{"id":1093,"date":"2024-04-07T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/ryan-king-geography-of-the-holy-land-class-3-ye-mountains-of-gilboa-let-there-be-no-dew\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:46:28","slug":"ryan-king-geography-of-the-holy-land-class-3-ye-mountains-of-gilboa-let-there-be-no-dew","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/ryan-king-geography-of-the-holy-land-class-3-ye-mountains-of-gilboa-let-there-be-no-dew\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan King – Geography Of The Holy Land – Class 3 – Ye Mountains Of Gilboa Let There Be No Dew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class 2 from this series was used in GCT Episode 290.<\/p>\n

Slides from this class can be found \u2060HERE\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThank you, Brother Matt.
\nUh, it’s now time for us uh to <\/p>\n

2
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\nuh call upon our brother Ryan to
\ncontinue a series of geography <\/p>\n

3
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\nof the Holy Land.
\nAnd this is Class 3, uh ye <\/p>\n

4
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\nMountains of Gilboa.
\nLet there be no dew, Brother <\/p>\n

5
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\nRyan.
\nWell, good morning, my dear <\/p>\n

6
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\nbrothers and sisters in the Lord
\nJesus Christ and my dear young <\/p>\n

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\npeople.
\nThis morning, in our <\/p>\n

8
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\nconsideration of the geography
\nof the Holy Land, we’d like to <\/p>\n

9
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\nexamine two men, two men who
\nwere brethren and yet who were <\/p>\n

10
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\ntaken on divergent courses
\nbecause of the choices. <\/p>\n

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\nThat they made.
\nThey could have stood together <\/p>\n

12
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\nand no weapon formed against
\nthem would prosper. <\/p>\n

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\nThey loved each other.
\nBut they met with two very, very<\/p>\n

14
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\ndifferent ends.
\nAnd this morning we want to see <\/p>\n

15
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\nhow the land itself was to bear
\nout their destiny. <\/p>\n

16
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\nA positive destiny of one man
\nand a negative destiny of <\/p>\n

17
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\nanother man.
\nWe’re speaking, of course, about<\/p>\n

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\nKing David and King Saul.
\nYou’ll recall that in our <\/p>\n

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\nopening session we had a look at
\nthis particular territory here <\/p>\n

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\nknown as the Shephilah.
\nIt was where many of David’s <\/p>\n

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\nwanderings were during his exile
\nand when he was fleeing from <\/p>\n

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\nsalt.
\nThe word Shephelah signifies the<\/p>\n

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\nlowlands, and it’s in this area
\nwhich leads up to the Judean <\/p>\n

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\nhills, where David spent a lot
\nof his wanderings. <\/p>\n

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\nYou’ll notice that the
\nShephelah, which is these little<\/p>\n

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\nbumps, these undulating hills
\nright here, hogs the coast, the <\/p>\n

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\nPhilistine coast.
\nAnd here you can see Ashdod, <\/p>\n

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\nAshkelon, Gaza, the major cities
\nof the Philistines, go right up <\/p>\n

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\nto the Shefila.
\nAnd because of that, it was the <\/p>\n

30
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\nCenter for a lot of the
\nskirmishes that took place <\/p>\n

31
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\nbetween Judah and the
\nPhilistines. <\/p>\n

32
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\nThese little valleys that you
\nsee here are the four main <\/p>\n

33
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\nvalleys that dissect the
\nShefila. <\/p>\n

34
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\nIt was in these valleys where a
\nlot of these battles took place,<\/p>\n

35
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\nculminating in the events, the
\ndramatic events of First Samuel <\/p>\n

36
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\nChapter 17, to which we shall
\nnow turn First Samuel Chapter <\/p>\n

37
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\n17.
\nWe just put on the screen here <\/p>\n

38
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\nanother map of those four
\nvalleys. <\/p>\n

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\nNot a topographical map, but one
\nthat just shows these four <\/p>\n

40
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\nvalleys that sort of dissect the
\nShafila. <\/p>\n

41
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\nThey are the valley of Agilon
\nand these are all significant in<\/p>\n

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\nscripture.
\nThe valley of Agilon where the <\/p>\n

43
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\nsun and the moon stood still.
\nThere’s the valley of Sorak, <\/p>\n

44
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\nwhere Delilah lived, where
\nSamson lived. <\/p>\n

45
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\nThere is the valley of Elah
\nwhich comes down through here, <\/p>\n

46
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\nand there is the Valley of
\nLakish which forms a significant<\/p>\n

47
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\npart of the time When the
\nAssyrian invaded. <\/p>\n

48
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\nAll of these valleys were are
\nsaturated with biblical history,<\/p>\n

49
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\nand it’s to one of those valleys
\nthat we will now turn in First <\/p>\n

50
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\nSamuel Chapter 17.
\nNow, as we’ve noted frequently, <\/p>\n

51
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\ngood Bible study is based upon
\ngood Bible reading. <\/p>\n

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\nWe can all read carefully.
\nThere’s only two things that are<\/p>\n

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\nrequired to be a good Bible
\nstudent. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s the ability to read and
\nthe ability to think. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I don’t know anyone in here
\nwho doesn’t have those two <\/p>\n

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\nthings.
\nLet’s just read carefully verse <\/p>\n

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\none of First Samuel 17.
\nThere’s a precision about this <\/p>\n

58
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\nverse that we really need to
\nnote. <\/p>\n

59
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\nNow the Philistines gathered
\ntogether their armies to battle,<\/p>\n

60
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\nand we’re gathered together at
\nShaco, which belongs to Judah <\/p>\n

61
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\nand Azika in Ephes Damin.
\nNow, it’s not just any location,<\/p>\n

62
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\nit’s not just a general area.
\nIt’s at Shaco, which belongs to <\/p>\n

63
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\nJudah and Azika in Ephes Damin.
\nOn this map here we have the <\/p>\n

64
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\ndirection from whence the
\nPhilistines came off in the <\/p>\n

65
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\ndistance.
\nHere is the Mediterranean Sea. <\/p>\n

66
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\nThis.
\nIs Gath, which is Goliath <\/p>\n

67
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\nhometown.
\nGath was the key city for the <\/p>\n

68
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\nPhilistines.
\nIt’s called in the book of <\/p>\n

69
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\nSamuel Nephag Amah, which means
\nthe bridal of the mother city, <\/p>\n

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\nbecause it held the key to the
\ngateway, the Philistine cities, <\/p>\n

71
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\nwhich were over in this
\ndirection. <\/p>\n

72
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\nAnd so they would have come from
\nthe West. <\/p>\n

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\nHere’s a Zika right here, and
\nhere’s the brook that winds its <\/p>\n

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\nway through the valley.
\nThat was where the Philistines <\/p>\n

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\ncame from, from that direction.
\nVerse two says, And Saul and the<\/p>\n

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\nmen of Israel were gathered
\ntogether and pitched by the <\/p>\n

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\nvalley of Elah and set the
\nbattle in array against the <\/p>\n

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\nPhilistines.
\nNow they would have come from <\/p>\n

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\nthe eastern direction.
\nYou’ll recall we talked about <\/p>\n

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\nthe hump in our opening two
\nsessions. <\/p>\n

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\nThat central Hump that goes
\nright down the middle of the <\/p>\n

82
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\nland, the Hill Country.
\nHere’s the Hill Country, right <\/p>\n

83
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\nhere, the Judean hills.
\nDavid would have come right <\/p>\n

84
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\nthrough here, from the fields of
\nBethlehem to the valley of Elah.<\/p>\n

85
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\nAnd here’s Shaco.
\nAnd this is the northern end or <\/p>\n

86
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\nthe the eastern end of the
\nvalley where Saul and the men of<\/p>\n

87
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\nIsrael were camped.
\nIt’s an absolutely picturesque <\/p>\n

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\nspot in the land even today.
\nAnd it was the scene of this <\/p>\n

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\ngreat valley.
\nIt’s a flat valley, and on one <\/p>\n

90
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\nend where the Philistines, and
\non one end where the Israelites <\/p>\n

91
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\nthey stood, locked there,
\ncheckmated, not willing to give <\/p>\n

92
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\nit an inch.
\nKnowing that whoever moved first<\/p>\n

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\nlost the strategic advantage,
\nhere’s another picture of the <\/p>\n

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\nvalley just taken from Shako.
\nThis off in the distance here is<\/p>\n

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\nBeshimesh, which is expanding
\nfurther and further towards the <\/p>\n

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\nvalley at present moment.
\nSo it was here where this great <\/p>\n

97
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\nbattle took place.
\nNow verse three is very, very <\/p>\n

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\ncarefully worded.
\nIt says and the Philistines <\/p>\n

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\nstood on a mountain on the one
\nside. <\/p>\n

100
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\nAnd Israel stood on a mountain
\non the other side. <\/p>\n

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\nSo one’s on one side, the
\nother’s on the other side. <\/p>\n

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\nSo there’s obviously some sort
\nof lesson that’s being drawn in <\/p>\n

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\nthe placement of these armies.
\nAnd there was a valley between <\/p>\n

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\nthem.
\nNow, the interesting thing about<\/p>\n

105
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\nthese verses, brothers and
\nsisters, is is that the meanings<\/p>\n

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\nof the names are highly
\nsignificant. <\/p>\n

107
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\nYou know, whatever scripture
\nrepeats names like it does in <\/p>\n

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\nverse 1\/2, it’s inviting us to
\ngrab our concordance and to <\/p>\n

109
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\ncheck the meanings of the names.
\nBecause there is a lesson that <\/p>\n

110
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\nis being drawn in mentioning all
\nof these places here in verses <\/p>\n

111
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\none and two.
\nAnd the lesson that’s being <\/p>\n

112
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\ndrawn is the lessons of Eden.
\nVerse one paints a picture of <\/p>\n

113
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\nthe Garden of Eden.
\nAfter the Fall. <\/p>\n

114
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\nThe Philistines were gathered
\ntogether in a place called <\/p>\n

115
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\nShaka, which means a hedge of
\nthorns. <\/p>\n

116
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\nBetween Shocko and Azika, Azika
\nmeans to dig over. <\/p>\n

117
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\nSo there the ground had brought
\nforth thorns and thistles, where<\/p>\n

118
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\nman with the sweat of his face
\nhad to dig it over. <\/p>\n

119
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\nThey were also the place called
\nEphes Damon, which means the <\/p>\n

120
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\nfield of blood where man’s sins
\nhad been prominent. <\/p>\n

121
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\nThere in Genesis chapter four
\nwith Cain and Abel. <\/p>\n

122
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\nAnd that was where the
\nPhilistines were gathered. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a picture of the Garden of
\nEden after the Fall, and on the <\/p>\n

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\nother side we have the
\nIsraelites. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’re pitched at a place
\ncalled Elah, which means a <\/p>\n

126
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\nstrong tree, and they had on
\ntheir side, if only they knew <\/p>\n

127
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\nit, the tree of life.
\nAnd those were the issues here. <\/p>\n

128
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\nGod brought them specifically to
\nthis place, that these lessons <\/p>\n

129
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\nmight be brought before the
\npeople. <\/p>\n

130
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\nOne on the one.
\nSide the other On the other side<\/p>\n

131
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\nthe combatants There was Goliath
\nof Gath. <\/p>\n

132
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\nHis name means the exiled man
\nhad been driven from the garden.<\/p>\n

133
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\nGoliath represented man in his
\nfallen condition. <\/p>\n

134
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\nThe man of Sin, whose height
\nverse four was 6 cubits and a <\/p>\n

135
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\nspan.
\nHe was covered in brass. <\/p>\n

136
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\nAs verse 5.
\nAnd the word for brass and the <\/p>\n

137
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\nword for serpent in the Hebrew
\nare cognate words. <\/p>\n

138
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\nSo here was the man of flesh in
\nall his ugliness, and he was <\/p>\n

139
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\nstanding there as a Philistine.
\nYou know, in this chapter he’s <\/p>\n

140
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\nonly called Goliath a couple of
\ntimes. <\/p>\n

141
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\nHe’s called over and over and
\nover again the Philistine, the <\/p>\n

142
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\nPhilistine, the Philistine
\nbecause he represents all that <\/p>\n

143
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\nPhilistines stand for.
\nYou’ll see verse 8:00, AM I not <\/p>\n

144
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\na Philistine verse 10.
\nAnd the Philistines said verse <\/p>\n

145
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\n11.
\nAnd when they heard the words of<\/p>\n

146
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\nthe Philistine verse 16, and the
\nPhilistine junior, he’s called <\/p>\n

147
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\nthe Philistine.
\nBecause you see, a Philistine <\/p>\n

148
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\nmeans a Wallower in the dust.
\nDust he was. <\/p>\n

149
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\nAnd to dust on this day he would
\nreturn. <\/p>\n

150
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\nAnd standing opposite of him was
\na man named David, whose name <\/p>\n

151
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\nmeans a beloved.
\nAnd he was the king of Israel, <\/p>\n

152
\n00:09:26,960 –> 00:09:31,040
\nmeaning a Prince with God.
\nSo on one hand we’ve got a <\/p>\n

153
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\nprevailer or a Prince with God,
\nand on the other hand we’ve got <\/p>\n

154
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\nthe wallowers in the dust.
\nAnd the land Here on this day <\/p>\n

155
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\nwas to recount the issues of
\nEden. <\/p>\n

156
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\nYou’ll recall we said in the
\nopening session that the land <\/p>\n

157
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\nreinforces the principles of the
\ntruth that we all know to be <\/p>\n

158
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\ntrue.
\nAnd here were the issues of Eden<\/p>\n

159
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\nset out in these places.
\nThorns and thistles, dust of the<\/p>\n

160
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\nearth, having to dig it over
\nwith the sweat of his face. <\/p>\n

161
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\nAnd on the other hand, we’ve got
\na strong tree, we’ve got a <\/p>\n

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\nbeloved Prince with God.
\nAnd they were the issues facing <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael on that day.
\nAnd there was one man there on <\/p>\n

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\nthat day who understood that
\nbetter than anyone. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd his name was King David.
\nWe know that if we turn to Psalm<\/p>\n

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\n8, if we turn to Psalm 8, we see
\nthat David clearly understood by<\/p>\n

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\nthis incident that the issues of
\nEden were before them on that <\/p>\n

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\nday.
\nIt wasn’t just about he and <\/p>\n

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\nGoliath.
\nIt was about something far <\/p>\n

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\ngreater and bigger, Psalm 8.
\nWas the Psalm that David wrote <\/p>\n

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\nto commemorate his victory over
\nGoliath. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:37,760 –> 00:10:41,240
\nGoliath in First Samuel 17 verse
\nfour is called the champion A. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:41,240 –> 00:10:46,120
\nChampion went out amongst the
\ncamps well in the titles to the <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:46,120 –> 00:10:51,040
\nPsalms which the guide of which
\nwere given by thirl. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:51,800 –> 00:10:54,600
\nWe know that the heading of
\nPsalm 9. <\/p>\n

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\nReally.
\nBelongs to the bottom of Psalm <\/p>\n

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\n8.
\nWe’re given that guide both by <\/p>\n

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\nThirl and in Habakkuk Chapter 3,
\nwhich is a model Psalm. <\/p>\n

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\nWe know that the heading that we
\nsee in Psalm 9 where it says to <\/p>\n

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\nthe chief musician upon
\nMuthlabin that that really <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:12,400 –> 00:11:14,640
\nbelongs to the bottom of Psalm
\n8. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:15,200 –> 00:11:17,560
\nSo the words of Psalm 8 should
\nend. <\/p>\n

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\nO Yahweh, our Lord, how
\nexcellent is thy name in all the<\/p>\n

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\n00:11:21,200 –> 00:11:23,520
\nearth?
\nTo the chief musician upon <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:23,560 –> 00:11:27,440
\nMuthlabin.
\nThat’s how Psalm 8 ends. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:27,520 –> 00:11:31,920
\nNow Muth Laban signifies the
\ndeath of the champion. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:33,520 –> 00:11:37,560
\nThe death of the champion.
\nAnd so David wrote this Psalm to<\/p>\n

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\ncommemorate his great victory
\nover Goliath. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:41,120 –> 00:11:43,040
\nAnd what’s in David’s mind in
\nPsalm 8? <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:44,680 –> 00:11:47,800
\nWhat’s the issues of Eden?
\nVerse 3. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:47,800 –> 00:11:51,600
\nWhen I consider thy heavens, the
\nwork of thy fingers, the moon, <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:51,600 –> 00:11:54,960
\nand the stars, which thou hast
\nordained, what is man? <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:54,960 –> 00:11:58,200
\nThat thou art mindful of him and
\nthe Son of man, that thou <\/p>\n

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\nvisitest him?
\nFor thou hast made him a little <\/p>\n

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\nlower than the angels, and
\ncrowned him with glory and <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:02,080 –> 00:12:04,200
\nhonor.
\nThou made us, Tim, to have <\/p>\n

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\ndominion over the works of thine
\nhands, which was the position <\/p>\n

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\nwhich man had in the beginning
\nin Genesis chapter one. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:10,160 –> 00:12:14,000
\nHe was given dominion over the
\nworks of God’s hands. <\/p>\n

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\nBut as we know, Adam through his
\nsin forfeited that dominion. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was lost.
\nAnd so David says, What is man? <\/p>\n

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\nThat thou art.
\nMindful of him and the word man <\/p>\n

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\nthat he uses there in verse four
\nis the Hebrew word enosh. <\/p>\n

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\nNow.
\nThere are three different words <\/p>\n

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\nfrom man in the Hebrew.
\nThere’s the word Adam which is <\/p>\n

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\nused of common man.
\nThere’s the word ish, which <\/p>\n

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\nspeaks of a great man.
\nAnd then there’s the word enosh,<\/p>\n

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\nwhich means weak, destitute, and
\nsick. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:47,520 –> 00:12:50,840
\nNow when God created man in the
\nbeginning, did he create him <\/p>\n

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\nweak, destitute and sick?
\nNo, he was created very good. <\/p>\n

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\nBut man lost that condition
\nthrough his sins. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:01,120 –> 00:13:03,280
\nAnd so David here is looking
\nupon the creation. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:03,280 –> 00:13:05,440
\nHe says.
\nWhat is man? <\/p>\n

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\nYou made him to have dominion
\nover the works of your hands. <\/p>\n

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\nBut but how is it?
\nThat. <\/p>\n

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\nThat he’s ever.
\nGoing to get back to that state <\/p>\n

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\nand David worked it out.
\nThe only way that man could ever<\/p>\n

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\nreclaim the promise of Genesis
\nchapter one, that he would have <\/p>\n

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\ndominion over the works of God’s
\nhands, was that God would have <\/p>\n

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\nto visit one man.
\nWhat is verse 4? <\/p>\n

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\nThe Son of man Ben.
\nAh, Adam. <\/p>\n

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\nThou visitest him and Paul in
\nHebrews chapter 2 quotes these <\/p>\n

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\nwords in application to the Lord
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n

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\nThat in order for man to ever
\nhave dominion again over the <\/p>\n

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\nworks of God’s hand, so that all
\nsheep and oxen, all beasts to <\/p>\n

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\nthe field would be under his
\ncontrol, was that he would have <\/p>\n

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\nto visit one man, a son of Adam,
\nwho would take the Goliath <\/p>\n

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\nnature of mankind and would
\nconquer it in himself, so that a<\/p>\n

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\nway might be open for all men to
\nonce again receive those <\/p>\n

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\nblessings that were promised in
\nthe beginning. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know when Paul quotes in
\nHebrews chapter 2 verse five of <\/p>\n

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\nthis Psalm, he inserts 1 little
\nphrase in the middle. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:18,560 –> 00:14:20,960
\nI’d like to just read.
\nVerse five of Psalm 8 with you <\/p>\n

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\nit says, for thou hast made him
\na little lower than the angels, <\/p>\n

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\nthat when Paul quotes that in
\nHebrews 2 he inserts these words<\/p>\n

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\nfor the suffering of death,
\ncrowned with glory and honor. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:36,160 –> 00:14:41,400
\nAnd then he adds that.
\nHe by the grace of God five <\/p>\n

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\nsmooth stones should taste death
\nfor every man. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:48,760 –> 00:14:52,160
\nAnd David had worked out that it
\nwas not just about he and <\/p>\n

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\nGoliath on that day.
\nHe was looking forward to the <\/p>\n

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\ngreat victory which his greater
\nson would have, where once and <\/p>\n

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\nfor all the Goliath nature would
\nbe defeated. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:03,200 –> 00:15:08,280
\nAnd he saw his act on that day
\nas being a little cameo of the <\/p>\n

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\ngreat thing that God would one
\nday through do through his <\/p>\n

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\ngreater Son.
\nAnd you know, Goliath came out <\/p>\n

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\nto him and mocked him.
\nHe said, I’m going to give you <\/p>\n

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\nto the fowl of the air and to
\nthe beast of the earth. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:23,480 –> 00:15:27,080
\nAnd he didn’t even know Goliath
\non that day that he was quoting <\/p>\n

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\nGenesis chapter one.
\nHe said, I’m going to give you <\/p>\n

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\nto the fowl of the air.
\nLook at verse 8, the fowl of the<\/p>\n

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\nair, the fish of the sea.
\nI’m going to give you to the <\/p>\n

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\nfowl of the air, he said to
\nDave. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd David turns around and says,
\nI’m going to give you to the <\/p>\n

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\nfowl of the air.
\nInto the beast of the field. <\/p>\n

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\nHe understood what it was all
\nabout, but he did something else<\/p>\n

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\nthat demonstrates his immense
\nunderstanding. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:55,160 –> 00:15:58,440
\nDavid had an understanding of
\nthese things that few in Israel <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:58,440 –> 00:16:01,080
\nhad at that particular time.
\nIf you come back to First Samuel<\/p>\n

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\n17, we know, of course, that he
\ntook five smooth stones, the <\/p>\n

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\ngrace of God, and he finished
\nGoliath smiting him in his head.<\/p>\n

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\nBut he did an action after that
\nthat demonstrated his marvelous <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:19,920 –> 00:16:26,200
\nunderstanding of what was
\nhappening really on that day in <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:26,200 –> 00:16:30,520
\nFirst Samuel 17 we read in verse
\n53, and the children of Israel <\/p>\n

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\nreturned from chasing after the
\nPhilistines, and they spoiled <\/p>\n

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\ntheir tents.
\nAnd David took the head of the <\/p>\n

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\nPhilistine.
\nThere it is again, just the <\/p>\n

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\nPhilistine, the Wallower, and
\nthe dust, and brought it to <\/p>\n

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\nJerusalem.
\nBut he put his armor in his <\/p>\n

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\ntent, so he he cuts off his
\nhead. <\/p>\n

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\nGenesis 315 the the serpent
\nthinking was to be destroyed, he<\/p>\n

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\nputs his armor in his tent and
\nhe takes the head to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:57,000 –> 00:16:59,120
\nNow who was in control of
\nJerusalem at this time? <\/p>\n

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\nIt was the Jebusite.
\nJerusalem was not under David’s <\/p>\n

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\ncontrol till some years later,
\nbut he wanted to take that head.<\/p>\n

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\nTo Jerusalem.
\nBecause he understood from <\/p>\n

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\nGenesis chapter 14 and Genesis
\nchapter 22 that that would be <\/p>\n

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\nthe location where one day his
\ngreater son would take the <\/p>\n

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\nserpent mind and would conquer
\nit in himself and for once and <\/p>\n

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\nfor all put to death that
\nthinking. <\/p>\n

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\nSo David was here in the valley
\nof Eva. <\/p>\n

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\nThis Ku Kayapha is Ephes Damon.
\nIt’s the Arab word for Ephes <\/p>\n

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\nDamon.
\nNow he had to go all the way up <\/p>\n

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\nhere into the Hill Country, from
\nthe valley of Elah to Jerusalem,<\/p>\n

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\nwhich is 2700 feet above sea
\nlevel. <\/p>\n

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\nPut that head there, even though
\nit was in the control of the <\/p>\n

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\nJebusite.
\nHe went into that city under <\/p>\n

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\nJebusite control and put the
\nhead there, showing his <\/p>\n

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\nunderstanding of what was really
\nbeing done on that day, the he, <\/p>\n

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\nby his act of slain Goliath, was
\ndemonstrating. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat God would ultimately do
\nwith the great power of sin. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:14,480 –> 00:18:18,000
\nAnd so he brought it to that
\nplace and returned. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:19,960 –> 00:18:26,600
\nDavid understood what few in
\nIsrael understood, that he was <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:26,600 –> 00:18:31,600
\nenacting a wonderful parable,
\nand it was the land that taught <\/p>\n

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\nhim that.
\nIt was the meaning of all those <\/p>\n

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\nplaces that reminded David of
\nthe great issues that face <\/p>\n

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\nmankind.
\nThe issues of Eden, And he wrote<\/p>\n

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\nabout that so powerfully in the
\n8th Psalm. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, that was David’s destiny.
\nThat was his understanding. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:51,520 –> 00:18:55,520
\nThe land clearly directed him as
\nto what he ought to do. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:56,800 –> 00:19:01,280
\nNow we want to see the contrast.
\nWe want to see the contrast in a<\/p>\n

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\nman who was not as bad off as
\nyou might think, a man named <\/p>\n

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\nKing Saul.
\nYou know, the first time that we<\/p>\n

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\nmeet David in the record of
\nscripture, brothers and sisters,<\/p>\n

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\nhe’s keeping his father’s sheep.
\nThe first time that we meet Saul<\/p>\n

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\n00:19:19,400 –> 00:19:22,240
\nin the record of Scripture,
\nbrothers and sisters, he’s <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:22,240 –> 00:19:24,320
\nlooking for his father’s lost
\nasses. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:25,440 –> 00:19:28,840
\nAnd both the ass and the sheep
\nwere symbols of Israel. <\/p>\n

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\nI’d.
\nLike you to come to First Samuel<\/p>\n

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\n00:19:30,720 –> 00:19:34,920
\nChapter 9, you know whenever you
\nget a series of places mentioned<\/p>\n

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\nin the Bible together, a series
\nof of of towns or of districts, <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:44,880 –> 00:19:47,240
\ndo yourself a favor in your
\nreadings and get out a map. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:49,680 –> 00:19:53,840
\nThis incident in First Samuel
\nChapter 9 is really a microcosm <\/p>\n

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\nof Saul’s whole life.
\nHe’s looking for his father’s <\/p>\n

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\nlost asses.
\nIn First Samuel Chapter 9 we <\/p>\n

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\nread in verse three in the asses
\nof Kish Saul’s father were lost.<\/p>\n

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\nKish said to Saul his son, Take
\nnow one of thy servants with <\/p>\n

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\nthee, and rise and go and seek
\nthee asses. <\/p>\n

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\nHe passed through Mount Ephraim.
\nHe passed through the land of <\/p>\n

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\nShalisha, but they found them
\nnot. <\/p>\n

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\nThen they passed through the
\nland of Shalom, and there they <\/p>\n

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\nwere not.
\nAnd he passed through the land <\/p>\n

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\nof the Benjamites, but they
\nfound them not, and they were <\/p>\n

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\ncoming to the land of Zuf.
\nSaul said to his servant. <\/p>\n

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\nThat was with me.
\nWe need to go back where my <\/p>\n

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\nfather’s going to be worried
\nabout. <\/p>\n

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\nUs.
\nAnd not the asses. <\/p>\n

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\nNow look at that serf that’s
\nthere in verse four. <\/p>\n

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\nHe passed through Mount Ephraim,
\nthen through the land of the <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:40,000 –> 00:20:44,280
\nShalisha, then to the land of
\nShalom, then through the <\/p>\n

330
\n00:20:44,280 –> 00:20:46,960
\nterritory of the Benjamites.
\nNow if you look at what Saul’s <\/p>\n

331
\n00:20:46,960 –> 00:20:49,120
\ndoing here, he’s actually going
\naround in circles. <\/p>\n

332
\n00:20:52,600 –> 00:20:54,960
\nHe’s going around in circles.
\nHe’s up into the Hill Country of<\/p>\n

333
\n00:20:55,000 –> 00:20:59,000
\nEphraim, then over to Shalisha,
\nthen down to Shalom, then back <\/p>\n

334
\n00:20:59,000 –> 00:21:00,960
\ninto the territory of Benjamin.
\nHe’s just going around and <\/p>\n

335
\n00:21:00,960 –> 00:21:05,080
\naround in circles.
\nSee if you don’t know the <\/p>\n

336
\n00:21:05,080 –> 00:21:07,080
\ngeography of the land that
\npoints going to escape you. <\/p>\n

337
\n00:21:07,600 –> 00:21:10,120
\nHe’s going around in circles.
\nIt’s a microcosm of his whole <\/p>\n

338
\n00:21:10,120 –> 00:21:12,760
\nlife.
\nHe’s always around the truth. <\/p>\n

339
\n00:21:12,920 –> 00:21:17,160
\nHe knows the truth, but he’s
\njust unable to follow it in his <\/p>\n

340
\n00:21:17,160 –> 00:21:18,760
\nlife.
\nSometimes we might feel like our<\/p>\n

341
\n00:21:18,760 –> 00:21:21,040
\nlives are like that, like we’re
\njust going around in circles and<\/p>\n

342
\n00:21:21,240 –> 00:21:23,240
\nand bear in mind, this is Hill
\nCountry here. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:21:23,840 –> 00:21:26,040
\nI mean, this is you wouldn’t.
\nIt’s not like they expended no <\/p>\n

344
\n00:21:26,040 –> 00:21:30,880
\neffort looking for these asses.
\nThe search went on for a few <\/p>\n

345
\n00:21:30,880 –> 00:21:32,400
\ndays.
\nWe learned later in the chapter <\/p>\n

346
\n00:21:32,920 –> 00:21:34,720
\nSamuel has to go and say, look,
\nwe found them. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:21:36,360 –> 00:21:40,280
\nBut that was a microcosm of
\nSaul’s life around and around <\/p>\n

348
\n00:21:40,280 –> 00:21:46,680
\nand around and around.
\nAnd yet Saul was a man, brothers<\/p>\n

349
\n00:21:46,680 –> 00:21:51,280
\nand sisters who had potential.
\nHe was a man very much like us. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:21:52,560 –> 00:21:54,800
\nLook at the way he rescued the
\nmen of Jabash Gilead. <\/p>\n

351
\n00:21:55,800 –> 00:21:58,520
\nYou know when.
\nSamuel came to him in in chapter<\/p>\n

352
\n00:21:58,520 –> 00:22:01,960
\n15 and and it Samuel had the the
\nvery difficult task of having to<\/p>\n

353
\n00:22:01,960 –> 00:22:04,440
\nreject Saul.
\nSamuel said, you know, when you <\/p>\n

354
\n00:22:04,440 –> 00:22:09,000
\nwere little in your own sight,
\ndidn’t God make you king over <\/p>\n

355
\n00:22:09,000 –> 00:22:13,640
\nall the tribes of Israel?
\nYou know, he, he put the the <\/p>\n

356
\n00:22:13,640 –> 00:22:16,120
\nwitches and the Wizards out of
\nthe land. <\/p>\n

357
\n00:22:16,120 –> 00:22:18,160
\nThey had to go and get them
\namong from among the stuff. <\/p>\n

358
\n00:22:18,160 –> 00:22:21,000
\nHe was humble, he was
\nimpressionable. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:22:21,520 –> 00:22:23,200
\nHe was someone who had
\npotential. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:22:23,200 –> 00:22:27,640
\nAnd David loves Saul greatly.
\nRemember that meeting in The <\/p>\n

361
\n00:22:27,640 –> 00:22:31,880
\nCave of Engedi.
\nYou know, David said, My Lord, <\/p>\n

362
\n00:22:31,880 –> 00:22:35,040
\nmy King Saul said you.
\nIs it thy voice? <\/p>\n

363
\n00:22:35,400 –> 00:22:38,680
\nDavid, my son, You know, these
\ntwo men loved each other. <\/p>\n

364
\n00:22:39,480 –> 00:22:40,880
\nIt broke.
\nSamuel’s heart to. <\/p>\n

365
\n00:22:41,040 –> 00:22:44,520
\nReject Saul.
\nSo what was the basis of Saul’s <\/p>\n

366
\n00:22:44,520 –> 00:22:48,080
\nrejection then?
\nWell, he was reminded in chapter<\/p>\n

367
\n00:22:48,080 –> 00:22:51,960
\n15, and he was reminded again on
\nthe very night before he died, <\/p>\n

368
\n00:22:52,920 –> 00:22:56,000
\nbecause thou hast rejected the
\nword of Yahweh. <\/p>\n

369
\n00:22:56,880 –> 00:23:00,000
\nYahweh has rejected you.
\nAnd that was the difference <\/p>\n

370
\n00:23:00,000 –> 00:23:04,240
\nbetween these two men, that one
\nman studied and appreciated the <\/p>\n

371
\n00:23:04,240 –> 00:23:07,760
\nprinciples of the truth and
\nwanted to make them the guiding <\/p>\n

372
\n00:23:07,760 –> 00:23:10,320
\nhand in his life, and the other
\none didn’t. <\/p>\n

373
\n00:23:11,520 –> 00:23:14,680
\nSaul wasn’t rejected for the
\nbaser instincts of his nature. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:23:15,520 –> 00:23:17,040
\nThose things are native to all
\nof us. <\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:17,920 –> 00:23:22,080
\nHe was rejected because he
\nrejected the only means of <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:22,080 –> 00:23:23,960
\ncontrolling those baser
\ninstincts. <\/p>\n

377
\n00:23:24,480 –> 00:23:26,160
\nAnd that will be the basis of
\nour rejection. <\/p>\n

378
\n00:23:26,160 –> 00:23:30,160
\nBrothers and sisters.
\nIf we fail to bow down to the <\/p>\n

379
\n00:23:30,160 –> 00:23:35,920
\nsupremacy and the God that is
\nfound in this book, we hear an <\/p>\n

380
\n00:23:35,920 –> 00:23:38,200
\nexhortation on Sunday morning.
\nWe know is right. <\/p>\n

381
\n00:23:39,680 –> 00:23:41,840
\nWe know we need to put into
\npractice what the brother is <\/p>\n

382
\n00:23:41,840 –> 00:23:44,640
\ntelling us.
\nBut then we go out on that <\/p>\n

383
\n00:23:44,640 –> 00:23:48,080
\nafternoon and we’ve forgotten
\nall about it, and we’ve become <\/p>\n

384
\n00:23:48,080 –> 00:23:52,320
\njust like Saul.
\nBut he was a man who certainly <\/p>\n

385
\n00:23:52,320 –> 00:23:55,560
\nhad potential, who certainly had
\ngood desires. <\/p>\n

386
\n00:23:56,000 –> 00:23:57,920
\nAnd more than that, I’m going to
\nsuggest to you, brothers and <\/p>\n

387
\n00:23:57,920 –> 00:24:02,320
\nsisters, that he had a hero.
\nThere was someone that he looked<\/p>\n

388
\n00:24:02,320 –> 00:24:04,840
\nup to.
\nThere was someone that he had <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:04,840 –> 00:24:07,120
\npatterned his life after that
\nhad gone before him. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:07,840 –> 00:24:11,520
\nFittingly, they were both off of
\nthe Rachel branch of the family.<\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:12,520 –> 00:24:17,360
\nSaul’s hero was Gideon.
\nYou know that Saul’s battle on <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:17,360 –> 00:24:22,520
\nMount Gilboa where he lost his
\nlife, was exactly the setup of <\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:22,520 –> 00:24:24,760
\nGideon.
\nWe’ll see that in a moment. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:25,400 –> 00:24:30,600
\nSaul’s life was meant to be a
\npattern after the life of <\/p>\n

395
\n00:24:30,600 –> 00:24:32,240
\nGideon.
\nAnd you go all the way through <\/p>\n

396
\n00:24:32,240 –> 00:24:34,200
\nSaul’s life.
\nIt’s just Gideon, Gideon, <\/p>\n

397
\n00:24:34,440 –> 00:24:37,240
\nGideon, Gideon, all the way
\nthrough. <\/p>\n

398
\n00:24:37,240 –> 00:24:38,720
\nAnd I don’t think that’s
\ncoincidental. <\/p>\n

399
\n00:24:39,040 –> 00:24:42,480
\nSaul wanted to be like this man,
\nbut he just didn’t have the <\/p>\n

400
\n00:24:42,480 –> 00:24:46,280
\nability to let the word of God
\ndictate his thinking. <\/p>\n

401
\n00:24:46,720 –> 00:24:49,280
\nYou see some of these parallels?
\nThey both had humble beginnings.<\/p>\n

402
\n00:24:49,680 –> 00:24:53,680
\nYou know when Gideon was called,
\nthe Angel said, thou mighty man <\/p>\n

403
\n00:24:53,680 –> 00:24:56,920
\nof valor.
\nAnd Gideon says, my my family’s <\/p>\n

404
\n00:24:56,920 –> 00:25:00,000
\npoor in Manasseh.
\nI’m the least of my father’s <\/p>\n

405
\n00:25:00,000 –> 00:25:01,760
\nhouse.
\nAnd Saul said something very <\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:01,760 –> 00:25:05,400
\nsimilar in First Samuel 9.
\nIt’s almost he says I’m not, am <\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:05,400 –> 00:25:08,360
\nI not the least of all the
\nfamilies of Benjamin in First <\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:08,360 –> 00:25:11,160
\nSamuel Chapter 9.
\nYou’re making me king. <\/p>\n

409
\n00:25:12,520 –> 00:25:14,840
\nIt’s almost word for word what
\nGideon said. <\/p>\n

410
\n00:25:14,840 –> 00:25:17,200
\nBut both men were encouraged
\nthrough the spirit of God. <\/p>\n

411
\n00:25:17,920 –> 00:25:21,520
\nThe spirit of God came upon both
\nGideon and Saul. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:25:22,320 –> 00:25:24,640
\nBoth men were given some
\ndramatic signs. <\/p>\n

413
\n00:25:24,800 –> 00:25:28,520
\nGideon had to be given 4 signs
\nbefore he went forth to fight <\/p>\n

414
\n00:25:28,520 –> 00:25:29,880
\nthe Midianites that God was with
\nhim. <\/p>\n

415
\n00:25:29,880 –> 00:25:34,280
\nAnd Saul was given the same
\nassurances by God both in First <\/p>\n

416
\n00:25:34,280 –> 00:25:37,280
\nSamuel chapter 10 as well as in
\nChapter 11. <\/p>\n

417
\n00:25:38,680 –> 00:25:42,120
\nYou know when, Gideon.
\nDivided his 300 judges. <\/p>\n

418
\n00:25:42,120 –> 00:25:44,160
\nChapter 7 says that he divided.
\nInto. <\/p>\n

419
\n00:25:44,160 –> 00:25:49,680
\nThree companies.
\nHe divided the 300 into 3 <\/p>\n

420
\n00:25:50,560 –> 00:25:52,400
\ncompanies.
\nYou know, when Saul went out to <\/p>\n

421
\n00:25:52,400 –> 00:25:57,360
\nrescue the men of Jabesh Gilead,
\nhe put the army in three <\/p>\n

422
\n00:25:57,920 –> 00:25:59,680
\ncompanies.
\nDo you think he just did that? <\/p>\n

423
\n00:26:00,720 –> 00:26:02,800
\nRandomly.
\nNo. <\/p>\n

424
\n00:26:02,800 –> 00:26:05,880
\nHe was following the example of
\nanother man. <\/p>\n

425
\n00:26:06,960 –> 00:26:11,920
\nHe put them in three companies.
\nGideon came upon the Middie <\/p>\n

426
\n00:26:11,920 –> 00:26:17,160
\nNights and the middle Watch.
\nSaul came in the morning watch. <\/p>\n

427
\n00:26:17,160 –> 00:26:22,120
\nSee how similar their lives are?
\nGideon said at the end of his <\/p>\n

428
\n00:26:22,120 –> 00:26:24,840
\nlife.
\nI’m not going to rule over you. <\/p>\n

429
\n00:26:25,760 –> 00:26:30,360
\nYahweh shall rule over you.
\nAnd when In First Samuel Chapter<\/p>\n

430
\n00:26:30,360 –> 00:26:33,000
\n11 when they want to.
\nTo put to death. <\/p>\n

431
\n00:26:33,000 –> 00:26:35,760
\nThe people that had said let’s
\nmake Saul king, Saul said no. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:26:36,240 –> 00:26:39,600
\nOne’s going to be put to death
\nbecause Yahweh’s wrought a great<\/p>\n

433
\n00:26:39,600 –> 00:26:45,280
\nsalvation in Israel, Saul’s.
\nRole model in the truth. <\/p>\n

434
\n00:26:45,560 –> 00:26:51,520
\nWas Gideon he had.
\nAll of the intentions of serving<\/p>\n

435
\n00:26:51,520 –> 00:26:53,160
\nGod.
\nBut he just. <\/p>\n

436
\n00:26:53,160 –> 00:26:56,360
\nFailed to follow on those
\nintentions. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:26:56,840 –> 00:27:01,160
\nYou compromise with the world.
\nOnce it becomes easier to <\/p>\n

438
\n00:27:01,160 –> 00:27:04,760
\ncompromise a second time, you
\nfail to follow the word of God <\/p>\n

439
\n00:27:05,960 –> 00:27:09,000
\nagain.
\nIt just becomes easier and <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:09,000 –> 00:27:11,480
\neasier until you spiral down
\nfurther and further. <\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:12,120 –> 00:27:17,160
\nAnd that was how Saul ended up.
\nSo let’s just set the battle <\/p>\n

442
\n00:27:17,160 –> 00:27:22,240
\nhere in First Samuel chapter 28,
\nwhere we’ll we’re about to go. <\/p>\n

443
\n00:27:23,200 –> 00:27:26,200
\nYou see, the Philistines were
\nbeginning to take some <\/p>\n

444
\n00:27:26,200 –> 00:27:29,880
\nshellacking’s down in the
\nShephilah because Israel had the<\/p>\n

445
\n00:27:29,880 –> 00:27:32,800
\nhigh ground.
\nThe Shephilah is very, very <\/p>\n

446
\n00:27:32,800 –> 00:27:34,840
\nhilly.
\nThe Philistines were down here <\/p>\n

447
\n00:27:34,840 –> 00:27:37,040
\non the plain.
\nSo the Israelites had the <\/p>\n

448
\n00:27:37,040 –> 00:27:38,720
\nadvantage, the strategic
\nadvantage. <\/p>\n

449
\n00:27:38,720 –> 00:27:40,880
\nSo the Philistines says, look,
\nwe we’ve got to stop this. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:27:41,200 –> 00:27:42,880
\nWe’ve got to to do something
\nelse. <\/p>\n

451
\n00:27:42,880 –> 00:27:48,520
\nSo they decide to March N They
\nfirst came here to Afhec, which <\/p>\n

452
\n00:27:48,520 –> 00:27:52,840
\nis right here known in the Old
\nTestament is aphic. <\/p>\n

453
\n00:27:53,440 –> 00:27:55,640
\nKnown in the New Testament is
\nAntipatrus. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:27:55,840 –> 00:27:59,560
\nYou’ll you’ll remember that the
\nApostle Paul spent the night at <\/p>\n

455
\n00:27:59,560 –> 00:28:02,960
\nAntipatrus in the book of Acts,
\nand there David. <\/p>\n

456
\n00:28:03,120 –> 00:28:07,160
\nWe know that providentially
\nDavid left the army of the <\/p>\n

457
\n00:28:07,160 –> 00:28:10,360
\nPhilistines.
\nHe was taken out of that after <\/p>\n

458
\n00:28:10,360 –> 00:28:14,400
\nhis conversation with Akish,
\nwhich was a wonderful thing for <\/p>\n

459
\n00:28:14,400 –> 00:28:18,880
\nDavid, because he would have
\ngone up here to Gilboa, where <\/p>\n

460
\n00:28:18,880 –> 00:28:20,760
\nhis best friend Jonathan was
\nkilled. <\/p>\n

461
\n00:28:22,040 –> 00:28:26,000
\nAnd how would David have felt if
\nhe was on the other side in that<\/p>\n

462
\n00:28:26,000 –> 00:28:28,960
\nbattle?
\nSo providentially, David was. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:28:30,000 –> 00:28:32,120
\nHe left the company of the
\nPhilistines there. <\/p>\n

464
\n00:28:32,160 –> 00:28:34,480
\nIn fact, he had been with them
\nbecause he was fleeing from <\/p>\n

465
\n00:28:34,480 –> 00:28:36,600
\nSaul, and Saul didn’t have the
\ngumption to go down the land of <\/p>\n

466
\n00:28:36,600 –> 00:28:39,160
\nthe Philistines.
\nAnd so he comes back and the <\/p>\n

467
\n00:28:39,160 –> 00:28:41,600
\nnext time we find him, he’s down
\nZiklag down here. <\/p>\n

468
\n00:28:42,200 –> 00:28:47,280
\nSo the Philistines marched N up
\nhere into what’s known as the <\/p>\n

469
\n00:28:47,280 –> 00:28:51,800
\nJezreel Valley.
\nNow, the Jezreel Valley is not <\/p>\n

470
\n00:28:51,800 –> 00:28:54,280
\nlike the Shefila.
\nIt’s flat. <\/p>\n

471
\n00:28:55,000 –> 00:28:58,000
\nAnd so they thought that by
\nmeeting the Israelites on flat <\/p>\n

472
\n00:28:58,000 –> 00:29:00,680
\nlevel ground, they could meet
\nthem on ground of their choosing<\/p>\n

473
\n00:29:00,920 –> 00:29:05,920
\nand perhaps be more successful.
\nYou’ll recall that we in looking<\/p>\n

474
\n00:29:05,920 –> 00:29:08,800
\nat that hump that goes right
\ndown the middle of Israel, there<\/p>\n

475
\n00:29:08,800 –> 00:29:11,680
\nwere the Galilee hills in the
\nnorth and there were the <\/p>\n

476
\n00:29:11,680 –> 00:29:16,320
\nSamaritan hills in the center.
\nWhat divides the Galilean hills <\/p>\n

477
\n00:29:16,320 –> 00:29:19,640
\nin the north from the Samaritan
\nhills is the Valley of Jezreel. <\/p>\n

478
\n00:29:20,880 –> 00:29:25,280
\nIt starts right up here at Mount
\nCarmel, and it goes right on <\/p>\n

479
\n00:29:25,280 –> 00:29:27,760
\ndown here to round about the
\nJordan River. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:29:27,760 –> 00:29:30,640
\nAs a matter of fact, this park
\ndown here around Bay Shan is all<\/p>\n

481
\n00:29:30,640 –> 00:29:35,840
\nbelow sea level, and there are 4
\ngreat heights along this valley.<\/p>\n

482
\n00:29:36,640 –> 00:29:39,640
\nThere’s Mount Gilboa, which is
\nright here. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:29:40,760 –> 00:29:44,080
\nThere’s the Hill of Moray, which
\nis right kind of in the middle. <\/p>\n

484
\n00:29:44,920 –> 00:29:49,240
\nThere’s Mount Tabor right here.
\nAnd then there’s Mount Carmel, <\/p>\n

485
\n00:29:49,240 –> 00:29:52,840
\nwhich is this range right here.
\nIf you’re looking at the Land of<\/p>\n

486
\n00:29:52,840 –> 00:29:54,040
\nIsrael.
\nAnd you know how there in the <\/p>\n

487
\n00:29:54,040 –> 00:29:57,200
\nLand of Israel, there’s this
\nbump right here. <\/p>\n

488
\n00:29:58,440 –> 00:30:01,720
\nIt’s straight all the way down,
\nbut there’s a little bump right <\/p>\n

489
\n00:30:01,720 –> 00:30:03,400
\nhere.
\nThe bump is Mount Carmel. <\/p>\n

490
\n00:30:04,040 –> 00:30:06,920
\nIt’s where the the modern city
\nof Haifa is today. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:30:07,560 –> 00:30:08,920
\nSo Mount Carmel, there is the
\nbump. <\/p>\n

492
\n00:30:08,920 –> 00:30:12,080
\nAnd by the way, little things
\nlike this help you remember <\/p>\n

493
\n00:30:12,080 –> 00:30:14,480
\nwhere places are the Sea of
\nGalilee. <\/p>\n

494
\n00:30:14,960 –> 00:30:18,360
\nIs parallel with a bump.
\nSo the Bump’s here, This is the <\/p>\n

495
\n00:30:18,360 –> 00:30:23,960
\nSea of Galilee here, and right
\ndown the middle is what’s known <\/p>\n

496
\n00:30:23,960 –> 00:30:31,520
\nas the Valley of Jezreel.
\nIt is a lush, fertile valley. <\/p>\n

497
\n00:30:31,520 –> 00:30:34,840
\nIt’s the bread basket of Israel,
\nand although they don’t want to <\/p>\n

498
\n00:30:34,840 –> 00:30:37,480
\nadmit it, it’s the bread basket
\nof many of the Arab countries. <\/p>\n

499
\n00:30:38,240 –> 00:30:41,680
\nThis plain here.
\nYou see the the camel range. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:30:41,840 –> 00:30:44,840
\nHere’s Haifa.
\nJust goes right down in here. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:30:44,840 –> 00:30:49,760
\nIt’s flat, very, very fertile,
\nVery good for gardening, Very, <\/p>\n

502
\n00:30:49,760 –> 00:30:52,960
\nvery good for growing things.
\nAnd it was here where the <\/p>\n

503
\n00:30:52,960 –> 00:30:55,800
\nPhilistines wanted to meet the
\nIsraelites, because if we meet <\/p>\n

504
\n00:30:55,800 –> 00:30:59,600
\nthem here, we feel like we have
\nthe advantage over them. <\/p>\n

505
\n00:31:00,840 –> 00:31:05,480
\nNow you’ve got these four
\npoints, Tabor, the hill of Moray<\/p>\n

506
\n00:31:05,840 –> 00:31:08,960
\nis around here.
\nYilboa’s here. <\/p>\n

507
\n00:31:09,600 –> 00:31:12,440
\nCarmel’s here at the top of the
\nvalley of Jezreel’s. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:31:12,440 –> 00:31:16,400
\nA little town, not so little
\ntoday, called Nazareth. <\/p>\n

509
\n00:31:18,600 –> 00:31:21,880
\nYou know, we’re not told much
\nabout the Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n

510
\n00:31:23,120 –> 00:31:25,360
\nbetween the ages of 12 and 30.
\nAs a matter of fact, we’re not <\/p>\n

511
\n00:31:25,360 –> 00:31:28,360
\ntold anything.
\nBut we do know he was here on <\/p>\n

512
\n00:31:28,360 –> 00:31:29,920
\nthe hills of Nazareth.
\nNow, what do you think he would <\/p>\n

513
\n00:31:29,920 –> 00:31:33,280
\nhave been thinking about sitting
\non these hills, looking down at <\/p>\n

514
\n00:31:33,280 –> 00:31:36,120
\nthis history?
\nHe would have been recounting <\/p>\n

515
\n00:31:36,800 –> 00:31:38,560
\nDeborah and Barack on Mount
\nTabor. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:31:39,120 –> 00:31:41,760
\nHe would have been recounting
\nGideon’s faithfulness. <\/p>\n

517
\n00:31:42,120 –> 00:31:45,080
\nIn the valley of Jezreel against
\nthe Midianites, he would have <\/p>\n

518
\n00:31:45,080 –> 00:31:48,280
\nrecounted the death of Josiah.
\nHere at Megiddo he had been <\/p>\n

519
\n00:31:48,280 –> 00:31:50,920
\nthinking about the tragic
\nfailure of Saul on Mount Gilboa.<\/p>\n

520
\n00:31:51,680 –> 00:31:54,160
\nAll of this was there before
\nhim, and he was contemplating <\/p>\n

521
\n00:31:54,160 –> 00:31:58,560
\nthese things, having his ear
\nwakened morning by morning to <\/p>\n

522
\n00:31:58,560 –> 00:32:06,000
\nhear it was to this place that
\nSaul and his armies were to meet<\/p>\n

523
\n00:32:06,000 –> 00:32:08,400
\nthe Philistines come over to
\nFirst Samuel, chapter 28. <\/p>\n

524
\n00:32:17,680 –> 00:32:21,840
\nYahweh, as we know, has departed
\nfrom Saul Chapter 15, when the <\/p>\n

525
\n00:32:22,400 –> 00:32:28,920
\nmantle was rent, it was taken
\nfrom his hand, and that drove <\/p>\n

526
\n00:32:28,920 –> 00:32:30,400
\nSaul, of course.
\nAs we know, on the course of <\/p>\n

527
\n00:32:30,400 –> 00:32:35,640
\ninsanity he persecuted David,
\nand he comes to his tragic end <\/p>\n

528
\n00:32:35,640 –> 00:32:38,920
\nhere in First Samuel 28, where
\nhe’s to inquire of a witch. <\/p>\n

529
\n00:32:40,080 –> 00:32:43,280
\nFor Samuel 28 and verse 4, the
\nPhilistines gathered themselves <\/p>\n

530
\n00:32:43,280 –> 00:32:45,480
\ntogether and came and pitched
\nin. <\/p>\n

531
\n00:32:45,480 –> 00:32:50,240
\nShunam and Saul gathered all
\nIsrael together and they pitched<\/p>\n

532
\n00:32:50,880 –> 00:32:53,760
\nin Mount Gilboa.
\nNow here is Mount Gilboa. <\/p>\n

533
\n00:32:54,640 –> 00:32:57,960
\nBeautiful spot.
\nHere’s the Jezreel Valley going <\/p>\n

534
\n00:32:57,960 –> 00:33:02,280
\nright down the center and it
\nsays there that the Philistines <\/p>\n

535
\n00:33:02,280 –> 00:33:05,560
\nwere pitched in Shunam.
\nNow the next chapter says they <\/p>\n

536
\n00:33:05,560 –> 00:33:08,040
\npitched in Jezreel.
\nShunam is just a little bit off <\/p>\n

537
\n00:33:08,040 –> 00:33:11,160
\nthis map here.
\nHere’s Jezreel. <\/p>\n

538
\n00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:13,880
\nThere’s a tell there today where
\nyou can go and visit. <\/p>\n

539
\n00:33:14,760 –> 00:33:18,680
\nAnd here’s Mount Gilboa now,
\nwho’s got the strategic <\/p>\n

540
\n00:33:18,680 –> 00:33:22,720
\nadvantage in this battle?
\nWho’s got the high ground? <\/p>\n

541
\n00:33:22,720 –> 00:33:24,880
\nWell, Saul and his armies are up
\nhere on Mount Gilboa. <\/p>\n

542
\n00:33:25,600 –> 00:33:27,800
\nThe Philistines are down here in
\nthe valley of Jezreel. <\/p>\n

543
\n00:33:28,440 –> 00:33:30,320
\nSaul can see everything they’re
\ndoing. <\/p>\n

544
\n00:33:32,120 –> 00:33:35,520
\nHe knows exactly what’s going on
\nin that camp. <\/p>\n

545
\n00:33:37,080 –> 00:33:40,680
\nThere’s no.
\nWay ordinarily speaking, why <\/p>\n

546
\n00:33:40,680 –> 00:33:43,040
\nSaul should have ever lost that
\nbattle? <\/p>\n

547
\n00:33:43,720 –> 00:33:47,760
\nBecause he had every advantage,
\nhumanly speaking, for victory. <\/p>\n

548
\n00:33:48,960 –> 00:33:53,840
\nBut you see, Yahweh had left
\nhim, and it grieved Saul. <\/p>\n

549
\n00:33:55,320 –> 00:33:58,640
\nAnd verse five says.
\nAnd when Saul saw the host of <\/p>\n

550
\n00:33:58,640 –> 00:34:05,280
\nthe Philistines, he was afraid.
\nNow the word afraid or not The <\/p>\n

551
\n00:34:05,280 –> 00:34:08,600
\nword afraid rather, but the word
\ntrembled. <\/p>\n

552
\n00:34:08,719 –> 00:34:12,320
\nThere in verse five is the word
\nHerod. <\/p>\n

553
\n00:34:14,320 –> 00:34:19,320
\nHis heart was herodic.
\nNow what happened at the well of<\/p>\n

554
\n00:34:19,320 –> 00:34:21,400
\nHerod?
\nCome back to Judges chapter <\/p>\n

555
\n00:34:21,400 –> 00:34:25,280
\nseven.
\nWell, it was the Well of Herod <\/p>\n

556
\n00:34:25,520 –> 00:34:30,040
\nwhere Gideon’s army was formed.
\nJudges Chapter 7. <\/p>\n

557
\n00:34:30,560 –> 00:34:34,960
\nAnd this is Saul’s role model,
\nSaul’s hero and his heart is. <\/p>\n

558
\n00:34:34,960 –> 00:34:41,159
\nHere, and it’s Herodic.
\nJudges Chapter 7, verse one. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:34:43,199 –> 00:34:46,760
\nThen Jeroboel, who was Gideon
\nand all the people that were <\/p>\n

560
\n00:34:46,760 –> 00:34:49,360
\nwith him, rose up early and
\npitched beside the well of <\/p>\n

561
\n00:34:49,480 –> 00:34:52,840
\nHerod.
\nThat’s that word rendered <\/p>\n

562
\n00:34:52,840 –> 00:34:56,719
\ntrembled in First Samuel chapter
\n28 and verse 5, so that the host<\/p>\n

563
\n00:34:56,719 –> 00:34:59,760
\nof the Midianites were on the
\nnorth side of them by the hill <\/p>\n

564
\n00:34:59,760 –> 00:35:04,840
\nof Moray in the valley.
\nAnd there we find 32,000. <\/p>\n

565
\n00:35:06,240 –> 00:35:10,720
\nWorked its way down in a
\nsymbolic judgement seat to 300 <\/p>\n

566
\n00:35:11,680 –> 00:35:15,720
\nthe fearful and those that were
\nafraid, those that were heroding<\/p>\n

567
\n00:35:15,720 –> 00:35:20,040
\nwere turned away, and it was
\nonly those who lapped up the <\/p>\n

568
\n00:35:20,040 –> 00:35:21,960
\nwater and kept their eyes on the
\nenemy. <\/p>\n

569
\n00:35:22,560 –> 00:35:24,080
\nThat made it.
\nInto Gideon’s army. <\/p>\n

570
\n00:35:24,480 –> 00:35:26,320
\nAnd so it is with us, brothers
\nand sisters. <\/p>\n

571
\n00:35:26,840 –> 00:35:31,440
\nIt’s only by keeping our eyes on
\nour enemy sin and knowing what <\/p>\n

572
\n00:35:31,440 –> 00:35:34,640
\nit’s capable of as we drink the
\nword of God. <\/p>\n

573
\n00:35:35,760 –> 00:35:40,280
\nEvery day that we’re ever going
\nto be allowed, by God’s grace, <\/p>\n

574
\n00:35:40,280 –> 00:35:42,880
\ninto Gideon’s army.
\nAnd that was. <\/p>\n

575
\n00:35:42,880 –> 00:35:47,200
\nThere at the well of Herod, Saul
\nis in a place that he should <\/p>\n

576
\n00:35:47,200 –> 00:35:54,040
\nhave known, spoke of God
\ndelivering his people, but his <\/p>\n

577
\n00:35:54,040 –> 00:35:59,520
\nheart was heroding.
\nYahweh has left me and <\/p>\n

578
\n00:35:59,520 –> 00:36:02,280
\ndesperate, desperate for some
\nsort of answer. <\/p>\n

579
\n00:36:02,880 –> 00:36:09,720
\nAnd First Samuel, chapter 28.
\nHe goes and he inquires of a <\/p>\n

580
\n00:36:09,720 –> 00:36:14,360
\nwitch, a witch who lived at a
\nplace called endured First <\/p>\n

581
\n00:36:14,360 –> 00:36:18,400
\nSamuel, chapter 28, verse seven.
\nThen said Saul unto his <\/p>\n

582
\n00:36:18,400 –> 00:36:22,320
\nservants, Seek me a woman that
\nhath a familiar spirit, that I <\/p>\n

583
\n00:36:22,320 –> 00:36:23,720
\nmay go to her and inquire of
\nher. <\/p>\n

584
\n00:36:23,720 –> 00:36:27,360
\nAnd his servants said to him,
\nBehold, there is a woman that <\/p>\n

585
\n00:36:27,360 –> 00:36:28,840
\nhath a familiar spirit it
\nendure. <\/p>\n

586
\n00:36:28,840 –> 00:36:33,760
\nSo God is Saul is inquiring of
\nYahweh silence. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:36:34,920 –> 00:36:37,640
\nHis heart is trembling as he
\nlooks at the Philistines down <\/p>\n

588
\n00:36:37,640 –> 00:36:39,440
\nthere on the plane, and he’s
\ndesperate for some sort of <\/p>\n

589
\n00:36:39,440 –> 00:36:39,960
\nanswer.
\nAnd he. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:36:40,240 –> 00:36:41,640
\nHe says, well, there’s.
\nThere’s someone here with a <\/p>\n

591
\n00:36:41,640 –> 00:36:43,240
\nfamiliar spirit down here at
\nEndor. <\/p>\n

592
\n00:36:44,320 –> 00:36:49,040
\nNow where was Endor Saul’s Here
\non Mount Gilboa? <\/p>\n

593
\n00:36:50,000 –> 00:36:53,760
\nEndor is just around the hill of
\nmore in this area here. <\/p>\n

594
\n00:36:54,440 –> 00:36:56,000
\nOK, so the.
\nPhilistines are over here, <\/p>\n

595
\n00:36:57,360 –> 00:36:59,680
\nSaul’s on Gilboa.
\nHe doesn’t want the Philistines <\/p>\n

596
\n00:36:59,680 –> 00:37:01,320
\nto see him, so he goes down at
\nnight. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:37:01,920 –> 00:37:03,600
\nHe goes down at night and wasn’t
\nat night. <\/p>\n

598
\n00:37:05,760 –> 00:37:09,320
\nMount Gilboa over here towards
\nEndor. <\/p>\n

599
\n00:37:09,320 –> 00:37:13,400
\nYou know, when he went from
\nMount Gilboa to Endor, he would <\/p>\n

600
\n00:37:13,400 –> 00:37:15,240
\nhave.
\nHad to have crossed. <\/p>\n

601
\n00:37:17,000 –> 00:37:20,560
\nThe Well of Herod, because the
\nWell of Herod runs right through<\/p>\n

602
\n00:37:20,560 –> 00:37:22,360
\nhere.
\nThe Well of Herod actually goes <\/p>\n

603
\n00:37:22,360 –> 00:37:25,320
\ninto the Jordan River.
\nIt’s down at you, cross it down <\/p>\n

604
\n00:37:25,320 –> 00:37:28,960
\nat Bayshan.
\nSo he’s going across the well of<\/p>\n

605
\n00:37:28,960 –> 00:37:33,640
\nHerod, the very place where his
\nhero Gideon had LED a great <\/p>\n

606
\n00:37:33,640 –> 00:37:36,520
\nvictory over the Midianites, and
\nhe ducks around the hill of <\/p>\n

607
\n00:37:36,520 –> 00:37:38,960
\nMoray so the Philistines don’t
\nsee him and he stops here at a <\/p>\n

608
\n00:37:38,960 –> 00:37:43,440
\nplace called Endor.
\nNow what famous event took place<\/p>\n

609
\n00:37:43,440 –> 00:37:46,760
\nat Endor?
\nWell, that was the place where <\/p>\n

610
\n00:37:46,760 –> 00:37:51,400
\nPsalm 83 says that Sisera died.
\nIt says that Sisera met his end <\/p>\n

611
\n00:37:51,680 –> 00:37:54,840
\nat Endor.
\nAnd here in this place, Saul <\/p>\n

612
\n00:37:54,840 –> 00:37:56,360
\nisn’t going, and he’s inquiring
\nof a. <\/p>\n

613
\n00:37:56,360 –> 00:38:00,720
\nWitch this was the.
\nTragic end of Saul. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:38:00,720 –> 00:38:05,000
\nThe geography of the land.
\nBespoke his rejection, he was in<\/p>\n

615
\n00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:07,600
\na place where he should have
\nstood for the principles of the <\/p>\n

616
\n00:38:07,600 –> 00:38:10,960
\ntruth, where Yahweh would have
\ngiven him victory over any <\/p>\n

617
\n00:38:10,960 –> 00:38:15,120
\nforce.
\nBut he had. <\/p>\n

618
\n00:38:15,120 –> 00:38:17,360
\nFailed to learn the great lesson
\nof his life, which we will <\/p>\n

619
\n00:38:17,720 –> 00:38:19,760
\nsummarize at the end of our
\nsession this morning. <\/p>\n

620
\n00:38:20,320 –> 00:38:22,800
\nSo he goes to the witch of
\nEndor, and she purports to have <\/p>\n

621
\n00:38:22,800 –> 00:38:25,840
\nraised Samuel from the dead, and
\nshe can no more raise Samuel <\/p>\n

622
\n00:38:25,840 –> 00:38:29,800
\nfrom the dead than I can.
\nAnd she brings Samuel up. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:38:29,960 –> 00:38:34,320
\nAnd speaking to who he thinks
\nwas Samuel, he says in verse 15,<\/p>\n

624
\n00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:37,040
\nand some of the saddest words
\nyou find in the scriptures. <\/p>\n

625
\n00:38:37,440 –> 00:38:41,600
\nI am so distressed, for the
\nPhilistines make war against me,<\/p>\n

626
\n00:38:42,640 –> 00:38:48,360
\nand God is departed from me, and
\nanswereth me no more, neither by<\/p>\n

627
\n00:38:48,360 –> 00:38:50,880
\nprofits nor by dreams.
\nTherefore have I called thee, <\/p>\n

628
\n00:38:50,880 –> 00:38:54,200
\nthat thou mayest make known unto
\nme what I shall do. <\/p>\n

629
\n00:38:54,920 –> 00:38:58,520
\nAnd Samuel repeats his rejection
\nthat he gave to Saul in chapter <\/p>\n

630
\n00:38:58,520 –> 00:38:59,680
\n15.
\nYou know what he said on that <\/p>\n

631
\n00:38:59,680 –> 00:39:04,400
\noccasion?
\nSaid stubbornness is as iniquity<\/p>\n

632
\n00:39:04,400 –> 00:39:12,800
\nand idolatry and rebellion as
\nthe sin of witchcraft, and here <\/p>\n

633
\n00:39:12,800 –> 00:39:19,560
\nhe is inquiring of a witch.
\nAnd he was reminded of his <\/p>\n

634
\n00:39:19,560 –> 00:39:24,080
\nrejection for because he did not
\nslay the the Amalekites in verse<\/p>\n

635
\n00:39:24,080 –> 00:39:26,560
\n18, because thou obeyedest not
\nthe voice of Yahweh, nor <\/p>\n

636
\n00:39:26,560 –> 00:39:28,800
\nexecuted his fierce wrath upon
\nAmalek. <\/p>\n

637
\n00:39:29,240 –> 00:39:33,160
\nTherefore Yahweh hath done this
\nthing unto thee this day, And <\/p>\n

638
\n00:39:33,160 –> 00:39:37,800
\nsome of you may know that First
\nSamuel 28 to 31 is a contrast <\/p>\n

639
\n00:39:37,800 –> 00:39:43,080
\nbetween two men, one in the
\nnorthern part of the land and <\/p>\n

640
\n00:39:43,080 –> 00:39:44,600
\nthe other in the southern part
\nof the land. <\/p>\n

641
\n00:39:45,480 –> 00:39:49,760
\nDavid down South, is
\nslaughtering the Amalekites, <\/p>\n

642
\n00:39:50,840 –> 00:39:54,560
\nrescuing his two wives,
\nreceiving specific answers as he<\/p>\n

643
\n00:39:54,560 –> 00:39:57,280
\ninquires by means of Urim and
\nThummim. <\/p>\n

644
\n00:39:58,840 –> 00:40:01,760
\nHe was providentially delivered
\nfrom the Philistines in chapter <\/p>\n

645
\n00:40:01,760 –> 00:40:03,800
\n27, and on the other hand we
\nhave. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:40:03,800 –> 00:40:07,320
\nSaul, who was reminded here in
\nchapter 28 of his failure to <\/p>\n

647
\n00:40:07,320 –> 00:40:13,560
\nsmite, AMOLED, And then the next
\nday, in First Samuel chapter 31,<\/p>\n

648
\n00:40:14,680 –> 00:40:17,280
\nhe dies at the hand of the
\nPhilistines. <\/p>\n

649
\n00:40:17,600 –> 00:40:23,200
\nTheir destinies were exactly the
\nopposite, and it was the land <\/p>\n

650
\n00:40:23,200 –> 00:40:27,920
\nthat that spoke so eloquently of
\ntheir rejection. <\/p>\n

651
\n00:40:30,040 –> 00:40:34,760
\nIn First Samuel chapter 31, we
\nhave the tragic end of Saul, <\/p>\n

652
\n00:40:40,360 –> 00:40:42,000
\nfirst one.
\nNow the Philistines fought <\/p>\n

653
\n00:40:42,000 –> 00:40:46,600
\nagainst Israel, and the men of
\nIsrael fled from before. <\/p>\n

654
\n00:40:46,600 –> 00:40:47,960
\nThe Philistines.
\nYou see, they had. <\/p>\n

655
\n00:40:47,960 –> 00:40:50,920
\nMet them down on the valley, the
\nfloor of the valley, But they <\/p>\n

656
\n00:40:50,920 –> 00:40:53,600
\nfled.
\nThey ran up into Mount Gilboa, <\/p>\n

657
\n00:40:53,600 –> 00:40:55,280
\nand the Philistines followed
\nafter them. <\/p>\n

658
\n00:40:55,480 –> 00:40:57,840
\nQuit yourselves like men,
\nthey’ve said to themselves. <\/p>\n

659
\n00:40:58,680 –> 00:41:01,600
\nAnd the Philistines verse 2
\nfollowed hard upon Saul and upon<\/p>\n

660
\n00:41:01,600 –> 00:41:04,240
\nhis sons.
\nAnd the Philistines slew <\/p>\n

661
\n00:41:04,240 –> 00:41:10,200
\nJonathan, and Abinadab and
\nMelkashua saw sons, and the <\/p>\n

662
\n00:41:10,200 –> 00:41:14,120
\nbattle went sore against Saul,
\nAnd The Archers hit him, and he <\/p>\n

663
\n00:41:14,120 –> 00:41:19,000
\nwas sore wounded of The Archers.
\nRemember what David did, <\/p>\n

664
\n00:41:19,000 –> 00:41:20,880
\nbrothers and sisters, at the
\nbeginning of our session. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:41:22,800 –> 00:41:26,520
\nWe’re told in First Samuel, 17
\nthat he cut off Goliath’s head. <\/p>\n

666
\n00:41:28,520 –> 00:41:32,200
\nHe stripped off his armor and
\nthe record says he took that to <\/p>\n

667
\n00:41:32,200 –> 00:41:35,960
\nJerusalem, where it probably
\nbecame the basis for the word <\/p>\n

668
\n00:41:35,960 –> 00:41:40,520
\nGolgotha, the place of the skull
\nthat was David’s destiny in <\/p>\n

669
\n00:41:40,520 –> 00:41:45,320
\nfirst name of chapter 17.
\nWant to see Saul’s destiny? <\/p>\n

670
\n00:41:46,560 –> 00:41:50,080
\nFirst, Chronicles chapter 10
\nbecause the Chronicles account <\/p>\n

671
\n00:41:50,240 –> 00:41:56,120
\njust adds 1 little word.
\nThat ties both of these events <\/p>\n

672
\n00:41:56,120 –> 00:42:03,160
\ntogether, one ending in glory
\nand the other in tragedy. <\/p>\n

673
\n00:42:05,560 –> 00:42:10,000
\nFirst Chronicles, chapter 10 and
\nverses 8 to 10. <\/p>\n

674
\n00:42:12,520 –> 00:42:15,880
\nIt came to pass on the Morrow
\nverse Chronicles 10, verse 8, <\/p>\n

675
\n00:42:16,440 –> 00:42:19,040
\nwhen the Philistines came to
\nstrip the slain, that they found<\/p>\n

676
\n00:42:19,040 –> 00:42:22,720
\nSaul and his sons fallen in
\nMount Gilbella. <\/p>\n

677
\n00:42:24,280 –> 00:42:29,920
\nAnd when they had stripped him,
\nthey took his head and his <\/p>\n

678
\n00:42:29,920 –> 00:42:33,840
\narmor, and sent it into the land
\nof the Philistines roundabout to<\/p>\n

679
\n00:42:33,840 –> 00:42:38,080
\ncarry tidings unto the their
\nidols and to the people. <\/p>\n

680
\n00:42:39,040 –> 00:42:42,000
\nAnd they put his armor in the
\nHouse of their gods, and <\/p>\n

681
\n00:42:42,000 –> 00:42:46,040
\nfastened his head in the temple
\nof Dagon. <\/p>\n

682
\n00:42:46,760 –> 00:42:53,440
\nSo Saul’s armor is stripped and
\nhis head is cut off. <\/p>\n

683
\n00:42:53,440 –> 00:42:55,720
\nYou know what the Hebrew word is
\nfor head there in verse 10? <\/p>\n

684
\n00:42:57,720 –> 00:43:00,160
\nIt’s one of the.
\nFew occurrences in the Old <\/p>\n

685
\n00:43:00,160 –> 00:43:07,280
\nTestament of the word Golgotha.
\nSo, Saul’s. <\/p>\n

686
\n00:43:07,280 –> 00:43:09,560
\nArmor is stripped.
\nHis head Hebrew. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:43:09,560 –> 00:43:14,120
\nGolgotha is cut off by the
\nwallowers in the dust. <\/p>\n

688
\n00:43:15,240 –> 00:43:18,480
\nContrast that with David, who
\ncut off Goliath’s head. <\/p>\n

689
\n00:43:19,040 –> 00:43:21,560
\nStripped his armor and brought
\nthe head. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:43:21,560 –> 00:43:26,080
\nTo Golgotha.
\nAnd there we have a powerful <\/p>\n

691
\n00:43:26,080 –> 00:43:29,360
\ncontrast between the destinies
\nof these two men, one in <\/p>\n

692
\n00:43:29,360 –> 00:43:33,840
\nfulfilling the word of God.
\nThe other had rejected the word <\/p>\n

693
\n00:43:33,840 –> 00:43:36,920
\nof God and was met with the
\nopposite destiny. <\/p>\n

694
\n00:43:37,080 –> 00:43:42,000
\nThese two men were brothers.
\nThey had a filial affection for <\/p>\n

695
\n00:43:42,000 –> 00:43:45,920
\none another.
\nBut what divided them? <\/p>\n

696
\n00:43:48,040 –> 00:43:50,120
\nIt was what?
\nOne wanted to do what the Bible <\/p>\n

697
\n00:43:50,120 –> 00:43:53,360
\nsaid, had an affection for it,
\nhad a love for it, was a man <\/p>\n

698
\n00:43:53,360 –> 00:43:56,880
\nafter God’s own heart, and the
\nother one didn’t. <\/p>\n

699
\n00:43:56,880 –> 00:44:00,200
\nThe other one didn’t even know
\nwhere Samuel was. <\/p>\n

700
\n00:44:00,200 –> 00:44:07,320
\nWho he was had to be told, and
\ndespite what good intentions he <\/p>\n

701
\n00:44:07,320 –> 00:44:11,160
\nmight have had in following
\nGideon, he was never able to <\/p>\n

702
\n00:44:11,160 –> 00:44:14,880
\nfollow through on those good
\nintentions. <\/p>\n

703
\n00:44:16,840 –> 00:44:20,320
\nSaul’s destiny was the reverse
\nof David’s. <\/p>\n

704
\n00:44:21,040 –> 00:44:25,080
\nOne in the north of the land,
\nthe other in the South of the <\/p>\n

705
\n00:44:25,080 –> 00:44:26,840
\nland.
\nThe question that we want to <\/p>\n

706
\n00:44:26,840 –> 00:44:28,120
\nask, brothers and sisters, is
\nwhy? <\/p>\n

707
\n00:44:29,160 –> 00:44:31,640
\nHow did it occur like that?
\nThey could have stood there, <\/p>\n

708
\n00:44:32,400 –> 00:44:36,520
\ndrank of the well of Herod,
\nremembered, Gideon, remembered <\/p>\n

709
\n00:44:36,520 –> 00:44:39,880
\nDeborah and Barek with his
\nmeager 10,000 men overcoming 900<\/p>\n

710
\n00:44:39,880 –> 00:44:43,560
\nChariots of iron.
\nWhat was the difference? <\/p>\n

711
\n00:44:43,600 –> 00:44:44,800
\nThey could have stood there
\ntogether. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:44:44,800 –> 00:44:47,680
\nWhat was the difference?
\nI’d like to. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:44:47,680 –> 00:44:49,520
\nConclude with this, this
\nquotation. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:44:49,680 –> 00:44:51,640
\nYou might think it’s strange
\nthat we’re concluding with this <\/p>\n

715
\n00:44:51,640 –> 00:44:55,960
\nquotation, but this is one of my
\nfavorite quotations from Brother<\/p>\n

716
\n00:44:55,960 –> 00:44:58,400
\nThomas.
\nIt’s one that we often quote in <\/p>\n

717
\n00:44:58,400 –> 00:45:00,240
\ntalk.
\nIn our conversations on the <\/p>\n

718
\n00:45:00,240 –> 00:45:03,960
\nAtonement, we talk about how our
\nsinful nature is our misfortune,<\/p>\n

719
\n00:45:03,960 –> 00:45:05,520
\nnot our crime.
\nBut I want you to focus on the <\/p>\n

720
\n00:45:05,520 –> 00:45:07,520
\nsecond-half of the quote and
\nwhat he says here. <\/p>\n

721
\n00:45:08,440 –> 00:45:10,640
\nHe says this sinful nature we
\ninherit. <\/p>\n

722
\n00:45:11,520 –> 00:45:14,000
\nIt is our misfortune, not our
\ncrime, that we possess it. <\/p>\n

723
\n00:45:15,000 –> 00:45:20,800
\nWe are only blameworthy when
\nbeing supplied with the power of<\/p>\n

724
\n00:45:20,800 –> 00:45:24,640
\nsubduing it.
\nWe permit it to reign over us. <\/p>\n

725
\n00:45:24,760 –> 00:45:26,720
\nYou see, Saul was supplied with
\nthe power. <\/p>\n

726
\n00:45:27,880 –> 00:45:30,560
\nHis spirit was turned into
\nanother man when he was first <\/p>\n

727
\n00:45:30,560 –> 00:45:33,360
\ncalled.
\nHe knew the power, but he never <\/p>\n

728
\n00:45:33,360 –> 00:45:35,320
\nallowed that power to reign in
\nhis life. <\/p>\n

729
\n00:45:36,120 –> 00:45:38,280
\nHe says this.
\nPower resides in the testimony <\/p>\n

730
\n00:45:38,280 –> 00:45:41,160
\nof God believed.
\nSo that we are kept by the power<\/p>\n

731
\n00:45:41,160 –> 00:45:43,040
\nof God through faith unto
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n

732
\n00:45:43,600 –> 00:45:47,200
\nThis testimony ought to dwell in
\nus, as it dwelt in the Lord <\/p>\n

733
\n00:45:47,200 –> 00:45:50,080
\nJesus, So that is, with the
\nshield of faith. <\/p>\n

734
\n00:45:50,520 –> 00:45:54,200
\nThe fiery assaults of the world
\nmay be quenched with a thus it <\/p>\n

735
\n00:45:54,200 –> 00:45:56,840
\nis written, and a thus saith the
\nLord. <\/p>\n

736
\n00:45:57,240 –> 00:45:59,840
\nOur salvation, brothers and
\nsisters, depends upon keeping <\/p>\n

737
\n00:45:59,840 –> 00:46:02,760
\nthis word locked in our thinking
\nso that the thinking can at. <\/p>\n

738
\n00:46:02,760 –> 00:46:07,000
\nLeast be kept.
\nMost of the time, on things that<\/p>\n

739
\n00:46:07,000 –> 00:46:11,520
\nwere higher, David followed that
\nand Saul didn’t. <\/p>\n

740
\n00:46:12,360 –> 00:46:14,320
\nAnd that will be our undoing,
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n

741
\n00:46:14,640 –> 00:46:15,880
\nWhen we get to the judgement
\nseat. <\/p>\n

742
\n00:46:15,880 –> 00:46:17,480
\nIt’s not going to be very
\ncomplicated. <\/p>\n

743
\n00:46:18,760 –> 00:46:23,720
\nThe Word of God said that and
\nyou either complied or you <\/p>\n

744
\n00:46:23,720 –> 00:46:27,040
\ndidn’t.
\nRomans 2 says the judgement will<\/p>\n

745
\n00:46:27,040 –> 00:46:31,040
\nbe according to the truth.
\nWe’re not guilty for possessing <\/p>\n

746
\n00:46:31,120 –> 00:46:33,640
\nA damic nature, but we are
\nguilty when we allow that <\/p>\n

747
\n00:46:33,640 –> 00:46:36,200
\nnature.
\nTo rule over us. <\/p>\n

748
\n00:46:36,320 –> 00:46:42,000
\nWhen we don’t allow this power
\nto rule and to work in our <\/p>\n

749
\n00:46:42,000 –> 00:46:44,200
\nlives.
\nSecond Timothy Chapter 3. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:46:44,200 –> 00:46:54,600
\nWe’ll finish here words that are
\nso familiar to us, but which <\/p>\n

751
\n00:46:54,600 –> 00:47:00,040
\nmake reference to this power
\nthat we all need to tap into if <\/p>\n

752
\n00:47:00,040 –> 00:47:02,920
\nwe’re to be there with David and
\nwith Gideon, with those faithful<\/p>\n

753
\n00:47:04,600 –> 00:47:08,680
\nwhen the Lord returns.
\nSecond Timothy, Chapter 3 and <\/p>\n

754
\n00:47:08,680 –> 00:47:13,000
\nverse 15.
\nThat from a child that was known<\/p>\n

755
\n00:47:13,000 –> 00:47:15,560
\nthe Holy Scriptures which were
\nable to make thee wise unto <\/p>\n

756
\n00:47:15,560 –> 00:47:17,960
\nsalvation through faith in
\nChrist Jesus. <\/p>\n

757
\n00:47:18,600 –> 00:47:21,680
\nAll Scripture is given by
\ninspiration of God and is <\/p>\n

758
\n00:47:21,680 –> 00:47:26,480
\nprofitable for doctrine, for
\nreproof, for correction, for <\/p>\n

759
\n00:47:26,480 –> 00:47:29,280
\ninstruction in righteousness.
\nNow, some of you may know that <\/p>\n

760
\n00:47:29,280 –> 00:47:35,520
\nthat word there, profitable, is
\nthe Greek word Dunami, which is <\/p>\n

761
\n00:47:35,520 –> 00:47:39,760
\nthe word that means powerful.
\nIt’s the word. <\/p>\n

762
\n00:47:39,760 –> 00:47:41,680
\nFrom which we get our word
\ndynamite. <\/p>\n

763
\n00:47:42,840 –> 00:47:50,800
\nAll Scripture is powerful, all
\nScripture for doctrine, for <\/p>\n

764
\n00:47:50,800 –> 00:47:53,800
\nreproof, for correction, for
\ninstruction and righteousness. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:47:53,800 –> 00:47:58,600
\nThat the man of God, and this is
\nthe original Greek, might be <\/p>\n

766
\n00:47:58,600 –> 00:48:07,000
\nmade, and then finished artiox X
\nartiox that might be made. <\/p>\n

767
\n00:48:07,680 –> 00:48:13,160
\nAnd then finished.
\nSaul was made, but the word <\/p>\n

768
\n00:48:13,160 –> 00:48:17,560
\nnever finished him.
\nDavid allowed that word to <\/p>\n

769
\n00:48:17,560 –> 00:48:20,600
\ndirect him.
\nIt was his delight and his <\/p>\n

770
\n00:48:20,600 –> 00:48:23,920
\nmeditation.
\nAll the day he was finished he <\/p>\n

771
\n00:48:23,920 –> 00:48:27,360
\nwas complete.
\nBrothers and sisters, let us <\/p>\n

772
\n00:48:27,360 –> 00:48:32,280
\ntake hold of this power that we
\nhave at our disposal, and woe to<\/p>\n

773
\n00:48:32,280 –> 00:48:34,640
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Ryan King – Geography Of The Holy Land – Class 3 – Ye Mountains Of Gilboa Let There Be No Dew<\/a><\/blockquote>