David Wisniewski – Developing Spiritual Intelligence – Class 4 – Friendship

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OK, so this is Watch and Lake
Bible School 2025.

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Our speaker for this session is
Brother David Wisniewski.

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His theme for the week is
Developing Spiritual

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Intelligence from the lives of
Jonathan and David, and his

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fourth class today is entitled
Friendship for the David.

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Well, good morning brothers and
sisters.

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Once again, hopefully our sister
fares well.

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I understand an ambulance may be
coming so we may be briefly

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interrupted, but we will
continue on as we can.

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Well, we come to our 4th class
on David and Jonathan and now we

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consider the spiritual quotient
friendship in our theme of

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developing spiritual
intelligence.

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Proverbs 17 verse 17 reads A
friend loves at all times and a

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brother is born for adversity
and we know our family will

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always be there for us when
things go wrong, but a friend

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loves at all times and so we are
right.

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OK.
And so that is the type of

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friendship we’re going to see
with David and Jonathan.

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And as we to consider these two
characters, our minds, just by

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the meanings of their names, are
cast forward into the New

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Testament because David’s name,
as we’ve considered, means the

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beloved.
And we think of the words in

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each of the Gospels when Christ
is baptized and God says from

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heaven, this is my beloved Son,
and Jonathan as well, whose name

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means Yah hath given.
We commented in our first class

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that Yah had given David a
friend like no other, but even

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that the Lord Jesus Christ calls
his disciples friends.

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And at the Last Supper, as he’s
praying before he goes into the

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Garden of Gethsemane, he prays
for his friends, which he says,

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You Yah hath given me.
And so David, as the beloved and

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Jonathan Yah, has given
foreshadow first the

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relationship of John the Baptist
and the Lord Jesus Christ, and

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then the relationship of the
disciples to the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
What we’re going to see in our

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class today, brothers and
sisters, is that Jonathan was

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even a truer friend to David
than the disciples were to the

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Lord.
In fact, Peter never quite

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developed this friendship that
Jonathan showed to David even by

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the end of Christ time with him.
Turn with me to John chapter 21,

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keeping a hand back in first
Samuel chapter 20, which was

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read read for us.
In John chapter 21 we read of

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the Lord Jesus Christ in a
dialogue with Peter.

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Now of course, our Lord Jesus
Christ, we’re told, has shown

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greater love than any man and
been a truer friend to us than

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anyone could be by laying down
his life for his friends.

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And now he asks Peter having
been resurrected and now with

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the disciples, he says to him at
verse 15 of John 21.

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So when they had dined, Jesus
said to Simon Peter, Simon son

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of Jonas, lovest thou me more
than these with a self

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sacrificing love?
Do you have the same love for

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me, Simon Peter, that I showed
for you in laying down my life

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upon the cross?
Do you love me more than these?

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And he said, yeah, Lord, thou
knowest that I love thee, filial

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love, I love thee as a friend.
And he said, feed my lambs.

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And then a second time he says,
Simon, son of Jonas, do you have

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a self sacrificing love for me?
And again Peter answers, yay

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Lord, you know that I love you
as a very close friend.

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And finally Jesus says to him in
verse 17, Peter, do you love me

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as a friend?
And Peter says, yay Lord, thou

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knowest that I love thee as a
friend.

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So Peter, even after the 3 1/2
years with Christ, had not

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developed the type of love for
Jesus that Jonathan will show

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for David.
Well, Jonathan made three

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covenants with David.
The first one is found back a

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page in the Old Testament.
Again in First Samuel chapter

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18, after David had slain
Goliath.

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And we considered in our last
class the honor the David showed

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to go to Saul even while he had
the head of Goliath still in his

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hand and even as he was being
berated by Saul.

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And because of that, in chapter
18 and verse, one came to pass

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that the soul of Jonathan was
knit with the soul of David, and

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Jonathan loved him as his own
soul.

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And that becomes then the basis
for the first of the three

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covenants that Jonathan will
make with David at verse 3.

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Then Jonathan and David made a
covenant because Jonathan loved

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David as his own soul.
And as a token of the covenant,

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consider what Jonathan does.
He strips himself first of his

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robe that was upon him and gave
it to David and his garments,

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even to a sword and to his bow
and to his girdle.

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Now, the clothing that Jonathan
was wearing is that clothing

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that would have been
recognizable as he came into the

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court of Saul, as he came into
the King’s court, the robe that

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he had was a royal robe
indicating that he was a son of

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Saul, a son of the king, that he
was a Prince.

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And we can see Jonathan there as
he’s standing in front of David.

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And he first takes off the sword
and he puts it on the ground

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that he takes the bow and the
quiver off his back and he sets

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it on the ground.
And he takes the girdle that’s

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holding it together and he
places it on the ground.

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And he takes the armor off and
he sets it on the ground.

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And David’s watching him as
Jonathan’s made this covenant,

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and he’s wondering what
Jonathan’s doing.

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And then Jonathan takes the robe
off, the royal robe, and he

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places it on David.
And David’s like, no, Jonathan,

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I can’t accept this.
This is yours.

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This is yours.
Signif signifies that you’re the

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son of Saul.
You’re the heir apparent.

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Jonathan says, nevertheless,
take my royal robe.

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And then he puts his armor on
him, and then it says even to

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his sword, one of the two swords
that had remained in the land.

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No doubt by this time they’ve
started to accumulate more

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swords because of the fleeing
Philistines after their giant

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was slain and collecting up the
armor of the Philistines that

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have been confiscated from them.
But still, this was that sword

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that had been one of two in the
land.

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And to his bow it says, Now we
don’t know it at this point in

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time, but if we went over to
First Chronicles 22, we find

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that the brothers of Saul will
actually defect to David while

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he’s fleeing in the wilderness
because they recognize that

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their brother is wrong.
And it says of the brethren of

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Saul, son of Kish, that these
Benjamites were able to shoot

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their bow and arrows
ambidextrously, so they could

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shoot left or right.
And while they were shooting

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arrows, they’d be chucking rocks
in between.

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So this was a tribe.
This was a house that was known

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for the use of the bow, and this
was the champion of that house.

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And we know that’s the case
because when we come to the end

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of our class, God willing,
brothers and sisters, we’ll see

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that when David causes Judah to
learn about Saul and Jonathan,

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he calls it the song of the bow.
This was that instrument of war

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that symbolized Jonathan, and he
places it on David’s back and to

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his girdle, to his belt.
David would have been

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overwhelmed for this.
And Jonathan, Jonathan had every

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reason to be jealous, to despise
David.

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This was the one that was going
to come to the throne instead of

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him.
Jonathan easily could have had

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that perspective.
In fact, we’ll see in in chapter

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20 that when he’s sitting at the
dining room table, that’s

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exactly the perspective.
Tell his father tells him he

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should have.
He tells him he’s lost sight of

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what’s important.
This is the man that’s replacing

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you on the throne.
No, it wasn’t.

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Saul was the reason Jonathan
wasn’t coming to the throne.

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What a wonderful spirit Jonathan
has.

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Three times it tells us in this
record that he loved David as

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his own soul.
And in fact, in the end, we’ll

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find that he loved David even
more than his own soul because

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he’s willing to lay down his
life so that David might rise to

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the throne.
Well, we said that David and

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Jonathan foreshadowed two types
of friendships, or two

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friendships in the New
Testament.

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The first is John the Baptist in
Jesus, and the second is Jesus

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and his disciples.
It says of John the Baptist in

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Matthew 3 and verse 5, then went
out to John the Baptist in the

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wilderness, Jerusalem and all
Judea and all the region

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roundabout Jordan.
Everyone flocked out to the

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wilderness to see John.
What went you out into the

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wilderness to see says our Lord
Jesus Christ?

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Everyone was following John and
yet turn with me, keeping a hand

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still in the Old Testament here
to the Gospel of John again,

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this time at chapter 3, where we
see the spirit of John the

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Baptist that we’ve just seen
manifested in Jonathan before

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David and John chapter 3, John’s
disciples come to him, and he

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says to them in verse 28 of John
chapter 3, Ye yourselves bear me

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witness that I said, I am not
the Messiah, but that I am sent

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before him.
He that hath the bride is the

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bridegroom, but the friend of
the bridegroom, which standeth

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and heareth him, rejoiceth
greatly because of the

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bridegroom’s voice.
This my joy, therefore, is

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fulfilled.
He must increase, but I must

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decrease.
Is this not exactly the spirit

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of Jonathan?
Here’s David.

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At a time when he’s triumphed
over the giant before all of

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Israel, he’s now been introduced
to all Israel as a hero in

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Israel.
He’ll be taken up into the army

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of Saul shortly.
He will March out before Saul’s

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armies.
He’ll be known for killing 10s

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of thousands.
And there’s no envy, there’s no

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jealousy with Jonathan.
No, instead it’s the opposite.

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He empties himself of himself,
he takes off all those things

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that would demonstrate his proud
position in the government, in

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the nation, and he rejoices with
David.

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For he must increase and I must
decrease.

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That was indeed the spirit of
John Jonathan.

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Rather, no doubt Jonathan had
started to ponder what it meant

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that he wouldn’t come to the
throne.

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No doubt he had contemplated
what his end would be with

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Jonathan ascending to the throne
and how hard it would be for the

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House of Saul and the tribe of
Benjamin and the 10 tribes of

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Israel to accept a king out of
Judah when they had their king

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sitting on the throne.
No doubt Jonathan had started to

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wonder if he indeed would need
to decrease so that David would

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increase.
While we’re here in the New

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Testament, turn over to a well
known passage Paul’s letter to

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the Philippian Ecclesia
Philippians, Chapter 3.

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Rather Philippians chapter 2
starting at verse 2, Fulfill ye

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my joy that ye be like minded,
having the same love being of 1

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accord of one mind.
Let nothing be done through

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strife or Vainglory, but in
lowliness of mind.

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Let each esteem other better
than themselves.

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Look, not every man on his own
things, but every man also on

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the things of others.
Let this mind be in you, which

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was also in Christ Jesus.
So whose mind is it?

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It’s the mind of God, and it was
in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And So what we’re being told,
brothers and sisters, is that

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not only are we to esteem each
other better than ourselves, so

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easy are the words to say, are
they not esteem others better

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than yourself?
We might be able to esteem

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others as good as ourselves, but
to esteem others better than

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ourselves, that’s the Spirit
we’re being asked to take up,

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and it’s the Spirit that our
Lord had.

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I admit, brothers and sisters,
that I struggle with that almost

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every day.
How could Christ who never

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sinned, how could Christ who
never transgress the law, the

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commandment of his Father?
How could Christ, who was

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obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross, esteem me

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better than himself?
Course, He knows I’m not better

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than He.
But He acted and behaved in such

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a way that He laid down his life
for others.

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He counted others needs before
his own needs, and He knew our

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need was to have forgiveness of
sins.

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And so He was willing to lay
down his life for his friend to

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develop that mindset.
Brothers and sisters, the only

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way we can do it is if both
people in a friendship put God

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first, if both people in a
marriage put God first, If all

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of us in the ecclesia put God
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If we put God first, now we can
esteem someone greater than

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ourselves.
Now we’re able to count the

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needs of somebody else before
ourselves.

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Now we can raise each other up.
We can lift each other up

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because we’re both first focused
on a relationship with God and

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thinking about His mind, how He
takes care of our needs day by

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day, how He’s long-suffering day
by day with us and all around

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us.
Christ esteemed us greater.

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He died while we were yet
sinners.

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We did not deserve His self
sacrificing love, but He

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esteemed our needs greater than
His own.

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What a friend we have in Christ
and what a wonderful friend

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David hadn’t.
Jonathan sometimes we can have

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envy in our relationships, one
with another man.

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He always wins at games, he
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He always runs the fastest.
He makes more money, he dresses

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better, he’s got more
achievements in this life.

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And secretly we can have envy
that sits between US and our

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friend and it eats away at us.
And then all of a sudden, we

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find ourselves talking about our
friend behind their back because

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of the envy that we have.
That’s not friendship.

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Friends rejoice when friends
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Friends weep when their friends
grieve.

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Well, the second covenant that
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indeed in a time of despair, a
time of weeping.

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And Jonathan’s there to calm
David.

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In First Samuel chapter 19, Saul
had made it known that he

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intended to kill David to all of
his servants, but Jonathan had

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intervened on behalf of David.
He’d reminded Saul that David

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had killed Goliath.
He reminded Saul that he

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delivered Israel.
He reminded Saul of all the

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things that David had done for
Saul.

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And Saul had sworn to Jonathan.
I will not kill David.

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And so when we come to first
Samuel, chapter 20, the second

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covenant that Jonathan makes
with him, we see David is in

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great distress.
What have I done?

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What is my iniquity?
What is my sin before thy

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father, that he seeks my life?
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response, as we considered
yesterday in our class, on honor

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that Jonathan first seeks to
honor his father.

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No, my father swore he will not
put you to death.

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It’s OK, David, that moment has
passed, but David persists.

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Thy father certainly knows that
I found grace in thine eyes.

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And he says, let not Jonathan
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But as truly as the Lord liveth,
and thy soul liveth, there is

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but a step between me and death.
Notice what Jonathan doesn’t do

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at this moment.
I notice because it’s what I do.

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Sometimes in these types of
conversations, I’ve defended my

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position and the person comes
back and protest stronger,

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whether it be my wife or a
friend or a family member.

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And what do I do?
I become entrenched in my

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position.
I’ll stand firm for the position

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I first stated that was not
Jonathan with David.

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Jonathan might have been right.
Who knows?

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Maybe Saul had turned and
repented.

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Maybe Saul was not going to kill
David.

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It didn’t matter when Jonathan
saw David in distress.

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When Jonathan realized how
distressed he was, he stepped

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away from his position and he
committed to listening to John,

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to David, Active listening to
David.

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What does that mean?
Well, it means not waiting for

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him to take a breath so that
then Jonathan could jump into

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the conversation.
But it was actually reflective

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listening that Jonathan put into
practice here.

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We know that because Jonathan
David then lays out a plan.

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He started to come up with a
plan.

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In fact, Jonathan says, whatever
your soul desires in verse four,

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I will even do it to thee.
He starts to think instead of

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letting the animal instinct part
of the brain which is down here

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at the base, the fight or flight
part of our brain which wants to

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defend our position.
Instead of responding to that,

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he takes a deep breath and he
lets the logical, spiritual part

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of the brain kick in.
And when the logical spiritual

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part of the brain kicks in, even
though he’s contradicted

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Jonathan, Jonathan realizes, You
know what?

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I’ve just been confronted with
this truth a moment ago.

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If it is true, David has been
distressing about this for some

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time.
I need to hear my brother out.

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No doubt he’s come up with some
sort of a plan and indeed he had

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it wasn’t fully complete, but he
had started to come up with a

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plan and so he says it verse
six.

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Well you can tell your father
that I’m verse 5 is was the

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feast of the new moon.
So he should be sitting with the

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king at meat and he says tell
your father that I asked to go

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spend this feast with my family
in Bethlehem.

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And if your father says peace,
it is well, well then I know I’m

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OK and your father is not
determined evil against me.

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But if your father is angry or
very wroth, well then we both

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know that your father has evil
determined against me.

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Then Jonathan again defends his
father.

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Unfortunately, far be it from
thee.

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For if I knew certainly that
evil were determined by my

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father to come upon thee, then
would not I tell thee?

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And now David starts to panic.
Well, if you’re not going to

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tell me, who’s going to tell me?
And I love what Jonathan does

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next.
Jonathan says to David at verse

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11.
Come, let us go out into the

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field sometimes when we have a
friend in distress.

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The best thing at the moment to
do is to change physical

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locations because it allows
everybody to breathe, take in a

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breath of fresh air.
And now Jonathan recounts back

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to David the plan that he heard
David come up with.

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Look, you’re worried about my
father.

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I will find out what my father
thinks.

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And you’ve been worried about
our friendship.

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Remember the covenant that I
made with you?

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Verse 14 Thou shalt not only
will I yet live.

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Show me the kindness of the Lord
that I die not, but also thou

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shalt not cut off thy kindness
from my house forever.

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Know not when the Lord hath cut
off the enemies of David,

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everyone from the face of the
earth.

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And Jonathan makes another
covenant with the House of David

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this time.
And so he reassures him that he

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is indeed his friend.
And David has come up with a

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plan.
And he says, look, we’ll

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implement your plan.
And he recognizes as well that

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it might be possible that David
is forgotten, that Yahweh is at

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the center of their lives.
And so he starts off his

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response in verse 12, Jonathan
said unto David, after they go

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into the field, Oh Lord God of
Israel, when I have sounded my

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father, he starts out by
reminding David that the Lord

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God of Israel is involved in
this situation.

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And furthermore, at the end of
verse 13, he says, And if it is

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designed that you need to go
away, go in peace, and Yahweh be

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with thee as he hath been with
my father.

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The contemporary English
version, or rather the Young’s

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literal translation, reads,
Yahweh is with thee as he was

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with my Father.
You are the Lord’s anointed

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David.
You have a plan and place in

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God’s plan and purpose.
He’s not going to let you die.

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And if you do get sent away,
verse 22.

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But if I say thus unto the young
man, Behold, the arrows are

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beyond thee, then go thy way,
for Yahweh hath sent thee away.

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Remember, David, that God is at
the center of our lives.

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Remember, David, that God has a
plan for you.

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You’ve been anointed.
Remember Samuel came down to

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Bethlehem and called you out
from the midst of your brethren

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and poured that, poured that
holy oil upon your head to

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anoint you as king over Israel.
Poured the ointment over his

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head to anoint him as king.
And we get a hint here, don’t

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we, that Jonathan understood
that David coming to the throne

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would indeed mean that he would,
That he would indeed be

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diminished and possibly dead.
The CEV for verse 15 says

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someday the Lord will wipe out
all your enemies.

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Who was David’s enemy at this
time?

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Saul was his enemy.
And then he says, if I’m still

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alive, please be as kind to me
as the Lord has been, but if I’m

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dead, be kind to my family.
And so Jonathan departs and

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David remains in the field for
three days.

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And the first day passes and
Sauls thinking, what’s going on?

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Where’s David?
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And the second day comes and
David’s not sitting at meat

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again.
And he says to Jonathan in verse

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27, why comes not the son of
Jesse to meet neither yesterday

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nor today?
And Jonathan says, David

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earnestly asked leave of me to
go to Bethlehem.

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And then verse 30, Saul’s anger
was kindled against Jonathan.

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And he said, Thou son of a
perverse rebellious woman, she

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must have been quite lovely and
obedient to gain those remarks

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from Saul.
Do not I know that thou has

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chosen the son of Jesse to thine
own confusion, and unto the

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confusion of thy mother’s
nakedness?

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As long as the son of Jesse
lives upon the ground, you will

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not be established, nor thy
Kingdom.

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Therefore go and fetch him, and
bring him to me, that he must

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die.
What is Saul saying?

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Jonathan, listen here.
You need to make a decision

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between the beloved and your own
career because if you choose the

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beloved, that’s the end of your
career.

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Jonathan had already made his
decision.

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What a shallow and unspiritual
man.

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And sadly, sometimes we can make
the same shallow and unspiritual

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decisions in our life when we
make decisions that put our

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career, our betterment above the
will of God, above the beloved.

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Well it says in verse 33.
Then Saul cast a javelin at

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Jonathan to smite him.
And amazingly, what a character

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this man was, whereby Jonathan
knew that it was determined of

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his father to kill David.
He’s just ducked to miss a spear

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that’s been chucked at his head.
And it says he knew then that

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Saul indeed was going to kill
David.

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He esteemed the life of David
greater than his own life.

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So Jonathan returns to the
field.

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David’s hiding off in the
distance.

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Jonathan’s there with his armor
bearer, no doubt.

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David’s heart is pounding as the
moment of truth is going to be

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revealed and the arrow is shot
behind the rock and David’s

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heart sinks.
What he knew was the case has

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been confirmed by Jonathan, and
Jonathan sends the armor bearer

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away with his bow and his
arrows, and David arises out of

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the place in verse 41 toward the
South, and he falls on his face

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to the ground.
He bows himself three times and

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they kiss one another and he
wept one with another until

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David acceded.
There were no more tears left.

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David was about 20 at this time,
a man that could kill a giant

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without even thinking about it,
kill a lion, kill a bear, and

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another man who could take on an
army of the Philistines.

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And the two of them weep
together.

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Not just a brief hug, but he
holds on to David until there’s

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no more tears left, dry crying,
as it were.

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And Jonathan says to David, Go
in peace, for as much as we have

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sworn, both of us in the name of
the Lord, saying, Yahweh between

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be, between me and thee, between
my seed and thy seed forever.

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And David arose and wept, left.
Jonathan watched as he

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disappeared off into the
distance, wondering perhaps if

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he’d see his best friend again,
and Jonathan turned and went

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into the city.
Well, he would see his best

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friend one more time when David
was at a spiritual low.

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First Samuel chapter 23.
David now has 600 men with him,

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plus women and children.
Shortly afterwards they’ll

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inhabit a city, Ziklag.
There’s so many people with

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their cattle, their crops.
He’s got to feed these 600 men.

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And they were not just any men.
They’re described in First

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Samuel 22, verse 2 as men of
distress, men in debt, men that

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were discontented.
Can imagine David out there in

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the wilderness with 600 men that
are in distress and debt,

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discontented, complaining,
complaining about Saul.

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They’ve given him counsel to
kill Saul on multiple occasions.

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And David has upheld his
principles, honoring God and

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honoring Saul in his decisions.
And now there’s David.

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00:33:14,440 –> 00:33:18,080
He’s gone down to the city of
Keela stronghold and thinks, OK,

437
00:33:18,080 –> 00:33:20,920
now I’ll have some reprieve from
Saul.

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00:33:20,920 –> 00:33:24,720
But somebody reports that
David’s there amongst Keela.

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And then David hears that Saul’s
coming up and he prays to God in

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verse 10.
Will Saul come up?

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And God says, yes, he will come
down at the end of verse 11.

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And then David says, will the
men of Keela deliver me into the

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hand of Saul?
And the Lord says, yes, they

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will deliver you.
And now he has to round up his

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00:33:45,360 –> 00:33:50,360
600 men with women and children
once again and supplies, and

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00:33:50,360 –> 00:33:53,760
head out of the city and go off
into the wilderness once again,

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into the mountains, into caves,
into the woods wherever he can.

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And it says at verse 14 and
David abode in the wilderness in

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strongholds and remained in a
mountain in the wilderness as if

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and Saul sought him every day.
Verse 15 And David saw that Saul

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was come to seek his life, and
David was in the wilderness as

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if in the wood.
And isn’t our God amazing?

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00:34:27,360 –> 00:34:31,120
Saul’s out there with his 3000
chosen men searching for David

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00:34:31,120 –> 00:34:35,040
everywhere, looking in caves,
looking in woods, looking in

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00:34:35,040 –> 00:34:42,920
fields, looking in cities.
Verse 16 And Jonathan, Saul’s

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son, a rose and went to David
directly to him.

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Saul can’t find him no matter
how hard he looks, because the

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Lord was keeping him away from
David.

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And Jonathan goes directly to
him in the wood and strengthened

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00:35:04,160 –> 00:35:09,760
his hand in God.
And Jonathan says to David at

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00:35:09,760 –> 00:35:16,000
verse 17 of First Samuel 23,
fear not for the hand of Saul.

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My father shall not find thee,
and thou shalt be King David

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00:35:24,240 –> 00:35:31,280
over all Israel.
And now perhaps he communicated

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00:35:31,280 –> 00:35:37,280
what was his hope and what was
his desire, but what he no doubt

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00:35:37,280 –> 00:35:42,120
doubted would happen.
And I shall sit next unto thee,

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00:35:42,120 –> 00:35:46,040
David.
And that also saw my father

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00:35:46,040 –> 00:35:49,520
knoweth.
And they too made a covenant

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00:35:49,520 –> 00:35:56,200
before Yahweh and David abode in
the wood and Jonathan returned

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00:35:56,200 –> 00:36:03,320
to his house.
There are sometimes that we can

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00:36:03,320 –> 00:36:11,240
do little more but sit and
empathize with our companion.

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There was no immediate solution.
Eventually God would resolve

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00:36:18,400 –> 00:36:22,520
this.
But right now, in this moment,

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00:36:23,560 –> 00:36:27,600
as David’s there in the wood,
fleeing for his life and also

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00:36:27,600 –> 00:36:31,720
having to encourage 600 men with
their wives and with their

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00:36:31,720 –> 00:36:38,720
little ones, keeping them quiet,
600 families feed them.

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00:36:40,760 –> 00:36:49,040
At this moment, all Jonathan
could do was strengthen David’s

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00:36:49,040 –> 00:36:54,000
hand in the Lord.
And there’s David, looking down

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00:36:54,000 –> 00:36:59,800
at the ground.
And slowly and gently, Sam,

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00:37:00,160 –> 00:37:05,640
Jonathan lifts up David’s head,
lifts it up to the sky, and

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00:37:05,640 –> 00:37:09,120
reminds him of the hope that he
has.

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Reminds him once again of the
anointing oil that was poured on

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00:37:13,920 –> 00:37:17,040
his head.
Reminds him that he’s going to

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00:37:17,040 –> 00:37:21,800
come to the throne.
And that’s all we can do.

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Sometimes, when our friends are
in great distress, when they’re

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00:37:28,720 –> 00:37:33,960
in the heart of the hurricane,
when they’re in the midst of the

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00:37:33,960 –> 00:37:40,640
trial, sometimes all we can do
is sit and emphasize.

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00:37:40,640 –> 00:37:46,120
Not commiserate, but sit and
empathize with them and

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00:37:46,120 –> 00:37:54,560
strengthen their hand in the
Lord, slowly, gently lifting

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00:37:54,560 –> 00:38:00,080
their head and reminding them
that their redemption draweth

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00:38:00,080 –> 00:38:07,800
nigh.
Well there was a similar scene

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00:38:09,000 –> 00:38:11,680
with the second friendship in
the New Testament that were

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00:38:11,680 –> 00:38:18,000
reminded of by David and
Jonathan when the beloved was

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00:38:18,000 –> 00:38:26,760
also in the woods or in a wood.
We read in Mark chapter 14.

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And Jesus and his disciples came
to a place which was named

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00:38:31,280 –> 00:38:34,600
Gethsemane.
And he said to his disciples,

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00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:39,360
Sit ye here while I take, while
I well I shall pray.

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00:38:40,720 –> 00:38:43,960
And he taketh with him, Peter
and James and John, the three of

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00:38:43,960 –> 00:38:47,960
his closest friends.
And he began to be sore amazed,

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00:38:48,520 –> 00:38:53,000
and to be very heavy.
And he shares with them, My soul

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00:38:53,000 –> 00:38:56,200
is exceeding sorrowful unto
death.

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Tarry ye here and watch as the
Beloved is in the woods now,

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00:39:01,840 –> 00:39:09,480
thinking about all of the types,
all of the things that

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00:39:09,480 –> 00:39:11,880
foreshadowed what He was about
to do.

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00:39:13,640 –> 00:39:18,560
Every sacrifice under the law,
the brazen serpent that was

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00:39:18,560 –> 00:39:23,720
lifted up, all the symbols of
his death.

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00:39:23,920 –> 00:39:30,480
That he would die acutely aware
of what a crucifixion was,

507
00:39:31,280 –> 00:39:34,400
having no doubt seen it.
It was the Romans favorite form

508
00:39:34,400 –> 00:39:38,960
of public execution and outside
the city of Jerusalem he had no

509
00:39:38,960 –> 00:39:45,000
doubt witnessed a crucifixion on
previous occasions and knew of

510
00:39:45,000 –> 00:39:50,480
the shame that he would bear as
he hung naked before his people

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00:39:51,520 –> 00:39:58,760
in pain, gasping for his breath
and he’s in a Strait.

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00:39:59,920 –> 00:40:03,840
We’re told that he was so
distressed that there were great

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00:40:03,840 –> 00:40:12,920
drops of blood coming from his
pores and sadly his friends fell

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00:40:12,920 –> 00:40:17,920
asleep.
And so we read in the Gospel of

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00:40:17,920 –> 00:40:23,200
Luke that God responds, there
was Jesus withdrawn from Peter

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00:40:23,200 –> 00:40:26,880
and James and John who were
sleeping about a stones cast,

517
00:40:26,880 –> 00:40:31,960
and kneel down praying, saying,
Father, if thou be willing,

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00:40:31,960 –> 00:40:37,080
remove this cup from me,
nevertheless not my will be

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00:40:37,080 –> 00:40:42,280
done, but thine.
And there appeared an Angel unto

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00:40:42,280 –> 00:40:45,080
him from heaven, strengthening
him.

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00:40:47,320 –> 00:40:55,160
And where God brought an Angel
into a wood in the garden of

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00:40:55,160 –> 00:40:58,480
Gethsemane to comfort Christ
because his friends had failed,

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00:41:00,080 –> 00:41:03,920
Jonathan was there for his
friend.

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What a friend God had given to
David.

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00:41:11,960 –> 00:41:17,920
And now finally David finds
refuge in of all places amongst

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the Philistines.
But thankfully God in His mercy

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00:41:23,600 –> 00:41:28,560
spared him from the events of
First Samuel 31 where we read it

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00:41:28,560 –> 00:41:31,280
verse one.
Now the Philistines fought

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against Israel, and the men of
Israel fled from before the

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00:41:35,200 –> 00:41:39,120
Philistines and fell down, slain
in Mount Gilboa.

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And the Philistines followed
hard upon Saul and upon his

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00:41:43,360 –> 00:41:45,600
sons.
And the Philistines slew

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00:41:45,600 –> 00:41:49,840
Jonathan and Abinadab and
Melchizedea, Saul’s sons,

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00:41:50,720 –> 00:41:53,600
Jonathan at the front, most
valiantly fighting.

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00:41:54,600 –> 00:41:57,200
And why wasn’t he able to
overcome the Philistines this

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00:41:57,200 –> 00:41:59,360
time?
He could take on an entire an

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00:41:59,360 –> 00:42:05,680
entire army because the time was
set that his father needed to go

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00:42:06,640 –> 00:42:08,760
so that David could ascend to
the throne.

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00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:19,920
The time had come that Jonathan
must diminish, must decrease so

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00:42:19,920 –> 00:42:27,640
that David could increase.
And Jonathan fights valiantly to

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00:42:27,640 –> 00:42:37,360
the bitter end for a man who
will take his own life, doesn’t

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00:42:37,360 –> 00:42:43,280
even have the courage to stand
up to the men that killed his

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00:42:43,280 –> 00:42:48,760
sons who fought to protect him.
And the battle went sore against

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00:42:48,760 –> 00:42:52,240
solvers 3, And The Archers hit
him, and he was sore wounded of

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00:42:52,240 –> 00:42:55,120
The Archers.
Then said Saul unto his armor

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00:42:55,120 –> 00:42:59,560
bearer, Draw thy sword and
thrust me through therewith,

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00:43:00,120 –> 00:43:04,160
lest these uncircumcised come
and thrust me through, and abuse

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00:43:04,160 –> 00:43:07,200
me, or mock me, as the margin
says.

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00:43:07,520 –> 00:43:09,960
But his armor bearer would not,
for he was so afraid.

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00:43:09,960 –> 00:43:13,000
Therefore took Saul a sword and
fell upon it.

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00:43:13,600 –> 00:43:17,000
And his armor bearer saw that
Saul was dead, and fell upon his

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00:43:17,000 –> 00:43:24,240
sword likewise.
So Saul died, and his three sons

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00:43:25,960 –> 00:43:32,600
and his armor bearer and all his
men that same day together.

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00:43:35,160 –> 00:43:38,080
Which brings us to Second Samuel
chapter 1.

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00:43:40,720 –> 00:43:43,680
Dating.
David, having received the news

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00:43:43,760 –> 00:43:52,160
at verse 17, laments with this
lamentation over Saul and over

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00:43:52,160 –> 00:43:56,920
Jonathan his son, over Jonathan
his friend.

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00:43:58,760 –> 00:44:01,480
And it says at verse 18.
And he bade them teach who?

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00:44:01,600 –> 00:44:05,800
The children of Judah, the use
of the bow.

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00:44:05,880 –> 00:44:09,560
It says in the King James it
should say the song of the bow.

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00:44:11,640 –> 00:44:17,760
But he bade the children of
Judah to learn this, not Israel,

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00:44:17,760 –> 00:44:22,680
who already revered Saul, but
Judah who would have despised

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00:44:22,680 –> 00:44:27,760
Saul for trying to kill David.
And he makes Judah learn this

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00:44:27,760 –> 00:44:35,480
song, The beauty of Israel.
Saul is slain upon thy high

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00:44:35,480 –> 00:44:38,280
places.
How?

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00:44:39,800 –> 00:44:45,720
How could David say this of such
a man, A man who ended his own,

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00:44:45,720 –> 00:44:49,720
didn’t even have courage to
fight to the bitter end after

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00:44:49,720 –> 00:44:56,560
his sons died protecting him.
And yet there he is, baiting

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00:44:56,560 –> 00:45:03,360
Judah to learn that the beauty
of Israel was slain upon high

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00:45:03,360 –> 00:45:07,480
places.
How are the mighty fallen?

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00:45:08,480 –> 00:45:12,240
Tell it not in Gath.
Publish it not in the streets of

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00:45:12,280 –> 00:45:16,240
Ashkelon, lest the daughters of
the Philistines rejoice, lest

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00:45:16,240 –> 00:45:22,160
the daughters of these
uncircumcised triumph, seeking

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00:45:22,160 –> 00:45:28,320
to uphold Saul’s honour and the
honour of his sons to the end.

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00:45:29,680 –> 00:45:35,520
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let
there be no do neither let there

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00:45:35,520 –> 00:45:38,600
be rain upon you, nor fields of
offerings.

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For there the shield of the
mighty is vilely castaway, the

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00:45:44,000 –> 00:45:48,400
shield of Saul as though he had
not been anointed with oil,

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00:45:48,640 –> 00:45:53,000
which David kept always at the
forefront of his mind, at every

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00:45:53,000 –> 00:45:58,240
opportunity, at every urging to
take his life from the blood of

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the slain, from the fat of the
mighty.

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00:46:02,320 –> 00:46:10,920
The bow of Jonathan turned not
back, and the sword of Saul

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00:46:11,800 –> 00:46:18,000
returned not empty.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely

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00:46:18,960 –> 00:46:22,760
and pleasant in their lives and
in their death.

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00:46:22,760 –> 00:46:28,240
David acknowledges the decision
Jonathan had made in their

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00:46:28,240 –> 00:46:31,520
death.
They were not divided, they were

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00:46:31,520 –> 00:46:35,720
swifter than eagles, they were
stronger than lions.

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00:46:36,240 –> 00:46:40,280
Ye daughters of Israel, weep
over Saul, who clothed you in

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00:46:40,280 –> 00:46:44,760
scarlet, and other delights, who
put on ornaments of gold upon

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00:46:44,760 –> 00:46:48,560
your apparel.
How are the mighty fallen in the

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00:46:48,560 –> 00:46:57,280
midst of battle?
O Jonathan, thou was slain in

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00:46:57,280 –> 00:47:06,560
thine high places.
I am distressed for thee, my

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00:47:06,600 –> 00:47:12,040
brother Jonathan.
Very pleasant hast thou been

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00:47:12,040 –> 00:47:16,880
unto me.
Thy love to me was wonderful.

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00:47:18,280 –> 00:47:25,480
Passing the love of women, how
are the mighty fallen and the

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00:47:25,480 –> 00:47:38,600
weapons of war perished?
Jonathan, as he fought to defend

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00:47:38,600 –> 00:47:46,800
his father, no doubt wished he
could stand by David’s side as

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00:47:46,800 –> 00:47:51,240
he fled across the brook to
protect his fleeing father.

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00:47:53,360 –> 00:47:58,880
Perhaps he was weeping not
because he was going to die, not

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00:47:58,880 –> 00:48:02,160
because he was afraid of death
or afraid of these uncircumcised

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00:48:02,160 –> 00:48:06,920
Philistines, but because he
would not stand beside David.

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00:48:08,880 –> 00:48:16,960
But he will, brothers and
sisters, he will, in the day

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00:48:16,960 –> 00:48:20,640
when our Lord returns and
establishes that Kingdom.

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00:48:20,920 –> 00:48:26,640
And what a glorious reunion this
will be of these friends.

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00:48:29,040 –> 00:48:37,440
I believe 2 Psalms are inspired
by the song of David and by the

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00:48:37,440 –> 00:48:44,240
life and friendship of Jonathan.
Psalm 133.

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00:48:44,360 –> 00:48:48,680
Behold how good and how
pleasant.

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00:48:49,520 –> 00:48:54,840
Same word that’s used there in
the song of the bow.

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00:48:55,960 –> 00:48:59,960
Thou hast been very pleasant to
me, Jonathan.

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00:49:01,200 –> 00:49:06,720
Thy love to me was wonderful.
How pleasant is it for brethren

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00:49:07,320 –> 00:49:13,080
to dwell together in unity.
It is like the precious ointment

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00:49:13,080 –> 00:49:19,640
upon the head that ran down upon
the beard, even Aaron’s beard

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00:49:20,520 –> 00:49:25,640
that went down to the skirts of
his garments as the dew of

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00:49:25,640 –> 00:49:29,440
Hermann, as the dew that
descended upon the mountains of

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00:49:29,440 –> 00:49:32,560
Zion.
For there Yahweh commanded the

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00:49:32,560 –> 00:49:44,560
blessing, even life forevermore.
Brothers, sisters, Jonathan and

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00:49:44,560 –> 00:49:51,560
David have shown us how to dwell
together in unity.

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00:49:54,280 –> 00:49:59,760
Jonathan and David have shown us
that it just requires putting

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00:49:59,760 –> 00:50:05,880
God first in our life, that it
requires esteeming each other

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00:50:06,640 –> 00:50:13,880
better than ourselves.
Sometimes it requires listening

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00:50:14,400 –> 00:50:21,200
even when we’d like to protest,
requires lifting each other up

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00:50:22,600 –> 00:50:29,080
in times of difficulty.
It requires rejoicing when our

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00:50:29,080 –> 00:50:35,400
friends rejoice.
It requires weeping when our

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00:50:35,400 –> 00:50:39,760
friends suffer.
And I think also, as David came

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00:50:39,760 –> 00:50:45,120
to the throne and wrote Psalm
one O 1 with the goal that he

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00:50:45,120 –> 00:50:50,760
had mine eyes, says, David,
shall be upon the faithful of

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00:50:50,760 –> 00:50:55,960
the land, upon the Jonathans,
that they may dwell with me,

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00:50:56,960 –> 00:51:01,080
even as I wished he would.
He that walketh in a perfect

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00:51:01,080 –> 00:51:04,240
way, as Jonathan had, he shall
serve me.

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00:51:05,200 –> 00:51:09,000
But he that acts like Saul, that
works deceit, shall not dwell in

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00:51:09,000 –> 00:51:11,680
my house.
He that tells lies shall not

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00:51:11,680 –> 00:51:15,600
tarry in my sight.
I will destroy all the wicked

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00:51:15,600 –> 00:51:20,800
out of the land, that I may cut
off all the wicked doers from

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00:51:20,800 –> 00:51:27,320
the city of Yahweh.
And so how do we develop this

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00:51:27,640 –> 00:51:32,360
spiritual intelligence?
How can we brothers and sisters

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00:51:32,360 –> 00:51:36,680
be friends to each other like
Jonathan was to David?

637
00:51:38,240 –> 00:51:41,800
How can we be friends to our
brothers and sisters?

638
00:51:43,720 –> 00:51:48,080
For that’s what Jesus is asked.
He’s asked us to be his friends.

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00:51:49,560 –> 00:51:51,120
And how do we show that
friendship?

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00:51:51,120 –> 00:51:55,320
Well, He sits at the right hand
of his Father in heaven.

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00:51:56,400 –> 00:51:59,400
He’s not with us day by day.
He’s not sitting beside us.

642
00:51:59,400 –> 00:52:02,200
He’s not in the car with us.
He’s not at Bible school with

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00:52:02,200 –> 00:52:03,400
us.
Of course He is.

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00:52:03,400 –> 00:52:06,480
We know He’s here in presence.
But we don’t seal him.

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00:52:06,640 –> 00:52:09,440
We can’t touch him.
We can’t feel him, but we can

646
00:52:09,440 –> 00:52:13,720
sure see each other.
We can see Christ’s brethren,

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00:52:16,120 –> 00:52:24,640
and how are we treating them?
What love are we showing to each

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00:52:24,640 –> 00:52:27,480
other?
For with what love you have

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loved one another.
You have loved your God and his

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Son.
So let’s try to apply these

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principles of friendship in our
relationships, one with another

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and our marriages, in our
friendships, in our community,

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in our family.
To put God first, each of us in

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our lives, to esteem each other
better than ourselves and put

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the needs of our brother, our
sister, our husband, our wife,

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our father, our mother, our
children ahead of our own needs.

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Be willing to listen rather than
prove yourself right.

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Lift each other up when the
other is down, and be willing,

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finally, to lay down our lives
for our friends, even as

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Jonathan did for his friend
David.