July 23, 2025 • 73 mins
In this revelatory teaching, we journey through 1 Samuel to uncover what happens when the glory of God departs from leadership while the structure remains intact.
The biblical account of Saul and David unveils a terrifying spiritual reality: God can reject a leader while allowing them to continue functioning in position. Saul's reign exemplifies how fear-driven decisions lead to spiritual bankruptcy, even as outward victories continue. This creates "The Church of Ichabod"—where the glory has departed but operations continue without anyone noticing the difference.
What makes this message particularly gripping is the contrast between fear and faith. While Saul and his army trembled before Goliath, young David ran toward the battle. While established leadership sought safety in numbers, Jonathan and his armor bearer demonstrated that "nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few." Their radical faith initiatives triggered divine intervention—even causing the earth to tremble.
Most sobering is the realization that success doesn't equal approval. Saul won numerous military victories after God had already rejected him, creating a dangerous self-deception where repentance seemed unnecessary. The message serves as a warning against interpreting success as divine endorsement while ignoring clear prophetic correction.
For those facing challenging church environments, David's example offers wisdom—faithfully serving where God has placed you until clearly directed elsewhere. His respect for established authority balanced with his courage to follow divine leading models how believers should navigate complex spiritual territories today.
Has the glory departed from the place where you serve? Are you measuring your spiritual condition by outward success rather than inward obedience? This message will challenge your understanding of victory, rebellion, and what it truly means to have God's presence in your life and ministry.
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j - Jesus M. Ruiz (00:03):
The vision received was that of blood cells
traveling throughout the body,supplying the much-needed oxygen
and other nutrients to thediffering members of the body to
fulfill their purpose.
Once the blood cells are spent,they must return back to the
heart to be refilled beforebeing sent out again and fulfill
their purpose and fulfill theirpurpose.
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When I last shared a messagehere, I started off in 1 Samuel,
because that's what I was in 13.
And I branched off from thereand as I started to do this
message, god wanted me tocontinue on in 1 Samuel and he
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brought to my remembrance thatin Romans 15, 4, it says that
whatsoever things were writtenaforetime were written for our
learning and that we, throughpatience and comfort of the
scriptures, might have hope.
And for some reason, I wasreading that with the kids
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recently and asking them how isit that we have hope through the
scriptures?
What are all of these stories?
People say that really accounts,biblical, factual accounts,
historical accounts of thingsthat took place, and how are
they supposed to help us in ourlearning?
And as I taught the kids, I wasjust realizing well, it's
because our lives and ourstruggles and our tribulations
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have already been experienced bymany saints before us, and so
everything that they've gonethrough is to be for our
learning, and so everything thatthey've gone through is to be
for our learning.
It was the whole purpose ofhaving a written Bible, rather
than having it passed on by wordof mouth.
It was written down so that itwould teach us and we would
learn from the saints of thepast, from the wicked of the
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past.
We would learn to see how Goddeals with us, how God deals
with the wicked, how God dealswith the righteous.
It says also in 1 Corinthians10 that all these things happen
unto them for ensamples, andthey are written for our
admonition upon whom the ends ofthe world has come.
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An ensample is like anotherfancy type of word for an
example.
In this case it's an example ofa pattern, a pattern that we
should conform ourselves to, apattern that we should imitate.
And sometimes it's not only apattern that we should imitate,
but it's a pattern that weshould not imitate, that we
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should dissuade us, it should bea warning to us not to follow
in that footsteps or thatperson's footsteps.
And so, in knowing that thescriptures were written down
purposefully to teach us whatand what not to follow, we can
never read these scriptures.
We can never read this Biblelike it was a regular book of
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fiction where we're justentertained by the fanciful
story.
There's drama, there's evil,there's wickedness, there's
vileness, there's adventure,there's action, there's anything
that you could find in afictional book.
But it's factual and it'sspiritual, because the things
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that happen in the past are toteach us how we are to walk out
our life today with the Lord.
Not only is it factual, butit's written for the express
intent of teaching us untoChrist.
It was our schoolmaster, it isour tutor and it's supposed to
lead us to Christ.
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And we sometimes don't get that.
We don't realize that all ofthose scriptures are not so that
we have a list of do's anddon'ts, because the law does not
give you the power to beperfect.
It's supposed to lead you toChrist, to realize that you
cannot on your own do what isnecessary.
So I need to lead you to me,and the salvation and the
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redemption is through me.
And so I want to start at 1Samuel 13.
So if you'll turn there, I'm.
I mean, I wish I could spendall day reading every single
scripture through the chapters,because I have a lot of chapters
that go through.
But I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to do a lot ofsummarizing and I hope that you
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already know the story I'm justgoing to sort of highlight here.
So I feel like a waiter and I'mjust going to sort of serve you
the dishes that the Lord hasmade for us in the scriptures
and then you're going to eitherlike it or dislike it.
And what would be my fault?
Because I'm not the chef, I'msimply a waiter In Saul excuse
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me in 1 Samuel 13,.
We're in the midst of Saul'slife.
Saul has already been chosenand anointed by Samuel as the
first king of Israel, againstGod's wishes, but he just did
whatever the people wanted.
He says do it, do it anyway.
And he had reigned as king overIsrael for approximately two
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years by this point, and he hadalready defeated the Ammonites
and he now was about to gobattle the Philistines.
And Saul, in this particularchapter, had chosen 3,000 men.
1,000 stayed with his sonJonathan, 2,000 remained with
him.
And in this chapter itdescribes how the Philistines
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came with 30,000 chariots 30,000chariots, 6,000 horsemen.
That's just chariots andhorsemen.
Guys, that's not men.
All Saul had was 3,000 men.
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And they had 30,000 chariots,6,000 horsemen and a multitude
of men that the author of Samuelcould not even number.
It describes them as the sandwhich is on the seashore.
That's how many of them therewere.
That's 3,000 men.
And what I want to highlighthere is that Israel is a type of
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the church.
The men of Israel says that thechurch in the wilderness.
Well, the church in thewilderness was the Israelites
that came out of Egypt.
Well, these are the Israelitesthat are already out of Egypt
and they're already having aking in their promised land.
So they're still the church,they are the people of God.
And when they saw, what do youthink happened?
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When they saw 30,000 chariotsand 6,000 horsemen and a
multitude of the enemy that theycouldn't even number, what do
you think they did?
Pardon me, nope, they hid.
They hid in caves, they hid inrocks, they hid in thickets.
They hid in caves, they hid inrocks.
They hid in thickets.
They hid in high places.
They hid in pits.
All of this is in verse 7, ifyou're there, and whoever
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remained with Saul, because somany of them scattered, of the
3,000, so many of them scattered, and those who actually
remained with Saul weretrembling.
There was fear run rampantthrough the house of God.
And in this chapter of thescriptures we begin to see the
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downfall of Saul, and he's only,he's only reigned for two years
, but we begin to see how, whathe did that caused his downfall
as the rain in his reign as king.
Now, he went to a particularplace of battle and he was told
to remain there and wait forSamuel.
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Samuel was going to come inseven days.
Samuel was the seer, he was theprophet and he told him to do
this and Samuel didn't come.
At the time that Saul thoughthe should come, time was running
out, his people of the 3,000scattered.
The people that remained withhim were in fear and trembling.
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So he didn't have 3,000 peopleanymore and all he saw was
30,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemenand a multitude of the enemy
that he could not even numberwith his wee little less than
3,000 now, and Samuel had notshown up.
And so he decides to bring insacrifices, because he said
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we're going to go to battle,we've got to sacrifice unto the
Lord.
And he then does things thatonly the priest is allowed to do
, and he burned offerings andpeace offerings.
And he did this, it says out offear.
He feared the Philistines.
His men were trembling in fear.
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That stayed with him.
They were scattered throughout.
They even left the area intoother areas of Israel.
And it says in verse 12, I wantyou to look at this, because it
says in verse 12 that fearforced him.
He believed that he was forcedto do what he did and that fear
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led him to do that.
He made a preemptive,presumptuous move and this fear
marked Saul's reign, the rest ofhis days, and for this his
destiny was forever altered.
Samuel decreed that the Lordwould have established his
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kingdom upon Israel forever.
That day, read with me 1 Samuel13, verses 14 and 15.
But now thy kingdom shall notcontinue.
The Lord hath sought him a manafter his own heart, and the
Lord hath commanded him to becaptain over his people.
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Because thou hast not kept thatwhich the Lord commanded thee,
because thou hast not kept thatwhich the Lord commanded thee.
But now thy kingdom shall notcontinue.
The Lord hath sought him a manafter his own heart, and the
Lord hath commanded him to becaptain over his people because
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thou hast not kept that whichthe Lord commanded thee.
In this chapter, saul leavesSamuel.
He left him in Gilgal and hewent up to Gibeah.
And in that moment, in verse 17, it says that the Philistines
divided themselves into threecompanies.
They were about ready to attack, and at the end of this chapter
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we see it says at the end ofthis chapter, that there was no
smiths found in Israel.
Smiths meaning coppersmiths,ironsmiths, people that worked
with metals.
There were none found in Israel.
So not only do we have lessthan 3,000 men against a
multitude of Philistines, butthey don't even have weapons to
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fight with.
They don't have swords.
They don't have shields,because there's no smiths in
Israel.
As a matter of fact, it saysthat when they needed something
sharpened of metal, they went tothe Philistines.
They got it sharpened and thenthey came back and used it, or
they had their own littlesharpening utensils, but they
could not manufacture their ownweapons of war.
And the Philistines did that onpurpose.
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So they had no swords, they hadno spears, and the Philistines
were about to rush them.
And so we turn to 1 Samuel 14.
And if you read thesescriptures and you realize okay,
he ends the chapter with themen stayed with.
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Saul only numbered 600.
When Samuel left Saul, henumbered his men and there were
only 600 left.
There were no weapons of warand the Philistines were divided
out into three companies andthey were about to attack.
And then we read of 1 Samuel 14.
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And here we focus on Jonathan.
Jonathan is Saul's son, he's amember of the church of Israel
and one of the few of the 600that remained with King Saul.
But he did something radically,radically different than anyone
else in the camp, including hisfather.
Without telling his father, hesecretly tells his armor bearer
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we're going to go into the campof the Philistines, he says in
verse 6 and 7,.
The camp of the Philistines.
He says in verse 6 and 7, come,let us go over unto the garrison
of these uncircumcised.
It may be that the Lord willwork for us, for there is no
restraint to the Lord to save bymany or by few.
And his armor bearer said untohim Do all that is in thine
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heart, turn thee.
Behold, I am with theeaccording to thy heart.
And what I see?
Different in Jonathan than Isaw in his father, because what
we saw in his father was fear,fear in all the men.
Jonathan responds in faith andhis faith is proactive.
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This is teaching us somethingabout faith.
It needs to be proactive.
It doesn't wait on the defense,it doesn't wait in fear and in
trembling for the enemy toattack.
So he goes out, he takes theinitiative Within his delegated
boundaries, he takes his faithand he goes about and does
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something radically differentthan anybody else.
He wasn't in disobedience.
It's not like he was told nobodygo attack the Philistines.
He just took the initiative.
It doesn't seek to destroy hisfaith, but it seeks to fulfill
something.
And Jesus said I come to not todestroy but to fulfill.
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And so we read in verse 9 and10.
This is him declaring his faith.
He says if they say unto us,tarry until we come to you, then
we shall stand in our place,he's saying.
if the Philistines will say hey,wait, a second wait till we
come down to you, we're going tostay right where we're at.
But then he says but if they saythus, come unto us, then we
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will go up, for the Lord hathdelivered them into our hand and
this shall be a sign unto us.
There isn't anything wrong withdeclaring a faith with a
condition of a sign, becauseyou're waiting upon God.
He comes and gives adeclaration.
If they call to us to come upto them, we're going to go,
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because that's a sign unto usthat he's given them into our
hands.
But if they don't and they say,hey, wait till we come down to
you, we're not going up.
So it's the condition of faiththat is within him because he's
waiting on the Lord.
He's got this idea, he's gotthis crazy idea, but he gives
himself a sign Lord, speak to me.
Depending on what they do, I'mgoing to do this.
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And then he just waits.
What is the Lord going to do?
And so faith doesn't declarewhat it can't do, it declares
what it will do.
When the Philistines sawJonathan and his armor bearer,
they invited them to come up andJonathan, immediately, it says,
rose up in his faith,responding to the sign that his
faith declared.
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And so he followed.
And you know what he did in ahalf acre you guys know what an
acre is right, in a half acre ofland him and his armor bear
slew 20 Philistines all bythemselves.
And God got so excited I'mserious, God got so excited that
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the earth started to tremble.
There was an earthquake.
When Jonathan accomplished whathe did, God got excited.
He excites himself and rejoiceswhen a man of faith comes up
and does something in his name,in his power, and he gets
excited and all the earthtrembled.
And when all the earth trembled, all the Philistines began to
tremble and all the earthtrembled,
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all the Israelites began totremble wondering what's going
on.
Yes, He got excited about whatJonathan was doing in his name
because he wasn't responding infear.
And then Saul wonders what'sgoing on.
He starts numbering his men andhe realizes he is too missing.
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He realizes Jonathan and hisarmor bearer.
I'm not going very deep intothat, I'm just highlighting that
for you because there's a greatmessage of faith there.
It says at the end in verse 23,so the Lord saved Israel that
day Because once that happened,the multitude of the enemy began
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to melt away.
They began to attack each other.
It was crazy.
But see, the battle is alwaysthe Lord's.
Even when we cooperate with him, the battle is always the
Lord's.
All he did was take out 20 menand a half acre and immediately
the enemy shook in fright.
And it says it melted away.
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But the story comes back toSaul and Saul during the
upcoming battle, because hestill needs to battle the
Philistines.
What happened was when all thatearthquake happened.
the people from far off inIsrael saw whoa, what's going on
, and they saw the enemydispersing and then they started
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coming back.
Those that were fearing andtrembling, oh what's going on
and then they started comingback.
So some of his men startedcoming back.
So he's got to still fight themand he starts to chase them.
And while he's chasing themdown, he makes an unwise oath
and he tells all of his men youcannot eat this day, cannot eat
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this day, lest you be cursed.
His son didn't hear his fathersay this, and that day he tasted
a bit of honey and for somehow,some reason, when he tasted
that bit of honey, his eyes wereopen and he realized what his
father had done, even though hehadn't heard his father say it.
It's an interesting way thatthat took place.
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But the Israelites slaughteredPhilistines that day.
I mean left and right.
They slaughtered them, theydefeated them, but by the time
they were done, they were sofaint, they were so exhausted
because they were not allowed toeat that they began, in their
faintness and desperateness andtheir hunger, they began to eat
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that they began, in theirfaintness and desperateness and
their hunger, they began to eatof the animals and their blood.
You know anything about the law?
They were not supposed to dosuch a thing, but because of an
unwise oath of the king, itdrove them to sin, to walk
contrary to the Lord.
So Saul, when he realized whathis men were doing, he made an
altar and he began to slaughterthe animals on the altar that he
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made for the Lord, because thepeople broke covenant with the
Lord.
And Saul is at a state hedoesn't know what to do.
So all of a sudden he saysgather all the people.
He gathers the priests, andthen he asks of the Lord people.
He gathers the priest and thenhe asks of the Lord.
He seeks the counsel of theLord.
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Should I go after thePhilistines?
The Lord doesn't answer.
And then they go through thiscasting of lots.
First it was Jonathan and Saultogether and the rest of the
Israelites, and when they castlots it fell to Jonathan and
Saul.
And then they had to cast lotsbetween Jonathan and Saul.
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And then the lot got cast toJonathan and Saul said Jonathan,
what have you done?
I wasn't expecting this.
I was expecting one of them todo what have you done?
And Jonathan tells him I didn'tknow what you had said, but I
ate the honey.
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And Saul said to Jonathan thoushalt surely die, jonathan.
He was about to kill his ownson.
He was the leader, he was thehead honcho of the church of
Israel and he was about tomurder his own son for an unwise
oath that he made.
The church of Israel stepped inat that point to thwart Saul's
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madness and would not allow Saulto kill his son, because
Jonathan worked with God indefeating the enemy that day and
all of the people of God knewthat.
They recognized that and theyweren't allowed.
Saul to do what he wanted to doto Jonathan.
I'm only highlighting a fewthings, but it says in verse 47
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that when Saul continued hiscampaign, he defeated Moab.
Ammon Edom Zobah continued hiscampaign.
He defeated Moab, ammon EdomZobah, the Amalekites and the
Philistines.
It says that he fought andvexed all of his enemies.
Don't forget what happened withSamuel.
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Samuel already told him I wouldhave established your kingdom
today, but now it's taken fromyou and given to another.
But Saul is winning his battles.
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What would you think if you werein that position?
Supposedly the seer, theprophet said he would establish
my reign forever, but now it'slost to some other guy.
But I just kicked thePhilistine s butt and I've got
the Ammonites under and I've gotthis and this and this.
What would you think In hisposition?
the prophet's off his rocker.
He didn't hear the Lord.
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This is the seriousness that Isee when I read these scriptures
regarding that we must be aware, when a man or a woman of God
is dull of hearing andinsensitive to the Spirit of the
Lord, because you begin tothink that, because nothing bad
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has immediately happened to you,that it's okay, everything is
fine, there's no need for me torepent.
Think about Adam and Eve.
I think that they thought thistoo, even though they were
kicked out of the garden.
Because he said hey, the dayyou eat of that tree, you shall
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surely die.
Adam lived for 900 plus years.
He must have thought the sameway.
What do you mean die?
I'm still alive.
I'm just not in the garden.
I don't have to sweat by mybrow when I'm still alive.
What do you mean die?
I'm still alive.
I'm just not in the garden.
I don't have to sweat my browwhen I'm still alive.
What do you mean die?
He said in the day that you eatof it, you shall surely die.
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Saul thinks that, because he hasattained victory after victory
over the enemy, that thatsignifies God's stamp of
approval on his life andeverything that he has done thus
far.
It causes him to deceivehimself into thinking there's
nothing that needs to berepented of.
And therein is the formula forthe downfall of Saul.
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It began with fear, but whatsustained him in that state of
fear is that he never repented.
He never thought he needed to,and this is what I call now the
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Church of Ichabod.
If we go into verse excuse me,chapter 15, we now see that
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Samuel returns.
He doesn't throw Saul away, hejust left him during that battle
.
He comes back to him and hegives it, looks like he gives
Saul another chance.
He comes back to him and hesays he gives him the words of
the Lord.
He says he h he gives him thewords of the Lord.
Hearken to the words of theLord.
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Now go and smite Amalek andutterly destroy all that they
have and spare them not, butslay both man and woman and
infant and suckling ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Is there any question as to whohe should leave alive?
What he left out, the ants, Idon't know.
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I mean, everything was supposedto die.
He was very clear in what hesaid to him.
But we read in verse 9 ofchapter 15, and I underlined
this but Saul and the people,but Saul and the people spared
Agag and the best of the sheepand of the oxen and the fatlings
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and the lambs and all that wasgood and would not utterly
destroy them.
But everything that was vileand refuse they destroyed.
It was immediately theydestroyed utterly.
And it was that day because itdoesn't say before that Samuel
heard the Lord say this, but itwas that day that the Lord
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specifically said to Samuel itrepenteth me that I have set up
Saul to be king, for he isturned back from following me
and hath not performed mycommandments.
We find it hard sometimes towrite someone off, don't we, as
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long as they're living as longas they have breath.
But the Lord is being very clearwith Samuel.
I'm not happy that I chose Saul, but why?
Because he is not listening tomy word.
He refuses to obey me.
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But God doesn't have a hard timewriting someone off.
God is the type of God thatknows the end from the beginning
, and when He says He's done andHe's through, He's done and
He's through.
He will not wrestle with manforever.
What I find interesting in thisstory is that we, as men and
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women, never know.
We never know when it's reallythe end for a particular person.
But the Lord said it to Samuelthis time.
Samuel knew Saul was through.
But God is the type of God thatnot only does He know the end
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from the beginning, He'srighteous and just in all of His
ways, and when He gives up onsomeone, it's because He's just
in that judgment.
He gives up on Saul because heknows Saul has rejected and will
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not turn back.
God already knows that.
So I want to stop here and thinkabout what are the types that
we see.
I've already mentioned one ofthem.
Israel is the type of thechurch.
Samuel is an interesting figure.
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He's a type of transitionfigure, like John the Baptist.
John the Baptist preached thegospel of the kingdom but he
preached up to repent and waterbaptism, but he always alluded
to the one that would come afterhim that would baptize in Holy
Ghost and fire.
So I say he was like atransition figure between the
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old and the new.
He was like right there in themiddle, linking the old and
connecting it to the new.
Samuel's like this, and we'llsee how.
So in a bit.
But Saul is the type of theleader.
He's the type of the head ofthe church.
To me he's like type of apastor in a church.
And the sad thing concerningeverything that we're reading
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right now, or everything thatI'm talking about, is that Saul
is in a state of self-deceptionand he does not perceive his
actual state of being with God.
He literally doesn't evenentertain the idea that there's
anything wrong between him andGod.
When he sees Samuel, he saysBlessed be thou of the Lord.
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I have performed thecommandment of the Lord.
He's oblivious to his owndisobedience.
And Samuel responds what isthis bleeding of sheep?
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What is this oxen that I hear?
And Saul states well, theybrought them from the Amalekites
.
They did the people, sparedthem the best of the sheep and
the oxen, just for you.
So you have the best to offerin sacrifices.
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But wait a second.
He says they did that.
Didn't we just read in verse 9,.
But Saul and the people.
That's God's view of thereality of the matter.
It was Saul and the people thatspared this and spared that,
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but he says no, it was them.
It was them and I've got a goodreason.
It was so that you have theright sacrifices.
And then we know what Samuelsays in verse 22 and 23.
And Samuel said hath the Lordas great says in verse 22 and 23
.
And Samuel said Hath the Lordas great.
Delight in burnt offerings andsacrifices as in obeying the
voice of the Lord.
Behold, to obey is better, toobey is better than a sacrifice
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and to hearken than the fat oframs.
For rebellion is as the sin ofwitchcraft, and stubbornness is
as the iniquity and idolatryBecause thou hast rejected the
word of the Lord.
He hath also rejected thee frombeing king.
Do you hear me now, saul?
And we see this today in thechurch.
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When there is a sustained stateI say sustained state, I'm
qualifying this when there is asustained state of rebellion,
which is witchcraft, ofstubbornness, which is iniquity
and idolatry, when that's foundrunning rampant in the church,
in the house of God, or theleadership, the leadership
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disqualifies themselves andfinds themselves rejected of the
Lord and there isn't anythingthat can be done about it.
We find that hard to grasp.
There's hope.
He's alive, he's breathing.
Grasp.
There's hope.
He's alive, he's breathing.
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Not in Saul's case, it's one ofthe only well, there may be
other cases.
I didn't look into it, but thisis one of the very peculiar
cases where it is known I'm donewith him.
I'm done with him.
I have rejected him, Notbecause I didn't like him.
I have rejected him, not becauseI didn't like him.
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He rejected me and I know he'snot going to turn back.
I rejected him.
He says in verse 24 and 25 Saulsaid unto Samuel listen to
these words, because I hear thisin the church.
You confront the person, youbring up the transgression and
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listen to Saul.
I have sinned, I havetransgressed the commandment of
the Lord and thy words because Ifeared the people.
He even admits why he did itand you think that, wow, maybe
he's repented and obeyed theirvoice.
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Now, therefore, I pray thee,pardon my sin, turn again with
me that I may worship the Lord.
I want to be restored.
He sounds great.
That sounds great to me.
I don't know about you.
That sounds very sincere.
I mean, he said he didn't blameanybody.
Now he said what he did, hesaid why he did it.
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Sometimes I tell my kids andthey end up blaming others and
they don't take responsibility.
He seems to be takingresponsibility.
He wants to be restored so hecan be able to worship the Lord.
It sounds great and that fearfactor, that fear factor bothers
me.
He even admitted it was fear.
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It was fear, that fear factor.
But he has to be pardoned sothat he may continue to worship
the Lord and Samuel, becausehe's heard the Lord said that
fear factor, but he has to bepardoned so that he may continue
to worship the Lord and Samuel,because he's heard the Lord
said uh-uh, uh-uh, no, I'm notreturning with you.
You rejected the Lord and hehas rejected you Now.
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If a man of God said that in achurch today, how do you think
everybody else is going torespond about him?
How dare you judge him?
What Did you just hear?
What he said?
He's repenting.
How dare you judge him?
Who are you to judge?
This is a very interestingstory if you take it to heart.
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This is a very interestingstory.
If you take it to heart, allthe church would be in an uproar
at the audacity, at thequote-unquote prophet of the
Lord.
How dare he judge that man?
Who does he think he is God?
He has no right to say that toa man.
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Samuel begins to walk away.
I'm not having nothing with you, I'm through with you.
And Saul grabbed the skirt ofhis mantle and it ripped and it
tore.
And Samuel turns to Saulbecause what happened right
there signifies that the Lordhas torn away the kingdom of
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Israel from you this day.
The Lord has given it to aneighbor better than you.
Read the whole story.
That's exactly how he says it.
The kingdom is torn away fromyou this day and the Lord has
given it to someone better thanyou, almost as if he's crushing
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his self-esteem.
But Saul is oblivious.
He is so oblivious to what he'ssaying.
But I like what he said inverse 30.
Because what we thought was socontrite and so humble when he
when you know Saul says I havesinned, I have transgressed, I
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have gone against you, I've goneagainst the word of the Lord.
Read verse 30, because Saulgives it away.
His true motivations indicthimself.
Listen to it it says.
Then he said I have sinned, yethonor me now.
I pray thee before the eldersof Israel, before the elders of
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Israel, and turn again with methat I may worship the Lord
before the elders of Israel andturn again with me that I may
worship the Lord.
Think about why he said that.
What would make him say that?
What is he concerned about?
Saul is concerned about notlosing face before the people.
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He's king and the last thingthat he wants is for the prophet
of God, who everybody respectsand highly esteems.
He is the only judge that didnot take advantage of them with
bribes.
His sons did, but not him.
Everybody respected him, and tohave him stand by his side is
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his stamp of approval in theeyes of the people.
That's all he's worried about.
All Saul cared about was hisimage before the people.
Having Samuel there beside himwas a public stamp of approval
on his kingdom in the eyes ofthe people.
He had the victories.
He had Samuel, who was highly,highly esteemed, standing next
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to him.
So he has what he needs To havethe people continue to follow
him.
But the truth is, according toverse 35 if we can read that
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verse 35 Samuel came no more tosee Saul ever again until the
day of his death.
Nevertheless, samuel mournedfor Saul and the Lord repented
that he had made Saul king overIsrael.
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In this chapter of chapter 16,God is about to do a new thing,
is about to do a new thing, andhe tells Saul because Saul's
mourning, Samuel's grieving overSaul, he's mourning over him.
Listen to how he talks to himhow long will you mourn for Saul
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?
I have rejected him fromreigning over Israel and have
chosen a new king among the sonsof Jesse.
Fill your horn with oil, Samuel.
I'm moving on.
No, follow me.
I'm paraphrasing.
You could read it for yourselfI'm moving on, Samuel, fill that
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horn with oil.
I'm going to anoint one of thesons of Jesse.
Let's go.
I've rejected him.
Quit crying over him, quitgrieving over him, quit mourning
over him.
Move on, Samuel.
We have to go wherever theSpirit is leading, because when
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you've corrupted yourself to thepoint where God says I have
rejected you, there's no reasonto continue praying.
You move on with the Lord.
Now Samuel says what if Saulhears about this?
He's going to kill me.
This is what I like about theLord, because if you just ask
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him about these little things,he's going to tell you exactly
what to say and what to do.
Take a heifer.
You're going to go sacrifice tothe Lord.
Tell them you're going to gosacrifice to the Lord with your
heifer.
That's all.
Heifer, heifer, heifer.
Sacrifice to the Lord with yourheifer, that's all.
Heifer, heifer, heifer.
So God tells him exactly whatto do.
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He tells him exactly what tosay.
Samuel goes to Jesse.
Samuel invites his whole familycome to sacrifice and he
sanctifies all the sons of Jesse.
How many of you know how manysons Jesse had?
Twelve, that's Isaac.
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No, that's Jacob, sorry, eight,you don't look sure.
Seven, okay, let's find out.
Seven, seven, okay, let's findout.
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After viewing seven sons, ofwhich Eliab was the oldest,
Abinadab was the second andShammah was the third, we come
to the understanding and you'veread the story, so I'm not going
to go into very much detailinto it but the Lord doesn't
look at the appearance of man,he looks at the heart of man.
He looks at the heart of man,he looks at the inner man and by
the time he finishes seeing allseven sons and they're saying
nope, not him, Nope, not him,Nope, not him.
I have not chosen, I have notchosen him.
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Samuelsays
to Jesse, do you?
have any more sons.
Because now he's wondering am Ieven hearing the Lord?
Oh well, I have a younger one.
He's tending the sheep.
Well, go get him.
I'm not going to sit down untilyou bring that boy to me.
You can read it yourself.
But that's what he said.
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What I find so important isthese two verses we come to see
that not only is the last son,David, the youngest of all of
Jesse's sons, but he is the lastson, David, the youngest of all
of Jesse's sons, but he's theeighth son in the line of Jesse.
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Anybody know what the numbereight signifies in biblical
numerology?
Unknown (42:35):
Yes, ma'am Complete completeness.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (42:37):
Completeness.
I think that's sevenCompleteness, wholeness,
perfectness.
You try again.
Don't you stop Anyone else.
What does eight mean?
What does eight represent?
We've gone over this.
Perfection is hers completenessand perfection.
New beginning, new birth, newbeginning, and I don't mind if
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you use your notes to figurethat out.
New birth, new beginning.
God was doing a new thing andSamuel was stuck in the middle.
He'd already anointed,appointed a king and now, in the
midst of that king's reign, hehas to anoint and appoint
another king.
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He's in that transition.
He's part of the old but he'smoving on into the new.
So he's like that of John theBaptist.
But God is doing a new thing.
There's a new beginning goingto take place in the life of
David.
David was anointed and fromthat day forward, the spirit of
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the Lord came upon him.
David was anointed and fromthat day forward, the Spirit of
the Lord came upon him.
And what I think is so importantis that next verse, verse 14 in
1 Samuel 16.
Right after he anoints David,we read but the Spirit of the
Lord departed from Saul and anevil spirit from the Lord
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troubled him, right there.
I don't think there's anymistake.
Why, the very next verse, weread that.
Can you say Ichabod, Ichabod?
Anybody know what that means?
The glory of the Lord hasdeparted.
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There is no glory.
The Spirit of the Lord is theglory of God, and it is at this
point that the church of Ichabodreigns in the house of God.
The glory of the Lord isdeparted, it is left to Saul,
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just like it says in 1 Samuel4.21, where you had the name
Ichabod first and only evermentioned the glory of the Lord
is departed, there is no glory.
Now, when I use the word thechurch of Ichabod, it doesn't
pertain to or speak of a churchthat belongs to a particular
person, but rather it's a churchin a particular state of
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existence, like we say thechurch of joy.
It doesn't belong to joy, it'sa state of being, it's a church
of joy.
It's a church of peace.
It's a state of joy.
It's a church of peace.
It's a state of existencedescribing that person.
Well, the church of Ichabod isdescribing the state that it
finds itself in, and right nowit finds itself in a state where
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the spirit of the Lord is gone.
It has departed, it is left,and the sad thing about the
church of Ichabod is that itfails to realize its own state
of depravity, its own lack, itsown loss.
It does not realize it.
It's sort of like the Laodiceanchurch.
Anybody know why I say that?
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Why is it like the Laodiceanchurch In Revelation 3.17,.
Anybody know what did it thinkthat the Laodicean church
thought about itself?
What I am rich, I am increasedwith goods and I don't need
anything.
Yet Jesus said of them whatYou're wretched, you're
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miserable, you are poor andblind and naked.
And so, in that sense, thechurch of Ichabod feels very
much the same way and does notrealize that the glory of the
Lord has departed from her.
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Saul was deceived and heremained deceived because he
attained all of these victories.
All of these victories led himto believe God was still with
him, God was still for him.
I'm the king of Israel.
But he doesn't hear the voiceof the Lord through the prophet.
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It doesn't occur to him that heever needs to repent.
And from this point on inSaul's life and you can read the
story on your own Saul isravaged, tormented, raped by
fear.
Fear is the mark that Saul leftbehind.
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And what fear does, givenenough time, is you officially
become reprobate.
Reprobate means you're rejected, it says in Romans 1, 28,.
Even as they did not like toretain God in their knowledge,
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God gave them over to areprobate mind.
We don't think that God doessuch things.
There's a perverted othergospel out there that's
influenced the belief that He'sso good and that He's so just
that he would never treatsomeone like that.
But we have this accountshowing He did reject Samuel
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excuse me, Saul.
While he was still alive,Samuel no longer walked with
Saul the rest of his reign.
The rest of his reign, he sayshe reigned about 30 to 40 years.
After the second or third year,Samuel never walked with him
again.
That was a sign that God wasnot with Saul.
The rest of his days.
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It continues to say that Godgave them over to a reprobate
mind to do those things whichare not convenient.
Think about Saul's life.
Think about what you rememberbeing filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication,wickedness, covetousness,
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maliciousness, full of envy,murder, murder.
I remember that of Saul murder,debate, deceit, malignity,
whispers, backbiters, haters ofGod.
Don't tell me Saul loved God.
Look at his life and how itmatches the description of a
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reprobate mind.
Proud Boasters, inventors ofevil things, disobedient to
parents, without understandingCovenant breakers.
That was Saul.
He had broke covenant with theLord because he rejected the
word of the Lord.
He was, without naturalaffection, implacable, merciful,
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who, knowing the judgment ofGod that they which commit such
things are worthy of death, notonly do the same but have
pleasure in them.
That do them.
David is another type.
Yes, he does the new thing.
But when I started looking onDavid's life, which is the next
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chapters, I said, wow, he's likethe man-child.
Think about what David did.
He's a type of the man-child.
He comes out of the church sothat he could go on into
perfection, because he was theone now anointed to be the head,
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to be the king of Israel.
David was full of faith, incontrast to the church of
Ichabod being full of fear, andit is he who will do the great
exploits in the name of the Lord.
And the interesting thing isthat the man-child, the one
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anointed, is called right backinto the church.
It says here that when thatevil spirit came upon Saul, that
one of his servants think aboutthis, it's the church.
One of his servants says I knowa young boy.
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He plays the harp, and when heplays the harp, that evil spirit
will go from you.
He was the next king of Israelcoming right back into the house
the neighbor, that was betterthan you right back into the
house of the enemy, like Josephin the house of Egypt.
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Enemy Like Joseph in the houseof Egypt.
He comes right back in.
So then David comes back intothe house and, interestingly
enough, saul loves David.
It says he loved David greatly.
Saul loves David.
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It says he loved David greatly.
And David became his armorbearer and whenever David played
his heart, the evil spiritwould depart from Saul.
So we come to chapter 17 and wesee now the types of David and
how he fulfills it.
We know that Goliath came andGoliath was defying all of the
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armies of Israel.
There was about to be a battleto take place and again, because
who's leading Saul?
Everybody's afraid Saul won'teven go out there.
Saul, being the king of Israel,should have been the one to go
out there.
I'm sure some of his peopleclose to him said no, no, no,
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you can't.
You're the king, you can't die.
You know you can't go to battle,because what if you die?
Then we don't have a king, no,no, no, we're protected.
He should have been the one,the leader should have set the
example, but his example was setof fear.
And when Goliath came out,standing 11 feet four inches,
having a coat of mail of 197pounds, having a spear that
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weighed 23 pounds, he came outthere mocking them, defying the
God of Israel, defying thearmies of the living God.
And David comes and says whyare they letting this
uncircumcised Philistine defythe armies of the living God?
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And David reminds me ofJonathan, because he did
something radically differentthan what everybody else was
doing.
And he sees his brothers there.
And this is what I findinteresting in regards to us.
Remember, I set a stage.
We read these accounts becausethey're for our learning.
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They're to teach us something.
They therefore are learning.
They're to teach us something.
Well, as I read this, what thiswas teaching me is that when
the anointed man of God comes inthe house, remember he was the
eighth son, remember how Josephwas esteemed amongst his
brethren.
So David was esteemed amongsthis brethren Not exactly.
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And if you read in verse 28,when he says why doesn't anybody
stand up to this uncircumcisedPhilistine.
You have Eliab getting angrywith David.
And what'd you come down herefor?
Don't you have some sheep tolook after in the wilderness?
I know your pride, yournaughtiness of heart.
You just came to see the battle.
Little punk, get out of here,you little punk kid.
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But David was serious.
David was dead serious.
I haven't done you any wrong.
Why are you talking to me thatway?
David is the only one amongstall these mighty men of Israel
who entertain the idea ofkilling this uncircumcised
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Philistine.
That, to me, is a mark of a man.
Child, because he's not.
I don't believe that this dayand age.
He was an adult, old, you know.
No, I think he was still quiteyoung.
And he says let no man's heartfail because of him.
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Thy servant will go and willfight the Philistine.
There's that faith again, justlike Jonathan.
And so Saul hears about this andhe says call that boy in here.
He says what are you talkingabout out there?
He says I'll go out and fighthim.
He says, but you're a youth andGoliath, he's a man of war from
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his youth.
What is Saul, the leader in thechurch, doing with David?
He's despising his youth.
This should speak to the youth.
Let no man despise thy youth.
You have an anointing, unlikemany who are well seasoned in
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the Lord, to do great exploitsin the name of the Lord.
And in 1 Timothy 4.12 it saysLet no man despise thy youth.
Remember how, by the laying onof hands, you were given this
particular gift.
And David, knowing what the Lordhad brought him through how he
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took out a lion and a bear whowere trying to take his sheep
and did away with them, declaresthat this giant shall fall,
just like the lion and the bear.
And that is his declaration offaith.
It doesn't say what it won't do, it says what it will do.
And David then gives God theglory for delivering him out of
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the lion and the bear.
So David understands that.
Oh, I did it.
It was the Lord that deliveredthem through my hands.
He's giving glory to the Lord.
It's not about his strength,it's not about his agility, it's
not about how good he can wieldthis or that.
And Saul listens to him and hesays put on my armor, put on my
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helmet, my sword here, here's mysword.
And he tries them.
But in the end David does notaccept them.
Why?
Because he's never used thembefore.
They don't fit well, but moreso.
I've never needed it before.
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I didn't need this with thelion and the bear.
I'll take them out with thethings that I know how to use.
And so you, youth, when youstand up in faith to do
something, you're probably notgoing to use the things that the
elders and the seasonedveterans have used, because God
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is going to equip you himself todo things that other people
would not use.
In the name of the Lord, Davidtook what was proven, what was
useful in his hands, a staff.
He took a shepherd's staff to abattle and he took five stones
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and a sling Boy.
You're crazy.
But if you want to go, you goright ahead.
Saul says not my life If hedies, oh well, we'll still be
waiting until somebody takesthis Goliath out.
And then what happens?
When he meets the Philistine,the church is despising David's
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youth.
He comes before this Philistineto battle.
The Philistine sees this punylittle man and he cursed David
by his gods Come to me and Iwill give thy flesh unto the
fowls of the air and to thebeast of the field.
He disdained him, it says, forhe was youth, ruddy and of fair
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countenance.
And so now, who does Philistinerepresent?
Who does Goliath represent?
The world?
So the church and the world aredespising the youth and the
anointing of the man of God, theman-child, if you will.
And so he's getting it fromboth sides.
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But David says I come to thee inthe name of the Lord of hosts,
the God of the armies of Israel,whom you have defied.
You have defied.
He came to him without a sword,without a shield, without a
spear, but he came in the mightyname of the Lord, because the
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battle is the Lord's, as it waswith Jonathan.
The battle is the Lord's.
And notice what he says.
He says David says this daywill the Lord deliver thee into
mine hand and I will smite theeand take thy head from thee and
I will give the carcasses of thehost of the Philistines this
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day unto the fowls of the airand to the wild beasts of the
earth, that all the earth mayknow that there is a God in
Israel.
And when I read that, I thoughtof Revelation 11.6.
We've talked about that so muchlast year Does anybody remember
what 11.6 was about?
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I know you.
Anybody have Revelation 11.6?
Remember I said David is likethe man-child.
Althea Harris (01:01:07):
And these have power to shut heaven that it
rain, not in the days of theirprophecy, and power over waters
to turn them to blood, to smitethe earth with all their plagues
, as often as they will as oftenas they will.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (01:01:23):
I think of that as often as they will
because exactly how Davidconfessed he was going to deal
with Goliath is exactly whathappened, word for word, exactly
what happened.
And so the man child is goingto confess some things, and
things are going to happenexactly as he decrees it, as she
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decrees it, as she decrees it,as they decree it.
It shall decree a thing and itshall come to pass.
And it came to the pass whenthe Philistine arose in verse 48
.
And drew nigh to meet David.
I wish they made a reallysincere, genuine movie about
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this, because this would beawesome to see.
Philistine comes walking up.
David does not come walkingwith a shepherd's staff and
stones.
He runs in haste.
I mean, he's ready, I'm ready,before you're there, I'm running
there.
And that's the attitude of aman, of a youth of faith in this
day and age that is needed.
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You run to the battle knowingthat the Lord has your back.
He didn't need a shield, hedidn't need a sword, he didn't
need a spear.
He needed one little rock, onelittle stone.
And you know what happened thatstone, that sling, and that
stone sunk.
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The stone into his head and theGoliath.
Did he fall back or did he fallforward?
Good, he fell forward, flat onhis face.
And then David came and stoodon top of him to gloat.
What did he do?
He wasn't done.
The work was not done.
He then took the enemy's sword.
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He took the enemy's sword andcut off his head.
Now think about that when youhave to fight your battles.
Quit dealing with theperipheries, quit dealing with
the edges.
Take the fight right to thestrong man.
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Take him out.
Because what happened when hetook out the strong man?
It says that the enemy began torun.
The Philistines saw theirchampion dead and they fled.
And that's exactly what theenemy is going to do when you
take out the strong man.
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And then the church saw who isthis boy's father?
He's asking.
After he defeats Goliath, hetakes him in Saul.
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He never goes back to hisfather and while he's in the
house of Ichabod, Jonathan andDavid's souls are knit like
kindred spirits.
And I wonder why?
Because Jonathan did somethingso radically different from
everyone.
David now did somethingradically different from
everyone, but David loved Saul.
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Jonathan saw that Saul, thatDavid would never hurt him, and
it says that Jonathan became soclose with him that he gave all
that was his to David.
What do you think thatsignifies?
Huh, covenant, yeah, covenant,and that he is the rightful heir
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to the throne.
Son of the king.
Hmmful heir to the throne.
He's the son of a king.
Jonathan was the rightful heirto the throne but he gave
everything he had to David.
That was a sign that it wasgoing to him, and I don't think
Jonathan knew that Samuel everhad anointed David king.
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It was just.
These actions take place andyou wonder what is the
significance, what is themeaning?
And it says that David didwhatsoever the king asked.
And sometimes we find ourselvesin a place in a church that's so
off and we buck up in rebellion.
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David didn't do that.
That was not the example setforth by David.
He faithfully served in thehouse that was without the glory
.
He faithfully served that whatwas in place before.
Why?
Because he was rightfullyanointed and appointed the king
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of Israel.
And we sometimes have troublebeing in other fellowships.
Now don't take this message andsay, oh, you've got to stay in
the worst of worst placesbecause David did eventually
leave.
He did not stay in the house,but a lot had to take place
before that happened.
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And my wife and I can testifythat We've been in other
fellowships.
We've been there for a while,but there was a point in time
where we had to leave, but whilewe were there.
We faithfully ministered untothe Lord, to the people that
were there, even though thatorganization, that hierarchy was
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in place and it was foul.
But after Saul took out Goliathand he was sent over as captain
and started having manyvictories, the women started
singing Saul is slain in 10,000sand David his 10,000s.
Saul is slain in thousands andDavid his 10,000s.
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And Saul now became jealous tothe point that he opened up the
door to his life to that evilspirit every time that jealousy
arose in David.
David avoided that javelintwice.
And Saul then here it is.
He developed a fear again.
It says in verse 12 of chapter18, saul was afraid of David.
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There's that fear.
That fear ravaged him the restof his days and it forced him to
do things that were ungodly.
His fear was rooted in jealousyof David.
But it says also he recognizedthat the Lord had departed from
him and the Lord was with David.
He recognized that the Lord waswith David and he became more
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afraid of him.
And he became more afraid ofhim.
And then Saul had this idea I'mgoing to take him out, I'm
going to send him to battle, butnow I'm only going to send him
with a thousand men and he saidI might give you my oldest
daughter to sort of entice himto go into battle, because his
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idea was he'll eventually die,he's going to eventually die in
a battle.
But then he offers his youngestdaughter and David goes out to
battle.
He didn't want anything from him, for his daughter because
usually when you give away yourdaughter you have to give a
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dowry.
He didn't want anything fromhim for his daughter, because
usually when you give away yourdaughter you have to give a
dowry.
He didn't want that why?
Because he thought David wasgoing to go die in the battle.
So he says, okay, I'll take 104skins of the Philistines.
David brings back 200 and takeshis daughter.
He gave it, he took it.
He couldn't get rid of David asmuch as he wanted to.
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David was untouchable.
We've talked about this thislast year.
A man- child, is going to beuntouchable and anyone who tries
to raise up a weapon againsthim with that weapon shall he be
slayed.
I can go on in chapter 19,speaking of Jonathan standing up
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and giving David a way ofescape.
But that's enough to highlightfor you.
There's so much that can begathered from these types and
these shadows and how they applyto us and how they're to teach
us.
But Saul's reign lasted 30 to 40years, even though David was
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anointed many years before hisreign had ended.
He did not fully come into hisreign until, I believe, he was
30 years old, I think.
And so I'll read the end OfSaul's life 1st Samuel 31.
Verse 8.
And it came to pass.
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On the morrow, when thePhilistines came To strip the
slain, they found Saul and histhree sons sons fallen in Mount
Kibboa.
And they cut off his head andstripped off his armor and sent
into the land of the Philistinesroundabout to publish it in the
house of their idols and amongthe people.
And they put his armor in thehouse of Ashtoreth and they
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fastened his body to the wall ofBeth-shan.
And when the inhabitants ofJabesh-gilead heard of that
which the Philatines had done toSaul, all the valiant men arose
and went all night and took thebody of Saul and the bodies of
his sons from the wall ofBeth-shan and came to Jabesh and
burnt them there.
I can't remember another timein the scriptures where the
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people of God burnt their ownbodies.
Am I correct?
I can't remember burning ofbodies was a pagan thing, but I
guess their bodies have beencompletely defiled by the
Philistines and what they haddone to them, that they felt it
best to guess their bodies havebeen completely defiled by the
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Philistines and what they haddone to them, that they felt it
best to burn their bodies.
And then they took their bonesand buried them under a tree at
Jabesh and fasted seven days.
This was the finality of Sauland his children, and God saw
that from the beginning.
Children, and God saw that fromthe beginning.
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And we need to understand, weneed to hear the Lord, we need
to know whom we need to spendour time interceding for and
when the Lord says follow me,move on, I'm doing new things.
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I hope that this message is nottaken to justify any type of
position that is out of orderwith the Lord, because you can
easily take one scripture andjustify yourselves and your out
of orderliness.
But I hope and pray that theword would feed, would put you
on the right track and that youwould accurately discern what
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the Spirit is saying throughthese old accounts and realize
how they apply in your life, sothat we can walk the straight
and narrow in the power and theauthority of the name of the
Lord, amen.
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and obey His voice.
The vision received was that of blood cells
traveling throughout the body,supplying the much-needed oxygen
and other nutrients to thediffering members of the body to
fulfill their purpose.
Once the blood cells are spent,they must return back to the
heart to be refilled beforebeing sent out again and fulfill
their purpose and fulfill theirpurpose.
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When I last shared a messagehere, I started off in 1 Samuel,
because that's what I was in 13.
And I branched off from thereand as I started to do this
message, god wanted me tocontinue on in 1 Samuel and he
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brought to my remembrance thatin Romans 15, 4, it says that
whatsoever things were writtenaforetime were written for our
learning and that we, throughpatience and comfort of the
scriptures, might have hope.
And for some reason, I wasreading that with the kids
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recently and asking them how isit that we have hope through the
scriptures?
What are all of these stories?
People say that really accounts,biblical, factual accounts,
historical accounts of thingsthat took place, and how are
they supposed to help us in ourlearning?
And as I taught the kids, I wasjust realizing well, it's
because our lives and ourstruggles and our tribulations
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have already been experienced bymany saints before us, and so
everything that they've gonethrough is to be for our
learning, and so everything thatthey've gone through is to be
for our learning.
It was the whole purpose ofhaving a written Bible, rather
than having it passed on by wordof mouth.
It was written down so that itwould teach us and we would
learn from the saints of thepast, from the wicked of the
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past.
We would learn to see how Goddeals with us, how God deals
with the wicked, how God dealswith the righteous.
It says also in 1 Corinthians10 that all these things happen
unto them for ensamples, andthey are written for our
admonition upon whom the ends ofthe world has come.
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An ensample is like anotherfancy type of word for an
example.
In this case it's an example ofa pattern, a pattern that we
should conform ourselves to, apattern that we should imitate.
And sometimes it's not only apattern that we should imitate,
but it's a pattern that weshould not imitate, that we
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should dissuade us, it should bea warning to us not to follow
in that footsteps or thatperson's footsteps.
And so, in knowing that thescriptures were written down
purposefully to teach us whatand what not to follow, we can
never read these scriptures.
We can never read this Biblelike it was a regular book of
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fiction where we're justentertained by the fanciful
story.
There's drama, there's evil,there's wickedness, there's
vileness, there's adventure,there's action, there's anything
that you could find in afictional book.
But it's factual and it'sspiritual, because the things
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that happen in the past are toteach us how we are to walk out
our life today with the Lord.
Not only is it factual, butit's written for the express
intent of teaching us untoChrist.
It was our schoolmaster, it isour tutor and it's supposed to
lead us to Christ.
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And we sometimes don't get that.
We don't realize that all ofthose scriptures are not so that
we have a list of do's anddon'ts, because the law does not
give you the power to beperfect.
It's supposed to lead you toChrist, to realize that you
cannot on your own do what isnecessary.
So I need to lead you to me,and the salvation and the
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redemption is through me.
And so I want to start at 1Samuel 13.
So if you'll turn there, I'm.
I mean, I wish I could spendall day reading every single
scripture through the chapters,because I have a lot of chapters
that go through.
But I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to do a lot ofsummarizing and I hope that you
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already know the story I'm justgoing to sort of highlight here.
So I feel like a waiter and I'mjust going to sort of serve you
the dishes that the Lord hasmade for us in the scriptures
and then you're going to eitherlike it or dislike it.
And what would be my fault?
Because I'm not the chef, I'msimply a waiter In Saul excuse
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me in 1 Samuel 13,.
We're in the midst of Saul'slife.
Saul has already been chosenand anointed by Samuel as the
first king of Israel, againstGod's wishes, but he just did
whatever the people wanted.
He says do it, do it anyway.
And he had reigned as king overIsrael for approximately two
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years by this point, and he hadalready defeated the Ammonites
and he now was about to gobattle the Philistines.
And Saul, in this particularchapter, had chosen 3,000 men.
1,000 stayed with his sonJonathan, 2,000 remained with
him.
And in this chapter itdescribes how the Philistines
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came with 30,000 chariots 30,000chariots, 6,000 horsemen.
That's just chariots andhorsemen.
Guys, that's not men.
All Saul had was 3,000 men.
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And they had 30,000 chariots,6,000 horsemen and a multitude
of men that the author of Samuelcould not even number.
It describes them as the sandwhich is on the seashore.
That's how many of them therewere.
That's 3,000 men.
And what I want to highlighthere is that Israel is a type of
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the church.
The men of Israel says that thechurch in the wilderness.
Well, the church in thewilderness was the Israelites
that came out of Egypt.
Well, these are the Israelitesthat are already out of Egypt
and they're already having aking in their promised land.
So they're still the church,they are the people of God.
And when they saw, what do youthink happened?
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When they saw 30,000 chariotsand 6,000 horsemen and a
multitude of the enemy that theycouldn't even number, what do
you think they did?
Pardon me, nope, they hid.
They hid in caves, they hid inrocks, they hid in thickets.
They hid in caves, they hid inrocks.
They hid in thickets.
They hid in high places.
They hid in pits.
All of this is in verse 7, ifyou're there, and whoever
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remained with Saul, because somany of them scattered, of the
3,000, so many of them scattered, and those who actually
remained with Saul weretrembling.
There was fear run rampantthrough the house of God.
And in this chapter of thescriptures we begin to see the
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downfall of Saul, and he's only,he's only reigned for two years
, but we begin to see how, whathe did that caused his downfall
as the rain in his reign as king.
Now, he went to a particularplace of battle and he was told
to remain there and wait forSamuel.
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Samuel was going to come inseven days.
Samuel was the seer, he was theprophet and he told him to do
this and Samuel didn't come.
At the time that Saul thoughthe should come, time was running
out, his people of the 3,000scattered.
The people that remained withhim were in fear and trembling.
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So he didn't have 3,000 peopleanymore and all he saw was
30,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemenand a multitude of the enemy
that he could not even numberwith his wee little less than
3,000 now, and Samuel had notshown up.
And so he decides to bring insacrifices, because he said
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we're going to go to battle,we've got to sacrifice unto the
Lord.
And he then does things thatonly the priest is allowed to do
, and he burned offerings andpeace offerings.
And he did this, it says out offear.
He feared the Philistines.
His men were trembling in fear.
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That stayed with him.
They were scattered throughout.
They even left the area intoother areas of Israel.
And it says in verse 12, I wantyou to look at this, because it
says in verse 12 that fearforced him.
He believed that he was forcedto do what he did and that fear
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led him to do that.
He made a preemptive,presumptuous move and this fear
marked Saul's reign, the rest ofhis days, and for this his
destiny was forever altered.
Samuel decreed that the Lordwould have established his
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kingdom upon Israel forever.
That day, read with me 1 Samuel13, verses 14 and 15.
But now thy kingdom shall notcontinue.
The Lord hath sought him a manafter his own heart, and the
Lord hath commanded him to becaptain over his people.
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Because thou hast not kept thatwhich the Lord commanded thee,
because thou hast not kept thatwhich the Lord commanded thee.
But now thy kingdom shall notcontinue.
The Lord hath sought him a manafter his own heart, and the
Lord hath commanded him to becaptain over his people because
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thou hast not kept that whichthe Lord commanded thee.
In this chapter, saul leavesSamuel.
He left him in Gilgal and hewent up to Gibeah.
And in that moment, in verse 17, it says that the Philistines
divided themselves into threecompanies.
They were about ready to attack, and at the end of this chapter
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we see it says at the end ofthis chapter, that there was no
smiths found in Israel.
Smiths meaning coppersmiths,ironsmiths, people that worked
with metals.
There were none found in Israel.
So not only do we have lessthan 3,000 men against a
multitude of Philistines, butthey don't even have weapons to
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fight with.
They don't have swords.
They don't have shields,because there's no smiths in
Israel.
As a matter of fact, it saysthat when they needed something
sharpened of metal, they went tothe Philistines.
They got it sharpened and thenthey came back and used it, or
they had their own littlesharpening utensils, but they
could not manufacture their ownweapons of war.
And the Philistines did that onpurpose.
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So they had no swords, they hadno spears, and the Philistines
were about to rush them.
And so we turn to 1 Samuel 14.
And if you read thesescriptures and you realize okay,
he ends the chapter with themen stayed with.
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Saul only numbered 600.
When Samuel left Saul, henumbered his men and there were
only 600 left.
There were no weapons of warand the Philistines were divided
out into three companies andthey were about to attack.
And then we read of 1 Samuel 14.
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And here we focus on Jonathan.
Jonathan is Saul's son, he's amember of the church of Israel
and one of the few of the 600that remained with King Saul.
But he did something radically,radically different than anyone
else in the camp, including hisfather.
Without telling his father, hesecretly tells his armor bearer
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we're going to go into the campof the Philistines, he says in
verse 6 and 7,.
The camp of the Philistines.
He says in verse 6 and 7, come,let us go over unto the garrison
of these uncircumcised.
It may be that the Lord willwork for us, for there is no
restraint to the Lord to save bymany or by few.
And his armor bearer said untohim Do all that is in thine
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heart, turn thee.
Behold, I am with theeaccording to thy heart.
And what I see?
Different in Jonathan than Isaw in his father, because what
we saw in his father was fear,fear in all the men.
Jonathan responds in faith andhis faith is proactive.
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This is teaching us somethingabout faith.
It needs to be proactive.
It doesn't wait on the defense,it doesn't wait in fear and in
trembling for the enemy toattack.
So he goes out, he takes theinitiative Within his delegated
boundaries, he takes his faithand he goes about and does
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something radically differentthan anybody else.
He wasn't in disobedience.
It's not like he was told nobodygo attack the Philistines.
He just took the initiative.
It doesn't seek to destroy hisfaith, but it seeks to fulfill
something.
And Jesus said I come to not todestroy but to fulfill.
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And so we read in verse 9 and10.
This is him declaring his faith.
He says if they say unto us,tarry until we come to you, then
we shall stand in our place,he's saying.
if the Philistines will say hey,wait, a second wait till we
come down to you, we're going tostay right where we're at.
But then he says but if they saythus, come unto us, then we
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will go up, for the Lord hathdelivered them into our hand and
this shall be a sign unto us.
There isn't anything wrong withdeclaring a faith with a
condition of a sign, becauseyou're waiting upon God.
He comes and gives adeclaration.
If they call to us to come upto them, we're going to go,
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because that's a sign unto usthat he's given them into our
hands.
But if they don't and they say,hey, wait till we come down to
you, we're not going up.
So it's the condition of faiththat is within him because he's
waiting on the Lord.
He's got this idea, he's gotthis crazy idea, but he gives
himself a sign Lord, speak to me.
Depending on what they do, I'mgoing to do this.
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And then he just waits.
What is the Lord going to do?
And so faith doesn't declarewhat it can't do, it declares
what it will do.
When the Philistines sawJonathan and his armor bearer,
they invited them to come up andJonathan, immediately, it says,
rose up in his faith,responding to the sign that his
faith declared.
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And so he followed.
And you know what he did in ahalf acre you guys know what an
acre is right, in a half acre ofland him and his armor bear
slew 20 Philistines all bythemselves.
And God got so excited I'mserious, God got so excited that
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the earth started to tremble.
There was an earthquake.
When Jonathan accomplished whathe did, God got excited.
He excites himself and rejoiceswhen a man of faith comes up
and does something in his name,in his power, and he gets
excited and all the earthtrembled.
And when all the earth trembled, all the Philistines began to
tremble and all the earthtrembled,
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all the Israelites began totremble wondering what's going
on.
Yes, He got excited about whatJonathan was doing in his name
because he wasn't responding infear.
And then Saul wonders what'sgoing on.
He starts numbering his men andhe realizes he is too missing.
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He realizes Jonathan and hisarmor bearer.
I'm not going very deep intothat, I'm just highlighting that
for you because there's a greatmessage of faith there.
It says at the end in verse 23,so the Lord saved Israel that
day Because once that happened,the multitude of the enemy began
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to melt away.
They began to attack each other.
It was crazy.
But see, the battle is alwaysthe Lord's.
Even when we cooperate with him, the battle is always the
Lord's.
All he did was take out 20 menand a half acre and immediately
the enemy shook in fright.
And it says it melted away.
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But the story comes back toSaul and Saul during the
upcoming battle, because hestill needs to battle the
Philistines.
What happened was when all thatearthquake happened.
the people from far off inIsrael saw whoa, what's going on
, and they saw the enemydispersing and then they started
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coming back.
Those that were fearing andtrembling, oh what's going on
and then they started comingback.
So some of his men startedcoming back.
So he's got to still fight themand he starts to chase them.
And while he's chasing themdown, he makes an unwise oath
and he tells all of his men youcannot eat this day, cannot eat
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this day, lest you be cursed.
His son didn't hear his fathersay this, and that day he tasted
a bit of honey and for somehow,some reason, when he tasted
that bit of honey, his eyes wereopen and he realized what his
father had done, even though hehadn't heard his father say it.
It's an interesting way thatthat took place.
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But the Israelites slaughteredPhilistines that day.
I mean left and right.
They slaughtered them, theydefeated them, but by the time
they were done, they were sofaint, they were so exhausted
because they were not allowed toeat that they began, in their
faintness and desperateness andtheir hunger, they began to eat
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that they began, in theirfaintness and desperateness and
their hunger, they began to eatof the animals and their blood.
You know anything about the law?
They were not supposed to dosuch a thing, but because of an
unwise oath of the king, itdrove them to sin, to walk
contrary to the Lord.
So Saul, when he realized whathis men were doing, he made an
altar and he began to slaughterthe animals on the altar that he
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made for the Lord, because thepeople broke covenant with the
Lord.
And Saul is at a state hedoesn't know what to do.
So all of a sudden he saysgather all the people.
He gathers the priests, andthen he asks of the Lord people.
He gathers the priest and thenhe asks of the Lord.
He seeks the counsel of theLord.
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Should I go after thePhilistines?
The Lord doesn't answer.
And then they go through thiscasting of lots.
First it was Jonathan and Saultogether and the rest of the
Israelites, and when they castlots it fell to Jonathan and
Saul.
And then they had to cast lotsbetween Jonathan and Saul.
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And then the lot got cast toJonathan and Saul said Jonathan,
what have you done?
I wasn't expecting this.
I was expecting one of them todo what have you done?
And Jonathan tells him I didn'tknow what you had said, but I
ate the honey.
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And Saul said to Jonathan thoushalt surely die, jonathan.
He was about to kill his ownson.
He was the leader, he was thehead honcho of the church of
Israel and he was about tomurder his own son for an unwise
oath that he made.
The church of Israel stepped inat that point to thwart Saul's
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madness and would not allow Saulto kill his son, because
Jonathan worked with God indefeating the enemy that day and
all of the people of God knewthat.
They recognized that and theyweren't allowed.
Saul to do what he wanted to doto Jonathan.
I'm only highlighting a fewthings, but it says in verse 47
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that when Saul continued hiscampaign, he defeated Moab.
Ammon Edom Zobah continued hiscampaign.
He defeated Moab, ammon EdomZobah, the Amalekites and the
Philistines.
It says that he fought andvexed all of his enemies.
Don't forget what happened withSamuel.
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Samuel already told him I wouldhave established your kingdom
today, but now it's taken fromyou and given to another.
But Saul is winning his battles.
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What would you think if you werein that position?
Supposedly the seer, theprophet said he would establish
my reign forever, but now it'slost to some other guy.
But I just kicked thePhilistine s butt and I've got
the Ammonites under and I've gotthis and this and this.
What would you think In hisposition?
the prophet's off his rocker.
He didn't hear the Lord.
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This is the seriousness that Isee when I read these scriptures
regarding that we must be aware, when a man or a woman of God
is dull of hearing andinsensitive to the Spirit of the
Lord, because you begin tothink that, because nothing bad
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has immediately happened to you,that it's okay, everything is
fine, there's no need for me torepent.
Think about Adam and Eve.
I think that they thought thistoo, even though they were
kicked out of the garden.
Because he said hey, the dayyou eat of that tree, you shall
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surely die.
Adam lived for 900 plus years.
He must have thought the sameway.
What do you mean die?
I'm still alive.
I'm just not in the garden.
I don't have to sweat by mybrow when I'm still alive.
What do you mean die?
I'm still alive.
I'm just not in the garden.
I don't have to sweat my browwhen I'm still alive.
What do you mean die?
He said in the day that you eatof it, you shall surely die.
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Saul thinks that, because he hasattained victory after victory
over the enemy, that thatsignifies God's stamp of
approval on his life andeverything that he has done thus
far.
It causes him to deceivehimself into thinking there's
nothing that needs to berepented of.
And therein is the formula forthe downfall of Saul.
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It began with fear, but whatsustained him in that state of
fear is that he never repented.
He never thought he needed to,and this is what I call now the
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Church of Ichabod.
If we go into verse excuse me,chapter 15, we now see that
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Samuel returns.
He doesn't throw Saul away, hejust left him during that battle
.
He comes back to him and hegives it, looks like he gives
Saul another chance.
He comes back to him and hesays he gives him the words of
the Lord.
He says he h he gives him thewords of the Lord.
Hearken to the words of theLord.
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Now go and smite Amalek andutterly destroy all that they
have and spare them not, butslay both man and woman and
infant and suckling ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Is there any question as to whohe should leave alive?
What he left out, the ants, Idon't know.
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I mean, everything was supposedto die.
He was very clear in what hesaid to him.
But we read in verse 9 ofchapter 15, and I underlined
this but Saul and the people,but Saul and the people spared
Agag and the best of the sheepand of the oxen and the fatlings
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and the lambs and all that wasgood and would not utterly
destroy them.
But everything that was vileand refuse they destroyed.
It was immediately theydestroyed utterly.
And it was that day because itdoesn't say before that Samuel
heard the Lord say this, but itwas that day that the Lord
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specifically said to Samuel itrepenteth me that I have set up
Saul to be king, for he isturned back from following me
and hath not performed mycommandments.
We find it hard sometimes towrite someone off, don't we, as
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long as they're living as longas they have breath.
But the Lord is being very clearwith Samuel.
I'm not happy that I chose Saul, but why?
Because he is not listening tomy word.
He refuses to obey me.
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But God doesn't have a hard timewriting someone off.
God is the type of God thatknows the end from the beginning
, and when He says He's done andHe's through, He's done and
He's through.
He will not wrestle with manforever.
What I find interesting in thisstory is that we, as men and
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women, never know.
We never know when it's reallythe end for a particular person.
But the Lord said it to Samuelthis time.
Samuel knew Saul was through.
But God is the type of God thatnot only does He know the end
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from the beginning, He'srighteous and just in all of His
ways, and when He gives up onsomeone, it's because He's just
in that judgment.
He gives up on Saul because heknows Saul has rejected and will
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not turn back.
God already knows that.
So I want to stop here and thinkabout what are the types that
we see.
I've already mentioned one ofthem.
Israel is the type of thechurch.
Samuel is an interesting figure.
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He's a type of transitionfigure, like John the Baptist.
John the Baptist preached thegospel of the kingdom but he
preached up to repent and waterbaptism, but he always alluded
to the one that would come afterhim that would baptize in Holy
Ghost and fire.
So I say he was like atransition figure between the
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old and the new.
He was like right there in themiddle, linking the old and
connecting it to the new.
Samuel's like this, and we'llsee how.
So in a bit.
But Saul is the type of theleader.
He's the type of the head ofthe church.
To me he's like type of apastor in a church.
And the sad thing concerningeverything that we're reading
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right now, or everything thatI'm talking about, is that Saul
is in a state of self-deceptionand he does not perceive his
actual state of being with God.
He literally doesn't evenentertain the idea that there's
anything wrong between him andGod.
When he sees Samuel, he saysBlessed be thou of the Lord.
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I have performed thecommandment of the Lord.
He's oblivious to his owndisobedience.
And Samuel responds what isthis bleeding of sheep?
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What is this oxen that I hear?
And Saul states well, theybrought them from the Amalekites
.
They did the people, sparedthem the best of the sheep and
the oxen, just for you.
So you have the best to offerin sacrifices.
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But wait a second.
He says they did that.
Didn't we just read in verse 9,.
But Saul and the people.
That's God's view of thereality of the matter.
It was Saul and the people thatspared this and spared that,
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but he says no, it was them.
It was them and I've got a goodreason.
It was so that you have theright sacrifices.
And then we know what Samuelsays in verse 22 and 23.
And Samuel said hath the Lordas great says in verse 22 and 23
.
And Samuel said Hath the Lordas great.
Delight in burnt offerings andsacrifices as in obeying the
voice of the Lord.
Behold, to obey is better, toobey is better than a sacrifice
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and to hearken than the fat oframs.
For rebellion is as the sin ofwitchcraft, and stubbornness is
as the iniquity and idolatryBecause thou hast rejected the
word of the Lord.
He hath also rejected thee frombeing king.
Do you hear me now, saul?
And we see this today in thechurch.
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When there is a sustained stateI say sustained state, I'm
qualifying this when there is asustained state of rebellion,
which is witchcraft, ofstubbornness, which is iniquity
and idolatry, when that's foundrunning rampant in the church,
in the house of God, or theleadership, the leadership
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disqualifies themselves andfinds themselves rejected of the
Lord and there isn't anythingthat can be done about it.
We find that hard to grasp.
There's hope.
He's alive, he's breathing.
Grasp.
There's hope.
He's alive, he's breathing.
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Not in Saul's case, it's one ofthe only well, there may be
other cases.
I didn't look into it, but thisis one of the very peculiar
cases where it is known I'm donewith him.
I'm done with him.
I have rejected him, Notbecause I didn't like him.
I have rejected him, not becauseI didn't like him.
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He rejected me and I know he'snot going to turn back.
I rejected him.
He says in verse 24 and 25 Saulsaid unto Samuel listen to
these words, because I hear thisin the church.
You confront the person, youbring up the transgression and
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listen to Saul.
I have sinned, I havetransgressed the commandment of
the Lord and thy words because Ifeared the people.
He even admits why he did itand you think that, wow, maybe
he's repented and obeyed theirvoice.
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Now, therefore, I pray thee,pardon my sin, turn again with
me that I may worship the Lord.
I want to be restored.
He sounds great.
That sounds great to me.
I don't know about you.
That sounds very sincere.
I mean, he said he didn't blameanybody.
Now he said what he did, hesaid why he did it.
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Sometimes I tell my kids andthey end up blaming others and
they don't take responsibility.
He seems to be takingresponsibility.
He wants to be restored so hecan be able to worship the Lord.
It sounds great and that fearfactor, that fear factor bothers
me.
He even admitted it was fear.
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It was fear, that fear factor.
But he has to be pardoned sothat he may continue to worship
the Lord and Samuel, becausehe's heard the Lord said that
fear factor, but he has to bepardoned so that he may continue
to worship the Lord and Samuel,because he's heard the Lord
said uh-uh, uh-uh, no, I'm notreturning with you.
You rejected the Lord and hehas rejected you Now.
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If a man of God said that in achurch today, how do you think
everybody else is going torespond about him?
How dare you judge him?
What Did you just hear?
What he said?
He's repenting.
How dare you judge him?
Who are you to judge?
This is a very interestingstory if you take it to heart.
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This is a very interestingstory.
If you take it to heart, allthe church would be in an uproar
at the audacity, at thequote-unquote prophet of the
Lord.
How dare he judge that man?
Who does he think he is God?
He has no right to say that toa man.
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Samuel begins to walk away.
I'm not having nothing with you, I'm through with you.
And Saul grabbed the skirt ofhis mantle and it ripped and it
tore.
And Samuel turns to Saulbecause what happened right
there signifies that the Lordhas torn away the kingdom of
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Israel from you this day.
The Lord has given it to aneighbor better than you.
Read the whole story.
That's exactly how he says it.
The kingdom is torn away fromyou this day and the Lord has
given it to someone better thanyou, almost as if he's crushing
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his self-esteem.
But Saul is oblivious.
He is so oblivious to what he'ssaying.
But I like what he said inverse 30.
Because what we thought was socontrite and so humble when he
when you know Saul says I havesinned, I have transgressed, I
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have gone against you, I've goneagainst the word of the Lord.
Read verse 30, because Saulgives it away.
His true motivations indicthimself.
Listen to it it says.
Then he said I have sinned, yethonor me now.
I pray thee before the eldersof Israel, before the elders of
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Israel, and turn again with methat I may worship the Lord
before the elders of Israel andturn again with me that I may
worship the Lord.
Think about why he said that.
What would make him say that?
What is he concerned about?
Saul is concerned about notlosing face before the people.
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He's king and the last thingthat he wants is for the prophet
of God, who everybody respectsand highly esteems.
He is the only judge that didnot take advantage of them with
bribes.
His sons did, but not him.
Everybody respected him, and tohave him stand by his side is
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his stamp of approval in theeyes of the people.
That's all he's worried about.
All Saul cared about was hisimage before the people.
Having Samuel there beside himwas a public stamp of approval
on his kingdom in the eyes ofthe people.
He had the victories.
He had Samuel, who was highly,highly esteemed, standing next
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to him.
So he has what he needs To havethe people continue to follow
him.
But the truth is, according toverse 35 if we can read that
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verse 35 Samuel came no more tosee Saul ever again until the
day of his death.
Nevertheless, samuel mournedfor Saul and the Lord repented
that he had made Saul king overIsrael.
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In this chapter of chapter 16,God is about to do a new thing,
is about to do a new thing, andhe tells Saul because Saul's
mourning, Samuel's grieving overSaul, he's mourning over him.
Listen to how he talks to himhow long will you mourn for Saul
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?
I have rejected him fromreigning over Israel and have
chosen a new king among the sonsof Jesse.
Fill your horn with oil, Samuel.
I'm moving on.
No, follow me.
I'm paraphrasing.
You could read it for yourselfI'm moving on, Samuel, fill that
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horn with oil.
I'm going to anoint one of thesons of Jesse.
Let's go.
I've rejected him.
Quit crying over him, quitgrieving over him, quit mourning
over him.
Move on, Samuel.
We have to go wherever theSpirit is leading, because when
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you've corrupted yourself to thepoint where God says I have
rejected you, there's no reasonto continue praying.
You move on with the Lord.
Now Samuel says what if Saulhears about this?
He's going to kill me.
This is what I like about theLord, because if you just ask
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him about these little things,he's going to tell you exactly
what to say and what to do.
Take a heifer.
You're going to go sacrifice tothe Lord.
Tell them you're going to gosacrifice to the Lord with your
heifer.
That's all.
Heifer, heifer, heifer.
Sacrifice to the Lord with yourheifer, that's all.
Heifer, heifer, heifer.
So God tells him exactly whatto do.
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He tells him exactly what tosay.
Samuel goes to Jesse.
Samuel invites his whole familycome to sacrifice and he
sanctifies all the sons of Jesse.
How many of you know how manysons Jesse had?
Twelve, that's Isaac.
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No, that's Jacob, sorry, eight,you don't look sure.
Seven, okay, let's find out.
Seven, seven, okay, let's findout.
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After viewing seven sons, ofwhich Eliab was the oldest,
Abinadab was the second andShammah was the third, we come
to the understanding and you'veread the story, so I'm not going
to go into very much detailinto it but the Lord doesn't
look at the appearance of man,he looks at the heart of man.
He looks at the heart of man,he looks at the inner man and by
the time he finishes seeing allseven sons and they're saying
nope, not him, Nope, not him,Nope, not him.
I have not chosen, I have notchosen him.
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Samuelsays
to Jesse, do you?
have any more sons.
Because now he's wondering am Ieven hearing the Lord?
Oh well, I have a younger one.
He's tending the sheep.
Well, go get him.
I'm not going to sit down untilyou bring that boy to me.
You can read it yourself.
But that's what he said.
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What I find so important isthese two verses we come to see
that not only is the last son,David, the youngest of all of
Jesse's sons, but he is the lastson, David, the youngest of all
of Jesse's sons, but he's theeighth son in the line of Jesse.
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Anybody know what the numbereight signifies in biblical
numerology?
Unknown (42:35):
Yes, ma'am Complete completeness.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (42:37):
Completeness.
I think that's sevenCompleteness, wholeness,
perfectness.
You try again.
Don't you stop Anyone else.
What does eight mean?
What does eight represent?
We've gone over this.
Perfection is hers completenessand perfection.
New beginning, new birth, newbeginning, and I don't mind if
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you use your notes to figurethat out.
New birth, new beginning.
God was doing a new thing andSamuel was stuck in the middle.
He'd already anointed,appointed a king and now, in the
midst of that king's reign, hehas to anoint and appoint
another king.
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He's in that transition.
He's part of the old but he'smoving on into the new.
So he's like that of John theBaptist.
But God is doing a new thing.
There's a new beginning goingto take place in the life of
David.
David was anointed and fromthat day forward, the spirit of
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the Lord came upon him.
David was anointed and fromthat day forward, the Spirit of
the Lord came upon him.
And what I think is so importantis that next verse, verse 14 in
1 Samuel 16.
Right after he anoints David,we read but the Spirit of the
Lord departed from Saul and anevil spirit from the Lord
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troubled him, right there.
I don't think there's anymistake.
Why, the very next verse, weread that.
Can you say Ichabod, Ichabod?
Anybody know what that means?
The glory of the Lord hasdeparted.
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There is no glory.
The Spirit of the Lord is theglory of God, and it is at this
point that the church of Ichabodreigns in the house of God.
The glory of the Lord isdeparted, it is left to Saul,
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just like it says in 1 Samuel4.21, where you had the name
Ichabod first and only evermentioned the glory of the Lord
is departed, there is no glory.
Now, when I use the word thechurch of Ichabod, it doesn't
pertain to or speak of a churchthat belongs to a particular
person, but rather it's a churchin a particular state of
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existence, like we say thechurch of joy.
It doesn't belong to joy, it'sa state of being, it's a church
of joy.
It's a church of peace.
It's a state of joy.
It's a church of peace.
It's a state of existencedescribing that person.
Well, the church of Ichabod isdescribing the state that it
finds itself in, and right nowit finds itself in a state where
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the spirit of the Lord is gone.
It has departed, it is left,and the sad thing about the
church of Ichabod is that itfails to realize its own state
of depravity, its own lack, itsown loss.
It does not realize it.
It's sort of like the Laodiceanchurch.
Anybody know why I say that?
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Why is it like the Laodiceanchurch In Revelation 3.17,.
Anybody know what did it thinkthat the Laodicean church
thought about itself?
What I am rich, I am increasedwith goods and I don't need
anything.
Yet Jesus said of them whatYou're wretched, you're
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miserable, you are poor andblind and naked.
And so, in that sense, thechurch of Ichabod feels very
much the same way and does notrealize that the glory of the
Lord has departed from her.
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Saul was deceived and heremained deceived because he
attained all of these victories.
All of these victories led himto believe God was still with
him, God was still for him.
I'm the king of Israel.
But he doesn't hear the voiceof the Lord through the prophet.
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It doesn't occur to him that heever needs to repent.
And from this point on inSaul's life and you can read the
story on your own Saul isravaged, tormented, raped by
fear.
Fear is the mark that Saul leftbehind.
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And what fear does, givenenough time, is you officially
become reprobate.
Reprobate means you're rejected, it says in Romans 1, 28,.
Even as they did not like toretain God in their knowledge,
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God gave them over to areprobate mind.
We don't think that God doessuch things.
There's a perverted othergospel out there that's
influenced the belief that He'sso good and that He's so just
that he would never treatsomeone like that.
But we have this accountshowing He did reject Samuel
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excuse me, Saul.
While he was still alive,Samuel no longer walked with
Saul the rest of his reign.
The rest of his reign, he sayshe reigned about 30 to 40 years.
After the second or third year,Samuel never walked with him
again.
That was a sign that God wasnot with Saul.
The rest of his days.
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It continues to say that Godgave them over to a reprobate
mind to do those things whichare not convenient.
Think about Saul's life.
Think about what you rememberbeing filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication,wickedness, covetousness,
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maliciousness, full of envy,murder, murder.
I remember that of Saul murder,debate, deceit, malignity,
whispers, backbiters, haters ofGod.
Don't tell me Saul loved God.
Look at his life and how itmatches the description of a
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reprobate mind.
Proud Boasters, inventors ofevil things, disobedient to
parents, without understandingCovenant breakers.
That was Saul.
He had broke covenant with theLord because he rejected the
word of the Lord.
He was, without naturalaffection, implacable, merciful,
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who, knowing the judgment ofGod that they which commit such
things are worthy of death, notonly do the same but have
pleasure in them.
That do them.
David is another type.
Yes, he does the new thing.
But when I started looking onDavid's life, which is the next
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chapters, I said, wow, he's likethe man-child.
Think about what David did.
He's a type of the man-child.
He comes out of the church sothat he could go on into
perfection, because he was theone now anointed to be the head,
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to be the king of Israel.
David was full of faith, incontrast to the church of
Ichabod being full of fear, andit is he who will do the great
exploits in the name of the Lord.
And the interesting thing isthat the man-child, the one
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anointed, is called right backinto the church.
It says here that when thatevil spirit came upon Saul, that
one of his servants think aboutthis, it's the church.
One of his servants says I knowa young boy.
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He plays the harp, and when heplays the harp, that evil spirit
will go from you.
He was the next king of Israelcoming right back into the house
the neighbor, that was betterthan you right back into the
house of the enemy, like Josephin the house of Egypt.
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Enemy Like Joseph in the houseof Egypt.
He comes right back in.
So then David comes back intothe house and, interestingly
enough, saul loves David.
It says he loved David greatly.
Saul loves David.
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It says he loved David greatly.
And David became his armorbearer and whenever David played
his heart, the evil spiritwould depart from Saul.
So we come to chapter 17 and wesee now the types of David and
how he fulfills it.
We know that Goliath came andGoliath was defying all of the
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armies of Israel.
There was about to be a battleto take place and again, because
who's leading Saul?
Everybody's afraid Saul won'teven go out there.
Saul, being the king of Israel,should have been the one to go
out there.
I'm sure some of his peopleclose to him said no, no, no,
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you can't.
You're the king, you can't die.
You know you can't go to battle,because what if you die?
Then we don't have a king, no,no, no, we're protected.
He should have been the one,the leader should have set the
example, but his example was setof fear.
And when Goliath came out,standing 11 feet four inches,
having a coat of mail of 197pounds, having a spear that
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weighed 23 pounds, he came outthere mocking them, defying the
God of Israel, defying thearmies of the living God.
And David comes and says whyare they letting this
uncircumcised Philistine defythe armies of the living God?
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And David reminds me ofJonathan, because he did
something radically differentthan what everybody else was
doing.
And he sees his brothers there.
And this is what I findinteresting in regards to us.
Remember, I set a stage.
We read these accounts becausethey're for our learning.
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They're to teach us something.
They therefore are learning.
They're to teach us something.
Well, as I read this, what thiswas teaching me is that when
the anointed man of God comes inthe house, remember he was the
eighth son, remember how Josephwas esteemed amongst his
brethren.
So David was esteemed amongsthis brethren Not exactly.
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And if you read in verse 28,when he says why doesn't anybody
stand up to this uncircumcisedPhilistine.
You have Eliab getting angrywith David.
And what'd you come down herefor?
Don't you have some sheep tolook after in the wilderness?
I know your pride, yournaughtiness of heart.
You just came to see the battle.
Little punk, get out of here,you little punk kid.
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But David was serious.
David was dead serious.
I haven't done you any wrong.
Why are you talking to me thatway?
David is the only one amongstall these mighty men of Israel
who entertain the idea ofkilling this uncircumcised
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Philistine.
That, to me, is a mark of a man.
Child, because he's not.
I don't believe that this dayand age.
He was an adult, old, you know.
No, I think he was still quiteyoung.
And he says let no man's heartfail because of him.
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Thy servant will go and willfight the Philistine.
There's that faith again, justlike Jonathan.
And so Saul hears about this andhe says call that boy in here.
He says what are you talkingabout out there?
He says I'll go out and fighthim.
He says, but you're a youth andGoliath, he's a man of war from
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his youth.
What is Saul, the leader in thechurch, doing with David?
He's despising his youth.
This should speak to the youth.
Let no man despise thy youth.
You have an anointing, unlikemany who are well seasoned in
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the Lord, to do great exploitsin the name of the Lord.
And in 1 Timothy 4.12 it saysLet no man despise thy youth.
Remember how, by the laying onof hands, you were given this
particular gift.
And David, knowing what the Lordhad brought him through how he
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took out a lion and a bear whowere trying to take his sheep
and did away with them, declaresthat this giant shall fall,
just like the lion and the bear.
And that is his declaration offaith.
It doesn't say what it won't do, it says what it will do.
And David then gives God theglory for delivering him out of
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the lion and the bear.
So David understands that.
Oh, I did it.
It was the Lord that deliveredthem through my hands.
He's giving glory to the Lord.
It's not about his strength,it's not about his agility, it's
not about how good he can wieldthis or that.
And Saul listens to him and hesays put on my armor, put on my
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helmet, my sword here, here's mysword.
And he tries them.
But in the end David does notaccept them.
Why?
Because he's never used thembefore.
They don't fit well, but moreso.
I've never needed it before.
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I didn't need this with thelion and the bear.
I'll take them out with thethings that I know how to use.
And so you, youth, when youstand up in faith to do
something, you're probably notgoing to use the things that the
elders and the seasonedveterans have used, because God
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is going to equip you himself todo things that other people
would not use.
In the name of the Lord, Davidtook what was proven, what was
useful in his hands, a staff.
He took a shepherd's staff to abattle and he took five stones
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and a sling Boy.
You're crazy.
But if you want to go, you goright ahead.
Saul says not my life If hedies, oh well, we'll still be
waiting until somebody takesthis Goliath out.
And then what happens?
When he meets the Philistine,the church is despising David's
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youth.
He comes before this Philistineto battle.
The Philistine sees this punylittle man and he cursed David
by his gods Come to me and Iwill give thy flesh unto the
fowls of the air and to thebeast of the field.
He disdained him, it says, forhe was youth, ruddy and of fair
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countenance.
And so now, who does Philistinerepresent?
Who does Goliath represent?
The world?
So the church and the world aredespising the youth and the
anointing of the man of God, theman-child, if you will.
And so he's getting it fromboth sides.
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But David says I come to thee inthe name of the Lord of hosts,
the God of the armies of Israel,whom you have defied.
You have defied.
He came to him without a sword,without a shield, without a
spear, but he came in the mightyname of the Lord, because the
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battle is the Lord's, as it waswith Jonathan.
The battle is the Lord's.
And notice what he says.
He says David says this daywill the Lord deliver thee into
mine hand and I will smite theeand take thy head from thee and
I will give the carcasses of thehost of the Philistines this
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day unto the fowls of the airand to the wild beasts of the
earth, that all the earth mayknow that there is a God in
Israel.
And when I read that, I thoughtof Revelation 11.6.
We've talked about that so muchlast year Does anybody remember
what 11.6 was about?
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I know you.
Anybody have Revelation 11.6?
Remember I said David is likethe man-child.
Althea Harris (01:01:07):
And these have power to shut heaven that it
rain, not in the days of theirprophecy, and power over waters
to turn them to blood, to smitethe earth with all their plagues
, as often as they will as oftenas they will.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (01:01:23):
I think of that as often as they will
because exactly how Davidconfessed he was going to deal
with Goliath is exactly whathappened, word for word, exactly
what happened.
And so the man child is goingto confess some things, and
things are going to happenexactly as he decrees it, as she
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decrees it, as she decrees it,as they decree it.
It shall decree a thing and itshall come to pass.
And it came to the pass whenthe Philistine arose in verse 48
.
And drew nigh to meet David.
I wish they made a reallysincere, genuine movie about
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this, because this would beawesome to see.
Philistine comes walking up.
David does not come walkingwith a shepherd's staff and
stones.
He runs in haste.
I mean, he's ready, I'm ready,before you're there, I'm running
there.
And that's the attitude of aman, of a youth of faith in this
day and age that is needed.
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You run to the battle knowingthat the Lord has your back.
He didn't need a shield, hedidn't need a sword, he didn't
need a spear.
He needed one little rock, onelittle stone.
And you know what happened thatstone, that sling, and that
stone sunk.
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The stone into his head and theGoliath.
Did he fall back or did he fallforward?
Good, he fell forward, flat onhis face.
And then David came and stoodon top of him to gloat.
What did he do?
He wasn't done.
The work was not done.
He then took the enemy's sword.
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He took the enemy's sword andcut off his head.
Now think about that when youhave to fight your battles.
Quit dealing with theperipheries, quit dealing with
the edges.
Take the fight right to thestrong man.
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Take him out.
Because what happened when hetook out the strong man?
It says that the enemy began torun.
The Philistines saw theirchampion dead and they fled.
And that's exactly what theenemy is going to do when you
take out the strong man.
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And then the church saw who isthis boy's father?
He's asking.
After he defeats Goliath, hetakes him in Saul.
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He never goes back to hisfather and while he's in the
house of Ichabod, Jonathan andDavid's souls are knit like
kindred spirits.
And I wonder why?
Because Jonathan did somethingso radically different from
everyone.
David now did somethingradically different from
everyone, but David loved Saul.
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Jonathan saw that Saul, thatDavid would never hurt him, and
it says that Jonathan became soclose with him that he gave all
that was his to David.
What do you think thatsignifies?
Huh, covenant, yeah, covenant,and that he is the rightful heir
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to the throne.
Son of the king.
Hmmful heir to the throne.
He's the son of a king.
Jonathan was the rightful heirto the throne but he gave
everything he had to David.
That was a sign that it wasgoing to him, and I don't think
Jonathan knew that Samuel everhad anointed David king.
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It was just.
These actions take place andyou wonder what is the
significance, what is themeaning?
And it says that David didwhatsoever the king asked.
And sometimes we find ourselvesin a place in a church that's so
off and we buck up in rebellion.
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David didn't do that.
That was not the example setforth by David.
He faithfully served in thehouse that was without the glory
.
He faithfully served that whatwas in place before.
Why?
Because he was rightfullyanointed and appointed the king
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of Israel.
And we sometimes have troublebeing in other fellowships.
Now don't take this message andsay, oh, you've got to stay in
the worst of worst placesbecause David did eventually
leave.
He did not stay in the house,but a lot had to take place
before that happened.
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And my wife and I can testifythat We've been in other
fellowships.
We've been there for a while,but there was a point in time
where we had to leave, but whilewe were there.
We faithfully ministered untothe Lord, to the people that
were there, even though thatorganization, that hierarchy was
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in place and it was foul.
But after Saul took out Goliathand he was sent over as captain
and started having manyvictories, the women started
singing Saul is slain in 10,000sand David his 10,000s.
Saul is slain in thousands andDavid his 10,000s.
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And Saul now became jealous tothe point that he opened up the
door to his life to that evilspirit every time that jealousy
arose in David.
David avoided that javelintwice.
And Saul then here it is.
He developed a fear again.
It says in verse 12 of chapter18, saul was afraid of David.
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There's that fear.
That fear ravaged him the restof his days and it forced him to
do things that were ungodly.
His fear was rooted in jealousyof David.
But it says also he recognizedthat the Lord had departed from
him and the Lord was with David.
He recognized that the Lord waswith David and he became more
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afraid of him.
And he became more afraid ofhim.
And then Saul had this idea I'mgoing to take him out, I'm
going to send him to battle, butnow I'm only going to send him
with a thousand men and he saidI might give you my oldest
daughter to sort of entice himto go into battle, because his
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idea was he'll eventually die,he's going to eventually die in
a battle.
But then he offers his youngestdaughter and David goes out to
battle.
He didn't want anything from him, for his daughter because
usually when you give away yourdaughter you have to give a
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dowry.
He didn't want anything fromhim for his daughter, because
usually when you give away yourdaughter you have to give a
dowry.
He didn't want that why?
Because he thought David wasgoing to go die in the battle.
So he says, okay, I'll take 104skins of the Philistines.
David brings back 200 and takeshis daughter.
He gave it, he took it.
He couldn't get rid of David asmuch as he wanted to.
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David was untouchable.
We've talked about this thislast year.
A man- child, is going to beuntouchable and anyone who tries
to raise up a weapon againsthim with that weapon shall he be
slayed.
I can go on in chapter 19,speaking of Jonathan standing up
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and giving David a way ofescape.
But that's enough to highlightfor you.
There's so much that can begathered from these types and
these shadows and how they applyto us and how they're to teach
us.
But Saul's reign lasted 30 to 40years, even though David was
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anointed many years before hisreign had ended.
He did not fully come into hisreign until, I believe, he was
30 years old, I think.
And so I'll read the end OfSaul's life 1st Samuel 31.
Verse 8.
And it came to pass.
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On the morrow, when thePhilistines came To strip the
slain, they found Saul and histhree sons sons fallen in Mount
Kibboa.
And they cut off his head andstripped off his armor and sent
into the land of the Philistinesroundabout to publish it in the
house of their idols and amongthe people.
And they put his armor in thehouse of Ashtoreth and they
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fastened his body to the wall ofBeth-shan.
And when the inhabitants ofJabesh-gilead heard of that
which the Philatines had done toSaul, all the valiant men arose
and went all night and took thebody of Saul and the bodies of
his sons from the wall ofBeth-shan and came to Jabesh and
burnt them there.
I can't remember another timein the scriptures where the
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people of God burnt their ownbodies.
Am I correct?
I can't remember burning ofbodies was a pagan thing, but I
guess their bodies have beencompletely defiled by the
Philistines and what they haddone to them, that they felt it
best to guess their bodies havebeen completely defiled by the
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Philistines and what they haddone to them, that they felt it
best to burn their bodies.
And then they took their bonesand buried them under a tree at
Jabesh and fasted seven days.
This was the finality of Sauland his children, and God saw
that from the beginning.
Children, and God saw that fromthe beginning.
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And we need to understand, weneed to hear the Lord, we need
to know whom we need to spendour time interceding for and
when the Lord says follow me,move on, I'm doing new things.
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I hope that this message is nottaken to justify any type of
position that is out of orderwith the Lord, because you can
easily take one scripture andjustify yourselves and your out
of orderliness.
But I hope and pray that theword would feed, would put you
on the right track and that youwould accurately discern what
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the Spirit is saying throughthese old accounts and realize
how they apply in your life, sothat we can walk the straight
and narrow in the power and theauthority of the name of the
Lord, amen.
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