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Men, this evening, I am continuing to preach about David,

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a man after God's own heart.

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And the last few sermons, we looked at some of the reasons

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why David was a man after God's own heart.

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And remember, this is the man that is the human being

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in the Bible, that is mentioned more than anyone else.

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1,100 some times.

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And there's a lot of positive things to say about him.

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This is definitely a hero of the scriptures

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that we can look to and get inspiration from.

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But in chapter 17, we were looking at the story

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of David and Goliath, and wanna go back to that,

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back to verse number 31, and start out here to see

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that number one, David was a man after God's own heart

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because he had his faith in the Lord,

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he trusted in the Lord, okay?

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Now here's the thing, he's basing his trust in the Lord

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that God's gonna do something big in the future

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on the fact that God has come through for him

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in the past.

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And this is the way our lives work as well.

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We go through the Christian life, we pray,

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we live our lives, God comes through for us

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and we're in tribulations and afflictions

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and sometimes we're brought right up

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to the bring of disaster and then God steps in

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and helps us out.

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And by going through those experiences,

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we learn that God is faithful

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and that God can provide

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and that God's gonna take care of us.

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And then that helps us to have faith going forward

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that as God has done in the past,

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he's gonna continue to do in the future,

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he which had begun a good work in you

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will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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So look what the Bible says in 1st Samuel 1731.

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And when the words were heard, which David spake,

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they rehearsed them before Saul and he sent for him.

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And David said to Saul,

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let no man's heart fail because of him,

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thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

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And Saul said to David,

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thou are not able to go against this Philistine

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to fight with him, for thou art but a youth.

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And he a man of war from his youth.

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And David said unto Saul,

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thy servant kept his father sheep.

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And there came a lion and a bear

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and took a lamb out of the flock.

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And I went out after him and smote him

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and delivered it out of his mouth.

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And when he arose against me,

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I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him.

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So he's saying, look,

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God has come through for me in the past.

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I've fought battles in the past

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and I won, I defeated the enemy.

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It says in verse number 36,

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thy servant slew both the lion and the bear.

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And this uncircumcised Philistine

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shall be as one of them,

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seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.

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David said moreover,

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though Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion

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and out of the paw of the bear,

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he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.

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And so it's the same thing.

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You know, the same God that helped you out

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10 years ago, five years ago, one year ago,

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all the answers to prayer that you've had,

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all the things that God did for you when you needed him,

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you got to remember those things

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and not just forget about those things.

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There's, oh, where's God?

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You know, you got to think back,

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okay, what about when God came through for me back here?

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He came through for me over here.

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He came through at this point.

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Well, you just have to trust

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that he's going to come through this time as well.

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And that's what David's doing.

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He's looking back on those past experiences

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and notice he's also giving God the glory

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because he's not saying,

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well, I'm just such an awesome warrior.

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I killed a bear.

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I killed a lion.

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So therefore I can just take on anything

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because I'm so awesome.

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He's saying, no, no, the Lord delivered me from the bear.

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The Lord delivered me from the lion.

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And this guy is blaspheming God.

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I know he's an enemy of the Lord.

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And so it's God's will that I defeat him

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so God's going to come through for me as well.

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And this argument makes sense to Saul

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because Saul said unto David,

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go and the Lord be with thee.

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So he says, yeah, okay, let's go.

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Now let's continue here.

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It says in verse number 38,

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and Saul armed David with his armor

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and he put a helmet of brass upon his head.

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Also he armed him with a coat of mail.

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This is like chain mail.

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And David girded his sword upon his armor

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and he assayed to go.

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That means like he tried to go.

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This is like the same related word

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when you write an essay.

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So he assayed to go for he had not proved it.

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And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these

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for I have not proved them.

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And David put them off him.

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So we saw number one,

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he's got his faith and trust in the Lord

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based on past experiences.

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But number two, he doesn't feel the need

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to be an exact copy of someone else

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or to emulate someone else, okay?

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Because look what it says in verse number 40,

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he took his staff in his hand

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and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook

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and put them in a shepherd's bag, which he had,

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even in a script and a sling was in his hand

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and he drew near to the flistening.

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Notice he is being himself.

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I mean, he's a shepherd.

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And so he's saying, look,

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I can't be a carbon copy of King Saul.

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I'm not King Saul.

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I'm not head and shoulders above the people.

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I'm not a warrior that fights in armor and chain mail.

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I'm totally unfamiliar with this stuff.

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I haven't tested it.

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I haven't proved it.

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And so I've just got to go and be me as a shepherd.

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I'm going to take the shepherd's bag.

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I'm going to use the sling, the stones,

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the weapons that I am familiar with.

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And here's the thing is that God

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is going to use each of us in our own way.

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We don't all have to be copying someone else

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and being exactly like someone else to be used of God

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because God chooses different people for different tasks.

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And there are people that I can reach

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that you cannot reach.

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And then there are people that you can reach

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that I cannot reach.

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Some people are just really turned away by my preaching

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and just really get offended by my preaching.

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Yeah, but then other people hear the preaching

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and they're like, wow, this is awesome.

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And then they end up getting saved.

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So it's a mix, you know, am I running some people off?

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Well, I mean, the Bible is going to run

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some people off first of all,

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but some people might just not like my personality

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and that's okay.

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But other people will like my personality

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and dislike another preacher.

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They don't want a soft preacher.

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Other preachers, other people don't want a hard preacher,

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you know, and it's like Goldilocks over here

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is going to have to find the right person

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to connect with, apparently.

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But the bottom line is that God uses different types

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of people in different ways.

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He doesn't expect us all to fight exactly the same

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or be exactly the same.

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And in fact, it's usually very misguided

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when you try to be an exact carbon copy of someone else

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or try to pattern yourself too closely after someone else.

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And in fact, this can be something

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that is carnal and sinful.

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And there's a sin listed in Galatians chapter five

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called emulations.

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Okay, and this is a word that maybe

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we don't really use very much.

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So it's maybe a difficult word,

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but he's listing off those works of the flesh

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in Galatians five and he says idolatry,

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witchcraft, hatred, variance,

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emulations, wrath, strife, sedition, heresies,

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listing off all these bad things.

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And these two things are used in a row,

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variance and emulations.

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And these things are kind of like opposite problems

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because variance is when people feel

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like they have to be different

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just for the sake of being different.

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You know, variance, like variation.

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They just like, I just have to show

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that I'm special, I'm unique,

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I'm different.

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You know, I just have to show

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that I'm different than past your show.

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And so that's a stupid attitude

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to just set out to be different

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and to strive to be different

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for the sake of being different.

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Like, oh, well, I'm just not gonna use that armor

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because that's what Saul's using.

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You know, I mean, look,

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he would have used it if it fit.

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He essayed to go.

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You know, he put on the armor

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and he tried it out

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and he would have used it if it worked for him.

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So there's nothing wrong

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with taking the things that we learned

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from other people,

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copying someone else's soul winning style,

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copying someone else's preaching style

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if it works for you.

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You know, and taking the parts that do work

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and using them, right?

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You don't wanna just feel like

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I have to reinvent the wheel

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and be different for the sake of being different

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because people that are being different

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for the sake of being different,

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they're carnal and cause it's called variance.

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You know, they're just being contrarian

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and just trying to be different.

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But then the next thing is emulations

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and emulations is when you are copying someone, right?

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And we've probably heard this word like emulate,

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so and so is trying to emulate, so and so.

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Usually you hear it as a verb and not a noun,

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but emulations is when you're copying other people

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and often this is motivated by envy.

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You kinda wish you were them

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and so because you covet what they have

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and you envy them,

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then that will motivate you to try to be a carbon copy

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or emulate them

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or try to follow too closely that example.

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And these are both problems.

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You gotta be yourself,

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take things from other people that work,

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learn from other people, follow their righteous example,

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use what you can

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and my preaching, for example,

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the vast majority of my preaching

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is not original with me.

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You know, I never claimed to be an original

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because I'm just getting up

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and preaching a bunch of stuff

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that I've heard my whole life,

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but here's the thing,

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everything that was not biblical, I discard.

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Everything that's biblical, I keep.

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Things that don't fit me or my personality

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I'm not gonna use.

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But I do end up using a lot of stuff

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that I've heard over the years

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because it makes sense to learn from other people

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and then preach truth.

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I mean, look, if I hear good sermon,

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I'm gonna re-preach it.

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I'm gonna borrow that material.

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I'm gonna borrow those points.

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I'm gonna borrow those illustrations.

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I'm gonna be like, oh, I just have to,

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everything has to be original with me.

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Now, I'm gonna borrow and copy and paste

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and use that stuff, okay?

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But I'm also not feeling like

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I have to be a carbon copy

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of any particular preacher.

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I'm gonna take what works, discard what doesn't work,

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discard that which is not biblical

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and just be myself at the end of the day.

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That's what you have to do as a preacher

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and so you gotta get the balance of those two ideas.

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Now, people are constantly accusing

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some of my pastor friends and some guys

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that we've trained, ordained and sent out

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of being carbon copies of Pastor Anderson

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or something like that.

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But really what they're doing usually

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is they're trying to just provoke these guys to be variant.

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Like, oh, you gotta show us that you're different

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and they're trying to provoke them

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to feel like they have to be different

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for the sake of being different.

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And in reality, that is not how my pastor friends are.

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They're not carbon copies of me.

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If you listen to their preaching,

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yeah, you're gonna hear echoes of stuff that I preach,

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but you're also gonna hear a lot of original material.

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And the thing is, if you heard the guys

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that I grew up under, you'd realize

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that a lot of my preaching is echoing them.

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You know, we can't help but speak

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the things that we've seen and heard

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and if preaching is good, use it.

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It's not copyrighted.

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It's not like, oh, we have to be original.

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We have to be special or something.

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You know, that's a foolish way to look at the world.

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So David was able to serve God in a great way,

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in his own way, as himself,

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and not feeling like he had to be a carbon copy.

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He wasn't just gonna reject the armor out of hand.

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He tried it.

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He put it on.

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He would have used it,

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but he doesn't feel like he has to be

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an exact copy of King Saul

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because look, David's a small guy.

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Saul's a huge guy,

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but David can sling that rock.

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You know, he's got a different ability

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that God has given him.

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And so we've all been given different talents and abilities

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and we all have different weaknesses

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and so we've got to be ourselves as we serve God.

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But number three,

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he's ready to give God all the glory for this victory.

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Okay?

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So why is David a man after God's own heart?

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Number one, he's got his faith in the Lord.

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Number two, he's not variant

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and he's not having emulations.

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He is just serving God in his own way.

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He's not trying to be a carbon copy of someone else.

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He's being himself and serving God in his own way.

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Number three, he's ready to give God all the glory.

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Look, God is just not gonna use prideful people.

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Prideful people with inflated egos

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are never gonna be greatly used by God

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because then God's not gonna get the glory

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because they're gonna take all the glory

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and God knows that if he gives

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that kind of person success,

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it's gonna go to their head.

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You know, and so God can give you a lot of success

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if you're humble.

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He can know that he trusts you with success

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so that if you succeed,

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it's not gonna just inflate your ego

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and cause you to ruin your life.

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Look at verse 45.

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It says, then said David to the Philistine,

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thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear

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and with a shield,

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but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts,

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the God of the armies of Israel whom thou hast defied.

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This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand

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and I will smite thee and take thy head from thee

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and I will give the carcasses

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of the host of the Philistines this day

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unto the fowls of the air

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and to the wild beasts of the earth

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that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

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And all this assembly shall know

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that the Lord save it not with sword and spear

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for the battle is the Lord's

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and he will give you into our hands.

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Notice, he's not saying,

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man, I'm so good with these weapons.

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I'm such a good fighter.

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I could beat anybody.

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I'm the greatest.

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He's saying, no, no, the battle is the Lord's.

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The Lord's gonna get the victory.

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The Lord is gonna give me into your hands.

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He's trusting the Lord.

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He's not prideful.

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He's humble.

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He wants to give God the credit for his past victories

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and for his present victory that he's about to experience.

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He's ready to give God all the glory.

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That's the only way to be greatly used by God.

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But number four,

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he did not hesitate to do the will of God.

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Look at verse 48.

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It came to pass when the Philistine arose

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and came and drew nigh to meet David

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that David hasted and ran toward the army

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to meet the Philistine, right?

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So he's not hesitating to do the will of God.

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And you know, I've said this recently

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that there are some decisions in life that are difficult

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because you don't really know what the right thing is.

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Those are the things

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that the Bible does not spell out clearly.

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And so you're wondering,

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do I go to the right hand?

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Do I go to the left hand?

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I don't know what to do.

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But then there are decisions that are easy

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where the Bible just tells you what it is

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and it's just, are you gonna follow the Bible

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or are you not gonna follow the Bible?

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I mean, that's no decision at all.

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Those are easy decisions.

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And when you know what the right thing is,

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don't hesitate to just do it,

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even if it's dangerous,

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even if it seems counterintuitive,

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even if people scoff at you,

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even if people are laughing at you,

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hey, do not hesitate to follow the word of God

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and just do it God's way by faith.

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And so when he is going to do battle,

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he's got the king's blessing.

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God is leading him to do this.

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He's filled with the spirit of God.

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He's been anointed by Samuel.

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He's full of the spirit.

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Authority is on his side.

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He's ready to go.

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This guy is going down.

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He runs to meet the Palestine,

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even though it's dangerous.

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He just goes sprinting into battle.

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He doesn't hesitate.

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You know, the Bible says to him

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that know it to do good

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and do it that not.

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To him it is sin, right?

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So if we know what the right thing is

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and we hesitate and we ham and hawn,

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don't do it, you know, we're in sin

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until we do that good deed

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that God has commanded us to do.

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We don't want to just wait and put it off

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and be in disobedience day after day,

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week after week, month after month.

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If you know what the right thing is,

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get it done now.

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Run to the will of God.

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But number five,

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why David was a man after God's own heart

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is that he was not squeamish

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about slaying the Lord's enemies.

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He wasn't squeamish about slaying the Lord's enemies.

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You know, God is not looking for weak men

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that are too squeamish to do battle with the enemy

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because they just want to just be nice to everybody

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and just kumbaya with everybody.

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Look what the Bible says in verse 49.

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David put his hand in his bag

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and took thence a stone and slang it

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and smote the Philistine in his forehead

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that the stone sunk into his forehead

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and he fell upon his face to the earth.

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Look, he's not holding back.

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He's giving it everything.

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He sends this stone so hard

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that this thing sinks into the forehead of Goliath.

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He gives it everything he's got,

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but he doesn't stop there.

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David prevailed over the Philistine

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with a sling with a stone

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and smote the Philistine and slew him,

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but there was no sword in the hand of David.

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And remember, he told Goliath,

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I'm gonna take your head off.

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You know, I'm gonna cut off your head.

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You know, it's funny we were on the way here.

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My son Oliver was talking about the stories four years old.

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He said that David took off Goliath's body

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and I was like, that's an interesting way of looking at it.

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He removed the body from the head, you know?

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So I was kind of a hot take on that.

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I, you know, most people would think of it

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as the head being removed from the body,

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but you know, that four year old mind.

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So he's gonna take his head off.

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It says in verse 51,

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therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine

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and took his sword.

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So he takes Goliath's own sword out of his hand,

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stands on top of Goliath,

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who's laying on the ground unconscious.

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And it says he drew the sword out of the sheet thereof

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and slew him and cut off his head therewith.

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And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead,

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they fled.

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And look what it says in verse 57.

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And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,

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Abner took him and brought him before Saul

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with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

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Now look, David doesn't seem squeamish about this at all.

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I mean, he could have just said, hey, he's unconscious.

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He can't hurt us anymore.

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You know, let's get some zip ties

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and tie his hands up and take a prisoner.

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He's not taking any prisoners.

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I mean, this guy's going down.

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And so he just beheads the guy with a sword.

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You know, and that's not really the easiest thing to do.

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Cutting a human being's head off with a sword.

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I mean, we're not, you know,

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obviously this isn't Japan and the Middle Ages

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or something, you know.

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So he's not pulling out a katana and, you know.

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This is a sword that he's never handled before.

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It's a sword of a pretty big guy.

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It's probably a pretty big sword.

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He's standing on top of his body

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and, you know, not to be graphic or anything,

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but this probably took a few hacks.

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I mean, this guy is out for blood.

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He's not playing games and he chops off the head of Goliath

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and then he picks up the head and he carries it back to Saul.

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Now look, this guy doesn't seem squeamish.

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Now look, you might look at that

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and some people would look at that and say like,

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oh, David's kind of a weird guy.

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David's super violent or David just, you know,

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I don't know, he doesn't have normal human emotions.

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But that's not really true because what you have to understand

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is that David has a clear view of good and evil,

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right and wrong and he knows that he's on the Lord's side.

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So there's no hesitation.

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He knows that what he's doing is right.

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That's the difference.

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That's why he can just hack away

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and know I'm in the will of God

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and pick up that head and carry it back and bring it back

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because you know what, in another circumstance,

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yeah, just getting violent, cutting somebody's head off,

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carrying their head around,

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could be a horrific, ghoulish, wicked thing to do.

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But here's the thing.

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This guy is defying the armies of the living God.

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This guy wants to kill him.

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This guy wants to destroy the people of God.

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This guy wants to defeat Israel

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and he's going up against the enemy of God

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and he knows that he's on the Lord's side.

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He knows this guy's the enemy.

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So he doesn't hesitate and he's not squeamish about it.

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You know what, if we would get a clear view of right and wrong

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and we would get solid on what the Bible says

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and who is right and who is wrong

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and what the Bible says

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and have the confidence to know

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that the Lord is on our side.

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You know what, then we can get out there

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and do what needs to be done.

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Whether it is good or whether it is bad

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or whether it is ugly, okay?

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We will do what God is telling us to do

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and not sit there and think like,

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oh well, you know, the world, they're gonna be offended.

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If I do this, they're gonna say what I did

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is bad and wrong and whatever.

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It's like, who cares?

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If you know that the Lord's on your side, then do it.

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You know, you don't have to hesitate.

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But the hesitation comes from

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not knowing what the Bible says.

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You don't even know, you're confused, you're not sure.

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Or the hesitation comes from going against scripture

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because you're like, well, I know the Bible says this

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but you know, come on, right?

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And that's how a lot of people operate in 2026 America.

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It's like, well, yeah, the Bible says that

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but I mean, right?

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Am I right, huh?

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Come on, huh?

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It's like, no, I don't know.

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I know what the Bible says.

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And if you're founded on the rock,

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instead of on the shifting sands of this world

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and you know what the Bible says

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and you're siding with the Bible

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and you're siding with the word of God,

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it doesn't matter whether people think

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what you're doing is bad or even grotesque

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or wrong or offensive or ugly or whatever.

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It doesn't matter.

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You're just gonna do it

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because that's what God says to do.

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And look, we're living in a day

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where men call evil good and good evil.

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They put sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet.

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They put light for darkness and darkness for light.

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And so today things are so backward.

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It's like when Jesus said that those who kill you

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will think that they're doing God a service

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because their morality is so warped

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and they have things so backward.

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And we're living in a day

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that would basically listen to Bible preaching

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and get super offended by Bible preaching

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but then they'll turn around

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and just watch the filthiest stand up comedy,

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just vile, filthy, blasphemous

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and just, oh, I just love Eddie Murphy so much

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or whatever, or whoever the guy is that's more current.

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Oh, I just love this stuff so much, right?

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But then they're just super offended

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because a pastor called out sin

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in the mildest terms ever

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compared to what's out there

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in these R rated comedy shows

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that people just, they'll watch that

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and it's just totally fine.

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Pastor gets up and says some harsh things

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and all of a sudden they're just flipping out

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and losing their minds because they're hypocrites.

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You know, and they call good evil and evil good.

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I mean, literally, I kid you not,

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I've had independent fundamental Baptist preachers

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say that I was being quote vile

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when I preached against homos

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because I was so mean to the homos

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and they said, hey, we have to respect the homos

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and every human being is worthy of respect

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regardless of our sexual orientation.

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That's what John Getch from West Coast Baptist College,

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I'll name the names, I don't care.

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What do I care?

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What have they ever done for me

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except just fill my country

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with a bunch of effeminate lame preachers?

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I mean, look, John Getch from West Coast Baptist College

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just gets up and says every single human being

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is worthy of respect.

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Is that what the Bible says?

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Every single human being

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regardless of their sexual orientation.

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The Bible doesn't talk about sexual orientation, friend.

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It says that if a man lies with another man,

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he should be put to death.

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Their blood shall be upon them.

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And it literally uses this word about them, vile.

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It says that God gave them over to vile affections,

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men with men, and then he got up

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and said this vile language

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that people are using from the pulpit

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because they call them faggots.

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Oh, it's so vile.

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So here's the thing.

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They don't think it's vile to be a faggot.

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They just think it's vile to say faggot.

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Well, you know what?

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Faggot, faggot, faggot, right?

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What rating did that just give me?

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Is that M-A-T-V-M-A nuts to you?

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Why would I soften up the word of God?

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The Bible says it's filthy.

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It's an abomination.

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I'm not gonna sit here and hesitate

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to condemn grotesque, wicked sin.

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I mean, look, just yesterday

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I saw the Southern Baptist on Facebook

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are asking a question.

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So what do you do if a relative invites you

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to one of these gay weddings?

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Like, you know, how do you handle that?

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You know what I said?

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Avoid foolish questions.

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That's the dumbest question I've ever heard in my life.

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Like, you have to ask a question of whether,

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it's like, oh, why don't we just go worship Satan

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while we're at it?

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Because I just as soon go to a Satan church

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as to go to some faggot wedding.

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It's absurd.

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It's crazy.

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But then they'll get offended by me saying that,

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but then they'll actually think it's fine to do that,

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to be that.

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It's unbelievable.

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And so you can't be squeamish

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about coming down hard on the Lord's enemies.

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You know, what did David say,

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the man after God's own heart?

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David said in Psalm 139,

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do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee,

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and I'm not I grieve with them

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that rise up against thee.

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I hate them with a perfect hatred.

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I count them my enemies.

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You know, that's what David said,

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the enemies of the Lord,

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he said in the name of the Lord,

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I will destroy them.

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You know, he wasn't squeamish about fighting these battles,

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but today we got a bunch of weak, soft, lame preachers

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getting up and talking about sexual orientation.

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What is that orientation?

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What verse is that?

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I can't find that in the Bible.

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I just found vile perverts

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that should be taken and destroyed and executed.

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You know, that's what the Bible actually teaches

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that the government should be executing them.

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That's what the scripture teaches in Leviticus 2013.

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The New Testament reiterates the fact

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that they're worthy of death in Romans chapter one

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and elsewhere.

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It's all over the Bible.

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Jude talks about Sodom and Gomorrah being the example

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unto this day of God punishing them

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with the vengeance of eternal fire.

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And so, you know, to get up and say,

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oh, we gotta respect them, we gotta be nice them.

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And then to literally call the one

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who preaches against them vile

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and say, Pastor Anderson's vile.

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His language is vile.

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The Bible says the people who do that stuff are vile.

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That's what's vile.

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But we live in a day where

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you call good evil and evil good.

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The guy who calls out sin is bad,

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but the sin is fine.

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Sin is fine, but the guy who calls it out is bad,

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right?

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Unbelievable.

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And look, today the world promotes

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all kinds of wicked things.

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It promotes all kinds of horrible, gross, evil things,

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and then it condemns good things.

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So we can't trust what the world has to say.

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We've got to actually get anchored in the word of God

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and that determines what's right and wrong

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and not what the world thinks about it.

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And here's the thing, sometimes the Christian life

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can get ugly.

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Sorry, not everything in the Christian life

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is just gonna be sunshine and rainbows.

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Sometimes there's a fight.

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Sometimes there's a battle.

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Sometimes it gets ugly.

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Sometimes you have to do hard things.

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You got to do it.

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And David's like, you know what?

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I need to cut this guy's head off, I'll do it.

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I mean, it's probably gross.

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There's blood flying everywhere.

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But he's like, you know what?

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Dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.

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And so David did that dirty job

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and he chopped off his head

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and he wasn't squeamish about it.

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Here's a good Bible verse on this.

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You don't have to turn there,

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but Jeremiah chapter 48 verse 10 says this,

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cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully.

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Okay?

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Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully

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and then it goes on to reiterate what that means.

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Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

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He says, doing the work of the Lord deceitfully

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is when you go into battle,

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but you're actually afraid to actually kill anyone

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and actually get blood on your sword.

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You're doing the work of the Lord deceitfully.

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Like you're pretending to be a part of the battle.

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You're pretending to be in the army,

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but you're not willing to actually fight anyone.

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You're keeping your sword back from blood.

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Now, obviously in the New Testament,

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we are not in a physical fight.

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We are never gonna physically fight anyone.

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We are never gonna physically kill anyone.

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We do not wrestle with flesh and blood.

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We wrestle against principalities, against powers,

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against the rulers of the darkness of this world,

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against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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It's not a physical battle.

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It's no killing or violence.

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We don't do any of that stuff,

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but you know what?

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We're not gonna keep back our sword from blood spiritually.

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And be like, oh, I'm just never gonna be negative

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about anyone or anything.

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I'm never gonna say anything negative.

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I'm just gonna kinda just turn a blind eye

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to every wicked thing and never fight any battle.

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And look, there are people

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who just wanna get along with everybody.

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And then the sad thing is

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when those people become pastors,

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and you have pastors that wanna get along with everybody,

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and let me tell you something,

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a lot of our independent fundamental Baptist churches

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are Joel Osteen with a KJV.

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Like the colossal difference between them and Joel Osteen

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is just that Joel Osteen's on a modern version

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and they're on the KJV.

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Other than that, it's hard to even tell the difference.

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Because you know what, here's the thing.

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When I was in Guyana and we were doing a missions trip,

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we were staying at a guy's house

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and his wife just loved to listen

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to Joel Osteen every morning.

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So we'd wake up in the morning

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and she's cooking breakfast.

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We're about to go do our soul winning in the city

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and we're hanging out

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and she's just blasting Joel Osteen

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every morning over the speakers.

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So we just got a full Joel Osteen sermon every morning.

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And let me tell you something,

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a lot of the stuff that he says is good.

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A lot of the stuff he says is right.

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It's all this really positive stuff.

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You know, I remember the sermon

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that he was playing the last time I was there.

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He's like, you've got to adapt and adjust.

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The Bible is, you know, we got to adapt and adjust.

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And it's like, yeah, we do have to adapt and adjust.

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It's like, okay.

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I mean, he's saying all this positive,

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like self-help kind of guru kind of stuff.

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But here's the thing.

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The biggest problem with people like him

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is not what they say, it's what they don't say.

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He's not preaching the whole word of God.

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He's preaching this tiny part of the word of God

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that's super positive, super cheerful,

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super friendly, and he's not letting the saints

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be thoroughly equipped, you know?

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And he's not giving them all the equipment

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and all the whole armor of God.

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He's not giving them the whole counsel of God.

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He's only teaching the parts that he knows

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that everybody's gonna agree with.

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Even Pastor Anderson, you know what I mean?

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He's saying stuff that's so positive

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and so generic that even Pastor Anderson's like,

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he's got a point because it offends no one.

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Doesn't even offend me.

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Doesn't offend the bad guys, doesn't offend the good guys.

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It's just offending no one.

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And look, a lot of Independent Fundamental Baptist,

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they're also getting up and not willing to fight,

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not willing to take a stand, but they're KJV,

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and they've got traditional hymns,

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but other than that, it's kind of like Joel Osteen.

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And you know where I got that term

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was I had a relative of mine

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attend an Independent Fundamental Baptist Church

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and they were preaching through Genesis on Sunday mornings

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and they preached through the story of Sodom and Gomorrah

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without mentioning homosexuality.

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Like how do you preach a Bible study through Genesis,

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preach through the whole story,

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preach a whole sermon on the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?

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No mention of homosexuality.

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And she said, this is Joel Osteen with a KJV

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and switched churches.

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Cause she's like, this is insane.

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How can you not address this elephant in the room

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of our society when you're in the Sodom and Gomorrah story?

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You know, that's doing the work of the Lord deceitfully

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cause you're keeping back your sword from blood.

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You don't want to fight.

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You don't want to call anything out.

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You don't want to do anything

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that's ugly to this world.

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You know, and here's the thing.

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I'm not claiming to be a great preacher.

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I'm not claiming to be a good speaker.

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I'm not claiming to be eloquent.

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And look, some of my sermons

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can be pretty dirty and ugly and rough,

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but you know what?

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They're like a greasy wrench that fixes the machine.

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It's about getting the job done.

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It's not about being beautiful.

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Okay. And look, I try to be beautiful.

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I try to preach a beautiful sermon,

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but a lot of times it's just going to be quick and dirty

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and get the job done.

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You know, but you got to get it done.

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I mean, look,

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I'm sure that there are a lot of beautiful things

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in the Bible,

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but David cutting off Goliath's head is not one of them.

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You know, and hopefully we all hope

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that when we get to heaven,

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there's like a library

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where we can pop in video footage of like and see,

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okay, let's watch the Red Sea.

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Let's check out the burning bush.

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Let's check out David and Goliath.

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You know, hopefully we'll get to see these someday

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on DVD up in heaven,

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but this one's going to be rough.

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You know, it's going to be this little guy

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just hacking away at this giant dude's neck with a sword

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and then carrying his head or a bloody, gross head.

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But at the end of the day,

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if you're there

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and you've been listening to Goliath blaspheme God

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for the last 40 days,

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because remember Goliath's been up there every day

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for 40 days blaspheming God

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and he wants to kill you.

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He wants to enslave you and your family.

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He wants to destroy your nation.

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You know, after listening to that for 40 days,

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you're okay with it.

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And you know what?

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That's why a lot of people are okay with

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the hard preaching against sodomites

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because they're sick of the haters of God

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destroying our country and running roughshod over us.

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And so they're glad that somebody's finally calling it out.

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And so even if it's a little ugly,

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they're just like, yeah, it's a little ugly,

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but this needed to happen.

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This needed to be said.

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Somebody needs to say this.

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Somebody needs to do this.

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You know, some of the sermons against feminism

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can get pretty rough and get a little ugly.

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But you know what?

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We're to a point where that stuff needs to be said.

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And it's just like somebody's got to do the dirty job.

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And you know, David is that guy in the story.

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So we saw that number five,

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he wasn't squeamish about slaying the Lord's enemy.

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We're gonna come back to that a little later.

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But number six, why was David a man after God's own heart?

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Because he was a loyal friend.

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He was a loyal friend.

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I mean, David's got a lot of great attributes.

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Look at chapter 18, verse one.

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It came to pass when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul

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that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David.

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And Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

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And Saul took him that day

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and would let him go no more home to his father's house.

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Then Jonathan and David made a covenant

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because he loved him as his own soul.

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And so we see that Jonathan and David

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developed this friendship after David kills Goliath

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because Jonathan, he sees David kill Goliath

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and he's just like, I love this guy.

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This guy's awesome.

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And you know, that should be our reaction

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when we see somebody do something great for God

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instead of being envious and variant and emulate

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and have strife with that person.

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You know, when we see somebody do something great for God

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we should just be like, wow, this guy's awesome.

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This is great.

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Jonathan has that right attitude.

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Saul on the other hand develops an attitude of envy

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where he feels like David is kind of stealing

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the limelight from him.

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Whereas Jonathan is just happy

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that David is getting it done for the Lord.

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And so Jonathan just loves David, thinks he's really great.

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He gives him all his armor, gives him his clothes,

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his armor, gives him a royal setup

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because he's just a shepherd boy.

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He doesn't really have the gear.

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And so they become just knit together

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as best buds, good friends.

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And then it says that they made a covenant together.

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Jonathan and David made a covenant

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because he loved him as his own soul.

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So they basically make this covenant

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which is like an agreement like,

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hey, we're gonna be friends forever.

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We're gonna be loyal to each other.

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We're gonna stick together.

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It's you and me, man.

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We're pals.

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They make this agreement

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that they're gonna be lifelong friends.

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And here's the thing.

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Both David and Jonathan stick to this.

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Even though it gets hard.

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Because later on, Saul, Jonathan's dad,

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is trying to kill David.

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And Jonathan's standing up for David.

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And then Saul tries to kill Jonathan

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because Jonathan's standing up for David.

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And then of course, once Saul and his house are defeated

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and Jonathan himself is killed in battle,

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even after Jonathan's dead,

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David still wants to honor this friendship.

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And so even after Jonathan's dead,

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David continues to try to do well

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to any of Jonathan's descendants that are still around.

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He goes and seeks out Mithibosheth

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just because he wants to do good

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under people that are of the household of Saul

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and of the household of Jonathan.

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And so David was a super loyal friend.

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You know, it's just a horrible person

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who doesn't honor friendship

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and basically will just drop friends

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because they're bad for their image or something.

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You know, instead of like,

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like I can understand that there are sometimes

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you have to part ways with someone

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because maybe that person, you know,

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starts going against the Lord.

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They're not right with God.

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They're dragging you down.

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They're dragging you into sin.

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Obviously we have to cut people loose from our lives

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that are dragging us down

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and a bad influence on us.

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Okay, but here's the thing.

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When you're just like, oh, my friend's in trouble.

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My friend's sick.

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My friend needs money.

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My friend's unpopular.

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So I'm going to drop that person.

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That's a rotten thing to do.

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You know, we should be the friend

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that sticks closer than a brother

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and not just be disloyal to our friends.

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You know, have some loyalty,

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especially to people who've done good unto you.

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You know, and Jonathan did good

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unto David many times and he never forgot that.

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And he stayed super loyal to Jonathan.

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And you know, it's really sad

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when you do something nice for people

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and they just, they don't remember it.

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They don't care.

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They have no loyalty.

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They're just, you know,

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they're just ready to drop you

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as soon as you can't benefit them anymore.

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And look, I understand that that's how a lot

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of friendships are in elementary school,

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junior high, high school,

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because they're kind of based on shallow things.

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Like, hey, we're both in the same class.

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Hey, we're both on the baseball team.

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Hey, we both listen to the same music.

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Hey, we both ride a skateboard or whatever.

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But you know, when you actually have real,

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serious friends where you're bonded

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over something a little deeper than that,

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you know, don't just drop them

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when they're not helpful to you.

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You know, sometimes you've got to be there

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and help that person when they're in need.

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And otherwise you're not gonna,

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you're gonna end up with no friends.

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Because a man that had friends must show himself friendly.

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And so David was a loyal friend.

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Number seven, David behaved himself wisely.

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Look what the Bible says in verse five.

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David went out with us over, Saul sent him

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and behaved himself wisely.

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And Saul sent him over the men of war

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and he was accepted in the sight of all the people

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and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

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Jump down to verse 14.

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David behaved himself wisely in all his ways.

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And the Lord was with him.

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Wherefore, when Saul saw that he behaved himself

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very wisely, he was afraid of him.

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But all Israel and Judah loved David

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because he went out and came in before them.

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You know, the Bible's saying that David is a guy

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who does his job wherever Saul sends him he goes

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and he behaves himself wisely.

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You know, he's a smart guy.

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He's following the Bible.

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He's following the morality of the Bible.

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And so God's causing him to prosper.

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And what does the Bible say?

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The Bible says, blesses the man

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that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly

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nor standeth in the way of sinners

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nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful

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but his delight is in the law of the Lord

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and in his law that he meditate day and night.

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And he shall be like a tree

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planted by the rivers of water

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that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.

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His leaf also shall not wither.

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Watch this, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

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Right?

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You meditate in the word of God.

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You follow the Bible.

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You don't listen to the counsel of the ungodly.

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You follow what the Bible's saying.

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You will be like a tree planted

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by the rivers of water

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and whatsoever you do will prosper.

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But the ungodly are not so,

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but are like the chaff which the wind driveeth away.

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And you know what?

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Over the course of the years,

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our church and other churches,

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they're gonna be sifted like wheat.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, there's gonna be a sifting that happens

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and you know what?

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The chaff is gonna get blown away.

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And then there's the ones that are rooted

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and grounded in the faith

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and whatsoever they do is gonna prosper.

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They're gonna succeed

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because they made the word of God their authority,

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not listening to what the world is saying

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and people's advice that are giving them worldly,

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made up advice that's not in the Bible.

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And so David's behaving himself wisely.

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He's sticking to the word of God.

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He's following the Bible

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and God's causing him to prosper everywhere he goes

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as a result.

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Saul doesn't like this

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because Saul looks at him as a threat

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and he's afraid of him because he's so successful

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when in reality Saul and David are on the same team.

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So Saul should just be super happy that David's succeeding

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even if David's gonna be the next king.

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So what?

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You're the king right now.

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And here's the thing.

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Jonathan doesn't even care

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because really if Saul had been the right kind of king

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Jonathan should be the next king, right?

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And Jonathan's an awesome guy

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but because of Saul's disobedience and sin,

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his kingdom's not gonna continue

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and Jonathan's not gonna inherit that throne.

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But Jonathan's okay with that.

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Jonathan says to David,

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I know you're gonna be the next king

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and I just wanna serve under you, right?

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We shouldn't go through life having to be number one

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and having to be a big shot.

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Be willing to serve under people

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and just take a back seat to other people

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and let other people get the limelight.

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At the end of the day,

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we're all on the same team.

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It's about Christ and his gospel

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not about our own personal agenda or kingdom.

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And so the next thing we see number eight

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is that he stayed humble and he was not presumptuous

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because even though David was getting a lot of accolades

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and the women are saying Saul is slain as thousands,

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David is 10 thousands,

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look what verse 18 says.

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It shows out to David's being humble.

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David said to Saul, who am I?

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And what is my life or my father's family in Israel

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that I should be son and law of the king?

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I mean, he could be saying, well, I'll tell you who I am.

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I'm the guy who killed Goliath

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when you were too scared to.

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I'm the guy who defeated the Philistines.

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I'm the guy who slayed his 10 thousands,

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which is obviously an exaggeration.

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He pretty much killed one guy.

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I'm sure he did kill other guys in other battles

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because he's going out with the men of war and fighting.

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But at the end of the day,

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he doesn't let that stuff go to his head.

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He's like, hey, I'm nobody, man.

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Saul is the boss, Saul's the king.

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I'm not important.

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He's not throwing his weight around.

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He's staying humble and not being presumptuous.

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And lastly, this number nine, he went the extra mile.

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Look if you would at first Samuel chapter 18 verse 25.

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And look, what are we talking about tonight?

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David's a man after God's own heart.

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Why was he a man after God's own heart?

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I want to be a man after God's own heart.

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You want to be a man after God's own heart.

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Well, how do we get there?

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We got to trust in the Lord.

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We got to trust him.

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And when it seems like things are going bad,

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you got to trust him anyway.

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Though he slay me, yet will I trust him?

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Number two, he didn't feel like

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he had to copy someone else

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or be different than someone else.

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He's going to trust the Lord,

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but he's going to be himself.

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He's going to be real and serve God in his own way.

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Number three, he's ready to give God all the glory.

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He's going to stay humble, give God the glory.

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He doesn't hesitate to do the will of God.

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Even if it's something scary,

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even if it's something ugly, he doesn't hesitate.

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He's not squeamish by getting his hands dirty

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and chopping off a dude's head

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because it's the will of God.

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He's willing to do it.

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He's a loyal friend.

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He's behaving himself wisely.

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And lastly, we're going to see him go the extra mile.

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But when you look at a list of attributes like this

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that we're getting just from really

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just the end of chapter 17, the beginning of chapter 18,

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and you kind of try to put together a picture

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of who this guy is.

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This guy is Bible-based.

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This guy is on the rock.

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He knows what he believes.

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The reason that he's able to have faith

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and trust in the Lord is because he knows

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whom he has believed.

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And he's persuaded that he's able to keep that

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which he committed on him against that day.

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David knows that the Lord's on his side.

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So he's like, look, if I know the Lord's on my side,

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I believe God can deliver me.

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If I know that the Lord's on my side,

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then I'm not going to take the credit for the victories

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because I'm only winning because the Lord's on my side.

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If the Lord's on my side,

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I don't have to copy or emulate someone else

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because success is not found in a certain hairstyle

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or way of talking or way of dressing or way of acting.

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No, the success is found in having God on your side.

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It's not a certain weapon.

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It's not sword versus sling.

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It's having God on your side.

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He's not going to hesitate to do the will of God

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because he knows that God is on his side.

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He's not squeamish about slaying the Lord's enemies

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because he knows that he's on the Lord's side.

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He's a man after God's own heart

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because he has a very clear view of what's right and wrong,

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good and evil, he's trust in the Lord,

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he's all in, he's 100% and he's going to follow God.

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And that's how we got to be

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if we want to be a man after God's own heart.

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And the thing is, you know,

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we actually have an advantage over David

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because we actually have the entire Bible 66 books

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that David did not have.

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You know, David's got the Torah,

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he's got the first five books of the Bible

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and what did he say about them?

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He said, well, how love by thy law,

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it's my meditation night and day.

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And then I'm sure he had some other scriptures

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and then he also had some other like oral prophecies

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coming at him because he had different prophets in his life

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that are preaching the word of God to him

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and God the prophet is preaching to him.

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Other prophets and priests are preaching

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the word of God to him.

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Plus he's got the written word

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but we've got, we have a more sure word

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of prophecy here.

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We got 66 books.

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We got the entire Old Testament

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that wasn't even close to being finished

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when David was living.

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And we got the whole New Testament.

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I mean, we just have everything.

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Like if anybody can really be sure

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about what is right and wrong,

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who's right, who's wrong,

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what is good, what is evil, it's us.

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We're also indwelled by the Holy Spirit.

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I mean, the Comforter has come.

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We've got the Holy Spirit inside of us

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that will guide us into all truth.

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So if you're a saved Christian

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with the Holy Spirit living inside of you

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and the entire written word of God,

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what is your excuse for following this world

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off the cliff spiritually?

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What is your excuse for getting on a bandwagon

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of children dishonoring their parents?

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What is your excuse for getting up and saying

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homos should be respected and we should respect homos?

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What is your, that's not in the Bible.

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You didn't get that from the Holy Spirit.

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That's garbage.

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I mean, what is your excuse

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for just giving in to the peer pressure of this world?

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You know, be a David who's founded on the rock

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who meditate and you say, well, how do you know

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David was really that into the word of God?

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Because we didn't really read that explicitly

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in this passage.

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Well, because I know because David wrote

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the book of Psalms and you know what?

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David just can't stop talking about the book of Psalms

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is the word of God.

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I mean, look at Psalm 119.

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It's 176 verses and every one of them

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mentions the word of God.

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176 verses, he calls it different things.

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He calls it the statutes, the testimony,

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the law, the ordinances, all the different words

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that he uses, but he speaks about the word of God

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in all 176 verses.

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And then you've got all these other Psalms

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like Psalm one, you know?

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His delight is in the law, the Lord

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and in his law does he meditate day and night.

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That's the first song.

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So it's like, okay, Psalm one, very first song

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is all about meditating on the word of God day and night.

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And then all throughout Psalms,

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David rings that bell over and over again.

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Psalm 119 is of course the magnum opus 176 verses,

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longest chapter in the Bible,

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every verse about the word of God, right?

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So it seems to me that if we have the Holy Ghost within,

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word of God in our hands,

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we can be on such solid ground

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that we can have just such trust in the Lord,

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faith in the Lord, not hesitating to do right,

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knowing what's right, knowing what's wrong

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and if God be for us who can be against us.

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Then I'm not gonna be squeamish

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to call a spade a spade

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because I'm just preaching what the Bible says.

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But lastly this, David went the second mile.

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He went the second mile.

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What do I mean by that?

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Well, you know, Jesus said in the New Testament,

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he said, whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile,

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go with him twain, right?

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Now look how David went the second mile.

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First Samuel 1825, Saul said,

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thus shall you say to David,

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the king desired not any dowry,

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but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines

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to be avenged of the king's enemies,

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but Saul thought to make David fall

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by the hand of the Philistines.

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So here's what's going on.

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King Saul, if you remember,

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had already promised that whoever kills Goliath

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gets to marry his daughter.

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David killed Goliath.

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It should already be a done deal

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that David marries Saul's daughter period.

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He shouldn't have to do anything else.

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He shouldn't have to say anything else.

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It should be automatic

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because if you remember last week

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when we looked at that story in First Samuel 17,

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he said, what shall be done to the man

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who kills the Philistines?

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He said, well, he's gonna have the king's daughter

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as his wife and his house is gonna be made free in Israel

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and he's gonna get all these riches and whatever.

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Well, so he's supposed to be married

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to Saul's oldest daughter, which is Mirab.

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Well, it comes time for Mirab to get married

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and he gives her to somebody else.

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What's the deal?

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So he reneged on that, right?

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Well, it turns out though,

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my cow, which is Mirab's younger sister,

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daughter of Saul,

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she actually is romantically interested in David.

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She likes David on a personal level.

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She's not just necessarily just gonna be given

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to him in marriage,

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but she actually like wants to be given to him in marriage.

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So she actually kind of puts out the word on the street,

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you know, girls do, you know, like,

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hey, if this guy asked me out,

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I would say yes, you know, type of thing.

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So she basically puts out the word

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that yeah, she's got the hots for David.

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And so then, you know, Saul hears about how,

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yeah, Michael actually wants to marry David anyway.

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So this could be a love match.

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So then Saul though,

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because he's malicious toward David,

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he says, well, I've got an idea.

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I'll give him my daughter to wife,

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but she's gonna be a snare unto him

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because I'm gonna give him this dowry

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that's gonna get him killed.

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So he says, okay,

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this is what you have to give as a dowry

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in order to be my son-in-law.

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Because David's basically saying like,

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I ain't got no money because he's saying like,

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hey, be the king's son-in-law.

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And he's like, well, I don't have the money

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for the dowry because a lot of times, you know,

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in the ancient world,

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now I don't think you should have to give a dowry.

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I think the head of Goliath should be the dowry.

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It should already be over.

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And he was supposed to have been given great riches.

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Where's all the great riches

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that he was promised in chapter 17?

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He should be able to just pull that out

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and give the dowry.

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So someone's not connecting here.

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Didn't get the wife, didn't get the riches.

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I'm starting to wonder if his dad's even free anymore

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for taxes,

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because it doesn't seem like any of that stuff came through.

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Okay, so he says, well, I don't have any money.

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And then King Saul says, well, tell him,

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here's the dowry that I want, no money.

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I just want 104 skins of the Philistines.

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Okay, and Saul thought to make David fall

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by the hand of the Philistines.

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Because he thinks, look, if David goes into the land

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of the Philistines,

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and not only kills 100 Philistines,

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but mutilates their corpses

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by chopping off an intimate part of their body.

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Okay, the four skin is on their obviously privy member.

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I'll put it that way to be delicate.

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So he's telling them, you know,

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go kill 100 Philistines.

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And then pull down their pants and chop off a four skin

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and collect it and bring that back.

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And he's thinking like,

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if the Philistines find out about this,

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they're gonna get so mad.

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Cause people, you know,

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they don't like it when you kill their countrymen,

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but they really don't like it

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when you start mutilating corpses either.

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Okay, this is a little bit grotesque.

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And again, David's not a squeamish guy, folks.

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He's like, yes, sir.

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I mean, this guy, like you tell him

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what God wants him to do.

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I mean, and look, this is his God-given authority,

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King Saul, the Philistines are the enemies of the Lord.

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I mean, God's against the Philistines

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and King Saul is telling him,

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go kill these people, bring back the four skins.

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He's like, okay.

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And it says in verse 26,

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and when his servants told David these words,

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it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law.

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He's like, this'll work.

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I can do this, I can do.

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Silver and gold have I nine, but this I can do.

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And so David arose and went on his men.

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Obviously he can't do this single-handedly.

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One guy's not gonna go kill 100 people.

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But David's got a bunch of men

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that are in his platoon or whatever.

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So he takes a bunch of men.

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He slew of the Philistines, not 100 men, 200 men.

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So this is what I mean by going the second mile.

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He was only supposed to kill and mutilate 100 of them,

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but he gets 200.

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And David brought their four skins

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and they gave them in full tally to the king.

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So it's like they're counting.

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It's like, count them, they're all there.

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200, not 100.

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Full tally, because tally is count,

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is meaning count, right?

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Full tailed to the king

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that he might be the king's son-in-law

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and Saul gave him, may call, his daughter's wife.

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And Saul, Saul knew that the Lord was with David

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and that my call, Saul's daughter, loved him.

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And Saul was yet the more afraid of David

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and Saul became David's enemy continually.

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Now go quickly to Matthew chapter five

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and we'll be done.

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Quickly to Matthew chapter five and we'll be done.

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You know, David was a guy who went the second mile.

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And what does it mean to go the second mile?

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What it means is that you actually go beyond

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what is the minimum required duty

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that you just have to do to get by.

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And a lot of times in the Christian life,

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we're guilty of often trying to figure out

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what's the minimum I can do and just kind of scrape by.

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When really we should be trying to do more and maximize,

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but a lot of times we're trying to minimize.

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And so the idea behind the second mile

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is going beyond the minimum and doing more, doing extra.

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Instead of going soul winning for one hour,

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going for two hours and just doing more,

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reading your Bible more and just going beyond

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and also just being extra good to people,

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extra nice people, extra forgiving, extra cool,

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extra loving, whatever.

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Just going beyond what is like the minimum duty.

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Now I love this passage of scripture

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and we've kind of talked about this passage

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of scripture a lot lately

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because there was some controversy about this passage

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because there was some viral clip a couple weeks ago

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of me preaching about this verse 39

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and it had like 3.2 million views on acts

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and it was getting millions of views

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other places and stuff.

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And I was being attacked for how I applied this verse

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but actually, you're not gonna believe this

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but I'm right, okay?

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Because actually people are misunderstanding the passage

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and thinking that it's not literal,

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but it actually is literal

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because let me show you the passage.

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It says in verse 38,

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you've heard that it has been said

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an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

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Now look, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

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that is not a bad concept.

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That's a biblical concept from the Bible

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and Jesus started out the Sermon on the Mount

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by saying I did not come to destroy the law of the prophets.

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I came to fulfill.

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So eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

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represents justice

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and justice is not a bad thing.

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The punishment fits the crime.

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Eye for eye, tooth for tooth is justice, okay?

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But Jesus here is showing us a more excellent way,

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a more excellent way.

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He's saying, look, don't just sit there

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and try to just do the minimum

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of what the law requires you to do,

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the legal requirement, because here's the thing,

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just because something meets the legal requirement

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doesn't mean that it meets God's standard.

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You know, just because it's like,

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well, I followed the law,

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yeah, but did you follow God's standard?

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Did you do what the will of God was?

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What God told you to do?

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God wants us to do more.

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He wants us to do extra.

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And so what we see here is that he says,

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I say unto you that you resist not evil.

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Now he's gonna give several examples

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and these examples all have something in common.

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Okay, let's look at these examples.

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Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek,

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turn to him the other also.

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Fatty man will soothe thee at the law,

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take away thy coat,

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let him have thy cloak also.

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Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile,

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go with him twain.

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Now notice what all these things have in common.

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They're all not a big deal.

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They're all small deals, because there's the thing,

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somebody slapping you on the cheek is not a big deal.

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Somebody suing you at the law to take away your coat

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is not a big deal, because think about it,

01:00:14.510 --> 01:00:15.850
you go to small claims court

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and somebody's taken away your coat,

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it's not like they're suing you for a million dollars.

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They're not trying to sue you and take,

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it doesn't say if any man will soothe thee at the law

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to take away your house, take away the farm.

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That's not what it says.

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It says they're suing you at the law

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to take away your coat.

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Is that a huge deal, is that a big deal?

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And I understand the clothing is more expensive

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in the ancient world, but still it's not a massive deal.

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This would be what we would call small claims court.

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This is not a million dollar lawsuit, okay?

01:00:48.210 --> 01:00:51.210
Okay, what about this walking one mile?

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If you think walking one mile is a big deal,

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you're out of shape, okay?

01:00:55.730 --> 01:00:56.630
You need to get in shape,

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because walking a mile is not a big deal.

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And so it's like, look, getting slapped on the cheek,

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not a big deal.

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Somebody takes away your coat.

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These are all unpleasant things

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that you didn't want to deal with.

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You don't want to lose your coat,

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you don't want to get slapped in the face,

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you don't want to have to walk a mile

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in the wrong direction or where you're not going

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or whatever, okay?

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But none of these are that big of a deal.

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They're like small things.

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And what's Jesus saying?

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You don't need to fight every battle,

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die on every hill, right every wrong.

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You know what, if somebody slaps you on the one cheek,

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just turn to them the other also.

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Somebody sues you with the law

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to take away your coat, let them have your cloak also.

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Somebody wants you to go a mile, go with them 20.

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Now look, these are all literal.

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What do I mean by that?

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He's talking about somebody literally suing you

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and taking away a small amount of possessions

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or money from you.

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History tells us that in the Roman Empire,

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and of course lots of armies

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have done this throughout history,

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that if a Roman soldier's walking down the road,

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you are supposed to go with him

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if he compels you to go a mile

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and carry his gear for one mile.

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Basically, you carry his gear

01:02:06.770 --> 01:02:08.690
so that basically the guy's getting tired

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of carrying his gear.

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He can use civilians to carry his gear for a mile.

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That's a literal thing that happened

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where people would be compelled to go a mile

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and say, hey, you're gonna walk with me a mile.

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And in the ultra running community,

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they call this mulling for somebody.

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When you carry their food or carry their water.

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So mulling for a Roman soldier is a real thing

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that was out there.

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Getting slapped in the face is a real thing.

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People will say this is like, that's not literal,

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that's not really talking about getting slapped.

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I guess it's also not talking

01:02:41.850 --> 01:02:42.950
about getting sued for your coat.

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I guess it's also not talking about walking a mile.

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Of course it's literal.

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What's he saying?

01:02:49.570 --> 01:02:50.750
Don't sweat the small stuff.

01:02:51.130 --> 01:02:53.270
Then you could also take a metaphorical

01:02:53.270 --> 01:02:54.370
turning the other cheek.

01:02:54.810 --> 01:02:57.230
You could take a metaphorical going the extra mile.

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You could take a metaphorical, let it go,

01:03:00.870 --> 01:03:04.170
but don't miss the literal application.

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Okay?

01:03:06.430 --> 01:03:08.630
And so here's the thing is that,

01:03:08.730 --> 01:03:12.110
you don't have to sit there and just do the minimum,

01:03:12.550 --> 01:03:14.490
and I'm only gonna do what I absolutely have to do.

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What's the legal requirement?

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And I want justice and I'm gonna fight back

01:03:19.130 --> 01:03:21.930
and I'm always gonna just right every wrong.

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Jesus is saying that a higher morality is to do more,

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do extra, forgive.

01:03:29.570 --> 01:03:30.730
Don't sweat the small stuff.

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Let it go.

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Turn the other cheek.

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Go the extra mile.

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Now look, I don't believe that this is teaching

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that if someone does something serious

01:03:40.690 --> 01:03:42.770
that you're supposed to necessarily just let it go.

01:03:42.970 --> 01:03:45.630
Like it doesn't say, hey, if somebody just, you know,

01:03:46.030 --> 01:03:47.950
shoots you with a gun, just, you know,

01:03:48.290 --> 01:03:50.050
rip open your shirt and say, shoot me again.

01:03:50.910 --> 01:03:53.330
It doesn't say, hey, if somebody chops off one arm,

01:03:53.470 --> 01:03:54.750
have them chop off the other arm.

01:03:54.950 --> 01:03:56.590
If somebody sues you for the house,

01:03:56.730 --> 01:03:57.570
give them the whole farm.

01:03:57.610 --> 01:03:58.290
That's not what it says.

01:03:59.050 --> 01:04:00.210
These are minor things.

01:04:00.650 --> 01:04:01.350
Does everybody see that?

01:04:02.590 --> 01:04:04.950
Look, if somebody comes at you

01:04:04.950 --> 01:04:06.830
and swings a baseball bat at you

01:04:06.830 --> 01:04:07.930
or punches you in the face,

01:04:08.590 --> 01:04:10.650
I don't believe that self-defense is wrong.

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But again, when somebody slaps you,

01:04:12.950 --> 01:04:15.310
it's not a self-defense issue, it's a pride issue.

01:04:16.030 --> 01:04:17.890
Because being slapped in the face is humiliating,

01:04:18.150 --> 01:04:19.790
but it's not injurious.

01:04:21.830 --> 01:04:23.330
And then somebody's like, well, yeah,

01:04:23.370 --> 01:04:25.470
but what if you're standing on the top of the stairs

01:04:25.470 --> 01:04:26.430
and somebody slaps you?

01:04:26.430 --> 01:04:27.310
It's like, come on.

01:04:28.830 --> 01:04:30.630
Like we could all slip on a banana peel

01:04:30.630 --> 01:04:33.570
but that's not what we're talking about, is it?

01:04:35.830 --> 01:04:38.610
And so David is a guy who goes the extra mile.

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He's not looking for what is the minimum requirement I can do

01:04:42.890 --> 01:04:44.510
to be in compliance as a Christian.

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He's like, no, I wanna go to church extra.

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I wanna read the Bible extra, extra soul winning,

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extra morality.

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I'm not trying to just scrape by

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with the absolute minimum that I can legally get away with.

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You know, we wanna sometimes go above and beyond and do more.

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And so David, you know, when authority is telling him,

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bring me 100 foreskins, he's like, I'll bring you 200.

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Why?

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Because he said that way the king

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can be a vang of his enemies, the Philistines.

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He's saying, you know what?

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I know you want these Philistines to get smoked.

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And you know, by the way, you wanna succeed at your job.

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You know, figure out what your boss wants

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and give it to him.

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Instead he's like, well, what's the minimum?

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I can clock in, do the minimum and whatever.

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No, no, no, why don't you show up and do maximum?

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Figure out what the boss wants and give it to him.

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The boss wants to be avenged of his enemies,

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avenge him of his enemies.

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Obviously that'd be a weird job, but you know,

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in this case that was the job.

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Let's bow our heads up for a prayer.

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Father, we thank you so much for your word.

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Thank you for giving us this example of a man

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after your own heart, Lord.

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Help us to have that solid morality,

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that solid basis in the word of God

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and just that trust in you

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and readiness to do your will.

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And not to just do the minimum, but to go beyond

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and do the second mile, Lord.

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Bless us as we go our separate ways.

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In Jesus' name we pray.