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Allen Jackson - Lessons From David (Part 1)

August 30, 2025 | S25 E3601 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Lessons From David (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Lessons From David (Part 1) | August 30, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: i sat down recently with my father to do
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  • A podcast for my "culture and christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with,
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  • But as i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something
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  • In me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encourage my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately
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  • My family's life.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing
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  • The power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • To give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face, the spirit of god within us to help us, guide us,
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  • And direct us.
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  • That's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • Allen: our reading portions these last few days have been
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  • Taking us through 1 and now 2 samuel, which is centered in
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  • Many ways, in respects, with the transition from the judges to
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  • The implementation of a monarchy in israel, which brings us
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  • Inevitably to king david, the most celebrated of the
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  • Hebrew kings.
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  • And so i thought for this session--and really, it's
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  • A doorway into what i wanna do next--we would take some lessons
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  • From david.
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  • If you've been doing the reading, david's one of the most
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  • Known characters in scripture, and so there's some familiarity
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  • With his story that makes it a bit easier to do this, but i
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  • Believe there's some life lessons that are very
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  • Appropriate for us in what's happening in the church in our
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  • Culture in these days, so i'm gonna start with acts 13.
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  • I chose purposefully a new testament passage even though
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  • We're talking about an old testament character, because
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  • Sometimes we create this artificial distinction that the
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  • Old testament's one thing, and it's kind of out of date or
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  • Somehow it's no longer really central or essential, and the
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  • New testament is more up to date, but the new testament is
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  • Completely indecipherable, it makes no sense apart from the
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  • Narrative of the old testament.
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  • Jesus relied on the scriptures of the prophets for the
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  • Authority for the message that he delivered, and in acts
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  • Chapter 13, paul is speaking.
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  • He said, "after removing saul, he made david their king, and he
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  • Testified concerning him: 'i've found david son of jesse a man
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  • After my own heart; and he will do everything i want him
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  • To do.'"
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  • It's one of the most remarkable statements in the bible to me.
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  • Can you imagine god saying that about you?
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  • "i've found somebody that'll do everything i want him to do."
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  • I don't think they yet say that about me.
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  • Thank you for not saying amen.
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  • But i do have that objective, and you could say, "well, it's
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  • Close," or, i mean, you can--but you know, i think most of us
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  • Imagine that god is a bit intrusive, a bit--you know, it's
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  • Almost like going to the principal's office or having the
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  • Teacher call on you in class, you know?
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  • You just wanna to be counted present and then overlooked, but
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  • I find that cooperating with god and participating with god are
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  • The greatest opportunities of our lives, and yet we are
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  • Remarkably resistant to that.
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  • It's as if he wants something that we have, or he's in--you
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  • Know, he's gonna limit us or--and so this notion that god
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  • Would say of david, "he'll do everything i want him to do,"
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  • Because in many ways, david--i mean, he's still sketchy.
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  • We're gonna talk about something, you didn't want to be
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  • The one that took david bad news, because you probably
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  • Wouldn't deliver bad news to him twice.
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  • In fact, god said to him, "you can't build my house.
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  • Too much blood."
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  • I mean, david was not a pacifist, and yet god says of
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  • Him, "he's a man after my own heart, and he'll do everything i
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  • Want him to do."
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  • So i'm gonna--i hope one of the things i'd like to do in this
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  • Session is recalibrate a little bit your metrics on what it
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  • Means to be a christ follower.
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  • We're kind of passive, little squeamish.
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  • The great efforts of our life go someplace else.
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  • We want christianity to be about comfort and convenience
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  • And ease.
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  • I don't think serving god should be comfortable or convenient.
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  • I don't think being uncomfortable and inconvenient
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  • Means it's spiritual or godly, but i don't want to calibrate my
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  • Willingness to follow the lord based on what's comfortable.
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  • Then in psalm 89, there's another statement.
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  • Says, "i found david my servant; with my sacred oil i have
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  • Anointed him.
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  • My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him.
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  • No enemy will subject him to tribute; no wicked man will
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  • Oppress him.
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  • I will crush his foes before him and strike down
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  • His adversaries."
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  • Mic drop.
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  • So now i go back to acts.
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  • I think, "well, maybe i'm more interested in doing everything
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  • God wants me to do," because i would certainly love that set of
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  • Descriptors to be true in my own life.
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  • God said, "i have anointed him, i have chosen him, i have placed
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  • My spirit upon him."
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  • So we look at david's life, i'm looking for the patterns, the
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  • Principles, the choices that can inform choices that i make.
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  • See, i don't read my bible.
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  • I try not to stand outside of my bible and read it and go, "now,
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  • What do i think?"
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  • I try to allow the word of god to read me so that it
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  • Changes me.
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  • I would invite you towards that pattern.
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  • Don't be a collector of facts about the scripture.
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  • Be a person who allows the scripture to change the
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  • Circumstances of how you think and behave in the world.
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  • So with that, i've just got some lessons from david, and the
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  • First one there in your notes is god chose david, and the result
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  • Of god choosing him was a political fight.
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  • I mean, literally a civil war.
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  • Now, it emerged over time and it continued for a lengthy period
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  • Of time.
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  • Well, that's very counter to the current conversations around
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  • Church and our role in the world.
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  • The last thing we're told the church should do would be bring
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  • Division, because god's all about love, and i agree god is
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  • About love, but god's also about righteousness and
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  • Unrighteousness and good and evil.
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  • And as much as god talks about blessing, god talks
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  • About cursing.
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  • And one of the inexcusable, one of the--not inexcusable, one of
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  • The unavoidable realities of david's life is god chose him to
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  • Be king, but in choosing him to be a king, he lit the fuse on
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  • A lengthy, lengthy conflict.
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  • 1 samuel 16, verse 1, we read this in the last few weeks, the
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  • Past few days together.
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  • "the lord said to samuel, 'how long will you mourn for saul;
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  • I have rejected him as king over israel?
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  • Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; i'm sending you to
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  • Jesse of bethlehem.
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  • I've chosen one of his sons to be king."
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  • Jesse's david's father, if you don't know.
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  • "but samuel said, 'how can i go?
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  • Saul will hear about it and kill me.'"
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  • That's a staggering statement.
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  • Samuel is the one who identified saul as the one god had chosen
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  • To be king, and we read it in some recent sessions how samuel
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  • Used his authority to secure that place for saul in the eyes
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  • Of the people.
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  • And now samuel himself is saying, listen, if i anoint
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  • Somebody else, saul will kill me.
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  • Imagine what he'll do to the person i anoint.
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  • "and the lord said, 'take a heifer, and say, "i have come to
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  • Sacrifice to the lord," and invite jesse to the sacrifice,
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  • And i'll show you what to do.
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  • You're to anoint the one i indicate.'"
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  • It's a fascinating little narrative because samuel says,
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  • "you know, i can't do that," and god said, "we'll massage it."
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  • Is that a living bible version of what we just read?
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  • Go offer a sacrifice.
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  • Now you're going to anoint a king, but we'll offer a
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  • Sacrifice, and tell jesse he needs to come, and then i'll
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  • Show you the--now, if i'm the one involved in that, i don't
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  • Like the instructions.
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  • Okay, i'm willing to go, i'll climb over my fear, but could
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  • You at least tell me which of the kids before i get there,
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  • Because it's much harder to hear under the stress of threat.
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  • And maybe it's a day when you know, there's cloud cover, and
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  • Your antenna is not tuned in just right there.
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  • The cell tower drops coverage, and i mean, could you just tell
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  • Me now?
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  • You see, i think a fundamental problem we have in following the
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  • Lord is we want all the answers to all the questions before we
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  • Start the journey, and i don't really find much biblical
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  • Permission for that kind of an attitude.
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  • I think we have to be willing to be faithful with the steps god
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  • Puts in front of us.
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  • And then sometimes, he doesn't change the course.
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  • I've given the illustration before, but i think sometimes we
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  • Want affirmation, and god hasn't changed the assignment.
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  • Go to bethlehem, offer a sacrifice, and tell jesse to
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  • Be there.
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  • That's all the instru--so you've done that, you're not getting
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  • Any more instruction.
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  • But you see, we want constant affirmation.
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  • I'll give you an--jesus said, "go into all the world and
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  • Preach the gospel to every creature."
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  • Never been ascended or rescinded or amended.
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  • You don't need any more.
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  • "i wish--if i just knew what god wanted me to do, whatever he
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  • Wants me to do, i would do it."
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  • He wants to go into all the world and preach to them.
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  • "well, nobody--i don't know anybody in africa."
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  • I didn't say go to africa, go into your world.
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  • Don't let there be anybody in your world that doesn't know
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  • You're a jesus ambassador.
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  • Don't let anybody be there, but until you take that seriously,
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  • Why should god tell you anything else?
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  • Suppose samuel said, "well, you know, i don't think i'm gonna do
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  • That, what else can i do?"
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  • You laugh, because you know the bible well enough that god would
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  • Be like, "nothing."
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  • "you know, jonah, i want you to go to nineveh," and jonah said,
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  • "no, i don't wanna do that," and it says after he had a little
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  • Fish story, the word of the lord came to jonah a second time, "go
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  • To nineveh," and jonah says, "i think i will."
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  • But we have a different attitude towards god.
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  • It's like we have him--we sense he's inviting us to something,
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  • And some simple step, you know, that's available and, we go,
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  • "no, i'm thinking something else."
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  • Samuel goes to bethlehem.
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  • But the point that i think is most relevant, at least for me
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  • And my outline, and since i built it, i get to stay there,
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  • Is that god calls us to place his positions and his
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  • Expressions of faith, which result in conflict.
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  • You gotta think about that a little bit.
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  • God lit the fuse on all of this.
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  • See, if i've been writing the narrative, i would've said saul
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  • Would have just collapsed.
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  • And jesse--i mean, david, samuel, somebody could have
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  • Anointed david.
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  • David could have been anointed, and the nation wouldn't have had
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  • To go through conflict.
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  • There would have been lives spared, a lot of confusion,
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  • A lot of turmoil would've been avoided, but that isn't what
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  • God did.
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  • And you see, we want god to move.
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  • We want god to bring sweeping changes.
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  • We want god to replace leaders who are ungodly.
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  • We want god to overturn systems that are oppressive, and we want
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  • Him to do it with no conflict, or we say, "we're not gonna use
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  • My voice, because it would bring this"--we want our homes and our
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  • Families to be more godly.
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  • We want the people we care about to honor the lord with their
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  • Lives, but we're not willing to use our voices if it
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  • Brings conflict.
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  • There's a pattern here.
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  • Nehemiah, the man that rebuilt the walls around jerusalem,
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  • Remember nehemiah?
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  • There's a book with his name on it too.
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  • He's a cup bearer for the persian king.
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  • He's got a good job, he's got security, he's got all sorts of
  • 00:13:03.933 --> 00:13:06.769
  • Good things, but god stirs his heart to go back to jerusalem
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  • And to rebuild the walls to provide the defenses for the
  • 00:13:09.905 --> 00:13:12.308
  • City of jerusalem, and from the moment nehemiah accepts that
  • 00:13:12.308 --> 00:13:15.678
  • Assignment, for the rest of his days there's an element
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  • Of conflict.
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  • There's opposition, there's people mad at him, powerful
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  • People, people who are very aggressive in their hatred
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  • For him.
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  • The workers that rebuild the wall have to lay stones with one
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  • Hand and hold a spear in the other.
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  • The list goes on and on, you know many of them.
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  • Moses from the day god spoke to him in the desert in exodus
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  • Chapter 3, there's an element of conflict in moses's life with
  • 00:13:40.836 --> 00:13:44.273
  • Pharaoh, with the armies of egypt, with the grumblers and
  • 00:13:44.273 --> 00:13:47.309
  • The complainers, with the enemies of israel, right?
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  • Joshua, moses's successor, he leads the people into the
  • 00:13:52.815 --> 00:13:56.252
  • Promised land, but he does it by having--i mean, they call it
  • 00:13:56.252 --> 00:14:00.189
  • The conquest.
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  • He had to conquer the canaanite cities.
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  • Do you think you and i are different?
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  • Do you think we will usher in the return of the king?
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  • You think we'll be a part of that great prophecy in matthew
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  • 24, that this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the
  • 00:14:14.536 --> 00:14:17.373
  • Whole world, and then the end will come, and it's gonna be
  • 00:14:17.373 --> 00:14:22.177
  • Like a parade?
  • 00:14:22.177 --> 00:14:24.480
  • Like we're running a 5k, and everybody's going, "oh, you
  • 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.849
  • Look awesome!
  • 00:14:26.849 --> 00:14:31.086
  • Have some gatorade!
  • 00:14:31.086 --> 00:14:33.522
  • Want a banana?"
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  • No, the biblical pattern is very different.
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  • Church, we have to be different.
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  • You know why we avoid it?
  • 00:14:44.633 --> 00:14:46.702
  • We're so divided in our loyalties.
  • 00:14:46.702 --> 00:14:50.272
  • We don't honor a biblical worldview enough.
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  • We aren't really unified behind the authority of scripture, so
  • 00:14:53.676 --> 00:14:56.211
  • We don't want to talk about anything that's happening in
  • 00:14:56.211 --> 00:14:58.280
  • Our world.
  • 00:14:58.280 --> 00:15:00.282
  • We'd rather talk about cultures that are in the distant past
  • 00:15:00.282 --> 00:15:03.252
  • That don't really bring any division.
  • 00:15:03.252 --> 00:15:05.120
  • We can argue about the pharisees and the sadducees all day long
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  • And leave happy because we don't know any of those, but if we
  • 00:15:07.790 --> 00:15:15.264
  • Talk about current policies and current decisions, we get really
  • 00:15:15.264 --> 00:15:20.169
  • Uncomfortable and anxious.
  • 00:15:20.169 --> 00:15:25.374
  • God chose david, sent samuel to anoint him to be king, and he
  • 00:15:25.374 --> 00:15:31.747
  • Ignited a conflict.
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  • I don't think we will see jesus returned to our schools and our
  • 00:15:34.183 --> 00:15:37.419
  • College campuses, i don't think we'll see that happen unless we
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  • Have the courage to stand up.
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  • I don't think we'll get the smut out of our libraries until we
  • 00:15:44.994 --> 00:15:47.963
  • Say, "that's not appropriate for small children."
  • 00:15:47.963 --> 00:15:56.538
  • Allen: i sat down with my father recently, did a podcast.
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  • He told the story how he came to faith,
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  • How god transformed our family, he started a home bible study,
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  • All the way up to the beginning of this church that
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  • I've served now for decades.
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  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
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  • In his life and through his life.
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  • Allen: there's a second lesson, i think, from david: and if god
  • 00:17:01.370 --> 00:17:05.674
  • Puts you in a conflict, he'll provide what's needed for
  • 00:17:05.674 --> 00:17:07.810
  • The victory.
  • 00:17:07.810 --> 00:17:12.314
  • Now, god gave david what he needed, that doesn't mean
  • 00:17:12.314 --> 00:17:15.184
  • It's easy.
  • 00:17:15.184 --> 00:17:18.120
  • See, i like easy.
  • 00:17:18.120 --> 00:17:21.023
  • You know, i did a whole series--i forget how many, i did
  • 00:17:21.023 --> 00:17:23.158
  • Like 12 sessions on "let's do difficult," right?
  • 00:17:23.158 --> 00:17:28.430
  • But if i'd really done what's my--which is my old nature, i'd
  • 00:17:28.430 --> 00:17:32.167
  • Have done 40 sessions on "easy."
  • 00:17:32.167 --> 00:17:38.373
  • I mean, i like easy.
  • 00:17:38.373 --> 00:17:42.044
  • You know, i wish that cream they sell on television at night that
  • 00:17:42.044 --> 00:17:44.980
  • You rub on your belly, and you wake up and you got a six pack,
  • 00:17:44.980 --> 00:17:49.251
  • Don't you wish that worked?
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  • I'll be invested in some cream.
  • 00:17:52.387 --> 00:17:57.292
  • My problem is i have ice cream, and then i think, well, how much
  • 00:17:57.292 --> 00:18:01.563
  • Cream am i gonna need to get to that six pack?
  • 00:18:01.563 --> 00:18:05.200
  • I'm just waiting for the keg to be more fashionable.
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  • Not really, but we struggle with this a little bit, but if god
  • 00:18:13.909 --> 00:18:18.514
  • Invites you to a place--in fact, the places god invites you to
  • 00:18:18.514 --> 00:18:23.385
  • Will inevitably result in some conflict.
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  • There's friction with movement.
  • 00:18:26.922 --> 00:18:29.725
  • There's an adversary to the purposes of god in the earth.
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  • It's illustrated throughout the scripture, and so when you
  • 00:18:32.427 --> 00:18:36.698
  • Respond to the lord with a yes, whether it's your old carnal
  • 00:18:36.698 --> 00:18:40.235
  • Nature, or there's satanic resistance or resistance from
  • 00:18:40.235 --> 00:18:44.406
  • People around you who don't wanna say yes to the lord, what
  • 00:18:44.406 --> 00:18:48.277
  • We have to be mindful of is god will provide what is necessary
  • 00:18:48.277 --> 00:18:52.247
  • For us to have the victory in that place.
  • 00:18:52.247 --> 00:18:55.217
  • Now, timing becomes a question, and i can give you some examples
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  • I brought you all, but david is familiar enough character with
  • 00:18:59.154 --> 00:19:01.890
  • You--to you that i don't think we need a lot.
  • 00:19:01.890 --> 00:19:05.527
  • In 1 samuel 17, we all know the goliath narrative.
  • 00:19:05.527 --> 00:19:11.867
  • David's a little teenager, and the whole army is afraid
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  • Of goliath.
  • 00:19:14.603 --> 00:19:15.938
  • He's a beast, and the most valued warrior, the most likely
  • 00:19:15.938 --> 00:19:19.474
  • Character to have faced goliath would have been saul.
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  • He was the most physically imposing of the israelites, and
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  • Saul wanted nothing to do with it.
  • 00:19:25.948 --> 00:19:27.549
  • You know how frightened they were?
  • 00:19:27.549 --> 00:19:28.917
  • They were all willing to let a young teenage boy with a sling
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  • Go face the mightiest warrior that the enemy had.
  • 00:19:33.388 --> 00:19:37.960
  • Now, how afraid does an army full of men have to be to push a
  • 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.296
  • Boy out onto the battlefield?
  • 00:19:41.296 --> 00:19:45.500
  • But this was david's answer, 1 samuel 17.
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  • He said, "your servant has killed the lion and the bear,
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  • And this uncircumcised philistine will be like one
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  • Of them.
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  • He's defied the armies of the living god."
  • 00:19:55.043 --> 00:19:59.248
  • God had given david what he needed for that
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  • Particular battle.
  • 00:20:03.485 --> 00:20:06.989
  • Wow, he didn't give it to saul?
  • 00:20:06.989 --> 00:20:12.027
  • You've been reading the narrative: it said that the
  • 00:20:12.027 --> 00:20:13.862
  • Blessing of god came upon david and it was withdrawn from saul.
  • 00:20:13.862 --> 00:20:18.066
  • God gave him what he needed that day.
  • 00:20:18.066 --> 00:20:20.869
  • It didn't mean he didn't face other challenges.
  • 00:20:20.869 --> 00:20:22.804
  • We're gonna look at them in the next couple of minutes.
  • 00:20:22.804 --> 00:20:25.907
  • We scroll forward a few years.
  • 00:20:25.907 --> 00:20:27.242
  • David's established the kingdom, saul died in a battle.
  • 00:20:27.242 --> 00:20:30.812
  • David is king, his son leads a rebellion, absalom, and his son
  • 00:20:30.812 --> 00:20:37.719
  • Is killed by the troops that had been--david had to flee
  • 00:20:37.719 --> 00:20:40.422
  • Jerusalem, leave everything, and absalom is ultimately killed,
  • 00:20:40.422 --> 00:20:45.761
  • And david is mourning his son, and david's response is
  • 00:20:45.761 --> 00:20:51.099
  • Not right.
  • 00:20:51.099 --> 00:20:52.434
  • In your notes, it's 2 samuel 19.
  • 00:20:52.434 --> 00:20:55.137
  • Joab, he's the commander of david's armies.
  • 00:20:55.137 --> 00:21:01.710
  • "joab went into the house of the king and said, 'today you've
  • 00:21:01.710 --> 00:21:03.812
  • Humiliated all your men, who've just saved your life and the
  • 00:21:03.812 --> 00:21:07.949
  • Lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of
  • 00:21:07.949 --> 00:21:09.918
  • Your wives.
  • 00:21:09.918 --> 00:21:11.553
  • You love those who hate you and you hate those who love you.
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  • You made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean
  • 00:21:14.823 --> 00:21:17.759
  • Nothing to you.
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  • I see that you'd be pleased if absalom were alive today and all
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  • Of us were dead.'"
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  • I'm here to tell you it takes some significant courage to talk
  • 00:21:26.201 --> 00:21:29.705
  • To david like that.
  • 00:21:29.705 --> 00:21:32.441
  • He's taking people down for a whole lot less.
  • 00:21:32.441 --> 00:21:36.812
  • "'now go out and encourage your men.
  • 00:21:36.812 --> 00:21:39.548
  • I swear by the lord that if you don't go out, not a man will be
  • 00:21:39.548 --> 00:21:42.217
  • Left to you by nightfall, and then this will be worse for you
  • 00:21:42.217 --> 00:21:45.387
  • Than all the calamities that have come upon you from your
  • 00:21:45.387 --> 00:21:47.556
  • Youth until now.'"
  • 00:21:47.556 --> 00:21:50.392
  • David needed a voice, and god provided it.
  • 00:21:50.392 --> 00:21:57.766
  • See, it isn't just the ability to target a rock from a sling.
  • 00:21:57.766 --> 00:22:04.039
  • There are times you'll need a voice.
  • 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:05.374
  • Whatever you need, if you are standing in the purposes of god,
  • 00:22:05.374 --> 00:22:11.313
  • I would tell you that the lesson--the message of
  • 00:22:11.313 --> 00:22:13.515
  • Scripture, and from my own life experience, god will provide
  • 00:22:13.515 --> 00:22:16.818
  • What you need.
  • 00:22:16.818 --> 00:22:19.221
  • Now, his timing and my timing: not always fully aligned.
  • 00:22:19.221 --> 00:22:24.860
  • But god will provide what you need.
  • 00:22:24.860 --> 00:22:27.896
  • Now, if you wait to have all the provision you need for every
  • 00:22:27.896 --> 00:22:30.432
  • Moment along the journey, you'll never start.
  • 00:22:30.432 --> 00:22:33.668
  • You'll never begin.
  • 00:22:33.668 --> 00:22:36.338
  • They didn't have any manna when they were still in egypt.
  • 00:22:36.338 --> 00:22:39.775
  • They had to get into the wilderness.
  • 00:22:39.775 --> 00:22:42.644
  • Moses didn't practice parting the red sea on the nile river
  • 00:22:42.644 --> 00:22:45.447
  • Just for chuckles and grins.
  • 00:22:45.447 --> 00:22:49.151
  • You see, you and i, we want to have such a mastery of all the
  • 00:22:49.151 --> 00:22:52.487
  • Things that god will do that we never face those anxious
  • 00:22:52.487 --> 00:22:54.990
  • Moments, that faith inevitably requires us to respond to god.
  • 00:22:54.990 --> 00:23:01.830
  • What i'm inviting you is to an imagination of serving the lord
  • 00:23:01.830 --> 00:23:04.699
  • In a way where you realize if the lord doesn't meet you, the
  • 00:23:04.699 --> 00:23:07.335
  • Outcome is going to be awkward.
  • 00:23:07.335 --> 00:23:10.105
  • Not foolish--we've had this conversation many times: folks,
  • 00:23:10.105 --> 00:23:13.608
  • Don't be foolish and blame god.
  • 00:23:13.608 --> 00:23:16.411
  • When you're out of gas, don't pray for guidance.
  • 00:23:16.411 --> 00:23:19.047
  • Get a gas station and some cash.
  • 00:23:19.047 --> 00:23:22.350
  • If you're merging on the interstate, you don't need to be
  • 00:23:22.350 --> 00:23:24.085
  • Led by the holy spirit, you need to look.
  • 00:23:24.085 --> 00:23:31.827
  • Come on, i've driven with some of those weird people, but
  • 00:23:31.827 --> 00:23:35.197
  • Only once.
  • 00:23:35.197 --> 00:23:38.467
  • Okay, and i'm not doing life with people that do that stuff.
  • 00:23:38.467 --> 00:23:43.305
  • That's not faith, that's something else.
  • 00:23:43.305 --> 00:23:46.074
  • We can talk about some of that another time if you want to, but
  • 00:23:46.074 --> 00:23:49.277
  • God will provide, but his provision comes in real time,
  • 00:23:49.277 --> 00:23:53.315
  • And so we take measured steps seeing the lord's provision.
  • 00:23:53.315 --> 00:23:59.988
  • God gave david what he needed, whether it was a victory over
  • 00:23:59.988 --> 00:24:02.724
  • Goliath or a commander of his armies with enough courage to
  • 00:24:02.724 --> 00:24:06.161
  • Tell him something that nobody else would tell him.
  • 00:24:06.161 --> 00:24:09.931
  • There's a third life lesson from david, and that's that life
  • 00:24:09.931 --> 00:24:13.602
  • Presents battles in each season.
  • 00:24:13.602 --> 00:24:15.971
  • You know the david and goliath narrative.
  • 00:24:15.971 --> 00:24:17.539
  • Most of us learn that in sunday school as children.
  • 00:24:17.539 --> 00:24:20.909
  • The battle with david and saul.
  • 00:24:20.909 --> 00:24:23.945
  • I mean, he comes away from the battlefield with goliath, and
  • 00:24:23.945 --> 00:24:26.314
  • They're celebrating david.
  • 00:24:26.314 --> 00:24:27.649
  • They said, "saul has slain as thousands, but david as tens
  • 00:24:27.649 --> 00:24:30.352
  • Of thousands."
  • 00:24:30.352 --> 00:24:32.120
  • Well, that puts him on a collision course.
  • 00:24:32.120 --> 00:24:34.389
  • The egos of leadership at that level?
  • 00:24:34.389 --> 00:24:40.228
  • I mean, it takes more than a decade for david to win that.
  • 00:24:40.228 --> 00:24:42.797
  • He lives as a fugitive.
  • 00:24:42.797 --> 00:24:44.132
  • He hides in caves.
  • 00:24:44.132 --> 00:24:45.467
  • He does all sorts of stuff nobody wants to do.
  • 00:24:45.467 --> 00:24:48.103
  • We'll look at a few of them, but then there's david
  • 00:24:48.103 --> 00:24:51.773
  • And bathsheba.
  • 00:24:51.773 --> 00:24:53.141
  • There's a whole different kind of a battle there.
  • 00:24:53.141 --> 00:24:54.476
  • This isn't on the--david was a pretty good military tactician,
  • 00:24:54.476 --> 00:24:57.712
  • His courage, but he lost that battle with bathsheba.
  • 00:24:57.712 --> 00:25:03.018
  • Cost him a great deal.
  • 00:25:03.018 --> 00:25:07.188
  • And he had battles within his own family.
  • 00:25:07.188 --> 00:25:10.926
  • He had a son who raped his half-sister.
  • 00:25:10.926 --> 00:25:16.231
  • His one son absalom led a revolt against him.
  • 00:25:16.231 --> 00:25:20.735
  • I put some passages in your notes.
  • 00:25:20.735 --> 00:25:22.304
  • 1 samuel 19, "saul tried to pin david to the wall with his
  • 00:25:22.304 --> 00:25:25.340
  • Spear, but david eluded him as saul drove the spear into
  • 00:25:25.340 --> 00:25:28.710
  • The wall."
  • 00:25:28.710 --> 00:25:30.045
  • God anointed him to be king, and he left saul in place.
  • 00:25:30.045 --> 00:25:40.088
  • Does that make anybody else here uncomfortable?
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  • I have to recalibrate what it means to serve the lord.
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  • I want you to be an influence where you work.
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  • "well, they've told me i can't mention my faith."
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  • You think god said, "oh, well, in that case."
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  • Just...
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  • Allen: being a christ follower is not as much about an
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  • Experience and a completed activity, a prayer, a visit
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  • To an altar, a response to an evangelist.
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  • It's certainly a beginning point of welcoming jesus into your
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  • Heart, but it's a life that we lead.
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  • So, we continue to grow and learn and gain strength as life
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  • Presents challenges.
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  • We get to know god in a new way.
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  • Well, i believe this book about the holy spirit is a tool to
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  • Help you gain a new momentum to grow through the things in your
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  • Life under the direction of the power of the spirit of god.
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  • Folks, we're not gonna outwork evil or outthink evil.
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  • We're not gonna out organize evil.
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  • The only thing evil will yield to is a power greater than
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  • Itself, and that power is the spirit of god in you and me
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  • Manifest in the earth through people of faith.
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  • We're salt and light.
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  • We're change agents.
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  • I wanna pray.
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  • Heavenly father, give us a discernment to recognize your
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  • Spirit, how we can welcome him into our lives and cooperate
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  • With him to bring your breakthroughs into our lives,
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  • Our homes, and our churches.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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