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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Providence of God | March 18, 2026
- Oh, yeah.
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- You pull the pious card out,
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- But i'm an exception.
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- I preach, i sing,
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- I play in the orchestra, i go to church all the time.
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- You know, i pray i have never.
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- I'm a. i'm an exception.
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- I do all these religious things over here.
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- So. but, you know, i'm not totally obedient over here.
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- I'm an exception.
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- When we align our hearts with god's word.
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- Something powerful begins to happen.
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- If you've never done that, you.
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- You'll be stunned.
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- Our perspective changes when we get in the bible.
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- We discover the bible is a rock.
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- It's not a marshmallow.
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- Our priorities shift
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- And our peace increases day by day.
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- Our spiritual life is not meant to be.
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- Live one day a week. it's meant to be.
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- Live every day, every hour, every step.
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- And it works.
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- Today we're going to explore what it means to cultivate
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- A daily walk with god, a faith
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- That is steady and deeply rooted in biblical truth.
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- So welcome to the waiting world.
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- Family. welcome.
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- We're glad you're here.
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- Basic principle we
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- Need to have established over and over again.
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- And that's the providence of god.
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- God is running this universe.
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- He always has.
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- He always will.
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- And he does it somehow without violating
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- Man's
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- Gifted by god to be a free moral agent
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- And also his divine purpose.
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- God's purpose.
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- Man's freedom.
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- They never get confused because in the process,
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- The lord is working together.
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- His plan, his will.
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- His initial design for every life and for this world.
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- Everybody who's ever lived.
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- Everybody is living today.
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- God, in his own way, is providentially
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- Working through those lives.
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- We see this.
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- That's one reason we have the bible.
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- God lets us see in his special people,
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- The jews, whom he called out from the rest of the world,
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- How god is working in the lives of all of these individuals
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- And all of these situations through thousands of years.
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- And so we read the bible and we see how god is working
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- There, that god is working in our lives.
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- Some little something happens here.
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- It's determinative of the rest of your life.
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- Here's something casual happens over here, man.
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- I didn't take any importance of it,
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- But how big it became and the direction of a life
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- Changing moment.
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- Mountaintop experiences, experiences in the valley.
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- It changes our life.
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- We see god providentially working.
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- Now, let me just give you just a little zip through
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- Some things in the bible to see that happening
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- In odd ways, strange,
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- Mysterious ways.
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- Two men are talking in a prison.
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- Their conversation
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- Leads to joseph becoming
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- Governor of egypt,
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- A prison conversation.
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- Now, who would have planned that?
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- We move on, and we see that the
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- Daughter of pharaoh is taking a bath in the nile river.
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- No big deal. that's where she bathed.
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- And here comes a throwaway jewish child
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- Down in a little ark and floats down.
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- And suddenly she adopts
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- Little baby jewish moses.
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- And god prepares him to be his leader,
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- To take his people out of slavery into freedom.
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- My goodness, just a a woman bathing in a river
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- Carrying a
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- Baby who was a throw away.
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- How strange is that?
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- A father wanted to provide food
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- For his sons who were battling, and they were in a standoff.
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- Battle between the philistines and the israelites. and.
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- And so his father takes his under age
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- Son, who was too young for the draft to be fighting.
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- Takes this little freckle faced shepherd
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- Boy and says, take this food, your brothers.
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- They're hungry.
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- They're fighting the battle for the lord.
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- And their little david takes that food to his older
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- Brothers, and it ends up in david
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- Facing goliath, who would have fought.
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- And here's a beautiful little jewish
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- Girl who's taken into the haram
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- Of a powerful persian
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- King, and she is used in
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- Just that moment in history for such a time.
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- Is that to save the lives of thousands of people
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- In her race, in her religion and her family.
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- Who would have thought that?
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- And here in our scripture,
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- We have a country boy named saul,
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- Whom his father kush sent him out
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- To find some donkeys that had wandered away months before
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- So they could use the donkeys in the harvesting of the crops.
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- And now this awkward,
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- Bucolic country boy from the smallest tribe and
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- The most insignificant family
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- He encounters samuel,
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- God's prophet, and zip.
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- This awkward country boy named saul
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- Becomes the first king of israel.
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- Oh, you.
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- You look at all these strands of history and life
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- And put them all together, and you say, my goodness,
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- How in the world does this work?
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- It is. listen.
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- The providence of god
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- Operating always.
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- That's what we need to see in your life and my life.
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- And we see it in biblical principles over and over again.
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- And so we see
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- Now israel has a king,
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- And the people wanted it.
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- And samuel wasn't clear.
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- And finally god gave permission and told him how to find
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- This king.
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- And that was a strange you say it was a chance meeting
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- That samuel, you know, ran into saul
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- And prepared him through discipleship to be the king.
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- Oh, no, there are no accidents.
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- I despise people who say, well, i was just lucky.
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- I want to take them and say, oh, wait, awake, my son,
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- My daughter.
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- There's no such thing as luck.
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- There's something is chance, but not luck.
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- All of life.
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- Big things, little things, monumental things.
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- Unsuspecting thing.
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- It's all according to the providence of almighty god.
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- And you see it magnificently
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- In the life of saul.
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- Look.
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- Look at the beginning.
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- In chapter nine, the first samuel.
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- Now there was a man of,
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- Benjamin, whose name was kish.
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- This is saul's father.
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- Look at verse two.
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- He, kish, had a son whose name was saul.
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- A choice and handsome man.
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- And there was not a more handsome person.
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- Listen.
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- Then he, among all the sons of israel, from his shoulders
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- And up, he was taller than any of the people, man.
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- He was tall, dark, handsome
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- Man. what a specimen.
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- Physically strong.
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- You can read all the preamble here of saul.
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- You see, he was intelligent.
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- He was hardworking,
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- Respectful of his father.
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- He was a man that you wanted to be with.
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- He was just handsome beyond belief.
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- Charisma flowed from him.
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- He had all the natural gifts
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- Of intelligence, of ability, of appearance, of strength.
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- I mean, what more are you going to find? human.
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- They are naturally. he was greatly gifted.
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- And saul had a sense of call.
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- You can read there about a part
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- Of his ordination exercises and it for many chapters.
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- Chapter ten. at first samuel.
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- Then samuel took the flask of oil and poured it on his head,
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- Kissed him, and said, has not the lord anointed you
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- A ruler over his inheritance?
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- And it says, verse nine, god changed his heart,
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- Changed his life. he had it all.
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- He had all the natural, all the supernatural.
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- Now he had a sense of the call of god that he would be king.
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- And interesting in all this.
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- He kept his humility in the beginning.
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- He really did.
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- They brought all the people together for his coronation.
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- They couldn't find.
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- So you know where he was
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- Hiding in the baggage, the bible. he.
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- He was so embarrassed.
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- He was overwhelmed with it all.
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- He had humility.
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- He was a forgiving person because there was a
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- Little crowd there who didn't want him to be king.
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- There's always opposition.
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- By the way, if you're doing something
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- For the lord and there's not opposition, you're
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- Probably not doing something for the lord.
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- Just a side note.
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- And so there was a little group that opposed him,
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- And normally a king would come and kill all of them.
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- But saul said, oh, it's all right.
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- I'll forgive them. they'll fit in.
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- They'll see what god is doing.
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- And they did.
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- So he had to. he was humble.
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- He was forgiving. he was gracious.
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- He was brilliant.
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- He was talented. he was handsome.
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- He was strong.
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- He had naturals.
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- Saul had it all.
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- And he had god's call on his life.
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- I mean, what more could this close a chapter?
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- I mean, we got it.
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- But i want you to see
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- The fall of king saul.
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- The bigger they are, the higher
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- The more the longer is the fall.
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- Is it not?
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- And we see that beginning tragically here in his life.
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- And by the way, we fall gradually.
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- We don't say, when you become a thief,
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- You don't start off by robbing the bank.
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- Have you noticed that
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- You sort of build up, you cheat a little more
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- In school, and you,
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- You take things when nobody finds out
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- And you just sort of move up through the ranks
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- Until the mafia, you become a made person.
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- And that's how it works in every single life,
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- In every area of sin and rebellion against
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- Being a man or a woman who's obedient to the lord
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- Every time. it's gradual.
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- We see this was all.
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- We see it in chapter number 13.
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- And the situation is this
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- The philistines are attacking god's people.
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- Now, saul, by the way, another example of humility.
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- And he was ordained as king.
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- He went back in the field and worked as a farmer, as a
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- As he always.
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- You know something?
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- I mean, what a guy, what a leader.
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- And now the philistines are attacking.
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- So samuel says, saul, you get the army together
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- And you gather him up.
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- We're going to
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- Throw out the philistines, and you wait seven days
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- And samuel says, i will come and offer a burnt offering.
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- We will have a
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- Worship ceremony, and then we'll go fight the philistines.
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- And look what happened here.
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- Verse nine, chapter 13.
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- First samuel.
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- So saul said, bring to me the burnt offering
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- And the peace offering, and he only offered
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- The burnt offering.
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- As soon as he finished
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- Offering the burnt offering, behold, samuel came,
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- And saul went out to greet him, and to meet him.
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- But samuel saying, what have you done?
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- Now remember, he was to wait seven days.
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- Samuel would lead in the worship, but
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- Said, i can't wait, and this is his excuse.
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- And he gives.
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- He said, i saw the people were scattering from me,
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- And that you did not come within the appointed days.
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- And the philistines were assembling at make mash.
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- Oh, look what happened.
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- Clear word of god.
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- Instruction to saul.
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- And saul says, i can't wait.
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- And he was impatient,
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- And he took the situation in his own hands
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- Because he blamed it on the people.
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- He blamed on the situation.
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- And he said, you know, i'm an exception.
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- I'm an you know, you have to make an exception with me.
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- I wasn't completely obedient, but exception.
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- I'll make an exception.
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- Is that what we do so many times?
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- What god,
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- I make an exception because i was in church life.
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- I mean, i teach, i'm a good person.
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- I've got all these responsibilities. i'm time.
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- And so make an exception with me.
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- Saul said he was exceptional.
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- A child takes their
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- First step unsteady.
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- Unsure.
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- Reaching for a father's hand.
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- No one is born knowing how to walk.
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- It takes training, strength.
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- Balance. time.
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- Walking with god is no different.
- 00:14:13.064 --> 00:14:15.967
- Like all journeys, walking the winning
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- Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
- 00:14:17.902 --> 00:14:21.572
- By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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- We will be able to follow where the master leads.
- 00:14:24.175 --> 00:14:27.879
- Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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- Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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- God doesn't rush the journey.
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- He lights the next step
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- In the winning walk.
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- Look at what
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- Saul did in this particular situation.
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- It is devastating.
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- He two.
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- He killed all the and all the animals
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- Except the healthy animals.
- 00:15:19.130 --> 00:15:22.367
- And he killed all the amalekites,
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- These demonic people, except their king, agag.
- 00:15:24.502 --> 00:15:27.472
- And then you read when samuel is coming,
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- Saul says, blessed are you.
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- I have carried out the command of the lord.
- 00:15:35.246 --> 00:15:40.585
- And then samuel said,
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- What do i hear?
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- Is that the bleeding of sheep?
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- Sheep or those sheep?
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- Is that that the lowing of the cattle and and the oxen?
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- What am i hearing?
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- If you've killed all the animals and
- 00:15:56.300 --> 00:16:00.405
- And saul said, well, you know, i did make an exception.
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- And then he
- 00:16:04.976 --> 00:16:05.676
- Goes on and pulls a pious card.
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- He said, well, we kept all these animals
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- Because all the soldiers, we want to use them
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- As a sacrifice to the lord.
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- Oh, yeah.
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- You pull the pious card out,
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- But i'm an exception.
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- I preach, i sing,
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- I play in the orchestra, i go to church all the time.
- 00:16:24.595 --> 00:16:27.532
- You know, i pray i have never.
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- I'm a. i'm an exception.
- 00:16:29.333 --> 00:16:31.436
- I do all these religious things over here.
- 00:16:31.436 --> 00:16:34.605
- So. but, you know, i'm not totally obedient over here.
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- I'm an exception.
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- Exceptionalism.
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- You see how this worked in the life of saul
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- As we see him, by the way, falling uphill.
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- And then we go to the third and final way
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- That he was totally obliterated.
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- And now we see samuel had died.
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- And then
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- We move over.
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- And these are the verses we have to deal with.
- 00:17:03.835 --> 00:17:08.306
- And so the philistines gathered together.
- 00:17:08.306 --> 00:17:10.508
- This is chapter 28 and came encamped in them.
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- And saul gathered all the israeli gathered.
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- They camped at gilboa.
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- Oh, we finally got to our mountain.
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- He's following all the way up to gilboa.
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- And look what's happened to him.
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- When saul.
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- Saul, the camp of the philistines,
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- He was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
- 00:17:29.127 --> 00:17:32.663
- When saul inquired of the lord,
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- The lord did not answer him.
- 00:17:35.233 --> 00:17:38.402
- My goodness, here he was.
- 00:17:38.970 --> 00:17:41.005
- Now he cries to god.
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- Let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen.
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- God does not forgive living sin.
- 00:17:46.410 --> 00:17:51.816
- He forgives only dead sin.
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- Sin that has been crucified, confessed,
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- Executed, put out of business.
- 00:18:00.258 --> 00:18:03.394
- You know, go back and say, well, i'm forgiven here.
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- But because he is still alive, i'm going to pick it
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- Back over here.
- 00:18:08.699 --> 00:18:09.967
- God doesn't operate on the basis of cheap grace.
- 00:18:09.967 --> 00:18:14.739
- Oh, we wish he did.
- 00:18:15.206 --> 00:18:17.041
- But he doesn't.
- 00:18:17.041 --> 00:18:18.042
- Saul had run out of the grace of god.
- 00:18:18.042 --> 00:18:21.479
- Now, in a moment
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- Of desperation, as he's on top of mount gilboa,
- 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:26.050
- The philistines are coming in.
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- He's fallen uphill to this point,
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- And he prays, and god is not there.
- 00:18:31.522 --> 00:18:35.193
- And you know what he does.
- 00:18:35.193 --> 00:18:36.260
- This is really something.
- 00:18:36.260 --> 00:18:37.862
- Years ago, he had run out of israel.
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- All the fortune tellers, all the witches,
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- All those who dealt in black magic.
- 00:18:44.602 --> 00:18:47.271
- He had run them out of israel and said,
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- We don't want those demonic, godless people here.
- 00:18:49.941 --> 00:18:53.477
- But now, when he can't get through with god,
- 00:18:53.477 --> 00:18:56.514
- He goes and says,
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- I want to visit with a witch
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- And ezviz with a witch of indoor
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- That would, you knew was wrong because he was so desperate
- 00:19:06.557 --> 00:19:09.994
- To have some semblance before he went in battle.
- 00:19:09.994 --> 00:19:12.863
- What he should do.
- 00:19:13.297 --> 00:19:15.099
- You see, he played the past worshiping card
- 00:19:15.099 --> 00:19:17.635
- All the way through and read some of the passages carefully.
- 00:19:17.635 --> 00:19:21.205
- He would say to samuel, i have done everything your god
- 00:19:21.205 --> 00:19:26.711
- Wants me to do.
- 00:19:27.078 --> 00:19:28.679
- Oh, the god of your wife, or the god of your mother,
- 00:19:28.679 --> 00:19:31.882
- Or the god of a friend?
- 00:19:31.882 --> 00:19:33.417
- Oh no, it has to be my god.
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- It has to be your god.
- 00:19:36.354 --> 00:19:37.955
- And it never came to that kind of understanding
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- With saul who had it all.
- 00:19:41.092 --> 00:19:43.928
- A sense of call divine supernatural.
- 00:19:43.928 --> 00:19:47.331
- But how great was his fall?
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- Oh, i have sinned.
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- Repent. repent. repent.
- 00:19:52.503 --> 00:19:54.438
- But he never really turned away from it.
- 00:19:54.438 --> 00:19:56.974
- He kept going back to it and claiming exceptionalism
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- And usually pious exceptionalism.
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- Most of you, you've heard me
- 00:20:09.020 --> 00:20:10.488
- Talk about my dog winston
- 00:20:10.488 --> 00:20:13.691
- Wasn't some kind of dog nine years old.
- 00:20:13.691 --> 00:20:16.560
- He is the sweetest dog i've ever known.
- 00:20:17.361 --> 00:20:19.897
- If i let him out here, i promise you, if we would,
- 00:20:19.897 --> 00:20:23.367
- You would stay.
- 00:20:23.367 --> 00:20:24.502
- He would go to every person out here.
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- Every person.
- 00:20:27.438 --> 00:20:28.306
- He. he's running for office constantly.
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- And he would shake every hand.
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- He would lick everybody.
- 00:20:33.711 --> 00:20:35.246
- If we had bears and lions and tigers and and killer dogs
- 00:20:35.246 --> 00:20:39.417
- In here once, they would go and try to befriend them.
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- He's just has that amazing
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- Disposition.
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- But the other night last week,
- 00:20:48.125 --> 00:20:51.228
- I went in the bedroom and winston follows me
- 00:20:51.228 --> 00:20:53.931
- In there, and i heard vomiting, and i went out
- 00:20:53.931 --> 00:20:57.134
- And he vomited all over the rug there.
- 00:20:57.134 --> 00:21:00.371
- And, you know, he was eating that
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- Which he had vomited.
- 00:21:04.208 --> 00:21:09.280
- Psalm 22.
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- First peter chapter two.
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- The bible says, that's what we
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- Oh, we repent
- 00:21:21.258 --> 00:21:22.693
- And we go back to that vomit.
- 00:21:22.693 --> 00:21:26.630
- And finally saul
- 00:21:27.031 --> 00:21:28.466
- Went back over and over and over again,
- 00:21:28.466 --> 00:21:31.302
- Again with hypocrisy and manipulation.
- 00:21:31.302 --> 00:21:34.205
- And he had all these wonderful words of repentance and shame
- 00:21:34.205 --> 00:21:37.942
- And sin
- 00:21:37.942 --> 00:21:39.143
- Calling on god, until finally god has said, it's enough.
- 00:21:39.143 --> 00:21:42.546
- I'm through with you.
- 00:21:42.546 --> 00:21:44.215
- Saul, you're out of business.
- 00:21:44.215 --> 00:21:48.152
- And he went all the
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- Way to mount gilboa.
- 00:21:49.820 --> 00:21:53.257
- He fell uphill.
- 00:21:53.624 --> 00:21:55.659
- Philistines came kill
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- All three of his sons.
- 00:21:59.230 --> 00:22:02.366
- And finally he was mortally wounded.
- 00:22:02.366 --> 00:22:05.136
- And he fell on his own sword and took his own life.
- 00:22:05.136 --> 00:22:08.439
- And they took saul's head and his armor.
- 00:22:08.439 --> 00:22:11.242
- And they ended up on the wall of the palace
- 00:22:11.242 --> 00:22:13.811
- Of the philistines, and laughed at him.
- 00:22:13.811 --> 00:22:16.280
- And shame.
- 00:22:16.280 --> 00:22:18.716
- There's a couple who work with kansas crusade for christ.
- 00:22:18.716 --> 00:22:22.520
- They planning marriage after she finished school,
- 00:22:22.520 --> 00:22:25.489
- But he went home one weekend.
- 00:22:26.123 --> 00:22:27.625
- There was a car accident.
- 00:22:27.625 --> 00:22:29.960
- He was instantly killed.
- 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:31.662
- The girl was devastated.
- 00:22:31.662 --> 00:22:34.565
- And then finally, they had the service.
- 00:22:34.565 --> 00:22:36.534
- And his mother and daddy
- 00:22:36.534 --> 00:22:37.568
- Came back to the man's boy's room, and.
- 00:22:37.568 --> 00:22:40.271
- And they were getting all of his stuff.
- 00:22:40.271 --> 00:22:42.239
- And he had
- 00:22:42.239 --> 00:22:43.441
- A pet boa constrictor that he just loved that crazy snake.
- 00:22:43.441 --> 00:22:47.845
- It was his pet.
- 00:22:47.845 --> 00:22:48.646
- And so
- 00:22:48.646 --> 00:22:49.814
- These parents said, we're going to get rid of the snake.
- 00:22:49.814 --> 00:22:51.982
- And, and the and the girlfriend said, you know, i,
- 00:22:51.982 --> 00:22:56.320
- I don't like the snake, but i don't want to keep the snake.
- 00:22:56.320 --> 00:22:58.656
- It's a reminder of his pet.
- 00:22:58.656 --> 00:23:00.591
- And so she took that snake in and kept it in the terrarium.
- 00:23:00.591 --> 00:23:04.328
- The, the glass boxes
- 00:23:04.328 --> 00:23:06.063
- That you keep image that the right pronunciation terrarium.
- 00:23:06.063 --> 00:23:09.633
- And so she would feed the snake and then she
- 00:23:09.633 --> 00:23:12.803
- Would take the snake out and learn to stroke it
- 00:23:12.803 --> 00:23:15.172
- The way they told her to do there.
- 00:23:15.172 --> 00:23:17.241
- And so he, he, he, she saw him do that
- 00:23:17.241 --> 00:23:20.044
- Many times and it was, his pet.
- 00:23:20.044 --> 00:23:23.314
- And that became her pet.
- 00:23:23.314 --> 00:23:24.782
- And over a period of time, she'd let it run free in her,
- 00:23:24.782 --> 00:23:28.352
- Her little apartment there and, and then finally, one night,
- 00:23:28.352 --> 00:23:31.655
- She awakened, just shot.
- 00:23:31.655 --> 00:23:33.090
- And the big snake was called up at the end of her bed,
- 00:23:33.090 --> 00:23:36.360
- And she was upset.
- 00:23:36.360 --> 00:23:37.428
- But, you know, time went by and
- 00:23:37.428 --> 00:23:39.797
- And she said, you know, i begin to have an affection
- 00:23:39.797 --> 00:23:42.166
- For that snake.
- 00:23:42.166 --> 00:23:43.267
- And i realized that a snake could be their pet and,
- 00:23:43.267 --> 00:23:46.203
- And said, i just let it run free more and more
- 00:23:46.203 --> 00:23:48.839
- Until she said they she said the snake began to lose weight
- 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:52.243
- And the snake stopped eating and said.
- 00:23:53.077 --> 00:23:55.513
- Then the snake began to be very docile
- 00:23:55.513 --> 00:23:58.315
- And would hardly move, and said the snake then began
- 00:23:58.315 --> 00:24:01.485
- To shed scales
- 00:24:01.485 --> 00:24:02.887
- And became a different color, became almost white.
- 00:24:02.887 --> 00:24:05.856
- And she said, i knew the snake was dying.
- 00:24:05.856 --> 00:24:08.425
- And so she called an exotic veterinarian and said,
- 00:24:08.425 --> 00:24:12.396
- I don't know what i'm doing wrong.
- 00:24:12.396 --> 00:24:14.298
- I mean, i felt that the snake and i became really my pet,
- 00:24:14.298 --> 00:24:17.568
- And i felt safe and free with the snake and
- 00:24:17.568 --> 00:24:20.804
- And what should i do?
- 00:24:20.804 --> 00:24:22.139
- And then the vet asked, do you have a dog or cat?
- 00:24:22.139 --> 00:24:25.209
- You know, i only have the snake.
- 00:24:25.209 --> 00:24:27.611
- And she went over all the symptoms again and
- 00:24:27.611 --> 00:24:30.314
- And she said, you know, i, i think a snake
- 00:24:30.314 --> 00:24:33.717
- Can be a good pair.
- 00:24:33.717 --> 00:24:34.685
- That can be a good companion.
- 00:24:34.685 --> 00:24:36.554
- And the veterinarian told her and said,
- 00:24:36.554 --> 00:24:39.290
- I don't you know, someday what you've
- 00:24:39.290 --> 00:24:41.725
- Associated with a snake, that now you begin
- 00:24:41.725 --> 00:24:44.128
- To have a relationship. but the snake is your pet.
- 00:24:44.128 --> 00:24:46.664
- I want you to know that boa constrictors, prior
- 00:24:46.664 --> 00:24:50.334
- To eating a big meal, always stop eating,
- 00:24:50.334 --> 00:24:54.038
- Always shed their scales, always become docile.
- 00:24:54.038 --> 00:24:59.076
- And the vet says no, no, no, no.
- 00:24:59.777 --> 00:25:02.780
- That snake sees you
- 00:25:03.247 --> 00:25:06.083
- As that big meal and you are
- 00:25:06.083 --> 00:25:10.287
- His prey.
- 00:25:10.588 --> 00:25:19.129
- Make a pet of sin.
- 00:25:19.563 --> 00:25:24.001
- Whatever it is,
- 00:25:24.368 --> 00:25:26.570
- It feels good.
- 00:25:26.570 --> 00:25:28.339
- I'm an exception.
- 00:25:28.339 --> 00:25:30.274
- I can handle it.
- 00:25:30.274 --> 00:25:32.309
- You see, once we have sin, we let it go.
- 00:25:32.309 --> 00:25:36.447
- We have sin. we let it go.
- 00:25:36.447 --> 00:25:38.916
- We have sin, we have sin, we have sin.
- 00:25:38.916 --> 00:25:41.685
- Oh, we can let it go.
- 00:25:41.685 --> 00:25:43.220
- And then there comes a day when that sin has
- 00:25:43.220 --> 00:25:46.890
- You and has me, and that sin which had been our pet,
- 00:25:46.890 --> 00:25:52.096
- We have become its prey.
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- Your word is a lamp to my feet,
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- A light into my path.
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- Notice the promise in that verse.
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- A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
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- A light for your path.
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- We can see out there.
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- Not just inspiration.
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- For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
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- The christian life
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- Was never meant to be lived casually,
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- But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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- Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
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- That's the heartbeat of this book.
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- The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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- Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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- A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
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- In the practical realities of everyday living.
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- This isn't about religion.
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- It's about relationship.
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- It's about learning to trust god step by step
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- And stay in step with our lord.
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- The christ.
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- So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk.
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- Do it today.
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- And then we begin walking victoriously,
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- One step at a time.
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