Ryan King – Geography Of The Holy Land – Class 3 – Ye Mountains Of Gilboa Let There Be No Dew

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Thank you, Brother Matt.
Uh, it’s now time for us uh to

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uh call upon our brother Ryan to
continue a series of geography

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of the Holy Land.
And this is Class 3, uh ye

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Mountains of Gilboa.
Let there be no dew, Brother

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Ryan.
Well, good morning, my dear

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brothers and sisters in the Lord
Jesus Christ and my dear young

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people.
This morning, in our

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consideration of the geography
of the Holy Land, we’d like to

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examine two men, two men who
were brethren and yet who were

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taken on divergent courses
because of the choices.

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That they made.
They could have stood together

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and no weapon formed against
them would prosper.

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They loved each other.
But they met with two very, very

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different ends.
And this morning we want to see

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how the land itself was to bear
out their destiny.

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A positive destiny of one man
and a negative destiny of

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another man.
We’re speaking, of course, about

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King David and King Saul.
You’ll recall that in our

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opening session we had a look at
this particular territory here

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known as the Shephilah.
It was where many of David’s

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wanderings were during his exile
and when he was fleeing from

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salt.
The word Shephelah signifies the

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lowlands, and it’s in this area
which leads up to the Judean

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hills, where David spent a lot
of his wanderings.

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You’ll notice that the
Shephelah, which is these little

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bumps, these undulating hills
right here, hogs the coast, the

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Philistine coast.
And here you can see Ashdod,

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Ashkelon, Gaza, the major cities
of the Philistines, go right up

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to the Shefila.
And because of that, it was the

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Center for a lot of the
skirmishes that took place

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between Judah and the
Philistines.

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These little valleys that you
see here are the four main

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valleys that dissect the
Shefila.

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It was in these valleys where a
lot of these battles took place,

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culminating in the events, the
dramatic events of First Samuel

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Chapter 17, to which we shall
now turn First Samuel Chapter

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17.
We just put on the screen here

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another map of those four
valleys.

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Not a topographical map, but one
that just shows these four

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valleys that sort of dissect the
Shafila.

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They are the valley of Agilon
and these are all significant in

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scripture.
The valley of Agilon where the

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sun and the moon stood still.
There’s the valley of Sorak,

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where Delilah lived, where
Samson lived.

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There is the valley of Elah
which comes down through here,

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and there is the Valley of
Lakish which forms a significant

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part of the time When the
Assyrian invaded.

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All of these valleys were are
saturated with biblical history,

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and it’s to one of those valleys
that we will now turn in First

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Samuel Chapter 17.
Now, as we’ve noted frequently,

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good Bible study is based upon
good Bible reading.

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We can all read carefully.
There’s only two things that are

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required to be a good Bible
student.

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That’s the ability to read and
the ability to think.

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And I don’t know anyone in here
who doesn’t have those two

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things.
Let’s just read carefully verse

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one of First Samuel 17.
There’s a precision about this

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verse that we really need to
note.

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Now the Philistines gathered
together their armies to battle,

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and we’re gathered together at
Shaco, which belongs to Judah

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and Azika in Ephes Damin.
Now, it’s not just any location,

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it’s not just a general area.
It’s at Shaco, which belongs to

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Judah and Azika in Ephes Damin.
On this map here we have the

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direction from whence the
Philistines came off in the

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distance.
Here is the Mediterranean Sea.

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This.
Is Gath, which is Goliath

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hometown.
Gath was the key city for the

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Philistines.
It’s called in the book of

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Samuel Nephag Amah, which means
the bridal of the mother city,

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because it held the key to the
gateway, the Philistine cities,

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which were over in this
direction.

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And so they would have come from
the West.

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Here’s a Zika right here, and
here’s the brook that winds its

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way through the valley.
That was where the Philistines

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came from, from that direction.
Verse two says, And Saul and the

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men of Israel were gathered
together and pitched by the

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valley of Elah and set the
battle in array against the

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Philistines.
Now they would have come from

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the eastern direction.
You’ll recall we talked about

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the hump in our opening two
sessions.

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That central Hump that goes
right down the middle of the

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land, the Hill Country.
Here’s the Hill Country, right

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here, the Judean hills.
David would have come right

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through here, from the fields of
Bethlehem to the valley of Elah.

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And here’s Shaco.
And this is the northern end or

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the the eastern end of the
valley where Saul and the men of

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Israel were camped.
It’s an absolutely picturesque

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spot in the land even today.
And it was the scene of this

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great valley.
It’s a flat valley, and on one

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end where the Philistines, and
on one end where the Israelites

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they stood, locked there,
checkmated, not willing to give

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it an inch.
Knowing that whoever moved first

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lost the strategic advantage,
here’s another picture of the

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valley just taken from Shako.
This off in the distance here is

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Beshimesh, which is expanding
further and further towards the

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valley at present moment.
So it was here where this great

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battle took place.
Now verse three is very, very

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carefully worded.
It says and the Philistines

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stood on a mountain on the one
side.

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And Israel stood on a mountain
on the other side.

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So one’s on one side, the
other’s on the other side.

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So there’s obviously some sort
of lesson that’s being drawn in

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the placement of these armies.
And there was a valley between

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them.
Now, the interesting thing about

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these verses, brothers and
sisters, is is that the meanings

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of the names are highly
significant.

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You know, whatever scripture
repeats names like it does in

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verse 1/2, it’s inviting us to
grab our concordance and to

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check the meanings of the names.
Because there is a lesson that

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is being drawn in mentioning all
of these places here in verses

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one and two.
And the lesson that’s being

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drawn is the lessons of Eden.
Verse one paints a picture of

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the Garden of Eden.
After the Fall.

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The Philistines were gathered
together in a place called

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Shaka, which means a hedge of
thorns.

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Between Shocko and Azika, Azika
means to dig over.

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So there the ground had brought
forth thorns and thistles, where

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man with the sweat of his face
had to dig it over.

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They were also the place called
Ephes Damon, which means the

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field of blood where man’s sins
had been prominent.

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There in Genesis chapter four
with Cain and Abel.

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And that was where the
Philistines were gathered.

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It’s a picture of the Garden of
Eden after the Fall, and on the

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other side we have the
Israelites.

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They’re pitched at a place
called Elah, which means a

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strong tree, and they had on
their side, if only they knew

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it, the tree of life.
And those were the issues here.

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God brought them specifically to
this place, that these lessons

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might be brought before the
people.

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One on the one.
Side the other On the other side

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the combatants There was Goliath
of Gath.

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His name means the exiled man
had been driven from the garden.

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Goliath represented man in his
fallen condition.

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The man of Sin, whose height
verse four was 6 cubits and a

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span.
He was covered in brass.

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As verse 5.
And the word for brass and the

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word for serpent in the Hebrew
are cognate words.

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So here was the man of flesh in
all his ugliness, and he was

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standing there as a Philistine.
You know, in this chapter he’s

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only called Goliath a couple of
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He’s called over and over and
over again the Philistine, the

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Philistine, the Philistine
because he represents all that

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Philistines stand for.
You’ll see verse 8:00, AM I not

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a Philistine verse 10.
And the Philistines said verse

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11.
And when they heard the words of

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the Philistine verse 16, and the
Philistine junior, he’s called

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the Philistine.
Because you see, a Philistine

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means a Wallower in the dust.
Dust he was.

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And to dust on this day he would
return.

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And standing opposite of him was
a man named David, whose name

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means a beloved.
And he was the king of Israel,

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meaning a Prince with God.
So on one hand we’ve got a

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prevailer or a Prince with God,
and on the other hand we’ve got

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the wallowers in the dust.
And the land Here on this day

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was to recount the issues of
Eden.

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You’ll recall we said in the
opening session that the land

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reinforces the principles of the
truth that we all know to be

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true.
And here were the issues of Eden

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set out in these places.
Thorns and thistles, dust of the

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earth, having to dig it over
with the sweat of his face.

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And on the other hand, we’ve got
a strong tree, we’ve got a

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beloved Prince with God.
And they were the issues facing

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Israel on that day.
And there was one man there on

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that day who understood that
better than anyone.

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And his name was King David.
We know that if we turn to Psalm

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8, if we turn to Psalm 8, we see
that David clearly understood by

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this incident that the issues of
Eden were before them on that

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day.
It wasn’t just about he and

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Goliath.
It was about something far

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greater and bigger, Psalm 8.
Was the Psalm that David wrote

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to commemorate his victory over
Goliath.

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Goliath in First Samuel 17 verse
four is called the champion A.

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Champion went out amongst the
camps well in the titles to the

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Psalms which the guide of which
were given by thirl.

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We know that the heading of
Psalm 9.

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Really.
Belongs to the bottom of Psalm

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8.
We’re given that guide both by

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Thirl and in Habakkuk Chapter 3,
which is a model Psalm.

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We know that the heading that we
see in Psalm 9 where it says to

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the chief musician upon
Muthlabin that that really

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belongs to the bottom of Psalm
8.

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So the words of Psalm 8 should
end.

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O Yahweh, our Lord, how
excellent is thy name in all the

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earth?
To the chief musician upon

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Muthlabin.
That’s how Psalm 8 ends.

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Now Muth Laban signifies the
death of the champion.

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The death of the champion.
And so David wrote this Psalm to

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commemorate his great victory
over Goliath.

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And what’s in David’s mind in
Psalm 8?

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What’s the issues of Eden?
Verse 3.

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When I consider thy heavens, the
work of thy fingers, the moon,

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and the stars, which thou hast
ordained, what is man?

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That thou art mindful of him and
the Son of man, that thou

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visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little

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lower than the angels, and
crowned him with glory and

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honor.
Thou made us, Tim, to have

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dominion over the works of thine
hands, which was the position

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which man had in the beginning
in Genesis chapter one.

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He was given dominion over the
works of God’s hands.

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But as we know, Adam through his
sin forfeited that dominion.

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It was lost.
And so David says, What is man?

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That thou art.
Mindful of him and the word man

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that he uses there in verse four
is the Hebrew word enosh.

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Now.
There are three different words

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from man in the Hebrew.
There’s the word Adam which is

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used of common man.
There’s the word ish, which

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speaks of a great man.
And then there’s the word enosh,

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which means weak, destitute, and
sick.

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Now when God created man in the
beginning, did he create him

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weak, destitute and sick?
No, he was created very good.

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But man lost that condition
through his sins.

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And so David here is looking
upon the creation.

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He says.
What is man?

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You made him to have dominion
over the works of your hands.

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But but how is it?
That.

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That he’s ever.
Going to get back to that state

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and David worked it out.
The only way that man could ever

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reclaim the promise of Genesis
chapter one, that he would have

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dominion over the works of God’s
hands, was that God would have

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to visit one man.
What is verse 4?

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The Son of man Ben.
Ah, Adam.

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Thou visitest him and Paul in
Hebrews chapter 2 quotes these

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words in application to the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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That in order for man to ever
have dominion again over the

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works of God’s hand, so that all
sheep and oxen, all beasts to

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the field would be under his
control, was that he would have

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to visit one man, a son of Adam,
who would take the Goliath

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nature of mankind and would
conquer it in himself, so that a

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way might be open for all men to
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blessings that were promised in
the beginning.

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You know when Paul quotes in
Hebrews chapter 2 verse five of

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this Psalm, he inserts 1 little
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I’d like to just read.
Verse five of Psalm 8 with you

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it says, for thou hast made him
a little lower than the angels,

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that when Paul quotes that in
Hebrews 2 he inserts these words

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for the suffering of death,
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And then he adds that.
He by the grace of God five

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smooth stones should taste death
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And David had worked out that it
was not just about he and

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Goliath on that day.
He was looking forward to the

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great victory which his greater
son would have, where once and

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for all the Goliath nature would
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And he saw his act on that day
as being a little cameo of the

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great thing that God would one
day through do through his

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greater Son.
And you know, Goliath came out

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to him and mocked him.
He said, I’m going to give you

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to the fowl of the air and to
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And he didn’t even know Goliath
on that day that he was quoting

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Genesis chapter one.
He said, I’m going to give you

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to the fowl of the air.
Look at verse 8, the fowl of the

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air, the fish of the sea.
I’m going to give you to the

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fowl of the air, he said to
Dave.

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And David turns around and says,
I’m going to give you to the

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fowl of the air.
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He understood what it was all
about, but he did something else

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that demonstrates his immense
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David had an understanding of
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had at that particular time.
If you come back to First Samuel

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17, we know, of course, that he
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grace of God, and he finished
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But he did an action after that
that demonstrated his marvelous

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understanding of what was
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First Samuel 17 we read in verse
53, and the children of Israel

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returned from chasing after the
Philistines, and they spoiled

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their tents.
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Philistine.
There it is again, just the

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Philistine, the Wallower, and
the dust, and brought it to

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Jerusalem.
But he put his armor in his

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tent, so he he cuts off his
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Genesis 315 the the serpent
thinking was to be destroyed, he

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puts his armor in his tent and
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Now who was in control of
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It was the Jebusite.
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control till some years later,
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To Jerusalem.
Because he understood from

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Genesis chapter 14 and Genesis
chapter 22 that that would be

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the location where one day his
greater son would take the

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serpent mind and would conquer
it in himself and for once and

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for all put to death that
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So David was here in the valley
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This Ku Kayapha is Ephes Damon.
It’s the Arab word for Ephes

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Damon.
Now he had to go all the way up

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here into the Hill Country, from
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which is 2700 feet above sea
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Put that head there, even though
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Jebusite.
He went into that city under

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Jebusite control and put the
head there, showing his

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understanding of what was really
being done on that day, the he,

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by his act of slain Goliath, was
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What God would ultimately do
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And so he brought it to that
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David understood what few in
Israel understood, that he was

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enacting a wonderful parable,
and it was the land that taught

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him that.
It was the meaning of all those

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places that reminded David of
the great issues that face

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mankind.
The issues of Eden, And he wrote

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about that so powerfully in the
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Well, that was David’s destiny.
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The land clearly directed him as
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Now we want to see the contrast.
We want to see the contrast in a

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man who was not as bad off as
you might think, a man named

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King Saul.
You know, the first time that we

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meet David in the record of
scripture, brothers and sisters,

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he’s keeping his father’s sheep.
The first time that we meet Saul

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in the record of Scripture,
brothers and sisters, he’s

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looking for his father’s lost
asses.

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And both the ass and the sheep
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I’d.
Like you to come to First Samuel

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Chapter 9, you know whenever you
get a series of places mentioned

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in the Bible together, a series
of of of towns or of districts,

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do yourself a favor in your
readings and get out a map.

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This incident in First Samuel
Chapter 9 is really a microcosm

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of Saul’s whole life.
He’s looking for his father’s

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lost asses.
In First Samuel Chapter 9 we

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read in verse three in the asses
of Kish Saul’s father were lost.

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Kish said to Saul his son, Take
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thee, and rise and go and seek
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He passed through Mount Ephraim.
He passed through the land of

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Shalisha, but they found them
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Then they passed through the
land of Shalom, and there they

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were not.
And he passed through the land

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of the Benjamites, but they
found them not, and they were

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coming to the land of Zuf.
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That was with me.
We need to go back where my

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father’s going to be worried
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Us.
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Now look at that serf that’s
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He passed through Mount Ephraim,
then through the land of the

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Shalisha, then to the land of
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territory of the Benjamites.
Now if you look at what Saul’s

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doing here, he’s actually going
around in circles.

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He’s going around in circles.
He’s up into the Hill Country of

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Ephraim, then over to Shalisha,
then down to Shalom, then back

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into the territory of Benjamin.
He’s just going around and

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around in circles.
See if you don’t know the

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geography of the land that
points going to escape you.

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He’s going around in circles.
It’s a microcosm of his whole

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life.
He’s always around the truth.

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He knows the truth, but he’s
just unable to follow it in his

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life.
Sometimes we might feel like our

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lives are like that, like we’re
just going around in circles and

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and bear in mind, this is Hill
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I mean, this is you wouldn’t.
It’s not like they expended no

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effort looking for these asses.
The search went on for a few

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days.
We learned later in the chapter

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Samuel has to go and say, look,
we found them.

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But that was a microcosm of
Saul’s life around and around

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and around and around.
And yet Saul was a man, brothers

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and sisters who had potential.
He was a man very much like us.

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Look at the way he rescued the
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You know when.
Samuel came to him in in chapter

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15 and and it Samuel had the the
very difficult task of having to

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reject Saul.
Samuel said, you know, when you

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were little in your own sight,
didn’t God make you king over

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all the tribes of Israel?
You know, he, he put the the

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witches and the Wizards out of
the land.

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They had to go and get them
among from among the stuff.

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He was humble, he was
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He was someone who had
potential.

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And David loves Saul greatly.
Remember that meeting in The

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Cave of Engedi.
You know, David said, My Lord,

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my King Saul said you.
Is it thy voice?

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David, my son, You know, these
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It broke.
Samuel’s heart to.

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Reject Saul.
So what was the basis of Saul’s

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rejection then?
Well, he was reminded in chapter

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15, and he was reminded again on
the very night before he died,

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because thou hast rejected the
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Yahweh has rejected you.
And that was the difference

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between these two men, that one
man studied and appreciated the

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principles of the truth and
wanted to make them the guiding

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hand in his life, and the other
one didn’t.

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Saul wasn’t rejected for the
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Those things are native to all
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He was rejected because he
rejected the only means of

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controlling those baser
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And that will be the basis of
our rejection.

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Brothers and sisters.
If we fail to bow down to the

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supremacy and the God that is
found in this book, we hear an

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exhortation on Sunday morning.
We know is right.

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We know we need to put into
practice what the brother is

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telling us.
But then we go out on that

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afternoon and we’ve forgotten
all about it, and we’ve become

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just like Saul.
But he was a man who certainly

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had potential, who certainly had
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And more than that, I’m going to
suggest to you, brothers and

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sisters, that he had a hero.
There was someone that he looked

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up to.
There was someone that he had

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patterned his life after that
had gone before him.

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Fittingly, they were both off of
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Saul’s hero was Gideon.
You know that Saul’s battle on

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Mount Gilboa where he lost his
life, was exactly the setup of

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Gideon.
We’ll see that in a moment.

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Saul’s life was meant to be a
pattern after the life of

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Gideon.
And you go all the way through

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Saul’s life.
It’s just Gideon, Gideon,

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Gideon, Gideon, all the way
through.

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And I don’t think that’s
coincidental.

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Saul wanted to be like this man,
but he just didn’t have the

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ability to let the word of God
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You see some of these parallels?
They both had humble beginnings.

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You know when Gideon was called,
the Angel said, thou mighty man

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of valor.
And Gideon says, my my family’s

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poor in Manasseh.
I’m the least of my father’s

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house.
And Saul said something very

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similar in First Samuel 9.
It’s almost he says I’m not, am

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I not the least of all the
families of Benjamin in First

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Samuel Chapter 9.
You’re making me king.

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It’s almost word for word what
Gideon said.

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But both men were encouraged
through the spirit of God.

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The spirit of God came upon both
Gideon and Saul.

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Both men were given some
dramatic signs.

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Gideon had to be given 4 signs
before he went forth to fight

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the Midianites that God was with
him.

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And Saul was given the same
assurances by God both in First

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Samuel chapter 10 as well as in
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You know when, Gideon.
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Chapter 7 says that he divided.
Into.

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Three companies.
He divided the 300 into 3

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companies.
You know, when Saul went out to

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rescue the men of Jabesh Gilead,
he put the army in three

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companies.
Do you think he just did that?

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Randomly.
No.

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He was following the example of
another man.

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He put them in three companies.
Gideon came upon the Middie

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Nights and the middle Watch.
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See how similar their lives are?
Gideon said at the end of his

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life.
I’m not going to rule over you.

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Yahweh shall rule over you.
And when In First Samuel Chapter

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11 when they want to.
To put to death.

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The people that had said let’s
make Saul king, Saul said no.

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One’s going to be put to death
because Yahweh’s wrought a great

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salvation in Israel, Saul’s.
Role model in the truth.

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Was Gideon he had.
All of the intentions of serving

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00:26:51,520 –> 00:26:53,160
God.
But he just.

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00:26:53,160 –> 00:26:56,360
Failed to follow on those
intentions.

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You compromise with the world.
Once it becomes easier to

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00:27:01,160 –> 00:27:04,760
compromise a second time, you
fail to follow the word of God

439
00:27:05,960 –> 00:27:09,000
again.
It just becomes easier and

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00:27:09,000 –> 00:27:11,480
easier until you spiral down
further and further.

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00:27:12,120 –> 00:27:17,160
And that was how Saul ended up.
So let’s just set the battle

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here in First Samuel chapter 28,
where we’ll we’re about to go.

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00:27:23,200 –> 00:27:26,200
You see, the Philistines were
beginning to take some

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00:27:26,200 –> 00:27:29,880
shellacking’s down in the
Shephilah because Israel had the

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00:27:29,880 –> 00:27:32,800
high ground.
The Shephilah is very, very

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hilly.
The Philistines were down here

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00:27:34,840 –> 00:27:37,040
on the plain.
So the Israelites had the

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advantage, the strategic
advantage.

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00:27:38,720 –> 00:27:40,880
So the Philistines says, look,
we we’ve got to stop this.

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00:27:41,200 –> 00:27:42,880
We’ve got to to do something
else.

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00:27:42,880 –> 00:27:48,520
So they decide to March N They
first came here to Afhec, which

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00:27:48,520 –> 00:27:52,840
is right here known in the Old
Testament is aphic.

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Known in the New Testament is
Antipatrus.

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You’ll you’ll remember that the
Apostle Paul spent the night at

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Antipatrus in the book of Acts,
and there David.

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We know that providentially
David left the army of the

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Philistines.
He was taken out of that after

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00:28:10,360 –> 00:28:14,400
his conversation with Akish,
which was a wonderful thing for

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00:28:14,400 –> 00:28:18,880
David, because he would have
gone up here to Gilboa, where

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his best friend Jonathan was
killed.

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And how would David have felt if
he was on the other side in that

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00:28:26,000 –> 00:28:28,960
battle?
So providentially, David was.

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00:28:30,000 –> 00:28:32,120
He left the company of the
Philistines there.

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In fact, he had been with them
because he was fleeing from

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Saul, and Saul didn’t have the
gumption to go down the land of

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the Philistines.
And so he comes back and the

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next time we find him, he’s down
Ziklag down here.

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So the Philistines marched N up
here into what’s known as the

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Jezreel Valley.
Now, the Jezreel Valley is not

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00:28:51,800 –> 00:28:54,280
like the Shefila.
It’s flat.

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And so they thought that by
meeting the Israelites on flat

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00:28:58,000 –> 00:29:00,680
level ground, they could meet
them on ground of their choosing

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and perhaps be more successful.
You’ll recall that we in looking

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at that hump that goes right
down the middle of Israel, there

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00:29:08,800 –> 00:29:11,680
were the Galilee hills in the
north and there were the

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00:29:11,680 –> 00:29:16,320
Samaritan hills in the center.
What divides the Galilean hills

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00:29:16,320 –> 00:29:19,640
in the north from the Samaritan
hills is the Valley of Jezreel.

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00:29:20,880 –> 00:29:25,280
It starts right up here at Mount
Carmel, and it goes right on

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00:29:25,280 –> 00:29:27,760
down here to round about the
Jordan River.

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00:29:27,760 –> 00:29:30,640
As a matter of fact, this park
down here around Bay Shan is all

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00:29:30,640 –> 00:29:35,840
below sea level, and there are 4
great heights along this valley.

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00:29:36,640 –> 00:29:39,640
There’s Mount Gilboa, which is
right here.

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00:29:40,760 –> 00:29:44,080
There’s the Hill of Moray, which
is right kind of in the middle.

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00:29:44,920 –> 00:29:49,240
There’s Mount Tabor right here.
And then there’s Mount Carmel,

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which is this range right here.
If you’re looking at the Land of

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Israel.
And you know how there in the

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Land of Israel, there’s this
bump right here.

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It’s straight all the way down,
but there’s a little bump right

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00:30:01,720 –> 00:30:03,400
here.
The bump is Mount Carmel.

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00:30:04,040 –> 00:30:06,920
It’s where the the modern city
of Haifa is today.

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00:30:07,560 –> 00:30:08,920
So Mount Carmel, there is the
bump.

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00:30:08,920 –> 00:30:12,080
And by the way, little things
like this help you remember

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where places are the Sea of
Galilee.

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Is parallel with a bump.
So the Bump’s here, This is the

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00:30:18,360 –> 00:30:23,960
Sea of Galilee here, and right
down the middle is what’s known

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as the Valley of Jezreel.
It is a lush, fertile valley.

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00:30:31,520 –> 00:30:34,840
It’s the bread basket of Israel,
and although they don’t want to

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00:30:34,840 –> 00:30:37,480
admit it, it’s the bread basket
of many of the Arab countries.

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00:30:38,240 –> 00:30:41,680
This plain here.
You see the the camel range.

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Here’s Haifa.
Just goes right down in here.

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00:30:44,840 –> 00:30:49,760
It’s flat, very, very fertile,
Very good for gardening, Very,

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00:30:49,760 –> 00:30:52,960
very good for growing things.
And it was here where the

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00:30:52,960 –> 00:30:55,800
Philistines wanted to meet the
Israelites, because if we meet

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00:30:55,800 –> 00:30:59,600
them here, we feel like we have
the advantage over them.

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00:31:00,840 –> 00:31:05,480
Now you’ve got these four
points, Tabor, the hill of Moray

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00:31:05,840 –> 00:31:08,960
is around here.
Yilboa’s here.

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00:31:09,600 –> 00:31:12,440
Carmel’s here at the top of the
valley of Jezreel’s.

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00:31:12,440 –> 00:31:16,400
A little town, not so little
today, called Nazareth.

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00:31:18,600 –> 00:31:21,880
You know, we’re not told much
about the Lord Jesus Christ

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00:31:23,120 –> 00:31:25,360
between the ages of 12 and 30.
As a matter of fact, we’re not

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00:31:25,360 –> 00:31:28,360
told anything.
But we do know he was here on

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00:31:28,360 –> 00:31:29,920
the hills of Nazareth.
Now, what do you think he would

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00:31:29,920 –> 00:31:33,280
have been thinking about sitting
on these hills, looking down at

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00:31:33,280 –> 00:31:36,120
this history?
He would have been recounting

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00:31:36,800 –> 00:31:38,560
Deborah and Barack on Mount
Tabor.

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00:31:39,120 –> 00:31:41,760
He would have been recounting
Gideon’s faithfulness.

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00:31:42,120 –> 00:31:45,080
In the valley of Jezreel against
the Midianites, he would have

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00:31:45,080 –> 00:31:48,280
recounted the death of Josiah.
Here at Megiddo he had been

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00:31:48,280 –> 00:31:50,920
thinking about the tragic
failure of Saul on Mount Gilboa.

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00:31:51,680 –> 00:31:54,160
All of this was there before
him, and he was contemplating

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00:31:54,160 –> 00:31:58,560
these things, having his ear
wakened morning by morning to

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00:31:58,560 –> 00:32:06,000
hear it was to this place that
Saul and his armies were to meet

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00:32:06,000 –> 00:32:08,400
the Philistines come over to
First Samuel, chapter 28.

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00:32:17,680 –> 00:32:21,840
Yahweh, as we know, has departed
from Saul Chapter 15, when the

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00:32:22,400 –> 00:32:28,920
mantle was rent, it was taken
from his hand, and that drove

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00:32:28,920 –> 00:32:30,400
Saul, of course.
As we know, on the course of

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00:32:30,400 –> 00:32:35,640
insanity he persecuted David,
and he comes to his tragic end

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00:32:35,640 –> 00:32:38,920
here in First Samuel 28, where
he’s to inquire of a witch.

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00:32:40,080 –> 00:32:43,280
For Samuel 28 and verse 4, the
Philistines gathered themselves

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00:32:43,280 –> 00:32:45,480
together and came and pitched
in.

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Shunam and Saul gathered all
Israel together and they pitched

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00:32:50,880 –> 00:32:53,760
in Mount Gilboa.
Now here is Mount Gilboa.

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00:32:54,640 –> 00:32:57,960
Beautiful spot.
Here’s the Jezreel Valley going

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00:32:57,960 –> 00:33:02,280
right down the center and it
says there that the Philistines

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00:33:02,280 –> 00:33:05,560
were pitched in Shunam.
Now the next chapter says they

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00:33:05,560 –> 00:33:08,040
pitched in Jezreel.
Shunam is just a little bit off

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00:33:08,040 –> 00:33:11,160
this map here.
Here’s Jezreel.

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00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:13,880
There’s a tell there today where
you can go and visit.

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00:33:14,760 –> 00:33:18,680
And here’s Mount Gilboa now,
who’s got the strategic

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00:33:18,680 –> 00:33:22,720
advantage in this battle?
Who’s got the high ground?

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00:33:22,720 –> 00:33:24,880
Well, Saul and his armies are up
here on Mount Gilboa.

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00:33:25,600 –> 00:33:27,800
The Philistines are down here in
the valley of Jezreel.

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00:33:28,440 –> 00:33:30,320
Saul can see everything they’re
doing.

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00:33:32,120 –> 00:33:35,520
He knows exactly what’s going on
in that camp.

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00:33:37,080 –> 00:33:40,680
There’s no.
Way ordinarily speaking, why

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00:33:40,680 –> 00:33:43,040
Saul should have ever lost that
battle?

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00:33:43,720 –> 00:33:47,760
Because he had every advantage,
humanly speaking, for victory.

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00:33:48,960 –> 00:33:53,840
But you see, Yahweh had left
him, and it grieved Saul.

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00:33:55,320 –> 00:33:58,640
And verse five says.
And when Saul saw the host of

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00:33:58,640 –> 00:34:05,280
the Philistines, he was afraid.
Now the word afraid or not The

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00:34:05,280 –> 00:34:08,600
word afraid rather, but the word
trembled.

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00:34:08,719 –> 00:34:12,320
There in verse five is the word
Herod.

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00:34:14,320 –> 00:34:19,320
His heart was herodic.
Now what happened at the well of

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00:34:19,320 –> 00:34:21,400
Herod?
Come back to Judges chapter

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00:34:21,400 –> 00:34:25,280
seven.
Well, it was the Well of Herod

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00:34:25,520 –> 00:34:30,040
where Gideon’s army was formed.
Judges Chapter 7.

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00:34:30,560 –> 00:34:34,960
And this is Saul’s role model,
Saul’s hero and his heart is.

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00:34:34,960 –> 00:34:41,159
Here, and it’s Herodic.
Judges Chapter 7, verse one.

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Then Jeroboel, who was Gideon
and all the people that were

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00:34:46,760 –> 00:34:49,360
with him, rose up early and
pitched beside the well of

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00:34:49,480 –> 00:34:52,840
Herod.
That’s that word rendered

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00:34:52,840 –> 00:34:56,719
trembled in First Samuel chapter
28 and verse 5, so that the host

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00:34:56,719 –> 00:34:59,760
of the Midianites were on the
north side of them by the hill

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00:34:59,760 –> 00:35:04,840
of Moray in the valley.
And there we find 32,000.

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00:35:06,240 –> 00:35:10,720
Worked its way down in a
symbolic judgement seat to 300

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00:35:11,680 –> 00:35:15,720
the fearful and those that were
afraid, those that were heroding

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00:35:15,720 –> 00:35:20,040
were turned away, and it was
only those who lapped up the

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00:35:20,040 –> 00:35:21,960
water and kept their eyes on the
enemy.

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00:35:22,560 –> 00:35:24,080
That made it.
Into Gideon’s army.

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00:35:24,480 –> 00:35:26,320
And so it is with us, brothers
and sisters.

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00:35:26,840 –> 00:35:31,440
It’s only by keeping our eyes on
our enemy sin and knowing what

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00:35:31,440 –> 00:35:34,640
it’s capable of as we drink the
word of God.

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00:35:35,760 –> 00:35:40,280
Every day that we’re ever going
to be allowed, by God’s grace,

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00:35:40,280 –> 00:35:42,880
into Gideon’s army.
And that was.

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00:35:42,880 –> 00:35:47,200
There at the well of Herod, Saul
is in a place that he should

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00:35:47,200 –> 00:35:54,040
have known, spoke of God
delivering his people, but his

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00:35:54,040 –> 00:35:59,520
heart was heroding.
Yahweh has left me and

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00:35:59,520 –> 00:36:02,280
desperate, desperate for some
sort of answer.

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00:36:02,880 –> 00:36:09,720
And First Samuel, chapter 28.
He goes and he inquires of a

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00:36:09,720 –> 00:36:14,360
witch, a witch who lived at a
place called endured First

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00:36:14,360 –> 00:36:18,400
Samuel, chapter 28, verse seven.
Then said Saul unto his

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00:36:18,400 –> 00:36:22,320
servants, Seek me a woman that
hath a familiar spirit, that I

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00:36:22,320 –> 00:36:23,720
may go to her and inquire of
her.

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00:36:23,720 –> 00:36:27,360
And his servants said to him,
Behold, there is a woman that

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00:36:27,360 –> 00:36:28,840
hath a familiar spirit it
endure.

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00:36:28,840 –> 00:36:33,760
So God is Saul is inquiring of
Yahweh silence.

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00:36:34,920 –> 00:36:37,640
His heart is trembling as he
looks at the Philistines down

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00:36:37,640 –> 00:36:39,440
there on the plane, and he’s
desperate for some sort of

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00:36:39,440 –> 00:36:39,960
answer.
And he.

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00:36:40,240 –> 00:36:41,640
He says, well, there’s.
There’s someone here with a

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00:36:41,640 –> 00:36:43,240
familiar spirit down here at
Endor.

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00:36:44,320 –> 00:36:49,040
Now where was Endor Saul’s Here
on Mount Gilboa?

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00:36:50,000 –> 00:36:53,760
Endor is just around the hill of
more in this area here.

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00:36:54,440 –> 00:36:56,000
OK, so the.
Philistines are over here,

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00:36:57,360 –> 00:36:59,680
Saul’s on Gilboa.
He doesn’t want the Philistines

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00:36:59,680 –> 00:37:01,320
to see him, so he goes down at
night.

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00:37:01,920 –> 00:37:03,600
He goes down at night and wasn’t
at night.

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00:37:05,760 –> 00:37:09,320
Mount Gilboa over here towards
Endor.

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00:37:09,320 –> 00:37:13,400
You know, when he went from
Mount Gilboa to Endor, he would

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00:37:13,400 –> 00:37:15,240
have.
Had to have crossed.

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00:37:17,000 –> 00:37:20,560
The Well of Herod, because the
Well of Herod runs right through

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00:37:20,560 –> 00:37:22,360
here.
The Well of Herod actually goes

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00:37:22,360 –> 00:37:25,320
into the Jordan River.
It’s down at you, cross it down

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00:37:25,320 –> 00:37:28,960
at Bayshan.
So he’s going across the well of

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00:37:28,960 –> 00:37:33,640
Herod, the very place where his
hero Gideon had LED a great

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00:37:33,640 –> 00:37:36,520
victory over the Midianites, and
he ducks around the hill of

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00:37:36,520 –> 00:37:38,960
Moray so the Philistines don’t
see him and he stops here at a

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00:37:38,960 –> 00:37:43,440
place called Endor.
Now what famous event took place

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00:37:43,440 –> 00:37:46,760
at Endor?
Well, that was the place where

610
00:37:46,760 –> 00:37:51,400
Psalm 83 says that Sisera died.
It says that Sisera met his end

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00:37:51,680 –> 00:37:54,840
at Endor.
And here in this place, Saul

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00:37:54,840 –> 00:37:56,360
isn’t going, and he’s inquiring
of a.

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00:37:56,360 –> 00:38:00,720
Witch this was the.
Tragic end of Saul.

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00:38:00,720 –> 00:38:05,000
The geography of the land.
Bespoke his rejection, he was in

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00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:07,600
a place where he should have
stood for the principles of the

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00:38:07,600 –> 00:38:10,960
truth, where Yahweh would have
given him victory over any

617
00:38:10,960 –> 00:38:15,120
force.
But he had.

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00:38:15,120 –> 00:38:17,360
Failed to learn the great lesson
of his life, which we will

619
00:38:17,720 –> 00:38:19,760
summarize at the end of our
session this morning.

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00:38:20,320 –> 00:38:22,800
So he goes to the witch of
Endor, and she purports to have

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00:38:22,800 –> 00:38:25,840
raised Samuel from the dead, and
she can no more raise Samuel

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00:38:25,840 –> 00:38:29,800
from the dead than I can.
And she brings Samuel up.

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00:38:29,960 –> 00:38:34,320
And speaking to who he thinks
was Samuel, he says in verse 15,

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00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:37,040
and some of the saddest words
you find in the scriptures.

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00:38:37,440 –> 00:38:41,600
I am so distressed, for the
Philistines make war against me,

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00:38:42,640 –> 00:38:48,360
and God is departed from me, and
answereth me no more, neither by

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00:38:48,360 –> 00:38:50,880
profits nor by dreams.
Therefore have I called thee,

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00:38:50,880 –> 00:38:54,200
that thou mayest make known unto
me what I shall do.

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00:38:54,920 –> 00:38:58,520
And Samuel repeats his rejection
that he gave to Saul in chapter

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00:38:58,520 –> 00:38:59,680
15.
You know what he said on that

631
00:38:59,680 –> 00:39:04,400
occasion?
Said stubbornness is as iniquity

632
00:39:04,400 –> 00:39:12,800
and idolatry and rebellion as
the sin of witchcraft, and here

633
00:39:12,800 –> 00:39:19,560
he is inquiring of a witch.
And he was reminded of his

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00:39:19,560 –> 00:39:24,080
rejection for because he did not
slay the the Amalekites in verse

635
00:39:24,080 –> 00:39:26,560
18, because thou obeyedest not
the voice of Yahweh, nor

636
00:39:26,560 –> 00:39:28,800
executed his fierce wrath upon
Amalek.

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00:39:29,240 –> 00:39:33,160
Therefore Yahweh hath done this
thing unto thee this day, And

638
00:39:33,160 –> 00:39:37,800
some of you may know that First
Samuel 28 to 31 is a contrast

639
00:39:37,800 –> 00:39:43,080
between two men, one in the
northern part of the land and

640
00:39:43,080 –> 00:39:44,600
the other in the southern part
of the land.

641
00:39:45,480 –> 00:39:49,760
David down South, is
slaughtering the Amalekites,

642
00:39:50,840 –> 00:39:54,560
rescuing his two wives,
receiving specific answers as he

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00:39:54,560 –> 00:39:57,280
inquires by means of Urim and
Thummim.

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00:39:58,840 –> 00:40:01,760
He was providentially delivered
from the Philistines in chapter

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27, and on the other hand we
have.

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Saul, who was reminded here in
chapter 28 of his failure to

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smite, AMOLED, And then the next
day, in First Samuel chapter 31,

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he dies at the hand of the
Philistines.

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Their destinies were exactly the
opposite, and it was the land

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that that spoke so eloquently of
their rejection.

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In First Samuel chapter 31, we
have the tragic end of Saul,

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first one.
Now the Philistines fought

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

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The Philistines.
You see, they had.

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Met them down on the valley, the
floor of the valley, But they

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fled.
They ran up into Mount Gilboa,

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and the Philistines followed
after them.

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Quit yourselves like men,
they’ve said to themselves.

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And the Philistines verse 2
followed hard upon Saul and upon

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his sons.
And the Philistines slew

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Jonathan, and Abinadab and
Melkashua saw sons, and the

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battle went sore against Saul,
And The Archers hit him, and he

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was sore wounded of The Archers.
Remember what David did,

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brothers and sisters, at the
beginning of our session.

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We’re told in First Samuel, 17
that he cut off Goliath’s head.

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He stripped off his armor and
the record says he took that to

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Jerusalem, where it probably
became the basis for the word

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Golgotha, the place of the skull
that was David’s destiny in

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first name of chapter 17.
Want to see Saul’s destiny?

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First, Chronicles chapter 10
because the Chronicles account

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just adds 1 little word.
That ties both of these events

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together, one ending in glory
and the other in tragedy.

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First Chronicles, chapter 10 and
verses 8 to 10.

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It came to pass on the Morrow
verse Chronicles 10, verse 8,

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when the Philistines came to
strip the slain, that they found

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Saul and his sons fallen in
Mount Gilbella.

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And when they had stripped him,
they took his head and his

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armor, and sent it into the land
of the Philistines roundabout to

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carry tidings unto the their
idols and to the people.

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And they put his armor in the
House of their gods, and

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fastened his head in the temple
of Dagon.

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So Saul’s armor is stripped and
his head is cut off.

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You know what the Hebrew word is
for head there in verse 10?

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It’s one of the.
Few occurrences in the Old

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Testament of the word Golgotha.
So, Saul’s.

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Armor is stripped.
His head Hebrew.

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Golgotha is cut off by the
wallowers in the dust.

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Contrast that with David, who
cut off Goliath’s head.

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Stripped his armor and brought
the head.

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To Golgotha.
And there we have a powerful

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contrast between the destinies
of these two men, one in

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fulfilling the word of God.
The other had rejected the word

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of God and was met with the
opposite destiny.

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These two men were brothers.
They had a filial affection for

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one another.
But what divided them?

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It was what?
One wanted to do what the Bible

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said, had an affection for it,
had a love for it, was a man

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after God’s own heart, and the
other one didn’t.

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The other one didn’t even know
where Samuel was.

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Who he was had to be told, and
despite what good intentions he

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might have had in following
Gideon, he was never able to

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follow through on those good
intentions.

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Saul’s destiny was the reverse
of David’s.

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One in the north of the land,
the other in the South of the

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land.
The question that we want to

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ask, brothers and sisters, is
why?

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How did it occur like that?
They could have stood there,

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drank of the well of Herod,
remembered, Gideon, remembered

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Deborah and Barek with his
meager 10,000 men overcoming 900

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Chariots of iron.
What was the difference?

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They could have stood there
together.

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What was the difference?
I’d like to.

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Conclude with this, this
quotation.

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You might think it’s strange
that we’re concluding with this

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00:44:51,640 –> 00:44:55,960
quotation, but this is one of my
favorite quotations from Brother

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Thomas.
It’s one that we often quote in

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00:44:58,400 –> 00:45:00,240
talk.
In our conversations on the

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Atonement, we talk about how our
sinful nature is our misfortune,

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not our crime.
But I want you to focus on the

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second-half of the quote and
what he says here.

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He says this sinful nature we
inherit.

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It is our misfortune, not our
crime, that we possess it.

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We are only blameworthy when
being supplied with the power of

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subduing it.
We permit it to reign over us.

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You see, Saul was supplied with
the power.

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His spirit was turned into
another man when he was first

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called.
He knew the power, but he never

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allowed that power to reign in
his life.

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He says this.
Power resides in the testimony

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of God believed.
So that we are kept by the power

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of God through faith unto
salvation.

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This testimony ought to dwell in
us, as it dwelt in the Lord

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Jesus, So that is, with the
shield of faith.

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The fiery assaults of the world
may be quenched with a thus it

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is written, and a thus saith the
Lord.

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Our salvation, brothers and
sisters, depends upon keeping

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00:45:59,840 –> 00:46:02,760
this word locked in our thinking
so that the thinking can at.

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Least be kept.
Most of the time, on things that

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were higher, David followed that
and Saul didn’t.

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And that will be our undoing,
brothers and sisters.

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When we get to the judgement
seat.

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It’s not going to be very
complicated.

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The Word of God said that and
you either complied or you

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00:46:23,720 –> 00:46:27,040
didn’t.
Romans 2 says the judgement will

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be according to the truth.
We’re not guilty for possessing

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A damic nature, but we are
guilty when we allow that

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00:46:33,640 –> 00:46:36,200
nature.
To rule over us.

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When we don’t allow this power
to rule and to work in our

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lives.
Second Timothy Chapter 3.

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We’ll finish here words that are
so familiar to us, but which

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00:46:54,600 –> 00:47:00,040
make reference to this power
that we all need to tap into if

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we’re to be there with David and
with Gideon, with those faithful

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when the Lord returns.
Second Timothy, Chapter 3 and

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00:47:08,680 –> 00:47:13,000
verse 15.
That from a child that was known

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the Holy Scriptures which were
able to make thee wise unto

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00:47:15,560 –> 00:47:17,960
salvation through faith in
Christ Jesus.

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All Scripture is given by
inspiration of God and is

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profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for

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instruction in righteousness.
Now, some of you may know that

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that word there, profitable, is
the Greek word Dunami, which is

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the word that means powerful.
It’s the word.

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00:47:39,760 –> 00:47:41,680
From which we get our word
dynamite.

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All Scripture is powerful, all
Scripture for doctrine, for

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reproof, for correction, for
instruction and righteousness.

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That the man of God, and this is
the original Greek, might be

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made, and then finished artiox X
artiox that might be made.

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And then finished.
Saul was made, but the word

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never finished him.
David allowed that word to

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direct him.
It was his delight and his

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00:48:20,600 –> 00:48:23,920
meditation.
All the day he was finished he

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00:48:23,920 –> 00:48:27,360
was complete.
Brothers and sisters, let us

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00:48:27,360 –> 00:48:32,280
take hold of this power that we
have at our disposal, and woe to

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us if we reject it.