling. But I'm scared to tell him. 148 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 2: And here's why I'm scared to tell him. I know 149 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 2: why I'm scared to tell him because of something my 150 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: dad used to say. My dad used to say whenever 151 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 2: I would start crying. He had this line he would 152 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 2: say to get me to stop, and the line was, 153 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 2: finish it if you know it. If you don't stop 154 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: that crying, I'll give you. Your dad was an abusive 155 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 2: maniac as well. 156 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: Now, my dad is a great time. 157 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 2: And I get it, and I get it, But when 158 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 2: David uses this image, I was surprised because I'm so 159 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,839 Speaker 2: used to the psalms being a place where we. 160 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 1: Pour out our praise. 161 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 2: I was surprised to see David pour out his complaint 162 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 2: because I didn't think you were supposed to complain if 163 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 2: God was good to you. 164 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: And I read the whole psalm, and he. 165 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 2: Started the song saying he was pouring out his complaint, 166 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 2: and he ended the song by saying that God was 167 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 2: good to him. And I couldn't put the two together, 168 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 2: because what do you have to complain about if God 169 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 2: has been good to you. I'm sometimes afraid to complain 170 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 2: in the presence of God, and so I don't pray 171 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 2: because I can't say what I know I'm supposed to say. 172 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 2: So I don't say anything because I'm gonna tell you, 173 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 2: I'm scared that if I say what I really want 174 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 2: to say, God might give me something to cry about. 175 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 2: I'm scared sometimes to pray to God before I come 176 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 2: preach what I really feel like praying to God, which 177 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 2: is I'm not feeling this today, because I'm scared if 178 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: I say that to him, he'll put some on my 179 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 2: voice box where I can't preach. 180 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: I'm afraid if. 181 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 2: I complain to God about my children, then he might 182 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 2: look on somebody else who's been praying that they could 183 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 2: have kids, and they can have kids. And here I 184 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 2: am complaining about something that I pray and ask God 185 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 2: to give me, and I feel kind of guilty. So 186 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 2: now I stand at the distance and I won't tell 187 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 2: God what I have to say. But I learned something 188 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 2: about God is that he is the only safe place. 189 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: Where I can pour out my complaint. 190 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 2: And if I don't learn how to pour out my 191 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 2: complaints in His presence, they will spill over somewhere else 192 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 2: Where else can I go but his presence? Who else 193 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 2: could I tell but the one who knit me? Where 194 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 2: else where else is it safe? What are you gonna do? 195 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 2: You're gonna go on Facebook and tell your troubles. The 196 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 2: presence of God is not a place. 197 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: To bypass your emotions. It's a place to process them. 198 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 2: And what that means is this, The only way into 199 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 2: the presence of God is from where you really are, 200 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 2: not from. 201 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: Where you wish you were. 202 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 2: You can start your prayers with O Sovereign God of 203 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 2: the Seas and Nemo and Dorian Sydney, Australia, Oh God, 204 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 2: Sovereign Father. Can start there. 205 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: That's preferable. 206 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 2: But in case you can't, in cases one of those days, 207 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 2: in case you don't even feel saved, in case you 208 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 2: just want to bash some heads, bust some heads, in 209 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 2: cases one of those stays, in case you don't feel 210 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 2: God at all, you know it's okay to tell God 211 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 2: I don't feel you right now, but I need you. God, 212 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 2: come to my rescue. You know who I am, You 213 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 2: know how much I need. How in the world are 214 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 2: you gonna get to the place the attitude, the mindset 215 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 2: that God wants you to have and where he wants 216 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 2: you to be if you don't start from where you 217 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 2: really are. So it gives me permission. If David did it, teuch, 218 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 2: somebody say, if David did it, If David did it, 219 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: so can I and pour out my complaint in his presence? 220 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 2: And he said, he said, I I cried allowed to 221 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 2: the Lord. 222 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: Allowed. 223 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 2: The word has different meanings. If you spell it, you 224 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 2: know you're allowed to complain. 225 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: Allowed. 226 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 2: And this is something that took me a long time 227 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 2: to learn because I always tried to fight what was 228 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 2: going on in my mind in my mind. The only 229 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 2: problem with fighting what's going on in my mind in 230 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 2: my mind is that is enemy held territory because I 231 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 2: have strongholds in my mind. And when I go to 232 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 2: pray and my heart is overwhelmed, my mind. 233 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: Can't keep up with my spirit. 234 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 2: Because my spirit knows what I need to pray, but 235 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 2: my mind gets in the way. 236 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: Who am I helping? So far? Who am I helping? 237 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: So what I do? I wish I would have brought 238 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: him out. I didn't remember to bring him out. 239 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 2: I have some airport that I put in my ear 240 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 2: so people will think I'm having a conversation on the 241 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 2: phone in case they look in my car, or in 242 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 2: case they see me going through well. I don't ever 243 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 2: go to Target, but if I happen to go to 244 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 2: Target once a year my annual trip to Hell, I 245 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,359 Speaker 2: would put in my AirPod. 246 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: And I don't fight my mind in my mind. 247 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 2: Because I can't win the level on the level that 248 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: I'm fighting on. I have to get altitude. I have 249 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 2: to fight from an elevated place. So I fight my 250 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 2: mind with my mouth. You can pray any way you 251 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 2: want to, but when you really get in a situation, 252 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 2: you don't fight in your mind. You pray out loud. 253 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 2: I want you for the next seven days. The next 254 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 2: seven days, you can do whatever you want after that, 255 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 2: but for the next seven days, tell somebody for the 256 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 2: next seven days you're allowed to pray. 257 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: Allowed. I want you to stop. I want you to stop. 258 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 2: Closing your eyes and worrying and calling it prayer because 259 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 2: you can think a thousand things at once? How many 260 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: can how many aren't even paying attention to me? 261 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: Right now? You got something in the. 262 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 2: Oven, but you can only say one thing at a time. 263 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: So when I open my mouth. 264 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 2: I'm not just being emotional, I'm being strategic. In fact, Well, 265 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 2: this is a shout right now to let God know. 266 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 2: Come on rock Hill, shout somebody. 267 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 3: In the back of Valentine, shout. 268 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: In the overflow. Let's tell the place with praise. And 269 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: see what I love about God is. 270 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 2: I don't have to start with the script of the 271 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 2: mightiest onliest Goddess. One is stuff, the sunniest and the stars. 272 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: I can look at God and said God, I hate 273 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: myself right now. 274 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: Did you see how I just acted? And God will say, yeah, 275 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: matter of fact, I did. And I see how you're 276 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: gonna act tomorrow. And I decided to send my son 277 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: to die for you, with. 278 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 3: Complete foreknowledge of all of your false. 279 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: If I make my bed in hell, you are there. 280 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 2: If I say out dwell in the othermost parts of 281 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 2: the sea. 282 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: God is in the depressed place. God is in the darkness. 283 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: God is in the cave. And David starts writing this 284 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: song and. 285 00:16:58,160 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 2: He has good acoustics, because you know you can sing 286 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 2: good in the shower, because the acoustics make you think 287 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: you can carry a tune. You ever did that you 288 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 2: got in the shower, You like I should probably I 289 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 2: should probably get an agent. 290 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: I sound just like the recording. But the acoustics in 291 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: the shower make you think. 292 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 2: Okay, David has good acoustics because he's under attack. 293 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: But he's in a cave. 294 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 2: And some of the best expressions of your relationship with 295 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 2: God will be born not when you are crowned in victory, 296 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 2: but when you are hiding in despair. So David is 297 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: a giant killer, and David has a future as a 298 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 2: leader of an entire nation that God has called out 299 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 2: his people. Have you ever had your calling in conflict 300 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 2: with your circumstances? This is David's situation. 301 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: In PS. 302 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 2: I mentioned briefly, but I want to go back to 303 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 2: it the historical record in First Samuel twenty two, because 304 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 2: David is in a safe place, a cave, in a duel, 305 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 2: the Bible says in verse one, David left Gath. Hey, 306 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 2: you want to do something real cool this week, go 307 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 2: and study where Goliath was from. 308 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm go ahead and tell you now because I 309 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: studied it for you. It's Gath. 310 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 2: So he has to go hide in the place where 311 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 2: he just defeated an enemy. He has to go hide 312 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 2: for a little while in a place that he doesn't belong. 313 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 2: The problem with Dave that going to get this when 314 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 2: they see him. He's still got Goliath's sword that he 315 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 2: took after he cut off his head and maybe a 316 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: little bit of blood on it. 317 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: And David is on the run from Saul. 318 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 2: Who's throne he is going to occupy, and so he 319 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 2: can't stay in the place he belongs because the king 320 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 2: wants to kill him. 321 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: But he can't stay with the enemies that he's fighting against. 322 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 2: Have you ever felt like you didn't fit anywhere? Just 323 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 2: kind of quite fit? Are there at least three weird 324 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 2: people like me in here? Do you ever feel like 325 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 2: you don't fit where you came from, you don't fit 326 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 2: where you're going. Have you ever felt too churchy to 327 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 2: be worldly, but a little too worldly to fit in 328 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 2: some churches where you have to And so David I 329 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 2: had something right there, and David he escapes. But watch this, 330 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 2: This is the phrase that got my attention. Everybody say escape, escape, 331 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 2: because everybody has a way that they escape. That's what 332 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 2: guns n' roses was for me. That's what that's what 333 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 2: Elijah's headphones are for him. 334 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: It's a way for me to escape just for a 335 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 1: little while. 336 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 2: I can get out of my situation and get into 337 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 2: something else. But the way that you escape, here's the principle, 338 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 2: could lead to greater captivity. So it is it is 339 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 2: so important where you go when you run, because sometimes 340 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 2: what you run to will end up running you. 341 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: The Bible says. 342 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 2: That David escaped from the land of God and he 343 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 2: was safe from the sphere of Saul, and he escaped 344 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 2: to give me my verse the cave, which is a 345 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 2: safe place, but he escaped to something that he was 346 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 2: trapped in. Now we understand what David had to complain 347 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 2: about in Someone forty two, because he's supposed to be a. 348 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: King and he's stuck in a cave and he's safe, 349 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: but he's stuck and he knows there is more to 350 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: me than this, and he is shocked. Now watch this. 351 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:43,360 Speaker 2: David is not surprised by the enemies that surround him. 352 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: He's surprised by the friends that didn't. 353 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 2: David was not expecting that it would be easy to 354 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 2: be a king. He was not expecting to ascend to 355 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 2: the throne without any battles. He wasn't expecting cotton candy, lollipop, 356 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 2: Santa Claus yahweh. He wasn't expecting to be able to 357 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 2: take the moving sidewalk to the throne to rule the people. 358 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 2: But he was expecting that the people God called him 359 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 2: to serve would have his back. And he looks around 360 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 2: in Psalm from the Cave of Adullam and says, I'm 361 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 2: not surprised by who's surrounding me to kill me. I'm 362 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 2: surprised that nobody is surrounding me that cares about me. 363 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 3: Have you ever looked around and been surprised? 364 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: Where are the people I helped? Where are the people 365 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: I prayed for? Where are the people? This is what 366 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:46,679 Speaker 1: it's like to be a parent. 367 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 2: I thought it must be lonely for David in the cave, 368 00:22:58,440 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 2: to be aul alone in the cave. 369 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: And then I kept reading and I discovered he wasn't alone. 370 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: Can I show you I have a seat, I'll show you. 371 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: I love this stuff, man, touch. 372 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 3: Somebody, say get into it, get into it, get into it. 373 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 2: Don't just settle for a little a little cassette single, 374 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 2: a single. Yeah, don't just settle for a little, a 375 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 2: little This is the Dane the larn me. 376 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: Because you like to beat. 377 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 2: The backstory is this David is in the deepest place 378 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 2: of despair, not because he's surrounded by trouble, but because 379 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 2: he can't find his support, and he's in a stronghold, 380 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 2: looking for a support system, looking for somebody to be 381 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 2: there for him. You mean I I killed this giant 382 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 2: that was defying the whole nation. You mean you mean 383 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 2: I helped you move, was trying to make it practical 384 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 2: or something we can live with, because most of us 385 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 2: aren't hiding from wicked kings. 386 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean that we can't relate. 387 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 3: Mm hm. 388 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 2: David says, I looked around and nobody was there, But 389 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 2: it wasn't true. Just read the whole rest of the verse. 390 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 2: Verse one, same verse. He's in the cave of Adullum. 391 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: That's where he was. He says, I looked to my 392 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: right and nobody was there. 393 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 2: That's what he wrote some forty two, and his brothers 394 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 2: and father's household herd about it, and they went down 395 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 2: to him there. So he was surrounded. But there is 396 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 2: a difference between being surrounded and feeling supported. And God 397 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 2: sends David some people in a cave, and maybe he 398 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 2: wrote that before they came. 399 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: And maybe he wrote it a they came. Here's one 400 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: thing I know. 401 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 2: Everybody in that cave needed something from David. 402 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: Here's how I know. 403 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 2: The Bible describes David's team in verse two. It says, 404 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 2: not only did his brothers and father come, who, by. 405 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,239 Speaker 1: The way, didn't believe in him. 406 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 2: His dad didn't even bring him in on draft day 407 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 2: when Samuel came through town with a horn. 408 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,479 Speaker 1: Of oil looking for the next king. 409 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 2: Now you want some help in the cave because Saul's 410 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 2: gone crazy, and you think maybe I can defend you 411 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: because I'm good with a. 412 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 1: Sword in a slingshot. 413 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 2: You feel like people only call on you in certain times, 414 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 2: like you don't hear from them for two years, and 415 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 2: when they call you, you kind of want to say, 416 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 2: why don't you just cut the crap and tell me 417 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,879 Speaker 2: what you want? Because I know you didn't call me 418 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 2: to check on me. I know there's no way in 419 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 2: the world you just called me to see how. 420 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: I was doing. 421 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 3: Then let's just skip through the preliminaries. 422 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 2: How you doing bro, how I'm doing is just tell 423 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:52,719 Speaker 2: me what you need, and I'll tell you whether I'm 424 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 2: gonna do it or not. But let's just cut through 425 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 2: all this so I can save the time that you 426 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 2: would spend pretending like you care about me. 427 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: Maybe it's just me. I would bless the Lord at 428 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: all times. 429 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 2: And and David is surrounded, but he does not feel supported. 430 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 2: He's got a full email email inbox. Does anybody still 431 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 2: email anymore? By the way, Okay, And it's not that 432 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,120 Speaker 2: he's not getting any text, it's just that they're all transactional. 433 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 2: It's not that he doesn't know anybody, it's just that 434 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 2: nobody really knows him. Nobody cares. He didn't say nobody came. 435 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 2: He said nobody cares. I got a crowd around me, 436 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 2: and I smile so good. They have no idea that 437 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 2: I feel like it's all fake, so quiet it's getting 438 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 2: That's when I'm preaching my bad when they're standing up 439 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 2: and shouting and all that, I ain't saying nothing really important. 440 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: When it gets like that here, you're that funeral vibe. 441 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: After that, that's what I like. Who really cares? 442 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 2: If I couldn't provide for them? 443 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: Would they care? I think I wonder sometimes if I. 444 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 2: Couldn't pick up the mic, if I couldn't do what 445 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 2: I did, who would I be. 446 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: And who would really love me? If I didn't have 447 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: a big church. 448 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 2: I'm just trying to tell you I'm not David, but 449 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 2: I can. 450 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: Relate, and I have a feeling. 451 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 2: Every husband can relate, every wife can relate, every friend 452 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 2: can relate. 453 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: I know every parent can relate. 454 00:27:55,440 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 2: To look around in wonderm does anybody really care about 455 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 2: me as a person? 456 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 1: When are they gonna ask me? How were you? And 457 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:15,120 Speaker 1: everybody around me needs something from me. Look who God 458 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 1: sent to David in the cave. Thanks a lot, God. 459 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 1: Look at verse two. 460 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 2: All those who were in distress, or in debt or 461 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 2: discontented gathered around him. 462 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: Really, this is my team. 463 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 2: Huh. Really, I don't know the sequence. Nobody does. But 464 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 2: what's God messing with? 465 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: David? 466 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 2: Nobody surrounds me, And God said, all right, I'm gonna 467 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 2: put four hundred. The Bible says there were four hundred 468 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 2: of them. I'm gonna send four hundred rough the roughest 469 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 2: thugs you've ever seen in your You're gonna have some 470 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 2: company in the cave now, David Hey, make some room, 471 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 2: get the cot red. I heard you, David, here comes 472 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 2: some backup. 473 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: But God one David didn't. No, can I preach? Can 474 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: I preach? These men would be the same men who 475 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: would bring him to the throne. These men. 476 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 2: That God sent to David in the cave would be 477 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 2: the same man who would chase down lions in pits 478 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 2: on snowy days. 479 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: And rip their mouths open. And if they wouldn't have 480 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: been rough, they couldn't have been relentless. And if David 481 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: hadn't been in the cave, they wouldn't have come. Damn. 482 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: It was a setup, That's what I'm trying to say. 483 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: It was a setup. 484 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 2: There are some things that can only come together in 485 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 2: the cave when you get alone and you feel alone, 486 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 2: and you say God, I needs you, And God says, 487 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 2: now that you know that, I'm what's Indeed, I can 488 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 2: give you what you don't even know they pray for 489 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 2: if you'll get deferent and open your mouth and get real. 490 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 2: Come on, is anybody ready to get real with God? 491 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 2: I'm done pretending. I'm done playing do it by faith, 492 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 2: touch by people say you got what you need, You 493 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 2: got what you need, You got what you need. 494 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: Come on, you see you got what you need. You 495 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: got what you need. 496 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 2: It might look like debt, it might look like disorientation, 497 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 2: it might look like discontent. But those were David's mighty 498 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 2: men in disguise. I'm telling you, a little boy, lunch 499 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 2: isn't all you can eat buffet with God puts his 500 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 2: hand on it. 501 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: What you have is what's your need for where you are. 502 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: You are not stuck. It is not over, so can't 503 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: kill you. And you're not alone. Shout about it. Come on, 504 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 1: shout about it. So David is not alone. Touch somebody, 505 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: say you're not alone. You're not alone. Look them in 506 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,959 Speaker 1: the eyes, say you're not alone. You're not alone. 507 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 2: The person on the other side of you that you've 508 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 2: been ignoring every time I told you to turn to 509 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 2: your neighbor, look at them and say you're not alone either. 510 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 2: Don't leave him. You've been in a stronghold. David doesn't 511 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 2: know what's next, and he says something real crazy. He 512 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:57,239 Speaker 2: says something real crazy because the men come to him, 513 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 2: the broke relatives come to him. Everybody wants a piece 514 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 2: of David now that he's got a contract, right, And 515 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:18,719 Speaker 2: he's like, I don't know I'm in this place right now. 516 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 1: I'm in this cave. And he leaves the cave with 517 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: these folk, and he's got to do something with his 518 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: mom and dad. 519 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 2: So he goes down to Moab, where they have good 520 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 2: retirement communities assisted living. 521 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: I don't know he went there. 522 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 2: He had a tie there because his great great grandmother 523 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 2: was a moabike. 524 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 1: You can study this as much as you want. 525 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 2: There's a lot of connections here, and which ones you 526 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 2: see determines is determined by how you look. When he 527 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 2: drops his parents off in Moab, I want to read 528 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 2: you this. I didn't really get to keen on this 529 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 2: last time, but I want to. 530 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: Say it here. He tells the king of Moab. He's like, 531 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: I need a place, a safe place for my family 532 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 1: to stay. 533 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 2: So will you look after mom and dad who weren't 534 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 2: really looking out for me, who demean me. You know 535 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 2: how it says David was a man after God's own heart. 536 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 2: You know how Jesus is called the son of David. 537 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 2: They had one thing in common. They did it for 538 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,400 Speaker 2: others who wouldn't do it for them. Wow. 539 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,959 Speaker 1: They were willing to die for the people who were 540 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: willing to kill them. 541 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 2: And so David makes arrangements for his parents to stay 542 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 2: in Moab. Only problem with Moab is not really a 543 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 2: bad place. I don't want you to conjure up images 544 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 2: of Ninevu where they would impale their enemies. 545 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: I don't want you to think Nero or. 546 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 2: Anything like that was persecuting the New Testament Church, frying 547 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 2: them in vats of oil. 548 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:11,760 Speaker 1: But Moab Moab was a place where they worshiped other gods. 549 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 2: And so David goes down to a place that's not 550 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 2: necessarily bad, but sometimes you go places to survive. 551 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,720 Speaker 1: That end up imprisoning you in the process. 552 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,839 Speaker 2: And he drops off his parents and he says verse three, 553 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 2: verse three, can they stay while I or until I 554 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 2: learn what God will do for me? David, you know 555 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 2: that you're destined to be a king? 556 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,880 Speaker 1: Yes, I do, but right now. 557 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 2: I'm in this cave of confusion, and what I know 558 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 2: God has promised me does not take away the confusion 559 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:07,840 Speaker 2: of wondering how he will bring it to pass. So 560 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 2: I need a safe place to stay while I figure 561 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 2: out how is God going to do this? And he 562 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,759 Speaker 2: drops his parents off and he's got everything verse four 563 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 2: under control. The king says, sure, and what else are 564 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 2: you going to say to David, hit you with a 565 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 2: rock or something. 566 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: You don't help him. 567 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:32,279 Speaker 2: Out, and they stay with him as long as David 568 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 2: was in Oh, there it is the stronghold. God sent 569 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 2: me to preach to somebody today who's in the stronghold. 570 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 2: The stronghold is not a bad thing. Please understand that 571 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:47,200 Speaker 2: when Second Corinthians ten four says we demolish strongholds, you 572 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,440 Speaker 2: stick around church a little while. You hear us say 573 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 2: some churchy things, these little vocabulary words that we have, 574 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 2: and we'll talk about pulling down strongholds. 575 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,319 Speaker 1: But before you pull them down, understand what they actually are. 576 00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:58,759 Speaker 2: Now. 577 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,759 Speaker 1: I know you understand the military term that a stronghold 578 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:03,760 Speaker 1: is a fortified place. 579 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 2: A stronghold is a place where opposing forces can't get 580 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,600 Speaker 2: to you. But a stronghold that protects you from one 581 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 2: enemy might imprison you to another one. So the Prophet 582 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 2: God says to David in one of the only two 583 00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,879 Speaker 2: times that we see him in scripture, the Prophet God 584 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,320 Speaker 2: says something to David that I believe the spirit of 585 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,720 Speaker 2: the Lord might be saying to you today. Lake Norman 586 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 2: University Online, Kansas, Nebraska. From sea to Shining Sea, I 587 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 2: want to make an announcement teenagers, people who are not 588 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,239 Speaker 2: teenagers anymore, people who have lived several lifetimes since your 589 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,920 Speaker 2: teenage years. I want, I want to. I want to 590 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,920 Speaker 2: declare the word of the Lord to you, and the 591 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 2: word of the Lord to you as this for Samuel 592 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:54,840 Speaker 2: twenty two five. Do not stay in the stronghold because 593 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 2: it's a setup. Because if you stay in Moab too 594 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,680 Speaker 2: long now, state of mind, it may not be a 595 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 2: physical location. 596 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,320 Speaker 1: I'm not talking about your marriage. 597 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,279 Speaker 2: I'm not telling you to get a divorce and blame 598 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,919 Speaker 2: it on God because he said leave Moab. 599 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:17,279 Speaker 1: I know people take my message and say twist them, but. 600 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 2: The stronghold is usually something that you ran too. 601 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: To protect you. Let's see how real you're willing to 602 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: be now. 603 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 2: I want all the pessimists to raise your hand right now, 604 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 2: all the pessimist, all the spouses a pessimists, grab the 605 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,719 Speaker 2: wrist of your partner and make them play along with 606 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 2: high interactive sir men. I'm gonna tell you why you're 607 00:37:52,120 --> 00:38:01,359 Speaker 2: a pessimist. It's a defense mechanism. It protects you from disappointment. 608 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:12,520 Speaker 2: It protects you, like the gin Blossoms used to say, 609 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 2: if you don't expect too much from me, you might 610 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 2: not be let down. So I got let down and 611 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 2: I didn't like how that felt. So now I just 612 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,640 Speaker 2: expect people to suck, and when they do, I'm not surprised. 613 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:35,080 Speaker 2: Come on, how many pessimists in the house. And it's 614 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:39,239 Speaker 2: fine to be realistic. But what you don't know when 615 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,319 Speaker 2: you developed the pattern of pessimism neurologically in your brain 616 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 2: and spiritually in your heart. When you hide in that stronghold, 617 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:53,239 Speaker 2: it protects you, but it traps you. It protects you, 618 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,239 Speaker 2: but it also ensnares you because you now create the 619 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 2: reality that you projected through your expectation. So you are 620 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 2: not surprised that life sucks. But life sucks because you 621 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 2: were not prepared to be surprised by anything other than 622 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,879 Speaker 2: the fallen condition of sinful man. And so when God 623 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,399 Speaker 2: really wants to show you his goodness in the land 624 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,920 Speaker 2: of the living, you can't see. 625 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,959 Speaker 1: It because you're in the stronghold. 626 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,480 Speaker 2: So pessimism protects you from disappointment. 627 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: But it imprisons you as it protects you. 628 00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:39,480 Speaker 2: Every addiction is, at its root a form of self defense. Wow, 629 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,440 Speaker 2: because I'm taking something, or I'm seeing something, or I'm doing. 630 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,440 Speaker 1: Something or I'm saying something. 631 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,360 Speaker 2: Because you can be addicted to a whole lot of 632 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 2: stuff more than pills. I got some friends that are 633 00:39:52,239 --> 00:40:00,839 Speaker 2: addicted to problems. If it even looks it's like it's 634 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,360 Speaker 2: going to be a good day, they will spike the 635 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,520 Speaker 2: coffee just to screw things up so they can feel 636 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:13,480 Speaker 2: normal in a state of self sabotage. I'm preaching like 637 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:18,080 Speaker 2: I know you now. Only God could show me this 638 00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:21,880 Speaker 2: about you. You are addicted to drama. 639 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 1: It protects you. 640 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,280 Speaker 2: The drama protects you from having to be productive and steady, 641 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,960 Speaker 2: because if you create drama, you'll have something to blame. 642 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,440 Speaker 2: It's a way of escape. That's why a lot of 643 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:40,719 Speaker 2: us blame others. It's a stronghold. It's a stronghold. It's 644 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,440 Speaker 2: a way for me to not have to take responsibility 645 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,040 Speaker 2: because if I. 646 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,520 Speaker 1: Blame you, I don't have to deal with the shame 647 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:52,759 Speaker 1: of me. And now I'm imprisoned to bitterness. 648 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:57,800 Speaker 2: And David, if you stay in the cave, you won't 649 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:03,799 Speaker 2: be able to save the people of Kayla. David had 650 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:04,400 Speaker 2: a battle to. 651 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: Fight in Judah that he didn't know about. 652 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,560 Speaker 2: He had an army that God was forming that he 653 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,800 Speaker 2: couldn't see for what they were because he was in 654 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,920 Speaker 2: the stronghold. And there are things that God has surrounded 655 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:23,640 Speaker 2: you with that you can't see in the stronghold. So 656 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,280 Speaker 2: the prophet says, you gotta. 657 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,640 Speaker 1: Go to Judah. You gotta go to Judah. 658 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,239 Speaker 2: If I had a fired up church, I would preach 659 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:38,879 Speaker 2: this saying, if this was code Orange Revival. Oh, if 660 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,880 Speaker 2: I was at Matthew's right now, if I was at 661 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,759 Speaker 2: Lake Norman, I would have you touch seven people and 662 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,439 Speaker 2: tell him get to Judah. Get to Judah as quick 663 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,439 Speaker 2: as you can. Get to Judah. Judah is the place 664 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:55,359 Speaker 2: that represents praise. In fact, the very word Judah means praise. Now, 665 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 2: I see what David was doing in Somes is what 666 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 2: it was saying in First Samuel twenty two. I'm leaving 667 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:09,120 Speaker 2: this stronghold. I'm stepping outside of myself, outside of my feelings, 668 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,160 Speaker 2: outside of my circumstance, and I'll step it in my 669 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:14,480 Speaker 2: future hits. 670 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:19,480 Speaker 3: Anybody going to Judah today, come on, get it, pray, 671 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,560 Speaker 3: get to Judah. Get to Judah. 672 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,719 Speaker 1: You won't see what God can do for you in 673 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:34,560 Speaker 1: this cave. 674 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,400 Speaker 3: You gotta go to Judah. 675 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,560 Speaker 2: You gotta get back to the place where you will 676 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:43,000 Speaker 2: be crowned as king. You gotta get back to the promise. 677 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,640 Speaker 2: See Thithan starts stand up and help me close this sermon. 678 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,840 Speaker 1: He starts some. 679 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:58,000 Speaker 2: Trapped in a cave, but he ends put verse seven up. 680 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,720 Speaker 2: He in someone for forty two coming out of prison. 681 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:10,520 Speaker 2: He starts some one forty two behind bars, but he 682 00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,120 Speaker 2: ends someone forty two riding bars. 683 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:21,960 Speaker 1: He starts some one forty two in a cave that 684 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:22,720 Speaker 1: seems safe. 685 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,360 Speaker 2: He ends someone forty two knowing that God is my 686 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,800 Speaker 2: refuge and nothing can by any means harm me. 687 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:40,160 Speaker 4: Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing, nothing, nothing, no one, 688 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:45,760 Speaker 4: nothing can stand against the promise of God. He started 689 00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,400 Speaker 4: with complaint, but by the time he got. 690 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,520 Speaker 1: Done, he was filled with praise. 691 00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,000 Speaker 3: I know you came the third turning, but why. 692 00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,680 Speaker 1: Not lift your hands and praise out. 693 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,480 Speaker 3: I'm not stop where are starting? 694 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,520 Speaker 1: JP not stand where I start? 695 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,400 Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us special thanks to those of 696 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,560 Speaker 2: you who give generously to this ministry. 697 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,280 Speaker 1: Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 698 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,239 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now, 699 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,200 Speaker 2: or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for more 700 00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,600 Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast. 701 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,600 Speaker 1: You can subscribe. 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