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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, and welcome to the Westside churches
special Monday Morning Coffeepodcast on this podcast, our
preacher Mark Roberts will helpyou get your week started
right. With look back atyesterday's sermon so that we
can think through it furtherand better work the
applications into our dailylives . Mark will then look
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forward into this week's Biblereading so that we can know
what to expect and watch for.
And, he may have some extrabonus thoughts from time to
time. So grab a cup of coffeeas we start the week together
on Monday Morning Coffee withMark.
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Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to the Monday
Morning Coffee podcast forMonday, February the third. The
day after America allows afurry rodent to forecast the
weather for us, and that isamazing. I am all in on punks
the honey fill . I've got myBible open and I have a cup of
coffee and I do have somesermon notes from yesterday.
Sermon. It was a great day atWest Side coming off a
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wonderful singing Friday night.
So many great things going onat West Side . God has blessed
us tremendously and we just getto enjoy the blessings of all
of that. I've got it all. Readyto go for a tremendous podcast
this week. Pour that cup ofcoffee. Let's get ready, let's
get set. Let's go. Yesterday inthe 10 40 hour, I preached a a
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sermon about the pattern ofsalvation, what Luke's stories
and acts teach us, and I reallywanted to work hard on that
first point to think aboutbaptism. We always have folks
who are visiting. We alwayshave people who probably know
enough to take that step. Theyjust need a little push. And I
hope that sermon gave us anopportunity to all think about
baptism and its vital role inour salvation together. But I
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did want to build out someother points in acts and that
is that anybody can beconverted to Christ and we
ought to want to do thatimmediately. We ought to want
to be baptized immediately,especially then the idea that
no one is good enough to beexempt from conversion. That
whew . You get to people whoare going to church on Sunday
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and they're standing around awhole lot of Christians and it
becomes very easy for them tosay, you know, I'm , I'm like
these people and I'm not a badperson. And so I think I'm, I
think I'm good. And that ofcourse is not the case at all.
I did make mention of how notevery conversion story in the
Book of Acts culminates inbaptism and I wanna follow up
and expand on that because Ihave seen charts where bunch of
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conversion stories may be 10 or11 of Luke's conversion.
Stories are charted out andthere's five columns there.
Faith, repentance, confession,baptism, oh, I'm sorry. The
first column of course would behere, here, faith, repentance,
confession, baptism, andthere's just a row of check
marks down the baptism column.
Bubu hum . Maybe not every timeit's said they heard, maybe not
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every time repentance ismentioned specifically, but
baptism is there every singletime. And I do want to stand by
what I preached yesterday inthe 11 or so detailed
conversion stories that Lukeuses in acts to make his major
points. All of them culminatein the water, all of them end
up in the baptistry. But thereare some places sometimes when
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Luke is on the way to makinganother point, that Luke will
simply summarize a conversionstory by saying, for example,
acts 11 and 20, A great numberbelieved and turned to the
Lord, turned to the Lord. Thatis his expression there, which
would include repentance,confession, and baptism. And I
I want to emphasize to beclear, that doesn't mean they
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weren't baptized or that youdon't have to be. It just means
that Luke is summarizing theirstories with expressions like
believed or turned to the Lordin Acts 1734. Some men joined
him and believed among them wasDIYs , the Areopagite and a
woman named Demarius and otherswith them. And I would say
again, if not mentioningbaptism specifically means that
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people can be saved without it,then logically that would mean
you could be saved withoutfaith because there are plenty
of people in the Book of Actswho are said to become
Christians and the text neverspecifies that they had faith.
For example, Lydia, she hearsus , uh, one who heard us was a
woman named Lydia from the cityof thy Tyra , a seller of
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purple goods who was a worshipof God. The Lord opened her
heart to pay attention to whatwas said by Paul and after she
was baptized, no statementthere, explicit statement there
that she came to faith. So it'simportant not to overstate our
case. Don't be telling peopleevery conversion in the book of
Acts ends in baptism. That'sjust simply not. So we want to
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take all that Luke says indeed,all that the scriptures say.
And when we do that,particularly when you look at
the major stories where Luke ismaking his emphasis, it is
clear baptism is essential andnecessary to salvation. That's
part of the pattern ofsalvation. What Luke's stories
in acts teach us today, I hopethat sermon helps you to think
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more about the conversions inthe Book of Acts. And if you
have not been baptized, I hopethat you will be baptized for
the mission of your sins sothat you be a Christian like
those in the Book of Acts. Getyour Bible now and let's head
over to Samuel and let's seewhat's going on in daily Bible
reading. It is Monday and ourreading for Monday is one
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Samuel 17 verses 24 to 50 .
Today we conclude the David andSaul story. Were you thinking I
was going to say David andGoliath? It's not David and
Goliath. This is about Davidand Saul. And the center verse
of all of this I think is inverse 32. David said to Saul,
let no man's heart fail becauseof him. Where has Saul been
during the 40 days that thePhilistine, that's how he's
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referenced here more than withhis name Goliath. What Saul
been doing, the 40 days thatthe Philistine has been
taunting the armies of Israel,he's been hiding in his tent.
And the contrast here betweenDavid's faith and courage and
Saul's utter cowardice couldnot be sharper. Saul is full of
fear and he's failing. David isfull of faith and he is
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succeeding. He doesn't needarmor, he doesn't need any of
that. He has faith in God. Andmaybe what you're asking is how
can I get that kind of faith?
And I love that. And noticeverse seven, that's a verse 37.
That's a great question weasking. I wanna be like David
and first 37 helps us see, weget faith in God when we look
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at our past and give God thecredit for our victories. In
the past, if you're takingthings on and then you decide
after this difficult situation,your brilliance, your skills,
your people abilities, that'swhat won the day. That's how
come you got the promotion.
That's how come you were ableto deal with this temptation.
You will never build the kindof faith that David has. You
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have to look at your past andsee God's hand , see the
providence of God, see what Godis doing to bring you to this
point and that builds faith.
David marches out onto thebattlefield. Goliath is
taunting him. Verse 44, theworst possible taunt, you will
not get a decent burial toIsraelite people, to Jewish
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people. This is just horrible,the thought that my body would
be mistreated. Ah , just can'teven handle that. David's heart
is full of faith. He speaksthat faith and just constantly
talks about what God will dounderlining in your Bible, all
that the God of the armies ofIsrael will do this day, the
Lord will deliver you. Verse46, so that all the earth may
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know there's a God in Israel.
God's reputation is at stake.
David says, and I know Godwon't let me down. God's not
saving with sword because thebattle is the Lord's verse 47.
And of course David pulls out astone, fires it at Goliath.
Notice the skill that David hashere with a slingshot. God uses
people with skill. God useswhat you bring to the table.
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This is considerable amounts ofskill, even if God is
providentially or evenmiraculously guiding the rock.
Goliath is down. The men ofIsrael, verse 52, rose with a
shadow pursued the Philistines.
No mention of Saul, no mentionof Saul. Saul is not in that
battle. He's not running withhim . He's not saying, come on
boys, that guy's our leader. Hejust seems to be back at the
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camp verse 55. And of coursethere's lots of discussion
about this. What's the deal inverse 55? I thought he knew
David. David has been in thecourt before. Maybe. Maybe he
didn't recognize David who hadbeen there before. Maybe he has
overcome with a bad spirit whenDavid is there and thus he
doesn't have a good memory forfaces. Not entirely sure talked
about that a little bit earlierwhen we were in one Samuel 16,
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beginning in about verse 14where that earlier meeting
between Saul and David isdiscussed. Maybe that's out of
order chronologically, but thepoint of all of this is David
is the king that Israel needs.
He is a man after God's ownheart. And if we are tracking
what it means to be a man afterGod's God's own heart, it means
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we have faith in God, whichgives us courage to do God's
work. What an incredible andwonderful story. Our reading
for Monday. First Samuel 17verses 24 to 50. Welcome to
Tuesday. Today our reading isFirst Samuel 18, one to 16 .
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The reading for Tuesday isfirst Samuel 18, one to 16 . I
would say a couple things as weget underway and first Samuel
18. First and foremost, let meremind you, there's no zoom
call tonight because the eldersmeet on the first Tuesday of
the month and sometimes I meetwith them and we lose a couple
of elders out of our zoom callwhen they're meeting. So no
zoom tonight. But notice therepetition, the reputation, the
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repetition of David'sreputation. Try saying that
without a big slug of coffee.
Notice this in the text thatthe word successful is
repeated. Verse five, David wawent out and was successful.
14, he had success. Verse 15,Saul saw that he had great
success. Verse 30, the princesof the Philistines came out and
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as often as they came out,David had more success. Success
is a big idea here and it isstipulated why he is a success.
Verse 12, because the Lord waswith him in verse 14, for the
Lord was with him. Verse 28,the Lord was with David. This
is about David and about Godblessing David and using David.
And that begins as we see withthis friendship with Jonathan
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Saul's son . Jonathan justdelights in David and it does.
It does seem like there is justan immediate friendship. They
just click. They have similargoals, similar faith, similar
desires, and they justimmediately are drawn to each
other. Jonathan makes acovenant with David because he
loved him as his own soul. Butwhat attracts Jonathan to
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David, of course, is his greatfaith. All the things that he
said on the battlefield infront of Goliath, all the
things that he said there thatled to this great victory. It
seems to me that if you want tohave a great friend like
Jonathan , what you need to dois demonstrate great faith like
David did. And when you seesomebody who is demonstrating
great faith, if you are likeJonathan , then you will want
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to be friends with them .
Please notice then verse five,as David went out and was
successful, this termsuccessful is also rendered
prospered in the Nu Americanstandard, but but the new King
James, and that's certainly notmy favorite translation by any
stretch of the imagination, butthe new king James May have it
best here because the new kingJames says he behaved wisely.
And the term for successfulhere is a term with a broad
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range of meanings, and part ofthat meaning can be wise. It is
the term in Genesis three, six,Adam and Eve saw that eating
the fruit of the forbidden treewas desirable to make one,
wise, wise, successful, able,able to navigate life with all
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of its difficulties. I've saidthis many, many times as we've
talked about biblical wisdom,particularly in the wisdom
literature. Biblically wisdomin in scripture is not this
weird academic or esoteric ideawhere you're out of touch with
reality and useless. You kindof spout off bizarre amorphism
and and , and you say thingsand nobody really understands
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what you mean. But everybodygoes away and says, wow, that's
just so profound. Even thoughthey don't have a clue what
you're talking about. No, no,no, no, no. Biblically wisdom
is about common sense. It isconnected to real life. And
when people have that kind ofdivine common sense, biblical
common sense, they are able todo well and to be successful.
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Saul of course is not happyabout this. We start to see
jealousy growing in his life.
The green-eyed monster is a bigpart of this. Verse 10. He has
this harmful spirit. We talkedabout that back in chapter 16.
This is something that Godallows because Saul doesn't
want to do what's right andSaul here attacks David for the
first time, but the Lord iswith him and he's not able to
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kill David. I should say this,Saul's fears here are
completely unjustified. Thereis never any indication during
the entirety of Saul's reignthat there was ever a
rebellion, a mutiny or anyattempt on David's part to
replace the king, to be theking by some kind of nefarious
means a palace coup. Davidnever does that and never would
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do that. This is nothing butraging paranoia, Judah and
Israel. Verse 16, love David.
Notice the seeds of thatseparation are already there
when the kingdom fracturesafter Solomon. Nobody should be
surprised. Already we'retalking about Israel and Judah,
we're already seeing that. Andthen verse 16 says, David went
out and came in before them.
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That go out and come in is acommon cliche that means in the
Bible to fight battles goingout and coming in means you're
the leader in the fighting. Andwe can only imagine Saul's
disappointment when he sendsDavid out, hopefully to be
killed in battle, and instead,David just has more success
than even before a reading forTuesday. First Samuel 18 verses
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one to 16. Welcome toWednesday. Wednesday's. Reading
is first Samuel 18, 17 to 30 .
It's the rest of chapter 18that we did not read yesterday.
One Samuel 18, 17 to 30 is thereading for Wednesday. And I
should note here with all thisbusiness of giving daughters to
David, that David was supposedto get a daughter for defeating
Goliath, chapter 17 verse 25.
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So once again, we see Saul'sduplicity and Solomon doing
what he's supposed to be doingand not keeping his word. Saul
just, he's just not good. It'sjust not good at all. But
everybody besides Saul lovesDavid Saul's daughter, verse
20, love David. It's actuallyvery unusual for the Bible to
say that a woman loves a man.
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So that really stands out tous. And now Saul starts
involving other people in histricks in all these games,
which means more and morepeople will know that he is a
terrible ruler and that he is adeceitful jerk. And in all of
that, we just get more and morehumility by David verse 23.
It's, it's just a little thing.
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I I I'm just nobody. Um, you ,you think it's, it's a little
thing to become the son-in-lawto the king. I can't be that.
It reminds us of Saul when hebegan. Saul says, I'm just
little in my own eyes actually,Samuel says that to him. You
were little in your own eyes.
David is little in his owneyes. He's beaten Goliath, he's
destroyed a ton of Philistinesin battle. He has great success
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and yet he still is not full ofhimself. So I'm keeping my eye
on that because I remember Saulsaid that about himself and ,
and lost his way. What aboutyou, David? Can you hold on to
that kind of humility? So Saulthen says, Hey, it's not about
money. I know that you thinkyou're too poor to be my
son-in-law, be able to pay thebride price to pay a dowry.
What I need you to do is kill ahundred Philistines. And what
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David promptly does is he goesout and he kills more
Philistines sooner than thedeadline. And the result of
that, of course verse 29 isSaul is even more afraid of
David. How intimidated wouldyou be by somebody who can take
care of Philistines like this?
David is not to be trifledwith, and this is a great place
for me to insert a note thateverybody needs to just firmly
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install in their software. Andthat is, David is not this
wispy little effeminateshepherd boy that so many
paintings show him to be.
That's not a guy who can killPhilistines like this. David is
a mighty warrior. He is apowerful, powerful warrior. If
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you need to update your image,start thinking about something,
something out of the movie.
Braveheart, a man who has broadshoulders and huge arms and is
incredibly valiant, unafraid,totally courageous, and who
knows how to use a sword. Thatis David. That's David in one
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Samuel 18, one Samuel 18 verses17 to 30 . That's our reading
for Wednesday. It is Thursday.
It is Thursday, and today we'rereading for Samuel the 19th
chapter. This chapter consistsof four distinct incidents
verses one to seven, versesnine to 10, verses 11 to 17,
and then verses 18 to 24. Keepyour eye here on how many
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people save David. All kinds offolks get involved in saving
David as God uses them to keepDavid alive. And that begins
with Jonathan. Jonathan speaksto his dad and says, you are
doing wrong, verse five,because the Lord has worked a
great salvation for all Israelthrough David. I think this
sets up one of the key themesof the rest of Samuel, and that
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is that Saul knows better, butis determined to have his way
and so he ends up fightingagainst God. In fact, in
yesterday's reading in oneSamuel 18 verse 28, when Saul,
Saul and knew that the Lord waswith David, he knows better. He
knows that God is with Davidand that God has left him
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instead of repenting, insteadof repenting of his error and
of his sin, he just tries allthe harder to destroy David.
That says, everything you needto know about Saul's heart,
Saul is hardening his heartagainst the work of God . And
so verses eight to 10, there'sanother attempt to kill David,
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and this just emphasizes Saul'swickedness because David is a
huge asset to the nation ofIsrael. Verse eight, he fights
against the Philistines andjust wamp him . I , I'm not
sure that's in the Hebrew, butI'm sure it's in the Mark
Roberts international EastTexas version. And still Saul
tries to destroy, tries to killDavid. Then we get this
incident in the house. Michael,his wife, covers for him and
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helps him get out. Pleasenotice verse 11, this is
David's house and the hugequestion, the huge question
everybody has about this is whyis there an idol in David's
house? And that just seemsreally outta place. The image
here is a terra thumb , whichis the term for a household.
God, if you remember back inthe book of Genesis, Rachel
stole those from her fatherLaben , Genesis 31 verse 19.
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And this just does not seemlike something that ought to be
in the house. The writer hereof Samuel just mentions that in
passing because if he's usedthe old dummy mannequin in the
bed trick and it totally works.
But I am uncomfortable with anidol being there. Probably more
to the point, more to thepoint. And yes, there are
excuses made for that. It's abattle trophy, blah, blah ,
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blah , blah . I can makeexcuses for David having an
idol in his house. I'm stilluncomfortable with it. That
said, the point is Michael ismore devoted to David than she
is to Saul. Then Saul pursuesDavid to Al verses 18 to 24.
Welcome to one of the weirdestpassages in the book of Samuel,
because Saul sends messengersto take David and the men
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there, the spirit of God comesupon them and they prophesied.
It seems like this may havebeen one of those schools of
the prophets where they werebeing trained by Samuel later
on, Elijah and Elisha do thiskind of thing. It's a place
where young men preparethemselves to be tools in God's
service. They study the law,they pray so that if God needs
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a prophet, they are availableto serve the Lord and proclaim
his word. And that's the keyhere. When we read the word
prophet or prophesying, wethink of forth telling the
future, saying something aboutwhat is about to happen. We
know I'm a prophet, so I knowwho will win the Super Bowl .
That's probably not a bigprophecy. We all know who's
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gonna win the Super Bowl , butI know about this earthquake
that's going to come or I knowabout this invasion of a
foreign army that's going tocome because I'm a prophet and
God has given me divine insightinto the future, the kind of
insight only God could give,and that's a part of
prophesying I I I understandabout that. You should
understand about that. Andthere are messianic prophecies
for example in the Bible, butmost of the time prophesying is
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not about the future, it'sabout the right. Now
prophesying in the Bible mostof the time is speaking for
God, saying what God once saidin this moment, speaking for
God oftentimes to people whoare not doing what is right,
that is the prophesying that'sgoing on here, and there's
nothing about this that wouldindicate they're in some kind
of ecstatic frenzy, thatthey're babbling, they're doing
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all the things that peopleassociate with the Holy Spirit
and prophesying today. You haveto read that into the text.
It's not in the text. But thenSaul comes and he strips off
his clothes and lays nakedverse 24 all day and all night,
and people say, is Saul amongthe prophets? So there it is.
That's probably the weirdestverse in Samuel, and we have a
lot of questions about what'sgoing on with Saul right there.
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Clearly, this is designed todesigned, this is designed to
connect to what happened toSaul in one Samuel 10, and I
think God is tapping Saul onthe shoulder in saying, Hey, do
you remember how we started? Doyou remember what this was
about? You used to be walkingwith me and I could use you and
empower you and you havecompletely lost your way. Go
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back to the beginning, Saul.
That's what this is about. Thespirit of God has left Saul,
but now the spirit of God givesSaul a second chance. Talk
about grace. That's justincredible. And what about
being naked? That of course,that's very strange, but the
emphasis here is that hestripped off his royal robes.
Naked in the Bible doesn'talways mean if I might use that
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wonderful East Texasexpression, naked as jaybird
when we read the word naked inthe Bible, when there's
somebody and he's in hisbirthday suit, but that is not
the case here. Naked can meantaking off all the garments of
royalty and just being in yourunder tunic. It does not mean
naked as a jaybird , and Ithink the emphasis there is
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that he's been, he's beenremoved of his kingly attire.
You're , you're not the kingand you need to humble yourself
and and get rid of all thisfanciful, I'm the man and these
are my people and look at meand I've got my royal robes on
and my crown and all of that.
Think , think of how dramaticit would be. For example, if
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King Charles were to show up atat at , at a funeral, say of ,
of a soldier who had given hislife and the king arrives with
all the pomp and circumstanceand in his royal robe and crown
and so forth. What if he, whatif he just took all of that off
and set his crown aside and hemarched up and knelt at the
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grave of this soldier dressedin ordinary attire and said,
it's not about the king, it'sabout this soldier that would
make the point. And I thinkthat's what's going on here
with Saul. God is getting hisattention. You are fighting
against me. You can't, you, youcan't win. Saul, go back to the
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start when you were humble,humble yourself and repent. It
is an incredible story of graceand some of the details of that
obscure it for us and make ithard for us to understand, but
I think that's what's happeningin one Samuel chapter 19. I
hope that helps you, ourreading on Thursday, one Samuel
19. Let's find, let's find thePsalms. I'll see you in the
Psalms on Friday. Welcome.
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Welcome to Friday when we arereading in the Psalms, Psalm 59
is our reading for today, andthis fits very well with where
we are in David's life. This isa psalm of lament, a cry for
help from God, and you cancertainly see that David is in
trouble and he has enemies andhe is asking God to take care
of those enemies. I want tonote something special about
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that as we go along. I shouldsay this. When David talks
about his enemies lots of timeshe talks about secret plots. He
talks about being cursed. Hetalks about people saying ugly
things about him. That to Davidis a huge concern, and I think
as we read in Samuel and we seethat David is being slandered
in the court, you know thatthere are people who are
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telling King Saul what he wantsto hear about David King. Saul
is the kind of person who wouldgather yes men , and they are
saying, oh yeah, David, he'splotting against you, David.
He's terrible. He wants toseize the throne. David can't
stand that. People saying harshthings, bad things lies about
him slandering him. That drivesDavid crazy. And what he does
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about that is he takes it tothe Lord. He takes it to God,
deliver me from my enemies, ohmy God, to protect me from
those who rise up against me,deliver me from those who work
evil and save me from bloodthirsty men. They lie and wait
for my life. Fierce men stir upstrife against me. There it is.
Verse three, they're stirringup strife against me. Notice
verse four, David asked God toawake and, and I want to say
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this in the Psalms, we willfind the psalmist oftentimes to
be very, very frank with God. Ifeel like you've lost me. I
feel like you're not listeningto me. I feel like you are
asleep, and I want to say thatwe want to be honest and candid
with God, but we always want tomake certain that we are
reverent in our conversationwith God. One would have to be
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very, very careful to pray.
God, I need you to wake up.
David can pray like that, butwe just need to be very careful
about how we approach God inprayer and what we are saying
to God in our own praying. Soverse nine, David uses the
wonderful expression, mystrength. Oh, my strength. I
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will watch for you. They'rewatching for David. They're
watching his house. He'swatching for God to see what
God will do. Then verse 11really stands out in verse 11.
He says, kill them not lest mypeople forget. Make them totter
by your power and bring themdown. One scholar said the
prayer of verse 11 is unique.
David asked the Lord not toslay the enemy. Suddenly lest
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the people of Israel entertainlight thoughts of the
seriousness of sin, if thepunishment of is gradual, the
severity of God will be moreindelibly impressed upon them.
I think that's important here.
David is concerned about God'sreputation, God's work God's
way, and that people understandthat sin does not pay. And so
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he wants these evil doers to betaken care of. He wants them to
be punished, but he ask God todo that in a specific kind of
fashion that will cause morepeople to turn to God. As we
read in the Psalms, we willread many of these Psalms where
David or the psalmist is askingGod to deal with his enemies.
Those are often calledimprecatory Psalms. When a
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psalmist calls down a curseupon the curse of God upon his
enemies, and sometimes peopleget very bent outta shape about
that, I thought we're supposedto love our enemies. We'll talk
more about that as the yeargoes along. But I think here's
a great place to notice whatDavid is concerned about is
God's righteousness beingvindicated. Not that he
necessarily is particularlysaved. If it's all about David,
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he just say , zap 'em God andget it over with instead. Verse
17, oh my strength. I will singpraises unto you for you, oh
God, are my fortress, the Godwho shows me steadfast love.
There it is steadfast. Lovethat unique and special term
for God's covenant. Love Godloving us when we are unworthy,
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Hello, and welcome to the Westside churches
special Monday Morning Coffeepodcast on this podcast, our
preacher Mark Roberts will helpyou get your week started
right. With look back atyesterday's sermon so that we
can think through it furtherand better work the
applications into our dailylives . Mark will then look
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forward into this week's Biblereading so that we can know
what to expect and watch for.
And, he may have some extrabonus thoughts from time to
time. So grab a cup of coffeeas we start the week together
on Monday Morning Coffee withMark.
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Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to the Monday
Morning Coffee podcast forMonday, February the third. The
day after America allows afurry rodent to forecast the
weather for us, and that isamazing. I am all in on punks
the honey fill . I've got myBible open and I have a cup of
coffee and I do have somesermon notes from yesterday.
Sermon. It was a great day atWest Side coming off a
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wonderful singing Friday night.
So many great things going onat West Side . God has blessed
us tremendously and we just getto enjoy the blessings of all
of that. I've got it all. Readyto go for a tremendous podcast
this week. Pour that cup ofcoffee. Let's get ready, let's
get set. Let's go. Yesterday inthe 10 40 hour, I preached a a
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sermon about the pattern ofsalvation, what Luke's stories
and acts teach us, and I reallywanted to work hard on that
first point to think aboutbaptism. We always have folks
who are visiting. We alwayshave people who probably know
enough to take that step. Theyjust need a little push. And I
hope that sermon gave us anopportunity to all think about
baptism and its vital role inour salvation together. But I
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did want to build out someother points in acts and that
is that anybody can beconverted to Christ and we
ought to want to do thatimmediately. We ought to want
to be baptized immediately,especially then the idea that
no one is good enough to beexempt from conversion. That
whew . You get to people whoare going to church on Sunday
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and they're standing around awhole lot of Christians and it
becomes very easy for them tosay, you know, I'm , I'm like
these people and I'm not a badperson. And so I think I'm, I
think I'm good. And that ofcourse is not the case at all.
I did make mention of how notevery conversion story in the
Book of Acts culminates inbaptism and I wanna follow up
and expand on that because Ihave seen charts where bunch of
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conversion stories may be 10 or11 of Luke's conversion.
Stories are charted out andthere's five columns there.
Faith, repentance, confession,baptism, oh, I'm sorry. The
first column of course would behere, here, faith, repentance,
confession, baptism, andthere's just a row of check
marks down the baptism column.
Bubu hum . Maybe not every timeit's said they heard, maybe not
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every time repentance ismentioned specifically, but
baptism is there every singletime. And I do want to stand by
what I preached yesterday inthe 11 or so detailed
conversion stories that Lukeuses in acts to make his major
points. All of them culminatein the water, all of them end
up in the baptistry. But thereare some places sometimes when
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Luke is on the way to makinganother point, that Luke will
simply summarize a conversionstory by saying, for example,
acts 11 and 20, A great numberbelieved and turned to the
Lord, turned to the Lord. Thatis his expression there, which
would include repentance,confession, and baptism. And I
I want to emphasize to beclear, that doesn't mean they
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weren't baptized or that youdon't have to be. It just means
that Luke is summarizing theirstories with expressions like
believed or turned to the Lordin Acts 1734. Some men joined
him and believed among them wasDIYs , the Areopagite and a
woman named Demarius and otherswith them. And I would say
again, if not mentioningbaptism specifically means that
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people can be saved without it,then logically that would mean
you could be saved withoutfaith because there are plenty
of people in the Book of Actswho are said to become
Christians and the text neverspecifies that they had faith.
For example, Lydia, she hearsus , uh, one who heard us was a
woman named Lydia from the cityof thy Tyra , a seller of
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purple goods who was a worshipof God. The Lord opened her
heart to pay attention to whatwas said by Paul and after she
was baptized, no statementthere, explicit statement there
that she came to faith. So it'simportant not to overstate our
case. Don't be telling peopleevery conversion in the book of
Acts ends in baptism. That'sjust simply not. So we want to
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take all that Luke says indeed,all that the scriptures say.
And when we do that,particularly when you look at
the major stories where Luke ismaking his emphasis, it is
clear baptism is essential andnecessary to salvation. That's
part of the pattern ofsalvation. What Luke's stories
in acts teach us today, I hopethat sermon helps you to think
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more about the conversions inthe Book of Acts. And if you
have not been baptized, I hopethat you will be baptized for
the mission of your sins sothat you be a Christian like
those in the Book of Acts. Getyour Bible now and let's head
over to Samuel and let's seewhat's going on in daily Bible
reading. It is Monday and ourreading for Monday is one
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Samuel 17 verses 24 to 50 .
Today we conclude the David andSaul story. Were you thinking I
was going to say David andGoliath? It's not David and
Goliath. This is about Davidand Saul. And the center verse
of all of this I think is inverse 32. David said to Saul,
let no man's heart fail becauseof him. Where has Saul been
during the 40 days that thePhilistine, that's how he's
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referenced here more than withhis name Goliath. What Saul
been doing, the 40 days thatthe Philistine has been
taunting the armies of Israel,he's been hiding in his tent.
And the contrast here betweenDavid's faith and courage and
Saul's utter cowardice couldnot be sharper. Saul is full of
fear and he's failing. David isfull of faith and he is
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succeeding. He doesn't needarmor, he doesn't need any of
that. He has faith in God. Andmaybe what you're asking is how
can I get that kind of faith?
And I love that. And noticeverse seven, that's a verse 37.
That's a great question weasking. I wanna be like David
and first 37 helps us see, weget faith in God when we look
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at our past and give God thecredit for our victories. In
the past, if you're takingthings on and then you decide
after this difficult situation,your brilliance, your skills,
your people abilities, that'swhat won the day. That's how
come you got the promotion.
That's how come you were ableto deal with this temptation.
You will never build the kindof faith that David has. You
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have to look at your past andsee God's hand , see the
providence of God, see what Godis doing to bring you to this
point and that builds faith.
David marches out onto thebattlefield. Goliath is
taunting him. Verse 44, theworst possible taunt, you will
not get a decent burial toIsraelite people, to Jewish
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people. This is just horrible,the thought that my body would
be mistreated. Ah , just can'teven handle that. David's heart
is full of faith. He speaksthat faith and just constantly
talks about what God will dounderlining in your Bible, all
that the God of the armies ofIsrael will do this day, the
Lord will deliver you. Verse46, so that all the earth may
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know there's a God in Israel.
God's reputation is at stake.
David says, and I know Godwon't let me down. God's not
saving with sword because thebattle is the Lord's verse 47.
And of course David pulls out astone, fires it at Goliath.
Notice the skill that David hashere with a slingshot. God uses
people with skill. God useswhat you bring to the table.
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This is considerable amounts ofskill, even if God is
providentially or evenmiraculously guiding the rock.
Goliath is down. The men ofIsrael, verse 52, rose with a
shadow pursued the Philistines.
No mention of Saul, no mentionof Saul. Saul is not in that
battle. He's not running withhim . He's not saying, come on
boys, that guy's our leader. Hejust seems to be back at the
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camp verse 55. And of coursethere's lots of discussion
about this. What's the deal inverse 55? I thought he knew
David. David has been in thecourt before. Maybe. Maybe he
didn't recognize David who hadbeen there before. Maybe he has
overcome with a bad spirit whenDavid is there and thus he
doesn't have a good memory forfaces. Not entirely sure talked
about that a little bit earlierwhen we were in one Samuel 16,
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beginning in about verse 14where that earlier meeting
between Saul and David isdiscussed. Maybe that's out of
order chronologically, but thepoint of all of this is David
is the king that Israel needs.
He is a man after God's ownheart. And if we are tracking
what it means to be a man afterGod's God's own heart, it means
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we have faith in God, whichgives us courage to do God's
work. What an incredible andwonderful story. Our reading
for Monday. First Samuel 17verses 24 to 50. Welcome to
Tuesday. Today our reading isFirst Samuel 18, one to 16 .
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The reading for Tuesday isfirst Samuel 18, one to 16 . I
would say a couple things as weget underway and first Samuel
18. First and foremost, let meremind you, there's no zoom
call tonight because the eldersmeet on the first Tuesday of
the month and sometimes I meetwith them and we lose a couple
of elders out of our zoom callwhen they're meeting. So no
zoom tonight. But notice therepetition, the reputation, the
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repetition of David'sreputation. Try saying that
without a big slug of coffee.
Notice this in the text thatthe word successful is
repeated. Verse five, David wawent out and was successful.
14, he had success. Verse 15,Saul saw that he had great
success. Verse 30, the princesof the Philistines came out and
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as often as they came out,David had more success. Success
is a big idea here and it isstipulated why he is a success.
Verse 12, because the Lord waswith him in verse 14, for the
Lord was with him. Verse 28,the Lord was with David. This
is about David and about Godblessing David and using David.
And that begins as we see withthis friendship with Jonathan
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Saul's son . Jonathan justdelights in David and it does.
It does seem like there is justan immediate friendship. They
just click. They have similargoals, similar faith, similar
desires, and they justimmediately are drawn to each
other. Jonathan makes acovenant with David because he
loved him as his own soul. Butwhat attracts Jonathan to
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David, of course, is his greatfaith. All the things that he
said on the battlefield infront of Goliath, all the
things that he said there thatled to this great victory. It
seems to me that if you want tohave a great friend like
Jonathan , what you need to dois demonstrate great faith like
David did. And when you seesomebody who is demonstrating
great faith, if you are likeJonathan , then you will want
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to be friends with them .
Please notice then verse five,as David went out and was
successful, this termsuccessful is also rendered
prospered in the Nu Americanstandard, but but the new King
James, and that's certainly notmy favorite translation by any
stretch of the imagination, butthe new king James May have it
best here because the new kingJames says he behaved wisely.
And the term for successfulhere is a term with a broad
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range of meanings, and part ofthat meaning can be wise. It is
the term in Genesis three, six,Adam and Eve saw that eating
the fruit of the forbidden treewas desirable to make one,
wise, wise, successful, able,able to navigate life with all
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of its difficulties. I've saidthis many, many times as we've
talked about biblical wisdom,particularly in the wisdom
literature. Biblically wisdomin in scripture is not this
weird academic or esoteric ideawhere you're out of touch with
reality and useless. You kindof spout off bizarre amorphism
and and , and you say thingsand nobody really understands
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what you mean. But everybodygoes away and says, wow, that's
just so profound. Even thoughthey don't have a clue what
you're talking about. No, no,no, no, no. Biblically wisdom
is about common sense. It isconnected to real life. And
when people have that kind ofdivine common sense, biblical
common sense, they are able todo well and to be successful.
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Saul of course is not happyabout this. We start to see
jealousy growing in his life.
The green-eyed monster is a bigpart of this. Verse 10. He has
this harmful spirit. We talkedabout that back in chapter 16.
This is something that Godallows because Saul doesn't
want to do what's right andSaul here attacks David for the
first time, but the Lord iswith him and he's not able to
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kill David. I should say this,Saul's fears here are
completely unjustified. Thereis never any indication during
the entirety of Saul's reignthat there was ever a
rebellion, a mutiny or anyattempt on David's part to
replace the king, to be theking by some kind of nefarious
means a palace coup. Davidnever does that and never would
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do that. This is nothing butraging paranoia, Judah and
Israel. Verse 16, love David.
Notice the seeds of thatseparation are already there
when the kingdom fracturesafter Solomon. Nobody should be
surprised. Already we'retalking about Israel and Judah,
we're already seeing that. Andthen verse 16 says, David went
out and came in before them.
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That go out and come in is acommon cliche that means in the
Bible to fight battles goingout and coming in means you're
the leader in the fighting. Andwe can only imagine Saul's
disappointment when he sendsDavid out, hopefully to be
killed in battle, and instead,David just has more success
than even before a reading forTuesday. First Samuel 18 verses
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one to 16. Welcome toWednesday. Wednesday's. Reading
is first Samuel 18, 17 to 30 .
It's the rest of chapter 18that we did not read yesterday.
One Samuel 18, 17 to 30 is thereading for Wednesday. And I
should note here with all thisbusiness of giving daughters to
David, that David was supposedto get a daughter for defeating
Goliath, chapter 17 verse 25.
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So once again, we see Saul'sduplicity and Solomon doing
what he's supposed to be doingand not keeping his word. Saul
just, he's just not good. It'sjust not good at all. But
everybody besides Saul lovesDavid Saul's daughter, verse
20, love David. It's actuallyvery unusual for the Bible to
say that a woman loves a man.
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So that really stands out tous. And now Saul starts
involving other people in histricks in all these games,
which means more and morepeople will know that he is a
terrible ruler and that he is adeceitful jerk. And in all of
that, we just get more and morehumility by David verse 23.
It's, it's just a little thing.
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I I I'm just nobody. Um, you ,you think it's, it's a little
thing to become the son-in-lawto the king. I can't be that.
It reminds us of Saul when hebegan. Saul says, I'm just
little in my own eyes actually,Samuel says that to him. You
were little in your own eyes.
David is little in his owneyes. He's beaten Goliath, he's
destroyed a ton of Philistinesin battle. He has great success
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and yet he still is not full ofhimself. So I'm keeping my eye
on that because I remember Saulsaid that about himself and ,
and lost his way. What aboutyou, David? Can you hold on to
that kind of humility? So Saulthen says, Hey, it's not about
money. I know that you thinkyou're too poor to be my
son-in-law, be able to pay thebride price to pay a dowry.
What I need you to do is kill ahundred Philistines. And what
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David promptly does is he goesout and he kills more
Philistines sooner than thedeadline. And the result of
that, of course verse 29 isSaul is even more afraid of
David. How intimidated wouldyou be by somebody who can take
care of Philistines like this?
David is not to be trifledwith, and this is a great place
for me to insert a note thateverybody needs to just firmly
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install in their software. Andthat is, David is not this
wispy little effeminateshepherd boy that so many
paintings show him to be.
That's not a guy who can killPhilistines like this. David is
a mighty warrior. He is apowerful, powerful warrior. If
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you need to update your image,start thinking about something,
something out of the movie.
Braveheart, a man who has broadshoulders and huge arms and is
incredibly valiant, unafraid,totally courageous, and who
knows how to use a sword. Thatis David. That's David in one
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Samuel 18, one Samuel 18 verses17 to 30 . That's our reading
for Wednesday. It is Thursday.
It is Thursday, and today we'rereading for Samuel the 19th
chapter. This chapter consistsof four distinct incidents
verses one to seven, versesnine to 10, verses 11 to 17,
and then verses 18 to 24. Keepyour eye here on how many
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people save David. All kinds offolks get involved in saving
David as God uses them to keepDavid alive. And that begins
with Jonathan. Jonathan speaksto his dad and says, you are
doing wrong, verse five,because the Lord has worked a
great salvation for all Israelthrough David. I think this
sets up one of the key themesof the rest of Samuel, and that
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is that Saul knows better, butis determined to have his way
and so he ends up fightingagainst God. In fact, in
yesterday's reading in oneSamuel 18 verse 28, when Saul,
Saul and knew that the Lord waswith David, he knows better. He
knows that God is with Davidand that God has left him
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instead of repenting, insteadof repenting of his error and
of his sin, he just tries allthe harder to destroy David.
That says, everything you needto know about Saul's heart,
Saul is hardening his heartagainst the work of God . And
so verses eight to 10, there'sanother attempt to kill David,
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and this just emphasizes Saul'swickedness because David is a
huge asset to the nation ofIsrael. Verse eight, he fights
against the Philistines andjust wamp him . I , I'm not
sure that's in the Hebrew, butI'm sure it's in the Mark
Roberts international EastTexas version. And still Saul
tries to destroy, tries to killDavid. Then we get this
incident in the house. Michael,his wife, covers for him and
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helps him get out. Pleasenotice verse 11, this is
David's house and the hugequestion, the huge question
everybody has about this is whyis there an idol in David's
house? And that just seemsreally outta place. The image
here is a terra thumb , whichis the term for a household.
God, if you remember back inthe book of Genesis, Rachel
stole those from her fatherLaben , Genesis 31 verse 19.
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And this just does not seemlike something that ought to be
in the house. The writer hereof Samuel just mentions that in
passing because if he's usedthe old dummy mannequin in the
bed trick and it totally works.
But I am uncomfortable with anidol being there. Probably more
to the point, more to thepoint. And yes, there are
excuses made for that. It's abattle trophy, blah, blah ,
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blah , blah . I can makeexcuses for David having an
idol in his house. I'm stilluncomfortable with it. That
said, the point is Michael ismore devoted to David than she
is to Saul. Then Saul pursuesDavid to Al verses 18 to 24.
Welcome to one of the weirdestpassages in the book of Samuel,
because Saul sends messengersto take David and the men
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there, the spirit of God comesupon them and they prophesied.
It seems like this may havebeen one of those schools of
the prophets where they werebeing trained by Samuel later
on, Elijah and Elisha do thiskind of thing. It's a place
where young men preparethemselves to be tools in God's
service. They study the law,they pray so that if God needs
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a prophet, they are availableto serve the Lord and proclaim
his word. And that's the keyhere. When we read the word
prophet or prophesying, wethink of forth telling the
future, saying something aboutwhat is about to happen. We
know I'm a prophet, so I knowwho will win the Super Bowl .
That's probably not a bigprophecy. We all know who's
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gonna win the Super Bowl , butI know about this earthquake
that's going to come or I knowabout this invasion of a
foreign army that's going tocome because I'm a prophet and
God has given me divine insightinto the future, the kind of
insight only God could give,and that's a part of
prophesying I I I understandabout that. You should
understand about that. Andthere are messianic prophecies
for example in the Bible, butmost of the time prophesying is
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not about the future, it'sabout the right. Now
prophesying in the Bible mostof the time is speaking for
God, saying what God once saidin this moment, speaking for
God oftentimes to people whoare not doing what is right,
that is the prophesying that'sgoing on here, and there's
nothing about this that wouldindicate they're in some kind
of ecstatic frenzy, thatthey're babbling, they're doing
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all the things that peopleassociate with the Holy Spirit
and prophesying today. You haveto read that into the text.
It's not in the text. But thenSaul comes and he strips off
his clothes and lays nakedverse 24 all day and all night,
and people say, is Saul amongthe prophets? So there it is.
That's probably the weirdestverse in Samuel, and we have a
lot of questions about what'sgoing on with Saul right there.
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Clearly, this is designed todesigned, this is designed to
connect to what happened toSaul in one Samuel 10, and I
think God is tapping Saul onthe shoulder in saying, Hey, do
you remember how we started? Doyou remember what this was
about? You used to be walkingwith me and I could use you and
empower you and you havecompletely lost your way. Go
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back to the beginning, Saul.
That's what this is about. Thespirit of God has left Saul,
but now the spirit of God givesSaul a second chance. Talk
about grace. That's justincredible. And what about
being naked? That of course,that's very strange, but the
emphasis here is that hestripped off his royal robes.
Naked in the Bible doesn'talways mean if I might use that
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wonderful East Texasexpression, naked as jaybird
when we read the word naked inthe Bible, when there's
somebody and he's in hisbirthday suit, but that is not
the case here. Naked can meantaking off all the garments of
royalty and just being in yourunder tunic. It does not mean
naked as a jaybird , and Ithink the emphasis there is
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that he's been, he's beenremoved of his kingly attire.
You're , you're not the kingand you need to humble yourself
and and get rid of all thisfanciful, I'm the man and these
are my people and look at meand I've got my royal robes on
and my crown and all of that.
Think , think of how dramaticit would be. For example, if
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King Charles were to show up atat at , at a funeral, say of ,
of a soldier who had given hislife and the king arrives with
all the pomp and circumstanceand in his royal robe and crown
and so forth. What if he, whatif he just took all of that off
and set his crown aside and hemarched up and knelt at the
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grave of this soldier dressedin ordinary attire and said,
it's not about the king, it'sabout this soldier that would
make the point. And I thinkthat's what's going on here
with Saul. God is getting hisattention. You are fighting
against me. You can't, you, youcan't win. Saul, go back to the
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start when you were humble,humble yourself and repent. It
is an incredible story of graceand some of the details of that
obscure it for us and make ithard for us to understand, but
I think that's what's happeningin one Samuel chapter 19. I
hope that helps you, ourreading on Thursday, one Samuel
19. Let's find, let's find thePsalms. I'll see you in the
Psalms on Friday. Welcome.
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Welcome to Friday when we arereading in the Psalms, Psalm 59
is our reading for today, andthis fits very well with where
we are in David's life. This isa psalm of lament, a cry for
help from God, and you cancertainly see that David is in
trouble and he has enemies andhe is asking God to take care
of those enemies. I want tonote something special about
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that as we go along. I shouldsay this. When David talks
about his enemies lots of timeshe talks about secret plots. He
talks about being cursed. Hetalks about people saying ugly
things about him. That to Davidis a huge concern, and I think
as we read in Samuel and we seethat David is being slandered
in the court, you know thatthere are people who are
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telling King Saul what he wantsto hear about David King. Saul
is the kind of person who wouldgather yes men , and they are
saying, oh yeah, David, he'splotting against you, David.
He's terrible. He wants toseize the throne. David can't
stand that. People saying harshthings, bad things lies about
him slandering him. That drivesDavid crazy. And what he does
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about that is he takes it tothe Lord. He takes it to God,
deliver me from my enemies, ohmy God, to protect me from
those who rise up against me,deliver me from those who work
evil and save me from bloodthirsty men. They lie and wait
for my life. Fierce men stir upstrife against me. There it is.
Verse three, they're stirringup strife against me. Notice
verse four, David asked God toawake and, and I want to say
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this in the Psalms, we willfind the psalmist oftentimes to
be very, very frank with God. Ifeel like you've lost me. I
feel like you're not listeningto me. I feel like you are
asleep, and I want to say thatwe want to be honest and candid
with God, but we always want tomake certain that we are
reverent in our conversationwith God. One would have to be
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very, very careful to pray.
God, I need you to wake up.
David can pray like that, butwe just need to be very careful
about how we approach God inprayer and what we are saying
to God in our own praying. Soverse nine, David uses the
wonderful expression, mystrength. Oh, my strength. I
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will watch for you. They'rewatching for David. They're
watching his house. He'swatching for God to see what
God will do. Then verse 11really stands out in verse 11.
He says, kill them not lest mypeople forget. Make them totter
by your power and bring themdown. One scholar said the
prayer of verse 11 is unique.
David asked the Lord not toslay the enemy. Suddenly lest
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the people of Israel entertainlight thoughts of the
seriousness of sin, if thepunishment of is gradual, the
severity of God will be moreindelibly impressed upon them.
I think that's important here.
David is concerned about God'sreputation, God's work God's
way, and that people understandthat sin does not pay. And so
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he wants these evil doers to betaken care of. He wants them to
be punished, but he ask God todo that in a specific kind of
fashion that will cause morepeople to turn to God. As we
read in the Psalms, we willread many of these Psalms where
David or the psalmist is askingGod to deal with his enemies.
Those are often calledimprecatory Psalms. When a
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psalmist calls down a curseupon the curse of God upon his
enemies, and sometimes peopleget very bent outta shape about
that, I thought we're supposedto love our enemies. We'll talk
more about that as the yeargoes along. But I think here's
a great place to notice whatDavid is concerned about is
God's righteousness beingvindicated. Not that he
necessarily is particularlysaved. If it's all about David,
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he just say , zap 'em God andget it over with instead. Verse
17, oh my strength. I will singpraises unto you for you, oh
God, are my fortress, the Godwho shows me steadfast love.
There it is steadfast. Lovethat unique and special term
for God's covenant. Love Godloving us when we are unworthy,
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God loving us because hepromised he would do so, that's
our reading for Friday, Psalm59. Thank you for listening to
the podcast this week. If it'shelping you, I hope that you
are telling others so that itcan help more people gain from
their Bible reading andcontinue the spiritual momentum
that we start on Sunday in thepreaching of God's Word all
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through their week. Tell morepeople about the podcast and of
course, leave a rating andreview if you would please. So
until next week, then, when weopen our Bibles together, I'm
Mark Roberts and I wanna go toheaven, and I want you to come
to I'll see you on Monday withwith a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Thanks for listening to the Westside Church of
Christ Podcast. Monday morningCoffee with Mark. For more
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