386: David Wisniewski – Leadership

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This week’s class is entitled
Leadership given by Brother

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David Wesneski at the Watchtower
Lake Bible School 2025.

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The overall theme for Brother
David’s series is Developing

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spiritual intelligence from the
lives of Jonathan and David.

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The main force of this talk, as
you can probably imagine, takes

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a plunder into the unbelievable
leadership quality that Jonathan

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showed during his time in the
warfront.

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Unbelievable in the sense that
everything that he did, every

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word he spoke, and even what he
didn’t say, could not be more

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contrary to the thinking of the
flesh.

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The class goes on to great
extents to accentuate how little

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Jonathan cared for his own life,
his own glory, his own legacy,

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and the entire account of his
effort.

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Consistently, God is on the tip
of his tongue, always resting

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his life and confidence in the
tender hands of the Almighty,

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and it’s these qualities that
made him the leader that the

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nation so desperately needed.
In some way, we are all leaders

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in the ecclesia, whether we are
the elder or whether we have

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younger siblings who look up to
us.

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This study serves as a vital
benchmark for how we may be

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faring and shepherding the flock
of the Lord Jesus.

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Really ask yourself this class.
What can I take from Jonathan’s

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example the next time I’m in a
spot where I need to lead?

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So with that, here is Brother
David Wesneski leadership.

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Well, in our first class
tonight, we’re going to look at

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Jonathan.
Essentially, we’re going to

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follow the chronological order
through First Samuel in these

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first set of classes anyways.
And we see Jonathan 1st and then

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we’re introduced to David.
And that’s the pattern that

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we’ll follow.
And the spiritual quality or

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spiritual quotient that we hope
to develop tonight is that of

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leadership.
We said yesterday in our

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introduction that we’ll see that
Jonathan was able to inspire

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greatness in others.
Well, Jonathan’s name means Yah

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hath given, Yah hath given, and
indeed he had given.

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He’d given the nation of Israel
an incredible example, be given

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to Saul, an incredible example,
his own son, if he had just

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followed the example and advice
and counsel of him.

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And God has given to us a
wonderful example in Jonathan

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and recording these events for
us.

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Yah also gave David a wonderful
friend, a friend better than one

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could ever ask for us.
We’ll see as we progress through

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our classes this week, God
willing, we’ll turn back a page

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from what we had read for us to
First Samuel 13 and consider how

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the Scriptures introduced
Jonathan or read together verses

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1 to 4.
Saul reigned one year, and when

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he had reigned 2 years over
Israel, Saul chose him. 3000 men

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of Israel where of 2000 where
with Saul and Mcmash in Mount

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Bethel, and 1000 where with
Jonathan and Gibeah of Benjamin

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and the rest of the people.
He sent every man to his tent.

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And Jonathan smote the Garrison
of the Philistines.

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It was in Giba, and the
Philistines heard of it.

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And Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying,

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let the Hebrews hear.
And all Israel heard say that

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Saul had smitten a Garrison to
the Philistines, and that Israel

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also was had an abomination with
the Philistines.

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And the people were called
together after Saul to Gilgal.

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Well, it doesn’t take long to
learn the first principle in

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Jonathan’s life.
Consider how the scriptures

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introduce him.
We’re not told anything of

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Jonathan’s stature, sorry, just
a spider.

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We’re told nothing of Jonathan’s
stature, of his father.

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We’re told he was head and
shoulders above everyone else,

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and that’s a considerable man
aside.

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That means if I was standing
beside Saul, an average American

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height, I’d be looking into his
chest and there’s Saul’s head

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above.
It says nothing of Jonathan’s

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stature.
It doesn’t even tell us actually

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that Jonathan is the son of
Saul.

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Did you notice that first time
we’re introduced to him?

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And it does not tell us that
he’s the son of Saul.

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Now, he’s obviously got a
position of importance.

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He’s got 1000 men with him.
Saul has 2000 men with him.

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So the first principle that we
learn from these few verses in

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First Samuel 13 about Jonathan
is actually the overriding

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principle of his life.
And that is what he did was more

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important than who he was.
What Jonathan did was more

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important than who he was.
In fact, when all Israel hears

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about the defeat of the
Philistine Garrison of that

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stronghold in Giba, they don’t
even hear that Jonathan had

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anything to do with it.
They hear that Saul had smitten

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a Garrison to the Philistines.
And we’ve no record of any

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complaint or protest from
Jonathan.

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He was just happy to do the work
without concern about who got

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the credit.
On President Harry Truman’s

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desk, I read that he had a sign
which read, There is no limit to

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what a man can do or where he
can go if he doesn’t mind who

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gets the credit.
Now, this, of course, is

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contrary to the pride of life,
but this will see, this

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principle is repeated over and
over and over again in the life

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of Jonathan.
It’s not about who he is.

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It’s not about what his title
was.

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It’s not about what his role was
in the ecclesia.

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It’s about what needed to be
done for God.

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What about us brothers and
sisters?

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I think men maybe struggle with
this a little bit more.

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I know in in my household, I
feel it necessary.

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I’m not sure why it’s this inert
compulsion to announce.

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Hey, honey, I did the dishes,
all right?

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I took out the garbage.
The recycling’s all cleared.

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For whatever reason.
You know, we want to announce

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what we’ve done, at least in my
household.

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And maybe it’s somewhere in
others.

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But what about an ecclesial
life?

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Is who we are?
Is our role more important than

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what we do?
Well, here’s the reality of it.

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There’s one person that can
answer that question best.

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It might be our spouse.
But usually that would be

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ourselves, isn’t it?
But we can only answer that

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question if we take the time to
reflect on our own motivation.

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We know we can’t judge the
motives of others.

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We’re told that very clearly in
the words of Christ in Matthew

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7.
But we can judge ourselves.

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In fact, if we learn to judge
ourselves.

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What does Paul say?
Paul says if we can judge

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ourselves, we won’t be judged in
the day when Christ returns.

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If we become good at
introspection, if we become good

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at self reflection, if we become
good at examining our own

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motives, well then Christ will
have nothing to judge because

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we’ll have done the work for him
in our lifetime.

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So let us be like Jonathan and
worry about what needs to be

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done and not who gets the credit
and what.

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A contrast to Saul, where who
got the credit was even more

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important than what the truth of
the matter was.

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Well then, we have the faith of
Jonathan contrasted to the

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nation, don’t we?
As we come down to verse 4, all

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Israel heard two things.
They didn’t just hear a lie that

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Saul had smitten a Garrison of
the Philistines.

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They also hear that Israel was
now an abomination with the

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Philistines.
There’s an echo back to Israel’s

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history at this point in time,
isn’t there?

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Remember, another man, a judge
in Israel had gone and burnt the

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fields, the the wheat fields of
the Philistines.

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And Israel came up to to Samson
and said, what are you doing?

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Don’t you realize these are our
rulers and you’re going to get

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them mad at us?
And that was the state of Israel

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in Sal’s day as well.
They were now upset because

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Israel was had an abomination
with the Philistines and clearly

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the Philistines had entrenched
themselves in the land.

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If Jonathan was going and
defeating a Garrison or a tower

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or a Fort of the Philistines in
the land and the people were

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called together, then after Saul
and Gilgal and we see the

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reaction then of the children of
Israel as this massive army

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responds to what Jonathan had
done.

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And so in verse 5, we read in
the Philistines gathered

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themselves together to fight
with Israel, 30,000 Chariots,

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6000 horsemen and people as the
sand which is on the seashore in

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multitude.
And they came up and pitched in

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Mickmash eastward from Beth
Haven.

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And so we’ve got this massive
army now that’s assembled in the

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land on the hill of Mickmash.
And the response of the people,

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well, we’re told they hid
themselves, Verse 6, when the

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men of Israel saw that they were
in a Strait, for the people were

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distressed, then did the people
hide themselves in caves, in

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thickets and rocks and high
places and pits.

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And some of the Hebrews went
over Jordan to the land of Gad

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and Gilead.
And As for Saul, he was yet in

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Gilgal and all the people
trembled after him.

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Our margin says what an
unfortunate leader they had

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chosen.
Then the remnant that was left

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in the land, that wasn’t hiding
themselves, that hadn’t fled,

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are trembling.
And in fact, we’re going to find

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out that there is one more class
of people of the children of

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Israel as the Philistine army
comes up against them.

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But amazingly, brothers and
sisters, what we’re going to see

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by the time we come to the end
of our class tonight, God

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willing, is that the faith, the
courage and the commitment to

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act of 1 individual will turn
the entire nation from being

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faithless and fearful and
trembling after Saul to being

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faithful and seeing God working
salvation amongst them.

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The influence of one individual
is able to turn the entire

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ecclesial community around.
And what a lesson that should be

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for us.
Well, at this point in time,

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there’s this random epiphany
that Saul has, because Saul now

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remembers.
Wait a minute, I remember that

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Samuel told me something about
the Philistines, a Garrison of

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the Philistines coming to the
hill of God, coming towards

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Jerusalem.
And that was found back in in

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first Samuel chapter 10 verses 5
to 8, when Samuel said to him,

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thou shalt come to the hill of
God, that is Zion, where is a

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Garrison of the Philistines.
And it shall come to pass.

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When you come into the city,
you’ll meet a company of

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prophets.
This is where that saying became

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known as Saul also amongst the
prophets, because the Spirit of

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the Lord came upon him.
And then Samuel instructed, Let

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it be, when these signs are come
unto thee, that thou do as

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occasion serve thee, for God is
with thee.

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And thou shall go down before me
to Gilgal, and behold, I will

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come down unto thee and offer
burnt offerings, and the

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sacrifice sacrifices of peace
offerings 7 days shall thou

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tarry till I come to thee, and
show thee what thou shall do.

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Well, first of all, Samuel had
told him that Saul should do as

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occasion offered to him.
Saul didn’t.

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Saul sat with his 2000 soldiers,
and Jonathan did as occasion was

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offered to him, and went up
against the Philistines.

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But now, having remembered this
commandment, he goes down to

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Gilgal.
Well, he’s in Galgal.

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All the people have trembled
after him, and now he waits for

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seven days.
It says it verse 8 according to

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the set time that Samuel had
appointed, but Samuel came not

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to Gilgal and the people were
scattered from him and Saul said

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bring hit her a burnt offering
to me and peace offerings and he

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offered the burnt offering
himself.

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And we’ll get to see, as we look
at Saul more in our third class,

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the impetuous nature of this
individual, the lack of

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planning, the inability to take
control of a situation, the

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inept capabilities to be a
shepherd.

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And he’s waited 7 days and most
of Israel’s already hidden

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anyways in thickets and caves
and pits and fled across the

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river to the other side of the
Jordan and and tremble.

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There’s only a small group with
him as it is of 600 men.

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And then he sees the people
scattering from him and he says,

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OK, enough is enough.
We’ve waited seven days.

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Samuel’s not here.
And he makes the offering

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himself.
Why is this inserted here into

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the record?
We might just flow from first

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Samuel 13.
The act of courage of Jonathan,

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the the introduction of his
spirit that overrode his life,

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which is what you do is more
important than who you are.

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We might have flown right from
that into Jonathan is now going

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to take on the entire Philistine
army.

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But we have interjected this
incident of Saul rashly offering

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an offering instead of waiting
for Samuel.

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And so Samuel comes to him in
verse 11 and says, what have you

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done?
And Saul said, because I saw

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that the people were scattered
from me, it’s the people’s

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fault.
And that thou camest not within

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the days, it’s your fault,
Samuel, and that the Philistines

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were gathered together at Mick
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It’s the Philistines fault.
Therefore, I reasoned, the

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Philistines will come down now
upon me to Gilgal, and I’ve not

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yet made supplication.
And I forced myself, therefore,

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and offered an offering to the
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John Saul, of course, takes no
accountability for his own

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actions.
And what a temptation that is to

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do, isn’t it, brothers and
sisters, when somebody calls us

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out on a mistake, on an error,
on a sin, on poor judgment?

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It’s such a temptation, isn’t
it, to point the finger at

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everyone else and not take
accountability for our own

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actions?
But if we stop and resist the

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temptation to point the finger
at other people and instead look

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inwardly, once again we have an
opportunity to develop some

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humility in our own life and to
grow from the circumstance.

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But such was not the case with
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And so consequently Samuel says
to him at verse 13, Thou hast

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done foolishly.
Thou has not kept the

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commandment of the Lord thy God
which He commanded thee, for now

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with the Lord have established
thy Kingdom upon Israel forever.

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But now thy Kingdom shall not
continue.

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The Lord has sought him a man
after his own heart, and the

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Lord hath commanded him to be
captain over his people, because

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thou has not kept that which the
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And Samuel arose and got him
from Gilgal unto Gibby of

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Benjamin.
And Saul numbered the people

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that were present with him,
about 600 men.

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Saul has just been told that he
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And what’s Saul’s response?
Oh, well, he shrugs his

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shoulders and he numbers the
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Why?
Because Samuel’s condemnation of

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Saul’s actions and the
consequences of it.

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We’re not those that were going
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Who were they going to affect?
Well, the next verse tells us in

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First Samuel 13, verse 16, and
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See, the kingship was not being
rent from Saul, not yet.

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That’ll happen in First Samuel
15 just a couple of chapters

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away.
The Kingdom was being rent from

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Saul.
God had given Saul every

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opportunity for success.
We’ll see as we come to our

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third class.
And yet, and would have even

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established Saul’s Kingdom
forever.

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Of course, he knew that wouldn’t
happen.

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He prophesied through Jacob that
the scepter would not depart

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from the tribe of Judah.
But God gave Saul the

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opportunity to succeed.
And when the Kingdom is rent

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from Saul, he does nothing.
He has no response, which will

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be in great contrast to what
happens when the kingship is

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taken from him.
But who has lost significantly

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at the impetuous behavior of
Saul is Jonathan his son,

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Because what Samuel had
prophesied or pronounced now at

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this time was that Jonathan
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So that’s an important context
when we come to First Samuel

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chapter 14, which we had read to
us, and the heroic behavior of

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Jonathan and his armor bearer
who follows him.

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There was no hope of kingship
left now for Jonathan.

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There was no longer any glory
for him that awaited him in his

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future.
Because of the impetuous nature

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of his father.
He had lost hope of the

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kingship.
Well, it sees, it seems that the

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Philistines had situated
themselves in the land then for

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quite some time.
I’m going to read the next 6

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verses in the contemporary
English version Says it verse

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16.
The Philistine army was camped

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at Mickmash.
You can see it on the screen

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before you hear.
They were camped at Mickmash and

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each day they sent out patrols
to attack and rob villages and

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then destroy them.
One patrol would go north along

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the road to Oprah in the region
of Schul, another would go West

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along the road to Bethora, and a
third would go east on the

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desert toward the desert on the
road to the Ridge that overlooks

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the Zeboim Valley.
And the Philistines would not

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allow any Israelites to learn
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If we allow that, they said,
those worthless Israelites would

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make swords and Spears.
And we see the great disdain for

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God’s people.
The Philistines had, just as the

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Ammonites exhibited just a few
chapters ago when they came up

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and said they would make a
league with Israel on the basis

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that every Israelite plucked out
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And reading on in verse 20,
whenever the Israelites wanted

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to get an iron point, put on a
cattle prod, they had to go to

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the Philistines.
Even if they wanted to sharpen

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plow blades, picks, axes,
sickles, pitchforks, they still

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had to go to the Philistines.
And they charge them high

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prices.
How humiliating for the nation

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of Israel.
So whenever Israelite soldiers

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had to go into battle, none of
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except for Saul and Jonathan.
So the Philistines are there

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long enough to send out patrols
to pillage and burn villages.

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They’re long enough to cut off
all blacksmithing from the land,

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burning their shops and perhaps
putting them to death.

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They’ve been there long enough
to confiscate all the weapons in

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Israel.
They had had weapons then when

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they went up to fight against
the Ammonites.

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And now they posted a Garrison
at the passage of Mick Mash.

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So we can see up on the top left
of the screen there.

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And their enemies, the children
of Israel, have no weapons and

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an army of 600 men.
There’s no competition.

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And all Israel is following
after Saul trembling, who’s as

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far away from the battle as
possible.

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We read in first Samuel 14, and
Saul tarried in the uttermost

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parts of Gibeah under a
pomegranate tree, which is in

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Migron, and the people that were
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So what becomes clear to us,
brothers and sisters, is that

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Saul was not in control of the
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The Philistines were in control,
and here’s Jonathan waiting

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while all of these things are
happening.

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The Philistines have encamped in
the land.

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They’re entrenched.
They’re sending out their

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patrols, and there’s Jonathan
waiting.

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We know that Jonathan has the
faith to go take them on.

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He’s already demonstrated that
in the previous chapter.

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But his dad is the king of
Israel.

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His dad is the captain of the
people.

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We can imagine conversations.
As Jonathan finishes eating his

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broccoli, he looks up at his dad
and says so what’s the plan for

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the Philistines?
And there’s no response.

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And the next night, as he
finishes eating his asparagus,

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he asks his dad, so when are we
going to go up and get rid of

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this uncircumcised Philistine
from the land?

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And there’s no response.
And the next night, perhaps he

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waits until after the lamb chops
have been consumed.

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And he asked the same question.
What’s the plan, Dad?

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When are we going to take out
the Philistines?

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You’re the captain of the
people.

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And there’s no response.
And maybe then later he waited

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until after dessert and asked
the same question and there’s no

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response.
Why?

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Because it’s his dad’s job.
And he wants his dad to have and

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to show the leadership in Israel
and go up against the

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Philistines.
And finally he gets tired of

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waiting and waiting and waiting
and asking and asking and

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asking.
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chapter 14 at verse one that
Jonathan the son of Saul said to

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the young man that bears armor
again.

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Now we know who he is.
Why?

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Because he has no hope of coming
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This is not for personal glory.
Come let us go over to the

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Philistines Garrison that is on
the other side.

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But he told not his father
wasn’t.

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Hey, sick and tired of waiting
for dad.

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Anybody that wants to join me,
I’m going to go fight against

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the Philistines.
Now wasn’t any fanfare to what

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Jonathan was going to do.
He quietly slipped away with his

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armor bearer.
And so we learned from Jonathan,

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Stop talking about what you’ve
done or what you’re going to do

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in the truth and get on doing
it.

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Less talk and more action.
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Well, as we come to verses 4 and
5, the scriptures devote 2 whole

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verses to two rocks, so they
must be important rocks.

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And those rocks are on the
screen before you there, bozes

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and Cena, and they’re rightfully
rightly stated on the slide to

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be cliffs in the land.
The word bozes means surpassing

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white or glistening.
And the fact that we have two

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verses dedicated to these rocks
perhaps is instructing us that

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we should be looking for the
types that were there in the

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rocks.
And So what is glistening white

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speak of?
Well, of course, the

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righteousness of the Saints.
We’re told in Revelation 19,

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verse 8 that the bride of
Christ, the Bride of the Lamb,

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comes forth in glowing white
raiments.

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And that rock was on the north
side against Mickmash, where

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we’ve placed our black box on
the screen.

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So that’s what Jonathan and the
armor bearer are looking at.

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They’re looking at a rock that
is white and glistening,

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Speaking of the righteousness of
the Saints.

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Now we’re told at verse 5, the
forefront of the one was

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situate.
And that word forefront, the

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margin says is the word tooth.
So we’re talking about a a rock

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that’s straight up, this is not
a rock.

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This is rightly defined as we
show on the screen there, a

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Cliff.
So there’s Jonathan, his armor

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bearer on one side, standing on
the edge of a Cliff, and there’s

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a valley below them, and up on
the other side is another Cliff.

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And they’re standing looking at
that Cliff.

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And on that Cliff are
Philistines, an innumerable

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host, 20,000 Chariots, 6000
horsemen.

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And then the second rock we’re
told is called Cena or Cena is

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thorny, is the definition of the
word Cena.

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And it’s found first in Exodus
chapter 3 and verse 2.

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It’s the Bush that God appeared
to Moses in.

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And the same word is used again
in Deuteronomy 33, verse 16.

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It says God who dwelt in the
Bush.

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And so what’s the message of the
word Cena, of the Rock Cena?

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God was dwelling with Jonathan
and the armor bearer.

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And so the message that Jonathan
would have had from this was

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that God’s presence is with the
righteous.

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God is with us and not with
them.

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God has told us that when we
strive to put his character on,

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when we strive to use our
intellectual capacity to make

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good moral decisions before him,
that he will be with us.

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And conversely, when individuals
ignore the character of God and

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put God out of their lives, he
counts them as beasts, and God

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is not with them, though he
wishes they would turn to him.

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So when we’re dealing with
adversity in this world,

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brothers and sisters, maybe it’s
due to the woke movement in our

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workplaces, maybe it’s due to
influence from our neighbors.

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00:29:22,440 –> 00:29:26,000
Maybe it’s people mocking us
when we try to take a stand.

436
00:29:26,560 –> 00:29:31,240
Remember, God is with us and not
with them.

437
00:29:32,720 –> 00:29:37,520
And God will work in our life to
help us overcome whatever trial

438
00:29:37,960 –> 00:29:44,200
is standing before us.
And so this was the reminder

439
00:29:44,200 –> 00:29:48,040
then the encouragement the
Jonathan God as he was standing

440
00:29:48,040 –> 00:29:53,280
on the rock Cena looking over at
Boses God is with us and not

441
00:29:53,280 –> 00:29:57,120
with them.
And so he says at verse 6, come

442
00:29:57,400 –> 00:30:00,400
to his armor bearer.
Let us go over to the Garrison

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00:30:00,400 –> 00:30:03,800
of these uncircumcised.
It may be that the Lord will

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00:30:03,800 –> 00:30:08,280
work for us, for there is no
restraint for to the Lord to

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00:30:08,280 –> 00:30:13,440
save by many or by few.
And I’ve no doubt in my mind,

446
00:30:13,440 –> 00:30:17,000
brothers and sisters, that
Jonathan is now thinking back to

447
00:30:17,000 –> 00:30:21,240
other Bible heroes, thinking
back to the days of Gideon,

448
00:30:21,240 –> 00:30:25,920
where 300 men with Gideon were
able to defeat the Midianites.

449
00:30:26,560 –> 00:30:29,320
And would it have mattered if
there were 10 times the number

450
00:30:29,320 –> 00:30:32,840
of Midianites in that valley?
Would it have mattered if there

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00:30:32,840 –> 00:30:35,080
were 100 * 1,000,000 times?
It didn’t matter.

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00:30:35,080 –> 00:30:37,800
It wasn’t about Gideon’s 300
men.

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00:30:38,720 –> 00:30:45,800
God fought with Gideon and his
300 men and his mind is perhaps

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00:30:45,800 –> 00:30:51,000
going back to Samson in his last
day as he takes the pillars down

455
00:30:51,000 –> 00:30:54,400
and takes out a huge amount of
the government of the

456
00:30:54,400 –> 00:30:57,600
Philistines.
And his mind no doubt went back

457
00:30:57,600 –> 00:31:02,360
to Joshua because a previous
time that an army was described

458
00:31:02,360 –> 00:31:06,480
as sand upon the seashore, like
the Philistine army has been

459
00:31:06,480 –> 00:31:09,960
described here, was when the
kings of Canaan gathered

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00:31:09,960 –> 00:31:13,480
themselves against Joshua.
And it wouldn’t matter if they

461
00:31:13,480 –> 00:31:16,040
brought up the Egyptians.
And it wouldn’t have mattered if

462
00:31:16,040 –> 00:31:20,040
they brought other people in and
more kings to join because God

463
00:31:20,040 –> 00:31:25,280
was going to fight that battle.
What a wonderful encouragement

464
00:31:25,280 –> 00:31:29,880
for Jonathan to be reminded just
based on where he was standing.

465
00:31:30,560 –> 00:31:36,000
The God is with us.
We come to Bible school and we

466
00:31:36,560 –> 00:31:40,080
bring with us our burdens, don’t
we?

467
00:31:40,800 –> 00:31:44,240
Some of us might be standing
fairly tall, Some of us might be

468
00:31:44,600 –> 00:31:48,720
crawling on the ground from the
burdens that this life has

469
00:31:48,720 –> 00:31:53,480
placed upon us.
And no doubt that armor bearer

470
00:31:53,480 –> 00:31:57,840
standing with Jonathan, he’s
following Jonathan.

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00:31:58,960 –> 00:32:00,880
He believes Jonathan’s a good
leader.

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00:32:01,440 –> 00:32:06,440
He’s willing to go to his death,
no doubt for Jonathan, but he’s

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00:32:06,440 –> 00:32:11,080
looking at that innumerable host
across the Ridge and he’s

474
00:32:11,080 –> 00:32:15,040
thinking, how on earth are we
ever going to overcome that

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00:32:15,040 –> 00:32:22,680
burden when God is with us,
brothers and sisters, we can

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00:32:22,680 –> 00:32:30,280
overcome insurmountable odds.
And so we will see with

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00:32:30,280 –> 00:32:34,200
Jonathan.
And when Jonathan announces his

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00:32:34,200 –> 00:32:38,280
plan and that there’s no
restraint to the Lord to save by

479
00:32:38,280 –> 00:32:41,840
many or few, his armor bearer
says to him, do all that is in

480
00:32:41,840 –> 00:32:45,480
thine heart, turn thee, for
behold, I am with thee according

481
00:32:45,800 –> 00:32:47,400
to thy heart.
Whose heart?

482
00:32:48,560 –> 00:32:52,200
Jonathan’s heart.
Imagine standing in that armor

483
00:32:52,200 –> 00:32:57,680
bearer’s shoes.
That would be a very very nerve

484
00:32:57,680 –> 00:33:00,840
wracking time.
The ESV says do all that is in

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00:33:00,840 –> 00:33:03,840
your heart.
Do as you wish, Behold I am with

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00:33:03,840 –> 00:33:08,560
your heart and soul, Rotherham’s
emphasized version says.

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00:33:08,560 –> 00:33:11,400
Do all that is in thy heart.
Decide for thyself.

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00:33:11,400 –> 00:33:15,080
Lo, I am with thee according to
thine heart.

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00:33:15,720 –> 00:33:20,680
It was Jonathan’s heart, not his
own, but he had the courage

490
00:33:21,680 –> 00:33:26,040
because he stood with this man
who could inspire greatness in

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00:33:26,040 –> 00:33:30,520
others.
Jonathan has recognized with

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00:33:30,520 –> 00:33:35,160
clarity who these people are.
Let us go over unto the Garrison

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00:33:35,160 –> 00:33:41,640
of these uncircumcised These are
not those that God had promised

494
00:33:41,640 –> 00:33:45,120
the land to.
God had told Abraham it was his

495
00:33:45,120 –> 00:33:48,560
land and his seeds land, and the
token of the covenant was what

496
00:33:48,760 –> 00:33:52,400
it was, circumcision.
And who’s filling the land?

497
00:33:52,960 –> 00:33:56,840
Uncircumcised Philistines,
Jonathan says to his armor

498
00:33:56,840 –> 00:34:00,640
bearer.
These people don’t belong here.

499
00:34:01,840 –> 00:34:05,840
He’s going to take control of a
situation that his father had

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00:34:05,840 –> 00:34:12,239
let get out of control.
And now he shares with his armor

501
00:34:12,239 –> 00:34:19,199
there in verses 8 through 10,
the prayer that he’s put to God,

502
00:34:20,480 –> 00:34:25,120
looking for God’s providential
hand in this matter.

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00:34:26,199 –> 00:34:29,920
Then said Jonathan, Behold, we
will pass over unto these men,

504
00:34:29,920 –> 00:34:32,080
and we will discover ourselves
unto them.

505
00:34:32,560 –> 00:34:37,199
And if they say thus unto us,
tarry until we come unto you,

506
00:34:37,480 –> 00:34:40,800
then we will stand still in our
place, and will not go up to

507
00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:43,560
them.
But if they say, Come up to us,

508
00:34:43,840 –> 00:34:47,719
then we will go up, for the Lord
hath delivered them into our

509
00:34:47,719 –> 00:34:50,920
hand.
This shall be assigned unto us.

510
00:34:51,159 –> 00:34:55,239
How could he say the Lord will
have delivered them into our

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00:34:55,239 –> 00:35:00,240
hand if they say, come up to us?
Unless he had prayed to God for

512
00:35:00,240 –> 00:35:06,600
that sign and God had told them
that would be the sign that he

513
00:35:06,600 –> 00:35:09,960
was giving the battle into
Jonathan’s hand.

514
00:35:11,000 –> 00:35:14,720
And so not only has Jonathan
committed this very important

515
00:35:14,720 –> 00:35:20,920
matter to prayer, he’s shared
how the decision is going to be

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00:35:20,920 –> 00:35:24,760
made, what he had put to prayer
to his Heavenly Father.

517
00:35:25,280 –> 00:35:29,120
He shares that with his armor
bearer, and then he commits to

518
00:35:29,120 –> 00:35:33,960
action.
Now, remember, he’s standing on

519
00:35:33,960 –> 00:35:38,840
a Cliff and the Philistines are
standing on a Cliff over there.

520
00:35:39,920 –> 00:35:43,360
So to get to the Philistines, he
needs to go down the face of the

521
00:35:43,360 –> 00:35:47,600
Cliff that he’s on and walk
across the valley and then climb

522
00:35:47,600 –> 00:35:51,000
up a Cliff on the other side.
And he didn’t have a harness or

523
00:35:51,000 –> 00:35:54,680
climbing ropes or those little
clasp things that you can pound

524
00:35:54,680 –> 00:35:58,920
into the side of the rock.
No, it says that he climbed hand

525
00:35:58,920 –> 00:36:03,440
over feet at verse 13 and his
armor bearer after him.

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00:36:04,280 –> 00:36:07,480
How easy would it have been for
the Philistines to just pick up

527
00:36:07,480 –> 00:36:11,720
a rock, look over the edge and
drop it on Jonathan, and then a

528
00:36:11,720 –> 00:36:14,120
second rock and drop it on the
armor bearer?

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00:36:15,520 –> 00:36:18,000
But Jonathan says this will be
the sign that we’re supposed to

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00:36:18,000 –> 00:36:21,560
go and fight the Philistines, if
they tell us to climb the Cliff,

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00:36:22,560 –> 00:36:25,400
to come up to them on top of the
rock.

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00:36:26,880 –> 00:36:32,240
And so they, they proceed with
the plan, Verse 12 And the men

533
00:36:32,240 –> 00:36:34,000
of the Garrison, sorry, verse
11.

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00:36:34,240 –> 00:36:36,840
And they both discovered
themselves to the Garrison of

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00:36:36,840 –> 00:36:39,320
the Philistines.
And the Philistines said,

536
00:36:39,320 –> 00:36:42,920
Behold, the Hebrews come forth
out of the holes where they hid

537
00:36:42,920 –> 00:36:45,400
themselves.
And the men of the Garrison

538
00:36:45,400 –> 00:36:47,720
answered Jonathan and his
armored bearer, and said, Come

539
00:36:47,720 –> 00:36:51,160
up to us, and we will show you a
thing or two.

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00:36:51,960 –> 00:36:56,760
And Jonathan said to his armor
bearer, Come up after me, for

541
00:36:56,760 –> 00:37:04,920
Yahweh hath delivered them into
the hand of us.

542
00:37:06,560 –> 00:37:11,520
No, Israel, who was going to do
the deliverance?

543
00:37:11,920 –> 00:37:13,760
Yahweh was going to do the
deliverance.

544
00:37:13,920 –> 00:37:15,400
Who was going to have the
victory?

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00:37:15,720 –> 00:37:17,600
Israel was going to have the
victory.

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00:37:18,280 –> 00:37:19,800
Who was going to climb the
Cliff?

547
00:37:20,400 –> 00:37:22,840
Jonathan was going to climb the
Cliff with his armor bear.

548
00:37:23,360 –> 00:37:26,280
Who was going to get to the top
of the Cliff and start beating

549
00:37:26,280 –> 00:37:29,840
up and killing Philistines.
Jonathan was going to keep get

550
00:37:29,840 –> 00:37:33,240
to the top of the Cliff and kill
Philistines with his armor bear.

551
00:37:34,160 –> 00:37:41,320
Yahweh has put the Philistines,
delivered the Philistines into

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00:37:41,320 –> 00:37:45,680
the hand of Israel.
He didn’t care about getting the

553
00:37:45,680 –> 00:37:48,760
credit.
In fact, he wanted the credit to

554
00:37:48,760 –> 00:37:53,120
go to the Lord, for the Lord
hath delivered them into the

555
00:37:53,120 –> 00:37:56,120
hand of Israel.
And so Jonathan climbs up, and

556
00:37:56,120 –> 00:37:59,120
his armor bearer climbs after
him.

557
00:38:00,520 –> 00:38:04,560
And as that armor bearer is
getting closer to the top, he’s

558
00:38:04,560 –> 00:38:06,520
got to be thinking, this is
nuts.

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00:38:07,240 –> 00:38:10,320
I love Jonathan and I’m willing
to follow him to my death.

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00:38:11,600 –> 00:38:15,200
But what are we going to do when
we get to the top of this rock?

561
00:38:16,440 –> 00:38:18,480
And if we get past the top of
the rock?

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00:38:19,040 –> 00:38:22,800
Because what we find out is the
rock was a very narrow piece of

563
00:38:22,800 –> 00:38:26,600
rock that jetted out, which only
about 20 Philistine soldiers

564
00:38:26,600 –> 00:38:28,640
could stand on.
What are we going to do when we

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00:38:28,640 –> 00:38:34,080
get to the 30,000 horsemen and
the six 6000 horsemen, 30,000

566
00:38:34,080 –> 00:38:38,160
Chariots in the innumerable army
of the Philistines?

567
00:38:39,120 –> 00:38:43,360
But he presses on, climbing up
the Cliff after Jonathan.

568
00:38:50,390 –> 00:38:54,070
So in ecclesial life, if we want
to inspire others, brothers and

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00:38:54,070 –> 00:38:59,750
sisters, to greatness, first of
all, we need to commit important

570
00:38:59,750 –> 00:39:04,150
decisions to prayer.
And secondly, we need to share

571
00:39:04,150 –> 00:39:08,560
with others the decision making
process that we’ve committed to

572
00:39:08,560 –> 00:39:12,240
God in prayer like Jonathan did
to his armor bearer.

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00:39:13,120 –> 00:39:19,720
And then we need to take action.
Could you imagine if Jonathan

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00:39:19,720 –> 00:39:22,920
had gotten to the bottom of that
valley and they’re now looking

575
00:39:22,920 –> 00:39:26,400
at the Cliff up and there’s the
Philistines on top, and he says,

576
00:39:26,400 –> 00:39:29,080
all right, well, God’s given us
the answer.

577
00:39:29,720 –> 00:39:32,440
He’s going to deliver the
Philistines into the hand of

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00:39:32,440 –> 00:39:34,680
Israel.
So you go ahead and climb up and

579
00:39:34,680 –> 00:39:37,640
I’ll stand here and shout out
instructions.

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00:39:39,640 –> 00:39:41,360
It would not have been so
effective.

581
00:39:41,360 –> 00:39:44,360
No, Jonathan is in front.
So if rocks are going to start

582
00:39:44,360 –> 00:39:47,520
rolling down the hill, down the
Cliff, they’re going to hit

583
00:39:47,520 –> 00:39:51,920
Jonathan first.
Jonathan took action.

584
00:39:53,640 –> 00:39:56,320
Jonathan got involved in the
work.

585
00:39:56,320 –> 00:39:59,800
He didn’t just stand at the
sidelines dictating what needed

586
00:39:59,800 –> 00:40:04,040
to be done.
And that can be us sometimes,

587
00:40:04,040 –> 00:40:05,200
can’t it?
Brothers and sisters in

588
00:40:05,200 –> 00:40:10,920
ecclesial life where we just, we
have a good idea and we want to

589
00:40:10,920 –> 00:40:14,440
see other people go get it done.
And we can stand at the

590
00:40:14,440 –> 00:40:17,960
sidelines and we can yell out
orders and then criticize people

591
00:40:17,960 –> 00:40:20,720
when it doesn’t get done exactly
the way we would have liked to

592
00:40:20,720 –> 00:40:24,200
have seen it done.
That was not the principle of

593
00:40:24,200 –> 00:40:25,920
leadership that Jonathan is
showing.

594
00:40:26,160 –> 00:40:29,520
Jonathan was himself involved in
the work.

595
00:40:29,520 –> 00:40:33,000
He was committed to the work.
He was climbing up the Cliff

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00:40:33,000 –> 00:40:37,440
hand and foot.
It says if David that they loved

597
00:40:37,560 –> 00:40:41,840
the nation of Israel, loved
David because he went out and

598
00:40:41,840 –> 00:40:45,640
came in before the people.
In fact, it was this

599
00:40:45,640 –> 00:40:49,880
characteristic of David that
finally turned the House of Saul

600
00:40:50,520 –> 00:40:55,520
and the hearts of Saul’s family
to David and the nation of

601
00:40:55,520 –> 00:40:58,800
Israel to David.
And the second principle we

602
00:40:58,800 –> 00:41:02,800
learn from this aspect of the
story is that we should take the

603
00:41:02,800 –> 00:41:08,080
hardest tasks to our self.
We’ll be respected for it by

604
00:41:08,080 –> 00:41:11,960
others, and others will be
motivated to follow us, just as

605
00:41:12,320 –> 00:41:15,040
the armor bearer was motivated
to follow Jonathan.

606
00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:18,440
Go on, he said.
I’ll be right behind you.

607
00:41:20,120 –> 00:41:24,480
Well, as they come to the top of
this Cliff, they start punching

608
00:41:24,520 –> 00:41:29,720
and cutting is Philistines.
So it appears they fall before

609
00:41:29,720 –> 00:41:32,640
Jonathan and they’re slain by
the armor bears.

610
00:41:32,640 –> 00:41:35,720
Maybe Jonathan’s giving them a
blow, knocking them to the

611
00:41:35,720 –> 00:41:38,840
ground and the armored bears
behind and shoving through with

612
00:41:38,840 –> 00:41:42,000
the one of two swords that are
left in Israel.

613
00:41:42,840 –> 00:41:45,680
And they make their way along
this rock that’s probably about

614
00:41:45,680 –> 00:41:49,640
10 feet wide, and they kill 20
Philistines.

615
00:41:50,360 –> 00:41:54,200
But as they come to the end,
there’s an innumerable host

616
00:41:54,200 –> 00:41:58,680
waiting for them.
And surely that Philistine

617
00:41:58,680 –> 00:42:02,720
thought or sorry, the the armor
bearer thought to himself at

618
00:42:02,720 –> 00:42:07,880
that point, well, this is it.
We made our stand, we showed our

619
00:42:07,880 –> 00:42:12,360
faith, we were courageous.
And now we’ve given our life to

620
00:42:12,360 –> 00:42:17,160
this cause of the truth.
But when we stand for the truth

621
00:42:17,160 –> 00:42:22,640
even a little, God is able to
mightily respond to our faith

622
00:42:23,440 –> 00:42:27,840
and give away of success.
And So what happens when they

623
00:42:27,840 –> 00:42:31,720
get to the end of that little
jet of land that’s sticking out

624
00:42:31,720 –> 00:42:35,160
from the the rest of the hill,
There’s a trembling in the host,

625
00:42:35,160 –> 00:42:38,160
in the field, among all the
people and the Garrison and the

626
00:42:38,160 –> 00:42:41,680
spoilers also those that have
been sent out to the villages

627
00:42:41,680 –> 00:42:45,360
that are pillaging and burning.
There’s a trembling so that the

628
00:42:45,400 –> 00:42:49,160
earthquake, a very great
trembling, or it says in the

629
00:42:49,160 –> 00:42:55,160
margin, a trembling of God.
And look at what happens to this

630
00:42:55,600 –> 00:43:00,840
insurmountable trial that’s
before Jonathan and the armor

631
00:43:00,840 –> 00:43:03,800
bearer and before the nation of
Israel.

632
00:43:05,000 –> 00:43:08,880
It says in verse 16, the
Watchmen of Saul and Gibeah

633
00:43:09,000 –> 00:43:15,440
Benjamin looked and behold the
melt, the multitude melted away.

634
00:43:16,760 –> 00:43:21,160
What a beautiful word to
describe how God can deal with

635
00:43:21,160 –> 00:43:25,760
our trials.
They looked and saw that that

636
00:43:25,920 –> 00:43:30,440
trial that was before them, the
innumerable host of Philistines,

637
00:43:30,760 –> 00:43:34,960
all of their Chariots and all of
their horsemen, it just melted

638
00:43:34,960 –> 00:43:39,760
away.
It dissolved and the pathway was

639
00:43:39,760 –> 00:43:47,940
made clear.
And so we’re encouraged by

640
00:43:47,940 –> 00:43:55,300
Jonathan to not only commit our
decisions to prayer, to take

641
00:43:55,300 –> 00:44:01,240
action and faith that God is
with us and not with them, we’re

642
00:44:01,240 –> 00:44:06,840
inspired by Jonathan to put our
troubles on God and to ask for

643
00:44:06,840 –> 00:44:09,680
him to act mightily in our
lives.

644
00:44:10,640 –> 00:44:13,440
And the consequence of doing
that was not only did Jonathan

645
00:44:13,440 –> 00:44:17,360
and his armor bearer see
salvation that day, not they

646
00:44:17,360 –> 00:44:20,960
were not killed, but the whole
nation of Israel watched as all

647
00:44:20,960 –> 00:44:23,480
of their troubles just melted
away.

648
00:44:24,920 –> 00:44:30,040
And remember, we had seen the
four responses of the army, or

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00:44:30,040 –> 00:44:35,320
the three actions of the army of
Israel as the Philistines had

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00:44:35,320 –> 00:44:38,640
encamped in the land.
We saw that they hid themselves

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00:44:38,640 –> 00:44:43,080
in wherever they could.
We saw that they fled to Gad and

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00:44:43,080 –> 00:44:46,320
to Gilead.
And we saw that they followed

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Saul trembling.
And now we come down to verse 20

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and we see and Saul and all the
people that were with him

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assembled themselves and came to
the battle.

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00:44:57,760 –> 00:45:00,800
And So what happens?
Well, they come out of hiding.

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They follow Saul to the battle.
Those that were trembling after

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00:45:05,280 –> 00:45:09,480
Saul follow him to the battle.
And then we read verse 21.

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And the Hebrews that were with
the Philistines before that time

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00:45:13,320 –> 00:45:17,120
went up with them into the camp
from the country round about.

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00:45:17,600 –> 00:45:20,760
And so there were Hebrews that
it actually defected to the

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00:45:20,760 –> 00:45:24,560
Philistines.
That was the 4th category of the

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00:45:24,560 –> 00:45:28,080
nation of Israel when the
Philistines had come with this

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00:45:28,080 –> 00:45:32,640
massive army into the land.
And so those that defected to

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00:45:32,640 –> 00:45:35,960
the Philistines came back to
Israel.

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00:45:36,400 –> 00:45:40,160
Those that had left the truth
are now coming back to the

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00:45:40,160 –> 00:45:43,200
ecclesia.
Those that had fled as far away

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00:45:43,200 –> 00:45:46,760
as they could go across the
Jordan River are now inspired to

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00:45:46,760 –> 00:45:49,240
come back.
Those that were trembling after

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00:45:49,240 –> 00:45:51,880
Saul are now rushing to the
battle.

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00:45:52,000 –> 00:45:54,840
Those that were hiding in their
thickets and in the pits and in

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00:45:54,840 –> 00:45:59,360
the caves peek their heads out
and see the commotion and they

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00:45:59,360 –> 00:46:02,400
come and they follow after Saul
and all.

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00:46:02,400 –> 00:46:12,000
Israel has now been inspired to
take up the cause, to take up a

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00:46:12,000 –> 00:46:18,200
sword and to rid the land of
these uncircumcised Philistines.

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00:46:20,040 –> 00:46:27,000
We sometimes underestimate how
much impact one person and one

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00:46:27,000 –> 00:46:31,520
decision of one person can have
in an ecclesia.

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00:46:32,680 –> 00:46:35,680
In this case, it was a huge
ecclesial community.

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00:46:36,360 –> 00:46:40,120
Wasn’t just a 3000 soldiers,
there were 200,000 soldiers with

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00:46:40,120 –> 00:46:43,280
Saul earlier.
These were hundreds of thousands

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00:46:43,280 –> 00:46:48,040
of people that had disappeared.
Only 600 men left trembling.

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00:46:49,040 –> 00:46:53,480
And now, because of the faith of
one man, because one man had

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00:46:53,480 –> 00:46:58,520
committed the circumstances to
prayer, had shared with his

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00:46:58,520 –> 00:47:04,000
armor bearer what that prayer
was, because one man acted in

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00:47:04,000 –> 00:47:11,320
faith-based on the sign that he
was given, the whole nation is

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00:47:11,320 –> 00:47:15,760
inspired to greatness, just like
his armor bearer had begun.

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00:47:17,240 –> 00:47:22,520
And so the day that began with
the faith of one man ends with

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00:47:22,520 –> 00:47:26,440
the faith of an entire nation
having been inspired.

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00:47:28,080 –> 00:47:31,800
All of us in this room have
roles of leadership.

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00:47:33,000 –> 00:47:34,720
We may not think of it in that
way.

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00:47:34,720 –> 00:47:38,240
We may not realize it, But
whether it’s as a Sunday school

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00:47:38,240 –> 00:47:41,400
teacher to a Sunday school
student, whether it’s just an

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00:47:41,400 –> 00:47:44,480
older person in the ecclesia
setting an example, or even a

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00:47:44,480 –> 00:47:47,640
younger person in ecclesia
setting an example to another

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00:47:47,640 –> 00:47:50,480
younger person in the ecclesia,
whether it’s parents to

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00:47:50,480 –> 00:47:57,320
children, whether it’s children
to their parents, all of us are

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00:47:57,320 –> 00:48:03,120
leaders in one way or another.
And what this story teaches us,

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00:48:03,680 –> 00:48:09,280
this account of Jonathan, is
that one man’s actions can have

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00:48:09,280 –> 00:48:12,960
a massive impact on a huge
number of people.

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00:48:14,080 –> 00:48:18,160
And that can be for good, as it
was in the case of Jonathan, or

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00:48:18,920 –> 00:48:23,680
it can also be for evil, as we
see with other examples in the

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00:48:23,680 –> 00:48:27,440
scriptures.
So we must realize that our

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00:48:27,440 –> 00:48:32,040
words, our actions, have a
significant impact on others,

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00:48:32,360 –> 00:48:36,640
for good or for bad.
So let us learn from the lessons

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00:48:36,680 –> 00:48:45,960
of Jonathan and let us inspire
others unto greatness.

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00:48:48,000 –> 00:48:51,080
We look at this man, Jonathan
and we think to ourselves, why

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00:48:51,080 –> 00:48:53,720
did God remove this man from the
throne?

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00:48:53,720 –> 00:48:57,080
I mean Saul wasn’t taken from
the throne.

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00:48:57,080 –> 00:49:01,480
The man who was impetuous and
and lost the throne for

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00:49:01,480 –> 00:49:03,600
Jonathan.
Why Jonathan would have made

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00:49:03,600 –> 00:49:08,080
such a wonderful king.
But we know the reason because

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00:49:08,080 –> 00:49:12,240
there was another man that was
going to be revealed, another

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00:49:12,240 –> 00:49:15,320
man that would perhaps hear the
stories of Jonathan and be

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00:49:15,320 –> 00:49:18,880
inspired by them as he came to
age.

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00:49:23,400 –> 00:49:28,800
And so Jonathan, who did not
want any recognition, would have

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00:49:28,800 –> 00:49:32,320
been pleased with the account of
the record in verse 23 of First

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00:49:32,320 –> 00:49:38,840
Samuel 14.
So Yahweh saved Israel that day,

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00:49:39,880 –> 00:49:42,680
and the battle passed over unto
Beth Haven.

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00:49:44,320 –> 00:49:48,720
The glory and the recognition
had gone where Jonathan wanted

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00:49:48,720 –> 00:49:54,680
it to be because the overriding
principle in his life was what

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00:49:54,680 –> 00:49:59,360
you do is more important than
who you are, and what gets done

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00:49:59,360 –> 00:50:02,320
for God is more important than
who gets the credit.

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00:50:03,640 –> 00:50:07,680
And so we’re inspired by
Jonathan to be a leader, to take

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00:50:07,680 –> 00:50:11,960
control of circumstances in our
life, not to let them spill over

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00:50:11,960 –> 00:50:17,080
and happen to us, but rather to
put our trials and our burdens

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00:50:17,080 –> 00:50:21,440
on God through prayer and ask
him for direction in our lives.

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00:50:21,840 –> 00:50:25,880
Trusting in God’s wisdom and in
his might to be able to work

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00:50:25,880 –> 00:50:31,880
mightily in our lives to help
our troubles and our trials melt

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00:50:31,880 –> 00:50:34,600
away.
And so the principles of

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00:50:34,600 –> 00:50:39,960
leadership that we get from
Jonathan first worry about the

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00:50:39,960 –> 00:50:46,920
what and not about The Who and a
good exercise for us to do.

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00:50:46,920 –> 00:50:49,400
We talked about self reflection.
What does that mean?

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00:50:49,640 –> 00:50:53,040
Perhaps it’s at the end of the
day when we’re saying our prayer

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00:50:53,040 –> 00:50:55,760
before we go to sleep.
Maybe it’s first thing in the

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00:50:55,760 –> 00:50:59,000
morning.
As we rise and think about the

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00:50:59,000 –> 00:51:02,680
Word of God and think about the
day ahead of us, we need to

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00:51:02,680 –> 00:51:05,240
reflect upon what our motives
are.

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00:51:06,080 –> 00:51:09,920
And are we being motivated
because of our name and the

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00:51:09,920 –> 00:51:12,240
recognition we’ll get because of
what we’re doing?

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00:51:12,760 –> 00:51:16,080
Or are we motivated by the work
that needs to be done for the

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00:51:16,080 –> 00:51:19,360
Lord?
Worry about the what and not The

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00:51:19,360 –> 00:51:21,840
Who.
The second principle of

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00:51:21,840 –> 00:51:25,440
leadership is to commit
decisions to God in prayer.

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00:51:26,720 –> 00:51:28,520
But Jonathan did more than that,
didn’t he?

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00:51:28,520 –> 00:51:32,320
He committed the decisions to
God in prayer and then he shared

746
00:51:33,000 –> 00:51:36,520
that prayer with the armor
bearer that was with him.

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00:51:37,800 –> 00:51:41,200
And he did more than that.
Once he shared it, then he acted

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00:51:41,200 –> 00:51:43,360
upon it.
He didn’t just leave it to God.

749
00:51:43,600 –> 00:51:46,440
He said, God, this is what I
want to do.

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00:51:47,280 –> 00:51:50,520
This is what I can achieve with
you working in my life.

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00:51:51,520 –> 00:51:54,920
And then he acted on it when he
got the sign that he had

752
00:51:54,920 –> 00:51:58,560
requested.
Third, we need to recognize that

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00:51:58,560 –> 00:52:05,320
God is able.
God is able to win the battle

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00:52:05,800 –> 00:52:09,040
with you.
The battle would not have been

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00:52:09,040 –> 00:52:12,280
won if Jonathan just stood there
looking at the Philistine army

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00:52:12,800 –> 00:52:16,680
from the cliff’s edge.
The battle was won because he

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00:52:16,680 –> 00:52:21,040
had the faith to descend 1
Cliff, walk across the valley,

758
00:52:21,320 –> 00:52:25,680
climb up another Cliff.
Wasn’t an easy Rd., but because

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00:52:25,680 –> 00:52:31,360
of his faith and his action, God
was able to fight mightily with

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00:52:31,360 –> 00:52:33,680
Jonathan for the salvation of
the nation.

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00:52:34,920 –> 00:52:38,840
The 4th principle of leadership
we see in Jonathan’s life is to

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00:52:38,840 –> 00:52:43,320
be involved in the work.
Don’t stand on the sidelines and

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00:52:43,800 –> 00:52:49,360
cast aspersions or tell people
what ought to be done, or tell

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00:52:49,360 –> 00:52:53,680
them about your wonderful ideas.
Get involved in the work, get

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00:52:53,680 –> 00:52:59,120
your hands dirty as it were.
And finally, take the hardest

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00:52:59,120 –> 00:53:02,760
jobs for yourself.
Lead by example.

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00:53:03,200 –> 00:53:07,200
Don’t send the armor bearer up
the Cliff first, but climb up

768
00:53:07,200 –> 00:53:10,440
the Cliff first, with the armor
bearer following close behind.

769
00:53:11,960 –> 00:53:17,480
And may we then, brothers and
sisters, be found leading others

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00:53:18,440 –> 00:53:21,680
like Jonathan on the spiritual
greatness.

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00:53:40,320 –> 00:53:42,400
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