David Wisniewski – Developing Spiritual Intelligence – Class 2 – Discernment

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All right, if you can open up
your Bibles, we’ll do a reading.

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Before this third class.
And the reading that we’re going

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to do for this third class is
from First Samuel chapter 16.

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So First Samuel chapter 16.
And the Lord said unto Samuel,

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How long will that mourn for
Saul, seeing I’ve rejected him

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from reigning over Israel?
Fill thine horn with This is the

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Watch and Lake Bible School
2025, our speaker’s brother

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David Wisniewski.
His series this week is

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developing spiritual
intelligence from the lives of

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Jonathan and David.
This is Class 2 discernment and

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the reading for this class was
First Samuel chapter 16 for the

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David.
Good morning again.

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I trust you’re all warm.
Well, we’ve got a very familiar

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section of Scripture before us
this morning, Probably one of

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the most familiar stories in all
of the Bible.

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The story of David and Goliath
is of course known to most

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people in even the business
community in this world that

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whether they believe in God or
not, they’re familiar with the

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story.
But let’s take a look into this

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to understand some of the
principles as it relates

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developing spiritual
discernment.

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The word discernment means to
see and understand the

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difference, to see and
understand the difference.

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Our discernment or spiritual
discernment was a gift from God

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that was granted to all of
mankind, all human beings in the

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Garden of Eden because Genesis
one verse 26, it says that we

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were created in God’s image and
his likeness.

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Those are the two qualities that
separate human beings from the

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animal Kingdom.
And when those two qualities are

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missing, God looks upon man and
he sees well, a beast like David

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will see when we come to first
Samuel chapter 17.

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God saved him from the paw of a
lion, the paw of a bear, and he

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would save him from the paw of
this Philistine.

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He says hand, but no doubt it
was the paw of a Philistine.

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It was another beast.
So this is a blessing, a gift

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that God has given us.
And we feed discernment, the

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ability to choose between right
and wrong by putting spiritual

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things into our mind.
Spiritual discernment is the

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ability to see things for what
they truly are.

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And that was this young man,
David.

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There are 5 introductions to
David in the Bible.

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Sorry, there are 4 introductions
David in the Bible.

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Before we get that we wanted to
find his name.

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His name means beloved.
It was interesting.

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So often when I think about
David and his name meaning

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beloved, my mind of course goes
to the Lord Jesus Christ, who is

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the beloved.
We saw in one of the prophecies

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that brother Roger took us this
morning that in fact it it talks

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about Christ as being the
beloved who will sit on the

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throne and the Kingdom.
It’s there in Ezekiel 36 as

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well.
In Ezekiel 37, it says David,

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their Prince shall rule over
Israel and Judah united in that

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day.
And it’s not David, it’s the

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beloved, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so often our mind goes to

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Christ and we think of the
meaning of David’s name.

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But it was interesting to trace
through the record the number of

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times it talks about people
loving David.

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Saul loved David greatly and
made him his armor bearer.

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Our president just read.
Jonathan loved David as his own

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soul.
All Israel and Judah love David

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because he went in and went out
and came in before them.

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Michael, the daughter of Saul,
love David and in our Bible

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reading yesterday, Hiram, king
of Tyre always loved David.

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He was a lovable person, not
because of the physical

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appearance, though he had it.
He was a lovable person because

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of the heart that he had and no
doubt was beloved of God, for he

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had a heart after God’s own
heart.

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That’s the first introduction to
David in First Samuel 13 verse

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14.
He’s not on the record, he’s

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just not named, but he’s
referred to by Samuel when the

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kingship is removed from Saul
for his impetuous action and

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offering the sacrifices and not
waiting through the end of that

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seventh day as we read.
And there Samuel introduces the

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next king as someone that has
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Then there’s the introduction to
the family in First Samuel 16,

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as we just read, and there the
family doesn’t even consider him

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worthy of bringing into the
feast when Samuel comes into the

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town, ah, he’s not going to be
interested in seeing David.

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We’ll leave him out with the
sheep.

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David never forgot the events
that transpire in this chapter,

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as we’ll see momentarily.
And then we have another

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introduction to David in First
Samuel 16.

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Quite a contrast to the
introduction that’s made by the

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family of David, and that’s an
unnamed servant of Saul.

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And we see it there in verse 18
of chapter 16.

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Behold, I have seen a son of
Jesse, the Bethlehemite, that is

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cunning and playing, a mighty or
valiant man of war, a man of

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wars, the third prudent in
matters, a comely person, and

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Yahweh is with him.
Think about that introduction,

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brothers and sisters.
This was a young man, probably

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about 16 years old.
He’s cunning and playing, IE, he

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had been playing the Psalms,
many of which we have recorded

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for us in the Word.
He’d been playing them publicly.

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People had heard his playing.
He was a valiant man, a man of

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war.
He was prudent in speech.

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He’s a comely person.
Yahweh is with him at 16 years

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old.
How could such things be said of

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such a young man?
And then finally, he’s

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introduced to all of Israel in
chapter 17 when he becomes the

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hero of the nation in defeating
Goliath.

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Well, in the chapter we’ve
skipped over because we’ll

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consider it tomorrow in our
class when we consider honor in

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chapter 15, Saul was now
rejected as being king.

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Remember previously we said that
the kingship had been removed

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and that it, after the kingship
was removed by Samuel, for the

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first time, Jonathan is put into
context, Jonathan the Prince,

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the heir to the throne, the one
who would no longer ascend to

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the throne because of Saul’s
impetuous actions.

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And so Saul now in chapter 15,
himself is rejected as king

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because of his disobedience as
it relates to the children of

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Amicus.
We’ll consider, God willing

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tomorrow.
And now Samuel comes by God’s

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instruction down to Bethlehem,
where God has told him that in

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the family of Jesse he’ll find
the future king and he’s to

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anoint him.
And Samuel gets in front of a

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lie of the oldest of the
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And if Jonathan was a comely
person and and had nice eyes and

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was tall, we know he’s tall
because Saul offers him his

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armor.
And Saul was head and shoulders

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above most people.
So David had to have been taller

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of stature certainly than I am.
And so a lie of the first born

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stands before Samuel and Samuel
looks at this handsome young

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man.
He’s been instructed by God to

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come and he says surely this is
the always anointed standing

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before him.
Samuel being a representative of

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God.
And God says look not on his

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countenance or the height of his
stature.

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I have refused him.
How humiliating for a Liab who

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no doubt had spent time making
sure that this was pleasing,

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making sure that the hair was
nice, making sure that the

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shoulders and the forearms and
the biceps and the hectoral

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muscles and the all the other
ones were nice and big.

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This towering man, handsome guy,
stood before Samuel.

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God says no, this is not the
man, because I don’t see any of

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this.
When I look at people, I see

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this.
What a sobering thought,

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brothers and sisters.
And I think the lesson is that

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as much time we spend looking in
the mirror, preparing ourselves

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for the day, for this, we should
be spending at least that much

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time looking at a mirror that
points into our heart to

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understand our desires, our
motivations, and our character.

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To see if it’s a reflection, Not
that reflection we see in the

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mirror, but a reflection of our
Lord and to whose name we were

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baptized, A reflection of God.
It’s a scary thought, isn’t it?

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God doesn’t see what everyone
else sees when he looks at us.

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See straight through to the
heart, straight through to the

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heart.
And so we need to, as David did,

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Psalm one O 1, we won’t have
time to look at.

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But before someone I want,
before David comes to the

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throne, he reflects on what type
of influences he wants in his

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life.
Who am I going to hang around

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with?
It’s going to strengthen my

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ability to reflect God as I rule
over his Kingdom.

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What am I going to listen to?
What are the influences in my

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life going to be?
What am I going to watch?

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How am I going to spend my time?
Are all these things going to

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get me into the Kingdom?
Well, we know one thing will is

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the Ephesians 5 verse 26 tells
us that we need to be washed by

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the Word so that we can be with
our Lord when He returns.

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And gladly, rejoicingly, all of
us here and all of the young

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people that are here this week
have made that choice to be

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washed by the water of the Word.
So great job.

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And when you look in the mirror
later today to see if things are

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all things are right before you
had to lunch or dinner, whatever

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it is, give yourself a pat on
the back ’cause you chose this

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week to be washed by the water
of the Word.

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Those were the choices that
David made every day.

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So Jesse comes before Samuel
with his seven sons and Samuel

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stands before Eliab and God says
I’ve not chosen him.

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And he, he goes to the next and
God says I’ve not chosen him and

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he stands before the next and
I’ve not chosen him.

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And before the 4th I’ve not
chosen him.

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Not the 5th, not the 6th, not
the 7th.

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Samuel’s like, hey, God didn’t
didn’t you send me to Jesse?

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Did I get the name right?
Did I get the town right?

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I’ve just been before his seven
sons and not one of them is the

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one you’ve anointed.
How can this be?

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And so perplexity turns to Jesse
and says, do you have any more

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sons?
Well, yeah, but we we didn’t

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think you’d want to see him the
one who’s out watching the

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sheep.
And so David is called before

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Samuel from watching the sheep.
Verse 12.

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Samuel sent, or Jesse sent, and
brought David in.

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Now he was ready, and with all
of a beautiful countenance, and

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goodly to look upon, which God
cared none of.

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And he always said, Arise,
anoint him, for this is he.

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Then Samuel took the horn of
oil, and anointed him in the

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midst of his brethren.
And the Spirit of the Lord came

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upon David from that day
forward.

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So Samuel rose up and went to
Rhema.

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I said earlier that David never
forgot that he was anointed in

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the midst of his brethren.
Psalm 45, which David reads

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later on in life at verses 6 and
seven.

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Read Thy throne, O God, is
forever and ever.

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The scepter of thy Kingdom is a
right scepter.

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Thou lovest righteousness and
hatist wickedness, therefore

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God, thy God hath anointed thee
with the oil of gladness above

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thy brethren.
Obviously pointing forward to

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the Lord Jesus Christ, but in
its first application pointed

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back to David’s anointing in the
midst of his brethren in First

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Chronicles chapter 28.
We know the time frame at the

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end of First Chronicles.
David is preparing mightily for

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the building of the temple by
his son Solomon, which we’ll

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consider in our last class, God
willing, and in the context of

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the end of his life, preparing
for the temple that his son is

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going to build, he writes.
Howbeit, the Lord God of Israel

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chose me before all the House of
my father, to be king over

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Israel forever.
He never forgot that moment.

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But consider for a moment,
brothers and sisters, the Psalm

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before us on the screen.
Consider the spirit of Jonathan

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that comes out in the words of
David.

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Now David no doubt had heard of
Jonathan, this hero in Israel

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that was willing to take on the
Philistines by himself with only

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an armor bearer.
But they wouldn’t have met at

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this point in time.
The first meeting’s going to be

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in First Samuel 16 after verse
18, when Jonathan, standing by

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his father’s side, hears this.
Intriguing introduction.

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Intriguing introduction because
Jonathan would have been

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pondering how it would come to
pass that he would not ascend to

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the throne.
He no doubt had heard that

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Yahweh had chosen a man after
his own heart, but how is it

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that he would not come to the
throne?

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Something needed to happen and
now we have this incredible

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introduction in 16, verse 18.
This is the first time Jonathan

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will meet David when he comes
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But consider the spirit of
Jonathan that comes out in these

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words.
Thy throne, O God, who was

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anointed with the oil of
gladness at the end of verse

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seven.
Well, it was David, but whose

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throne was it?
David clearly acknowledges it’s

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God’s throne.
He gives God the glory, and then

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he goes on to talk about God’s
character.

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For thou lovest righteousness
and hatist wickedness.

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The order is extremely
important, brothers and sisters.

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It doesn’t say that thou hatest
wickedness and lovest

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righteousness.
For there are some that seem to

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spend all of their time in
ecclesial life trying to root

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out wickedness.
And when you spend your time in

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ecclesial life trying to root
out wickedness, where are you

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looking?
Are you looking in the mirror

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that points back into the heart
and assessing where your heart

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is?
Are you examining the actions

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and the words of others?
Love righteousness, and we will

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by default hate wickedness
because they’re diametrically

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opposed.
But first and foremost, the more

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time, brothers and sisters, we
try to love righteousness.

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That is loving what is right and
straight with God.

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That is loving God’s character.
Jeremiah says he that let him

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that glorieth glory in this,
that he understandeth and

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knoweth me, that I am Yahweh,
which exerciseth loving

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kindness, judgment and
righteousness in the earth.

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For in these things I delight
sayeth the Lord.

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So loving righteousness is to
love that which is right before

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God.
And when we spend our time

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seeking to understand what is
right before God and seeking to

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adopt God’s love of
righteousness, and when that

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becomes our focus, naturally we
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But where do we hate it first?
Well, in our own lives, see,

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when when our focus is loving
righteousness, brothers and

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sisters, the first thing it
causes us to do is look inward

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at our own hearts.
And then having sought to root

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out wickedness from our own
lives, we’re in a position to

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help our brother, our sister,
try to work out wickedness from

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their lives.
But that then comes with a

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different perspective, a
different perspective, does it

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not?
It comes from a perspective of

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recognizing that there was
wickedness and there is

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wickedness in ourselves.
And that we’ve had to work out

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our salvation with fear and
trembling, and that we’ve had to

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work out that wickedness from
our lives.

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And that we recognize that we
continue to fail.

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And some of those things we just
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And we place our burdens on God.
And now, having tried to

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overcome Sinner selves, were in
a position to go help others

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rather than standing on a
pedestal, looking around at

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others to see what wickedness
exists in the ecclesia.

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Love righteousness.
And you’ll learn to hate

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wickedness first in your own
life, and then you’re in a

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position to help, not to root
out, to help others deal with

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wickedness in their life.
What we see in the Psalm that

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David sought to give God the
glory, not just by acknowledging

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it was his throne, but
acknowledging God’s character

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was the character he needed to
put on himself.

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And when we seek brothers and
sisters for glory for ourselves,

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do you know what it does Well?
It does not develop spiritual

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intelligence.
It actually dwarfs discernment,

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spiritual discernment.
One of the things that David

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obviously learned very early on
in his life was to love the

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principle, the principles that
were contained in the law above

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the letter of the law.
We know this because it was

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based on the principles of the
law that David will later, as we

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consider God willing in Class 5,
appeal to God for forgiveness.

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For there was no sacrifice under
the letter of the law.

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But he understood God’s desire
to forgive was bound up in His

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name, and so he appeals to God
on the basis of principle.

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We know that David understood
the principles of the law above

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the letter of the law when he
moved the ark to Jerusalem and

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set up a tent that didn’t have a
court of the Gentiles, that kept

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the Gentiles from coming in and
worshiping before the Lord.

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That wasn’t according to the
instructions in Exodus or

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Leviticus.
And yet David established a

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worship at a Tabernacle in
Jerusalem that becomes the

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foundation for the Tabernacle or
temple that will be built when

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Ezekiel’s prophecy comes to pass
after the return of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
For that temple is called the

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Tabernacle of David.
So David understood and lived by

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principle rather than letter of
the law.

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And so David is chosen above his
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As we said, he was probably
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In Second Samuel 5 and verse 4,
he is 30 years old when he comes

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to the throne.
We believe he spent about 10

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years being chased or running
from Saul, and at this young

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age, he’s already described as a
man after God’s own heart.

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What books of the Bible did
David have available to read?

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Possibly none but books that he
had available to hear in the

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synagogue being read on the
Sabbath day.

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What would have been the first
five books of the Bible?

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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, Deuteronomy, and

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possibly Joshua, Judges and
Ruth.

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And no, certainly he would have
had the oral traditions of Ruth

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being his own great grandmother.
And so here’s a young man who

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had perhaps the first seven
books of the Bible available to

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him, and he’s 16 years old, and
he’s described as a man whom

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Yahweh is with.
He’s described as a man that has

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a heart after God’s own heart.
He’s described as a cunning man,

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a mighty valiant man, a prudent
and speech man, a comely person

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at 16 years of age.
There’s only one way, brothers

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and sisters, that happens.
It doesn’t happen by streaming

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Instagram or TikTok.
It doesn’t happen by watching

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television or listening to music
of this world.

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It only happens by putting the
word of God in and then having

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time and space to ruminate, to
chew on mentally, to meditate in

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silence upon the word of God.
And we know that’s the case,

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that that was the case with
David.

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Because if we put our hand here
in first Samuel 16 and turn over

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the pages to Psalm 8, we can see
where David’s mind was as he sat

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day and night watching those
sheep, watching for the wolf,

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for the coyote, the Mountain
Lion and the bear, watching to

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keep them safe as he sat there
by himself as the stars started

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to show in the night sky.
And so we read in Psalm 8, which

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we know as a Psalm he wrote
after Goliath, at least pended

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after Burt Goliath, but gives us
insight to where his mind was as

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he was a shepherd in the field.
O Lord our Lord, how excellent

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is thy name, and all the earth,
for that who was set by glory

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above the heavens.
Verse three.

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Who, when I consider thy
heavens, the work of Thy

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fingers, the moon, and the
stars, which Thou hast ordained,

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what is man, that thou art
mindful of him?

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And over a couple of pages to
Psalm 19 we read again.

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The heavens declare the glory of
God, and the firmament showeth

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his handiwork.
Day unto day, utterance, speech,

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and night unto night showeth
knowledge.

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There is no speech nor language
where their voice is not heard.

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And so David, sitting amongst
the sheep, out in nature,

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without anyone around, spent
time thinking about the word of

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God.
How much time would David have

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had to study the Bible and to
ruminate on the Word of God as

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he spent 10 years fleeing from
Saul?

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Even the time would have
diminished as he was called into

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Saul’s court and became the
King’s armor bearer.

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How much time did David have to
do Bible study once he became

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king over Israel?
That wasn’t an 8 hour a day or a

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40 hour week.
That was seven days a week or at

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least six days a week.
Judging all of Israel.

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The foundation that David laid
as a young man became the basis

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for what he was able to do for
the rest of his life.

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It was these early years that
were his foundation and the

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early years that he capitalized
on because we scarcely get the

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opportunity again to lay such a
strong foundation.

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And so he was able to develop
spiritual discernment.

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No doubt he spent time
understanding the laws of

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uncleanness because the whole
purpose of the laws of

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uncleanness was to teach
spiritual discernment that you

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might discern between what is
clean and unclean.

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Not the way the Pharisees
understood it, but the way

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Christ explained it.
There’s nothing from without

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that can defile a man but that
which comes from the heart.

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Clean and unclean.
What things distract us from our

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focus in working for God?
And now this man is called into

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the court of Saul to comfort
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Lord, evil Spirit of the Lord
has come upon him.

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And now this young man who had
been trained by God to be a

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leader, a shepherd in the field.
Just as God instructed Moses for

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40 years by sending him out into
the wilderness to be a shepherd

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first before he would lead
Israel through the wilderness,

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so God had instructed David as a
shepherd now brings him right

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into the court of the king.
And as emissary.

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Some other nations pass by the
throne.

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As Saul is sitting there,
David’s at his right side and he

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gets to see how the court is
operated.

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He gets to see how judgement is
passed as people in the nation

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bring their cases before Saul
and before the court of the

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king.
He is able to see and he learns

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how to manage a Kingdom at this
young age by being brought into

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this position.
And we come to First Samuel 17.

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We know that David has been sent
back at this time.

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We see that at verse 15.
But David went and returned from

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Saul to feed his father’s sheep
at Bethlehem.

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So David is not there when the
giant first presents himself.

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But there is a question that
begs to be asked, is there not?

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As this guy stands before Israel
and yells day by day, why are

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you come out to set your battle
in array?

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Am I not a Philistine?
And ye servants of Saul choose

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you a man for you, and let him
come down to me.

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If he be able to fight with me
and to kill me, then we will be

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your servants.
But if I prevail against him and

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kill him, then shall ye be our
servants?

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And the Philistine said, I defy
the armies of Israel this day.

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Give me a man that we may fight
together.

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And he ranted for 40 days.
Now I can understand Saul, and I

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can understand all Israel being
dismayed and greatly afraid, as

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it says in verse 11.
But where’s Jonathan?

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Well, remember that we’ve been
told in the record in First

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Samuel 14 how Jonathan operates.
At verse eight of First Samuel

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14, Jonathan said to the armor
bearer that was with him, look,

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this has been my prayer.
He doesn’t say it was his

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prayer, but it’s clear that it
was.

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If we discover ourselves to when
we discover ourselves to the

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Philistines, and if they say to
us stand and wait for it’s not

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our time to go and attack them.
But if they say to us come up

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unto us, then we know that
Yahweh has delivered them into

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the hand of Israel.
So Jonathan, before he goes into

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battle, prays to God for a sign.
Should I go up?

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And although it’s not recorded,
we can be confident brothers and

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sisters, that Jonathan prayed
for a sign when on day one when

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this guy came out.
Who cares about a nine foot

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soldier when he was willing to
take on hundreds of thousands of

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Philistines after climbing the
Cliff?

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What is 1 tall man when you have
that perspective?

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Nothing.
But God said no, like Jonathan

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might have prayed again.
Are you sure I can’t go kill

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this Philistine?
And God says no.

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And perhaps he prayed again.
Can I please go kill this

434
00:31:10,360 –> 00:31:13,760
Philistine who’s dismaying all
of Israel and made Israel

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00:31:13,760 –> 00:31:15,560
greatly afraid?
And God says no.

436
00:31:17,400 –> 00:31:20,800
And then we go back to the
dinner table, and there’s

437
00:31:20,800 –> 00:31:22,800
Jonathan sitting across from his
dad.

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00:31:23,520 –> 00:31:27,840
Hey, dad, remember the reason
Israel wanted a king?

439
00:31:28,720 –> 00:31:33,160
They wanted somebody who would
lead them into battle.

440
00:31:34,400 –> 00:31:36,200
There’s just one guy out there,
Dad.

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00:31:36,200 –> 00:31:38,880
You’re head and shoulders above
most of the people.

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00:31:38,880 –> 00:31:40,600
You’ve got a sword.
I’ve got a sword.

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00:31:40,680 –> 00:31:42,360
Where they go, You know what?
I’ll join you.

444
00:31:42,960 –> 00:31:44,640
How about we go take them
together, Dad?

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00:31:45,920 –> 00:31:48,720
And Dad is dismayed and greatly
afraid.

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00:31:49,720 –> 00:31:54,520
And no matter how much prompting
and how much urging, all Saul

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00:31:54,520 –> 00:32:02,440
does in verse 25 we read is
offer a reward for anyone

448
00:32:02,440 –> 00:32:10,040
willing to kill the giant.
The man that killeth him, the

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00:32:10,040 –> 00:32:13,720
king will enrich him with great
riches and give him his daughter

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00:32:14,040 –> 00:32:16,440
and make his father’s house free
in Israel.

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00:32:18,600 –> 00:32:22,560
You know, when David killed the
giant, God or Saul rather did

452
00:32:22,560 –> 00:32:27,880
not enrich David and he didn’t
give him his daughter to be his

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00:32:27,880 –> 00:32:31,560
wife, not at first anyways.
It was after much urging, and he

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00:32:31,560 –> 00:32:33,760
did not make his father’s house
free in Israel.

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00:32:33,760 –> 00:32:40,760
He was not a man of his word.
We can picture this scene, can’t

456
00:32:40,760 –> 00:32:43,760
we?
This giant in the valley and all

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00:32:43,760 –> 00:32:47,720
Israel trembling.
On one side is the armies of the

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00:32:47,720 –> 00:32:51,160
Philistines, on the other side
is the army of Israel.

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00:32:51,160 –> 00:32:55,680
And there’s this big ball of
flesh in the middle.

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00:32:57,880 –> 00:33:01,120
We’re given at the beginning of
First Samuel 17 a bunch of names

461
00:33:01,120 –> 00:33:03,520
that says, now the Philistines
gathered together their armies

462
00:33:03,520 –> 00:33:07,080
to to battle and were gathered
together at Shoko, which

463
00:33:07,080 –> 00:33:10,240
belongeth to Judah, and pitched
between Shoko and Ezeka.

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00:33:10,240 –> 00:33:14,600
And Efaz Damim and Saul and the
men of Israel were pitched

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00:33:14,600 –> 00:33:18,920
together and pitched by the
Valley of Elah and set the

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00:33:18,920 –> 00:33:21,920
battle in array against the
Philistines.

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00:33:23,160 –> 00:33:25,600
And so when we’re given a bunch
of names, I like to look up the

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00:33:25,600 –> 00:33:28,840
definitions of those words.
And we see there that the word

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00:33:29,120 –> 00:33:31,040
Philistine means to be an
immigrant.

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00:33:31,040 –> 00:33:36,000
And it comes from a word meaning
to roll about in the dust and in

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00:33:36,000 –> 00:33:39,280
ashes.
Well, that’s interesting.

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00:33:39,280 –> 00:33:47,000
What creature rolls about or
slithers about in the dust?

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00:33:47,640 –> 00:33:53,080
Why a serpent does Shoko means
bushy and it’s used in Hosea

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00:33:53,080 –> 00:33:58,360
chapter 2 verse 6 of God who
would hedge up thorns in

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00:33:58,360 –> 00:34:03,200
Israel’s way to bring them back
to Him.

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00:34:04,000 –> 00:34:08,480
Speaking of the second Exodus,
when God will finally bring

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00:34:08,480 –> 00:34:11,760
Israel back into the land as our
brother Roger’s looking at in

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00:34:11,760 –> 00:34:18,239
first class, Azika means dug
over and it’s translated to

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00:34:18,239 –> 00:34:21,040
fence.
And Isaiah 5 it’s used to speak

480
00:34:21,040 –> 00:34:22,880
about God’s care for his
vineyard.

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00:34:23,239 –> 00:34:27,400
Ephesh de Meme is the edge of
the sword, literally the

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00:34:27,440 –> 00:34:31,040
shedding of the ceasing of
bloodshed, which is what the

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00:34:31,040 –> 00:34:35,920
Lord Jesus Christ would
typically do in this chapter

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00:34:35,920 –> 00:34:40,760
when this man of flesh, the
serpent in the flesh, stands up

485
00:34:40,760 –> 00:34:44,080
against a champion who is
beloved and has the heart of

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00:34:44,080 –> 00:34:46,480
God.
And finally, Goliath’s name

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00:34:46,480 –> 00:34:50,639
means splendor uncovered or
exposed.

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00:34:52,239 –> 00:34:55,320
And then we’re given 6 verses to
describe this man.

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00:34:55,320 –> 00:34:59,160
And we might ask ourselves,
well, why do we?

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00:34:59,160 –> 00:35:04,320
Why are we given such a detailed
description of Goliath?

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00:35:05,520 –> 00:35:07,760
And I believe there’s 2 answers
to why we’re given this

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00:35:07,760 –> 00:35:13,400
description.
First, it’s to tell us what

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00:35:13,760 –> 00:35:21,320
Israel saw.
It’s to tell us what a man or a

494
00:35:21,320 –> 00:35:26,440
woman without spiritual
discernment sees.

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00:35:26,440 –> 00:35:31,240
When they look at a giant, they
see something that is

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00:35:31,320 –> 00:35:39,360
insurmountable.
It’s not what David saw when he

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00:35:39,360 –> 00:35:42,240
looked at a giant.
What did David see when he

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00:35:42,240 –> 00:35:45,080
looked at the giant?
Verse 26 What shall be done?

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00:35:45,080 –> 00:35:47,960
David asks in a question.
What shall be done to the man

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00:35:47,960 –> 00:35:51,440
that killeth this Philistine,
that takes away the reproach of

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00:35:51,440 –> 00:35:55,120
Israel?
He’s a reproach for who is this

502
00:35:55,320 –> 00:35:59,760
uncircumcised Philistine?
He’s uncircumcised, not the seed

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00:35:59,760 –> 00:36:02,200
of Abraham.
This land was not promised to

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00:36:02,200 –> 00:36:05,520
him.
It was promised to us and to our

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00:36:05,520 –> 00:36:09,840
fathers that he should defy the
armies of Israel.

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00:36:09,840 –> 00:36:13,200
No, the armies of God.
This man’s a reproach.

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00:36:13,360 –> 00:36:17,120
He’s uncircumcised and he’s
defied the armies of God.

508
00:36:17,480 –> 00:36:25,240
That’s how David saw Goliath.
But Israel, they saw a nine foot

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00:36:25,240 –> 00:36:30,840
man towering over them.
They saw a helmet of brass.

510
00:36:31,400 –> 00:36:34,600
They saw a coat of males that
weighed over 110 lbs.

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00:36:34,760 –> 00:36:37,800
They saw brass armor on his
legs, a javelin between the

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00:36:37,800 –> 00:36:44,280
shoulders, a spear and a shield.
You know that’s not the whole

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00:36:44,280 –> 00:36:51,720
armor of Goliath, because when
David kills Goliath in just a

514
00:36:51,720 –> 00:36:57,080
few verses, he goes and grabs
his sword.

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00:36:58,480 –> 00:37:04,120
Not listed.
So why were just six items

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00:37:04,120 –> 00:37:07,880
given?
No doubt it was to strengthen

517
00:37:08,560 –> 00:37:13,800
those of spiritual discernments,
understanding that this man

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00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:17,640
represented the flesh.
And when you looked on this

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00:37:17,640 –> 00:37:23,840
giant towering man, the flesh,
you saw brass, another symbol

520
00:37:23,840 –> 00:37:27,120
for the flesh.
And you know, brothers and

521
00:37:27,120 –> 00:37:32,200
sisters, when we’re going
through trials, when we’re going

522
00:37:32,200 –> 00:37:39,600
through temptation, when we
spend our time focusing on the 9

523
00:37:39,600 –> 00:37:45,800
feet, how tall that trial is,
when we spend our time focusing

524
00:37:45,800 –> 00:37:51,000
on the brass, how fleshly those
thoughts are, do you know what

525
00:37:51,000 –> 00:37:55,520
happens?
Well, what Uncle Bob taught us

526
00:37:55,520 –> 00:37:59,760
about a pink elephant happens
when he said close your eyes and

527
00:37:59,760 –> 00:38:01,080
don’t think about a pink
elephant.

528
00:38:01,080 –> 00:38:03,400
And of course, what do we do?
We think about a pink elephant.

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00:38:04,480 –> 00:38:07,200
And when we tell ourselves don’t
think about the sin that you’re

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00:38:07,200 –> 00:38:10,360
doing, don’t think about the sin
that you’ve done, don’t think

531
00:38:10,360 –> 00:38:11,960
about the sin, don’t think about
the sin.

532
00:38:11,960 –> 00:38:14,360
What are we thinking?
What is occupying our mind?

533
00:38:14,720 –> 00:38:24,200
The sin better is to turn our
back on the sin and to look at

534
00:38:24,200 –> 00:38:31,680
Christ who overcame sin Better
is to turn our back on the sin

535
00:38:32,040 –> 00:38:40,640
and to look at the Saint that we
want to be justified by God’s

536
00:38:40,640 –> 00:38:45,360
grace, not because we earned it.
And you know what happens when

537
00:38:45,360 –> 00:38:47,840
we look this way instead of that
way?

538
00:38:48,640 –> 00:38:52,280
Well, now we’re thinking about
the characteristics of our Lord

539
00:38:52,280 –> 00:38:55,400
and Master who we want to
reflect when we stand before Him

540
00:38:55,400 –> 00:38:58,320
at his return.
And we’re not thinking about the

541
00:38:58,320 –> 00:39:01,120
sin that we committed or the sin
that we’re struggling with.

542
00:39:03,000 –> 00:39:08,640
So critical, brothers and
sisters, this next sentence I’m

543
00:39:08,640 –> 00:39:16,520
about to say, we must live our
lives as the Saints we wish to

544
00:39:16,520 –> 00:39:21,280
be rather than as recovering
sinners.

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00:39:22,720 –> 00:39:28,200
We must live our lives as the
Saints that we wish to be,

546
00:39:29,640 –> 00:39:33,800
rather than as recovering
sinners.

547
00:39:34,840 –> 00:39:39,760
Can you imagine an Olympic
athlete training his or her mind

548
00:39:40,160 –> 00:39:44,160
to stand on the podium, thinking
about the fact that I might tear

549
00:39:44,160 –> 00:39:47,680
my Achilles heel?
Thinking about the fact that I

550
00:39:47,680 –> 00:39:51,240
might trip?
Thinking about the fact that I’m

551
00:39:51,240 –> 00:39:53,800
too hot or too cold.
No, they’re, they’ve got,

552
00:39:53,800 –> 00:39:55,160
they’ve got their eye on the
prize.

553
00:39:55,160 –> 00:39:58,440
They’re thinking about them
running that race, jumping that

554
00:39:58,440 –> 00:40:01,520
jump the farthest, the fastest
they’ve ever done.

555
00:40:01,520 –> 00:40:05,000
They’re picturing themselves
winning the gold medal.

556
00:40:07,040 –> 00:40:10,120
That’s how it works.
Because when we spend all of our

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00:40:10,120 –> 00:40:15,480
time in this, well, that’s what
we spend all our time doing.

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00:40:16,440 –> 00:40:21,040
And when we spend all of our
time looking at that, well, that

559
00:40:21,040 –> 00:40:26,440
then becomes the model.
The fashion, the guide for our

560
00:40:26,440 –> 00:40:33,840
daily lives.
So much of this world has lost

561
00:40:33,840 –> 00:40:36,480
hope.
Why?

562
00:40:36,480 –> 00:40:40,440
Because they say God is in all
of us and then they put their

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00:40:40,440 –> 00:40:44,120
hope in humanity.
It’s called the doctrine of

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00:40:44,120 –> 00:40:48,400
humanism.
It’s why sitting in your home in

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00:40:48,480 –> 00:40:54,760
Toronto or Kelowna or Brighton,
MI or Branford, you can read

566
00:40:54,760 –> 00:40:56,920
about a woman who lost her cat
in chili.

567
00:40:58,120 –> 00:41:00,720
Who cares about someone who lost
their cat in chili?

568
00:41:01,640 –> 00:41:05,400
Well, the world does because the
person that’s suffering is the

569
00:41:05,400 –> 00:41:07,640
center of the world.
They’re the God.

570
00:41:08,800 –> 00:41:11,320
The person is at the middle of
everything.

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00:41:12,160 –> 00:41:15,000
So the world cares.
And that’s why all of our news

572
00:41:15,000 –> 00:41:18,240
focuses about the suffering of
individuals, because the

573
00:41:18,240 –> 00:41:23,120
individual is the God, but not
for us brothers and sisters.

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00:41:25,320 –> 00:41:28,600
Those that have placed their
hope there are suffering

575
00:41:28,600 –> 00:41:36,320
depression at a mass level and
taking prescription drugs at a

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00:41:36,320 –> 00:41:41,600
mass level and seeing therapists
and psychologists at a mass

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00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:43,600
level.
And it’s not that those things

578
00:41:43,960 –> 00:41:49,240
don’t have a place if there’s a
serious need, but it’s become an

579
00:41:49,240 –> 00:41:56,680
epidemic because why people have
placed their hope in man instead

580
00:41:56,680 –> 00:42:02,040
of in God.
But we we look forward to a

581
00:42:02,040 –> 00:42:06,960
better day.
We look forward to the beloved

582
00:42:07,200 –> 00:42:10,840
sitting on the throne of God
with God’s scepter of

583
00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:14,560
righteousness.
We look forward to being with

584
00:42:14,560 –> 00:42:20,440
the one who loved righteousness
and therefore hated wickedness.

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00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:25,600
The second reason we’re given
these details about Goliath, the

586
00:42:25,600 –> 00:42:29,200
first remember, was because
that’s what Israel saw.

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00:42:29,600 –> 00:42:33,640
The second reason was to tell
David and Jonathan.

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00:42:34,120 –> 00:42:36,200
But Jonathan was told he
couldn’t fight Goliath.

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00:42:36,680 –> 00:42:40,080
At least that’s what I believe
to tell David.

590
00:42:41,520 –> 00:42:43,320
This is just another ball of
flesh.

591
00:42:44,320 –> 00:42:45,680
You’ve got nothing to worry
about.

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00:42:46,560 –> 00:42:50,880
This is God’s battle and he will
overcome for you.

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00:42:53,360 –> 00:42:57,360
And so David saw the adversary
for what it is.

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00:42:57,960 –> 00:43:01,040
He hears the rants, he’s jealous
for God.

595
00:43:02,080 –> 00:43:05,480
Verse 24 and all the men of
Israel when they saw the man

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00:43:05,840 –> 00:43:08,320
fled from him, for they were
sore afraid.

597
00:43:08,480 –> 00:43:11,800
And the men of Israel said, have
you seen this man?

598
00:43:11,800 –> 00:43:16,040
Keyword saw seen this man that
has come up surely to defy

599
00:43:16,040 –> 00:43:17,480
Israel.
Is he come?

600
00:43:17,480 –> 00:43:18,920
It shall be that the man who
kills.

601
00:43:18,920 –> 00:43:22,240
And so there’s the reward.
And now this is beautiful.

602
00:43:22,520 –> 00:43:27,040
Remember, David is maybe 17,
maybe 18 at this time.

603
00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:34,080
Is it David’s place to walk
around the army of Israel, the

604
00:43:34,080 –> 00:43:38,280
captains over hundreds and
captains over thousands, and to

605
00:43:38,280 –> 00:43:41,040
tell them this Philistine that
you guys are all afraid of?

606
00:43:41,040 –> 00:43:44,760
He’s a reproach.
He’s uncircumcised, and he’s

607
00:43:44,760 –> 00:43:51,000
defied God.
Maybe not, but this young man

608
00:43:51,760 –> 00:43:58,680
who was cunning in speech asks a
question and he doesn’t just ask

609
00:43:58,680 –> 00:44:00,400
it once.
See, the question is there in

610
00:44:00,400 –> 00:44:03,640
verse 26 as we’ve read.
It’s there again in verse 30.

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00:44:03,760 –> 00:44:06,960
And he turned away from his
brother Eliab, who was taunting

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00:44:06,960 –> 00:44:08,640
him.
He turned his back on him, which

613
00:44:08,640 –> 00:44:12,520
Proverbs 15 verse one says
should be our response when

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00:44:12,520 –> 00:44:15,880
we’re being taunted.
He turns from him and he speaks

615
00:44:15,880 –> 00:44:18,560
after the same manner.
And the people answered him

616
00:44:18,560 –> 00:44:21,800
again after the former manner.
So not once does he ask this

617
00:44:21,800 –> 00:44:25,560
question, but again to you, and
to you, and to you and to you.

618
00:44:26,800 –> 00:44:31,680
What’ll be done to the man that
kills this uncircumcised

619
00:44:31,680 –> 00:44:34,400
Philistine?
This reproach of Israel, this

620
00:44:34,400 –> 00:44:37,320
man who was defied the armies of
God, what will be done to him?

621
00:44:37,320 –> 00:44:40,640
No, he’s going to get a reward.
And then he goes to the next

622
00:44:40,640 –> 00:44:42,760
person.
What’ll be done to the man who

623
00:44:43,200 –> 00:44:45,920
kills this uncircumcised
Philistine, this reproach of

624
00:44:45,920 –> 00:44:47,880
God, who’s defied the armies of
God?

625
00:44:47,960 –> 00:44:50,240
What’ll be done to him?
And all of a sudden, the people

626
00:44:50,240 –> 00:44:52,880
start to think, what?
Wait a minute.

627
00:44:53,760 –> 00:44:56,440
Yeah, this guy’s an
uncircumcised Philistine.

628
00:44:57,880 –> 00:45:02,400
He’s a reproach to God.
He’s not defying us, he’s

629
00:45:02,400 –> 00:45:09,320
defying God.
And David, by a wisely worded

630
00:45:09,560 –> 00:45:15,040
question, doesn’t usurp the
authority of those around him.

631
00:45:15,520 –> 00:45:20,720
Starts to turn the hearts of the
nation.

632
00:45:22,280 –> 00:45:29,600
Well, we too, brothers and
sisters, can ask questions that

633
00:45:29,600 –> 00:45:32,280
can inspire a change of
thinking.

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00:45:35,160 –> 00:45:40,400
Well, news of this gets to Saul,
and he’s called into Saul’s

635
00:45:40,400 –> 00:45:45,600
presence and we know the story.
Saul tries to give him the his

636
00:45:45,600 –> 00:45:49,240
garments, his armor, and David
rejects it.

637
00:45:49,360 –> 00:45:53,160
And he said it’s not been tried.
I’m not ready to go into battle

638
00:45:53,160 –> 00:45:56,880
with it and Saul gives his
pathetic response with the King

639
00:45:56,880 –> 00:46:02,560
James is too kind with in verse
37 the CEV reads go and I hope

640
00:46:02,560 –> 00:46:06,520
hope the Lord will be with you
is essentially what Saul said he

641
00:46:06,520 –> 00:46:11,880
had no faith even after David’s
convincing arm convincing

642
00:46:11,880 –> 00:46:17,080
statement and so rejecting
Saul’s clothing, but taking only

643
00:46:17,080 –> 00:46:21,560
what God has given him.
He goes out and he confronts

644
00:46:21,560 –> 00:46:26,240
this giant, and of course when
the flesh is confronted with

645
00:46:26,240 –> 00:46:29,200
spiritual discernment, there is
disdain.

646
00:46:30,800 –> 00:46:34,280
Verse 41 in the Philistine came
on and drew near unto David and

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00:46:34,280 –> 00:46:36,200
the man that bare the shield
before him.

648
00:46:36,920 –> 00:46:39,120
And when the Philistine looked
about and saw David, he

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disdained him, for he was but a
youth and Ruddy and a fair

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countenance.
The Philistine says to him,

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Amaya dog, that you come to me
with staves, with the staff.

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And the Philistine cursed David
by his gods.

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And then he says, Come to me,
and I will give thy flesh to the

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fowls of the air and to the
beasts of the field.

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And David hears that and he
says, yes, now I know that

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Yahweh has delivered him into
the hand of Israel.

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Why?
Where did we see David’s mind

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was when he was shepherding back
in creation?

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Where is Goliath just taken
David?

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Back to the fowls of heaven and
the beasts of the earth, back to

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creation.
And he knows he’s fighting

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against the serpent in the
flesh.

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And David responds, thou comest
to me in verse 45 with a sword

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and a spear and a shield.
But I come to thee in the name

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of Yahweh of armies, the God of
the armies of Israel whom thou

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hast defied.
There was the message to

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Goliath.
This day will Yahweh deliver

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00:47:47,560 –> 00:47:50,720
thee into mine hand, and I will
smite you, and I’ll take your

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head off of you.
But I’m not going to stop there.

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I’ll give the carcasses of the
host of the Philistines this day

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00:47:57,280 –> 00:48:01,840
to the fowls of the air and to
the beasts of the earth, and

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then still speaking to Goliath
and the encampment of the

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Philistines, that all the earth
may know that there is a God in

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Israel.
And then no doubt turning back

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to his brethren.
And all this assembly shall know

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that Yahweh saveth not with
sword and spear, for the battle

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is the Lord’s, and He will give
you into our hands.

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Was concerned more about the
what than about The Who.

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And he picks up five stones
through grace.

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Victory is 1 and runs toward the
giant.

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00:48:37,280 –> 00:48:41,120
And so we have a spiritual giant
versus a giant of flesh.

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No competition.
And in verse 52, the confidence

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of David then spreads throughout
the nation, as he had already

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started to inspire with his
question.

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And the men of Israel and of
Judah rose and shouted and

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pursued the Philistines.
Until thou come to the valley.

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And so Israel was inspired by
this man.

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And before verse 54 happens,
David took the head of the

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Philistine and brought it to
Jerusalem, but he put his armor

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in his tent.
We must insert verses 55 to 58

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because there’s another person
in this scene, a person who does

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care more about The Who than
about the what.

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A person who does care who gets
the glory.

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And Goliath, who for 40 days
taunted Israel, while Saul sat

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dismayed and greatly afraid,
when now Goliath is dead and the

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armies are following David to go
after and to slay Philistine.

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Saul says in verse 55 unto
Abner, the captain of his host

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Abner.
Whose son is this?

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00:49:56,480 –> 00:50:00,600
Abner says I I don’t know king,
and the king says inquire thou

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whose son the stripling is.
What do you mean whose son?

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It’s the one who just stood
before you and who you offered

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your armor to.
Well, yeah, but remember he had

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promised his daughter.
Now to this person doesn’t say

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who is he, but whose son is he?
Well again, he knew who he was.

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He’d had him in his house.
It had been his armor bearer.

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But Saul is not of his right
mind.

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And so David is brought before
Saul in verse 57 with the head

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of the Philistine in his hand.
Now think about the logistics of

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that for a minute.
I don’t know that you’d want to

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have the head here carrying it
because it there’s blood

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00:50:43,840 –> 00:50:46,600
draining from the head because
he’s cut his head off at the

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neck.
So he’s probably got his hair

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00:50:48,480 –> 00:50:52,520
wrapped around his hand and he’s
standing there with this stomp

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00:50:52,520 –> 00:50:55,520
of a man’s head, a big man’s
head in his arm.

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You’d think that would be enough
to make Saul realize this is

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somebody that I should be very
appreciative of. 58 Whose son

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00:51:05,600 –> 00:51:10,720
art thou, thou young man?
He calls him a stripling in

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verse 56.
And David answered, I am the son

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of thy servant, Jesse the
Bethlehemite.

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He doesn’t say I’m David, who,
by the way, just killed Goliath.

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Here’s the head.
He doesn’t say I’m the hero of

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00:51:31,760 –> 00:51:36,000
Israel.
No, he doesn’t say I’m your

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00:51:36,000 –> 00:51:41,200
servant.
He says I’m the son of your

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servant, Jesse.
And in our class got a building

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tomorrow we’ll consider that it
was this response that caused

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00:51:52,280 –> 00:51:58,280
Jonathan to love David as his
own soul.

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And so we end this class,
brothers and sisters, with David

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standing in Jonathan’s royal
apparel, dressed as the heir

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00:52:09,960 –> 00:52:13,440
apparent and dressed that way
takes the head of Goliath to

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Jerusalem.
We were told back in verse 54

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that is Golgotha signifying that
a greater beloved than he would

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00:52:21,960 –> 00:52:27,680
crush the head of a greater
giant than Goliath in that very

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spot by whom we all have the
victory.

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00:52:34,720 –> 00:52:38,760
And so our principles to help us
develop spiritual intelligence.

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00:52:38,760 –> 00:52:43,840
The first discernment comes
through reading, prayer and

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meditation.
Second, we should love

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00:52:47,080 –> 00:52:52,320
righteousness first, through
which we grow to hate wickedness

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00:52:52,320 –> 00:52:56,840
first in ourselves and then
helping others deal with it in

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00:52:56,840 –> 00:53:00,080
their lives.
Third, we must seek first to

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00:53:00,080 –> 00:53:07,200
give God the glory and all that
we do 4th love principles over

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00:53:07,200 –> 00:53:10,920
the letter of the law and 5th
Remember that God is on your

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side and so live life as a
future St.