May 27, 2025 • 16 mins
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In the sacred silence between heartbeats, where ancient wisdom dissolves modern chaos, Religious Mindfulness awakens the eternal truth that echoes through every faith tradition. Here, the timeless teachings of Jesus Christ resonate with Buddhist meditation practices, while Islamic prayer techniques flow seamlessly into Hindu mindfulness, creating a divine symphony where Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, and Confucianism unite in perfect grace.
Each episode transforms ordinary moments into sacred encounters, where the love of God vibrates through every breath, every meditation, and every prayer. Whether you follow the Protestant tradition, embrace Catholic wisdom, seek Orthodox truth, find joy in Pentecostal worship, or discover peace through Presbyterian contemplation, this podcast reveals how mindfulness becomes the universal language of faith. Every church community finds divine wisdom through contemplative theology that transcends religious boundaries.
Jesus taught mindfulness in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus demonstrated prayer through conscious presence, Jesus embodied love through divine awareness, Jesus showed how meditation deepens faith, Jesus revealed that God dwells in every mindful moment. The Bible echoes with mindfulness teachings, the Bible reveals that God dwells in conscious presence, the Bible demonstrates how prayer and meditation unite the soul with divine wisdom, the Bible teaches how Christianity embraces mindful worship.
Islamic mystics found divine grace in dhikr meditation, Islamic scholars revealed prayer as mindful surrender, Islamic tradition teaches that God's love manifests through conscious worship, Islamic wisdom shows how meditation deepens faith, Islamic prayer practices connect every believer with divine truth. Judaism proclaims that God dwells in every moment, Judaism reveals divine wisdom through contemplative practice, Judaism teaches how prayer becomes mindful awareness, Judaism demonstrates how meditation enriches faith, Judaism shows how love flows through traditional worship.
Buddhism teaches mindfulness as the path to wisdom, Buddhism demonstrates how meditation opens the heart to truth, Buddhism shows how prayer and mindfulness unite, Buddhism reveals how love flows through compassionate awareness, Buddhism teaches how peace emerges through contemplative practice. Hinduism announces that divine consciousness permeates everything, Hinduism teaches meditation as divine communion, Hinduism reveals how prayer opens the heart to God, Hinduism demonstrates how mindfulness becomes worship, Hinduism shows how love flows through devotional practice.
Taoism whispers that the Way flows through stillness, Taoism teaches wisdom through mindful presence, Taoism reveals how meditation connects with divine truth, Taoism demonstrates how prayer becomes conscious awareness, Taoism shows how love emerges through contemplative practice. Confucianism demonstrates that wisdom emerges through ethical mindfulness, Confucianism teaches divine virtue through conscious living, Confucianism reveals how meditation enriches moral practice, Confucianism shows how prayer becomes contemplative wisdom.
Your church becomes a meditation hall, your meditation cushion transforms into an altar of worship, your prayer becomes mindful breathing, and your mindfulness evolves into pure worship. This is where Christian contemplation meets Buddhist awareness, where Jewish mysticism embraces Islamic surrender, where Hindu devotion flows into Taoist simplicity, where Confucian ethics merge with divine joy found in every faith tradition.
Protestant communities embrace contemplative practice, Protestant churches integrate meditation with traditional worship, Protestant theology reveals how mindfulness deepens faith, Protestant traditions show how prayer becomes contemplative worship, Protestant wisdom demonstrates how Jesus taught mindful awareness. Catholic traditions deepen through Eastern wisdom, Catholic parishes discover mindfulness within their faith, Catholic theology embraces contemplative meditation, Catholic communities find God through mindful prayer, Catholic traditions show how Jesus practiced contemplative awareness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
God is not your refuge from trouble, but He is
your refuge in trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
That understanding alone would.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Answer many of our questions about the operative nature of faith.
That God is not my refuge from trouble, but God
is my.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Refuge in trouble.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Some of the times in your life that you think
you're in trouble, you're not.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're in training.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
What you see as trouble, God sees as training. And
I'm going to try not to holler and scream.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Today, just teach you a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But go over to First Samuel nineteen because when David
wrote Psalm fifty nine, or at least the period of
time he's referencing here.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Is a very successful time in his life.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
On one hand, I mean, he's been anointed to be king,
and he got a pretty cool opportunity in front of
all of his brothers to be singled out as the
chosen one who is going to replace King Saul. He
is called a man after God's own heart, and he's
(01:10):
got oil on his head, which represents the way that
God is going to use him the influence God has
given him, and God didn't speak it to him like
Joseph in a dream. God spoke it to him in
front of his whole family.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So when God spoke to Joseph and.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Said I'm gonna make you great, Joseph had to try
to convince people. But when David was spoken of, he
was spoken of in front of his brothers. So everybody
knows he's a little special. If they didn't know it
when he was anointed, they certainly knew it after he
got done with Goliath. How many of you have never
heard a good Bible sermon about David and Goliath? I
need to see if you never heard this story about
(01:45):
David and Goliath, well, I'm not going to I'm not
going to go into it now because.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Spoiler alert, Goliath goes down. By the way.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
For every Goliath in your life, spoiler alert, he goes down.
He might be he might be loud, he might be defiant.
You might have never seen a paddle like this before.
But Goliath goes down.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Fay, can I show you something?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
When David stood before Goliath before he hit him with
a stone, he spit a few bars.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Can I show you? Can I show you?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Because you didn't know that David was the original battle rapper,
you always saw him in your mind. You saw him
with a harp and a lamb in his lap, and
he's stroking a lamb with one hand and strumming a
harp with the other hand. But before David was ever
strumming a harp or stroking a sheep, he walked up
to Goliath, and watch this. He looks at Goliath and
(02:41):
begins to declare what God is going to do. Now
here's a principle, right your bars before your battle. Don't
wait until things turn out positively in your life to
give God glory.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Don't wait until seize.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Part in your standing on dry ground to declare that
God is able to split them. Don't wait until everything
is perfect in your life to enjoy the presence of God.
Don't wait until you don't have any hang ups to
say to God.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Here, am I send me? Use me?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
God is looking for somebody who will shout before the
first brick falls, who will blow a trumpet while you're
still looking at enemies in an occupied territory. So David
stands up to Goliath, and I know you know all
this already, but just in case nobody ever heard it,
he goes up. He goes up to Goliath and he
(03:39):
grabs the mic, and he tells, Goliath, you come against
me with sword and spear and javelin, But I come
against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the
God of the armies of Israel, whom you have to fight.
Next verse this stay, the Lord will deliver you into
my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off
your head very day. Can't you hear a beat behind us?
(04:02):
This very day, I will give the carcasses of the
Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and
the whole world will know that there is a God
in Israel. And David's confidence is not only something that
he speaks of, but it's something that he walks in.
He has the kind of confidence to declare victory before battle.
(04:28):
So when I praise God, I'm not praising God for
outcomes that I'm currently experiencing. I am praising God for
promises that are still to come. Can I preach a
(04:49):
little bit today?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I want to talk about the worst that David fought.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Because he's doing great, He's annoyted to be king. He
kills Goliath, he cuts off his head. He goes to
sau'ce tent. Casaul told him he was just a little boy.
And he tried to tell Saul that he had the
winning hand, and Saul said, you don't have a sword.
And David said, not now, but after I get done
using what's in my hand to knock him down and
take what's in his hand, I'm gonna cut off his
(05:17):
head with what he came against me holding, and I'll
take his sword and.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'll cut off his head.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And he stood at Sau's tent with Goliath's head. And
if that wasn't proof enough, when he went back into
the city, watch this. When David went back into the city,
a whole group of women started following David into the streets, singing.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
About his great victory.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
David is an anointed future king. He's a warrior. His
music career is taking off. He's released a mixtape. He's
being called to the palace to play the harp for Saul.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Causaw's going crazy. He just held Goliath's hand.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Women are lying in the streets shaking tambourines. You want
to see this, I promise you. In First Samuel eighteen,
you think.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I make this stuff up.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
This stuff is in the Bible. You thought the Bible
was boring. The Bible's not boring. Touch and neighbor say,
you're boring. Read the Bible. The Bible's awesome. David is
rising in power, and he's proving the presence of God,
not through what just he says, but through what he does.
And the women are lying the streets, and they got
this little song they're singing to Saul. They're shaken timbrels
and liars and eight o eights. And as they dance
(06:30):
verse seven, they sang, Saul is slain his thousands and
David is tens of thousands. Well, Saul didn't like that
song very much, and so Saul shut that song down,
and he actually wanted.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
To kill David.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And so this brings us to First Samuel chapter nineteen,
which is the historical context of Psalm fifty nine. And
in Psalm fifty nine we see David calling on God
to be his strength. But in First Samuel nineteen we
see into his struggle. Okay, let's look into his struggle
(07:03):
in order to understand his strength. So important that we
understand his struggle or we will misunderstand his strength. As
one great theologian has said, the presence of God is
not the absence of trouble. If I could get one
thing across to you in this series, it is that
(07:27):
your greatest testimonies will come from your greatest tests. Your
greatest bars will come from your greatest battles. Maybe we
assumed that David killed Goliath and went to the beach.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Not so.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The Bible says that David, continuing to serve Saul, would
go out look at verse eight and he would fight
against the Philistines. In fact, it says, let me read
this from the new King James version, and there was
war again, because it never stops, because you don't kill Goliath,
(08:07):
get the gold medal, and go home and stare at
his head for the rest of your life. Every time
I heard Goliath preached as a little boy, it ended
when he fell down. But you know what the Bible
says was the reward for David's victory more battles. Before
(08:28):
you post, I know that some of you are about
to get engaged, And before you post the engagement pictures,
swipe left with eight different pictures, so everybody will omge
down in the comments section and literally just died and
so happy to you. But before before you post that,
(08:50):
make sure you are prepared because the reward for engagement.
I mean, just ask Colly about the reward for engagement.
She will tell you that the process of becoming one
(09:10):
is much grittier than the prospect of walking the aisle.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So David kills Goliath. Guess what you get to fight again?
You get the promotion.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Guess what you get to manage people. Guess what people suck?
You get the house, you get to clean it. I
just love preaching the Bible like it really goes, because
if we stop when Goliath goes down, we missed the
(09:43):
whole point. He killed Goliath, and Saul said, now I
got something bigger for you to do.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You really want God to answer your prayer?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And war broke out again, and war broke out again,
and Saul.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Needed somebody to fight. Here's the thing he did.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He sent somebody that he didn't even like to fight
a battle for him that he needed him to fight.
And people will sometimes use you for what you can
do for them while secretly hating the threat that you
represent to them. Sometimes everything that appears to be a.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Gift is not a gift.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And Saul wanted to kill David. One of the ways
he tried to kill him was he let him marry
his daughter.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He said, I'll give you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
My daughter if you go kill one hundred Philistines. David said,
no problem, I'll kill two hundred because he had hustle
and heart and ambition like that, and he came back,
the Bible says, with two hundred Philistine foreskins. In case
you did not drop your kids off at e kids,
I will bypass the exact meaning of the text. Just
(10:59):
let it be known that Sal's intention in giving David
the gift.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Was not to bless him.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
And some of the things in your life that appear
to be battles are really gifts. And some of the
things in your life that appear to be gifts are
really curses. So David is out fighting the Philistines, and
we all have Philistines that we must fight in our lives.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We all have Goliath, not just one, but many.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
When we kill Goliath, here comes another and another, because
Goliath has brothers. And in the midst of fighting the Philistines,
because that's hard enough, it's hard enough to fight the
external battles. But I didn't really want to talk to
you about the external battles because it seems that David
had no problem fighting the Philistines.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's what he did. David was a killer.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Give him a Philistine, he'll knock him down.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Give him a rock.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Given five rocks, he'll only use one. You can keep
the other four. Because David knew how to fight Philistines.
And I'm gona proved to you over the course of
the series that the biggest battles David ever fought didn't
stand in front of him. They lived within him, because
while he is fighting the battles without, there's another battle
(12:23):
that is being waged within. Once more, war broke out,
and David went out and fought the Philistines, and he
did good. He struck them with a mighty blow and
they fled from him. He sent them scattering, running for cover.
But verse nine says that while that battle was being won,
another battle was being waged.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
On one hand, David is.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Coming up, and as he comes up into a greater position,
as he comes up into a season of greater usefulness
to God, a distressing spirit from God has come upon Saul.
On one hand, David is being blessed, and on one hand,
David is in a battle, and the battle is happening
(13:06):
because God's hand has been taken off of Saul and
put on David. Now David has the unique task of
trying to serve someone who is threatened by his potential.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's tough. Not only that, but Saul is distressed. He
knows that he's slipping, but.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
He cannot do anything to catch himself. And because of this,
he's acting crazy. He's doing things trying to You know
how you do when you sense that you're losing control,
and so you try to fix stuff. But everything you
try to do to fix it in frustration only makes
it worse. And you would do better to just leave
it alone, but you can't, and so you try to
(13:54):
control people, and then you sabotage yourself by creating the
very result that you dread, by trying to take matters
into your own hand. That's Saul, and he's going so
crazy in his mind that the only way that he
can get the voices in his mind to stop is
if there's music play. Now, we don't do that, We
don't occupy ourselves with anything to try to keep ourselves
from having to be with ourselves. And David is in
(14:15):
the position that Saul's dysfunction has created over in the corner,
playing a harp for the king, because David's kind of weird,
because on one hand he can whip you with a slingshot,
but on the other hand he can touch the strings and.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Make you cry.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And so he is the embodiment of both a warrior
and a worshiper. And now his gift has brought him
into a position that has created for him an opportunity
in the form of opposition. And as the hand of
God is leaving the life of Saul, and as the
(14:49):
hand of God, the anointing of God is raising David up.
The Bible says that Saul sat in his.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
House with his spear in his hand.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's kind of creepy, big old Saul sulking in the
corner with a spear in his hand.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And watch what David had to do.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
David had to sit over there behind a harp, strumming
a harp while Saul held a spear and David was
playing music with his hand.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Verse ten.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with
the spear, but he David slipped away from Saul's presence,
and he drove the spear into the wall.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Let me ask you a question, who is Saul fighting.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Because on the surface, it looks like he's fighting David,
And I wonder how many times in my life I
thought I was fighting someone, and I thought I was
fighting something. But the real fight, the real war, the
(16:14):
real battle, was not the battle with them, It was
the battle within.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hey, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
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Speaker 2 (16:31):
Thanks again for watching.
God is not your refuge from trouble, but He is
your refuge in trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
That understanding alone would.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Answer many of our questions about the operative nature of faith.
That God is not my refuge from trouble, but God
is my.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Refuge in trouble.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Some of the times in your life that you think
you're in trouble, you're not.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're in training.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
What you see as trouble, God sees as training. And
I'm going to try not to holler and scream.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Today, just teach you a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But go over to First Samuel nineteen because when David
wrote Psalm fifty nine, or at least the period of
time he's referencing here.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Is a very successful time in his life.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
On one hand, I mean, he's been anointed to be king,
and he got a pretty cool opportunity in front of
all of his brothers to be singled out as the
chosen one who is going to replace King Saul. He
is called a man after God's own heart, and he's
(01:10):
got oil on his head, which represents the way that
God is going to use him the influence God has
given him, and God didn't speak it to him like
Joseph in a dream. God spoke it to him in
front of his whole family.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So when God spoke to Joseph and.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Said I'm gonna make you great, Joseph had to try
to convince people. But when David was spoken of, he
was spoken of in front of his brothers. So everybody
knows he's a little special. If they didn't know it
when he was anointed, they certainly knew it after he
got done with Goliath. How many of you have never
heard a good Bible sermon about David and Goliath? I
need to see if you never heard this story about
(01:45):
David and Goliath, well, I'm not going to I'm not
going to go into it now because.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Spoiler alert, Goliath goes down. By the way.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
For every Goliath in your life, spoiler alert, he goes down.
He might be he might be loud, he might be defiant.
You might have never seen a paddle like this before.
But Goliath goes down.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Fay, can I show you something?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
When David stood before Goliath before he hit him with
a stone, he spit a few bars.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Can I show you? Can I show you?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Because you didn't know that David was the original battle rapper,
you always saw him in your mind. You saw him
with a harp and a lamb in his lap, and
he's stroking a lamb with one hand and strumming a
harp with the other hand. But before David was ever
strumming a harp or stroking a sheep, he walked up
to Goliath, and watch this. He looks at Goliath and
(02:41):
begins to declare what God is going to do. Now
here's a principle, right your bars before your battle. Don't
wait until things turn out positively in your life to
give God glory.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Don't wait until seize.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Part in your standing on dry ground to declare that
God is able to split them. Don't wait until everything
is perfect in your life to enjoy the presence of God.
Don't wait until you don't have any hang ups to
say to God.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Here, am I send me? Use me?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
God is looking for somebody who will shout before the
first brick falls, who will blow a trumpet while you're
still looking at enemies in an occupied territory. So David
stands up to Goliath, and I know you know all
this already, but just in case nobody ever heard it,
he goes up. He goes up to Goliath and he
(03:39):
grabs the mic, and he tells, Goliath, you come against
me with sword and spear and javelin, But I come
against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the
God of the armies of Israel, whom you have to fight.
Next verse this stay, the Lord will deliver you into
my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off
your head very day. Can't you hear a beat behind us?
(04:02):
This very day, I will give the carcasses of the
Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and
the whole world will know that there is a God
in Israel. And David's confidence is not only something that
he speaks of, but it's something that he walks in.
He has the kind of confidence to declare victory before battle.
(04:28):
So when I praise God, I'm not praising God for
outcomes that I'm currently experiencing. I am praising God for
promises that are still to come. Can I preach a
(04:49):
little bit today?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I want to talk about the worst that David fought.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Because he's doing great, He's annoyted to be king. He
kills Goliath, he cuts off his head. He goes to
sau'ce tent. Casaul told him he was just a little boy.
And he tried to tell Saul that he had the
winning hand, and Saul said, you don't have a sword.
And David said, not now, but after I get done
using what's in my hand to knock him down and
take what's in his hand, I'm gonna cut off his
(05:17):
head with what he came against me holding, and I'll
take his sword and.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'll cut off his head.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And he stood at Sau's tent with Goliath's head. And
if that wasn't proof enough, when he went back into
the city, watch this. When David went back into the city,
a whole group of women started following David into the streets, singing.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
About his great victory.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
David is an anointed future king. He's a warrior. His
music career is taking off. He's released a mixtape. He's
being called to the palace to play the harp for Saul.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Causaw's going crazy. He just held Goliath's hand.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Women are lying in the streets shaking tambourines. You want
to see this, I promise you. In First Samuel eighteen,
you think.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I make this stuff up.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
This stuff is in the Bible. You thought the Bible
was boring. The Bible's not boring. Touch and neighbor say,
you're boring. Read the Bible. The Bible's awesome. David is
rising in power, and he's proving the presence of God,
not through what just he says, but through what he does.
And the women are lying the streets, and they got
this little song they're singing to Saul. They're shaken timbrels
and liars and eight o eights. And as they dance
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verse seven, they sang, Saul is slain his thousands and
David is tens of thousands. Well, Saul didn't like that
song very much, and so Saul shut that song down,
and he actually wanted.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
To kill David.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And so this brings us to First Samuel chapter nineteen,
which is the historical context of Psalm fifty nine. And
in Psalm fifty nine we see David calling on God
to be his strength. But in First Samuel nineteen we
see into his struggle. Okay, let's look into his struggle
(07:03):
in order to understand his strength. So important that we
understand his struggle or we will misunderstand his strength. As
one great theologian has said, the presence of God is
not the absence of trouble. If I could get one
thing across to you in this series, it is that
(07:27):
your greatest testimonies will come from your greatest tests. Your
greatest bars will come from your greatest battles. Maybe we
assumed that David killed Goliath and went to the beach.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Not so.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The Bible says that David, continuing to serve Saul, would
go out look at verse eight and he would fight
against the Philistines. In fact, it says, let me read
this from the new King James version, and there was
war again, because it never stops, because you don't kill Goliath,
(08:07):
get the gold medal, and go home and stare at
his head for the rest of your life. Every time
I heard Goliath preached as a little boy, it ended
when he fell down. But you know what the Bible
says was the reward for David's victory more battles. Before
(08:28):
you post, I know that some of you are about
to get engaged, And before you post the engagement pictures,
swipe left with eight different pictures, so everybody will omge
down in the comments section and literally just died and
so happy to you. But before before you post that,
(08:50):
make sure you are prepared because the reward for engagement.
I mean, just ask Colly about the reward for engagement.
She will tell you that the process of becoming one
(09:10):
is much grittier than the prospect of walking the aisle.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So David kills Goliath. Guess what you get to fight again?
You get the promotion.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Guess what you get to manage people. Guess what people suck?
You get the house, you get to clean it. I
just love preaching the Bible like it really goes, because
if we stop when Goliath goes down, we missed the
(09:43):
whole point. He killed Goliath, and Saul said, now I
got something bigger for you to do.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You really want God to answer your prayer?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And war broke out again, and war broke out again,
and Saul.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Needed somebody to fight. Here's the thing he did.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He sent somebody that he didn't even like to fight
a battle for him that he needed him to fight.
And people will sometimes use you for what you can
do for them while secretly hating the threat that you
represent to them. Sometimes everything that appears to be a.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Gift is not a gift.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And Saul wanted to kill David. One of the ways
he tried to kill him was he let him marry
his daughter.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He said, I'll give you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
My daughter if you go kill one hundred Philistines. David said,
no problem, I'll kill two hundred because he had hustle
and heart and ambition like that, and he came back,
the Bible says, with two hundred Philistine foreskins. In case
you did not drop your kids off at e kids,
I will bypass the exact meaning of the text. Just
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let it be known that Sal's intention in giving David
the gift.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Was not to bless him.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
And some of the things in your life that appear
to be battles are really gifts. And some of the
things in your life that appear to be gifts are
really curses. So David is out fighting the Philistines, and
we all have Philistines that we must fight in our lives.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We all have Goliath, not just one, but many.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
When we kill Goliath, here comes another and another, because
Goliath has brothers. And in the midst of fighting the Philistines,
because that's hard enough, it's hard enough to fight the
external battles. But I didn't really want to talk to
you about the external battles because it seems that David
had no problem fighting the Philistines.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's what he did. David was a killer.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Give him a Philistine, he'll knock him down.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Give him a rock.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Given five rocks, he'll only use one. You can keep
the other four. Because David knew how to fight Philistines.
And I'm gona proved to you over the course of
the series that the biggest battles David ever fought didn't
stand in front of him. They lived within him, because
while he is fighting the battles without, there's another battle
(12:23):
that is being waged within. Once more, war broke out,
and David went out and fought the Philistines, and he
did good. He struck them with a mighty blow and
they fled from him. He sent them scattering, running for cover.
But verse nine says that while that battle was being won,
another battle was being waged.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
On one hand, David is.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Coming up, and as he comes up into a greater position,
as he comes up into a season of greater usefulness
to God, a distressing spirit from God has come upon Saul.
On one hand, David is being blessed, and on one hand,
David is in a battle, and the battle is happening
(13:06):
because God's hand has been taken off of Saul and
put on David. Now David has the unique task of
trying to serve someone who is threatened by his potential.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's tough. Not only that, but Saul is distressed. He
knows that he's slipping, but.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
He cannot do anything to catch himself. And because of this,
he's acting crazy. He's doing things trying to You know
how you do when you sense that you're losing control,
and so you try to fix stuff. But everything you
try to do to fix it in frustration only makes
it worse. And you would do better to just leave
it alone, but you can't, and so you try to
(13:54):
control people, and then you sabotage yourself by creating the
very result that you dread, by trying to take matters
into your own hand. That's Saul, and he's going so
crazy in his mind that the only way that he
can get the voices in his mind to stop is
if there's music play. Now, we don't do that, We
don't occupy ourselves with anything to try to keep ourselves
from having to be with ourselves. And David is in
(14:15):
the position that Saul's dysfunction has created over in the corner,
playing a harp for the king, because David's kind of weird,
because on one hand he can whip you with a slingshot,
but on the other hand he can touch the strings and.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Make you cry.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And so he is the embodiment of both a warrior
and a worshiper. And now his gift has brought him
into a position that has created for him an opportunity
in the form of opposition. And as the hand of
God is leaving the life of Saul, and as the
(14:49):
hand of God, the anointing of God is raising David up.
The Bible says that Saul sat in his.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
House with his spear in his hand.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's kind of creepy, big old Saul sulking in the
corner with a spear in his hand.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And watch what David had to do.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
David had to sit over there behind a harp, strumming
a harp while Saul held a spear and David was
playing music with his hand.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Verse ten.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with
the spear, but he David slipped away from Saul's presence,
and he drove the spear into the wall.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Let me ask you a question, who is Saul fighting.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Because on the surface, it looks like he's fighting David,
And I wonder how many times in my life I
thought I was fighting someone, and I thought I was
fighting something. But the real fight, the real war, the
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real battle, was not the battle with them, It was
the battle within.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hey, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
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