David Wisniewski – Developing Spiritual Intelligence – Class 3 – Honour

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So that our minds are nice and
attentive for our last class for

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the day from our brother David.
We do have an introductory

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reading before we begin this
class.

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So if you all want to get our
Bibles out and open together to

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First Samuel and chapter 10.
And we’ll be reading the 1st 14

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verses together and I’ll be
reading from the new King James.

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So First Samuel Chapter 10 Then
Samuel took a flask of oil and

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poured it on his head and kissed
him, and said, Is it not because

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Yahweh has anointed you,
commander, over his inheritance?

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When you have departed from me
today you will find two men by

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Rachel’s tomb in the territory
of Benjamin at Zelza.

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And they will say to you, the
donkeys which you went to look

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for have been found.
And now your father has ceased

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caring about the donkeys and is
worrying about you, saying, What

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shall I do about my son?
Then you shall go on forward

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from there and come to the
terebinth tree of Tabor.

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There three men going up to God
at Bethel will meet you, one

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carrying three young goats,
another carrying three loaves of

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bread, and another carrying a
skin of wine.

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And they will greet you and give
you 2 loaves of bread, which you

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shall receive from their hands.
After that you will come to the

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hill of God where the Philistine
Garrison is, and it will happen

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when you have come there to the
city, that you will meet a group

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of prophets coming down from the
high place with a stringed

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instrument.
That man’s for God is with you.

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You shall go down before me to
Gilgal and surely I will come

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down to you to offer burnt
offerings and make sacrifices of

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peace offerings. 7 days You
shall wait till I come to you

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and show you what you should do.
So it was when he had turned his

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back to go from Samuel, that God
gave him another heart.

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And all those signs came to
pass.

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That day.
When they came there to the

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hill, there was a group of
prophets to meet him.

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Then the Spirit of God came upon
him, and he prophesied among

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them.
And it happened, when all who

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knew him formerly saw that he
indeed prophesied among the

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prophets, that the people said
to one another, What is this

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that has come upon the son of
Kish?

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Is Saul also among the prophets?
Then a man from there answered

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and said, But who is their
father?

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Therefore it became a proverb,
Is Saul also among the prophets?

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And when he had finished
prophesying, he went to the high

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place.
Then Saul’s uncle said to him,

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and his servant, Where did you
go?

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So he said, to look for the
donkeys.

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When we saw that they were
nowhere to be found, we went to

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Samuel.
This is Watch an Lake Bible

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School 2025.
Our speaker is Brother David

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Wisniewski.
His series for the week is

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Developing Spiritual
Intelligence from the lives of

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Jonathan and David.
This is his third class and the

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title is Honor Brother David.
Well, good morning.

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It does feel a little warm to be
morning, but indeed it is still

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good morning.
How are you All excellent.

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We have life.
So our spiritual quotient for

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today in developing spiritual
intelligence is honor.

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And I think, well, where does
that fit in the story of David

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and Jonathan?
Well, it fits in their

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relationship to Saul and so we
will by way of review go through

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some accounts we have not yet
looked at this week, Others we

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have looked at this week to
consider the character of this

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man and how he behaved with and
around Jonathan and David and

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then reflect on Jonathan and
David’s behavior towards the

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man’s Saul.
I can tell you this is a topic

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that I would struggle with if
Saul was my king or Saul was my

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father.
But the example that these two

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men set for us on the topic of
honor is truly astounding.

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Well, Saul’s name means desired
or to beg, and indeed he had

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been desired by the nation of
Israel who asked for a king, and

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it was a king that was after
their own heart, not after God’s

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own heart.
We see that in First Samuel

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chapter 8 and verse 5, when the
elders of Israel come to Samuel

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and Raima, and they say, Behold,
thou art old, my sons, walk not

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in thy ways.
Now make us a king to judge us

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like all the nations.
And at first Samuel’s

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displeased, but God puts things
into perspective when He says at

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the end of verse 7, they have
not rejected you, but they have

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rejected me from reigning over
them.

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And we have a flashback now,
don’t we, to the Spirit that was

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there in the Judges when there
was no king in Israel.

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Of course there was a king.
God was their king.

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David acknowledged in Psalm 45,
Thy throne, O Yahweh, it’s thy

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scepter.
And Israel did not acknowledge

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that God was their king.
And God sees that as a

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rejection.
And so he says through the

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prophet Hosea, I gave thee
Israel a king in mine anger.

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He gave them a king that they
desired a king after their own

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heart.
We turn the page to First Samuel

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Chapter 9.
We see a history of this man.

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We see a description of what he
is like, we’re told at verse

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two.
Well, verse one tells he’s tells

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us that he’s the son of a mighty
man of power or the margin says

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substance.
So it seems like he came from a

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wealthy home.
Remember, the tribe of Benjamin

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was a small tribe in Israel
because they’d almost been

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destroyed because of the
circumstances surrounding the

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Levite and the concubine who was
violently abused and murdered

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and sent throughout the land.
So this was a small tribe in

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Israel, but this is a mighty man
in that tribe, a man of

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substance, and he has a son
who’s a choice young man.

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The word means, as vine defined
vines defines it, a vigorous

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young man who was unmarried.
And then it says goodly.

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It’s actually there twice in the
record in the Hebrew, goodly

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goodly, which means he was
better or more beautiful than

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most around him.
And we’re told at the end of

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that verse, from his shoulders
and upward, he was higher than

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any of the people and so on.
First impression from a physical

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appearance perspective, we have
a man who could be fit to be a

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king.
But then we gain some insight as

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we come to verse 3 as to the
character of this individual.

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And the asses of Kish, Saul’s
father, were lost.

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We’ll later find out that was
Saul’s job was watching over his

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father’s herds.
So it was Saul that had lost the

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asses, a symbol of Israel.
And it was to foreshadow the end

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condition of this man, that as
he died, all Israel would be

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scattered like the asses that
Saul had lost at the beginning

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of this story.
One thing that we need to

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recognize is that God does not
set up any individual for

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failure.
We know that’s the case because

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of a couple of verses in the
Bible, one’s in the New

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Testament and one in the Old.
In second Peter chapter 3 and

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verse 9, the Lord is not slack
concerning His promise, as some

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men count slackness, but is
long-suffering toward us, not

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willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to

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repentance.
And then we think of the words

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of John 3 and 15.
Whosoever believeth should have

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eternal life, which is quoting
from Joel 2IN verse 32 and then

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Ezekiel 18 in the Old Testament.
Have I any pleasure at all that

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the wicked should die, saith the
Lord God, and not that He should

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return from His ways and live?
So God does not set anyone up

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for failure.
He would that all should repent

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and should grasp a hold of the
opportunity for salvation which

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He has offered.
Which is why Psalm 19 tells us

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that creation itself is a
witness to every human being

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that dwells upon the earth,
giving everyone the opportunity

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to recognize that there is
intelligent design and therefore

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desire to learn more about the
intelligence behind creation.

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God does not set up anyone for
failure and God gives Samuel,

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Saul rather every opportunity to
succeed.

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Turn the page over to First
Samuel chapter 10.

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In first Samuel chapter 10 we
read it verse 9 as was read for

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us.
And it was so that when he had

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turned his back from Samuel and
leave, God gave him another

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heart.
And then we find that he’s

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joined by a company of prophets
in verse 10.

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This was part of the school of
the prophets that had first been

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established in the land by
Samuel.

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It was Samuel who had created
companies of prophets throughout

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the land in an effort to rebuild
spirituality throughout the

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land.
And they seem to have gone by

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the wayside until we come to the
time period of Elijah, as we

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considered earlier this week.
So here’s a company of prophets

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that come and meet Saul.
And Saul also prophecies.

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Why at the end of verse 10?
Because the Spirit of God came

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upon him.
God gives him a new heart.

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He surrounds him by prophets.
His Spirit comes upon him.

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Saul himself is prophesying.
So strange is this site that it

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became known a proverb in
Israel.

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Verse 12.
Is Saul also among the prophets?

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And then Saul goes back to his
place.

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So God provokes Saul to action
once again.

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Samuel comes down, sent by God,
and he gathers all Israel

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together, and they’re told to
present themselves by tribes and

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by their thousands in verse 19.
And then they cast lots at verse

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20.
Samuel caused all the tribes of

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Israel to come near in the tribe
of Benjamin was taken, and then

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from the tribe of Benjamin the
family of Metri.

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And then Saul the son of Kish is
the one who was selected.

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And when they go to look for
him, nobody can find him.

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He’s hiding the one who was head
and shoulders above the rest of

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the nation, the one that they
desired to be their king, the

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one who’d been anointed, the one
who’d been given a new heart,

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the one to upon whom the Spirit
of God had come, the one who was

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prophesying, the one who became
a proverb is Saul, also amongst

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the prophets.
He’s hiding amongst the stuff

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when he’s going to be introduced
to the nation as a king.

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But God had given him every
opportunity to succeed, and we

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see that again at verse 26 of
First Samuel 10.

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And Saul also went home to
Gibeah, and there went with him

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a band of men whose hearts God
had touched.

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He even surrounds Saul by
spiritual people with spiritual

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people to be a positive
influence to him.

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Well, once again Saul resorts to
doing nothing, and so once again

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God gets involved and provokes
him by sending Nahash the

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Ammonite against the children of
Jabesh Gilead, who we saw

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earlier despised Israel.
It’s revealed in the covenant

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that they’re willing to make
with them, that they would

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thrust out all the right eyes of
the men of Jabesh Gilead.

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And so they appeal to Saul.
And Saul takes a yoke of oxen.

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He cuts it into pieces and he
sends it throughout all the

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tribes of Israel, and he gathers
together an army of 330,000

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people.
And at the end of the day Saul

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has slain the army.
And indeed it appears that all

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things are going well.
The army has been scattered in

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First Samuel Chapter 11 at verse
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And it was so on the morning
that Saul put the people in

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three companies, and they came
into the midst of the host in

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the morning watch and slew the
Ammonites until the heat of the

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day.
And it came to pass that they

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which remained were scattered so
that two of them were not left

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together.
And look at the spiritual

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insight that Saul for once in
his life and perhaps the last

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time has in verse 13, when
there’s a challenge for those

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that hadn’t accepted the
kingship of Saul, he says, shall

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there be a man put to death this
day for today the Lord hath

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wrought salvation in Israel.
Certainly that would have been a

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proud moment for Jonathan.
His son Yahweh had wrought

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salvation in Israel, declared
his father.

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And Samuel says to the people,
Come, let us go to Gilgal and

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renew the Kingdom.
And they go to Gilgal, and Saul

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the king before the Lord, and
they sacrifice peace offerings

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before the Lord.
And Saul and all the men of

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Israel rejoice greatly.
And we have a beautiful picture

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of what the kingship should have
been like.

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But then three years pass when
we come to First Samuel 13, and

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nothing’s happened again for
three years.

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The glory, the fervor, the
excitement of the defeat of the

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Ammonites, of the leadership of
Saul is past.

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And there’s an interesting
phrase at the beginning of First

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Samuel 13, the King James
Version reads Saul reigned one

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year.
And when he had reigned 2 years

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over Israel, well, the reality
is it has been two years, and

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this is now the third year.
But why does it say that Saul

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reigned one year?
And I believe that it’s giving

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us some insights into what this
man was like and the fact that

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he had returned to a former
state.

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Well, that word reigned one year
actually in the Hebrew means the

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son of a year, the son of a
year.

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And if you look up son of the
year elsewhere in the Bible,

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everywhere else in the Bible
that I could find, at least, not

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being a reader of Hebrew, but
using my tools that I have

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available, it always refers to a
lamb or a goat of the first year

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that’s going to be sacrificed in
every occurrence.

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There’s about 20 other
occurrences and it’s a lamb or a

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goat of the first year.
And what’s the point?

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Saul, who was supposed to be a
shepherd over Israel, was like a

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little cute lamb.
I believe that’s the point.

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And indeed, he would be
sacrificed in the end.

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But it wasn’t because God had
set him up to be a sacrifice.

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It’s because of his own vanity,
his own pursuit for pride and

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Vainglory, and the resulting
bitterness that would follow.

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Saul was like a little cute
lamb.

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And when he’d reign 2 years.
We come then to the story of

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Jonathan, who goes and defeats a
Garrison of the Philistines in

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Mcmash.
And of course we saw when we

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considered that story in our
first evening on Sunday, that

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Jonathan had had the victory and
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And then we considered as well
in First Samuel chapter 13 how

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Saul realized this was the
moment that he now had to wait

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for Samuel to arrive, and he
waited for seven days, but not

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right through the evening.
And he impetuously goes and

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offers the burnt offering
himself.

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And we saw in First Samuel 13
how Saul was rejected, not

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personally, but his family, from
being the Kingdom that would

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rule over Israel from that day
forward.

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And we saw that Saul’s response
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He just goes and he numbers the
people.

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And Jonathan was there.
And Jonathan witnessed that his

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father, who had previously
recognized that Yahweh had given

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salvation to Israel on the
defeat of the Ammonites, now

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watches his father take credit
for his son’s own work.

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Instead of being a proud dad,
he’s taking credit for his son’s

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own work.
And when the result of his own

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inept actions, impetuous
actions, and offering a

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sacrifice instead of waiting for
Samuel result in Jonathan losing

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a chance to rise to the throne,
he sees his father carry on like

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it’s no big deal.
And then we come to First

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Samuel, Chapter 14, which we
considered as well on our first

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evening together in our first
class, where Jonathan and his

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armor bearer go up against the
Philistines together.

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Jonathan sick and tired of
waiting for his father, no doubt

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having urged his father remember
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Dad, we can defeat these
Philistines.

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What we didn’t consider in our
first class was Saul’s response,

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Saul seeing the multitude melt
away as we considered due to the

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faith of Jonathan and his armor
bearer from afar.

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Here’s news that the multitude
is melting away.

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First Samuel 14 we come to the
record then at verse 16 and the

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Watchmen of Saul and Gibby of
Benjamin looked and behold, the

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multitude melted away and they
went on beating down one

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another.
And Saul says to the people that

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were with him, grab your swords,
let’s go.

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No, no, he doesn’t say that.
He says number the people or see

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who’s gone from us.
Because Saul cares more about

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who gets the glory than what has
been done.

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What a sad, sad individual, and
how sad any of us can become

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when we get so consumed in
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That we no longer care what the
work is, we only care who gets

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the credit.
That was this man’s Saul.

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So consumed was he in this, so
consumed was he in his glory,

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that he had actually made Israel
swear that day, verse 24, that

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they would not eat.
First Samuel 14, verse 24.

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And the men of Israel were
distressed that day.

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For Saul had adjured the people,
saying, Cursed be the man that

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eateth any food until even
evening, That I may be avenged

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on mine enemies, not God’s
enemies, not that Israel might

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be avenged against God’s
enemies, or Israel enemies.

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I might be avenged by my
enemies.

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And so none of the people tasted
any food.

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And as a result, as they’re
trying to chase after the

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Philistines, they’re being
largely ineffective because

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nobody has any energy.
And unbeknownst to Jonathan,

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while this rash oath has been
made, he partakes of some honey

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to give him some strength in his
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And so when we come to the end
of the chapter to verse 33, we

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find the children of Israel were
so hungry that they started to

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slay the animals that were left
behind by the Philistines and

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eat the raw flesh.
And so word comes to Saul and he

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calls all the people together.
He brings them back.

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He builds the only altar that he
builds in First Samuel 14 and

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verse 35.
And he tells the people to offer

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sacrifices upon the altar and
eat the food that is cooked.

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And now that all Israel is
gathered together, he says,

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well, let’s go down verse 36 and
fight against the Philistines.

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But first he asked counsel of
God, who shall go up?

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And God doesn’t answer Saul.
And Saul concludes, Well this is

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because somebody has broken my
oath.

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And so he tells all Israel in
verse 38 of First Samuel 14 Draw

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ye near, hit her all the chief
of the people, and know and see

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wherein the sin hath been this
day.

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You think you might have known
it was Jonathan?

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Read on.
For as Yahweh liveth which

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saveth Israel, though it be
Jonathan my son, he shall surely

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die.
And nobody answers Saul, what’s

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going on here?
Jonathan and his armor bearer,

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he knows, were the ones who set
the Philistines to flight.

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Jonathan, with his armor bearer,
were doing Saul’s job, leading

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the people to war against their
enemies.

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Jonathan was not present when he
made his rash oath because he

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was fighting against the
Philistines.

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And now he says, well, even if
it’s Jonathan that is eaten this

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day and broken my oath, he will
surely die.

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Furthermore, he then says, well
we’re going to divide up the

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Israel and Israel into two camps
and we’re going to cast lots all

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Israel.
You go over there, Jonathan, you

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and me will stand here, cast the
lot.

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Well, surprisingly it falls on
Saul and Jonathan.

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And he turns to Jonathan and
says, what have you done?

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Jonathan says I did but taste a
little honey at the end of my

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rod that was in my hand.
Lo, I must die.

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Yeah, Saul says in verse 44.
God do so and more also, for

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thou shalt surely die.
Jonathan so incredibly jealous

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was Saul that it blinded his own
familial love for his child.

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He was willing to kill Jonathan
because of his jealousy.

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And it was not Saul that
repented.

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Verse 45.
And the people say to Saul,

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shall Jonathan die, who with
wrought this great salvation in

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Israel?
By no means.

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As Yahweh liveth, not one here
shall stand upon his head.

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And you can see the people
starting to stand between

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Jonathan and Saul.
And So what does Saul do?

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Say, Oh well, let’s go get the
Philistines?

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Nope.
Then Saul went up from following

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the Philistines, and the
Philistines went to their their

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own place.
He was so blinded by jealousy he

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was willing to kill his son,
because in this instance there

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was no way to take credit for
what Jonathan had done.

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Saul was there, trembling with
his 600 men under a pomegranate

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tree in the uttermost parts of
Gibeah, while Jonathan was

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fighting the Philistines.
And his jealousy ended up being

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his end because the very group
of people that he let go this

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day because he couldn’t get the
credit for the victory were the

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people that in the end would
slay Saul and his three sons,

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including Jonathan.
Well, in First Samuel chapter 15

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we have yet another example of
Saul’s ineptness and rebellion.

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And First Samuel 15.
Samuel is going to reject Saul

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at God’s instruction from being
king.

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See, Samuel had been instructed
to go up and to fight the

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Amalekites.
Look at verses one and two or

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one to three.
Rather, Samuel said to Saul,

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Yahweh sent me to anoint thee to
be king over his people, over

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Israel.
Now therefore, hearken thou to

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the voice of the words of
Yahweh.

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts.
I remember that which Amalek did

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to Israel, how he laid in wait
for him in the way when he came

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from Egypt.
Now go and smite Amalek, and

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utterly destroy all that they
have.

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Spare them not, but slay both
man and woman, infant and

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suckling, ox and sheep, camel
and ass.

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Saul is being given another
opportunity to succeed here.

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This command to go defeat the
Amalekites comes with some

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special insights.
It’s not just instruction to go

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feed the defeat the Amalekites.
The instruction includes insight

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into how God feels about the
Amalekites and why he feels this

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way about the Amalekites.
I remember, says God, of Armies,

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that which Amalek did to Israel
when he was in the way, how they

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took out the old and the young,
the sick and the feeble, whether

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it was of man or woman or of
animal.

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And so he tells, tells Saul to
go up and to utterly destroy

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Amalek.
And when we come to verse 8, we

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can see how well Saul has done.
Verse 8.

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He took Agag the king of the
Amalekite, the Malachites,

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alive, and utterly destroyed all
the people with the edge of the

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sword.
But he spared Agag.

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Verse 9.
And the best of the sheep, and

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of the oxen, and of the
fatlings, and the lambs, and all

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that was good, and would not
utterly destroy them, but

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everything that was vile and
refuse that they destroyed

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utterly.
And so Samuel comes before Saul,

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and now informs him that he has
been rejected from being king.

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Verse 10, The word of the Lord
came unto Samuel saying, It

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repenteth me that I have set up
Saul to be king, for he’s turned

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back from following me.
Even after I shared what was in

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my heart and told him why I
needed him to utterly destroy

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the Amalekites, he had not
followed my commandments.

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And so Samuel confronts Saul and
all the sheep are bleeding in

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the background and Saul’s
protesting.

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I did, I did, I did.
Yes mommy, I did exactly as you

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asked me to.
He’s like a little tiny baby

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before Samuel.
And he says, no, you didn’t, I

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told you to utterly destroy, and
now you’ve brought a gag.

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Verse 20, the king of Amalek,
the people he says were the ones

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who took the spoil, the sheep
and the oxen and the chief

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things.
But it’s OK, Saul says we did it

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because we wanted to make a
sacrifice to the Lord.

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And Samuel instructs Saul and
gives foresight into Saul’s

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final end when he says in verse
22 and 23 hath the Lord is great

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delight in burnt offerings and
sacrifices, as in obeying the

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voice of the Lord.
Think Saul, where did sacrifice

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come from?
Why?

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It was born out of disobedience.
It was born out of sin.

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Sacrifice is not what God
desires.

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It was the obedience.
God wishes there had never been

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the sacrifice.
He wishes that Adam and Eve had

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carried on in obedience, but
because of disobedience,

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sacrifice was instilled in the
law.

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Behold, to obey is better than
sacrifice, and to hearken than

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the fat of Rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of

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witchcraft, and stubbornness is
as iniquity and idolatry.

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Because thou has rejected the
word of the Lord, he has also

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rejected thee from being king.
This was now the next level.

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What did Saul do when he was
rejected from ruling over the

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Kingdom, IE his lineage wouldn’t
continue on the throne?

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He turned around and numbered
the people.

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Seems to be a favorite thing of
Saul.

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But what does he do now when his
kingship has been rejected?

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00:31:10,840 –> 00:31:14,400
Verse 24 I have sinned, I have
transgressed.

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Why?
It wasn’t my fault.

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I feared the people, I obeyed
their voice.

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Now I pray thee, pardon my sin
and turn again with me, that I

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may worship the Lord.
And Samuel says in verse 26, I

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will not return with thee, for
thou hast rejected the word of

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the Lord, and the Lord hath
rejected thee from being king

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00:31:33,080 –> 00:31:36,800
over Israel.
And is Saul happy at that point?

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00:31:37,280 –> 00:31:38,880
Is he just going to go on with
his life?

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No, he falls to the ground and
he rens Samuel’s mantle.

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00:31:45,440 –> 00:31:48,440
And Samuel turns around to him
and says, so has Yahweh rent the

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00:31:48,440 –> 00:31:52,000
Kingdom of Israel from thee this
day, and given it to a neighbor

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00:31:52,000 –> 00:31:54,360
of thine that is better than
thou?

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00:31:56,000 –> 00:31:57,920
And yet he continues.
Verse 30.

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Saul says to Samuel, I’ve
sinned, and here’s the

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00:32:02,360 –> 00:32:11,000
motivation for his repentance,
Yet honor me now, I pray thee

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before the elders of my people
and before Israel, and turn with

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me, that I may worship the Lord
thy God, not his God, but

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00:32:22,680 –> 00:32:26,760
Samuel’s God.
What a different state when Saul

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himself was rejected.
And who would have been at

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00:32:32,560 –> 00:32:38,560
Saul’s side but the captain of
his army and his sons?

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The son who lost the right to
the throne because of Saul’s

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00:32:43,480 –> 00:32:47,480
impetuous action?
The son that had urged him to

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00:32:47,480 –> 00:32:52,600
take leadership in Israel but
watched his father ready to kill

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00:32:52,600 –> 00:32:58,360
him because of jealousy.
The son now seeing his dad being

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00:32:58,360 –> 00:33:03,160
cast away from the throne and
now sees his dad grovel on the

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ground.
What a man was Saul.

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In First Samuel chapter 16, we
see the Spirit of God leaves

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Saul and an evil spirit comes
upon him.

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In First Samuel chapter 17, we
saw that Saul had promised three

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things to any man that defeated
Goliath, freedom, wealth, and to

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become a part of the Royal
Court.

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His daughter could take his
daughter in marriage and he did

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00:33:32,680 –> 00:33:35,640
not uphold those promises to
David, at least not at the

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outset.
So he wasn’t a man of his word.

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And that would have been seen by
all of the court.

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And then Saul becomes insanely
jealous because when we turn

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over to First Samuel 18, we see
that as he’s brought David to to

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serve in his army.
Verse 5, David went out.

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This is first Samuel 18.
Verse 5.

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David went out whithersoever
Saul sent him, and behaved

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00:34:02,200 –> 00:34:05,360
himself wisely.
And Saul sent him over the men

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00:34:05,360 –> 00:34:09,239
of war, and he was accepted in
the sight of all the people, and

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00:34:09,239 –> 00:34:11,360
also in the sight of Saul’s
servants.

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And it came to pass, as they
came, when David was returned

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00:34:16,320 –> 00:34:19,400
from the slaughter of the
Philistine, that the women came

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00:34:19,400 –> 00:34:23,080
out of the cities of Israel
singing and dancing, to meet

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00:34:23,080 –> 00:34:26,760
King Saul with tabrets, with
joy, and with instruments.

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00:34:27,120 –> 00:34:30,199
And they answered one another as
they played, saying Saul has

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00:34:30,199 –> 00:34:35,520
slain his thousands and David
his ten thousands.

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00:34:36,360 –> 00:34:41,520
And from that day forward, it
says in verse 9, Saul eyed

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00:34:41,760 –> 00:34:45,199
David.
Indeed, he tries to Pierce him

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00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:48,480
through with the javelin.
He tries to kill him while he’s

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00:34:48,480 –> 00:34:52,080
asleep in his own bed.
He then kills the entire

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00:34:52,080 –> 00:34:59,080
household of the priests of a
hyah because he had sided with

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00:34:59,080 –> 00:35:01,160
David.
As David starts to flee from

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00:35:01,160 –> 00:35:05,120
Saul and then for 10 years
instead of governing Israel,

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00:35:05,280 –> 00:35:11,640
Saul runs around like a Wildman
hunting a wild dog hunting David

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00:35:12,440 –> 00:35:17,480
who runs, hit her and thither.
While Saul should have been

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00:35:17,480 –> 00:35:25,240
governing his people and instead
seeks to kill one man who had

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00:35:25,240 –> 00:35:30,160
saved Israel and had fought at
his side and had played a heart

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00:35:30,160 –> 00:35:33,080
to help him be restored in his
mind.

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And in First Samuel 28 when the
Philistines have assembled

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against Saul, we see his
spiritual state.

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00:35:50,620 –> 00:35:55,820
First Samuel 28 at verse one.
It came to pass in those days

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00:35:55,820 –> 00:35:58,700
that the Philistines gathered
their armies together for

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00:35:58,700 –> 00:36:04,460
warfare to fight with Israel.
Now Samuel was dead, it says in

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00:36:04,460 –> 00:36:07,680
verse 3.
And Saul, who had put away those

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00:36:07,680 –> 00:36:12,480
with familiar spirits and
Wizards, asks if there is a

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00:36:12,920 –> 00:36:17,040
woman with a familiar spirit
that he can go inquire of.

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00:36:18,280 –> 00:36:21,880
And the reason he gives is in
verse 6, when Saul inquired of

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00:36:21,880 –> 00:36:25,760
the Lord, the Lord answered him
not neither by dreams, nor by

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00:36:25,760 –> 00:36:32,240
Urim, nor by prophets.
We don’t know what Saul’s prayer

510
00:36:32,240 –> 00:36:41,440
was, but we do know that it was
not asked in a way or the topic

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00:36:41,440 –> 00:36:43,680
was not one that God would
entertain.

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00:36:43,680 –> 00:36:47,600
Because in First Chronicles
chapter 10 and verse 13 a good

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00:36:47,600 –> 00:36:50,360
verse to put in the cross
reference if it’s not already in

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00:36:50,360 –> 00:36:53,840
your center margin.
It says that Saul died for his

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00:36:53,840 –> 00:36:57,680
transgression which he committed
against the Lord, even against

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00:36:57,680 –> 00:37:03,400
the word of the Lord, which he
kept not and that was in not

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00:37:03,400 –> 00:37:08,000
defeating the Amalekites.
And also a for asking council of

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00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:13,320
one that had a familiar spirit
to inquire of it and inquired

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00:37:13,320 –> 00:37:19,760
not of the Lord.
Therefore the Lord slew Saul and

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00:37:19,760 –> 00:37:22,360
turned the Kingdom unto David
the son of Jesse.

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00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:27,160
And so although it says in verse
6 that Saul inquired of the

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00:37:27,160 –> 00:37:29,800
Lord, the Lord says that he
inquired not of me.

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00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:34,280
His spirit wasn’t right.
Even back in First Samuel

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00:37:34,280 –> 00:37:39,560
chapter 15, we saw his reaction
to Samuel appeal to the Lord

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00:37:39,560 –> 00:37:42,640
your God.
He didn’t even associate himself

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00:37:42,640 –> 00:37:49,080
anymore with the God of Israel.
He had no spiritual bone in his

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00:37:49,080 –> 00:37:51,840
body by the time we come to
First Samuel 28, which is

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00:37:51,840 –> 00:37:56,160
evidenced by the fact that he
goes to a witch to ask for

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00:37:56,160 –> 00:38:02,880
advice on what he should do.
And in the end, Saul would die

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00:38:02,880 –> 00:38:06,240
at the hands of those that he
should have destroyed.

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That’s the man that Jonathan
spent a lifetime trying to

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00:38:17,240 –> 00:38:21,440
honor.
Can you imagine that, brothers

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00:38:21,440 –> 00:38:25,400
and sisters?
Can you imagine trying to honor

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00:38:26,000 –> 00:38:33,200
that man?
The word honor, the word honor

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00:38:33,200 –> 00:38:43,240
means to build a good name, to
show public esteem for, and

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00:38:43,240 –> 00:38:45,000
that’s indeed what Jonathan had
done.

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00:38:45,000 –> 00:38:47,840
He had always sought to build a
good name.

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00:38:48,040 –> 00:38:52,160
That’s why we know that Jonathan
would have been appealing to his

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00:38:52,160 –> 00:38:55,400
father to go fight against the
Philistines instead of just

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00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:59,280
going up with his armor bearer.
Turn over with me to First

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00:38:59,280 –> 00:39:05,320
Samuel Chapter 20 when David
confronts Jonathan and says your

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00:39:05,320 –> 00:39:11,200
father wants to kill me.
This is Jonathan’s response.

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00:39:12,800 –> 00:39:15,480
First Samuel chapter 20 verses
one and two.

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00:39:15,800 –> 00:39:20,480
And David fled from Naoth and
Rhema and came and said before

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00:39:20,480 –> 00:39:24,000
Jonathan, why is he in Rhema?
Well, he’s been down with

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00:39:24,000 –> 00:39:27,200
Samuel, and he’s agreeing now to
meet with Jonathan.

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00:39:27,520 –> 00:39:29,480
And he says to Jonathan, What
have I done?

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00:39:29,640 –> 00:39:32,960
What is mine iniquity?
What is my sin before thy

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00:39:32,960 –> 00:39:36,880
father, that he seeketh my life?
And we can see the desperation

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00:39:36,880 –> 00:39:42,240
that David has now.
And Jonathan says to David, God

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00:39:42,240 –> 00:39:46,160
forbid thou shalt not die.
Behold, my father will do

552
00:39:46,160 –> 00:39:50,280
nothing great or small, but that
he will show it me.

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00:39:50,880 –> 00:39:53,240
Why should my father hide this
thing from me?

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00:39:53,520 –> 00:39:57,720
It is not so.
And he contradicts Jonathan, his

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00:39:57,720 –> 00:40:02,280
best friend, the one whom he
loved as his own soul, in

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00:40:02,280 –> 00:40:07,680
defence of his father’s honor.
And so we know that that

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00:40:07,680 –> 00:40:11,440
commandment to honor thy father
and thy mother, that thy days

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00:40:11,640 –> 00:40:15,360
may be long upon the land which
the Lord hath given thee, we

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00:40:15,360 –> 00:40:17,760
know that that was taken up by
Jonathan.

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00:40:19,080 –> 00:40:22,080
And because we know that that
was a principle that ruled in

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00:40:22,080 –> 00:40:27,160
Jonathan’s life, we know that he
was there urging his father to

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00:40:27,160 –> 00:40:30,240
go up against the Philistines,
not just doing it himself.

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00:40:30,720 –> 00:40:33,920
He was urging his father to be
the captain the people had asked

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00:40:33,920 –> 00:40:36,480
for.
We know that he would have been

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00:40:36,480 –> 00:40:41,960
urging him to go out against
Goliath because he always sought

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00:40:41,960 –> 00:40:48,280
to build up his father’s name.
We know that because he stood at

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00:40:48,280 –> 00:40:53,280
the end in front of his father,
not behind his father, not

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00:40:53,280 –> 00:40:58,720
alongside of his father.
When Saul and his sons die, do

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00:40:58,720 –> 00:41:00,640
you know which son is named
first?

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00:41:01,320 –> 00:41:06,160
Jonathan.
Jonathan because he was at the

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00:41:06,160 –> 00:41:13,760
forefront protecting his father
right until the very bitter end.

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00:41:15,920 –> 00:41:21,920
So the first principle about
honour is that honour is not

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00:41:22,320 –> 00:41:27,680
dependent on upon the subject’s
behaviour.

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00:41:28,880 –> 00:41:36,320
Honour is not dependent upon the
other person’s behaviour of all

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00:41:36,320 –> 00:41:41,360
people, that you would have a
command that you had to follow,

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00:41:42,680 –> 00:41:48,720
that you had to honor.
How could anyone honor this man?

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00:41:50,000 –> 00:41:52,760
This man that was willing to
take credit for what Jonathan

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00:41:52,760 –> 00:41:55,120
had done.
This man who was willing to put

579
00:41:55,120 –> 00:41:57,720
Jonathan to death because he was
jealous.

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00:41:58,320 –> 00:42:02,040
This man who at the dining room
table had thrown a spear at his

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00:42:02,040 –> 00:42:05,600
head because he saw that
Jonathan was siding with David.

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00:42:07,800 –> 00:42:12,080
And yet Jonathan seeks to honor
his father.

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00:42:15,000 –> 00:42:18,200
Now, the second principle
concerning honor is that just

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00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:22,520
because we seek to build up
someone’s good name, seek to

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00:42:22,520 –> 00:42:27,520
honor them, does not mean that
we agree with everything they

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00:42:27,520 –> 00:42:31,200
do.
We know as we go through the

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00:42:31,200 –> 00:42:33,720
record that there was an
occasion where Jonathan had

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00:42:33,720 –> 00:42:37,200
expressed disappointment in the
decision that Saul had made that

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00:42:37,200 –> 00:42:39,920
cost Israel the victory against
the Philistines.

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00:42:40,160 –> 00:42:44,000
We know that he would have been
discussing with Saul, his father

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00:42:44,000 –> 00:42:46,440
at the dining room table, the
fact that it was his

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00:42:46,440 –> 00:42:49,880
responsibility to go up and
fight the giant, to fight the

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00:42:49,880 –> 00:42:57,360
nation of the Philistines.
He worked with Saul to try to

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00:42:57,360 –> 00:43:00,200
convert him right through to the
very end.

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00:43:00,960 –> 00:43:04,040
And at one point in time, in
First Samuel, chapter 19, he was

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00:43:04,040 –> 00:43:06,440
successful.
He actually was able to turn the

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00:43:06,440 –> 00:43:10,480
heart of his father and to
convert him from going after

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00:43:10,760 –> 00:43:14,600
David.
So honor does not preclude

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00:43:14,600 –> 00:43:20,600
rebuke, but honor does mean that
when we don’t agree or respect

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00:43:20,600 –> 00:43:25,280
an action that someone else has
taken, we still continue to seek

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00:43:25,280 –> 00:43:31,680
their good whenever possible.
And then in First Samuel chapter

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00:43:31,680 –> 00:43:41,360
20, we come to a critical point
in Jonathan’s decision as to

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00:43:41,360 –> 00:43:45,040
whether he will honor his father
or not.

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00:43:45,840 –> 00:43:49,400
See, David has come to him and
is afraid for his life.

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00:43:50,920 –> 00:43:57,120
And so David and Jonathan plot
out a plan so that Jonathan can

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00:43:57,120 –> 00:44:03,000
determine if Saul is indeed
seeking to kill David.

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00:44:04,120 –> 00:44:10,200
And the plan is that David will
go back to his family and he

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00:44:10,200 –> 00:44:13,400
will not be present for the
feast that David would normally

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00:44:13,400 –> 00:44:17,560
have sat at Saul’s table for.
And Jonathan would determine how

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00:44:17,560 –> 00:44:21,120
his father responded.
And based on that determination,

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00:44:21,360 –> 00:44:25,640
they would meet again in the
same place.

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00:44:26,520 –> 00:44:31,640
And there would be a sign, a
sign that either it was safe for

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00:44:31,640 –> 00:44:36,000
David to come back to the House
of Saul, to the Royal Court, to

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00:44:36,000 –> 00:44:39,840
the dining room table with Saul
and his army, captain of army

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00:44:39,840 –> 00:44:43,960
and his sons, and the rest of
the Royal Court, or David had to

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00:44:43,960 –> 00:44:47,960
flee.
And we know what happened at

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00:44:47,960 –> 00:44:51,000
verse 33.
Saul casts A javelin against

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00:44:51,000 –> 00:44:55,640
David, the smitem whereby
Jonathan knew it was determined

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00:44:55,640 –> 00:45:00,360
of his father to slay David, not
concerned about his own life,

620
00:45:00,360 –> 00:45:03,920
but the life of his friend.
And he arises from the table and

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00:45:03,920 –> 00:45:06,280
fierce anger.
And he comes out to the field

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00:45:06,280 –> 00:45:09,720
the next day, the time appointed
with David, and he shoots an

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00:45:09,720 –> 00:45:14,680
arrow beyond the rock, which was
the sign that David was to flee.

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00:45:15,400 –> 00:45:20,360
It was not safe to go back.
And he tells the armor bearer in

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00:45:20,360 –> 00:45:25,920
verse 40 of First Samuel 20,
take my armor and carry them

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00:45:25,920 –> 00:45:29,240
back to the city.
And as soon as he was gone, we

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00:45:29,240 –> 00:45:33,000
read on in verse 41 and 42,
David arose out of the place

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00:45:33,000 –> 00:45:37,840
toward the South and fell on his
face to the ground and bowed

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00:45:37,840 –> 00:45:41,880
himself three times.
And they kissed one another and

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00:45:41,880 –> 00:45:44,640
wept one with another until
David exceeded.

631
00:45:45,400 –> 00:45:49,440
And Jonathan said to David, go
in peace.

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00:45:50,920 –> 00:45:59,360
Go in peace.
Now if you were Jonathan, where

633
00:45:59,360 –> 00:46:04,160
would you like to go at this
point in time?

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00:46:07,440 –> 00:46:11,400
Turn back to the end of First
Samuel chapter 17.

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00:46:12,960 –> 00:46:21,440
Remember the speech, the answer
that David gives to Saul upon

636
00:46:21,440 –> 00:46:28,320
the slaying of Goliath, when
David slew Goliath, when David

637
00:46:28,320 –> 00:46:32,560
is standing before Saul with the
hair of Goliath in his hand and

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00:46:32,560 –> 00:46:37,080
the head underneath it, and Saul
is calling him a stripling.

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00:46:38,720 –> 00:46:40,320
Saul isn’t asking what his name
is.

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00:46:40,320 –> 00:46:45,280
He’s saying, whose son art thou?
In verse 58 of First Samuel 17,

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00:46:46,040 –> 00:46:53,720
Thou young man, he insults the
hero of Israel, the one who did

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00:46:53,720 –> 00:46:58,160
what he couldn’t do, the one who
had the courage to do what he

643
00:46:58,160 –> 00:47:01,760
did not have the courage to do,
the one who could see with

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00:47:01,760 –> 00:47:07,200
clarity what that Philistine
was, clarity that Saul didn’t

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00:47:07,200 –> 00:47:09,320
have.
And he says, whose son art thou?

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00:47:09,320 –> 00:47:13,280
Thou young man, thou stripling
of verse 56.

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00:47:15,520 –> 00:47:19,280
And David we noted in our talk
yesterday, doesn’t respond.

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00:47:20,120 –> 00:47:24,640
I’m David, the one who killed
Goliath that you should have

649
00:47:24,640 –> 00:47:30,080
done Saul.
He doesn’t even say I’m the son

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00:47:30,080 –> 00:47:34,200
of Jesse.
He says I’m the son of Jesse,

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00:47:35,680 –> 00:47:44,160
thy servant, the Bethlehemite.
What was David doing in this

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00:47:44,160 –> 00:47:47,520
verse when he had every
opportunity to chastise Saul?

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00:47:48,880 –> 00:47:57,640
He was showing Saul honor.
He was seeking to make Saul look

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00:47:57,640 –> 00:48:00,720
good.
I’m the son of thy servant.

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00:48:01,600 –> 00:48:03,400
That’s who I am.
I’m nobody.

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00:48:04,320 –> 00:48:06,920
I’m the son of Thy.
I’m not even thy servant.

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00:48:07,240 –> 00:48:12,560
I’m the son of thy servant.
And verse 1 of chapter 18.

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00:48:14,560 –> 00:48:18,880
And it came to pass, when he had
made an end of speaking unto

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00:48:18,880 –> 00:48:23,280
Saul, what did he say?
I’m the son of thy servant,

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00:48:23,320 –> 00:48:27,480
Jesse the Bethelamite.
That the soul of Jonathan was

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00:48:27,480 –> 00:48:35,360
knit with the soul of David, and
Jonathan loved him as his own

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00:48:35,360 –> 00:48:37,320
soul.
Why?

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00:48:38,280 –> 00:48:41,120
Because that’s the answer that
Jonathan would have given.

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00:48:42,040 –> 00:48:46,400
Here’s a young man who had every
right to chastise his father, to

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00:48:46,400 –> 00:48:49,280
rebuke his father.
Here’s a young man who had every

666
00:48:49,280 –> 00:48:53,200
right to tower over his father
in terms of what he had just

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00:48:53,200 –> 00:48:56,440
accomplished.
And here’s a young man who won’t

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00:48:56,440 –> 00:49:00,920
even say I’m a servant.
I was your armor bearer.

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00:49:01,800 –> 00:49:05,800
I was the one who helped you
when you were slipping away into

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00:49:05,800 –> 00:49:10,480
your little moments.
I’m the son of thy servant.

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00:49:11,800 –> 00:49:19,480
I’m nobody.
Saul and Jonathan loved him for

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00:49:19,480 –> 00:49:23,640
that spirit.
Sure, he had started to love him

673
00:49:23,640 –> 00:49:26,840
because of the spirit he’d seen
when he was there in the court.

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00:49:27,360 –> 00:49:30,400
Sure, he had loved him for the
courage and the faith that he

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00:49:30,400 –> 00:49:34,040
showed, which was just like
Jonathan’s courage and just like

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00:49:34,040 –> 00:49:36,560
Jonathan’s faith.
Sure, he loved him for the

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00:49:36,560 –> 00:49:40,080
clarity and the spiritual
discernment that he exercised,

678
00:49:40,240 –> 00:49:45,240
recognizing that this towering
ball of flesh was nothing before

679
00:49:45,240 –> 00:49:48,640
God, just like an army of the
Philistines was nothing before

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00:49:48,640 –> 00:49:50,520
God.
They had all those things in

681
00:49:50,520 –> 00:49:52,720
common.
They were willing to fight

682
00:49:52,720 –> 00:49:55,040
giants, willing to fight armies
together.

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00:49:56,360 –> 00:50:03,440
But he would also show honour to
a man that didn’t deserve it.

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00:50:04,800 –> 00:50:07,960
He would humble himself before
Saul.

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00:50:09,680 –> 00:50:18,760
And when Jonathan heard that,
his soul was knit with the soul

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00:50:18,760 –> 00:50:23,920
of David, and Jonathan loved him
as himself.

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00:50:24,880 –> 00:50:30,720
The picture was complete.
Here was a man that was so like

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00:50:30,720 –> 00:50:38,960
Jonathan in every aspect.
And so coming back to First

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00:50:38,960 –> 00:50:44,840
Samuel chapter 20, when Jonathan
and David are standing together

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00:50:46,960 –> 00:50:50,600
and they both realize that David
needs to go.

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00:50:52,880 –> 00:50:57,440
Jonathan, who so would have
loved to go with his best

692
00:50:57,440 –> 00:51:03,400
friend, whoso would have loved
to be there to protect him, knew

693
00:51:03,400 –> 00:51:09,120
that if he made that decision,
his father would be shamed in

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00:51:09,120 –> 00:51:11,800
the nation.
Where’s Jonathan?

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00:51:11,800 –> 00:51:16,080
People would say, oh, he went
out with Saul’s enemy, with

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00:51:16,080 –> 00:51:19,920
David.
He would bring great dishonor to

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00:51:19,920 –> 00:51:23,080
his father if he left with
David.

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00:51:25,000 –> 00:51:29,040
And so he makes the most
difficult decision to stay with

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00:51:29,040 –> 00:51:33,280
his father, David, Jonathan’s
father, Saul, no doubt hoping

700
00:51:33,280 –> 00:51:37,800
that he could be a good
influence in Saul’s life, maybe

701
00:51:37,800 –> 00:51:40,880
thinking he might even be able
to help out David by warning

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00:51:40,880 –> 00:51:47,600
him, by being a spy to him, but
most of all because that was the

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00:51:47,600 –> 00:51:51,600
decision that would honor his
father.

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00:51:54,120 –> 00:51:57,640
And what about David?
That was not the only instance

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00:51:58,880 –> 00:52:03,680
of honor that David showed him.
In First Samuel chapter 24, we

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00:52:03,680 –> 00:52:06,760
have the most awkward scene
presented to us in the

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00:52:06,760 –> 00:52:11,240
Scriptures where Saul comes into
a cave away from Abner, away

708
00:52:11,240 –> 00:52:14,760
from his sons, away from the
3000 chosen men that he’s got

709
00:52:15,080 –> 00:52:21,120
because he has to go #2 and
there he is, crouching in a cave

710
00:52:21,120 –> 00:52:26,640
all by himself and unbeknownst
to him, David and his men,

711
00:52:26,920 –> 00:52:31,280
somewhere between 2 and 600.
We don’t know how many men were

712
00:52:31,280 –> 00:52:34,840
with them at this point in time.
We know that there were 600 men

713
00:52:34,840 –> 00:52:38,240
with David eventually.
But at this point in time,

714
00:52:38,240 –> 00:52:43,200
there’s a bunch of mighty men of
valor that are with David.

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00:52:43,200 –> 00:52:49,040
His brothers had left and come
to David, and his cousins had

716
00:52:49,040 –> 00:52:52,680
left and come to David.
And there they are standing in

717
00:52:52,680 –> 00:52:58,880
The Cave and someone says to
him, David, remember that you

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00:52:58,880 –> 00:53:03,120
were told that God would deliver
your enemies into your hand.

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00:53:03,520 –> 00:53:07,040
Here it is.
This is a fulfillment of what

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00:53:07,040 –> 00:53:10,360
God has told you.
And he said, no, it isn’t.

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00:53:11,480 –> 00:53:16,160
I will not put my hand forth to
Yahweh’s anointed.

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00:53:17,800 –> 00:53:22,360
And in fact, not only does he
refrain from killing Saul on

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00:53:22,360 –> 00:53:29,600
that day, but he confronts Saul.
Verse nine of First Samuel 24.

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00:53:29,600 –> 00:53:34,360
David said to Saul, why do you
hear the words of your men

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00:53:34,360 –> 00:53:38,160
saying David seeks your hurt?
See what David does?

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00:53:38,840 –> 00:53:43,040
He doesn’t even accuse Saul.
He gives Saul the benefit of the

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00:53:43,040 –> 00:53:46,040
doubt.
Other people must be telling you

728
00:53:46,040 –> 00:53:48,080
that I have something against
you, Saul.

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00:53:49,280 –> 00:53:50,640
I don’t have anything against
you.

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00:53:50,880 –> 00:53:53,560
Here’s proof.
Here’s a part of your skirt that

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00:53:53,560 –> 00:53:56,000
you put off while you went to
the bathroom.

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00:53:57,520 –> 00:54:00,120
I could have slain you.
They were telling me to kill

733
00:54:00,120 –> 00:54:06,480
you, Saul, and I chose not to.
I have not sinned against you,

734
00:54:06,480 –> 00:54:09,840
He says in verse 11.
Yahweh, judge between me and

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00:54:09,840 –> 00:54:14,280
thee, and Yahweh avenge me of
thee, but mine hands shall not

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00:54:14,280 –> 00:54:19,320
be upon thee.
And Saul lifts up his voice in

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00:54:19,320 –> 00:54:23,040
verse 16 and weeps and
acknowledges that David had been

738
00:54:23,040 –> 00:54:27,720
more righteous than he.
And this was not the last time.

739
00:54:28,600 –> 00:54:33,360
Again in first Samuel 26, Saul
and his men are encamped in a

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00:54:33,360 –> 00:54:36,360
valley and they’re a sound
asleep.

741
00:54:37,240 –> 00:54:40,040
And Jonathan and his men sneak
into the camp.

742
00:54:40,200 –> 00:54:44,200
David and his men sneak into the
camp and there’s Saul sound

743
00:54:44,200 –> 00:54:48,480
asleep, and Saul is with
Abishai, his nephew’s cousin,

744
00:54:49,000 –> 00:54:51,920
who says, look, I’ll take that
spear.

745
00:54:52,680 –> 00:54:56,240
I’ll pluck it out of the ground
and I’ll shove it through his

746
00:54:56,240 –> 00:55:00,400
head so hard, one strike he’ll
be pinned to the ground.

747
00:55:01,960 –> 00:55:05,560
God has given you into your hand
once again.

748
00:55:06,760 –> 00:55:08,200
And he says, I will not touch
you.

749
00:55:08,200 –> 00:55:13,200
Always anointed.
And once again, he uses his uses

750
00:55:13,200 –> 00:55:17,800
it as an opportunity to try to
convert Saul.

751
00:55:21,080 –> 00:55:24,920
What a stubborn, hard,
rebellious man.

752
00:55:26,080 –> 00:55:29,960
Jonathan could send an
innumerable host fleeing.

753
00:55:31,080 –> 00:55:37,320
David could slay a giant.
But the combined efforts of

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00:55:37,320 –> 00:55:41,800
these two spiritual giants could
not save Saul.

755
00:55:43,280 –> 00:55:47,040
This is what pride and
bitterness of soul can do to a

756
00:55:47,040 –> 00:55:51,680
person.
And so the principles of honor

757
00:55:51,680 –> 00:55:57,000
that come out in the lives of
Jonathan and David in relation

758
00:55:57,000 –> 00:56:02,800
to Saul are first.
They always sought to build a

759
00:56:02,800 –> 00:56:07,440
good name for him.
Secondly, they recognize that

760
00:56:07,440 –> 00:56:11,960
honor is not dependent upon the
actions of the other individual.

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00:56:12,240 –> 00:56:16,120
Even though they rebuked them,
even though they disagreed with

762
00:56:16,120 –> 00:56:19,560
them.
Also, honor is not respect or

763
00:56:19,560 –> 00:56:24,040
agreement or complicity.
We may not agree, but we can

764
00:56:24,040 –> 00:56:30,840
still honor. 4th Honor rebukes
in private and in love, and if

765
00:56:30,840 –> 00:56:36,320
correction is needed, it is done
to build up and not tear down.

766
00:56:36,320 –> 00:56:45,360
And in case you’re wondering how
this applies to us, these are

767
00:56:45,360 –> 00:56:50,200
the audiences, the recipients
that we’re told to honor in the

768
00:56:50,200 –> 00:56:54,000
scriptures.
Our father and our mother in the

769
00:56:54,000 –> 00:56:58,200
10 commandments.
The elderly in Leviticus 19.

770
00:56:58,880 –> 00:57:05,280
God in First Samuel 2, our wives
husbands were to honor our wives

771
00:57:05,520 –> 00:57:09,480
in first Peter chapter 3 that
our prayers be not hindered.

772
00:57:10,320 –> 00:57:15,440
Widows in first Timothy 5, our
masters, our employers in first

773
00:57:15,440 –> 00:57:21,840
Timothy 6 each other in Romans
chapter 12 and boy, this is a

774
00:57:21,840 –> 00:57:25,880
tough one.
Our Prime Minister and our

775
00:57:25,880 –> 00:57:33,320
president, those are the people
we’re told to build a good name

776
00:57:33,320 –> 00:57:38,920
for.
And this man that God had given

777
00:57:38,960 –> 00:57:44,720
as a king in his anger, God
would finally take him away in

778
00:57:44,720 –> 00:57:47,560
his wrath, concludes Hosea 13,
verse 11.

779
00:57:48,960 –> 00:57:53,880
And Even so, Jonathan and David
would seek it every opportunity

780
00:57:54,640 –> 00:57:58,320
to build a good name for Saul,
even after his death.

781
00:57:58,640 –> 00:58:04,760
As we’ll see in our class
tomorrow, David will have Israel

782
00:58:04,760 –> 00:58:08,440
remember Saul’s good name.