389: Peter King – Undesigned Bible Coincidences

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Welcome to Good Christophian
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And now let’s talk more about

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this week’s talk.
This week’s talk is by Brother

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Peter King.
It was a midweek Bible class

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given in 1997 at the Los Angeles
Ecclesia titled Undesigned Bible

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Coincidences which shares the
title with a book which he

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describes in the beginning of
the of the class.

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It was in the run up to, I
believe a study day that he gave

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later that same week that we
also mentioned in episode 16.

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This is Brother Peter’s 5th
episode.

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I’ve got them here, episode
16151 two 77 and 356 and it’s

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it’s a classic Peter King class
on lots of humor, lots of kind

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of wit as he.
I think it really makes the

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great point of kind of the joy
and fun that you can have in

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Bible study and shows a lot of
really interesting examples.

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These undesigned coincidences of
two different passages kind of

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joining together to add more
color and background to to the

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story, which he does a lot.
I think again, that’s very much

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a Peter King thing to kind of
expand the story, maybe even

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suppose or or or have a you
know, a theory about maybe some

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background.
But but here he’s using a lot of

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scripture to to show that, to
show that and support that very

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fun class Really, I think
transits well to the podcast and

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I’m excited to share it.
So here it is, undesigned Bible

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coincidences by brother Peter
King.

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Your brethren and sisters at the
Birmingham West Ecclesia have

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asked me to bring their love to
you and and this I do very

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gladly.
There are young people present

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with us tonight, and with the
permission of the Greybeards

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among us, I would like first of
all to address the young people,

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if we may.
So for those of you who know the

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chapter and verse which I shall
have in mind ever before we

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reach there, I ask you to bear
with us in patience.

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Perhaps we shall, if time
permits, dig a little deeper as

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the evening progresses.
But first of all to the young

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people, if we may.
Bible coincidences form the

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basis of the beginning of Bible
study.

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In my opinion.
They are very exciting.

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You know, when we talk about
Bible study at home, the young

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people to whom we speak often
think you’ve got to be at least

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90 years old, have absolutely no
sense of humour, never smile,

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don’t enjoy religion, certainly
don’t enjoy religion and then

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you’re halfway to being a Bible
student.

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May may I have no knowledge of
the ability of young people in

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North America, but may I just
hit that idea on the head right

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away.
Bible study can be very good fun

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and I truly mean that.
You do not have to have a long

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face.
You have to be able to enjoy

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your religion.
Not like the the Pharisees in

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the day of Jesus.
Do you remember them, the

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Pharisees in the day of Jesus?
They, they painted their faces

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grey to give the impression of,
of, of, of dolefulness.

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They put ashes on their head
lest anybody think they might be

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enjoying their rigid religion.
And they said, look, we must be,

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we must be pleasing to God.
Look how miserable we are.

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Well, they were about as far
away from the truth as it’s

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possible to get one day.
Let’s not let our religion

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affect us like that.
Where there is a saying in

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England, I’m not sure whether
it’s reached this far.

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This man is they, they point out
religious folk and they say this

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man is just sufficiently
religious to make him miserable.

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Well, we, we want to know
nothing of that.

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We are, we are happy folk with a
keen sense of humour, a love of

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the Bible and undesigned Bible
coincidences make a superstar to

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Bible study.
I’m I’m indebted to a gentleman

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whose name is Blunt, who wrote a
book called Undesigned Bible

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Coincidences.
It went out of print.

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It has subsequently been not
reissued by, but republished by

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the Christadelphian Office.
And if you’ve never had one or

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you haven’t got one on your
ecclesial bookshelf, talk to

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your CYC leaders or your Sunday
school leaders and say, will you

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please get this book for our,
our cast or our group?

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Blunt undesigned Bible
coincidences.

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I recommend it to you.
The English is a bit archaic

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when you, when you come to it,
you have to read it about four

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times before you know what he’s
talking about.

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But but it’s, it’s well worth
doing and it will whet your

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appetite for Bible study.
It really will.

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I recommend it to you highly.
But a word of a word of caution.

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Don’t be satisfied with what Mr.
Blunt tells you.

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Look, look for Bible
coincidences yourself because it

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is only when you do that, it is
only when you find these what I

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call gems the, the, the, the
Bible comes to light.

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And it’s good fun to look for
them because you have to have a,

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a passing knowledge of the word.
And for that reason we encourage

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you to read also.
Well, a coincidence is when two

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or more things happen that have
not been designed.

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If, if I see someone whom I’ve
not seen for 10 years in the

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street of a strange town, I say
what a coincidence meeting you

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here.
You see, the meeting has not

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been arranged.
It’s it’s just happened.

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And that’s what we’re going to
look for in the Bible this

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evening.
Things that have happened

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without design by coincidence.
Can I just start off with a very

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simple one?
First of all, you won’t need

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your books for this.
I mean, it’s, it’s so easy.

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This, this one you will know all
about, I’m sure.

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But this, this will set the
pattern for what we’re going to

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do this evening.
I can’t see that clock very

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easily, but I’m sure I’ve got a
very lively president behind me

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who’ll reach over and pull my
coat or kick me when we come

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near the time for stopping.
So we won’t go on too long.

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When King?
Well, now I’ll just rephrase

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that.
When David, he wasn’t king at

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the time.
To which I bring you, When

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David, the king to be of Israel,
God’s people, was being chased

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across the Judean hills by by
Saul, his father-in-law, he

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moved his parents away from
Bethlehem.

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Do you remember his thinking
went like this?

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I suppose if Saul is so keen to
put his hands on my neck, if I

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were King Saul, what action
would I take?

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If I couldn’t lay my hands on
David?

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Perhaps I would put my hands on
someone who was near and dear to

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him and say, surrender yourself,
otherwise it’s too bad for these

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people whom you love.
He loved his parents, Jesse and

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his mother very much.
And so David trying to enter

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into the mind of this
psychopath, this idiot king Saw

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trying to get into his mind,
said I better protect my mother

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and my father lest Saw lays his
hands on them and say give

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yourself up, otherwise it’s too
bad for your parents.

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And so he takes his parents away
from the relative safely of

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Bethlehem and puts them
somewhere else.

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Strange thing is he puts them in
Moab.

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Now that’s absolutely crazy
because Moab and Israel were at

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war with each other, and the
Bible doesn’t tell us why David

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did it.
It’s a bit like I’ll have to

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quote you an example from the
United Kingdom because my

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knowledge of North America is
poor.

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But it’s rather like me being
worried about relatives of mine

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in Birmingham, England, where we
have some violence and saying to

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my relative, look, I’m going to
take you away from the relative

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safely of Birmingham and put you
somewhere else.

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Not take them to Belfast in
Northern Ireland where there’s a

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bomb going off about every 5
minutes and people are getting

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shot every 10 minutes.
It would be a crazy situation.

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I’m taking them from somewhere
which is a bit dangerous to

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somewhere where it’s very
dangerous.

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And David did exactly the same
it seems on the surface.

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He takes his parents away from
Bethlehem and it takes them to

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Moab and he says to the King of
Moab, look after my mum and dad,

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will you please?
Why did he do it?

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The Bible doesn’t tell us.
But of course, the answer is

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that David probably had
relatives there because Ruth,

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his great grandmother, came from
there.

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But the Bible doesn’t say if you
remember David had relatives in

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Moab.
It just leaves us to find it

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out.
That’s lifted straight from the

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pages of of Blunt, but here is
another one.

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Let’s let’s have a look at we
must open our Bibles.

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This is a Bible class, isn’t it?
So come to John chapter 6, the

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Gospel of John chapter 6.
The incident to which I bring

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you is the feeding of the 5000
by the Master.

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Chapter 6 then, and verse 5.
When Jesus then lifted up his

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eyes, and saw a great company
come unto him, he saith unto

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Philip, When shall we buy bread,
that these may eat?

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And this he said to prove him,
for he himself knew what he

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would do.
Philip answered, and gives him

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the answer.
The question is why did the Lord

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ask Philip?
Now I know what you’re going to

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say.
You’re going to say well, peace.

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The Lord tells us himself in
verse 6.

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This He said to prove him.
But why Philip particularly?

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Why did he want to prove Philip?
Do you get the situation?

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There are 5000 people here and
they’ve got nothing to eat.

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Now, I don’t know who’s on your
catering committee at Los

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Angeles, but I should think
you’d need more than 5 minutes

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notice to serve 5000 people with
with something to eat, wouldn’t

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you?
We certainly would.

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In Birmingham, our catering
committee want six months notice

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to, to, to serve a fraternal
gathering.

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So why does the Lord turn around
to Philip and say, do you happen

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to know where we can buy enough
bread to feed 5000 people?

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And Philip takes him very
seriously.

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He said you’re going to need
more than 200 pennies to, to,

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to, to buy food for this lot,
but no bakery is going to have

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enough bread at that time of
day.

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Are they leftover in the off
chance that 5000 people are

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going to wander by and need
feeding?

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I mean, it’s ridiculous, isn’t
it?

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The point is, why did the Lord
Jesus Christ to our young

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people?
Why did the Lord Jesus Christ

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address his question to Philip?
I know he wanted to test him.

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I know he wanted to try Philip’s
faith, but why Philip’s faith?

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Well, the Gospel of John doesn’t
tell us.

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It doesn’t say in parentheses
sometimes.

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It would be nice if he did,
except we wouldn’t be Bible

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students.
He asked Philip because we we

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need to turn to a couple more
passages of scripture before we

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find the answer.
And 1st we come to Luke Chapter

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9 remembering what we have found
in John chapter 6.

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We come to Luke Chapter 9 and
verse 10 and we find that this

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is the same account.
That is to say, it’s a

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corresponding account in Luke
that we have just read from

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John’s Gospel, Luke Chapter 9
and verse 10.

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And the apostles, when they were
returned, told him all that they

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had done.
And he took them and went aside

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privately into a desert place
belonging to the city, called

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Beth Seder.
And the people, when they knew

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it, followed him.
And he received them, and spake

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unto them of the Kingdom of God,
and healed them that had need of

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healing.
And when the day began to wear

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away, then came the 12.
And they said, Send away the

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multitude.
All right, so it’s the same

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incident, but this time we have
learned that the place where

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they were is called Bethsaida.
Now turn to the back to the

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Gospel of John, but this time
chapter 1 and verse 44.

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Well, verse 43 for connection.
The day following, Jesus would

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go forth into Galilee and
findeth Philip and saith unto

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him, Follow me.
Now Philip was of Bethsaida.

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And so by putting 3 passages of
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why the Lord Jesus Christ would
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Philip was a native of Bethsaida
and he if anybody would know

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where the red shops were.
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question to him and that is why.
But of course Philip was put on

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trial as John chapter 6 and
verse 6 told us.

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Just one more if we may, before
we just go a little bit deeper.

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And this is in Matthew chapter
26, which describes to us the

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the agony of the Lord and his
subsequent trial, Matthew

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chapter 26.
I will read 3 verses commencing

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at 66.
What think he They answered and

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said he is guilty of death.
Then did they spit in his face

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and buffeted him, and others
smote him with the palms of

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their hands, saying Prophecy
unto us, thou Christ, who is he

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that smote thee?
Now there’s something wrong

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there, isn’t there?
Young people, do you see what is

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wrong with with that statement?
If we only had one gospel, we

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would we would run into serious
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I mean, the critics would have a
field day.

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They do as it is because they
don’t know the book.

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But do you see the problem?
Just just use your imagination,

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if you will.
The Lord Jesus Christ has been

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brought before these wicked men
and they’ve spit on him and

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they’ve buffeted him.
And then someone smites him with

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a palm of their hand across the
face, and they say prophecy unto

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us, Thou Christ, who is it that
smote thee?

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Well, you wouldn’t have to be a
a genius to see who it was,

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would you?
Because you’d just be able to

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say it was that that person
there until you open your book.

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Also Luke chapter 22 for the
corresponding account by this

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gospel writer of the same
incident, Luke chapter 22 and

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verse 63.
And the men that held Jesus

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mocked him and smote him.
And when they had blindfolded

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him, they struck him on the face
and asked him, saying, prophecy,

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Who is it that smote thee?
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together, we learned that the
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blindfolded ever before, ever
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But Matthew isn’t isn’t
concerned whether you believe it

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or not.
Matthew is just writing down

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what he knows to be the truth.
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his account that they
blindfolded him before they

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struck him.
Let’s just go a little bit

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deeper before we consider other
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Why was it, do you think that
Amsalom was so successful in his

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abortive attempt to take the
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Why do you think it was?
I suggest to you that the the

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key behind it all is Ahithophel.
Ahithophel was the sage.

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Ahithophel was the wise man in
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David is to say later on, and
we’ll come to the verse in a

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moment, David is to say the the
council of Ahithophel which he

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counselled is as if God had
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Why?
Why do you think it was that

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Ahithophel went so soon over to
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It’s a remarkable thing.
May I suggest speaking to

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everybody now that when we read
the word of God, we do so with

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some imagination.
Let’s let’s get our minds

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working.
You, you know the apostle Peter

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is to say, look, let’s have a
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Gird up the loins of your mind.
It’s a lovely expression goes

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right back to the time of of
Elijah when Elijah ran before

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the chariot of the king.
Gird up the loins of your mind.

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Do you know what he’s talking
about?

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Do you do you know where the
expression comes from and why

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it’s used?
I mean, in in those days they

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had clothes that came right down
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And you couldn’t run very
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So when Elijah ran before the
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That is to say, he pulled the
back through to the front and

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tied it in a knot on his hip.
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They were free and he could run.
And my word, he ran very

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quickly.
And the apostle Peter says, come

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on, let’s do this with our
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Gird up the loins of your mind,
blow the cobwebs away.

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Let’s have a spring clean.
Read the word of God with

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imagination.
Enough of this dullness.

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Just doing your readings and
closing the book and putting it

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back on the shelf.
Let’s use our imagination when

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we read it, shall we?
And as you read it, are you not

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surprised at the reading which
our brother did for us this

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evening by way of introduction
to this talk, that Absalom seems

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to have almost free access,
Brother Jim, to to to the city

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of Jerusalem.
I’m, I’m amazed Absalom comes to

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the gate of the city and he sits
in the gate of the city and

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people come for judgement.
And he said, what’s your

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problem?
And then they tell him what the

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problem is.
And he says, would God I were

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king?
Oh, you would.

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I’m right on your side, Sir.
I have every sympathy with your

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cause.
Unfortunately, there’s no man

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here to judge your case.
But if I were in the position of

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judge, I’m right on your side
and I would resolve your problem

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for you very quickly.
A little bit of poetic licence,

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but I think that’s the kind of
thing that he was saying.

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Read the word of God and then
let your imagination run right.

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Don’t go outside the parameter
of of Bible teaching, otherwise

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you’ll be in trouble.
But stay, read the word

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carefully and, and, and then let
your imagination go to work on

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it.
You see all sorts of things.

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We’ll come to another one
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But Absalom comes into the city
and, and, and there, there,

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there he has free reign to
criticize the king, to criticize

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the King’s judges.
Where are they?

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May I suggest to you that David
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May I suggest that David perhaps
has leprosy?

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It would certainly account for
some of the Psalms which he

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wrote.
I am a loathsome person.

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He says I stink, but my
acquaintances are far from me.

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I count all the bones.
I’m like a worm.

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I’m a terrible man.
Oh, I know that they are

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Messianic, these Psalms, but
surely they must at one time

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have applied to the man who
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I won’t insist on that.
I just put it to you as a

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thought.
Certainly David wasn’t where he

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should have been, nor were his
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They should have been in the
gate to say to Absalom, what are

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you doing here?
As it is, Absalom is allowed

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free reign to sow subversion
among the people, and he’s just

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waiting to make his move.
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And the hinge behind it all is
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Ahithophel was, shall we say,
not the Prime Minister, but he

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was, he was the leading seer in
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If you wanted good advice, I
mean, if David wanted to know

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whether he should attack the
Philistines, he, he has to

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Ahithophel.
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Wise man.
Absalom comes on the scene and

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he says to Ahithophel, would you
like to come and serve in my

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government?
And Ahithophel says, yes, I

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will.
On the surface, I’m amazed that

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Ahithophel, a man being so loyal
to David, should go over to the

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camp of Absalom with no more
than a nod and a wink from the

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young man.
Why do you think he did it?

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Well, the second book of Samuel
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Well, he doesn’t tell us in as
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we find out that we see the
significance behind the move of

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a hithophel.
Then, as David is tracing the

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steps which the Lord Jesus
Christ himself will trace

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shortly, within a few years,
relatively speaking, the Master

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himself would take the same
journey that David took out,

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coming out of the city, weeping
as he goes out of the gate, down

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the hill, across the stream.
Kidron ascends the Mount of

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Olives, weeping as he went.
David had taken exactly the same

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journey, turned out of his own
city, typing the Lord Jesus

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Christ did King David and King
David returned in triumph in

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great glory.
And thank God the Master will

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too.
But that’s another subject.

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So we come to a hit, the film.
I bring you then into the Old

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Testament, to the second book of
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And chapter 15, please.
And verse 31, second book of

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Samuel, chapter 15, verse 31.
And one told David saying,

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Ahithophel is among the
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And David said, Oh Lord, I pray
thee, turn the counsel of

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Ahithophel into foolishness. 2nd
book of Samuel, chapter 23.

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Here we have a catalog of
David’s mighty men.

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We’re going to read some of 37
who are listed as being mighty

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men of David.
Verse 34.

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The last part of the verse,
Eliam the son of Ahithophel the

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Gylonite, Eliam the son of a
Hithophel the Gylonite.

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Verse 39.
Uriah the Hittite. 30 and seven

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in all.
So 2 of David’s mighty men, of

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which 37 are listed here, are
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Gylonite, and Uriah the Hittite.
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And verse 3 And David sent and
inquired after the woman and

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once said he’s not this
Bathsheba, the daughter of

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Elian, the wife of Uriah the
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Do you see what’s happened?
Elian and Uriah, our brother

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officers 2 of David’s mighty
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Eliam is the is the son of a
Hithophel.

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Uriah then becomes son-in-law to
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Bathsheba.
Bathsheba is the daughter of

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Eliam and David Tucker.
Bathsheba is the granddaughter

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of Ahithophel.
The generation goes Ahithophel

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Elian Bathsheba, and because
David spoiled Ahithophel’s

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granddaughter Bathsheba,
Ahithophel the wise old man is

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from that moment waiting to put
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Can you not imagine it if you
have grandchildren?

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Can can you?
And if you haven’t, will you

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imagine it what it would be like
to see this child?

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You will regard her as a child
spoiled by a man who had

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everything.
And from that moment, if you are

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a Hissophel, you are just
waiting for an opportunity to

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destroy him.
And Absalom comes on the scene

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and he says, will you help me?
And he says I certainly will.

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It isn’t to be wondered that is
it, that he now goes over to the

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camp of of Absalom.
But did you notice through the

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readings what it was Ahithophel
advised Absalom to do?

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He, he says, take the concubines
of David, take them up to the

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roof of the house, and then lie
with them in the sight of the

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sun.
And before all Israel, the same

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sin in the same place that David
had done to his beloved

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granddaughter.
And of course, the Word of God

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doesn’t tell us that in three
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We need 3 or 4 passages of
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And I’m thankful that he doesn’t
in a way, because it makes the

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Word of God very much more
interesting.

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Well, it does for me.
Maybe stay just with this

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incident a little while, will
you Remember that when David

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went out of Jerusalem, there was
a man who threw stones and dust

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into the air, threw stones
across at David and called him a

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man of blood.
The man’s name was Shimiai.

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Do you remember?
Of course you do you.

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You’re well taught in in North
America, do you?

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Do you know the town from which
he came?

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You don’t find this in Blunt, do
you?

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Do you know the town?
Where?

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Do you know where he lived?
I mean, you can call out if you

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like.
I am many things, but I’m seldom

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embarrassed.
But if if you don’t want to call

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out, I won’t believe it because
you don’t know.

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It’s because you’re reticent.
I understand that as well.

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Yeah.
Well, he came from Behurim.

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Did Shumiah?
Well, he just remember that

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Shumiah came from Behurim.
We need to use our imagination.

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For this is a little more poetic
licence, Mr. Shim.

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Now, when David was made king
over all Israel, that is to say

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00:28:48,520 –> 00:28:52,400
when Benjamin came and joined
him, the first thing that he

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said he wanted was his wife
back.

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00:28:54,400 –> 00:28:57,480
His first wife, Michael, Saul’s
daughter.

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00:28:58,800 –> 00:29:01,480
There’s very interesting
scripture around here.

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00:29:02,120 –> 00:29:05,560
David married Saul.
David married Saul’s daughter

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00:29:05,560 –> 00:29:11,080
Michael, and they were very much
in love, so much so that when

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00:29:11,080 –> 00:29:16,800
Saul was chasing David, he comes
to David’s house with messengers

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00:29:17,640 –> 00:29:21,520
and they knock on the knock on
the door and say we have to take

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00:29:21,520 –> 00:29:23,920
David away.
Can’t do it, says Michael.

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00:29:23,920 –> 00:29:26,400
He’s very sick.
Is he where, where?

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00:29:26,680 –> 00:29:30,280
Come and have a look.
And there is an image in in in

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00:29:30,280 –> 00:29:32,280
the bed.
She will know and and David

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00:29:32,280 –> 00:29:34,800
tears off.
And when the messengers go back

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00:29:34,800 –> 00:29:36,520
to King’s Hall, they say we
couldn’t bring you because he’s

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00:29:36,520 –> 00:29:38,280
sick.
That’s exactly how I want him,

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00:29:38,280 –> 00:29:40,080
says King’s Hall.
He’ll be very sick when I

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00:29:40,080 –> 00:29:41,400
finished with him.
Go and fetch him.

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00:29:41,520 –> 00:29:43,640
And of course they uncover the
the image and there’s nothing

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00:29:43,640 –> 00:29:46,240
there.
And Michael is in very serious

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00:29:46,240 –> 00:29:48,600
trouble for helping David
escape.

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00:29:49,880 –> 00:29:52,200
Two people very much in love.
I mean, you don’t do that.

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00:29:52,200 –> 00:29:53,280
I shouldn’t think you do, Mr.
Chairman.

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00:29:53,280 –> 00:29:55,040
You wouldn’t do that for
somebody of whom you’re

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00:29:55,160 –> 00:29:57,480
reasonably fund, which you
wouldn’t put your head on the

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00:29:57,480 –> 00:29:59,760
chopping block for somebody of
whom you were reasonably fund.

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00:29:59,760 –> 00:30:01,640
You’d have to love them very
much to do it, I would think

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00:30:01,640 –> 00:30:06,240
anyway.
And so Michael is is taken from

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00:30:06,240 –> 00:30:10,160
the house and she goes back to
live in, in, in with King Saul.

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00:30:11,200 –> 00:30:15,960
Saul is so irate with David that
he gives Michael away to another

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00:30:15,960 –> 00:30:27,080
man whose name is Faltiel.
David wants Michael Beck when

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00:30:27,080 –> 00:30:29,920
he’s made king over the whole
nation.

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00:30:31,360 –> 00:30:35,240
Some years have elapsed and we
have reason to assume.

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00:30:35,280 –> 00:30:39,680
I suggest to you that Michael
and Faltiel are living a happy

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00:30:39,680 –> 00:30:45,640
life.
The messengers go to the House

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00:30:45,640 –> 00:30:48,480
of Faltiel, knock on the door
and say we want Michael for King

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00:30:48,480 –> 00:30:51,480
David.
What?

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00:30:51,480 –> 00:30:54,880
Why should you take my wife?
She’s my legal wife.

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00:30:55,480 –> 00:30:59,400
She was divorced.
The King Saul divorced her and

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00:30:59,400 –> 00:31:02,120
gave Michael to me.
Now we must take her back for

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00:31:02,120 –> 00:31:04,080
King Saul, they say, for King
David.

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00:31:04,280 –> 00:31:07,360
So they begin the journey back
and you’re in.

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00:31:07,360 –> 00:31:09,600
It’s a it’s a desperately sad
situation.

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00:31:10,440 –> 00:31:14,200
Michael is being taken back to
King David and foul till her

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00:31:14,200 –> 00:31:17,680
husband.
He’s walking behind, weeping as

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00:31:17,680 –> 00:31:19,280
he goes.
So shame.

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00:31:19,360 –> 00:31:20,480
Poor fellow.
He loved.

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00:31:20,480 –> 00:31:25,560
He loved the girl very much.
I don’t doubt she loved him too.

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00:31:27,360 –> 00:31:31,040
Until they reach halfway between
where they lived and Jerusalem,

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00:31:31,040 –> 00:31:35,040
which is where David was.
And then of course, they didn’t

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00:31:35,040 –> 00:31:38,000
want foul teal turning up in
Jerusalem behind his wife

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00:31:38,000 –> 00:31:41,120
weeping.
So they said to him, this is

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00:31:41,120 –> 00:31:45,280
turn around time, boy, you must
go back home now, otherwise

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00:31:45,560 –> 00:31:48,360
you’ll be in serious trouble.
So they turn him around and he

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00:31:48,360 –> 00:31:51,760
goes back and there’s a big
scene at the at the place where

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00:31:51,760 –> 00:31:53,160
he’s turned around to go back
home.

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00:31:54,080 –> 00:31:59,240
The scene took place.
They hear him, and Shumii

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00:31:59,400 –> 00:32:02,920
witnessed it.
And Shimiai was a man of

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00:32:02,920 –> 00:32:07,840
Benjamin, as was fowl Teal, as
was Michael.

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00:32:11,240 –> 00:32:15,840
And this made a deep impression
upon Shimiai, and he remembered

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00:32:15,840 –> 00:32:21,240
it.
And so when King David left

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00:32:21,680 –> 00:32:26,880
Jerusalem in something of a
disgrace, with Solomon his son,

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00:32:26,880 –> 00:32:31,120
usurping him on the throne,
Shimiai was very pleased,

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00:32:32,160 –> 00:32:34,440
because here at last was
vengeance for the tribe of

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00:32:34,440 –> 00:32:37,600
Benjamin against this upstart
Judaite.

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00:32:39,000 –> 00:32:41,320
And he calls him a man of blood.
Of course he’s a man of blood.

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00:32:41,320 –> 00:32:45,120
He took, he took this man’s wife
when he already had many, many

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00:32:45,120 –> 00:32:48,680
more.
And poor Thalteel, a man of

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00:32:48,680 –> 00:32:52,800
Benjamin, was sent home without
his wife.

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00:32:56,000 –> 00:32:59,960
There is a lot more surrounding
that situation to which we would

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00:32:59,960 –> 00:33:06,920
come.
But I, I would like you please,

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00:33:06,920 –> 00:33:12,200
if you will, to, to join me in a
bit of, in a, in a bit of a bit

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00:33:12,200 –> 00:33:15,360
of work for yourselves.
I think this steward has some

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00:33:15,360 –> 00:33:18,880
papers which perhaps he could
give out, unless he already has

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00:33:18,880 –> 00:33:22,480
done so.
Could we give out some papers

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00:33:22,680 –> 00:33:26,600
please?
Could we dole them out a paper

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00:33:26,600 –> 00:33:29,200
for everybody?
We haven’t got them.

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00:33:29,480 –> 00:33:32,320
Oh, we have.
Please, if we could give

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00:33:32,320 –> 00:33:33,600
everybody a paper, I would be
glad.

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00:33:33,600 –> 00:33:37,920
And then somebody else can do
some work as well as me.

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00:33:38,840 –> 00:33:40,800
Thank you.
Very simple exercise.

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00:33:40,800 –> 00:33:43,640
At the end of which we will ask
you a question which you will

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00:33:43,640 –> 00:33:47,200
get absolutely right without,
without hesitation.

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00:33:53,080 –> 00:33:58,240
OK, most of the most of the work
on this paper, this was really

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00:33:58,240 –> 00:34:02,560
prepared for young people.
So those who are advanced in

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00:34:02,560 –> 00:34:08,560
years and as Bible students will
do it with their eyes closed and

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00:34:08,560 –> 00:34:09,840
left-handed.
How about that?

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00:34:13,080 –> 00:34:17,000
You’ll you’ll find it very easy
whilst the papers are coming

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00:34:17,000 –> 00:34:20,159
round to you.
I’m not sure whether it will be

519
00:34:20,159 –> 00:34:26,719
enough for everybody, but we’ve
used your photocopy in here to

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00:34:26,719 –> 00:34:32,600
do at least half of them.
You do need a pencil or a good

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00:34:32,600 –> 00:34:37,239
imagination and memory whilst
they’re coming round to you,

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00:34:37,239 –> 00:34:45,440
these papers.
Let me just say that what is

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00:34:45,600 –> 00:34:51,320
what is on on the paper for you
is a layout of the camp of

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00:34:51,320 –> 00:35:02,920
Israel.
With the why should the

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00:35:02,920 –> 00:35:09,240
president escape?
Keep staying quiet.

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00:35:09,240 –> 00:35:15,360
Yes, that that’s how the camp of
Israel was with In the northern

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00:35:15,360 –> 00:35:17,560
segment, the three tribes Dan,
Ash and Neftali.

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00:35:17,880 –> 00:35:21,200
In the western segment Ephraim,
Manasseh, Benjamin, In the

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00:35:21,200 –> 00:35:25,280
eastern quarter Judah, Isika,
Zebulun, In the southern portion

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00:35:25,320 –> 00:35:28,440
Reuben, Simeon and Gad.
And then came to round the

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00:35:28,440 –> 00:35:32,240
Tabernacle with the three sons
of of Aaron, Merari, Gershon and

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00:35:32,240 –> 00:35:34,560
Kohath.
And before the eastern side of

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00:35:34,560 –> 00:35:36,720
the Tabernacle came to Moses and
Aaron.

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00:35:38,040 –> 00:35:42,880
On the right hand side of your
paper you might see Gershon the

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00:35:42,960 –> 00:35:45,160
the the family of Gershon, not
the tribe because they were

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00:35:45,160 –> 00:35:46,880
Levites.
The family of Gershon were

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00:35:46,880 –> 00:35:49,200
responsible for moving the
curtains and hangings.

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00:35:49,480 –> 00:35:52,320
Kohath was responsible for
moving the sanctuary, the ark,

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00:35:52,320 –> 00:35:54,800
the table and the altar, that is
to say all the holy things of

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00:35:54,800 –> 00:35:57,120
God.
And Mirari was responsible for

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00:35:57,120 –> 00:35:59,720
moving when they were in
transit, the boards, the bars,

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00:35:59,720 –> 00:36:02,640
the pillars and the sockets, all
the heavy weights and, and, and

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00:36:02,640 –> 00:36:05,760
these are the things that they
had to move.

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00:36:07,640 –> 00:36:09,560
All the all the above
information, it’s very easy to

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00:36:09,560 –> 00:36:13,400
find is is laid out before us in
Numbers chapter 2.

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00:36:14,560 –> 00:36:17,120
Now we need to open our Bibles
to Numbers chapter 10.

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00:36:24,080 –> 00:36:31,640
And this is a very easy sort of
exercise, bearing in mind the

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00:36:31,640 –> 00:36:44,160
time, very easy sort of exercise
versus 14 to 16 is the first

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00:36:44,160 –> 00:36:46,280
information that we need.
May I just tell you this?

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00:36:46,600 –> 00:36:48,480
It’s always the problem.
We know by the chairman, you

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00:36:48,960 –> 00:36:52,440
give people papers and they’re
very much more interested in

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00:36:52,440 –> 00:36:53,840
what’s on the paper than what
you’re saying.

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00:36:54,360 –> 00:36:56,520
The, the, the, the, I don’t
blame you either.

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00:36:56,520 –> 00:36:58,120
Let me tell.
I don’t blame you one bit.

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00:36:58,440 –> 00:37:02,080
The, the, the trick is to dole
out the papers just at the right

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00:37:02,080 –> 00:37:03,560
time, and I’ve never yet learned
it.

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00:37:03,760 –> 00:37:05,480
If somebody knows, I’d be very
glad.

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00:37:05,480 –> 00:37:07,440
See, people are far more
interested in the papers.

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00:37:09,080 –> 00:37:12,360
When I was at Sunday school, in
the capacity of a scholar, I was

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00:37:12,560 –> 00:37:16,120
convinced that God moved his
people through the desert as a

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00:37:16,120 –> 00:37:18,160
rebel.
You know, you’ve got cows and

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00:37:18,160 –> 00:37:23,680
and sheep and goats and people
and carts and all sorts of just

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00:37:23,680 –> 00:37:27,200
creating a huge cloud of dust as
they trekked through the desert.

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00:37:27,280 –> 00:37:31,160
It was not like that at all.
They moved through the desert

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00:37:31,160 –> 00:37:34,520
with with great orderliness.
Thank you very much indeed for

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00:37:34,520 –> 00:37:36,880
doling the papers out and for
copying them.

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00:37:36,880 –> 00:37:43,960
Those of you who did, when God
moved His people through the

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00:37:43,960 –> 00:37:46,080
desert, it was done with
absolute precision.

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00:37:46,320 –> 00:37:49,360
God is not a God of disorder.
God is a God of great

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00:37:49,360 –> 00:37:53,880
orderliness, as we shall see.
So what I want to do is move

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00:37:54,000 –> 00:37:59,320
those segments from a from the
camp and put them in order that

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00:37:59,320 –> 00:38:02,560
they moved.
The trumpet was blown and in

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00:38:02,560 –> 00:38:06,240
verse 14 and Numbers chapter 10
in the 1st place went the

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00:38:06,240 –> 00:38:08,960
standard of the camp of the
children of Judah according to

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00:38:08,960 –> 00:38:12,840
their armies.
So under the under the the

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00:38:12,840 –> 00:38:19,000
heading 14 to 16, you’re right.
The tribes Judah, Issacah and

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00:38:19,000 –> 00:38:22,200
Zebulun, you’ll see that there
are three spaces in which to

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00:38:22,200 –> 00:38:24,400
write that.
And that information is found in

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00:38:24,400 –> 00:38:27,320
Numbers chapter 10 verses 1415
and 16.

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00:38:30,480 –> 00:38:34,680
So in verses 14 to 16, you’re
right, Judah, Issacah and

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00:38:34,680 –> 00:38:36,640
Zebulun.
And what has happened is these 3

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00:38:36,640 –> 00:38:40,200
tribes have packed up their
tents and they’re now standing

583
00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:43,520
in line waiting for the the
procession to be completed

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00:38:43,640 –> 00:38:47,080
before they moved off.
In verse 17, we we read what

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00:38:47,080 –> 00:38:49,840
happened next.
The Tabernacle was taken down

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00:38:49,840 –> 00:38:53,040
and the sons of Gershon and the
sons of Merari set forward

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00:38:53,200 –> 00:38:56,560
bearing the Tabernacle.
That’s convenient because you’ve

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00:38:56,560 –> 00:38:58,440
just got 2 spaces under verse
17.

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00:38:58,600 –> 00:39:02,880
And in there you’re right,
Gershon and Merari and they were

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00:39:02,880 –> 00:39:07,080
carrying the the heavyweights
and they stood behind Judah,

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00:39:07,280 –> 00:39:11,840
Isika and Zebulun.
In verse 18 we read of Numbers

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00:39:11,840 –> 00:39:15,160
chapter 10 and the standard of
the camp Reuben set forward

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00:39:15,360 –> 00:39:22,240
according to their armies and
also with them moved the 2

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00:39:22,240 –> 00:39:25,920
tribes that were with them, that
is Simeon and Gad.

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00:39:29,320 –> 00:39:34,000
After Simeon and Gad, verse 21
of Numbers chapter 10.

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00:39:34,200 –> 00:39:37,440
And the Kohathite set forward
bearing the sanctuary.

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00:39:39,160 –> 00:39:42,400
So all the holy things were
carried by the Kohathites in

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00:39:42,400 –> 00:39:45,440
verse 21.
And you only have one space in

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00:39:45,440 –> 00:39:51,040
which to write Kohath.
Verse 22 of Numbers chapter 10.

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00:39:51,560 –> 00:39:53,960
And the standard of the camp of
the children of Ephraim set

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00:39:53,960 –> 00:39:55,440
forward according to their
armies.

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00:39:56,240 –> 00:40:01,240
And with them, of course went
Manasseh and Benjamin.

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00:40:05,440 –> 00:40:09,840
And in verse 25.
And the standard of the camp of

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00:40:09,840 –> 00:40:14,640
the children of Dan set forward.
Dan, Asher and Naftali go in

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00:40:14,640 –> 00:40:19,400
those three spaces there.
OK, now if you have completed

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00:40:19,400 –> 00:40:23,800
those six boxes at the bottom of
the page, you have moved

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00:40:23,880 –> 00:40:28,000
everyone from the camp.
They’re now in a line.

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00:40:28,040 –> 00:40:34,800
The procession is complete,
headed headed by the 1st tribe

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00:40:35,360 –> 00:40:38,680
and completed by the last And
now the track the the the

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00:40:38,680 –> 00:40:42,160
procession is complete.
They can journey forward through

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00:40:42,160 –> 00:40:44,840
the desert.
All right.

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00:40:45,520 –> 00:40:52,880
Will you please open your books
at Psalm 80 and I will read

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00:40:52,880 –> 00:40:58,040
verses 1 to 2 and then you will
perhaps write down, it might be

614
00:40:58,040 –> 00:41:01,520
a bit more orderly than asking
you to to shout out if somebody

615
00:41:01,520 –> 00:41:03,080
calls out.
I might just ask you to come up

616
00:41:03,080 –> 00:41:09,640
here and tell everybody so.
So just write down why these

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00:41:09,640 –> 00:41:13,040
verses are particularly relevant
to Numbers chapter 10.

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00:41:14,840 –> 00:41:16,640
This is Psalm 80 verses one and
two.

619
00:41:16,640 –> 00:41:20,960
Give you a shepherd of Israel,
Thou that let us, Joseph like a

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00:41:20,960 –> 00:41:24,600
flock, Thou that dwellest
between the Caribbean, shine

621
00:41:24,600 –> 00:41:27,200
forth before Ephraim and
Benjamin and Manasseh.

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00:41:27,640 –> 00:41:29,760
Stir up thy strength and come
and save us.

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00:41:30,240 –> 00:41:31,240
Turn us again.
Oh God.

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00:41:31,880 –> 00:41:35,640
All right.
Now it’s fairly elementary, but

625
00:41:36,560 –> 00:41:41,920
this is simple Bible study which
is designed, I think, to wet our

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00:41:41,920 –> 00:41:50,120
appetite.
And the question is, what has

627
00:41:50,240 –> 00:41:56,400
particularly verse 2 of Psalm 80
to do with that procession which

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00:41:56,400 –> 00:42:00,720
you have just completed at the
bottom of the paper?

629
00:42:04,680 –> 00:42:07,880
Well, because time presses, and
I’m not going to call for

630
00:42:07,880 –> 00:42:12,400
volunteers, let me say that the
answer, of course, which you

631
00:42:12,400 –> 00:42:18,360
will all know is because of the
placing of the psalmist of the

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00:42:18,360 –> 00:42:22,480
three tribes.
If you look down under verse 22,

633
00:42:23,440 –> 00:42:25,640
if you’ve done it properly, you
should have the tribes Ephraim,

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00:42:25,640 –> 00:42:29,360
Manasseh, and Benjamin.
And immediately before that, in

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00:42:29,360 –> 00:42:32,840
verse 21, you should have
written Kohath.

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00:42:33,960 –> 00:42:36,560
And if you look at what Kohath
was designed to carry, it was

637
00:42:36,560 –> 00:42:41,960
the holy things of God.
It was the Ark of the Covenant.

638
00:42:42,840 –> 00:42:44,560
Not that any man could gaze on
it.

639
00:42:45,280 –> 00:42:47,920
They never saw the Ark of the
Covenant, you know, nor did they

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00:42:47,920 –> 00:42:50,120
see the other holy things.
When the Tabernacle was

641
00:42:50,120 –> 00:42:55,160
dismantled, the priest walked in
backwards, unhooked the veil,

642
00:42:55,840 –> 00:42:58,600
carried it backwards, and put it
over the ark of the covenant so

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00:42:58,600 –> 00:43:01,720
that no man should gaze on it.
This is the holy thing of God.

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00:43:01,720 –> 00:43:05,840
It is precious and it is holy,
and it must not be a gazing

645
00:43:05,840 –> 00:43:09,400
thing, even for God’s people.
And so even in transit, it was

646
00:43:09,400 –> 00:43:11,840
totally covered.
But look at the position it

647
00:43:11,840 –> 00:43:16,280
occupied before Ephraim,
Benjamin, and Manasseh.

648
00:43:16,760 –> 00:43:21,360
And whoever wrote Psalm 80 knew
the position of the procession

649
00:43:21,360 –> 00:43:23,840
through the desert.
And that’s exactly where he put

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00:43:23,840 –> 00:43:26,640
it before Ephraim, Benjamin, and
Manasseh.

651
00:43:26,800 –> 00:43:28,680
Stir up thy strength and come
and save us.

652
00:43:28,840 –> 00:43:30,960
Mark this.
He doesn’t say before Judah,

653
00:43:31,120 –> 00:43:33,800
Isika, and Naftali.
Well, he wouldn’t, would he?

654
00:43:33,800 –> 00:43:36,320
Because Nephdali wasn’t with
Judah and Isika.

655
00:43:37,640 –> 00:43:40,280
He didn’t say before Judah,
Isika, and Zebulun.

656
00:43:40,480 –> 00:43:43,800
He didn’t say before Dan Ashter
and Asher and Neftali.

657
00:43:43,960 –> 00:43:47,160
He he said before Ephraim,
Manassa, and Benjamin.

658
00:43:47,160 –> 00:43:50,120
He knew the order in the desert
and he knew that’s where the

659
00:43:50,120 –> 00:43:55,160
holy things of God were.
I’m sorry that this has been a

660
00:43:55,160 –> 00:43:57,080
little bit disorganized and the
time has gone.

661
00:43:57,080 –> 00:43:59,960
I would very much like to have
brought you to to the to the

662
00:43:59,960 –> 00:44:06,880
time of Moses where he saw the
Bush that was burning and when

663
00:44:06,880 –> 00:44:11,960
he went to Midian, because if we
use our imagination of writer,

664
00:44:12,000 –> 00:44:17,480
this is something for you to do.
Do do you know I never believe

665
00:44:17,480 –> 00:44:24,160
in saying will you read Exodus
chapter 3 when you get home

666
00:44:24,440 –> 00:44:26,920
because nobody ever does.
Well, in my experience they

667
00:44:26,920 –> 00:44:28,120
don’t.
So I won’t say it.

668
00:44:28,120 –> 00:44:33,720
But if ever you feel like doing
some some of this kind of thing

669
00:44:33,720 –> 00:44:36,440
yourself, which is pretty
elementary stuff really, isn’t

670
00:44:36,440 –> 00:44:39,400
it?
If ever you feel like doing it

671
00:44:39,400 –> 00:44:45,120
yourself, will will you read
with care the account when Moses

672
00:44:47,760 –> 00:44:52,600
leaves Midian to come back to
Egypt?

673
00:44:52,600 –> 00:44:58,160
It it it, it, it jumps off the
page.

674
00:44:58,160 –> 00:45:01,120
If if you read it with care,
then let your imagination have a

675
00:45:01,120 –> 00:45:05,720
go.
Just imagine what Jethro Moses,

676
00:45:05,720 –> 00:45:07,440
brother-in-law, not Moses,
father-in-law.

677
00:45:07,440 –> 00:45:09,800
By the way, don’t read
father-in-law for Jethro, will

678
00:45:09,800 –> 00:45:10,640
you?
It’s his brother-in-law.

679
00:45:14,720 –> 00:45:18,480
Moses comes to Jethro and he
says I’m, I’m going to take

680
00:45:18,480 –> 00:45:21,640
God’s people out of Egypt to a
land of of promise.

681
00:45:23,120 –> 00:45:27,880
And and Jethro says, you what?
He said I’m going to take God’s

682
00:45:27,880 –> 00:45:33,120
people out of Egypt and into a
land of promise.

683
00:45:34,320 –> 00:45:36,160
How old are you?
Oh, I’m 80.

684
00:45:37,240 –> 00:45:41,480
Look, when you were 40, you ran
away and now you’re 80.

685
00:45:41,480 –> 00:45:43,240
You’re an old man.
You’re going to do it all by

686
00:45:43,280 –> 00:45:46,120
yourself.
So what gave you this notion?

687
00:45:46,680 –> 00:45:50,960
Well, you see, I saw this
burning Bush Burning.

688
00:45:50,960 –> 00:45:52,160
We’re here on the side of the
mountain.

689
00:45:52,160 –> 00:45:54,680
Yeah.
Just continue to burn.

690
00:45:54,680 –> 00:45:56,560
Yes.
We know all about these bushes.

691
00:45:56,840 –> 00:45:59,160
Which Which way?
Which way was the wind blowing?

692
00:45:59,680 –> 00:46:01,480
But you weren’t sort of standing
downwind.

693
00:46:01,480 –> 00:46:04,920
And the smoke was sort of.
Well, yes, as a matter of fact,

694
00:46:04,920 –> 00:46:06,240
now you’ve come to mention it,
The.

695
00:46:06,240 –> 00:46:09,280
I didn’t get a whiff of the
smoke.

696
00:46:09,680 –> 00:46:12,600
You were hallucinating.
Do you know that’s where the

697
00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:15,080
expression grass comes from?
I’m deadly serious.

698
00:46:15,080 –> 00:46:18,800
It is drugs are grown around
there and people burn them and

699
00:46:18,800 –> 00:46:22,400
inhale them and you hallucinate
wildly.

700
00:46:23,720 –> 00:46:26,440
Can you not then imagine what
what Jethro’s reaction would

701
00:46:26,440 –> 00:46:28,760
have been when Moses said and I
put my hand in my coat and I

702
00:46:28,760 –> 00:46:29,800
took it out and it was lip for
us.

703
00:46:29,920 –> 00:46:31,440
I’m not at all surprised, said
Jethro.

704
00:46:31,680 –> 00:46:33,600
I suppose you put it back again
and took it out and it was

705
00:46:33,600 –> 00:46:35,480
clean.
Exactly right, said Moses.

706
00:46:35,720 –> 00:46:38,560
It happens all the time when you
when you breathe this stuff.

707
00:46:39,600 –> 00:46:42,560
Can you not just imagine that
this is what the conversation

708
00:46:42,560 –> 00:46:45,120
that would have taken place?
I’m going says, says Moses.

709
00:46:45,120 –> 00:46:48,440
I’m going anyway.
And he takes Zippori with him,

710
00:46:48,440 –> 00:46:50,680
Jethro’s sister and the two
boys.

711
00:46:52,560 –> 00:46:58,000
And we read of the confrontation
with the Angel on on on the way

712
00:46:58,360 –> 00:47:04,320
to Egypt and the boys are
circumcised by Zipporah.

713
00:47:05,880 –> 00:47:08,160
I mean, don’t think of children,
will you, Brethren and sisters?

714
00:47:09,320 –> 00:47:17,200
These were 30 year old men.
Oh yes, it isn’t to be wondered

715
00:47:17,200 –> 00:47:19,280
at that she calls Moses a man of
blood.

716
00:47:20,840 –> 00:47:26,080
It was a horrendous experience
for the woman, and we hear no

717
00:47:26,080 –> 00:47:33,160
more about them, no more about
Zipporah or the two boys until,

718
00:47:35,200 –> 00:47:41,240
well, until Moses is well out
into the desert.

719
00:47:45,360 –> 00:47:50,000
They have crossed the Red Sea,
the plagues are a thing of the

720
00:47:50,000 –> 00:47:54,760
past, and Moses meets Jethro in
the desert.

721
00:47:59,360 –> 00:48:05,760
Aaron and Miriam chided Moses
for the woman whom he had

722
00:48:05,760 –> 00:48:09,080
married.
It wasn’t that he had married

723
00:48:09,320 –> 00:48:12,720
the Ethiopian woman or the dark
woman, the Midianite woman.

724
00:48:13,680 –> 00:48:15,760
It is that they have only just
learned about it.

725
00:48:17,160 –> 00:48:20,760
Because it is then that we read
that after the confrontation

726
00:48:20,760 –> 00:48:25,800
with the Angel on the way from
Midian to Egypt, Moses sent

727
00:48:25,800 –> 00:48:32,360
Zipporah and the boys back so
that when he gets into Egypt, he

728
00:48:32,360 –> 00:48:35,120
doesn’t tell Aaron and Miriam
that he’s married.

729
00:48:36,480 –> 00:48:39,680
He went away a bachelor.
They think he comes back a

730
00:48:39,680 –> 00:48:45,000
bachelor.
So that when Jethro preaches up

731
00:48:45,560 –> 00:48:51,200
in the in the desert and brings
his wife and his two sons, Moses

732
00:48:51,200 –> 00:48:52,920
has some very fast explaining to
do.

733
00:48:54,080 –> 00:49:01,560
And it’s then that Miriam and
Aaron chide him because of this

734
00:49:01,560 –> 00:49:06,320
woman whom he had married.
Oh, there’s a lot more to to do

735
00:49:06,320 –> 00:49:08,600
with that.
And if we had more time, we, we,

736
00:49:08,600 –> 00:49:14,400
we could explore with our
imagination great things to do

737
00:49:14,400 –> 00:49:18,400
with God’s deliverance.
But it’s time polite speakers

738
00:49:18,400 –> 00:49:20,440
set down.
And if I want to be remembered,

739
00:49:20,440 –> 00:49:23,960
it’s that I’m partly polite.
Thank you for listening so

740
00:49:24,640 –> 00:49:28,560
politely and for participating.
And for the young people once

741
00:49:28,560 –> 00:49:30,960
more, since we started with
them, may we conclude with them,

742
00:49:30,960 –> 00:49:33,400
please.
This is just a taste of Bible

743
00:49:33,400 –> 00:49:35,560
study.
It shouldn’t be a thing that

744
00:49:35,560 –> 00:49:37,720
gives us long faces.
It shouldn’t be.

745
00:49:37,880 –> 00:49:42,920
It shouldn’t be a chore.
Bible study is great fun and I

746
00:49:42,920 –> 00:49:49,160
hope you will continue to read
and study your Bibles and have

747
00:49:49,160 –> 00:50:04,840
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00:50:04,840 –> 00:50:06,440
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00:50:07,240 –> 00:50:09,720
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