August 2, 2025 • 66 mins
Life’s battles are real—but you’re not fighting alone. Join Jesse Lee Hammonds, the host, in this stirring episode, the men’s Bible class discusses how faith in God’s power changes everything. From David’s courage to face lions and giants, to the disciples' fear during the storm, we see how trusting God brings supernatural strength and peace. Personal stories of transformation and divine intervention show how men today can stand firm in faith, knowing that when God fights your battles, victory is assured.
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Oh, but
God,
God, God put someone in my life to changeme around 'cause I was headed down the
wrong path and he sent a man to, totell me that, you know, God, you know,
basically God was not pleased at what Iwas doing, but I wasn't listening to him.
I, what
was the man's name?
What was the man's name?
Uh, what's that, ma?
Uh, Mr. Jones.
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Okay.
Mr. Jones led me in the right direction,and he was a good friend of Satchel Page.
I'm sure y'all heard of him too.
And that was my baseball coach.
And he said, Tony, you canplay baseball, but you, you
hanging with the wrong people.
You know, you going down the wrong path.
But I wouldn't listen and I wentthe wrong way for a long time.
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Amen.
But, you know, but, but the, but,but Christ was embedded me as a
young kid, so I went back to that.
I got in trouble and stuck maturinga little bit and went to college.
But if it wasn't for those menleading me and telling me, man,
you're going down the wrong way.
I don't think, I never would've evenlooked at myself to even judge myself.
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Amen.
Amen.
Anybody else?
Brother Mike.
Brother Mike?
Uh, yeah, brother Mike.
Go ahead, sir. Uh.
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through scripture, truth, testimony,and practical life applications.
I'm Jesse Lee Hammonds, your host.
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And as you know, we mix thingsup here with commentary, relevant
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Uh, an actual Bible teachingSunday school class.
So let's join this Sunday schoolclass already in progress.
Amen.
Amen.
Go ahead.
I got a question.
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It's hard for those kidsto be coming upright if he
wasn't doing the right thing.
Right.
The question he said was, it's hardfor them kids to come up Right.
If he wasn't doing right.
But we don't find in the scriptures whereSamuel, we, we ain't saying Samuel's.
Perfect.
Right, right.
But now we don't have written deepin the scriptures that Samuel's
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doing a whole lot of wrong.
Okay.
So the Bible is teaching us thatSamuel was a just man in the eyes
of the Lord as far as a man can be.
Okay, so now what, what,what you wanna say?
Well, what I want to say is that somewherealong the line, those kids went off track
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and like he said, you can do right,but your children can grow up corrupt.
That's correct.
That's who, who saidthat's correct enough.
That's Tony strong voice.
That's Tony.
Did you
wanna
jump in?
Yes sir. Mm-hmm.
Go ahead buddy.
Some of these kids, uh, as they getolder, have their own mind and you
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may lay the foundation, but that don'tmean that they're gonna follow it.
And some of 'em have to go out thereand learn some things on their own
before they come back and listen to you.
'cause not all of 'em listen to you.
Okay.
We have the first highlight.
The first highlight is humans see whatis visible, but the Lord sees the heart.
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So now we all, you know, wejust did a quick history of how.
The people have decidednot to keep following Eli.
Mm-hmm.
Then the people have decidednot to keep following Samuel.
So now the people have came toSamuel and they said unto him as
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the others are, so do we want tobe also, come on, give us a king.
Yeah, I want the king.
Mm-hmm.
And so our reading is one Samuelchapter 16 verses one through nine.
Anybody want to, uh, read it?
I read honey.
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Go ahead, sir.
The Lord said to Samuel,how long are you going soft?
Since I have rejectedhim as a king of Israel.
Fill your horn with oil and go.
I am sending you to Jesse ofBethlehem because I have selected
for myself a king from his sons.
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Samuel asked, how can I go?
Saul will hear about it and kill me.
The Lord answered.
Take a young cow with you and say, andsay, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.
Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice andI will let you know what you are to do.
You are to anoint for methe one I indicate to you.
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Samuel did what the Lorddirected and went to Bethlehem.
When the elders of the town met him, theytrembled and asked, do you come in peace?
In peace?
He replied, I've come to sacrificeto the Lord, consecrate yourselves
and come with me to the sacrifice.
Then he consecrated Jesse and his sonsand invited them to the sacrifice.
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When they arrived, Samuel saw Ilyaand said, certainly the Lord's
anointed one is here before him.
But the Lord said to Samuel, donot look at his appearance or his
stature because I have rejected him.
Humans do not see whatthe Lord sees for humans.
See what is visible, butthe Lord sees the heart.
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Jesse called a abda andpresented him to Samuel.
The Lord hasn't chosen this one either.
Samuel said.
Then Jesse presented Shama,but Samuel said The Lord
hasn't chosen this one either.
Okay, so now let's makesure we catch up in history.
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Now, Saul has become kingbecause the people wanted a king.
Now Samuel was telling the peoplewhat type of King Saul was going
to be, and he gave a lot ofnegativity about Saul being the king.
But the people still said,well, we still want a king.
Even after hearing aboutall the negativity.
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We still want us a king.
So now I know pretty much everybody knowswhy Saul fell out of the grace of God.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we don't need to spend awhole lot of time on that.
He wasn't, he wasn'tlining up with God had.
And then the final rejectionwas he got scared 'cause the
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battle was going to come.
And then Samuel said, well, you waitfor me to show up and then I'll do
the praying, I'll do the anointing.
And he didn't come at the timethat Saul thought he should come.
So Todd Saul took it uponhimself to go ahead and do it.
Now Samuel didn't say I was gonna bethere 8:00 AM you know, from 12 o'clock
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midnight until 1159 and 59 seconds.
We still have the same day.
So now Samuel ended upcoming late in the day.
That was not equivalent to Saul's comfort.
So then Saul jumped outside of thecomfort zone in which he was, and
then he did something he shouldn't do.
Mm-hmm.
So now we know that'swhy Saul was rejected.
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So now the Lord said, well, look, I'verejected Saul, but Samuel was grieving
over Saul losing the Kingdom because hehad told me I'm taking it out of his hand.
Why are you sitting heregrieving over this man?
I'm telling you, I, I gotsomebody else at point.
And so now we see Samuel going to goget the other king whom God has chosen.
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Mm-hmm.
Now, Saul was a tall man.
He was taller than everybody.
The Bible teaches us, andSaul was a very handsome man.
So that's why Samuel, let's see.
I don't think that's why he waschosen, but I just think that's the,
if you, if, if you gonna bet on afight and one fighter is six, six.
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260 something pounds in his cut,and then the other fighters five
four, he's 160 pounds and he's cut.
Most people are gonna puttheir money on the big man.
Mm-hmm.
That's just, that's just,that's just how things go.
You know, the visual account,he about to tear him up.
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Yeah.
But now that's not how God sees things
come on.
That's not how God sees.
Mm-hmm.
So on this side of the man, andthen we see who God has chosen.
Now, does everybody in hereknow the makeup of David?
David was short.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
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So we not going, it's okay in the Bibleto go out on the limb, but don't go
so far out on the limb to where youstart making the Bible scene incorrect.
Right.
But now the Bible does teachus that David was a short man.
So in our eyes, short is what?
Five?
Five?
Would that be a short man?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, five, six.
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Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
But now the Bible also says thatDavid was a very handsome man,
especially those that are 6, 8, 6, 9.
What, what did Jesus say?
Six.
Eight.
Six.
So when, when, when Samuel comesto Jesse's house and he was
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told to go to Jesse's house.
And everybody's scared.
And because the prophet is coming nowwith the prophet can come good news
or with the prophet can come bad news.
Mm-hmm.
And the prophet carries the weight of Godas long as he's lined up with God's will.
Right.
So now, if you, if you have, if youhave a prophet coming to your town
and he's lined up with God's will, itwould behoove you to move in the way to
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where it's pleasing with the prophet.
Because we have multiple readingswhere if a prophet gets mad at you
and he brings your attention to God'sattention, you can be struck down.
Simple as that.
I don't think I'm goingout on a limb saying,
yeah.
You know, so now everybody's scaredbecause Samuel's coming and so they
even ask him coming about peacefully.
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Hmm.
And so everybody, you know, yeah.
I. And then he invited Jesse tocome to the consecration so that
they can, you know, consecrate tothe Lord, you know, bless the Lord.
And he told him to bring his children.
Mm-hmm.
So now Samuel looks at Jesse'schildren because he was told by
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God that I want you to pick fromJesse's house my next anointed.
Now the oldest one, guess what?
He happened to be?
He was tall.
The scripture teaches us that.
And he was handsome too.
So as soon as he cut into the room, youknow, Samuel just kind of like leaned
back, you know, the search is over.
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Mm-hmm.
You
know, I mean, I, I, I, I, I hook Saul up.
Mm-hmm.
And, and,
and look at Saul.
You know, he's, he's tall, he's handsome.
So I'm about to just hook upthis other tall, handsome cat,
but then the Lord puts on.
Samuel's heart.
Mm-hmm.
That's not the one.
Mm-hmm.
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So now you would normallywork your way down.
So he went to the next Elvis.
Well, surely this one, the one,then he went to the next one.
That was the one you.
And then he finally ran out ofall those who were in appearance.
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Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
So,
man, where's, you know,'cause God ain't wrong.
You know, the Lord knowshow many children you have.
Yeah.
The, so, so I believe Samuel'sat a, what do you call it?
A chin.
A chin.
Rubbing.
Moan.
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I didn't,
you got any
more?
The question had to be asked.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And what do they say?
Who, who, who, who's he and where he's at?
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Is he really?
You know, this is the onething that gets me, y'all.
Uh, bear with me now.
Turn with me.
To Second Samuel, chapter seven,and we gonna start a verse eight.
I'm jumping in.
I'm, I'm jumping ahead, but thisis the cat who's chosen to be the
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king, and we, we, we moving forward.
But now turn your Bible to twoSamuel, chapter seven, and I just
want to read what God says to David,
which verse
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eight.
We'll start at eight.
Eight, okay.
Second Samuel,
chapter seven, verse eight, verse eight,
verse five.
Let you know.
Go and tell my servant David.
Thus sayeth the Lord.
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So now this is another prophet.
His name happens to be Nathan.
We, we could talk about himlater, but now this is David.
Going to this.
Is Nathan going to David?
And look what it says.
I'm gonna read it one more time.
Go and tell my servant David.
So now Nathan is talking to David.
Mm-hmm.
And look what the Lord sayswhat he has done for David.
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Now, therefore, so shall thousay unto my serving David,
thus save the Lord a uss host.
I took the from the sheep coatthat's, you know, dealing with sheep,
but this is the one that gets me.
And y'all help me.
Now look what David was doing.
It doesn't say Davidwas leading the sheep.
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What does it say?
Follow following sheep.
Now what kind of shepherd follow sheep?
And then what kind of shepherd areyou if you are a sheep follower?
I mean, help me now.
You know, I, like I say, I'm not highlyintelligent, but I do know how to read.
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It doesn't say that Davidwas a leader of the sheep.
David was a
Micah, and this is gonna be the next king.
Come on, sheep.
I don't wanna go over there.
But if the sheep aren't goingthat way, guess what Dana's doing?
He following me.
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Gonna follow him.
A good shepherd is supposed to do what?
Leave the sheep.
Come on, somebody.
Help me, y'all.
That's right.
And
this is who God has chosen.
Mm,
you know, better than us.
Ain't that, couldn't that be kindof like a head scratching moment?
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Definitely head scratching and a chin.
What?
Tony?
I said a
go.
Okay.
Uh, uh, there's so many things aboutthe human heart in the Bible, and,
uh, one of them is it's deceitfuland desperately wicked, who can know
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it, but, uh, in first Corinthians.
I think it opens up something aboutDavid and God's ways with men.
In First Corinthians, uh, the firstchapter, verse 26, for you, see your
calling brethren, that not many wise,according to the flesh, not many mighty,
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not many noble are called, but God haschosen the foolish things of the world
to put to shame the wise God has chosenthe weak things of the world to put to
shame the things which are mighty and basethings in the of the world and the things
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which are despised God has chosen, and thethings which are not to bring to nothing.
The things that are, that noflesh should glory in his sight.
But of him, you are in Christ Jesusbecause you are for, because, and
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excuse my not being able to see,because for us, wisdom from, uh,
because became of us, wisdom from Godand righteousness and sanctification
and redemption, that it is written.
He who glories led him glory in the Lord.
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So, amen.
I think
the keeping would choke
choice David.
Amen.
David was not a likely king.
Yeah.
So much so that he was not even remindedby his father to come to the sacrifice.
And then David was also told by Nathanthat even I know where you come from.
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You ain't even a good chef, butI'm gonna move into your heart.
Yeah, and I'm gonna make you a king.
But now, in David's heart, wasinstilled something that was strong
because you know, we bounce around.
This is this Second Samuel, chapterSeven comes after something that
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David did not have happened to himbefore, that David did have happened
to him before he was even anointed.
Now I'm gonna go out on the limb andI'm gonna put myself in this place.
There is a historical eventthat happened in David's life.
He was tending to this sheep,and now we already know how
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lousy of a job he was doing then.
But now at one point there came alion and a bear, and people need to
make sure that they understand this.
This wasn't two separate incidences.
The bear didn't come on Tuesdayand the lion came on Thursday.
They came at the same time.
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And here goes, God is only, God cando lions and bears don't run together.
Right.
But God can do anything.
Huh?
He got a lion and a bear to teamup and they came and took a sheep.
Y'all know the story, right?
Come on.
If I'm tending to the sheep and a lionand a bear, come and take that sheep away.
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Sheep gone.
Sheep gone.
Mm-hmm.
For real.
That's it.
I have a right to tell you the truth.
I'm the truth opposite God movingin my life in the mighty way.
Right.
We ain't eating them lamb chops tonight,
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but, but, but check out what this catdid before all this anointing stuff.
Before.
This is before Samuel came to the house.
Yeah.
This is before all that stuff.
He left the, we don't know howmany, but he did leave them.
And guess what he did?
He went after the bear and thelion, and he killed them both
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and brought that shoot back.
Now the Bible does not instruct ushow God might have moved in David's
life to cause him to have that type ofstrength, but it does not mention it.
Yeah.
So, so I'm saying that God didn'tmove so mightily to where it had to
be mentioned in the scriptures tolet us know, you know, when David
was 10, God did this, so David knewhe had the strength inside of it.
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Right.
This is not written
right.
All it's saying is that
mm-hmm.
At a time when David was young,a lion and a bear came and took
the sheep and he went after her.
Now, I, I, I spoke my piece.
Which one of y'all?
Yeah.
Maybe one of y'all would do it.
You know, I don't havea right to tell you.
Don't go.
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Is there anybody in here?
That would chase down a lionand a bear to save one sheet.
I mean, if, if you pleaseraise your hand, don't, don't,
don't, don't keep a suspense.
Don't
be
shocked.
So
outta all the men, although allthe, we all men ain't, ain't,
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ain't nobody going after him.
Nope.
Why not?
Lero going, Lero going
modern
weaponry.
Six versus five.
Five.
So why not see, 'cause here we go.
We knew that David knew the scriptures.
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We knew that David knew what happened tothe children of Egypt coming up outta the
children of Israel coming up outta Egypt.
Mm-hmm.
David knew the scriptures verywell to where you hear David
speaking on the scriptures a lot.
So David knew the strength of God.
Yeah.
And so for some reason David hadin his mind, God's going to take
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care of me and I'm going after thislion and I'm gonna kill this bear.
Go ahead.
Or,
uh, God, uh, knew David David's heart.
See, although he wasn't a big,strong man, but God knew his heart.
And, and when that lineand that, that, uh.
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Uh, there, there, uh,you know, came about.
God wasn't this, this is God.
So God didn't, didn't have toworry because he knew that David,
uh, hard and that David would, would,would, uh, would go after that, that,
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that sheep and, and, and bring it backbecause God, God, look on the inside of
man where, where man, look on the outside.
Amen.
See that, that,
that was the key right there.
All
God knew he, although they,I was a big, strong man, but,
but, but God knew his heart.
But, but, and, and, uh, and, and that'swhat, uh, God's looking up on our heart.
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Amen.
Yes, sir. Uh, things that, like yousay, you six eight or six nine and he
up near five 11, but, uh, God knowsmy heart and he knows your heart also.
Amen.
And he knows that what,what I can, I cannot do.
And if God is involved, wedon't have to worry about that.
Amen.
Alright, I'll leave it.
I'll leave it.
Amen.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I agree.
I agree with that.
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There's a question.
How has God helped you to movefrom mourning your past to focus
on his grace for the future?
I, I, my relationship with God is this,
I know that my heightis, uh, outside the norm.
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It's been that way my whole life.
Mm-hmm.
But I know who God is, right?
I know him for myself.
And so I have tried tothe best of my ability.
Whenever you fight a war, youprepare yourself for the war.
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Yeah.
So you don't know whattomorrow's going to bring.
Mm-hmm.
But I try to keep myself in asituation to where come what may
I'm gonna be ready for action.
And it's been that way ever sinceI started holding this girl's hand.
When, when I took on beingDelano's husband, I knew that I
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had to be a protector of Thelan.
And then when we started havingchildren, I knew I had to be a protector
of my children and I'm not gonnalet nothing hurt my wife and I'm not
gonna let nothing hurt my children.
That's correct.
So I try to keep myself in a certainway to where I can protect my family.
Yeah.
Now I know that my strength is subsidingbecause I know that my strength is
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subsiding because I'm a 62-year-old man.
I can't do it no more physically, youknow, it, it was a time, man, you, I, I, I
got some hands, you know what I'm saying?
But I don't rely on my hands so muchbecause 62-year-old hands ain't as
strong as some 26-year-old hands.
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Yeah, that's correct.
You know, and so what ha whatit has caused me to do as I am
getting older and I thank God thatI have been allowed to get older.
Is, I'm concentrating, believing, andtrusting more on the strength of God.
Yeah,
that's right.
And it's amazing because nowI find out I'm stronger now.
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Yeah,
yeah.
Than I was when I was 24.
Yes sir. Yes, sir.
And only God can do that.
Yes, sir.
You know, the greatest fight that youcould ever fight is don't fight at all.
Mm-hmm.
Use the words and the wisdom of God towhere your enemy becomes your friend.
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That's the, that's the bestfight you could ever fight.
You know, I used to work atthis one company and this one
cat, he couldn't stand me.
Mm-hmm.
You know, but the way I carriedmyself, the way I conducted myself,
the way I always, uh, intermingledwith him when we had to intermingle.
Mm-hmm.
One day he invited me to lunch.
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Yep.
See what God can do.
Yep.
Oh yeah.
No.
There was a time when I, youknow, if you my enemy, guess what?
I am?
I'm your enemy.
Yeah.
And I'm not leaning towards niceness.
And if you cross my path,
it's on hand.
It's on.
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But how amazing it is that heallowed me to make it to 62.
And now I see that when Ihave an, an opposing threat.
Trust God.
Fight your battle.
Believe God, he
fight your battle.
Didn't he say he would fight your battles.
And if he's fighting for you, is therea chance you could lose no weapons?
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No.
What?
Say, say the whole thing.
No weapons
for him against this child?
No.
Yeah,
why not?
Why not join Batman?
Yeah, go ahead.
Uh, uh, back to the question washow do I go from mourning, from,
you know, being sad and, and, uh,
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how does God help you from moving,move from mourning your past to
focus on his grace for the future?
Now, in the Bible right here in Isaiah, ittalks about who God will, uh, dwell with.
And it says
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on him who is poor andof a contract spirit.
And when David had sinned in Psalm 51and this kind of thing is we weaving
woven in the Old Testament and in the NewTestament, blessed are the poor in spirit.
What theirs is, the kingdom of heaven.
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And when you think on that, no matterwhere you find yourself in life, you
think about how God is working withthose who are broken about their sin.
And then when we look to the cross ofJesus, the circumstances don't change.
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People's opinion about you don't change.
But long as you change in Christ andyou know how God sees you is greater
than no matter how others see you.
That is how God sees you and a few ofa broken spirit and a contrite heart.
David said he won't despise you,so you can move from mourning to a
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God-given joy by looking away from theor better yet find than found in this
place where you're mourning over sin.
And then as time goes on, God picksyou up because he resists the proud
and gives grace to the humble.
Amen.
You
know,
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what you said has so much truthto him, and we always have to
make sure we leap to the master.
And leaping to the master has alwaysimpressed me because the way that
he unfolded the whole story, ithas to be told over and over again.
Yes.
This man is God himself.
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Now he's living as a man.
He put all the attributes of beinga God aside and he lived just as
a man when people, you know, ithas to be said over and over again
when Jesus walked on the water.
It wasn't Jesus walking on the waterbecause a man cannot walk on water.
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Mm-hmm.
You're no longer a man if Isee you walking on water, but
God can sustain you if you areperfectly lined up with his will.
Mm-hmm.
So this is what kept Jesuswalking on the water.
He was perfectly lined up withthe father's will because he
was living as a man down here.
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Yes.
And look what he did.
If I'm getting ready to deal with thedevil and I'm dealing with the devil
himself, and I know he's the devil,
fishermen.
That's who that, that that's who you,that's who you, you buddying up with.
Wouldn't you want you tohave you 12 Mike Tysons?
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You know?
You know, because there'sa fight happening.
Yeah.
Me and the devil are gettingready to have a fight.
Wouldn't you want you a, a coupleof Samuels, you know some tall
cats that got some size on them.
Yeah.
At least pick some mean looking wind.
He walking on the sea and he seesa couple of guys tending to they
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nets and he tells them, follow meand I will make you fishes of me.
Hmm.
Lacking no Harvard, no Yale, no Columbia.
No, no.
10 years in the Marines.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Ex fighter pilot
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and the nets.
Right?
And then he goes alittle bit further down.
He sees two other brothers.
Mm-hmm.
Come on, y'all come on too.
And then he goes to a tax collectorwho everybody in the town hates.
Can't nobody stand Matthew IRS.
Yeah.
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Do you see what he assembled?
And so the question I asked him whenI started getting into the Bible and I
really started to understand, I want,Lord, help me, help me, please help me.
I could have picked a general,I could have picked a ex-Marine,
I could have picked a 30 yearveteran from the police department.
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I could have did that.
Mm-hmm.
But I chose to use theweak things of the earth.
To confound the wise.
Yeah.
Clark, could you see anybody, anything,a duck to talk Clark, you anything?
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Even a little short man named David.
Short man.
A little short man like me.
If God is with me.
If I know God is with me
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and y'all, y'all help me now, y'allhelp me because like I say, I need help.
I, I, I read it.
I read it quite often.
I, I do read it quite often and, and I'vebeen turning pages and I'm trying to see.
Where God had dealt with David towhere David had something spin in
his head to where if I go afterthis lion, if I go after this bear,
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find it, I'm gonna be all that.
So then I, I, I, I, I talked to him.
I said, Lord, help me becauseI can't find it in ink.
Yeah.
He said, don't look for it in ink.
Huh?
David knew who I was beforehe went after the lion.
David knew who I was beforehe went after the bear.
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So now when 9, 6, 9 footfive or nine foot six.
Extremely tall when Goliathcame and everybody, well,
because they was in the valley.
Yeah.
They were up here.
Goliath was in the valley.
They were up here.
David was up here with 'em.
He told 'em, man, look, man, Idon't care if he's nine foot five,
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I'm gonna go down there and guesswhat I'm gonna do Goliath kill him.
You know why I'm gonna kill him?
You know why I'm gonna kill him?
Because I know God.
Mm-hmm.
And I, and I know that God isnot happy that this uncircumcised
right.
Is sitting up here talkingabout us like we fools.
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Right?
Mm-hmm.
And so then the, then the, well hereDavid, take my sword, take my, my 45,
you know, let's bring it up to right.
That's right.
You don't take my Glock, right?
Mm-hmm.
And you know what he
says?
I, I, I don't, I've never used them.
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I don't need them.
So I'm sitting there saying, okay,he don't want my Glock, he don't
want my, he don't want my 45.
He don't want the sword, he don't wantthe shield, he don't want the helmet.
So I'm sitting there looking at him.
Guess what he does?
Big Rock.
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Go.
Somebody's 9, 9 5.
And,
and what does he do?
He kills you.
Yep.
Cut his head.
Yep.
Amazing.
Yep.
That's why the title is what the title is.
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Foolish Appearances don't cometo God with your Harvard degree.
Don't come to God with your bank account.
Don't come to God with theresidency of where you live.
Mm-hmm.
Don't come to God with nothingbut a trusting part in God.
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It's so amazing to me.
I, I, you know what the thing is?
I can't stop reading.
I can't stop reading.
He sees him walking on water.
He builds up enough gumption inhimself to say, can I come out there
and walk on the water with you?
Huh?
And guess what he told him?
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Huh?
Come on.
So we have recorded in the historyof mankind, an actual event
where two men are walking on one.
Mm-hmm.
And guess what happened If need be,this is the most amazing thing too, if
need be, he could make a third personand guess who that third person can be.
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It could be you.
Mm-hmm.
If need be.
Language cheese,
they dropping bombs.
Now gentlemen, we're at a point in timewhere the word spooky can clearly be used.
We are dropping bonds on other nations.
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We have another nation thatinvaded another nation.
Three years ago he thought itwould be over in two weeks.
He's still fighting them.
Right.
North Korea is sending soldiersto go help fight Russians.
What kind of fight you going to put upwhen a Korean who has never seen a Russian
and a Russian who has never seen a Korean,what kind of fight they gonna put up?
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Yeah.
But when you so far out of theLord's will and mind you end up
doing stupid and foolish things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so we are standing at a time whereI don't know what's going to happen.
But I know one thing.
Hmm?
I know a water walker, sir.Yes sir. I know a water walker.
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Yeah.
Uh, to make sure that question
ties back up you on your,I think, prayer fellowship.
Amen.
You know, uh, especially withyour better half, your wife.
Amen.
She's helped me on somethings I've done in the past.
Focus on our future and, andyou ask if most of us have kids.
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We do.
And the kids watch us.
Yeah.
So you lean on fellowship,you lean on your spouse, you
lean on the men's or whatever.
But I think prayer also has to bea part of, answer this question.
Amen.
That's the one thing thatJesus did more than anything.
It could, it could clearly be said,and it should clearly be taught
that if it's one thing that Jesusdid, he stayed constantly in prayer.
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Because like I said, you haveto make sure you keep saying it
over and over and over again.
When Jesus came down, here he isGod in the everything, but he set
all those attributes aside and helived as a man just like me and you
is.
It is so amazing thathere, he's God himself
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and he lived just like MichaelTroy Peoples, but what did he do
opposite Michael Troy Peoples, heturned himself over totality to
the will and the desire of God.
So therefore, he was soup with the father's.
That he could take.
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How do you feed 5,000people with two fish?
What, what?
What's the mathematics on that?
Everybody said
he turn all those naturalback away, but he spoke to,
to the sea, and quiet The sea.
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He fed the 4,000.
He fed the 5,000.
So Jesus was still God.
All He was all God and all man.
Nobody can have that.
So he had it.
He still had all of that.
He can do all of that.
Amen.
God and hundred percentfan, nobody can have that.
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God.
Amen.
That's the reason why, you know,since he brought it up, I'm trying to
find, I wish I, I get upset becausehe hasn't made me a scripture quota.
I wish I could find that.
I wish I could find that,that scripture quote.
Look this when he was walking on the sea.
Yeah, no.
When the sea was raging and they wereall in the boat and he was at the back
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of sleep, they came and they woke 'em up.
Man, get up, man.
You gotta remember, all thesecats lived around the ocean, so
it's not so far fetched to thinkthat they were all swimmers.
I don't, I don't think nobody jumpedin that boat and didn't know how
to swim, but they were so scaredto death because of the storm.
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They were so scared to death.
I wish somebody could find it.
The boat started filling up with water.
They had a good reason tobe scared and and to death.
They were scared.
They were scared to death.
They woke him up and they toldhim, man, you got to get up man.
We about to drown, and you backhere sleeping on this pillow.
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Read it again and read it over again.
When he got up and he calmed the storm,
they went to the other side of the boat.
They separated themselves fromthem, from him and, and, and, and,
and, and listen to what they were.
I think I got, theywere more scared of him
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than they were of the sea.
And, and listen to what they said.
What kind of a
man is this?
To where even the
seat
and the wind obeying him.
That's amazing.
They were more, I'm gonna sayit again, please, Lord, please.
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They were more scared of him than theywere of the sea that was just raging.
Mm-hmm.
They said one to another.
What kind of a man is this?
That Even the sea and the wind on bacon.
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So I'm six eight, I'm 300 pounds.
I'm 62 years old.
Guess what I'm gonna do?
I put all my faith, I put all my,I put all my trust I don't trust
and nothing that's of myself.
I lift weights a lot.
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I still love and lift weights.
I got some strength on it, butI don't even trust my strength.
I trust God.
Amen.
When I leave from here, I want to go home.
I got a beautiful wife waiting at home.
And I want to make it home.
I want y'all to understandI'm gonna try to get home.
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Mm-hmm.
But I'm not trustingin myself to get home.
That's right.
Right.
That's right.
I'm trusting that God is goingto deliver me to my home.
Yes.
And if I don't make it fine by me.
Yeah.
Make sure one of y'all saved.
If you happen to go to myfuneral, he wanted to go home.
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'cause I might not make it home.
That's right.
So if you happen to come tomy funeral, tell somebody he
really did want to go home.
Mm-hmm.
But he didn't make it.
But he told us if he don't make it.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
We got something else to read y'all.
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The comment that Jesussaid to them, uh, after
he said the o of little faith,he, he brought to their, their
attention that their faith wasweak and they had little faith.
And if they'd have had a littlebit more stronger faith, 'cause it,
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it reads where he says, oh yeah.
Of little faith.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh, and, uh, John, if Ican, uh, 8 23 to 27, mark 4
35 to 41, and Luke 8 22 to 25.
Amen.
And he said, oh, ye of little
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amen.
We got the next caption is God'schoosing may look different.
Than what we expect.
And this is one Samuel.
It's chapter 16 and it'sverses 10 through 13.
Anybody care to read?
Yes.
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Can you?
Can you hear me okay?
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
After Jesus presented seven of hissons to him, Samuel told Jesse, the
Lord hasn't chosen any of these Samuel.
Ask him, are these all the sons you have?
They're still the youngest.
He answered, but right nowhe's tending the sheep.
Samuel told Jesse sin for him.
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We won't sit down to eat'em until he gets here.
So Jesse sent for him.
He had beautiful eyes and ahealthy, handsome appearance.
Then the Lord said, anointhim for he is the one.
So Samuel took the horn ofoil and anointed him in the
presence of his brothers.
And the spirit of the Lord camepowerfully on David from that day forward.
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Then Samuel set out and went to Rama.
Mm-hmm.
I don't wanna spend a few times, y'allgotta tell me, y'all gotta help me now.
What's the differencebetween David and Saul?
I, I, I, I, I, I don't get it.
Now we know that they wanteda king and God gave them Saul.
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Mm-hmm.
But now, like the Lord said, youknow, I have chosen David, and then
with him, I'm gonna be with him.
Mm-hmm.
I'm not, you know, Saul fell off.
Now we know David does some things,you know, all Saul did was a sacrifice.
No, I, I know a guy, Iknow a guy in heaven.
His name is Uriah.
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You, you wanna talk, youwanna talk to him about David
and murder him too?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So David ain't walking on.
You know, y'all, y'all remember that?
Uh, what was that movie?
Kungfu.
Y'all remember that Kungmovie Kungfu David Carine.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He
could walk on that rice paper andyou couldn't see his footsteps.
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Yes.
Yeah.
David didn't have that capability.
So, so, so what is the differencebetween, why did God sit there?
And, and not do for Saul what he didfor David because we look, we can
go through it over and over againwhen David's doing stuff wrong.
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Right.
You know, he did a census.
He wasn't supposed to do a census.
Mm-hmm.
And, and, and a lot of people got hurt.
David
didn't do it until he, he hadgotten grown when David with a
young man out in past attend sheep.
He wasn't around the scene and all thatstuff that he done later on when he had
gotten married, got went, became a can andhad a, your arrived wife, uh, uh, your,
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your arrived killed and got his wife.
But when he was a young man, and Igo back in myself when I was a young
man, I was raised in a, a father livedhome that I didn't do nothing bad it,
but, but after I got older, I made,I made all of my mistakes later on in
life and when I left and got older.
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But when I was under myfather and mother's house.
I was pretty, I'm a pretty good kid.
I didn't even Dave Girls, Ididn't, I didn't do nothing.
But after I got out New World.
Now remember when King, when David made,did all this sin stuff, he was king, but
David, God was with him when he was king.
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The sheep, you, when you look atit, it say the spirit of the law.
But with day, the spirit of law
day
when he was out in the field writingall those psalms, and that's when he
done all as a boy tend the machine.
Amen.
That's when God intervened with him.
Amen.
Not when he
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house, when he, uh, whenGod told him not to count.
Picture disobey.
God did that.
Amen.
Not that's when, that'swhen that happened.
You know what, whenever you havecome and we, we can have a couple and
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we You got a table with a word that
turn, turn Romans nine.
Turn the Romans chapter nine.
Go ahead, look in your Bibleand turn the Romans chapter on.
Go ahead real quick.
Uh, as far as the, uh, what'sthe difference in those two?
Um, Saul look hard, uh, but Davidkept coming back to God in Mili.
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Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
And I, I think, I think Godknew David's heart where Saul's
heart was completely different.
You know, Saul was up mainlyafter himself, mainly.
So I think God knew that David, he didsome bad things, but he, he still had
a better heart for the people that, uh,the Lord wanted him to look out for.
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I think that's my amen.
I just, uh,
uh, we thank God for him being so magnifi.
He teaches us some, someof us can learn verbally.
Mm-hmm.
But some of us only learn by what we see.
Mm-hmm.
So thank God for symbolism.
Okay.
You know, if we only took thesymbol that only a big guy
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could handle a big guy, yeah.
Then we wouldn't have the hard.
Of little guys taking down big guys.
Amen.
So symbolism is, is very importantbecause all of us, we, how many times
we heard and hear people say, well, whenI was growing up I was taught this way,
but when I got older I act this way.
We knew we heard, but we hadto go out there and learn.
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Amen.
Amen.
Uh, Romans chapter nine, if you,if, if you had already turned to it.
And I want to, uh, I wanna read a littlebit and then I want y'all to help me.
Romans chapter nine, and wegonna start in verse 15, 15.
Just, just bear with me for a little bit.
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Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Romans chapter nine, starting at verse 15.
Okay.
Before he saved to Moses.
I will have mercy.
Oh on whom I will have mercy.
Yes.
And I will have compassion onwhom I will have compassion.
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So then it is not of him that willit, nor of him that runneth, but
of God That shows mercy, right?
Yep.
For the scripture sayeth untoPharaoh, even for this same
purpose, have I raised the other?
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Yeah.
That I might show my power in the, andthat my name might be declared throughout
all the earth, therefore, half hemercy on whom he will have mercy and on
whom he will harden that will say thenand to me, why do he get fine fault?
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For who has resisted his will?
Nay, nay, nay, nay, but old man.
Who are you?
Who are you that replies against God shallthe thing form say to him that formed it?
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Why has thou made me thus half not thepoter power over the court of the same
lump to make one vessel unto honor?
And another under dishonor.
What is God willing to show his wrathand to make his power known, endured
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with much long suffering, the vesselsof wrath fitted for destruction.
Who can tell God what to do?
Who can tell God what to do?
Do
you can't do it?
If God wanted to have his Jesuscome from the generation of salt,
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guess what God could have did?
He could have made it happen.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
If God wanted to do anything, guess what?
He could make it happen.
What did Jesus say?
Is there anything too hard for the Lord?
So since God didn't like the waySaul was brought into the picture.
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There's nothing that Saul could have did.
Yeah.
That could have been pleasing tothe Lord, to where the Lord would've
drew his lineage from Saul's body.
Mm. I agree.
And there's nothingDavid could not have did.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
Where God would not have used Davidto draw his lineage from David's body.
That's true.
It's up to God.
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People don't understand if you can getthe right concept of God in your head.
That changes everything about your life.
When I woke up this morning,I walked outside and I seen
the star and I seen the moon.
Who has the ingredients for star making?
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Who's the one that positionshow the moon moves?
It's amazing.
Yep.
There was a man, his name was Joshua.
He was in a battle.
He got into a fight with a bunch of peopleand he figured that if the sun could
stay up, I could fight a better battle.
So he screamed out to the Lord, Lord,let the sun stand still, and it is
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recorded in history that there was a time.
That the sun did not go down.
The question I asked is, how did he do it?
Because we have enough technology,we have enough ingenuity to
where we see how the world works.
We spin on our axis at24,000 miles an hour.
That's the earth spinning on its own axis.
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Now we hurled through the galaxy at46,000 miles per hour around the sun.
That's how our seasons change.
We have satellites that show usthat this is what's going on.
This is how it is.
And so since it's thisway now guess what It was.
It was the same way back then.
That's correct.
So now here comes my question.
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That keeps me, sometimes my pillowat night turns into a stone.
And I cannot sleep.
How did the sun stay up?
What did he do?
Mm-hmm.
If he stopped the earth from spinning onhis axis, we lose our gravitational pool.
And guess what happens to us?
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So how did he do it?
You know what he told me?
Don't worry about how I did it.
I ain't gotta tell you aboutthe ingredients of star.
I know the ingredients of stars.
Michael, you always come to me.
This question, you know howyou do the stars, how you do?
I got to ask you that.
What I'm, what I'm asking you to dois you better keep trusting in me.
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You know, maybe one day whenwe make it to heaven me, and he
could sit down by the riverbed andthen he could explain it to me.
But right now I don't have timeto stop and explain to you.
How I made the sun stand still.
You just keep believing and trusting thatI did make the sun stand still awesome.
God,
the mic, you know, um, I, I thoughtto myself once that we discover what
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you just explained, what God hasmade, you know, and he says, the, the
firmaments testified to his glory.
And every now and then we get an epiphany.
If you got a thing, a monitor goingover your heart and your inner
person and then up on a screenand all of a sudden it hits you.
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Look at that.
So there's things when God pulls back thebill that we can see, that puts us in awe.
But back to what we were talkingabout, I think we were talking
about the sovereignty of God inchapter nine and his election.
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He hated Esau.
But he received Jacob, and Jacobwas a guy that was a conniver.
But what made the differencebetween Jacob and Esau?
It was God's sovereignty andthen, uh, the election of God.
And so when he said, you must be bornagain, he told that to a religious
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man who wouldn't probably come underthis roof, Nicodemus a Jewish leader.
And then the next chapter in four, hewas talking to a woman at the well,
uh, an outcast of world Society, a er.
Yeah.
Amen.
Amen.
And so, uh, the spectrum, and likewe were talking earlier about kids
being raised in certain homes, goodhomes, and turning out bad, we all
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are infected with one word sin.
And when David in, uh, Psalms 51 says, Iwas born in sin and shaping in iniquity,
and then sin did, my mother conceive me.
Not saying he, hisparents weren't married.
But he was born with that adamic nature.
Amen.
And it can just eruptwhen it wants to erupt.
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Amen.
And that's why good home, bad home,so-called you need to be born again.
Amen.
We have a question, y'all.
We have a question underneaththat caption that we had read.
Mm-hmm.
And if somebody can expound upon it,maybe one or two of you, because it
might help me on my Christian journey.
So if you could please say something.
I'm gonna absorb what you say.
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And the question is, how has Godworked in a surprising way or through
a surprising person in your life?
Somebody help me.
God has God, has God sent somebodyor did something in your life?
They might be able to helpme on my Christian journey.
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Anybody?
Tony?
Let me see here.
Oh God.
God, God put someone in my lifeto change me around 'cause I
was headed down the wrong path
and he sent a man to.
To tell me that, you know, God, you know,basically God was not pleased at what I
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was doing, but I wasn't listening to him.
I thought, what was the man's name?
What was
the man's name?
Uh, what's that man?
Uh, Mr. Jones.
Okay.
Mr. Jones led me in the right directionand he was a good friend of Satchel Page.
I sure y'all heard of him too.
And that was my baseball coach.
And he said, Tony, you canplay baseball, but you, you
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hanging with the wrong people.
You know, you going down the wrong path.
But I wouldn't listen and I wentthe wrong way for a long time.
Amen.
But, you know, but, but the, but,but Christ was embedded me as a young
kid, so I went back to that, thatI got in trouble and stuck maturing
a little bit and went to college.
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But if it wasn't for those menleading me and telling me, man, you
going down the wrong way, I don'tthink, I never would've even looked
at myself to even judge myself.
Amen.
Amen.
Anybody else, Mike, with Mike?
Uh, yeah, brother Mike, go ahead,sir. Uh, 1968 living off of Compton.
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Two men preachers came from Texas and Iwas living in the same building with them.
And at one point, uh, pastorHarris who fought in World War
I. How old were you in 1968?
Uh, 18.
Wow.
How old are you now, ifyou don't mind me asking?
Uh, 75.
75. Yeah.
And so with all that said, I brushedup against the people that played
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in the Negro League and, uh, one ofthe coaches, one of my coaches for
the pirate rookie team, and I playedin the game with, uh, doc Ellis.
Uh, he played with, uh, Satra Paige andJackie Robinson on the Kansas City Mono.
That's a sidebar issue, but I, I was soglad I brushed up against that generation.
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Just brushed and all my, all my,uh, mentors was up to my nose.
They were little people'cause I sprouted up fast.
But I always had a senseof looking up to them.
Because they were big, uh, notphysically, but they were big in statute,
inwardly and uh, uh, pastor Harris,Reverend Harris affectionately called
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Uncle Nathan one night he corneredme and I didn't know I was cornered.
He asked a $64,000 question.
You remember that program?
He said, had you everheard of the grace of God?
And it stopped me in my tracks.
And then he said it meant'cause I couldn't answer it.
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He said, unmarried favor of God.
And he was a powerful man.
Some was said, it looked like the roomwas glowing, but it had an impact on
my heart that just was incredible.
When he said it was a tried andand trite statement, unmarried
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favor, everybody heard that, butit was hot off the press to me.
Okay?
And so living off of Compton 68, I wasengulfed and surrounded inward and outward
with things were meant to take me down.
But I'm here to say, praisethe Lord for his amazing grace.
The reason,
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walk the group through the head.
A hand section running short on time.
Specifically highlight heart section.
Read heart section.
Alright, so I'm gonnaread the heart section.
David was a man after God'sheart, first Samuel 1314.
Even when he s sinned greatly laterin life, he received God's rebuke and
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repented of his sin, but his sin likeSauls still undermined his service to God.
Amen.
I hope I didn't take, I hope I didn'ttake y'all too much outside y'all.
Uh, no.
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Father, we come to you right now.
There may have been someprayer requests in the circle.
We don't know, but we, you know, heaven,many Father, we ask that you just meet the
needs of whatever the prayer request is.
Then give us traveling grace aswe go back to our destinations.
We ask this in yourprecious son Jesus name.
All in agreement say amen.
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Amen.
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Oh, but
God,
God, God put someone in my life to changeme around 'cause I was headed down the
wrong path and he sent a man to, totell me that, you know, God, you know,
basically God was not pleased at what Iwas doing, but I wasn't listening to him.
I, what
was the man's name?
What was the man's name?
Uh, what's that, ma?
Uh, Mr. Jones.
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Okay.
Mr. Jones led me in the right direction,and he was a good friend of Satchel Page.
I'm sure y'all heard of him too.
And that was my baseball coach.
And he said, Tony, you canplay baseball, but you, you
hanging with the wrong people.
You know, you going down the wrong path.
But I wouldn't listen and I wentthe wrong way for a long time.
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Amen.
But, you know, but, but the, but,but Christ was embedded me as a
young kid, so I went back to that.
I got in trouble and stuck maturinga little bit and went to college.
But if it wasn't for those menleading me and telling me, man,
you're going down the wrong way.
I don't think, I never would've evenlooked at myself to even judge myself.
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Amen.
Amen.
Anybody else?
Brother Mike.
Brother Mike?
Uh, yeah, brother Mike.
Go ahead, sir. Uh.
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I'm Jesse Lee Hammonds, your host.
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And as you know, we mix thingsup here with commentary, relevant
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Uh, an actual Bible teachingSunday school class.
So let's join this Sunday schoolclass already in progress.
Amen.
Amen.
Go ahead.
I got a question.
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It's hard for those kidsto be coming upright if he
wasn't doing the right thing.
Right.
The question he said was, it's hardfor them kids to come up Right.
If he wasn't doing right.
But we don't find in the scriptures whereSamuel, we, we ain't saying Samuel's.
Perfect.
Right, right.
But now we don't have written deepin the scriptures that Samuel's
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doing a whole lot of wrong.
Okay.
So the Bible is teaching us thatSamuel was a just man in the eyes
of the Lord as far as a man can be.
Okay, so now what, what,what you wanna say?
Well, what I want to say is that somewherealong the line, those kids went off track
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and like he said, you can do right,but your children can grow up corrupt.
That's correct.
That's who, who saidthat's correct enough.
That's Tony strong voice.
That's Tony.
Did you
wanna
jump in?
Yes sir. Mm-hmm.
Go ahead buddy.
Some of these kids, uh, as they getolder, have their own mind and you
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may lay the foundation, but that don'tmean that they're gonna follow it.
And some of 'em have to go out thereand learn some things on their own
before they come back and listen to you.
'cause not all of 'em listen to you.
Okay.
We have the first highlight.
The first highlight is humans see whatis visible, but the Lord sees the heart.
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So now we all, you know, wejust did a quick history of how.
The people have decidednot to keep following Eli.
Mm-hmm.
Then the people have decidednot to keep following Samuel.
So now the people have came toSamuel and they said unto him as
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the others are, so do we want tobe also, come on, give us a king.
Yeah, I want the king.
Mm-hmm.
And so our reading is one Samuelchapter 16 verses one through nine.
Anybody want to, uh, read it?
I read honey.
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Go ahead, sir.
The Lord said to Samuel,how long are you going soft?
Since I have rejectedhim as a king of Israel.
Fill your horn with oil and go.
I am sending you to Jesse ofBethlehem because I have selected
for myself a king from his sons.
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Samuel asked, how can I go?
Saul will hear about it and kill me.
The Lord answered.
Take a young cow with you and say, andsay, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.
Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice andI will let you know what you are to do.
You are to anoint for methe one I indicate to you.
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Samuel did what the Lorddirected and went to Bethlehem.
When the elders of the town met him, theytrembled and asked, do you come in peace?
In peace?
He replied, I've come to sacrificeto the Lord, consecrate yourselves
and come with me to the sacrifice.
Then he consecrated Jesse and his sonsand invited them to the sacrifice.
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When they arrived, Samuel saw Ilyaand said, certainly the Lord's
anointed one is here before him.
But the Lord said to Samuel, donot look at his appearance or his
stature because I have rejected him.
Humans do not see whatthe Lord sees for humans.
See what is visible, butthe Lord sees the heart.
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Jesse called a abda andpresented him to Samuel.
The Lord hasn't chosen this one either.
Samuel said.
Then Jesse presented Shama,but Samuel said The Lord
hasn't chosen this one either.
Okay, so now let's makesure we catch up in history.
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Now, Saul has become kingbecause the people wanted a king.
Now Samuel was telling the peoplewhat type of King Saul was going
to be, and he gave a lot ofnegativity about Saul being the king.
But the people still said,well, we still want a king.
Even after hearing aboutall the negativity.
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We still want us a king.
So now I know pretty much everybody knowswhy Saul fell out of the grace of God.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we don't need to spend awhole lot of time on that.
He wasn't, he wasn'tlining up with God had.
And then the final rejectionwas he got scared 'cause the
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battle was going to come.
And then Samuel said, well, you waitfor me to show up and then I'll do
the praying, I'll do the anointing.
And he didn't come at the timethat Saul thought he should come.
So Todd Saul took it uponhimself to go ahead and do it.
Now Samuel didn't say I was gonna bethere 8:00 AM you know, from 12 o'clock
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midnight until 1159 and 59 seconds.
We still have the same day.
So now Samuel ended upcoming late in the day.
That was not equivalent to Saul's comfort.
So then Saul jumped outside of thecomfort zone in which he was, and
then he did something he shouldn't do.
Mm-hmm.
So now we know that'swhy Saul was rejected.
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So now the Lord said, well, look, I'verejected Saul, but Samuel was grieving
over Saul losing the Kingdom because hehad told me I'm taking it out of his hand.
Why are you sitting heregrieving over this man?
I'm telling you, I, I gotsomebody else at point.
And so now we see Samuel going to goget the other king whom God has chosen.
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Mm-hmm.
Now, Saul was a tall man.
He was taller than everybody.
The Bible teaches us, andSaul was a very handsome man.
So that's why Samuel, let's see.
I don't think that's why he waschosen, but I just think that's the,
if you, if, if you gonna bet on afight and one fighter is six, six.
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260 something pounds in his cut,and then the other fighters five
four, he's 160 pounds and he's cut.
Most people are gonna puttheir money on the big man.
Mm-hmm.
That's just, that's just,that's just how things go.
You know, the visual account,he about to tear him up.
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Yeah.
But now that's not how God sees things
come on.
That's not how God sees.
Mm-hmm.
So on this side of the man, andthen we see who God has chosen.
Now, does everybody in hereknow the makeup of David?
David was short.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
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So we not going, it's okay in the Bibleto go out on the limb, but don't go
so far out on the limb to where youstart making the Bible scene incorrect.
Right.
But now the Bible does teachus that David was a short man.
So in our eyes, short is what?
Five?
Five?
Would that be a short man?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, five, six.
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Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
But now the Bible also says thatDavid was a very handsome man,
especially those that are 6, 8, 6, 9.
What, what did Jesus say?
Six.
Eight.
Six.
So when, when, when Samuel comesto Jesse's house and he was
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told to go to Jesse's house.
And everybody's scared.
And because the prophet is coming nowwith the prophet can come good news
or with the prophet can come bad news.
Mm-hmm.
And the prophet carries the weight of Godas long as he's lined up with God's will.
Right.
So now, if you, if you have, if youhave a prophet coming to your town
and he's lined up with God's will, itwould behoove you to move in the way to
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where it's pleasing with the prophet.
Because we have multiple readingswhere if a prophet gets mad at you
and he brings your attention to God'sattention, you can be struck down.
Simple as that.
I don't think I'm goingout on a limb saying,
yeah.
You know, so now everybody's scaredbecause Samuel's coming and so they
even ask him coming about peacefully.
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Hmm.
And so everybody, you know, yeah.
I. And then he invited Jesse tocome to the consecration so that
they can, you know, consecrate tothe Lord, you know, bless the Lord.
And he told him to bring his children.
Mm-hmm.
So now Samuel looks at Jesse'schildren because he was told by
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God that I want you to pick fromJesse's house my next anointed.
Now the oldest one, guess what?
He happened to be?
He was tall.
The scripture teaches us that.
And he was handsome too.
So as soon as he cut into the room, youknow, Samuel just kind of like leaned
back, you know, the search is over.
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Mm-hmm.
You
know, I mean, I, I, I, I, I hook Saul up.
Mm-hmm.
And, and,
and look at Saul.
You know, he's, he's tall, he's handsome.
So I'm about to just hook upthis other tall, handsome cat,
but then the Lord puts on.
Samuel's heart.
Mm-hmm.
That's not the one.
Mm-hmm.
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So now you would normallywork your way down.
So he went to the next Elvis.
Well, surely this one, the one,then he went to the next one.
That was the one you.
And then he finally ran out ofall those who were in appearance.
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Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
So,
man, where's, you know,'cause God ain't wrong.
You know, the Lord knowshow many children you have.
Yeah.
The, so, so I believe Samuel'sat a, what do you call it?
A chin.
A chin.
Rubbing.
Moan.
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I didn't,
you got any
more?
The question had to be asked.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And what do they say?
Who, who, who, who's he and where he's at?
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Is he really?
You know, this is the onething that gets me, y'all.
Uh, bear with me now.
Turn with me.
To Second Samuel, chapter seven,and we gonna start a verse eight.
I'm jumping in.
I'm, I'm jumping ahead, but thisis the cat who's chosen to be the
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king, and we, we, we moving forward.
But now turn your Bible to twoSamuel, chapter seven, and I just
want to read what God says to David,
which verse
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eight.
We'll start at eight.
Eight, okay.
Second Samuel,
chapter seven, verse eight, verse eight,
verse five.
Let you know.
Go and tell my servant David.
Thus sayeth the Lord.
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So now this is another prophet.
His name happens to be Nathan.
We, we could talk about himlater, but now this is David.
Going to this.
Is Nathan going to David?
And look what it says.
I'm gonna read it one more time.
Go and tell my servant David.
So now Nathan is talking to David.
Mm-hmm.
And look what the Lord sayswhat he has done for David.
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Now, therefore, so shall thousay unto my serving David,
thus save the Lord a uss host.
I took the from the sheep coatthat's, you know, dealing with sheep,
but this is the one that gets me.
And y'all help me.
Now look what David was doing.
It doesn't say Davidwas leading the sheep.
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What does it say?
Follow following sheep.
Now what kind of shepherd follow sheep?
And then what kind of shepherd areyou if you are a sheep follower?
I mean, help me now.
You know, I, like I say, I'm not highlyintelligent, but I do know how to read.
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It doesn't say that Davidwas a leader of the sheep.
David was a
Micah, and this is gonna be the next king.
Come on, sheep.
I don't wanna go over there.
But if the sheep aren't goingthat way, guess what Dana's doing?
He following me.
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Gonna follow him.
A good shepherd is supposed to do what?
Leave the sheep.
Come on, somebody.
Help me, y'all.
That's right.
And
this is who God has chosen.
Mm,
you know, better than us.
Ain't that, couldn't that be kindof like a head scratching moment?
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Definitely head scratching and a chin.
What?
Tony?
I said a
go.
Okay.
Uh, uh, there's so many things aboutthe human heart in the Bible, and,
uh, one of them is it's deceitfuland desperately wicked, who can know
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it, but, uh, in first Corinthians.
I think it opens up something aboutDavid and God's ways with men.
In First Corinthians, uh, the firstchapter, verse 26, for you, see your
calling brethren, that not many wise,according to the flesh, not many mighty,
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not many noble are called, but God haschosen the foolish things of the world
to put to shame the wise God has chosenthe weak things of the world to put to
shame the things which are mighty and basethings in the of the world and the things
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which are despised God has chosen, and thethings which are not to bring to nothing.
The things that are, that noflesh should glory in his sight.
But of him, you are in Christ Jesusbecause you are for, because, and
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excuse my not being able to see,because for us, wisdom from, uh,
because became of us, wisdom from Godand righteousness and sanctification
and redemption, that it is written.
He who glories led him glory in the Lord.
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So, amen.
I think
the keeping would choke
choice David.
Amen.
David was not a likely king.
Yeah.
So much so that he was not even remindedby his father to come to the sacrifice.
And then David was also told by Nathanthat even I know where you come from.
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You ain't even a good chef, butI'm gonna move into your heart.
Yeah, and I'm gonna make you a king.
But now, in David's heart, wasinstilled something that was strong
because you know, we bounce around.
This is this Second Samuel, chapterSeven comes after something that
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David did not have happened to himbefore, that David did have happened
to him before he was even anointed.
Now I'm gonna go out on the limb andI'm gonna put myself in this place.
There is a historical eventthat happened in David's life.
He was tending to this sheep,and now we already know how
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lousy of a job he was doing then.
But now at one point there came alion and a bear, and people need to
make sure that they understand this.
This wasn't two separate incidences.
The bear didn't come on Tuesdayand the lion came on Thursday.
They came at the same time.
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And here goes, God is only, God cando lions and bears don't run together.
Right.
But God can do anything.
Huh?
He got a lion and a bear to teamup and they came and took a sheep.
Y'all know the story, right?
Come on.
If I'm tending to the sheep and a lionand a bear, come and take that sheep away.
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Sheep gone.
Sheep gone.
Mm-hmm.
For real.
That's it.
I have a right to tell you the truth.
I'm the truth opposite God movingin my life in the mighty way.
Right.
We ain't eating them lamb chops tonight,
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but, but, but check out what this catdid before all this anointing stuff.
Before.
This is before Samuel came to the house.
Yeah.
This is before all that stuff.
He left the, we don't know howmany, but he did leave them.
And guess what he did?
He went after the bear and thelion, and he killed them both
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and brought that shoot back.
Now the Bible does not instruct ushow God might have moved in David's
life to cause him to have that type ofstrength, but it does not mention it.
Yeah.
So, so I'm saying that God didn'tmove so mightily to where it had to
be mentioned in the scriptures tolet us know, you know, when David
was 10, God did this, so David knewhe had the strength inside of it.
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Right.
This is not written
right.
All it's saying is that
mm-hmm.
At a time when David was young,a lion and a bear came and took
the sheep and he went after her.
Now, I, I, I spoke my piece.
Which one of y'all?
Yeah.
Maybe one of y'all would do it.
You know, I don't havea right to tell you.
Don't go.
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Is there anybody in here?
That would chase down a lionand a bear to save one sheet.
I mean, if, if you pleaseraise your hand, don't, don't,
don't, don't keep a suspense.
Don't
be
shocked.
So
outta all the men, although allthe, we all men ain't, ain't,
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ain't nobody going after him.
Nope.
Why not?
Lero going, Lero going
modern
weaponry.
Six versus five.
Five.
So why not see, 'cause here we go.
We knew that David knew the scriptures.
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We knew that David knew what happened tothe children of Egypt coming up outta the
children of Israel coming up outta Egypt.
Mm-hmm.
David knew the scriptures verywell to where you hear David
speaking on the scriptures a lot.
So David knew the strength of God.
Yeah.
And so for some reason David hadin his mind, God's going to take
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care of me and I'm going after thislion and I'm gonna kill this bear.
Go ahead.
Or,
uh, God, uh, knew David David's heart.
See, although he wasn't a big,strong man, but God knew his heart.
And, and when that lineand that, that, uh.
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Uh, there, there, uh,you know, came about.
God wasn't this, this is God.
So God didn't, didn't have toworry because he knew that David,
uh, hard and that David would, would,would, uh, would go after that, that,
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that sheep and, and, and bring it backbecause God, God, look on the inside of
man where, where man, look on the outside.
Amen.
See that, that,
that was the key right there.
All
God knew he, although they,I was a big, strong man, but,
but, but God knew his heart.
But, but, and, and, uh, and, and that'swhat, uh, God's looking up on our heart.
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Amen.
Yes, sir. Uh, things that, like yousay, you six eight or six nine and he
up near five 11, but, uh, God knowsmy heart and he knows your heart also.
Amen.
And he knows that what,what I can, I cannot do.
And if God is involved, wedon't have to worry about that.
Amen.
Alright, I'll leave it.
I'll leave it.
Amen.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I agree.
I agree with that.
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There's a question.
How has God helped you to movefrom mourning your past to focus
on his grace for the future?
I, I, my relationship with God is this,
I know that my heightis, uh, outside the norm.
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It's been that way my whole life.
Mm-hmm.
But I know who God is, right?
I know him for myself.
And so I have tried tothe best of my ability.
Whenever you fight a war, youprepare yourself for the war.
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Yeah.
So you don't know whattomorrow's going to bring.
Mm-hmm.
But I try to keep myself in asituation to where come what may
I'm gonna be ready for action.
And it's been that way ever sinceI started holding this girl's hand.
When, when I took on beingDelano's husband, I knew that I
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had to be a protector of Thelan.
And then when we started havingchildren, I knew I had to be a protector
of my children and I'm not gonnalet nothing hurt my wife and I'm not
gonna let nothing hurt my children.
That's correct.
So I try to keep myself in a certainway to where I can protect my family.
Yeah.
Now I know that my strength is subsidingbecause I know that my strength is
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subsiding because I'm a 62-year-old man.
I can't do it no more physically, youknow, it, it was a time, man, you, I, I, I
got some hands, you know what I'm saying?
But I don't rely on my hands so muchbecause 62-year-old hands ain't as
strong as some 26-year-old hands.
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Yeah, that's correct.
You know, and so what ha whatit has caused me to do as I am
getting older and I thank God thatI have been allowed to get older.
Is, I'm concentrating, believing, andtrusting more on the strength of God.
Yeah,
that's right.
And it's amazing because nowI find out I'm stronger now.
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Yeah,
yeah.
Than I was when I was 24.
Yes sir. Yes, sir.
And only God can do that.
Yes, sir.
You know, the greatest fight that youcould ever fight is don't fight at all.
Mm-hmm.
Use the words and the wisdom of God towhere your enemy becomes your friend.
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That's the, that's the bestfight you could ever fight.
You know, I used to work atthis one company and this one
cat, he couldn't stand me.
Mm-hmm.
You know, but the way I carriedmyself, the way I conducted myself,
the way I always, uh, intermingledwith him when we had to intermingle.
Mm-hmm.
One day he invited me to lunch.
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Yep.
See what God can do.
Yep.
Oh yeah.
No.
There was a time when I, youknow, if you my enemy, guess what?
I am?
I'm your enemy.
Yeah.
And I'm not leaning towards niceness.
And if you cross my path,
it's on hand.
It's on.
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But how amazing it is that heallowed me to make it to 62.
And now I see that when Ihave an, an opposing threat.
Trust God.
Fight your battle.
Believe God, he
fight your battle.
Didn't he say he would fight your battles.
And if he's fighting for you, is therea chance you could lose no weapons?
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No.
What?
Say, say the whole thing.
No weapons
for him against this child?
No.
Yeah,
why not?
Why not join Batman?
Yeah, go ahead.
Uh, uh, back to the question washow do I go from mourning, from,
you know, being sad and, and, uh,
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how does God help you from moving,move from mourning your past to
focus on his grace for the future?
Now, in the Bible right here in Isaiah, ittalks about who God will, uh, dwell with.
And it says
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on him who is poor andof a contract spirit.
And when David had sinned in Psalm 51and this kind of thing is we weaving
woven in the Old Testament and in the NewTestament, blessed are the poor in spirit.
What theirs is, the kingdom of heaven.
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And when you think on that, no matterwhere you find yourself in life, you
think about how God is working withthose who are broken about their sin.
And then when we look to the cross ofJesus, the circumstances don't change.
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People's opinion about you don't change.
But long as you change in Christ andyou know how God sees you is greater
than no matter how others see you.
That is how God sees you and a few ofa broken spirit and a contrite heart.
David said he won't despise you,so you can move from mourning to a
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God-given joy by looking away from theor better yet find than found in this
place where you're mourning over sin.
And then as time goes on, God picksyou up because he resists the proud
and gives grace to the humble.
Amen.
You
know,
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what you said has so much truthto him, and we always have to
make sure we leap to the master.
And leaping to the master has alwaysimpressed me because the way that
he unfolded the whole story, ithas to be told over and over again.
Yes.
This man is God himself.
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Now he's living as a man.
He put all the attributes of beinga God aside and he lived just as
a man when people, you know, ithas to be said over and over again
when Jesus walked on the water.
It wasn't Jesus walking on the waterbecause a man cannot walk on water.
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Mm-hmm.
You're no longer a man if Isee you walking on water, but
God can sustain you if you areperfectly lined up with his will.
Mm-hmm.
So this is what kept Jesuswalking on the water.
He was perfectly lined up withthe father's will because he
was living as a man down here.
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Yes.
And look what he did.
If I'm getting ready to deal with thedevil and I'm dealing with the devil
himself, and I know he's the devil,
fishermen.
That's who that, that that's who you,that's who you, you buddying up with.
Wouldn't you want you tohave you 12 Mike Tysons?
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You know?
You know, because there'sa fight happening.
Yeah.
Me and the devil are gettingready to have a fight.
Wouldn't you want you a, a coupleof Samuels, you know some tall
cats that got some size on them.
Yeah.
At least pick some mean looking wind.
He walking on the sea and he seesa couple of guys tending to they
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nets and he tells them, follow meand I will make you fishes of me.
Hmm.
Lacking no Harvard, no Yale, no Columbia.
No, no.
10 years in the Marines.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Ex fighter pilot
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and the nets.
Right?
And then he goes alittle bit further down.
He sees two other brothers.
Mm-hmm.
Come on, y'all come on too.
And then he goes to a tax collectorwho everybody in the town hates.
Can't nobody stand Matthew IRS.
Yeah.
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Do you see what he assembled?
And so the question I asked him whenI started getting into the Bible and I
really started to understand, I want,Lord, help me, help me, please help me.
I could have picked a general,I could have picked a ex-Marine,
I could have picked a 30 yearveteran from the police department.
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I could have did that.
Mm-hmm.
But I chose to use theweak things of the earth.
To confound the wise.
Yeah.
Clark, could you see anybody, anything,a duck to talk Clark, you anything?
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Even a little short man named David.
Short man.
A little short man like me.
If God is with me.
If I know God is with me
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and y'all, y'all help me now, y'allhelp me because like I say, I need help.
I, I, I read it.
I read it quite often.
I, I do read it quite often and, and I'vebeen turning pages and I'm trying to see.
Where God had dealt with David towhere David had something spin in
his head to where if I go afterthis lion, if I go after this bear,
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find it, I'm gonna be all that.
So then I, I, I, I, I talked to him.
I said, Lord, help me becauseI can't find it in ink.
Yeah.
He said, don't look for it in ink.
Huh?
David knew who I was beforehe went after the lion.
David knew who I was beforehe went after the bear.
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So now when 9, 6, 9 footfive or nine foot six.
Extremely tall when Goliathcame and everybody, well,
because they was in the valley.
Yeah.
They were up here.
Goliath was in the valley.
They were up here.
David was up here with 'em.
He told 'em, man, look, man, Idon't care if he's nine foot five,
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I'm gonna go down there and guesswhat I'm gonna do Goliath kill him.
You know why I'm gonna kill him?
You know why I'm gonna kill him?
Because I know God.
Mm-hmm.
And I, and I know that God isnot happy that this uncircumcised
right.
Is sitting up here talkingabout us like we fools.
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Right?
Mm-hmm.
And so then the, then the, well hereDavid, take my sword, take my, my 45,
you know, let's bring it up to right.
That's right.
You don't take my Glock, right?
Mm-hmm.
And you know what he
says?
I, I, I don't, I've never used them.
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I don't need them.
So I'm sitting there saying, okay,he don't want my Glock, he don't
want my, he don't want my 45.
He don't want the sword, he don't wantthe shield, he don't want the helmet.
So I'm sitting there looking at him.
Guess what he does?
Big Rock.
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Go.
Somebody's 9, 9 5.
And,
and what does he do?
He kills you.
Yep.
Cut his head.
Yep.
Amazing.
Yep.
That's why the title is what the title is.
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Foolish Appearances don't cometo God with your Harvard degree.
Don't come to God with your bank account.
Don't come to God with theresidency of where you live.
Mm-hmm.
Don't come to God with nothingbut a trusting part in God.
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It's so amazing to me.
I, I, you know what the thing is?
I can't stop reading.
I can't stop reading.
He sees him walking on water.
He builds up enough gumption inhimself to say, can I come out there
and walk on the water with you?
Huh?
And guess what he told him?
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Huh?
Come on.
So we have recorded in the historyof mankind, an actual event
where two men are walking on one.
Mm-hmm.
And guess what happened If need be,this is the most amazing thing too, if
need be, he could make a third personand guess who that third person can be.
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It could be you.
Mm-hmm.
If need be.
Language cheese,
they dropping bombs.
Now gentlemen, we're at a point in timewhere the word spooky can clearly be used.
We are dropping bonds on other nations.
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We have another nation thatinvaded another nation.
Three years ago he thought itwould be over in two weeks.
He's still fighting them.
Right.
North Korea is sending soldiersto go help fight Russians.
What kind of fight you going to put upwhen a Korean who has never seen a Russian
and a Russian who has never seen a Korean,what kind of fight they gonna put up?
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Yeah.
But when you so far out of theLord's will and mind you end up
doing stupid and foolish things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so we are standing at a time whereI don't know what's going to happen.
But I know one thing.
Hmm?
I know a water walker, sir.Yes sir. I know a water walker.
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Yeah.
Uh, to make sure that question
ties back up you on your,I think, prayer fellowship.
Amen.
You know, uh, especially withyour better half, your wife.
Amen.
She's helped me on somethings I've done in the past.
Focus on our future and, andyou ask if most of us have kids.
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We do.
And the kids watch us.
Yeah.
So you lean on fellowship,you lean on your spouse, you
lean on the men's or whatever.
But I think prayer also has to bea part of, answer this question.
Amen.
That's the one thing thatJesus did more than anything.
It could, it could clearly be said,and it should clearly be taught
that if it's one thing that Jesusdid, he stayed constantly in prayer.
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Because like I said, you haveto make sure you keep saying it
over and over and over again.
When Jesus came down, here he isGod in the everything, but he set
all those attributes aside and helived as a man just like me and you
is.
It is so amazing thathere, he's God himself
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and he lived just like MichaelTroy Peoples, but what did he do
opposite Michael Troy Peoples, heturned himself over totality to
the will and the desire of God.
So therefore, he was soup with the father's.
That he could take.
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How do you feed 5,000people with two fish?
What, what?
What's the mathematics on that?
Everybody said
he turn all those naturalback away, but he spoke to,
to the sea, and quiet The sea.
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He fed the 4,000.
He fed the 5,000.
So Jesus was still God.
All He was all God and all man.
Nobody can have that.
So he had it.
He still had all of that.
He can do all of that.
Amen.
God and hundred percentfan, nobody can have that.
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God.
Amen.
That's the reason why, you know,since he brought it up, I'm trying to
find, I wish I, I get upset becausehe hasn't made me a scripture quota.
I wish I could find that.
I wish I could find that,that scripture quote.
Look this when he was walking on the sea.
Yeah, no.
When the sea was raging and they wereall in the boat and he was at the back
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of sleep, they came and they woke 'em up.
Man, get up, man.
You gotta remember, all thesecats lived around the ocean, so
it's not so far fetched to thinkthat they were all swimmers.
I don't, I don't think nobody jumpedin that boat and didn't know how
to swim, but they were so scaredto death because of the storm.
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They were so scared to death.
I wish somebody could find it.
The boat started filling up with water.
They had a good reason tobe scared and and to death.
They were scared.
They were scared to death.
They woke him up and they toldhim, man, you got to get up man.
We about to drown, and you backhere sleeping on this pillow.
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Read it again and read it over again.
When he got up and he calmed the storm,
they went to the other side of the boat.
They separated themselves fromthem, from him and, and, and, and,
and, and listen to what they were.
I think I got, theywere more scared of him
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than they were of the sea.
And, and listen to what they said.
What kind of a
man is this?
To where even the
seat
and the wind obeying him.
That's amazing.
They were more, I'm gonna sayit again, please, Lord, please.
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They were more scared of him than theywere of the sea that was just raging.
Mm-hmm.
They said one to another.
What kind of a man is this?
That Even the sea and the wind on bacon.
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So I'm six eight, I'm 300 pounds.
I'm 62 years old.
Guess what I'm gonna do?
I put all my faith, I put all my,I put all my trust I don't trust
and nothing that's of myself.
I lift weights a lot.
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I still love and lift weights.
I got some strength on it, butI don't even trust my strength.
I trust God.
Amen.
When I leave from here, I want to go home.
I got a beautiful wife waiting at home.
And I want to make it home.
I want y'all to understandI'm gonna try to get home.
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Mm-hmm.
But I'm not trustingin myself to get home.
That's right.
Right.
That's right.
I'm trusting that God is goingto deliver me to my home.
Yes.
And if I don't make it fine by me.
Yeah.
Make sure one of y'all saved.
If you happen to go to myfuneral, he wanted to go home.
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'cause I might not make it home.
That's right.
So if you happen to come tomy funeral, tell somebody he
really did want to go home.
Mm-hmm.
But he didn't make it.
But he told us if he don't make it.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
We got something else to read y'all.
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The comment that Jesussaid to them, uh, after
he said the o of little faith,he, he brought to their, their
attention that their faith wasweak and they had little faith.
And if they'd have had a littlebit more stronger faith, 'cause it,
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it reads where he says, oh yeah.
Of little faith.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh, and, uh, John, if Ican, uh, 8 23 to 27, mark 4
35 to 41, and Luke 8 22 to 25.
Amen.
And he said, oh, ye of little
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amen.
We got the next caption is God'schoosing may look different.
Than what we expect.
And this is one Samuel.
It's chapter 16 and it'sverses 10 through 13.
Anybody care to read?
Yes.
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Can you?
Can you hear me okay?
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
After Jesus presented seven of hissons to him, Samuel told Jesse, the
Lord hasn't chosen any of these Samuel.
Ask him, are these all the sons you have?
They're still the youngest.
He answered, but right nowhe's tending the sheep.
Samuel told Jesse sin for him.
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We won't sit down to eat'em until he gets here.
So Jesse sent for him.
He had beautiful eyes and ahealthy, handsome appearance.
Then the Lord said, anointhim for he is the one.
So Samuel took the horn ofoil and anointed him in the
presence of his brothers.
And the spirit of the Lord camepowerfully on David from that day forward.
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Then Samuel set out and went to Rama.
Mm-hmm.
I don't wanna spend a few times, y'allgotta tell me, y'all gotta help me now.
What's the differencebetween David and Saul?
I, I, I, I, I, I don't get it.
Now we know that they wanteda king and God gave them Saul.
(47:35):
Mm-hmm.
But now, like the Lord said, youknow, I have chosen David, and then
with him, I'm gonna be with him.
Mm-hmm.
I'm not, you know, Saul fell off.
Now we know David does some things,you know, all Saul did was a sacrifice.
No, I, I know a guy, Iknow a guy in heaven.
His name is Uriah.
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You, you wanna talk, youwanna talk to him about David
and murder him too?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So David ain't walking on.
You know, y'all, y'all remember that?
Uh, what was that movie?
Kungfu.
Y'all remember that Kungmovie Kungfu David Carine.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He
could walk on that rice paper andyou couldn't see his footsteps.
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Yes.
Yeah.
David didn't have that capability.
So, so, so what is the differencebetween, why did God sit there?
And, and not do for Saul what he didfor David because we look, we can
go through it over and over againwhen David's doing stuff wrong.
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Right.
You know, he did a census.
He wasn't supposed to do a census.
Mm-hmm.
And, and, and a lot of people got hurt.
David
didn't do it until he, he hadgotten grown when David with a
young man out in past attend sheep.
He wasn't around the scene and all thatstuff that he done later on when he had
gotten married, got went, became a can andhad a, your arrived wife, uh, uh, your,
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your arrived killed and got his wife.
But when he was a young man, and Igo back in myself when I was a young
man, I was raised in a, a father livedhome that I didn't do nothing bad it,
but, but after I got older, I made,I made all of my mistakes later on in
life and when I left and got older.
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But when I was under myfather and mother's house.
I was pretty, I'm a pretty good kid.
I didn't even Dave Girls, Ididn't, I didn't do nothing.
But after I got out New World.
Now remember when King, when David made,did all this sin stuff, he was king, but
David, God was with him when he was king.
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The sheep, you, when you look atit, it say the spirit of the law.
But with day, the spirit of law
day
when he was out in the field writingall those psalms, and that's when he
done all as a boy tend the machine.
Amen.
That's when God intervened with him.
Amen.
Not when he
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house, when he, uh, whenGod told him not to count.
Picture disobey.
God did that.
Amen.
Not that's when, that'swhen that happened.
You know what, whenever you havecome and we, we can have a couple and
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we You got a table with a word that
turn, turn Romans nine.
Turn the Romans chapter nine.
Go ahead, look in your Bibleand turn the Romans chapter on.
Go ahead real quick.
Uh, as far as the, uh, what'sthe difference in those two?
Um, Saul look hard, uh, but Davidkept coming back to God in Mili.
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Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
And I, I think, I think Godknew David's heart where Saul's
heart was completely different.
You know, Saul was up mainlyafter himself, mainly.
So I think God knew that David, he didsome bad things, but he, he still had
a better heart for the people that, uh,the Lord wanted him to look out for.
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I think that's my amen.
I just, uh,
uh, we thank God for him being so magnifi.
He teaches us some, someof us can learn verbally.
Mm-hmm.
But some of us only learn by what we see.
Mm-hmm.
So thank God for symbolism.
Okay.
You know, if we only took thesymbol that only a big guy
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could handle a big guy, yeah.
Then we wouldn't have the hard.
Of little guys taking down big guys.
Amen.
So symbolism is, is very importantbecause all of us, we, how many times
we heard and hear people say, well, whenI was growing up I was taught this way,
but when I got older I act this way.
We knew we heard, but we hadto go out there and learn.
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Amen.
Amen.
Uh, Romans chapter nine, if you,if, if you had already turned to it.
And I want to, uh, I wanna read a littlebit and then I want y'all to help me.
Romans chapter nine, and wegonna start in verse 15, 15.
Just, just bear with me for a little bit.
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Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Romans chapter nine, starting at verse 15.
Okay.
Before he saved to Moses.
I will have mercy.
Oh on whom I will have mercy.
Yes.
And I will have compassion onwhom I will have compassion.
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So then it is not of him that willit, nor of him that runneth, but
of God That shows mercy, right?
Yep.
For the scripture sayeth untoPharaoh, even for this same
purpose, have I raised the other?
(53:04):
Yeah.
That I might show my power in the, andthat my name might be declared throughout
all the earth, therefore, half hemercy on whom he will have mercy and on
whom he will harden that will say thenand to me, why do he get fine fault?
(53:29):
For who has resisted his will?
Nay, nay, nay, nay, but old man.
Who are you?
Who are you that replies against God shallthe thing form say to him that formed it?
(53:51):
Why has thou made me thus half not thepoter power over the court of the same
lump to make one vessel unto honor?
And another under dishonor.
What is God willing to show his wrathand to make his power known, endured
(54:15):
with much long suffering, the vesselsof wrath fitted for destruction.
Who can tell God what to do?
Who can tell God what to do?
Do
you can't do it?
If God wanted to have his Jesuscome from the generation of salt,
(54:37):
guess what God could have did?
He could have made it happen.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
If God wanted to do anything, guess what?
He could make it happen.
What did Jesus say?
Is there anything too hard for the Lord?
So since God didn't like the waySaul was brought into the picture.
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There's nothing that Saul could have did.
Yeah.
That could have been pleasing tothe Lord, to where the Lord would've
drew his lineage from Saul's body.
Mm. I agree.
And there's nothingDavid could not have did.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
Where God would not have used Davidto draw his lineage from David's body.
That's true.
It's up to God.
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People don't understand if you can getthe right concept of God in your head.
That changes everything about your life.
When I woke up this morning,I walked outside and I seen
the star and I seen the moon.
Who has the ingredients for star making?
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Who's the one that positionshow the moon moves?
It's amazing.
Yep.
There was a man, his name was Joshua.
He was in a battle.
He got into a fight with a bunch of peopleand he figured that if the sun could
stay up, I could fight a better battle.
So he screamed out to the Lord, Lord,let the sun stand still, and it is
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recorded in history that there was a time.
That the sun did not go down.
The question I asked is, how did he do it?
Because we have enough technology,we have enough ingenuity to
where we see how the world works.
We spin on our axis at24,000 miles an hour.
That's the earth spinning on its own axis.
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Now we hurled through the galaxy at46,000 miles per hour around the sun.
That's how our seasons change.
We have satellites that show usthat this is what's going on.
This is how it is.
And so since it's thisway now guess what It was.
It was the same way back then.
That's correct.
So now here comes my question.
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That keeps me, sometimes my pillowat night turns into a stone.
And I cannot sleep.
How did the sun stay up?
What did he do?
Mm-hmm.
If he stopped the earth from spinning onhis axis, we lose our gravitational pool.
And guess what happens to us?
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So how did he do it?
You know what he told me?
Don't worry about how I did it.
I ain't gotta tell you aboutthe ingredients of star.
I know the ingredients of stars.
Michael, you always come to me.
This question, you know howyou do the stars, how you do?
I got to ask you that.
What I'm, what I'm asking you to dois you better keep trusting in me.
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You know, maybe one day whenwe make it to heaven me, and he
could sit down by the riverbed andthen he could explain it to me.
But right now I don't have timeto stop and explain to you.
How I made the sun stand still.
You just keep believing and trusting thatI did make the sun stand still awesome.
God,
the mic, you know, um, I, I thoughtto myself once that we discover what
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you just explained, what God hasmade, you know, and he says, the, the
firmaments testified to his glory.
And every now and then we get an epiphany.
If you got a thing, a monitor goingover your heart and your inner
person and then up on a screenand all of a sudden it hits you.
(58:35):
Look at that.
So there's things when God pulls back thebill that we can see, that puts us in awe.
But back to what we were talkingabout, I think we were talking
about the sovereignty of God inchapter nine and his election.
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He hated Esau.
But he received Jacob, and Jacobwas a guy that was a conniver.
But what made the differencebetween Jacob and Esau?
It was God's sovereignty andthen, uh, the election of God.
And so when he said, you must be bornagain, he told that to a religious
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man who wouldn't probably come underthis roof, Nicodemus a Jewish leader.
And then the next chapter in four, hewas talking to a woman at the well,
uh, an outcast of world Society, a er.
Yeah.
Amen.
Amen.
And so, uh, the spectrum, and likewe were talking earlier about kids
being raised in certain homes, goodhomes, and turning out bad, we all
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are infected with one word sin.
And when David in, uh, Psalms 51 says, Iwas born in sin and shaping in iniquity,
and then sin did, my mother conceive me.
Not saying he, hisparents weren't married.
But he was born with that adamic nature.
Amen.
And it can just eruptwhen it wants to erupt.
(01:00:09):
Amen.
And that's why good home, bad home,so-called you need to be born again.
Amen.
We have a question, y'all.
We have a question underneaththat caption that we had read.
Mm-hmm.
And if somebody can expound upon it,maybe one or two of you, because it
might help me on my Christian journey.
So if you could please say something.
I'm gonna absorb what you say.
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And the question is, how has Godworked in a surprising way or through
a surprising person in your life?
Somebody help me.
God has God, has God sent somebodyor did something in your life?
They might be able to helpme on my Christian journey.
(01:00:52):
Anybody?
Tony?
Let me see here.
Oh God.
God, God put someone in my lifeto change me around 'cause I
was headed down the wrong path
and he sent a man to.
To tell me that, you know, God, you know,basically God was not pleased at what I
(01:01:12):
was doing, but I wasn't listening to him.
I thought, what was the man's name?
What was
the man's name?
Uh, what's that man?
Uh, Mr. Jones.
Okay.
Mr. Jones led me in the right directionand he was a good friend of Satchel Page.
I sure y'all heard of him too.
And that was my baseball coach.
And he said, Tony, you canplay baseball, but you, you
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hanging with the wrong people.
You know, you going down the wrong path.
But I wouldn't listen and I wentthe wrong way for a long time.
Amen.
But, you know, but, but the, but,but Christ was embedded me as a young
kid, so I went back to that, thatI got in trouble and stuck maturing
a little bit and went to college.
(01:01:53):
But if it wasn't for those menleading me and telling me, man, you
going down the wrong way, I don'tthink, I never would've even looked
at myself to even judge myself.
Amen.
Amen.
Anybody else, Mike, with Mike?
Uh, yeah, brother Mike, go ahead,sir. Uh, 1968 living off of Compton.
(01:02:15):
Two men preachers came from Texas and Iwas living in the same building with them.
And at one point, uh, pastorHarris who fought in World War
I. How old were you in 1968?
Uh, 18.
Wow.
How old are you now, ifyou don't mind me asking?
Uh, 75.
75. Yeah.
And so with all that said, I brushedup against the people that played
(01:02:38):
in the Negro League and, uh, one ofthe coaches, one of my coaches for
the pirate rookie team, and I playedin the game with, uh, doc Ellis.
Uh, he played with, uh, Satra Paige andJackie Robinson on the Kansas City Mono.
That's a sidebar issue, but I, I was soglad I brushed up against that generation.
(01:03:00):
Just brushed and all my, all my,uh, mentors was up to my nose.
They were little people'cause I sprouted up fast.
But I always had a senseof looking up to them.
Because they were big, uh, notphysically, but they were big in statute,
inwardly and uh, uh, pastor Harris,Reverend Harris affectionately called
(01:03:21):
Uncle Nathan one night he corneredme and I didn't know I was cornered.
He asked a $64,000 question.
You remember that program?
He said, had you everheard of the grace of God?
And it stopped me in my tracks.
And then he said it meant'cause I couldn't answer it.
(01:03:43):
He said, unmarried favor of God.
And he was a powerful man.
Some was said, it looked like the roomwas glowing, but it had an impact on
my heart that just was incredible.
When he said it was a tried andand trite statement, unmarried
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favor, everybody heard that, butit was hot off the press to me.
Okay?
And so living off of Compton 68, I wasengulfed and surrounded inward and outward
with things were meant to take me down.
But I'm here to say, praisethe Lord for his amazing grace.
The reason,
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walk the group through the head.
A hand section running short on time.
Specifically highlight heart section.
Read heart section.
Alright, so I'm gonnaread the heart section.
David was a man after God'sheart, first Samuel 1314.
Even when he s sinned greatly laterin life, he received God's rebuke and
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repented of his sin, but his sin likeSauls still undermined his service to God.
Amen.
I hope I didn't take, I hope I didn'ttake y'all too much outside y'all.
Uh, no.
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Father, we come to you right now.
There may have been someprayer requests in the circle.
We don't know, but we, you know, heaven,many Father, we ask that you just meet the
needs of whatever the prayer request is.
Then give us traveling grace aswe go back to our destinations.
We ask this in yourprecious son Jesus name.
All in agreement say amen.
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Amen.
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.