David Wisniewski – Developing Spiritual Intelligence – Class 6 – Humility

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We’re going to begin our third
session this morning with a

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reading, and the reading is not
what the plan says.

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The reading is going to be
Second Samuel 7 verses 1 to 18.

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So Second Samuel 7, verses 1 to
18.

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And it came to pass, when the
king sat in his house, and

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Yahweh had given him rest round
about from all his enemies, that

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the king said unto Nathan, The
prophet, See now I dwell in a

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House of cedar, but the ark of
God dwelleth within curtains.

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And Nathan said to the king, Go,
do all that is in thine heart,

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for Yahweh is with thee.
And He came to pass that night,

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that the word of Yahweh came
unto Nathan, saying, Go and tell

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my servant David, Thus saith
Yahweh, Shalt thou build me an

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house for me to dwell in?
Whereas I have not dwelt in any

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house since the time that I
brought up the children of

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Israel out of Egypt even unto
this day, but have walked in a

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tent and in a Tabernacle, in all
the places wherein I have walked

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with all the children of Israel,
spake I word with any of the

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tribes of Israel whom I
commanded to feed my people.

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Israel saying, Why build ye not
me in House of cedar?

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Now therefore so shalt thou say
unto my servant David, Thus

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saith Yahweh of hosts, I took
thee from the sheep coat, and

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from following the sheep, to be
ruler over my people, over

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Israel, and I was with thee
wither so ever thou wentest, and

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have cut off all thine enemies
out of thy sight, and have made

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thee a great name, like unto the
the name of the great men that

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are in the earth.
Moreover, I will appoint a place

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from My people Israel, and will
plant them, that they may dwell

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in a place of their own and move
no more.

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Neither shall the children of
wickedness afflict them anymore.

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As before time and as since the
time that I commanded judges to

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be over My people Israel.
And of course Thee to rest from

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all thine enemies also.
Yahweh telleth thee that He will

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make thee in house.
And when thy days before filled,

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and thou should sleep with thy
fathers, I will set up thy seed

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after thee, which shall proceed
out of thy bowels, and I will

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establish His Kingdom.
He shall build in house for My

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name, and I will establish the
throne of His Kingdom forever.

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I will be His father, and He
shall be my son.

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If he commit iniquity, I will
chasten him with the rod of men,

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and with the stripes of the
children of men.

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But my mercy shall not depart
away from him, as I took it from

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Saul, whom I put away before
thee and thine house.

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And thy Kingdom shall be
established forever before thee.

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Thy throne shall be established
forever.

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According to all these words,
and according to all this

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vision.
So did Nathan speak unto David.

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Then went King David in and SAT
before Yahweh.

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This is Watchun Lake Bible
School 2025.

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Our speaker for our third series
of classes is Brother David

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Wisniski.
This is class number six.

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His overall title is Developing
Spiritual Intelligence in the

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Lives of Jonathan and David, and
the title for this class is

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Humility and our reading was
Second Samuel 7 verses one

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through 18.
Brother David, please.

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Well, it’s my last good morning
to you, although I hope to say

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good morning to you tomorrow
morning at breakfast.

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It’s been wonderful to be with
you this week.

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Sister Nicole and I have
thoroughly enjoyed our time

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together, and I wanted to thank
especially the committee for

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making all of this possible.
But of course, our Heavenly

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Father who enabled all of this,
but also all of you for making

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us feel very welcome and
friendly this week.

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So we really appreciate the time
we’ve been able to spend with

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you.
Yesterday we saw behavior in

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David’s life that was not
inspiring.

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In fact, his house became a
reproach because of it.

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The sword would not depart from
the House of David and through

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the rest of his life.
But today we’re going to see an

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incident that we had read for
Aspire Brother Bernard this

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morning where David is
humiliated.

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It may not come out at first
when we read through Second

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Samuel Chapter 7, but I assure
you he is by the response that’s

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given.
And David’s response to the

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humiliation is one that will
inspire his own generation and

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future generations of both Jew
and Gentile.

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Regarding humility, Micah 6
verse 8 says He has showed thee,

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O man, what is good, and what
does the Lord require of thee

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but to do justly, to do justly
while loving mercy, and to walk

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humbly with thy God.
And so if we wish to walk with

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God, we must learn this
spiritual quotient this morning

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of humility.
Now as David’s sitting on the

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throne, perhaps you noticed at
the end of verse 2 and the

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beginning of verse three that
Nathan interrupted David.

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David actually didn’t get to
finish his thought.

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See what it says in verse 2.
The king said unto Nathan the

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prophet.
See now I dwell in and house a

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cedar, but the ark of God
dwelleth within curtains.

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And Nathan said to the king, Go
do all that is in thine heart,

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for Yahweh is with thee.
He doesn’t even get to to spell

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it out.
I want to build a house for the

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Lord.
Nathan cuts him off.

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How does he know that building
in house for the Lord is in

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David’s heart?
Well, it had been in David’s

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heart for a very long time.
Turn with me to First Chronicles

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Chapter 9.
In First Chronicles Chapter 9,

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we have a genealogy, A genealogy
which the author, perhaps Ezra

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states was reckoned of the Jews
who were carried away to Babylon

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for their transgression.
So this is much later, of

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course.
And then the time period we’re

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considering this morning in
Second Samuel Chapter 7.

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And yet it’s going to take us
back in First Chronicles Chapter

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9.
It’s going to take us back to an

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earlier time in David’s life.
So what do we have in in First

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Chronicles Chapter 9, we have a
genealogy and it’s a genealogy

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of the priests and the Levites.
We see that at verse 10 and of

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the priests.
And then it lists the priests

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that were counted.
And at verse 14 it says and of

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the Levites, and it lists the
Levites that were counted.

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And then we come down to verse
17 and it says, And the porters

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were, and it lists then all the
porters who would serve at the

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door of the Tabernacle of the
congregation, as it says at the

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end of verse 21.
And then it says in verse 22

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this all these which were chosen
to be porters in the gates were

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212.
These were reckoned by their

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genealogy in their villages,
whom David and Samuel the seer

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did ordain in their set office.
Now let’s think about that for a

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minute.
When did David and Samuel plan

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out service for the temple?
There was no temple.

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Samuel died while David was
fleeing from Saul, while he was

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dwelling in caves and in
mountains and in wildernesses

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and fields and in woods.
So it wasn’t while David was

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fleeing from Saul, it had to
have been before he fled from

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Saul.
And in fact, if we turn over

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then to First Samuel chapter 19,
I believe we have the time

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period that David spent with
Samuel that First Chronicles

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Chapter 9 is giving us some
insights into.

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So in First Samuel 19, Saul
seeks to kill David.

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He’s tried to kill him in his
own bed in verses 13 to 15, and

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now we read at verse 18.
So David fled and escaped and

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came to Samuel and Rama and told
him all that Saul had done.

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And he and Samuel went and dwelt
and naoth.

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And because David was with
Samuel, Saul backed off for a

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period of time and is during
this time.

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Now David is perhaps 1819 years
of age that he’s spending time

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with Samuel that it’s revealed
to us in the divine record in

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First Chronicles Chapter 9 and
verse 22, that David and Samuel

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spent time by planning for a
temple to be built.

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They put together the
organization for worship at the

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temple.
So how long had David been

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thinking about building in house
for God?

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Well, since he was in his late
teens.

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So when David’s sitting upon the
throne and God has given him

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rest from all of his enemies in
Second Samuel Chapter 7 and

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Nathan comes before him, of
course Nathan can finish the

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sentence.
He knows exactly where David’s

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going to go and he knows that
it’s been in David’s heart for

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over 20 years.
This was not a a fleeting

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thought that David had.
This was a dream of a work that

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David wanted to accomplish to
strengthen the nation, and

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Nathan at the hand of God
rejects David’s dream.

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Furthermore, turn over with me
to Psalm 132 and we find again

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how much this was on David’s
mind.

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Now we know that Psalm 132 is
written after Second Samuel

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Chapter 7 because David quotes
the promise that God had made in

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verses 11 and 12 of Psalm 132.
But consider what he says at

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verse one.
Yahweh remembered David and all

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his afflictions, how he swear
unto the Lord, and vowed unto

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the mighty God of Jacob.
Surely I will not come into the

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Tabernacle of my house, nor go
up into my bed.

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I will not give sleep to mine
eyes or slumber to my eyelids

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until I find a place for Yahweh
and habitation for the Elohim of

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Israel, for the mighty God of
Jacob.

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So there’s David’s covenant oath
that he swears with God.

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He will not go to his house.
He will not go to his bed.

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He will not sleep until God
reveals where he wanted to place

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his name.
David’s on a sleep strike.

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He’s made an oath to God that
until you reveal where you want

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your name, I will not go to
sleep.

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Now, what gave David the idea
that he needed to pursue this

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question?
And of course, it comes out of

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the words of Moses as the
children of Israel stood on the

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banks of the Jordan River ready
to Passover.

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And almost 10 times God says to
the nation through Moses, that

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when you come into the place
which the Lord your God shall

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choose out of all your tribes to
put his name, there, even unto

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his habitation shall ye seek,
and thither shall ye come.

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When you get into the land, I’m
going to choose a place, a place

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to put my name.
And again in Deuteronomy 12

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verse 11/6 verses later, then
there shall be a place which the

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Lord your God shall choose to
cause His name to dwell there.

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Thither shall ye bring all that
I command you.

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And it goes on to talk about the
offerings.

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And it says it again in
Deuteronomy 12 and 21, and again

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in Deuteronomy 14 verses 23 and
24, and again in 16 verse 2,

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verse 6, and verse 11, and again
in Deuteronomy 26 verse 2.

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But it never says where the
place was.

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And now consider this, brothers
and sisters, God, from this time

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when they stood on the banks of
the Jordan River, had in mind a

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place that he would cause his
name to dwell in the land.

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And then Joshua enters the land,
and there’s the years of

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conquest.
And then the judges rule over

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the land for almost 400 years,
and nobody asks where’s the

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place that God wants to put his
name.

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And Samuel becomes the last
judge.

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And then Saul, the first king.
And now David.

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David, who from a teenager had
been thinking about building a

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temple for the Lord.
Indeed, he wanted to know.

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And he gets to the point of
crisis now.

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He heard of it when he was a
child at verse 6.

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Lo, we heard of it at Ephrathah.
We found it in the field fields

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of the woods at Kerjat Jiram.
So when he was a young man

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growing up in Bethlehem, Africa,
he heard about the ark.

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He heard about these passages
where God had said he was going

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to choose a place to put his
name, and he started thinking

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about how wonderful it would be
to have a temple built in that

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place.
We found it at the fields of the

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woods in Kerjat Jiram, which is
where the ark had been placed,

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and he brought it up to
Jerusalem.

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We will go into His tabernacles.
We will worship at His

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footstool.
Arise, O Lord, into thy rest,

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thou and the ark of thy
strength.

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And finally he gets the answer
in verse 13.

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For the Lord hath chosen Zion.
He hath desired it for his

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habitation.
It’s no wonder that the

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scriptural definition of the
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The first time it’s mentioned
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in the Bible, it says Zion,
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And it’s not only those times
Zion, which is the city of

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David.
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means the beloved.
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the city of the beloved.
David loved God and wanted a

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place where God could dwell even
as he had spoken of throughout

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the law.
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Samuel Chapter 7, when Nathan
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thine heart.
This has been in David’s heart

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for oh, such a long time.
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hearing the know was definitely
softened by the promise that God

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made.
Still, what a blow that would

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have been to have your lifelong
dream of building a temple for

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the Lord dashed in pieces.
When Nathan comes back the next

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morning, he’s not told here that
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he’s told in First Chronicles
chapter 22.

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Turn there with me in First
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Solomon, and he charges him to
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And then we what we find is from
First Chronicles 22 on to First

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Chronicles chapter 30.
The rest of the account of the

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Chronicles is all about David’s
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So here we are.
Here’s the command to his son in

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verse 6.
Then he called for Solomon his

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son, and charged him to build in
house for the Lord God of

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Israel.
And David said to Solomon, my

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son, As for me, it was in my
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name of the Lord my God.
But the word of the Lord came to

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me, saying, Thou hast shed blood
abundantly, and hast made great

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wars.
Thou shalt not build an house

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unto my name, because thou hast
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in my sight.
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rejection of his dream to his
son Solomon.

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And we have it repeated here in
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You’re not going to build a
house.

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Why?
You shed too much blood.

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You shed too much blood.
Now, there were many choices

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David could have had in how he
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Now, let’s just back up.
Why would this have been

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humiliating once again?
Well, let’s look at our cover

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slide to get a sense of the
scene when Nathan tells David

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that he’s not going to build a
house for the Lord.

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You can see a couple people over
there maybe working on plans for

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the House of the Lord because
just the day before, Nathan had

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said, yes, do all that is in
thine heart and David hadn’t

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started planning for the House
of the Lord.

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After Nathan said do all that is
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He started planning when he was
in the house as Samuel 20 years

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earlier.
He’d been planning for years to

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build a house for the Lord.
He had plans, no doubt, to build

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a house for the Lord.
And now before all the court,

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before the captains of the army,
before his mighty men, before

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the Princess and the princesses
and his wives and his concubines

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and the Royal Court, Nathan
comes back and says you will not

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build a house for the Lord
because you’ve shed too much

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blood.
Now, we might respond in anger

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when somebody humiliates us like
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In this case, the behavior of
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righteous because he was sent by
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But sometimes we’re humiliated
at the poor behavior of other

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people.
There were much better ways to

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have addressed the situation
than how we ended up being

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humiliated in a situation
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And the question is, will we let
other people control how we

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respond or will we control how
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So I tried to put myself in
David’s shoes, thinking about a

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lifelong dream that he’s told in
front of all of his best friends

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and family that he’s not able to
pursue in the truth and thought

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of possible responses.
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Why?
Well, we made reference to the

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amygdala and frontal cortex
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And I am by no means a
scientist, but what I have been

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told and researched is that that
little part in the middle there,

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the red part is the amygdala at
the base of our brain, and it is

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responsible for our fight or
flight.

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So when somebody slaps us across
the face, which hopefully

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doesn’t happen very often, and
somebody slaps us or punches us,

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the amygdala kicks in.
And according to scientists who

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have studied it, it kicks in
within 74 milliseconds.

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Before you can think actually,
is how quickly it kicks in.

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So immediately we, our body, our
brain has a response to either

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punch back or run.
That’s the body’s response, and

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it takes place in milliseconds.
And so that manifests itself in

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a verbal situation when
somebody’s insulted us or

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somebody has humiliated us and
immediately wanting to lash back

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and respond in like manner.
But scientists have said that in

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order to activate the logical
part of our brain, we need to do

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as I said yesterday, Take a deep
breath because the frontal

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cortex, I couldn’t find
anything, said the exact amount

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of time, but it was somewhere
between two and three seconds

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that it takes for the frontal
cortex to kick in.

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Now the frontal cortex is the
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So when we read the Word of God
and we develop the mind of the

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Spirit, as we’re told of in
Romans chapter 8, the mind of

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the spirit is being developed in
the frontal cortex, not in the

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amygdala, in the frontal cortex.
So the part of the brain that

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responds when we’re humiliated
in front of other people is

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going to respond like that
before we even have time to

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think.
So scientists say if you want to

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respond with your brain, the
reasoning part of your brain,

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and not the fight or flight, the
animal instinct part of the

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brain, take a deep breath, try 3
or 4 seconds and you’ve given

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the part of the brain that we
developed the mind of the Spirit

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in to now contribute to our
response.

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So they say deep breathing and
meditation can help us get

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better at accessing the local,
the logical part of our brain.

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And of course, for us, what
better thing to meditate on than

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to do some deep breathing while
listening to the Word of God or

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reciting the word of God in our
minds as our brother John has

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been instructing us to do.
And then of course, saying a

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prayer is most helpful if we’re
in a situation where the

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amygdala has given us a shot of
adrenaline to help prepare our

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bodies to fight.
There’s a chemical response that

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takes place when the amygdala
kicks in a shot of adrenaline.

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And that’s why we want to fight
or run because the body has

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actually chemically prepared us
for a situation that had deemed

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was dangerous to our health and
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And so take a deep breath, give
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David did not respond in anchor.
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breath and maybe said a little
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David didn’t protest.
Now this one I think would have

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been even more difficult because
remember what it said in Second

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Samuel Chapter 7 at verse 1, the
context of David expressing that

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he wanted to build in house for
the Lord.

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It was when God had given him
rest from all his enemies who

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gave him rest.
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And in fact, what we find is
that David had a pattern of

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praying to God when the
Philistines came up against the

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men of Keela, that he would
later go down and hide and then

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find out they would turn him
over to Saul.

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When David goes down to the men
of Keela to save them from the

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Philistines, he inquires of the
Lord and says, shall I go and

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smite these Philistines?
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And then in Second Samuel
chapter 5, when David’s sitting

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on the throne and he asked God,
should I go up against the

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Philistines, God says go up for
I will doubtless deliver the

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Philistines into thine hand.
In fact, there’s other places

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where God specifically tells him
don’t go up quite yet.

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OK, go now when you hear the
rustling of the wind.

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So David could rightly have
said, well wait a minute God, I

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asked you before I went out to
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Each time he could have
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The third response is that he
could have slipped into

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depression after dreaming about
building the temple of the Lord

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for all these years and then to
have that dream dashed in

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pieces.
All we’ve wanted to do is 1 work

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in the truth our whole life
growing up, and then something

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happens and it’s taken away from
us.

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We can’t pursue that which was
our dream of service in the

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Lord, and we could be like
Jeremiah, crawling under a

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juniker Bush and asking for God
to take our life, for we have no

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more purpose.
But that wasn’t the response of

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David.
He could have just moved on.

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Oh well, what’s next?
That was Saul’s response to

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things, but he didn’t move on.
He didn’t say what’s next.

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Well, what he did do was changed
his behavior.

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It doesn’t tell us explicitly
that I know of.

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If you do, please share it with
me after the class that David

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now goes out and stops killing
the Gentiles and starts

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converting Gentiles.
In fact, we do have evidence

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that he still did fight a few
battles after this.

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But we know that David changed
his behavior because when we

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come over to First Chronicles
Chapter 11, we have, as we said

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yesterday when we spoke of Uriah
being in David’s inner circle of

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influence, we have Gentiles that
are part of David’s mighty men

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of valor.
And we noted yesterday that Joab

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was not included in this list of
mighty men of valor.

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Joab’s relatives are included,
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And so that we don’t have to
debate on what a name means and

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whether it’s Gentile or Jew,
let’s go to three obvious

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references in First Chronicles
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Zoellick the Ammonite was one of
David’s mighty men of valor,

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verse 41.
Uriah the Hittite was one of

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David’s mighty men of valor, one
of the seven nations, by the

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way, that they were to destroy,
and verse 46 at the end, and

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Isma the Moabite.
And so in this list we have an

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Ammonite, A Hittite, and a
Moabite that are listed in

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David’s mighty Men.
In fact, if we were to turn over

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to Second Samuel 15 when David
is fleeing from Absalom, which

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we won’t forsake of time, we
would see that 600 Gentiles

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loyal to David go with him
across the river as he flees

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from Absalom’s rebellion.
And in fact, one of the most

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trusted people that David has,
the one he’s going to send, one

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of the few that he’s going to
send back to Absalom, and in

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this case to be a spy, was Itai,
from no other place than Wygath,

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Itai the Gittite.
So David was converting

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gentiles.
When we come to Second Samuel

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Chapter 20, it reveals that
David had split his army into

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the Jewish army and a Gentile
army, and that while Joab

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remained captain over the Jewish
army, it tells us in Second

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Samuel 20 that Banaya was the
captain over the Gentile portion

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of David’s army.
And so David heeded the words of

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God.
It wasn’t going to change the

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outcome, but he responded with
an open heart and an open mind,

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and he slowed down in his
battles against the Gentiles.

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He stopped cutting off the
Gentiles and started focusing on

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converting the Gentiles.
What’s interesting, when we use

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that language, cutting off the
Gentiles, he switched to

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converting the Gentiles.
Sometimes we might wonder why it

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is that God and his Son didn’t
just separate us.

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Why not tell all
Christadelphians to just come up

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here to the camp and we can all
live together?

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Maybe a few different spots
around the world where

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Christadelphians could
congregate and have their own

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community and their own schools
and their own places to work

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like some religions have tried
to do.

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But that wasn’t Jesus prayer,
was it?

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In John 17 he said my prayer is
not that you should take them

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out of the world, but that you
should protect them from

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wickedness.
Why didn’t Jesus pray to God

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take them out of the world?
Doesn’t that make a whole lot of

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sense, especially in our day as
the world has become so wicked,

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exceedingly wicked.
Why would Jesus not want us just

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to go into isolation and to
segregate ourselves?

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Well, there’s only one reason,
and it was stated beautifully by

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one of the teenagers.
Because we can’t hide our light

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00:31:25,680 –> 00:31:28,760
under a bushel.
And that’s what we’d be doing if

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00:31:28,760 –> 00:31:34,200
we segregated ourselves.
But instead, we’re commanded to

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go out into the world and preach
the gospel to every creature.

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00:31:38,160 –> 00:31:40,720
It’s hard to do that if we’re in
isolation.

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00:31:41,240 –> 00:31:46,920
If we cut everything else off
from our community, we can only

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00:31:46,920 –> 00:31:49,640
be letting our light shine.
We can only be preaching, We can

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00:31:49,640 –> 00:31:52,520
only be converting Gentiles as
it were.

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00:31:53,080 –> 00:31:58,000
If we’re out amongst the
Gentiles like David started to

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00:31:58,000 –> 00:32:03,080
become one who would be out
amongst the Gentiles and letting

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00:32:03,080 –> 00:32:07,400
his behavior be honest among the
Gentiles that while they might

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00:32:07,400 –> 00:32:12,960
speak I’ll of him, they would in
the day of visitation turn to

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God.
And so there’s an exhortation to

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us that we although the world is
indeed evil and we can’t

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00:32:20,400 –> 00:32:23,360
participate in the works of the
world, We must follow the

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00:32:23,360 –> 00:32:26,960
commands of Christ to go into
the world and preach the gospel.

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00:32:27,840 –> 00:32:30,640
And you know, a brother once
from Guyana said to Sister

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00:32:30,640 –> 00:32:36,440
Nicole and I that when an
ecclesia stops preaching, when

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00:32:36,440 –> 00:32:40,760
an ecclesia becomes insular and
is cut off the world and

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00:32:40,760 –> 00:32:43,280
segregated themselves from the
world, guess what they start to

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00:32:43,280 –> 00:32:46,280
do?
Well, first of all, what do we

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00:32:46,280 –> 00:32:47,720
do when we’re preaching the
word?

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00:32:48,640 –> 00:32:51,760
We’re out there in the world and
we’re seeing all the tattoos and

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00:32:51,760 –> 00:32:56,640
all the earrings and the
horrible dress and, and the, the

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00:32:56,640 –> 00:32:59,000
foul language and we’re seeing
all of that.

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00:32:59,200 –> 00:33:01,360
And we come together on a
Wednesday night or a Tuesday

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00:33:01,360 –> 00:33:03,120
night or a Thursday night,
whatever night it is for Bible

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00:33:03,120 –> 00:33:08,320
class.
And we’re refreshed because our

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00:33:08,320 –> 00:33:11,640
soul isn’t being vexed by the
unrighteousness of the world

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00:33:11,640 –> 00:33:13,760
around us.
And then we go back into the

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00:33:13,760 –> 00:33:17,320
world to our workplaces or
school and, and again, we’re

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00:33:17,320 –> 00:33:20,400
vexed daily by the wickedness of
this world.

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00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:24,920
And we come together on a Sunday
morning and we’re so happy to be

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00:33:24,920 –> 00:33:29,200
with our brothers and sisters.
But when we cut ourselves off

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00:33:29,200 –> 00:33:32,360
from the world and we’re insular
and we only see our brothers and

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00:33:32,360 –> 00:33:36,240
sisters, instead of seeing the
tattoos and hearing the foul

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00:33:36,240 –> 00:33:39,560
language and seeing the gross
behavior, now we start to see

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00:33:39,560 –> 00:33:43,680
all the little different
inadequacies of our brother and

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00:33:43,680 –> 00:33:47,360
our sister.
And we start to bite and chew at

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00:33:47,360 –> 00:33:50,680
each other.
And this brother from Guyana

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00:33:50,680 –> 00:33:54,480
said to us, if you see in
Ecclesia that is biting and

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00:33:54,480 –> 00:34:01,280
chewing at each other, it’s
because they become insular and

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00:34:01,280 –> 00:34:03,760
they’re not spending enough time
out in the world preaching the

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00:34:03,760 –> 00:34:07,880
gospel to every creature that
whosoever believeth might be

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00:34:07,880 –> 00:34:12,040
baptized.
And so let us learn the lesson

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00:34:12,040 –> 00:34:17,239
of David and stop cutting off
the Gentiles and work on

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00:34:17,639 –> 00:34:20,320
converting them.
And I’m not saying, of course,

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00:34:20,880 –> 00:34:24,920
that we take on the Gentiles
lifestyle, but we go out to

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00:34:24,920 –> 00:34:27,239
preach the gospel and let our
light shine.

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00:34:29,239 –> 00:34:33,840
Well, there’s another reason to
be out there letting our light

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00:34:33,840 –> 00:34:36,920
shine.
Brother Roger quoted from

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00:34:36,960 –> 00:34:40,760
Jeremiah 25 the other day when
he was talking about the

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00:34:40,760 –> 00:34:43,679
judgment of the nations.
And it says there in the Hebrew,

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the dead in that day shall be
heaps upon heaps.

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00:34:48,199 –> 00:34:52,840
Not a pretty sight to think
about, a most devastating sight

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00:34:52,840 –> 00:34:57,560
because God would that the
wicked repent from their way.

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00:34:58,360 –> 00:35:02,200
God would that none should
perish, but that all would

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00:35:02,200 –> 00:35:06,080
repent and come unto him and the
gospel of salvation.

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00:35:07,480 –> 00:35:09,720
And so another reason that we
need to be out in the world

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00:35:09,720 –> 00:35:13,600
letting our light shine is found
in first Peter chapter 2, which

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00:35:13,600 –> 00:35:18,520
I’d like you to turn with me to
now at verses 11 and 12.

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00:35:29,800 –> 00:35:35,240
First Peter, chapter 2, reading
at verse 11.

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00:35:35,440 –> 00:35:40,160
Dearly beloved, I beseech you,
as strangers and pilgrims,

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00:35:40,760 –> 00:35:45,080
abstain from fleshly lusts which
war against the soul.

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00:35:45,440 –> 00:35:47,720
You see what Peter is saying,
dearly beloved.

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00:35:47,720 –> 00:35:51,120
He’s writing to the ecclesia, to
brothers and sisters who are

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00:35:51,120 –> 00:35:54,360
strangers and pilgrims.
They’re not segregated.

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00:35:54,360 –> 00:35:57,200
They’re not clumped together and
cutting off the world.

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00:35:57,280 –> 00:36:00,320
They’re out there as strangers
and pilgrims.

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00:36:00,320 –> 00:36:04,480
And the first thing he says,
Abstain from fleshly lusts,

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00:36:04,640 –> 00:36:07,800
which war against the soul.
Be careful because when you’re

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00:36:07,800 –> 00:36:11,440
out there as strangers and
pilgrims, there’s a lot of

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00:36:11,440 –> 00:36:16,320
temptation and a lot of pressure
to do what we shouldn’t do.

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00:36:16,360 –> 00:36:18,800
There’s a lot of warring against
the soul.

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00:36:19,120 –> 00:36:23,000
Have your conversation or your
behavior as we should.

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00:36:23,000 –> 00:36:26,920
Read Honest among the Gentiles.
Now, what is he saying?

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00:36:27,240 –> 00:36:30,960
He says we’re proclaiming that
we’re followers of Christ.

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00:36:30,960 –> 00:36:33,840
In fact, our name is that we are
Christ’s brethren.

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00:36:34,280 –> 00:36:39,040
So if you claim to be Christ’s
brethren, walk with integrity

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00:36:39,440 –> 00:36:42,080
amongst the Gentiles.
Don’t get caught up in the

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00:36:42,080 –> 00:36:45,440
fleshly lusts of the Gentiles.
Don’t get caught up in their

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00:36:45,440 –> 00:36:50,200
language, in their behavior.
Walk with integrity among the

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00:36:50,200 –> 00:36:52,840
Gentiles.
And whereas they may speak

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00:36:52,840 –> 00:36:56,080
against you as evil doers, they
may mock you, they may ignore

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00:36:56,080 –> 00:37:00,160
you, They may by your good
works, by your behavior, by your

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00:37:00,160 –> 00:37:05,320
example, which they shall
behold, and can only behold if

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00:37:05,320 –> 00:37:11,400
we’re there in the midst of
them, Glorify God in the day of

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00:37:11,400 –> 00:37:14,840
visitation.
Now in the first instance, this

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00:37:14,840 –> 00:37:17,160
day of visitation would have
been AD 70.

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00:37:18,120 –> 00:37:21,080
But as it relates to the latter
day prophecies, the day of

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00:37:21,080 –> 00:37:26,960
visitation, I believe is the
judgment of the nations, not the

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00:37:26,960 –> 00:37:29,640
judgment of the nations.
Rather sorry, the day of the

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00:37:29,640 –> 00:37:34,800
delivering of the mid heaven
gospel proclamation before the

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00:37:34,800 –> 00:37:39,040
judgment of the nations.
And So what we’re being told is

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00:37:39,040 –> 00:37:44,000
that our behavior now if we live
a life of integrity, if we live

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00:37:44,000 –> 00:37:49,360
the name that we have Christ’s
brethren, that we will convert

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00:37:49,360 –> 00:37:53,120
some now, yes, as as David did
Gentiles.

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00:37:53,960 –> 00:37:59,280
But there will be those who may
speak evil of us now who will in

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00:37:59,280 –> 00:38:02,960
the day when the mid heaven
gospel proclamation goes out to

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00:38:02,960 –> 00:38:07,240
glorify God and to submit to the
rulership of Christ, who will

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00:38:07,240 –> 00:38:13,320
accept the call to submit
because of your good example and

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00:38:13,320 –> 00:38:17,960
preaching now.
So we can’t be discouraged,

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00:38:17,960 –> 00:38:21,760
brothers and sisters, when we
hold a seminar or a lecturer and

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00:38:21,880 –> 00:38:25,320
and just a few people come out.
Because what we’re being told by

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00:38:25,320 –> 00:38:29,640
Peter is that when the mid
heaven gospel proclamation is

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00:38:29,640 –> 00:38:34,000
proclaimed by Elijah and the
Saints as they go into every

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00:38:34,000 –> 00:38:36,840
community, first into the
synagogue as they did in the

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00:38:36,840 –> 00:38:39,800
Acts of the Apostles to the Jews
and then to the public

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00:38:39,800 –> 00:38:45,080
marketplace to the Gentiles as
Paul and his disciples did.

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00:38:46,320 –> 00:38:50,080
When they go out and proclaim
Christ has come and submit.

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00:38:50,080 –> 00:38:53,840
There will be those who at that
time will submit to Christ’s

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00:38:53,840 –> 00:38:56,760
rulership and will live as
mortals in the time period of

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00:38:56,760 –> 00:39:00,560
the Kingdom.
Because we were, by our

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00:39:00,560 –> 00:39:06,520
preaching and behavior, seeking
to convert Gentiles, not cut

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00:39:06,520 –> 00:39:11,720
them off.
And if David had learned the

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00:39:11,720 –> 00:39:15,440
lesson earlier, perhaps he would
have been able to build the

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00:39:15,440 –> 00:39:19,800
House of the Lord.
But he sure did learn it.

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00:39:21,680 –> 00:39:25,800
How do we know?
Because in Acts chapter 15 at

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00:39:25,800 –> 00:39:29,520
the Jerusalem conference, which
was all about should the

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00:39:29,520 –> 00:39:36,880
Gentiles be welcomed into the
ecclesia, James stands up at

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00:39:36,880 –> 00:39:42,000
verse 13 as was referenced by a
brother John in one of his

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00:39:42,000 –> 00:39:44,960
classes the other day.
Stands up in verse 13 and says,

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00:39:44,960 –> 00:39:46,520
Men and brethren, hearken unto
me.

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00:39:46,840 –> 00:39:50,760
Simon Peter has declared how God
at the first did visit the

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00:39:50,760 –> 00:39:54,920
Gentiles, read Babylon to take
out of them a people for His

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00:39:54,920 –> 00:39:56,640
name.
And who did he call out of

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00:39:56,640 –> 00:39:59,040
Babylon?
He called out Abram and his

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00:39:59,040 –> 00:40:02,200
family, and to this degree the
words of the prophets.

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00:40:02,200 –> 00:40:05,720
So in other words, God did go to
the Gentiles to call out of them

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00:40:05,720 –> 00:40:08,920
a people for his name, to this
degree the words of the prophets

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00:40:09,000 –> 00:40:11,880
as it is written.
Now quoting from Amos Chapter 9,

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00:40:12,360 –> 00:40:16,880
as your margin says.
After this I will return and

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00:40:16,880 –> 00:40:21,560
build again the Tabernacle of
David which has fallen down.

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00:40:22,160 –> 00:40:25,760
And I will build again the ruins
thereof, and I will set it up,

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00:40:26,200 –> 00:40:31,400
why, That the residue of men
might seek after the Lord and

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00:40:31,480 –> 00:40:36,400
all the Gentiles upon whom my
name is called, saith the Lord,

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00:40:36,760 –> 00:40:41,920
who doeth all these things.
And so at the Jerusalem

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00:40:41,920 –> 00:40:45,000
conference, when they’re trying
to decide, should we welcome the

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00:40:45,000 –> 00:40:50,360
Gentiles into the ecclesia?
The argument is finished when

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00:40:50,360 –> 00:40:55,040
James says, men and brethren,
remember what David did.

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00:40:56,080 –> 00:40:59,840
He didn’t go up and grab the
Tabernacle and bring it down and

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00:40:59,840 –> 00:41:02,360
set it up in Jerusalem.
When he brought the ark to

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00:41:02,360 –> 00:41:05,440
Jerusalem, he created a new
Tabernacle.

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00:41:05,840 –> 00:41:08,600
Why?
So that not just his Jewish

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00:41:08,600 –> 00:41:12,880
brethren, but his Gentile
converts could worship there

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00:41:13,080 –> 00:41:18,440
together before Yahweh.
And when James brings this point

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00:41:18,440 –> 00:41:21,640
up, everybody says, Oh yeah, of
course we should be welcoming

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00:41:21,640 –> 00:41:24,480
the Gentiles into the ecclesia.
It’s already happened.

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00:41:24,480 –> 00:41:32,040
David did it before.
So yes, David humbly accepted

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00:41:32,040 –> 00:41:37,000
the rebuke of God and it changed
his behavior.

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00:41:37,320 –> 00:41:43,240
And so the temple that Ezekiel
sees is called by name the

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00:41:43,240 –> 00:41:49,120
Tabernacle of David, as says
Amos 9, verse 11 in Isaiah 16

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00:41:49,120 –> 00:41:51,880
and verse 15.
Well, come back with me, please,

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00:41:51,880 –> 00:41:57,640
to First Chronicles chapter 22
to see another response of David

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00:41:58,200 –> 00:42:04,840
to this humiliation.
Remember, in First Chronicles

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00:42:04,840 –> 00:42:07,320
22, we’re at the end of David’s
life.

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00:42:07,320 –> 00:42:16,080
Now Solomon, his son is older.
He prays that God would give him

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00:42:16,080 –> 00:42:20,880
wisdom.
He passes on the command that he

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00:42:20,880 –> 00:42:29,480
would build a house, and he
recounted to Solomon why he was

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00:42:29,480 –> 00:42:32,000
rejected from building the
house.

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00:42:33,240 –> 00:42:35,080
And then it says down at verse
14.

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Now behold, in my trouble I have
prepared for the House of the

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00:42:41,760 –> 00:42:44,560
Lord.
And that word trouble there

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00:42:44,560 –> 00:42:52,280
means to find oneself in a
stunted, humble, lowly position.

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00:42:53,280 –> 00:42:58,360
To find oneself in a stunted,
humble, lowly position,

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00:42:58,920 –> 00:43:01,320
humiliated.
When was he humiliated?

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00:43:01,680 –> 00:43:05,080
Well, back in verse 8.
Thou has shed blood abundantly

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00:43:05,080 –> 00:43:07,640
and made great wars.
Thou shalt not build in house

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00:43:07,640 –> 00:43:11,760
for my name, because thou has
shed much blood upon the earth

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00:43:11,800 –> 00:43:16,720
in my sight.
Now in my humiliation I have

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00:43:16,720 –> 00:43:21,760
prepared for the House of the
Lord and 100,000 talents of

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00:43:21,760 –> 00:43:28,640
gold, etcetera.
So in his lowly estate.

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00:43:29,680 –> 00:43:34,920
Now what’s interesting is David
doesn’t shy away from the

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00:43:34,920 –> 00:43:39,520
humiliating part of the story.
He could have just moved on.

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00:43:39,520 –> 00:43:42,920
Second Samuel Chapter 7 is a
wonderful chapter about the

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00:43:42,920 –> 00:43:46,320
covenant that God made with
David.

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00:43:46,880 –> 00:43:49,960
If this was us, wouldn’t we
rather just start there?

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00:43:50,880 –> 00:43:55,240
Hey Solomon, God commanded that
you will make the temple.

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00:43:55,680 –> 00:43:57,800
Let’s not worry about why I
couldn’t make the temple.

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00:43:58,320 –> 00:44:00,080
We’ll just start there.
And it would have been an

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00:44:00,080 –> 00:44:05,120
equally good passage.
But no, he starts in my

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00:44:05,480 –> 00:44:08,880
humiliation I prepared for the
House of the Lord.

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00:44:09,960 –> 00:44:12,880
Now that was to his son Solomon.
But turn over a few pages to

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00:44:12,880 –> 00:44:19,120
first Chronicles 28, and now
read it verse one.

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00:44:19,600 –> 00:44:24,000
And David assembled all the
Princess of Israel, the Princess

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00:44:24,000 –> 00:44:27,320
of the tribes, and the captains
of the companies that ministered

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00:44:27,520 –> 00:44:30,800
to the king by course, and the
captains over thousands, and the

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00:44:30,800 –> 00:44:35,040
captains over hundreds, and the
stewards of all substance and

619
00:44:35,040 –> 00:44:39,200
possession of the king and of
his sons, with the officers,

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00:44:39,200 –> 00:44:43,200
with the mighty men, with all
the valiant men, unto Jerusalem

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00:44:43,480 –> 00:44:46,040
a massive assembly he calls
together.

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00:44:46,240 –> 00:44:50,040
Then David the king stood up on
his feet and said, Hear me, my

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00:44:50,040 –> 00:44:55,040
brethren and my people, As for
me, I had in mine heart to build

624
00:44:55,040 –> 00:44:59,480
an House of rest for the ark of
the covenant of the Lord, and

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00:44:59,480 –> 00:45:03,400
for the footstool of our God,
and made ready for the building

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00:45:03,600 –> 00:45:05,640
he had made ready before he
asked.

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00:45:06,160 –> 00:45:10,200
But God said unto me, Thou shalt
not build an house for my name,

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00:45:10,520 –> 00:45:14,640
because thou hast been a man of
war and has shed blood.

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Not only does he repeat it to
his son, but he repeats it again

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00:45:22,080 –> 00:45:26,160
before all the leaders in
Israel, and not only before all

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00:45:26,160 –> 00:45:29,280
the leaders in Israel.
Because when we go forward in

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00:45:29,280 –> 00:45:32,720
the record to the the time of
Solomon, in the record of the

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00:45:32,720 –> 00:45:37,720
kings, it says Solomon sent to
Hiram saying, Thou knowest how

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00:45:37,720 –> 00:45:41,440
the David my father could not
build in house unto the name of

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00:45:41,440 –> 00:45:45,800
the Lord his God, for the wars
which were about him on every

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00:45:45,800 –> 00:45:49,840
side, even the Gentiles knew.
How did the Gentiles know?

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00:45:50,080 –> 00:45:57,960
Because David repeated over and
over and over and over again his

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00:45:58,280 –> 00:46:01,480
humiliation.
Why would he do that?

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00:46:03,400 –> 00:46:09,840
I don’t understand.
What we’re being told is that

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00:46:09,840 –> 00:46:18,160
David embraced the humiliation
and David repeated the

641
00:46:18,160 –> 00:46:20,080
humiliation.
Why?

642
00:46:20,480 –> 00:46:26,400
Because every time he repeated
that story, it counteracted the

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00:46:26,400 –> 00:46:30,040
pride of life, which would have
been so easy for King David,

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00:46:30,920 –> 00:46:35,720
king over all Israel.
And so he repeated over and over

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and over again before all
Israel, before Gentiles.

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It didn’t matter.
Whoever would listen, he

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repeated the account of his
humiliation.

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00:46:47,120 –> 00:46:54,120
But David goes on, and he tells
the nation how God chose before

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00:46:54,120 –> 00:46:57,480
him the House of his father, and
he to be king over Israel and

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00:46:57,480 –> 00:46:59,680
his sons.
And he’s chosen Solomon to sit

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00:46:59,680 –> 00:47:04,280
on my throne.
And then he says to all the

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00:47:04,280 –> 00:47:08,760
children of Israel that he wants
them to respond in a perfect

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00:47:08,760 –> 00:47:13,640
heart, and to give.
He says it verse 20, chapter 29

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and verse 3.
Moreover, because I have set my

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00:47:16,120 –> 00:47:20,800
affection to the House of my
God, and I have of my own proper

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00:47:20,800 –> 00:47:25,160
good of gold and silver, which I
have given to the House of my

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00:47:25,160 –> 00:47:28,760
God, over and above all that I
have prepared for the holy

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00:47:28,760 –> 00:47:31,080
house.
And he recounts in verses four

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00:47:31,080 –> 00:47:34,720
and five of First Chronicles 29
all that he had given.

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00:47:35,040 –> 00:47:38,200
Then in verse 6, then the chief
of the fathers and the Princess

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00:47:38,200 –> 00:47:41,520
of the tribes of Israel, and the
captains of thousands and of

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00:47:41,520 –> 00:47:46,000
hundreds, and the rulers of the
kings, work offered willingly.

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00:47:46,840 –> 00:47:52,400
And so David spends the
remaining years of his life

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00:47:52,400 –> 00:47:55,880
doing two things.
God said you’re not going to

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00:47:55,880 –> 00:47:58,000
build a house because you were a
man of blood.

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00:47:58,160 –> 00:48:01,080
He says OK, and he starts
converting Gentiles.

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00:48:02,880 –> 00:48:04,480
God says you’re not going to
build the house.

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00:48:04,480 –> 00:48:10,640
And David says, OK, but it was
my lifelong dream, so I’m going

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00:48:10,640 –> 00:48:17,320
to do as much as I can to see
that dream come true for the

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00:48:17,320 –> 00:48:21,160
nation.
And he made it his son’s dream

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00:48:21,760 –> 00:48:25,320
by sharing the humiliation.
And he made it the nation’s

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00:48:25,320 –> 00:48:27,600
dream by sharing the
humiliation.

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00:48:28,520 –> 00:48:31,480
And he made it the King of Tyres
dream by sharing the

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00:48:31,480 –> 00:48:34,080
humiliation.
And he made it the Queen of

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00:48:34,080 –> 00:48:39,320
Sheba’s dream.
David took the opportunity of

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00:48:39,320 –> 00:48:47,320
his humiliation to inspire Jew
and Gentile to build a place of

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00:48:47,320 –> 00:48:56,600
worship for all nations.
Do you know that word that we

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00:48:56,600 –> 00:49:00,560
saw back in First Chronicles 22
and verse 14?

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00:49:01,080 –> 00:49:04,800
In all my humiliation, I
prepared mightily for the House

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00:49:04,800 –> 00:49:11,200
of the Lord.
It appears again in Isaiah 66.

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00:49:15,520 –> 00:49:21,480
When we go through the speech of
Stephen in Acts, we see that

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00:49:21,480 –> 00:49:27,720
Stephen actually connects
David’s rejection in Second

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00:49:27,720 –> 00:49:33,320
Samuel 7 with Isaiah 66.
David found favor before God,

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00:49:33,320 –> 00:49:36,840
says Stephen, and desired to
find to build a Tabernacle for

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00:49:36,840 –> 00:49:40,280
the God of Jacob, but Solomon
built him in house.

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00:49:40,520 –> 00:49:44,400
Howbeit the Most High dwelleth
not in temples made with hands,

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00:49:44,400 –> 00:49:48,600
as Seth the prophet Isaiah.
Heaven is my throne, and earth

688
00:49:48,600 –> 00:49:51,960
is my footstool.
What house will ye build me,

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00:49:51,960 –> 00:49:54,400
saith the Lord?
Or where is the place of my

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00:49:54,400 –> 00:49:57,200
rest?
Hath not my hand made all these

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00:49:57,200 –> 00:50:00,240
things?
And he’s quoting from Isaiah 66.

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00:50:01,480 –> 00:50:04,440
And he can do so with
confidence, because that were

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00:50:04,440 –> 00:50:07,200
troubled from first Chronicles
22.

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00:50:08,240 –> 00:50:10,840
In all of my humiliation I
prepared mightily.

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00:50:10,840 –> 00:50:15,400
For the House of the Lord
appears in Isaiah 66, starting

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00:50:15,400 –> 00:50:17,280
at first one.
Thus saith the Lord.

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00:50:17,600 –> 00:50:20,760
The heaven is my throne, and the
earth is my footstool.

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00:50:21,480 –> 00:50:24,000
Where is the house that ye build
unto mine?

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00:50:24,160 –> 00:50:26,800
Build unto me?
And where is the place of my

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00:50:26,800 –> 00:50:29,800
rest?
For all those things hath mine

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00:50:29,800 –> 00:50:34,360
hand made, and all those things
hath been, saith the Lord.

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00:50:35,120 –> 00:50:42,560
But to this man will I look.
Here is my place of rest.

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00:50:43,360 –> 00:50:49,560
Here is where I will Tabernacle.
Here is where I will dwell in

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00:50:49,560 –> 00:50:54,720
the man that is poor.
Same word.

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00:50:57,160 –> 00:51:04,320
In the one instance it’s this
word, and in the other instance

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00:51:04,480 –> 00:51:08,640
it’s this word. 1 is an
adjective and the other is a

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00:51:08,640 –> 00:51:12,360
noun.
Same word as was found back in

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00:51:12,680 –> 00:51:15,040
First Chronicles 22 and verse
14.

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00:51:15,640 –> 00:51:19,000
To this man will I look, in this
man will I dwell.

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00:51:19,520 –> 00:51:24,160
Even to him that is poor, that
has been humiliated and

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00:51:24,160 –> 00:51:30,080
embraced, the humiliation and of
a contrite spirit, and that

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00:51:30,080 –> 00:51:38,880
trembleth at my word.
In the end, he would find a

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00:51:38,880 –> 00:51:45,800
place to dwell in in David’s
lifetime, and that was inside

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00:51:45,800 –> 00:51:52,000
the man that it embraced the
humiliation, and it learned to

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00:51:52,000 –> 00:51:56,600
be poor in spirit.
As our Lord says, Blessed is he

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00:51:57,080 –> 00:52:01,840
that is poor in spirit, for
theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.

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00:52:04,960 –> 00:52:09,120
And so David ends his life
preparing mightily for the

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00:52:09,120 –> 00:52:12,920
building of the Temple.
And just as we saw in First

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00:52:12,920 –> 00:52:15,880
Chronicles 9, as we went through
the priests and the Levites and

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00:52:15,880 –> 00:52:21,360
the porters, and saw that David
and Samuel had together prepared

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00:52:21,720 –> 00:52:26,960
a structure of worship at the
temple that Solomon in the end

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00:52:27,320 –> 00:52:31,640
would make, you know, that
structure of service in the

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00:52:31,640 –> 00:52:36,880
Temple was still alive and well
when John the Baptist was born.

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00:52:37,920 –> 00:52:42,200
For Zechariah went up to the
temple and served in his course.

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00:52:42,920 –> 00:52:46,240
And the course that he served in
was the courses that David and

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00:52:46,240 –> 00:52:50,080
Samuel had put together when
David was a late teenager.

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00:52:51,520 –> 00:52:56,000
And no doubt, no doubt David
further refined in his older

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00:52:56,000 –> 00:53:01,000
age.
And I believe, brothers and

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00:53:01,000 –> 00:53:05,880
sisters, that when we come to
the time when the Tabernacle of

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00:53:05,880 –> 00:53:11,400
David is built up again, as
James spoke of Indiana Acts 15,

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that once again there will be
courses of priests that will

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00:53:17,080 –> 00:53:20,960
come up.
And although we may be over one

733
00:53:20,960 –> 00:53:24,200
city, Oregon, 2 cities, or
multiple cities, as the parable

734
00:53:24,200 –> 00:53:30,360
states, those that sing a new
song in revelation, thou art

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00:53:30,360 –> 00:53:33,200
worthy to take the book to open
the seals thereof.

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00:53:33,200 –> 00:53:37,120
For thou was slain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood,

737
00:53:37,280 –> 00:53:40,760
out of every kindred and tongue
and people and nation, and has

738
00:53:40,840 –> 00:53:45,760
made us unto our God kings and
priests.

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00:53:47,320 –> 00:53:50,920
And we shall reign on the earth,
and we will as priests, as the

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00:53:50,920 –> 00:53:57,720
sons of Zadok, come up in our
course either for two weeks in

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00:53:57,720 –> 00:54:01,760
the year or twice a year for the
courses of the priests.

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00:54:01,760 –> 00:54:07,200
We’re 24, probably 2 weeks in
the year We’ll come up and we’ll

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00:54:07,600 –> 00:54:11,960
serve in the temple, the
Tabernacle of David.

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00:54:12,640 –> 00:54:19,640
Indeed, Psalm 122 speaks of
seats of judgment, David’s seats

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00:54:19,640 –> 00:54:23,520
of judgments in the temple that
will be built, where the Saints

746
00:54:23,520 –> 00:54:27,200
will come up and judge from time
to time and will serve in that

747
00:54:27,200 –> 00:54:31,120
large, most holy place as
immortal priests.

748
00:54:34,080 –> 00:54:39,600
Well, humiliation is not fun.
It goes against the natural man,

749
00:54:39,600 –> 00:54:42,480
doesn’t it?
But David has shown us that we

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00:54:42,480 –> 00:54:47,360
can use humiliation to grow our
spiritual intelligence, to

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00:54:47,360 –> 00:54:52,040
develop a spirit that God can
work with, that God will walk

752
00:54:52,040 –> 00:54:56,040
with, and that God can choose to
dwell in.

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00:54:59,480 –> 00:55:03,200
And so if we wish to develop the
spirit of humility, as we see in

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00:55:03,200 –> 00:55:07,080
the life of David, we need to if
we wish to walk with God, we

755
00:55:07,080 –> 00:55:11,960
need to recognize first and
foremost that humility is a

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00:55:11,960 –> 00:55:18,040
requirement.
Secondly, we need to embrace it

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00:55:18,240 –> 00:55:23,120
when it arrives in our life,
which is only done with that 3

758
00:55:23,120 –> 00:55:27,880
second breath and a short
prayer, else will flee or fight.

759
00:55:29,720 –> 00:55:34,480
Third, we need to rise above the
behavior of others if the

760
00:55:34,480 –> 00:55:38,600
circumstances leading to our
humiliation were not well

761
00:55:38,600 –> 00:55:42,920
delivered.
Our behavior is not dependent

762
00:55:42,920 –> 00:55:49,920
upon the behavior of others. 4th
as David did, rehearse the

763
00:55:49,920 –> 00:55:55,040
circumstances of our humiliation
that we might combat against the

764
00:55:55,040 –> 00:56:00,000
pride of life.
And finally, remember that God

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00:56:00,000 –> 00:56:07,120
dwells with the humble, with
this poor in spirit, whose is

766
00:56:07,120 –> 00:56:12,960
the Kingdom of heaven.
Well, what a journey this week

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00:56:12,960 –> 00:56:17,320
with Jonathan and David.
Starting with Jonathan, we learn

768
00:56:17,320 –> 00:56:21,840
principles of leadership and how
we can inspire others unto

769
00:56:21,840 –> 00:56:24,960
greatness.
And then with the young man

770
00:56:24,960 –> 00:56:29,480
David as a shepherd in his
field, watching over his

771
00:56:29,480 –> 00:56:33,320
father’s flocks, we saw the
development of discernment that

772
00:56:33,320 –> 00:56:38,360
came by meditating upon the Word
of God and gave such clarity.

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00:56:38,360 –> 00:56:44,000
Where Israel saw only a giant
man of flesh, David saw that it

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00:56:44,000 –> 00:56:47,960
was a reproach against God.
We saw the principle of honor in

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00:56:47,960 –> 00:56:52,040
both Jonathan and David’s lives,
who had every reason to despise

776
00:56:52,040 –> 00:56:55,600
Saul and yet sought to build a
good name for him.

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00:56:56,600 –> 00:56:59,680
We saw the principles of
friendship in David and

778
00:56:59,680 –> 00:57:04,000
Jonathan’s life, and that in the
end Jonathan was willing to lay

779
00:57:04,000 –> 00:57:09,840
down his life for his friend.
We saw the principles of faith

780
00:57:09,880 –> 00:57:15,560
in a surprising place in the
struggle against sin and the

781
00:57:15,560 –> 00:57:22,600
failure that David had had shown
all of Israel and how his faith

782
00:57:22,600 –> 00:57:26,480
restored him both before Israel
and before his God.

783
00:57:27,440 –> 00:57:32,440
And then today, the spiritual
quotient of humility so that we

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00:57:32,440 –> 00:57:36,320
can walk with God and that God
can dwell with us.