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All righty.
Introduction and Series Overview
00:00:08
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So, 11, dun-dun-dun-dun, we're at the halfway point of the Jesus in the Old Testament series.
00:00:20
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So, last week, we were looking at the life of Ruth and how her life had so many prophetic narratives.
Prophetic Narratives in the Bible
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What is the prophetic narrative? Well, there are a few meanings for prophetic narratives.
00:00:35
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One of them is when there are certain similarities between the life of a person in the Bible and in the life of someone else in the Bible.
00:00:46
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So let's say how when Moses was born, Pharaoh decided to kill all the Hebrew baby boys. And in the same way, when Jesus was born, and King Herod decided he would mass execute all the baby boys in Bethlehem.
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Or it could be a picture of something, maybe even a picture of a prophecy. That's not the actual prophecy, but it's just a nod that things are heading in the right direction.
Division of the Kingdom: Israel and Judah
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So, for instance, in the days of Rehoboam and Jeroboam, um the days of David's grandson, the kingdom of Israel split into two kingdoms.
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The northern kingdom of Israel, whose capital was Samaria, and the southern kingdom of Judah, whose capital was Jerusalem. um So a prophet, the one who decreed the split, had just bought a lovely new cloak. And the Bible tells us that his robe was new, which makes it really, really sad. And he tears it up into into shreds.
00:02:01
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And he's like, I'm going to put two pieces over here and ten pieces of my cloak over here. That and of itself was not the fulfillment of the prophecy.
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But it was a picture which then manifested in reality when the kingdom split into 10 tribes, the kingdom of Israel, and two tribes, the kingdom of Judah.
00:02:26
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So prophetic narratives are pictures, are indicators of something else.
David's Life as a Prophetic Narrative
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And in David's life, we see that his life in so many respects,
00:02:43
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is a prophetic narrative for the life of Jesus. Jesus notwithstanding, David is my second favorite person in the Bible.
00:02:56
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um He used to be my favorite, but that little incident with Bathsheba got him knocked off that throne. So now my favorite is Joseph in the book of Genesis.
00:03:08
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And David is my number two, but he's a great guy. So going to get some similarities between David's life and Jesus' life.
Religious Corruption in Biblical Times
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And one of them actually starts all the way um back in 1 Samuel chapter 2 with religious corruption.
00:03:32
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Now, to be honest with you, I could even throw 1 Samuel chapter 1 in here. where there's a woman named Hannah who is barren and she's praying to the Lord that she conceives.
00:03:45
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And the high priest, Eli, is staring at her praying and accuses her. And doesn't just accuse, reprimands her, condemns her for being drunk.
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When the high priest does not know the difference between drunkenness and praying, you know that there's a problem with your religious establishment.
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One chapter later, his sons are introduced. Hophni is one of them, and Phineas is the next one. and these two scallywags, his sons are also priests, and they're abusing the sacrificial system.
00:04:31
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and People would bring food offerings to the tabernacle the place of meeting, the tent of meeting. And they would basically get a big four, big trident, stick it in people's sacrifices, whip it out, and eat the biggest, juiciest, meatiest parts for themselves.
00:04:50
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um And then the people were left very, very hungry. a Eli was possibly doing this too, maybe, um because we're told that he was grossly fat,
00:05:06
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and would sit on a seat in 1 Samuel 4, 18. But the word for a seat in Hebrew can also be translated as a throne.
00:05:19
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So perhaps he had kingly notions of himself. So and he was plucked on his throne, grossly obese. And meanwhile, his songs were on stealing from the people.
00:05:34
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But they're also committing sexual immorality with the women at Tabernacle.
Pharisees' Influence and Theology
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So in the context into which David came, now Samuel the prophet first and then David afterwards, this is a look at the corruption taking place in the religious sphere.
00:05:57
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And similarly, in Jesus' day, The religious establishment was corrupt through and through, um partly through pride and another part of it was bad theology.
00:06:17
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The most infamous of them all, the ones people tend to talk the most, and the Pharisees. The Pharisees were known for their personal piety. In fact, the word Pharisee actually means separated.
00:06:32
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Now for us, you know, God calls his children holy, meaning set apart. The Pharisees had the same idea, but it was exclusive to themselves.
00:06:46
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They put a big emphasis on people following the 612 Old Testament laws that Jesus gave to Moses on Mount Sinai, also called Mount Horeb, including the rituals and of ceremonial purification, ceremonial cleansing.
00:07:08
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Now, most of the Pharisees were middle class businessmen, and they were also leaders of the synagogue. and they had a minority number of positions a amongst the Sanhedrin, but they seemed to be the most influential people insofar as they had the political support of the people.
00:07:30
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Most Pharisees were known as haters of the Roman Empire, and when your country is a colony, that is a surefire way to get people on time.
00:07:42
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The Pharisees typically taught the following and four things to their contemporaries. One, that God controls all things and everything happens according to his providence.
00:07:55
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But people also have a lot of power in the decisions they make. Second, as we see in Acts 23.6, they did believe in the resurrection of the dead.
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that after the apocalypse, all the saved Jews and Israelites would be resurrected. Three, they believed in an afterlife where the righteous would be rewarded and the wicked would be punished, and that the Messiah would set up a kingdom on the earth after the apocalypse.
00:08:27
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And four, they did believe in the spirit realm. Again, Acts 23, 8. They did know about the existence of angels and demons, okay? So, theologically, in this respect, not so bad, mostly okay.
00:08:43
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The problem is, they also took cultural tradition. Cultural norms, things which were in the oral tradition, things people themselves. that weren't biblical, and they gave them equal standing with the Word of God.
00:09:00
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So, for instance, there are times when you might see Jesus say, you have heard it said, love your neighbor and hate your enemies. And then you look at the bottom of your Bible page and there's no Old Testament reference or citation.
00:09:15
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That's because it's not a Bible verse. That's because it was a cultural norm. But the Pharisees would take things which were cultural And maybe because they love their nation, maybe just to be really different for the Roman Empire.
00:09:29
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And they give it equal billing with the word of God, which is a theologically dangerous, to be honest.
00:09:44
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But the Pharisees were not a united group. A lot of people, and when they read the Bible, think the Pharisees, they're all just nameless, faceless, bearded men who had the same color skin, same color hats, same color robes, and had no difference between them. It's not the case.
00:10:04
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There were two main schools of thought within their camp. One of them was Rabbi Shammai, who called for a very strict and unbending interpretation of the Old Testament. It was what it was. It said what it said.
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Don't question it. My kind of guy. Second one and that he really, well, that he has his followers already propagated was a deep loathing for anything emblematic of the Roman Empire.
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and And anyone who worked with them Think of, you know, Matthew, for instance, who wrote the book of Matthew. You know, he was a tax collector.
00:10:49
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And that was basically someone who was Jewish, but was working with and for the enemy. He thought those people should be absolutely cut off.
00:11:01
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You should regard them as a persona non grata. Like they didn't even exist, that they should be dead to you. And he didn't think that Jews and Gentiles, Gentiles are non-Jews, should have any communication or commerce at all.
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He wanted a total severance between the two groups.
00:11:26
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Another ram rabbi who was very popular at the time was called Hillel. He had a more elastic interpretation of the Old Testament.
00:11:38
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You know, all this means this, but if you want to say it means something else, that's OK. You say it's more liberal, but not necessarily in a good way. And and um he disagreed with the degree of the exclusivity that Shammai wanted between the two groups. Shammai wanted, you know, ad Jews first policy.
00:12:04
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and every other nation, especially those affiliated with the empire to be entirely cut off and severed. Whereas Hillel said, no, look, you know, you don't have to agree with colonialism or the empire, but you know, a bit of cross mingling wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
00:12:24
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So you have that group in Jesus' day. And the Pharisees are definitely the ones that Jesus would fight with the most, especially with regard to bringing in oral tradition and giving it the same standing religiously at the word of God, because that way you can, you're creating hoops for people to jump through.
00:12:49
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um Also, the fact that they didn't recognize Jesus himself when they spoke to him, you know, these people were on the payroll for teaching about God's And when God and flesh was in the room they went ballistic, hated him, and would try to stone him to death or push him off a cliff. So they're definitely the ones that Jesus had the most contention with.
00:13:11
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And the traditions that they put people through and the religion they put people through, they weaponized it to keep people from having a relationship with the Lord, from knowing that the Father wanted a relationship with them.
00:13:27
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um Because, to be honest, the vast majority of them that Jesus encountered believed that the saved should be a very exclusive group, and limited message to them, and filtered only through them.
00:13:40
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Even though a we have very little evidence to believe, biblically, that any of them actually knew living God themselves.
The Essenes: Beliefs and Practices
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All right, there is another group that the New Testament mentions called the Essenes. The Essenes were a sectarian group who were living in the desert and stood in God's law there. In 130 BC, they established a community center at Cumbrian.
00:14:12
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um They believed in strict ritual purity and that included periodic washings. But as opposed to what most of the Jews did on the Pharisees, the Essenes adopted a solar calendar.
00:14:31
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So that way they would celebrate the same feasts, festivals, celebrations that the Old Testament mentioned, but they didn't want to do it on the same day as the Pharisees and the majority of the people who followed the Pharisees because they saw them as heretical and wicked.
00:14:56
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This is where their theology gets particularly hairy. um They believed that God in his providence controls absolutely everything on earth.
00:15:07
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That means, he because when I say everything, I mean everything. That means he also forechose who would be saved. And four chose, not just four knew, but made the decision preordained, who would be damned?
00:15:26
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What happens when you have people that theology? Well, obviously, they always see themselves as the saved and anyone who disagrees with as the damned. And then they also had some bit of some strange theology about the end times. You know, sometimes I look at people's theology today and a bit whack.
00:15:43
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It's always been that way. They believed in the end times there would be three Messianic figures arising. at one would be the prophet, self-explanatory, someone who hears from God.
00:15:59
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They had a second Messianic figure in their lore called the priestly Messiah of Aaron, who i would be the final interpreter of the law of God, the Old Testament.
00:16:14
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And... This guy would even have preeminence or precedence over the great king, the king of kings.
00:16:26
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And then they had a messiah of Israel, so a royal figure, a king, and he was going to lead the people into battle against the Gentiles in the war to end all wars. So some of that I can understand with the God from Old Testament.
00:16:41
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Most of that is just whack. But again, this group were running around in Jesus' day teaching all this stuff.
Sadducees and the Sanhedrin
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Then you have the Sadducees. These were a religio-political group that held a great deal of power among the Jews in Jesus' day.
00:17:02
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Whereas the Pharisees were mostly middle-class businessmen, the Sadducees were an aristocratic class. And anything that happened in the temple in Jerusalem built by Herodity, not so great.
00:17:19
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Well, they were involved in it. They had a majority position in the Sanhedrin, which was the ruling council of the day.
00:17:29
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um and had 70 seats. And they were particularly well-versed in the first five books of the Bible and written by Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
00:17:48
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Again, their theology was not perfect. And again, these are the people who are like, you know running the shop. um they were so self-sufficient, and I'm okay for people taking personal responsibility. It's a great thing.
00:18:04
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But to the point where they didn't actually believe that God was involved in every day of your life. um He was there, but perhaps preoccupied or busy or very hands-off.
00:18:19
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What did that mean for prayer? Good question.
00:18:24
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We can also see and Mark 22, 23. Sorry, Matthew 22, 23.
00:18:30
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In Mark 12, 18, 27. eighteen may seven And Acts 23, 8. That they did not believe in the resurrection of the dead.
00:18:42
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When you're dead, you're dead. There is no coming back to life. Jesus wasn't going to come back. The ancient Jews were not going to come back at the end of the apocalypse.
00:18:56
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There was no rapture of the body of Christ. They were totally and utterly against any that happening. To be honest, they didn't even believe in the afterlife.
00:19:08
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a If you were wicked, there was no hell. If you were righteous, there was no paradise or, for us, heaven.
00:19:19
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a No penalty, no reward, your soul just ceased to exist. They believe that even the spirit realm, your soul, if you will, air was temporary.
00:19:33
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It was not an everlasting property. And with regards to angels and demons, they would not hear about it. They didn't believe in any of that either.
00:19:49
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And then you have the Sanhedrin, the ones who held an illegal court at nighttime and sentenced Jesus to death.
00:20:02
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This was the Supreme Court of ancient Israel, made up of 70 men and the high priest. They convened every day, unless it was Jewish festival or a Saturday, day which they call the Sabbath.
00:20:20
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um And they were the only ones who could try the king or extend the boundaries of the temple and Jerusalem. If anyone had a theological question or issue, it went to the Sanhedrin.
00:20:36
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But as you can see, the people who run the Sanhedrin all have somewhere between not very good and terrible, dare I say blasphemous, theology.
David and Jesus: Similar Life Challenges
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So in the context that David was born into, you had mass religious corruption. And the time Jesus comes along, things are no better.
00:21:06
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Another area where David's life is a prophetic narrative of Jesus' life, where David's life has a lot of similarities to Jesus' life,
00:21:19
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is regards to kingship.
00:21:28
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The man who was sitting on the throne when David came along was named Saul. people have very different ideas about Saul and how long his kingship endured.
00:21:44
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Some people think it lasts about two years, some say 42.
00:21:50
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Let's look at why they're confused. Acts 13, 21 definitively says Saul was on the throne for 40 years. That's four zero.
00:22:03
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First Samuel 13, one to two has quite an awkward phrase. It says that Saul was king for a year.
00:22:14
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And then it talks about things he did afterwards. So on one hand, he's king for a year. and the other hand, he's king for 40. What does that mean?
00:22:26
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It means he was only a righteous king in right standing with the Lord for the first year of his kingship.
00:22:38
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When he starts off, okay, he's got a couple character issues. You know, he... Follows other people's opinions far too seriously. He's very afraid of people, very nervous of people, a real fear issue.
00:22:53
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But at the same time, he does lead God's people into great military exploits. He defeats enemies in the most unlikely and unusual of ways. He faces terrifying threats and leads its people to victory and liberation.
00:23:17
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But if you ask anyone who's read the Bible about Saul, 99.9999999% of what they say will be bad. They'll say, oh, he threw spears at David's head.
00:23:30
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He hunted David like a dog. He made David public enemy number one for literally no reason whatsoever. He took David's wife and married her off to another man.
00:23:42
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but he was demonically oppressed, probably demonically possessed as well. And you have all that's going on for the 39 remaining years of his kingship. He's only in right standing reconciled to God for one of those 40 years.
Saul's Downfall and Pursuit of David
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Yeah. no no like i can do now When you follow first Samuel, the vast majority of that book, at least from when David is introduced, is David on the run from Seoul.
00:24:25
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And so many of the most famous Psalms that we have now also come from that context of David hiding in caves from Saul and his men, or David being gang stalked, or he's in a house and there are enemies outside hoping to catch him peeping at the window saying, inform that he's there and kill him.
00:24:50
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um or he's hiding in a stronghold and they're on the way. the vast majority of 1 Samuel and many of the Psalms come from that context.
00:25:01
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So even though he's going through a living hell, you see the favor of God in preserving him through that. And we have been gifted with some of the most beautiful Psalms.
00:25:14
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Prayers people literally pray every second of the day. because of those struggles, which is amazing. It shows how God works all things together for our good.
00:25:29
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And similarly, in Jesus' day, you got another wicked king on a throne situation. So for Saul, when Saul actually became the king,
00:25:40
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He was probably early thirty s and he was given a very legitimate anointing of kingship by God. God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint him and in total he was anointed three times.
00:25:55
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Just in case was any doubt. There was confirmation upon confirmation.
00:26:02
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But because of the 39 years of sin, that anointing was taken away from him. Now look, he could have bowed out gracefully. He could have said, alright, listen, I have been a very, very bad individual. I've disobeyed God. I've been wicked.
00:26:21
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I've made myself a God. And I'm going to bow out and let the new ruler take over. He could have. He should have. He didn't.
Herod's Reign During Jesus' Time
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In Jesus' day, you had another person sitting on the throne of Israel, who again... was the wrong person for the job. going share some names with you that we looked at that a month and a half ago, and you might go, aha, I vaguely remember this.
00:26:52
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You might remember we looked at a couple of twins. Jacob, whose other name was Israel, and Ethah, whose other name was Edom, which means red, because he had red hair.
00:27:07
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Their story can be followed in Genesis 25, 19 to 26.
00:27:16
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The oldest son was Esau, or Edom. He was a wild man. he was a bear grilled. He was a hunter. He liked the wilderness, the great outdoors.
00:27:27
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Jacob, the younger twin, he liked sitting around the tents. He was a bit of ah of a mammy's boy, as they say.
00:27:36
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But there was no unity between them. There was a faction. There was dissension.
00:27:47
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Edom or Esau could be prone to fits of rage and acts of stupidity. And Jacob was the kind of guy that if you played a game of poker with him you would probably lose your house, your property, your car, and your kids.
00:28:05
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So as it turned out, Esau cheated
00:28:12
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e Esau out of, sorry, Isaac cheated Esau out of a blessing, a blessing to inherit the nation of Israel.
00:28:26
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and And Jacob also disguised himself as easesel and cheated ah blind man.
00:28:37
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So the relationship between them was very, very messy, um very a non-fraternal, shall we say.
00:28:49
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And in the end, Esau said, I'm actually going kill him. i hate him so much, I'm going to take his life. And Jacob ran away, and later came back to the promised land.
00:29:04
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The two brothers eventually had a moment of reconciliation, but their descendants continued to harbor ah deep resentment and hatred through the cultural memory.
00:29:20
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When the Israelites were in Egypt for 400 years and then left, in Numbers 20, 20 to 21, twenty to twenty one The Edomites refused to allow the Israelites a peaceful pathway through their land.
00:29:36
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It would have been a shortcut to the promised land. The Edomites said no. The fear of God fell on them and Deuteronomy 2, were told that they changed
00:29:49
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their minds. In Deuteronomy the Lord said, look, I know relationship with the Edomites is messy, but they are your brothers. Let them live among you Don't hate them, give them gradual citizenship.
00:30:04
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But in Psalm 137, verse 7, when the Babylonian Empire invaded Jerusalem and burned the Temple of God around, the Edomites were outside the temple celebrating.
00:30:19
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They loathed the Israelites. They had deep-rooted disdain for them.
00:30:30
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Fast forward to near when BC changed to eighty ah when before Christ changed to Amodomini, and there are some magi, astrologers, magicians, and priests in Zoroastrianism, and they're out the east, and they're looking at the sky,
00:30:56
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And next thing, they saw a star, which they knew meant that a new king had been born. They followed that star, and they came, and Matthew 2, it's according great detail, to King Herod.
00:31:14
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Now, Herod has a few different names in history. He's called Herod the Great, Herod the the Edomite.
00:31:27
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So he was the king in Jerusalem, but he was not a Jew. He was the king in Jerusalem, but he was not an Israelite.
00:31:38
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He was an Edomite. He had used relationships with lot of the big names from, you know, your Roman history classes and secondary school.
00:31:49
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And Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
00:31:57
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All those kind of figures. Alexander, he knew all those people, he knew all those faces. And um he curried favour with them. Sometimes he give up property to one of them, so to Cleopatra, in order to get you know forgiveness if he'd just been on the wrong side of a political issue, whatever it was.
00:32:17
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But very, very politically savvy. And ultimately, he was awarded a puppet government in Jerusalem. the Roman Empire, took over Israel, but he was the on-the-ground base of the empire.
00:32:35
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He taxed the people, which they absolutely despised, but in the hope of making them love him, he rebuilt a temple for them. and So i think that won him some favours among the general populace, but again, he was still an enemy king, you're still you're still a foreign king ruling and reigning in their country.
00:33:03
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So in Matthew 2, when the wise men come along and, you know, they're talking to Herod, they have new king who been born, maybe it's logical to assume it was his son.
00:33:15
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And he's like, wait, why that what's happened? And they're like oh, the Messiah has been born, the chosen one, the anointed one, you know, the king of kings. And he's like, oh, okay, interesting, right.
00:33:28
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Yeah, when you find him, me know the good news. Yeah, sure. But actually his plan was to kill that messiah in his and infantilized form.
00:33:44
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And when he found out that the baby was to be born in Bethlehem, He sent in guards to kill every child, would be a boy, two years old and younger.
00:33:57
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So you've got Saul the Old Testament, who was anointed king, lost the anointing, but chose to keep the position.
00:34:09
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What did he Well, he then tried to kill David, who was anointed to be the next king. And then in Jesus' day, you've got a king who's not even an Israelite sitting on the throne running the shop.
00:34:24
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And when he hears that the real king, the king of kings, the lord of lords, the god of gods has been born, his reaction is the very same. Wipe him out.
00:34:38
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Erase him off the map. Kill the competition. So they've got another prophetic narrative, and another similarity between the two.
David's Family Rejection and Anointing
00:34:54
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Another thing that they both shared in common was they were both rejected kings. If you read from 1 Samuel 17 to 2 Samuel 19, rejection was one of the main buzzwords of David's life.
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um we're told in Psalms that his mother and father displaced him and he was sinful at birth. This has led some people to think that Jesse, his father, slept with a woman who was not his wife and David was born of wedlock, that David was born of adultery.
00:35:37
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And that might explain why his parents and his brothers had such animosity towards him. The rejection started at home, possibly even upon conception.
00:35:53
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In 1 Samuel 16, Samuel comes to Jesse's house to anoint one of his sons king. Jesse throws a big family barbecue and David's not on the guest list.
00:36:07
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think that tells you everything you need to know. um When Samuel finally says, so seven sons? You don't have eight? Really? And Jesse's like, oh, there there is the rumps.
00:36:20
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but That literally means there is the youngest. There Nebru, the least important. He calls David his least important child.
00:36:31
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Again, it tells you everything you need to know.
00:36:36
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In 1 Samuel 17, at the battlefield, um just before David faces Goliath, he has to face another giant, his brother, Eliab, who comes over to him and says, what are you doing here? I know what's in your heart. You're wicked. You're just here for the blood, the guts, and the gore. You're defiled. You just yadda, yadda, yadda.
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Character. assassination.
00:37:09
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He kills the giant and the king who should be saying, thank you, David, for killing this enemy that I was too afraid to fight, gets bitterly enraged.
00:37:21
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Samuel was a prophet. Every word he spoke came true. No word he prophesied fell to their own.
00:37:31
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So wherever he went, People took notes. People observed. People spoke about it. People were like, oh my goodness, you hear that great prophecy he came out with?
00:37:46
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Now, he had shared the prophecy about David being the king secret that was kept within the family. But people undoubtedly knew that he'd gone to Jesse's house for some reason.
00:37:59
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In fact, all Bethlehem was trembling in fear. you know, why was the prophet here? and Now if you there's a prophet in town, people just say, false prophets, false prophets, or whatever. But back then,
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you knew the big guns were in town, and you knew God was going to say something massive. So Saul asks, just after David kills Goliath, whose son is this?
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And David says, I'm David. I'm the son of Jesse, your servant in Bethlehem. Light bulb goes on and Saul is like, okay, I think I know what's happened here.
00:38:39
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I think this guy is going to replace me. I think he's going to try to do it sneakily and evilly. i have to take him out first. And then just routinely threw spears at his head.
00:38:52
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um He sent guards to watch, to monitor, to spy on David's house. And um in the hope of reporting on him ah and killing him, they actually burst into his bedroom at one point trying to kill him dead. Then you got the picture here, the with the long Pinocchio nose.
00:39:13
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That's David's wife, McAll. and In a moment of bravery, she helped David escape from the guards. And then a few seconds later, told her father, oh, my husband tried to murder me.
00:39:27
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That's why I let him go. he said he'd kill me if I didn't. And yeah, their relationship never really recovered from that moment.
00:39:38
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He spent years on the run um running through soggy fields, hiding in dark, dank, animal-filled caves, am hiding in riverbeds, running through forests, hiding in strongholds, away from the army that he would one day lead himself, and eventually even his son Absalom, who was beautiful man the country, would betray him.
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and steal his throne. And the vast majority of the country supported, hu now David, Absalom, the usurper.
00:40:19
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David was the rejected king. He was intimately familiar with what it felt like to be rejected and hated with the people he came to save.
00:40:33
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And Jesus, even more so,
00:40:39
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We're told that Jesus was a man of sorrows and familiar with pain. One of the best descriptions of the betrayal of Jesus and of crucifixion Isaiah 52, 13 53, 12. It gives terrifyingly accurate description.
00:40:55
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twelve is gives a terrifyingly accurate portrayal of everything he would endure on the cross and beyond, and it was written in hundreds of years before anyone was getting crucified by the Roman Empire. It didn't even exist when this prophecy was made.
00:41:17
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And Matthew twenty six at twenty seven Mark fourteen fifteen Luke twenty two twenty three and John all talk the crucifixion and the Passion of the Christ in great detail.
00:41:33
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But the reality Jesus was hate and despised and maltreated by people long before that. There's one moment where he reads a prophecy in Isaiah and people try to push him off a cliff.
00:41:47
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ah There number of times when people try to stone him to death.
00:41:53
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um In Jesus' day, people really have surnames, but it was common to call someone Bar, which meant a son of. So it would have been normal to call him Jesus, but Joseph, Jesus, the son of Joseph.
00:42:08
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But actually what you see is people saying, oh, it's Jesus, the son of Mary. What were they saying? They were saying, yeah his mother's a slush. His mother's a whore. His mother cheated on Joseph. And, you know, she was she was a bad teenager. You know, she was i she was a dirty woman.
00:42:29
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ah The Pharisees come to Jesus and they say, we're the legitimate sons of Abraham. Who's your daddy, Jesus? ah Again, poking fun at the controversy that surrounded Mary and Joseph's relationship.
00:42:48
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And the fact that their wedding date and the birth of Jesus did not have a minimum of nine months between them.
00:42:59
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um There are times when even see his brothers in the natural, Mary and Joseph's later sons, rejecting him, being embarrassed by him. Oh my goodness, shut him up.
00:43:16
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And they only actually got saved after the crucifixion, his resurrection and his ascension. He was in heaven before his natural brothers died.
00:43:27
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even said, oh my goodness, I think he actually God's son. You yeah have people twisting his intentions and his miracles, attributing them not to Holy Spirit, but to demons, pretending that he was a demon worshipper and counterfeit miracle worker.
00:43:51
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So yeah, both men had a legitimate kingly calling on their lives, And both of them were rejected and despised in their time by the people they came to save.
David vs. Goliath and Jesus' Temptations
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In 1 Samuel 17 and Matthew 4, we see something else very significant, another prophetic narrative, a prophetic picture. We see both men taking down the ultimate giant.
00:44:27
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In 1 Samuel 17, it's Goliath. And a literal giant, and you know, either the descendant of an angel copulating with a woman, a Nephilim.
00:44:45
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Or if he was a Geburim, descendant of the Tower of Babel giants, and that's when they were messing around with science and sorcery. a In the Talmud, this isn't biblical, it's extra biblical, so you don't have to accept this as biblical fact.
00:45:03
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But the Talmud, the ancient Jewish rabbis taught that Orpah, who we looked at last week, a became the mother of Goliath after she left Naomi, her bitterly depressed mother-in-law, and that she...
00:45:23
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got pregnant i in a process called polysperma, in which Goliath had 100 fathers that were human and male and one dog.
00:45:38
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How did that work? I don't want to imagine. Like I said, it's extra biblical, but that's what the ancient Jews taught.
00:45:47
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And Goliath would basically come into the valley and parade himself around for a month and a half, 40 days and blaspheming God, telling God's people that they were cowards, which they were, that he was going to kill them all, which he could have, that he was going to maybe let them live and enslave them, a very likely possibility.
00:46:18
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And one day, Jesus, jesus David, is told by his father to go bring his brothers some cheese sandwiches. So off he goes. And his father says, and bring back, you know, a token of war. You know, I want to see, you know, how amazing um our boys are doing. Yeah.
00:46:38
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Now, I do not know who Sol's propaganda minister was. But the fact that Jesse taught, one, a war was happening, and two, the Israelites were winning, that propaganda and minister deserves a pay rise.
00:46:54
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And when David arrived, yes, the army was there, but they were doing diddly squat. Absolutely nothing. All they were doing was standing around, shivering in fear and terror.
00:47:08
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And then Goliath comes out, blasphemes God, and insults God's people, and David just says, Are you having a laugh?
00:47:19
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We're going to leave that giant standing. He thinks he can say of that, but our God, He thinks he can threaten us. Not a chance. He runs onto the battlefield with nothing but the things he was used to.
00:47:36
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He was a shepherd boy, 18 years of age. So he had a staff in one hand. He had a slingshot in the other with five stones. One for a Goliath. One for each of Goliath's four brothers.
00:47:50
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Roll the stone. And it goes right into Goliath's head. Boom, he crashes to the ground. What happened next?
00:48:00
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a The Philistines turned tail and They fled for their lives.
00:48:14
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In Matthew 4, something similar happens. Matthew 4 is a chapter that most people are probably familiar with to some extent. It's called The Temptation of Jesus.
00:48:28
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Let's read it together. Matthew 4. Start with verse 1. Then Jesus was led by Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.
00:48:42
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After fasting 40 days and 40 nights, hmm, else was doing something not very good for forty days and forty nights. Goliath.
00:48:53
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He was hungry. I'm sure he was, by the understatement of the century. I'm sure in the Greek it's a far stronger adjective. The tempter, Satan, great name for him, came to him and said, If you are the son of God, tell these stones to become bread.
00:49:14
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That's interesting. Maybe Satan actually genuinely did not know if this guy was just really, really good, or if he actually was Jesus. Jesus answered, it is written, man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God.
00:49:34
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Basically, Jesus was not going to do something, even something good, even something sensible. If it came from the mouth of the devil.
00:49:44
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Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. So this is a temple that Herod built in Jerusalem. If you are the son of God, he said, throw yourself down.
00:49:59
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For it's written, and this is Psalm chapter 91, even the devil knows the Bible. He will command his angels concerning you. They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
00:50:15
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Jesus answered him, it is also written, do not put the Lord your God the test.
00:50:24
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So that's Jesus basically saying, yeah, I am the sin of God. I am the Lord your God. Again, the devil took him to a high mountain. A lot of people think this is Jericho.
00:50:36
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You'll remember a few weeks ago in our Joshua episode. We looked at the walls of Jericho crumbling down. lot of people think this is destination three.
00:50:47
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And showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. Now that does not say all the human kingdoms of the world. it says all the kingdoms.
00:50:58
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Human and demonic. If you haven't checked the news recently or looked outside your bedroom window,
00:51:09
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The nations are run by demons. There. I said it. There is no denying it. um Evil creatures are behind evil people who do evil things and empower more evil people do even more evil things.
00:51:27
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and The nations are puppets on strings that demons play with to steal, kill, and destroy.
00:51:39
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And Jesus has shown every single one of these, and absolutely everything they have to offer.
00:51:49
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All this I will give you, the devil said, if you will bow down and worship me. Jesus said to him, away from me, Satan, adversary, enemy.
00:52:01
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For it is written, worship the Lord your God and serve him only. So basically, i will not genuflect to a demon. will not bear my head to a demon. will not raise my hands to a demon. i will not worship a demon.
00:52:15
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Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
00:52:23
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In the same way that when David beheaded Goliath, all the Philistines turned tail and ran, so too, when Jesus defeats the devil here,
00:52:36
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by not giving in temptation, and the devil runs away. Look at every engagement that Jesus has with demons in the New Testament afterwards. They don't sound particularly scary.
00:52:49
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They're like, oh no, Jesus, it's not the time. Don't torture us. no You know, we'll go live in pigs. Just don't hurt us, please. ah Why? Because he'd already taken down the mob boss.
00:53:03
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He'd already taken down the top dog. So therefore, these smaller demons knew the authority that he carried. So when David killed Goliath, the other Philistines ran away.
00:53:17
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Jesus defeated the devil and the other demons scurry and they scream when he steps onto the scene. In fact, there's one guy with a spirit of legion, thousands upon thousands of demons in him. He literally comes running to Jesus um to try to make him go away.
00:53:36
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um Those demons were probably behind a storm the Sea of Galilee to try to drown Jesus. They failed, and then they came absolutely terrified, pulling their hands and knees before him in that man.
00:53:52
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So for your own life, whatever threats you're up against, whatever spiritual threats you're facing, if you behead it, if you take down the top dog, the big gun, the strong man,
00:54:05
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The smaller demons, the littler demons under them, will know the authority that you carry, and they will be intimidated when you step into the battlefield.
Significant Ages: David and Jesus
00:54:26
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Alright, here's another similarity between David and Jesus. The importance of the numbers 30 and 33.
00:54:39
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In 2 Samuel 5, 4, we're told that David was 30 years old when he began to reign.
00:54:49
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And the next verse, he ruled seven years in Hebron. It's actually seven and a half, but that's another story. And 33 years in Jerusalem.
00:55:02
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We also see 1333 in Jesus' life.
00:55:06
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And Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age, Luke 3, 23. In
00:55:14
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and Numbers 4, 3, 30 was the year in which a priest, or i a Levite in particular, became mature enough for priestly service.
00:55:27
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And Jesus is Melchizedek, the high priest of heaven, the high priest of Father God. And because of the different Passovers that we see Jesus attending in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, we know that Jesus served God on the earth for three and a half years, in which case it ended, you got crucified and resurrected and ascended when he was 33 or 33 half as well.
00:55:54
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So David had a kingly anointing in his life, and he stepped into the position when he was 30. So he was probably anointed when he was 18, probably soon before facing Goliath.
00:56:07
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He had way at 12 years. And in Jesus' case, he began his public ministry aged 30.
00:56:20
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David led in Hebron for seven years. and Jerusalem for 33, as the first true king of Israel. We'll just forget Saul.
00:56:32
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And Jesus' earthly ministry ended when it was 33.
The Davidic Covenant and Jesus
00:56:47
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Then we have the Davidic covenant. This is the biggest and most obvious connector between David and Jesus.
00:57:01
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In this case, through blood, through DNA. And it's found in 2 Samuel chapter 7. I'm going to read this in full because there's a lot of good stuff in here.
00:57:30
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All right. After the king was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him. then Temporarily, David always had enemies. He said to Nathan the prophet, this is David speaking.
00:57:46
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Here I am living in a palace of cedar while the ark of God, the chest in which God's presence resides, is in a tent. Nathan replied to the king, whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the Lord's with you.
00:58:04
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That night, the word Lord came to Nathan, saying, Go and tell my servant David. This is what the Lord says.
00:58:17
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Are you the one to build me house to dwell in? i have not dwelt in a house from the day i brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day. I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling.
00:58:32
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Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel? Why have you not made me house a cedar?
00:58:45
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It's a rhetorical question. The answer is no. Now then, tell my servant David, this is what the Lord Almighty says. I took you from the pasture and from following the flock to be ruler over my people Israel.
00:59:02
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I've been with you wherever you've gone and I've cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I'll make my name great, like the names of the greatest men of the earth. And I'll provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed.
00:59:22
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Wicked people will not depress them as before, as they did at the beginning, and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel.
00:59:33
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Those leaders are judges. I looked at them recently and we saw the routine invasions that they experienced. I'll also give you rest from all your enemies.
00:59:46
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The Lord declares to you that the Lord himself will establish a house for you. When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, so when you're dead, I'll raise up your offspring to succeed you.
00:59:59
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Now this sounds like David's biological son, but not necessarily. Who will come from your own body, your own DNA, your own seed, your own sperm, and I'll establish his kingdom.
01:00:15
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He's the one who will build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. Forever. Solomon did a decent job building a temple for the lords.
01:00:28
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He built a superior palace for himself. um And then he introduced demon worship. And his son basically saw the fracturing of the kingdom into two separate countries. So didn't happen with David's biological son.
01:00:47
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But God is saying here, Davidic covenant. Through your seed, and took generations, it did not happen immediately, a king will come will be the king forever. It's Jesus.
01:01:02
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I will be his father, and he will be my son. That makes sense. Father God is the father. God the son is the son. Look at this part.
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When he does wrong, wo Jesus never did anything wrong. I will punish him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men, but my love will never be taken away from him.
01:01:31
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Yadda yadda yadda. It's a really great chapter. Read in full yourselves.
01:01:36
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Jesus never did anything wrong. Who did? All of us. All of Israel in this context.
01:01:47
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On the cross, Jesus took every sin every human has ever committed in all of time and space on himself.
01:01:59
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And Father God punished Jesus in our place, where the Roman soldiers beat him with rods and flogged him with whips, tearing his back, sides, and insides to shreds.
01:02:18
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So this prophecy is basically God saying, David, from you, a king is going to come and he'll be the king forever. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, his throne, an everlasting throne.
01:02:33
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When he does wrong and he was perfect, he never did anything wrong. But because of our wrong, he was beaten with rods and fists and spat on.
01:02:46
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and had thorns lunged into his head, and had nails driven to his hands and feet, and was stripped butt-naked, and hung on a tree, and lashed with whips, and speared to the side until it punctured his heart.
01:03:07
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That is the king. His kingdom lasts for forever. Now for us it's true in a spiritual sense he is the king of the world of heaven, But after the end times, the apocalypse, a seven-year period.
01:03:22
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I don't know what that is.
David and Jonathan's Friendship
01:03:24
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Don't worry. It's going to be our next discipleship series. We will look at it in 2027. can't wait that long. Yes, you can. It's only half a year. It's already June.
01:03:34
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um After the apocalypse ends, spoiler alert, Jesus wins. And he is going to establish and a throne. and a kingdom and a temple in geographical Jerusalem again. And this time he will rule and reign in it.
01:03:52
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No evil King Herod sitting on a throne this time, oh no.
01:04:02
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All right, two more stories for you, which are prophetic narratives in David's life of Jesus.
01:04:13
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And one of them it's in 2 Samuel chapter 9. I know they are really gammy pictures of feet, so I'm going to take them down now. That's as a visual aid, so I remembered what to say.
01:04:28
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David's brother-in-law, Jonathan, was 28 years older than David was.
01:04:36
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David was about 18 when he killed Goliath, so... 18 plus 28, you do the maths. That's the age Jonathan was. But as soon as David killed Goliath, Jonathan just looked at him and knew God has such a special call on this guy's life.
01:04:58
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And they just became immediate BFFs. Best friends forever. But some forevers are longer than other forevers. And Jonathan would die in the climax of 1 Samuel. He was killed in war.
01:05:16
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and But their friendship was beautiful. It is the ultimate bromance of the Bible. But Jonathan had a son, Mephibosheth.
01:05:28
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Funny name, but, you know, is what it is.
01:05:33
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He was dropped as a baby. i know that's that's like an insult in most English-speaking countries. if someone's very stupid, were you dropped as a baby on your head? Mephibosheth actually was.
01:05:45
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And it left him crippled. He couldn't walk. He had to rely on crutches for other people. And in the ancient world, when a king died...
01:05:59
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It was normal for his surviving relatives to go hide in exile in case the newly crowned monarch would kill them all.
01:06:13
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But that was never something that David was going to to the son of Jonathan. Not at all. In 1 Samuel 20, they literally promised and pledged that they would raise their families together. um So...
01:06:28
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David got thinking one day, well, I wonder if Jonathan does have anyone still alive that I can bless, that I can look after. So he found out Mephibosheth was alive and he said, where?
01:06:40
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Oh my gosh, I can't believe it. Where is this guy? And again, Jonathan was 28 years David senior, so Mephibosheth was definitely an adult, probably.
01:06:56
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know Possibly with way of 20s, 30s, if not being older himself. um And he was told, he's in Lodabar. What does Lodabar mean?
01:07:07
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No pasture. No grass. Nowhere. I come from in County Loud. It's a small town in the smallest county in Ireland.
01:07:21
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and If people ask where I'm from, I say I'm from R.E.D. And they either say, where's that? Or, oh yeah, I've driven through there before. If you ask a local, what's the best thing about R.E.D.?
01:07:35
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They say, the road leading out of it.
01:07:41
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I live in the Lodabar of Ireland in 2026. as That's where Mephibosheth was hiding off while hiding out in the back end of nowhere. I see Jamie's laughing there. She lives in of the biggest town in the country.
01:08:01
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and But he's hiding in the back end of nowhere. Population zero and decreasing. And David says, bring him. Get him here.
01:08:13
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Um, so when and he walks and he hobbles, I suppose, because he's a cripple. And he bows before David. He's like, you know, my king, your servant.
01:08:26
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You know, I'm your servant. I'm just, I'm just a peasant. And David says, you know, your, your father was my best friend. In fact, David loved Jonathan. David had wives and concubines. He did.
01:08:39
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But he loved Jonathan more than he loved any of them. That's how close their friendship was. They had a very holy soul tie between them. And David says, in honor of the friendship that i shared with Jonathan, your father, and my brother-in-law, I'm adopting you.
01:08:59
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You're as good as mine now. You're as good as my son. And Mephibosheth moved Jerusalem. and would eat at the king's table every day.
01:09:11
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Breakfast, lunch, dinner, three square meals. He was regarded effectively as a prince of the realm. um How is that in any way relevant to our teaching on Jesus?
01:09:27
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We've had that in the same relationship that Jesus has with us. We are all spiritual cripples. Yes, you can blame the nurse who dropped you as a baby.
01:09:40
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And you know what? Maybe it was our fault. Maybe it was your parents' fault. Maybe people were mean at school. But at some point, we all made a decision to sin. To fall out of alignment with the word of God. To do the opposite of what we know God is telling us to do.
01:10:00
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To live in rebellion because we are in a spiritual war and you're With God or you're against him. You're his child or you're a rebel. And we all have a handicap.
01:10:14
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We've all veered to the right or to the left. and In real life, this is my right, this is my left. I tried it the opposite way so it looks right on your screen. Maybe that worked, I don't know if it did or not. I do know the difference.
01:10:28
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Right, left. Blah, blah, blah, and crippled.
01:10:34
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But there is king of the world of heaven, the Lord of heaven and earth, the creator of all that is, the God of all gods, the Elohim of all Elohim, the supernatural spirit being of all supernatural spirit beings. His name is Jesus Christ.
01:10:57
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And he says,
01:11:01
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sit at my table. Commune with me. Sit with me. Talk to me. Tell me about your day.
01:11:13
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And listen when I talk to you. I'm going share all kinds of things. Knowledge, wisdom, insight, understanding, revelation. I'm going to tell you who you really are. We're going to cut through the nonsense, cut through the crap.
01:11:32
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Evict from your head what should not be there. And I'm going to refine you. I'm going to call you a prince of the world of heaven. A princess of the world of heaven.
01:11:45
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I am your identification. i tell you who you are. Everyone else says, ah, you're a cripple. Ah, you're from R.D. You're from Lodabar. You're from nowhere.
01:11:58
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You came from nowhere, you've arrived nowhere, you're going nowhere. Well, that's not what I say. I say the old is gone, the new has come. I say you once were dead, now you're alive.
01:12:12
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You may have been a cripple in the past, but you're walking in the hallowed halls of my palace now.
01:12:21
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And the Psalm 23 tells us, that's the the Lord is my shepherd, Psalm 23.
01:12:28
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My cup overflows. If you go to visit a king or queen, a monarch, and they give you as much in your glass.
01:12:42
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Yeah, they're probably bored your company. The pilot wants you there. You're probably better off to bow, genuflect, walk backwards, and leave.
01:12:52
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They fill your glass half full at the top. Well, you know what? One would assume they're having a good time with you. But if your cup overflows...
01:13:06
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Gobble, gobble. Gobble, gobble. They want you to sit at that table ah again and again and again, and they never want you to leave. My cup overflows.
01:13:19
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Stay with me. Stay in intimacy. What is intimacy? Into me see. Show me all the parts of your heart, all the facets of your heart, all the nukes and crannies, all the windows, all the doors. Let's dig into this.
01:13:37
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That's what Jesus says. Let's get into the deepest, darkest crevices of your heart. Show me them. Expose them to me. And my light will just flow down like liquid love, like honey, the healing balm of Gilead. going heal all those areas.
01:13:54
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going to brighten them up, spruce them up, make it good as new, make it squeaky clean.
01:14:01
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King David's love and affection for a cripple is a prophetic picture of the Lord Jesus' of love for you on your worst day, on your worst season.
01:14:17
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In a season when people have discounted you and discredited you and character assassinated you and written you off the most, he remembers the covenants
David and Bathsheba: Moral Lessons
01:14:30
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he made. He remembers the promises he made. He remembers why he hung on that cross.
01:14:37
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And he will not be waylaid by any anyone else's opinion of you.
01:14:49
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And we'll look at one more story. This is my least favorite story in the entire Bible. And it's in 2 Samuel 11 to 12.
01:15:02
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And it's the story of David and Bathsheba. 2 Samuel 11 to 12.
01:15:13
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In this story, It's the time of year when kings go off to war. Why did they do it? Because with the time of year, it's just what they did. But David does not go out with his men. and Now, you may have heard the expression, the devil loves idle hands.
01:15:31
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Theologically, i don't think the devil likes anything, or i loves anything, rather. But, yes, he takes advantage of hands that are doing nothing. And David goes on to the rooftop.
01:15:45
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And there's something about being in a high up position where and Eve were on the mountain. Garden of Eden was on a mountaintop.
01:15:57
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And that was where they got tempted to eat the forbidden fruit. Which I know some people say is sex. You know, it was literally a forbidden fruit was an actual edible fruit with supernatural qualities.
01:16:16
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Then you have in Noah's day, you've got angels whose job was to protect humans. And they looked at women on the earth and they said, ooh la la.
01:16:32
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And they corporealized, they took on physical form and they slept with them and they created giants.
01:16:39
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In this story, you also have David in a high up place. Not Mount Eden, not heaven, but a rooftop. And he looks down on, well, there may have been more than one woman, but a woman named Bathsheba, who was bathing.
01:16:56
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It was the evening time. It's what women did. this she wasn' a teress She wasn't She wasn't going out of her way to catch the king's attention. It's just what they did.
01:17:07
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He had the chance to turn around and say, whoops, my mistake. He didn't. He called a messenger and said, hey, you see her? Yeah? Who is she?
01:17:19
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Bring to me.
01:17:22
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Turns out it was Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah. Uriah was one of David's mighty men. One of David's friends.
01:17:32
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And David slept with her, knowing that she was married to one of his friends, one of his soldiers, who actually was on the battlefield doing what you're supposed to do in a war, fighting.
01:17:48
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And she came to David few weeks later, maybe even 28 days, and said, whoopsie, I'm pregnant.
01:18:02
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And David said, it's fine, let's worry, it's barely an inconvenience. And he writes aloud to Joab, his military commander. And basically, if Joab is in the chapter, someone probably dies. That's a general rule of thumb when reading the Bible.
01:18:19
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And says, Joab, send Uriah back to me. So he sends Uriah home. And David tries to get Uriah drunk. Drunk as a skunk. And is like, you know, we're married. Your wife's at home alone. Off you go, you crazy kid.
01:18:41
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But Uriah doesn't do it. He sleeps in the servants' quarters on a mat. He just says, no, I mean, my boys are risking their lives on the front lines. I'm not going to go home and sex with my wife. That would be so dishonorable to my men. So the next night, you know, David finds out Uriah didn't go home.
01:19:01
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Because if Uriah sleeps with Bathsheba, well then, you know, she can pretend the baby's his, right? So David tried to the same thing. He's like, you know here's a present for your wife. don't know, a box of chocolates or roses or some nonsense.
01:19:15
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And again, the same thing happens. At this point, David is freaking out. He's like, what do I do? So Uriah goes back to the battlefield and in possibly be the most nefarious, wicked, evil scheme in the Bible.
01:19:30
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David says, Uriah, hang on a second. And writes a letter to Joab. Joab... put to Uriah on the front lines of battlefield, bring him close to the enemy wall, where he's going to get shot with and an arrow, and you all stand back.
01:19:47
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And he gives it to Uriah and says, bring this to Joab. And not knowing the content of the letter, Uriah literally hands his own death notice, death sentence, over to Joab.
01:20:01
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And Joab unquestioningly carries it out. a The whole thing, it just starts off bad and it gets worse and worse and worse. It's like every line of 2 Samuel 11 is just sin upon sin upon sin.
01:20:18
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And you see just how quickly it escalates and goes completely and utterly out of control.
01:20:29
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And 2 Samuel 12... twelve A prophet Nathan comes confronts David for his sin. ah Because obviously God watched the entire thing and was absolutely livid.
01:20:41
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Not afraid. Not not not surprised. He's God. But horrified. You can't surprise God, but he does have real moment feelings in the here and now for what he's witnessing on the earth.
01:20:58
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And he tells David that there will be a consequence for his sin, and that consequence will be the death of his unborn child.
01:21:11
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David repents, and he he apologizes, he prays profusely for the child. He refused to eat. He's on the floor of the temple, just crying and praying and receding.
01:21:25
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And eventually the messengers come to him and David says, my son is dead, isn't he? And they're like, yeah, he's dead. And David gets up, has a wash, changes clothes and eats. They're are really, really surprised. They're like, gosh, he's done a real 180.
01:21:45
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And he just says, my son is dead and gone. I'll go to him someday in paradise, but he's not coming back to me. So what's the point? And he marries Bathsheba. And then they actually do have a son, Solomon, who becomes the king after David.
01:22:01
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But the entire story is one that's tremendously sad, really disturbing, really dark and twisted in so many respects. But something that i always struggled with when reading it growing up was why did their son have to die?
01:22:20
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And thing is that the end of chapter 12,
01:22:24
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It's a time of year when the kings are off at war the kings are supposed to run the battlefield and David is where he's supposed to be. He's out there with them. And the Holy Spirit just lifts up the light bulb in my head and said, that's why.
01:22:42
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David's turned off not where he should have been. You had the death of the innocent son who had done nothing wrong. And it gets David back to where he should be. A 180 degree repentance. A complete and utter life transformation.
01:23:01
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And God has done the same for us. We've all been David. We've all been Bathsheba. Okay, maybe you haven't orchestrated the death of one of your friends, per se, after stealing his wife.
01:23:19
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But all have gone astray. Like sheep but all gone astray, we've all chosen to do things we know God hates. In fact, even i after being adopted into his family, we do things we know God hates.
01:23:32
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You say the wrong thing, you mistreat someone. Some days you wake up and you just choose violence, you're on the warpath, and you're just in the mood to ruin everybody's day. But Jesus, God's son, who had done nothing wrong, who is perfectly innocent,
01:23:50
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who was totally undeserving of all punishment, took the beating of the rods, took the floggings,
01:24:03
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was fed vinegar for every wicked word we ever said, was stabbed through the heart for every wicked impulse we ever had or desire or carnal feeling in our hearts.
01:24:18
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Had thorns put through his head for every wicked thoughts we ever had.
01:24:24
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Had nails hammered through his hands for every wicked thing we ever put our hands to. Had his feet kneeled to a cross for every wicked place we've ever chosen to go.
01:24:37
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Was beaten with blue bruises, blue bruises, purge us of all sin. all iniquity, the inner sin, all transgressions and trespasses, the sins we chose to do physically.
01:24:58
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In David and Bathsheba's story, an innocent son died because of the acts of the parents. But it was pivotal to David's repentance and getting him back to where he needed to be.
01:25:13
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In the fight. In the war. on Team God. And in our lives, the innocent Jesus was sacrificed to get us where we needed to be.
01:25:28
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Back in the spiritual war of good versus evil. And whether you want to fight it or not, it's raging. And we have a time, ah space allocated to us to show up,
01:25:41
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and show Christ, so his spirit can show up and show off in our time and to push back to the darkness. But it came through the death, the willing death of the one who comes from everlasting everlasting, but had never done any wrong.
01:26:03
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What took all of our wrong on himself became sin for us. and took the full punishment for all the totality of evil on himself, raised again in brand new life, and offers us that life today.
01:26:27
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um Amen, amen, and amen.
01:26:35
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All right, guys, so that is a that's an overview on some of the key features of David's life and to show was a prophetic narrative who the life of Jesus.
01:26:48
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and If you would like the Bible study version, the PDF but version, it's 10 euros. Just contact me on WhatsApp for my Revolut details, Ryan details, and we'll get that to you.
01:27:03
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This one is just shy of 30 pages. I go into far more information than I even shared today. stories I didn't even touch on today.
01:27:14
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And um I also look at Unreckoned Time. I looked at that a little bit a few weeks ago with Judges. i There's a historical timeline and then there's God's timeline. i do a bit of that in the PDF study.
01:27:30
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And I also look at and the ages of David, Jonathan, Saul, and David's son, Absalom. Again, some people read the Bible and they think, the Bible's full of contradictions. But I break it down very, very clearly. How it's not contradictory, but how it all fits together perfectly.
01:27:51
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So ah that's in the PDF version. But are there any comments, queries, questions, or concerns on anything that we've looked at over the last hour and a half?
01:28:04
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If so, the floor is yours.
01:28:17
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Yes, Brennan, just referring back to the Isaiah 52, Jesus was from familiar with suffering, a man of sorrow.
01:28:30
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He was suffering and do Do you think he ever suffered physically before the cross? You know, from from some sickness? we we We were told that sickness is a result of sin.
01:28:45
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and and Yep, great question, Kitty. We see no example of Jesus ever getting physically sick and at any time.
01:29:01
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um So yeah, it's for the rest of us. um Yeah, it can be attached to sin issues and trauma issues or fear issues.
01:29:13
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And then you have new your run-of-the-mill colds, flus, etc. Seasonal afflictions. and we yeah We see no biblical precedent of Jesus ever getting sick in that sense.
01:29:26
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and Now, in terms of, say, injured, injured Listen, than when he was a toddler and learning how to walk, you know, because as a baby and a toddler, he would have rationalized the baby and toddler. wasn't like a baby still with the mind of God. Like, you know, the wise men will come today.
01:29:44
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um Sure, there would have been, you know, a few trips and falls and stumbles, few bruised knees. That's fine. um But in terms of, like you know, would he ever get sick, per se? Yeah.
01:29:58
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biblically we have no reason to believe he did um it wouldn't surprise me if there had just been an overwhelming supernatural protection over him and that comes yeah and then just one other question um when the devil was tempting jesus um you know um Jesus said man and does not live by bread alone for every word that comes from the mouth of God. yep people People say that the devil doesn't know only what we say.
01:30:35
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it doesn't Is that true? Okay, so when you read the word of God, especially the parts with people, they are a picture of the spiritual realities.
01:30:49
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So let's say in David's case, Saul sent men to spy on David's house, to monitor David's house, um and then to report back to the king on David's comings and going, oh, he's there, or he said this, they're doing this.
01:31:05
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That's a picture. na it's a true story, so it's a real story for David. It was a physical experience. um You know, informants, conspirators. But you can also look at that as a spiritual reality.
01:31:19
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where it's what people would call familiar spirits, where the devil has demons in positions of power, and they have underlings, and they have underlings, so chain the command.
01:31:32
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And yeah, there will be demons, let's say, who would spy on you. um Even from, you know, when you're in the womb, from when you're born, they'd be assigned to take you out, to steal, kill, and destroy you by demons.
01:31:45
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Demons working for the demons. And then they would say, okay, so, you know, he, let's say you say, you know, a pornography pop-up appeared on your laptop.
01:31:55
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You didn't go looking for it. You didn't type in anything provocative. It just appeared. Sometimes these things happen. If demons are spying on you, might say, oh, you know, it took him 15 seconds before X-ing out of it.
01:32:11
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He has a lust problem. And then they can, you know, begin trying to put other lust influences in your life. mess You know, fiddler in with the algorithm, um put people in your path to speak in a very smutty kind of way, put people in your life who have very loose morals. So the enemy cannot read your mind.
01:32:33
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The devil, no demon's able to read your mind. Jesus can read your mind. No demon can. No angel can. But they have been watching humans for 6,000 years.
01:32:45
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So they're pretty darn good at understanding body language. They're very good at looking at people. And they can make some pretty educated guesses based on, you know, you're letting in through the eye gate, through the ear gate, what you're speaking, and the kind of people that you spend time with.
01:33:07
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If you spend time in the word of God, or if you don't, ones that are spying and you can make some very educated guesses and predictions based on that.
01:33:19
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And that's why so many people fall, even God's people fall into temptation. It's because the temptation tailor made to trip that particular person up, to take that person out, to lull that person into sin.
01:33:36
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But the amazing thing is Jesus did not give in the enemy for his 33 and a half years on the earth. And his grace is sufficient for us.
01:33:49
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His grace is powerful and changes us and makes us new and empowers us to resist temptation. So no demon can read your mind.
01:34:00
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But if you sometimes think, oh my goodness, how did they know that was in my head? Well, firstly, maybe they're the ones who spoke the idea into your head, because they do have mouths.
01:34:11
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Or secondly, perhaps they've been spying on you and they're putting certain temptations in your path, which they have tailored to what they believe your weakness is to be.
01:34:22
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Okay. Yeah. thanks and Thank you. Of course. Great questions. Okay.
01:34:37
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Lovely. Anybody else? we
01:34:44
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Hi, Brendan. It's Kajal here. How are you? I'm great. it's Always great. Yourself, Kajal? Yeah. a Good, thanks. The question is like, ah ah sorry, I forgot the name. and
01:35:00
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You know the son who who was handicapped? Yeah, I don't hold against you. do not remember his name. It's a very strange one. Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth, yeah. So why like why David did not keep him in his house with his family? Why like was he... like asked He asked him to come for like to have ah food ah every day, but he did not keep him part of his family, as Jonathan was you know his very best friend. Mm-hmm.
01:35:33
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Yep, sure thing. So when he says you will eat at my table every day, he doesn't mean like that's literally the only thing to do for you. That's like a small picture of the fullness of what's on offer.
01:35:53
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Let's say if you are sailor on a ship and the captain says all hands on deck. You know, he's not just telling you to stay underground, you know, put your hands on the deck.
01:36:07
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He's telling you he wants your whole body on deck, but get ready to work, get ready to serve, get ready to do your job. It's that kind of thing where he's giving a picture of the fullness of what's on offer, the fullness of what's available. So while he, what David said was you will eat at my table every day.
01:36:28
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What it actually means is you're living here. Because again, was a cripple, he did have crutches. it actually would have been cruel to expect him to travel all way back to Lodabar and back again, if it was even like geographically possible.
01:36:43
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So he would have lived in the palace from then on. And actually, what David did, he asked a man called Ziba, who used to work for Sol, if Jonathan had any remaining relatives.
01:37:00
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Ziba said, oh yeah, there is a Mephibosheth, the cripple, who lives in Lodabar. Now that's how Ziba, Sol's ex-employee, referred to Mephibosheth.
01:37:14
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Never said, oh, he was like, you know, of the princes of the realm. Ziba didn't say, oh it's Mephibosheth, he's got a great personality. Didn't say, Mephibosheth, he's a really wonderful stand-up citizen.
01:37:30
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Mephibosheth's a cripple. That was what Ziba said. a So what David did was he actually got Ziba, Sol's ex-employee, and his sons and his staff to go and run Mephibosheth's estate because Mephibosheth had some property.
01:37:55
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and David gave all of Sol's land and territory to Mephibosheth. um So we'll like set him up to win. Like made him actually exorbitantly rich in the space of one conversation.
01:38:08
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um But he said Mephibosheth you're going to stay here and live with me. going to give you all this. But I don't want it falling into disrepair. So Ziba the guy just called you a cripple.
01:38:22
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He and his family and their staff I'm going to make sure your estate flourishes. And Ziba was livid.
01:38:34
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Furious about this. Now in the moment he's like, thank you my king, I'd love to serve. He was horrified had the idea of this.
01:38:45
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That when David's son Absalom stole David's throne, um... Ziba actually followed David into the wilderness.
01:38:57
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And David's like, oh my goodness, Ziba, you know, where's Mephibosheth? I can't find him, where is he And Ziba lied and said, oh, Mephibosheth has joined the rebellion. He's joined the insurrection. joined the usurper. Mephibosheth is like, you know, ha ha, David deserves this because he killed my grandfather. Factually untrue. And now the house of Saul will get revenge on David.
01:39:24
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Crap. You have no reason biblically to assume this was Mephibosheth's personality at all. But this is Ziba then trying to sow dissension between them.
01:39:35
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And then David, in a moment of of weakness, to be honest, says, well then you know what? All his property now belongs to you.
01:39:46
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I'm taking off and giving it to you. And Ziba's like, mwahaha. And then when the insurrection ends... David meets Mephibosheth face to face and says, seriously?
01:40:00
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That was your level of loyalty? None? After everything I did for you? And Mephibosheth says, David, look at my feet.
01:40:14
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I'm a cripple. How was I supposed to run away? But I never betrayed you. That's bullcrap. They're lies. That's not true. And think at that point David began to suspect, oh, maybe I was caught. Maybe Mephibosheth is innocent. a So, no, he showed incredible favour to Mephibosheth on account of his relationship with Jonathan.
01:40:41
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But um the man who actually brought Mephibosheth back into David's life um was very...
01:40:53
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animus towards Mephibosheth because he basically had to be the servant of the cripple and he thought that job was beneath him whereas he actually wanted everything that Mephibosheth was given for himself so yeah especially it's a second Samuel it's a great book But it gets very political.
01:41:20
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You have a lot of names, a lot of jobs, a lot of backstabbing, a lot of political power plays. And it's one of those books where it's easy to get bogged down on the details. You kind of have to go through it slowly with a fine comb to know who everyone is, or remind yourself who everyone is, what stakes do they have, it and what skin do they have in the game,
01:41:45
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water their power plays from one chapter to another. But no, Mephibosheth, good guy, very well looked after by David, but Ziba, the guy who actually brought them together, was not one but happy. In fact, he was probably delighted that Mephibosheth was hidden in Lodavar, back in the nowhere.
01:42:08
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And it... made him furious at the idea of Mephibosheth, a cripple, um sitting at the king's table and literally getting everything that his grandfather had owned.
01:42:24
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Thank you, Brendan. You're welcome, you're welcome.
Teaching David's Life: Absalom Chapters
01:42:27
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I'm not actually, like, you know, an expert on Mephibosheth, just on Sunday, the Joshua Generation Church, I've been teaching David's life story since June, and we're literally looking at Absalom chapters right now. so So I taught a bit of this on Sunday teach the rest of it on Sunday to come. That's why it's so fresh in my mind.
01:42:50
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Thank you so much. i appreciate it You're welcome.
01:42:58
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All right, guys. Any more questions on anything we've looked at today?
01:43:08
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Well, just and Sunday, Brendan, you're just starting on the emotional healing, isn't it? and So this coming Sunday, we will be finishing the chapters on Absalom's Rebellion. And then after that, yes, we're going spend a few Sundays looking at the soul.
01:43:32
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and spirit realm, what the soul is, what influences the soul, hey you damage and break a soul, hey you put the soul back together again. um so yeah, Absalom this weekend, and then we'll do a week or two the soul.
01:43:49
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Kitty. but like year It's an exceptionally important one. And we're also going look at how the soul can impact physical health as well. Because lot of physical evictions people go through, a lot of recurring sicknesses people go through are related to the soul. We're all called the strongholds as well. yeah a Different belief systems that people collaborate with the devil in building in their own heads and hearts.
01:44:29
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and Perhaps they do it unintentionally, but they do it nonetheless. And it just leaves them being so, so wounded. And we're going to hear you break those.
01:44:41
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love you, dear. You're teaching good night. Thanks to lovely message, chatbugs, Jamie. You have a good night now. Sleep well.
01:44:49
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a more Yeah, I believe just, the Lord said to me that, um,
01:44:58
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You know, why my problem with with with the anxiety and head. goodby fair god saying I saying I don't value his suffering, what he did.
01:45:11
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I don't value myself. You know, I don't i don't have good self-esteem because of the sickness. You know, I'm letting it identify me.
01:45:23
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And he's saying I don't value. i don't value. what he did. If I did, i maybe I would value myself.
01:45:33
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You know, it works both ways. yeah but I don't know how to get that, you know? Sure, yeah. I sent you a voice note earlier this evening, maybe you haven't listened to yet. So basically, in my life,
01:45:54
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I grew up having a very good, very well-rounded knowledge of the Bible. Compared to... I don't mean this arrogantly, but if it's the truth, of the truth.
01:46:10
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Compared to literally everyone else I know. a My all-round knowledge of the Bible was superb, actually. i did...
01:46:21
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Bible studies made by a group that I will very happily shout out called the Postal Bible Studies. i think that was their name. um They're made by a Baptist church here in Ireland. And I have to say, they're just phenomenal studies.
01:46:37
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Your children as young as four and five could do them. um Your kids could do them, you know, and primary school, secondary school. And of course they got a bit more challenging, a bit harder and longer as it went on But they were excellent introductions to the word of God. They got you used to flicking forward and backwards through the pages your Bible, um knowing who was who, the main storylines, etc.
01:47:09
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And of course the cross you know would come into it all the time. But I would say i always had people in my world telling me how worthless I was. How without value, and the world would be better off if I wasn't in it.
01:47:28
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How I should just kill myself or the wish that I died and yada yada
Emotional Healing and Belief in God's Love
01:47:32
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yada. Whole life long. It was just part of the vernacular surrounding me. So I had a head knowledge.
01:47:43
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that Jesus died for all my sins. But I had an equal head knowledge he died for the sins of everyone in the world. I the had the head knowledge that Jesus loved me, but it was the same love he had for everybody else.
01:48:00
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I had the head knowledge that Jesus wanted me in heaven, but you know, me and everybody else. So i suppose my understanding of the love of God in an experiential level was very cold.
01:48:20
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It was real. There was some element of desire to it or passion on his end. um But it was just... There were just words.
01:48:30
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That's the reality of it. Because it couldn't penetrate the...
01:48:42
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The walls. Boundaries are a good thing. I'm going use walls as a negative one. Couldn't penetrate the walls that people had built around me.
01:48:55
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That demons had built around me. That I have collaborated in that construction by allowing them to say it. You don't have to always be where your enemies are.
01:49:09
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There is a degree to which you can actually put some severance or space between yourselves. And then there are people you can't run away from as easily. um
01:49:20
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But i e put more faith in the words of the enemy. Than the words of God. When it came to the love of God for me as an individual. i knew his love was existed. And it was sure. and it was total. It was fact.
01:49:36
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I didn't realize it was... Pulsating with love and desire, with intimacy, with fervent. Squeeze your hand till your hand turns red and hurts.
01:49:51
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Love. Heart, pulse pounding, adrenaline filled love. I didn't know God had those kinds of feelings. And it was way later in my life should have When I actually realized, oh wow, that's the love he has for everyone.
01:50:12
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That's the love he has for me. And I heard someone teach him once with a pastor and he said, if you had a son or daughter and your child told you either you don't love me or what do I have to do to make you love me How would that make the parent feel?
01:50:38
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It would break their heart.
01:50:41
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And then the pastor then said, why do you do the same to God? When the word of God says, I love you so much that I sacrifice Jesus to adopt you.
01:50:55
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You are actually calling God a liar to his face if you choose not to believe it. And Deuteronomy 32, 47 says,
01:51:07
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These are not just idle words. These words are your life. And with them, you will cross the River Jordan. You'll cross into your destiny. So effectively, you're not going to cross into your destiny if these words are not your life.
01:51:22
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And they're not your life if you think it's a pack of lions. um So it's about making a decision with an act of your will to believe God, to get on his eye, to see things from his perspective, to see things from his opinion,
01:51:46
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a regardless of how you feel, regardless of the discourses that have been surrounding you, regardless of the words people spoke over you or did not speak over you, regardless of how people treated you,
01:52:05
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Or the beautiful ways that they never treated you.
01:52:10
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Regardless of, especially words like, you know, mother or father, parental words, the maternal words, the familial words, because God is revealed as father, as son, as family.
01:52:21
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So especially when those words are triggering for you, um it makes sense why when you hear God using them or Jesus using them, and...
01:52:33
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you'd have a certain disassociation. But again, you have to reach a point where you just make your theology as simple as God is the truth and a truth teller, or he's a liar and he's just been pulling your leg all these years.
01:52:50
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That's the one I had to get to. And I made a decision Jesus the way, the truth, and the life. There are no lies in him. so I have to get over any opinion that I have that he does not share just take him at his word.
01:53:06
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And it's about being that vigilant. It's about being that direct. It's about being that offensive. Because some people, when that's their opinion, are not going to like it.
01:53:21
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There'd be Christians who wouldn't like it. a but you're not responsible for their decision, you are 100% responsible, as a grown woman, or a grown man in my case, for your heart.
01:53:36
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Proverbs 4, 23. Above all things. Not some things, not many things, not the things you like, not the things you have to do before something goes down.
01:53:46
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Above all things. Guard your heart. Not guard your next door neighbor's heart, Not guard the heart of the person who's most offended at you. Not guard the heart of the person who you want to love you so you can win them for Jesus.
01:54:03
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Of all things, guard your own heart. The heart God has given you. For from it flow the issues of life. And if you want the right kind of issues flowing through you and the wrong kind of things flowing out of you flushed away, going away with once and for all, it starts with truth.
01:54:26
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It starts with the word of God. It starts with accepting Jesus at his word, taking him at his word, and any thought, opinion, argument, discourse, interjection, accusation and that people send your way, you've been surrounded by, are right up and close and personal to your face, on the periphery of the day,
01:54:56
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I have to come second by an impassibly wide margin, the word of God. And I see your message there in the chat box too, casual.
01:55:08
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and So this is for for you and for everyone still listening and under the sound of my voice. and Yeah, the point I reached is you say, don not to tell the truth or he tells lies.
01:55:21
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And if you make it that simple, And you leave no wait room for ifs and buts and what ifs and what not. If you make it that simple.
01:55:34
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Are you going to call the god goal of reality? A liar to his face? You're not. It's that plain and simple. And then you just have to choose to agree with them.
01:55:46
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When it makes sense, when it doesn't. When you like what he says, when you don't. When it seems sensible, when it seems senseless. When it tickles your fancy, when you don't want to be tickled.
01:56:01
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When experientially you're like, yeah, yeah, I can see this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when you just think, I don't get it.
01:56:12
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To make it a decision with an act of your will to choose believe in and take my word. It is a game changer. It's a lifesaver.
Restoration and Strongholds in Faith
01:56:25
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and i have And I can say that as someone who's had to get to that point. and But yeah, it changed everything for the better.
01:56:39
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So it's just all about the world. It's not about going back and re-feeling. like ah Like, I feel I'm numb emotionally.
01:56:51
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Mm-hmm.
01:56:54
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is it is it Is it just about focusing on Jesus, focusing on the word? And and
01:57:06
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that brings life, that brings... That is essential for tearing down the stronghold. Because a stronghold is a prison, fortress, or a castle.
01:57:24
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where basically demons throw bricks at you and people throw the same brick and demons throw more bricks and people throw more bricks and when you choose to agree with their report over the word of God, that is you adding the and the concrete that holds all the slabs in place.
01:57:51
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That's how it's a co-laboring project. e cetera It's you unintentionally collaborating with the enemy towards your own destruction.
01:58:05
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So when you choose to fill your life with the word, that is you sending in a wrecking ball and knocking those bricks down.
01:58:18
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And sometimes it happens instantly. Sometimes it can take weeks, months, sometimes it takes years.
01:58:30
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It is what it is. Some people just have one stronghold, some people have many. Some people have an entire empire of strongholds in their soul. And you just have a patient with yourself to go through the process of tearing them down to signs, grounding them to dust, saying, mighty mountain, you are but rubble.
01:58:53
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before Kitty, the daughter of Mstigod, and smiting them and smashing them. And as you do that, and all the demons who've been hiding in them, they're houses for demons, and that's what causes them to vacate. That's when when you're able to get them.
01:59:13
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but Because otherwise, they're not going to shift in a house that the human has co-built. They'll say, I've got a legal right to be here. don't have to be evicted.
01:59:25
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But when you make a decision to wash yourself in the word to the point where you know that you know that you know that you know the word of God is true and perfect and flawless and everything it says about you is authentic and you believe it.
01:59:41
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a That's in those walls. going down And that's in those suckers. Have to come up in it. Um... So is there a time?
01:59:52
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Are there times to go back over those moments in your past and confront them? Yeah. Sam says, search my heart to know me, God, know all my endless thoughts. There are times to go on that journey and and to invite the healing light and the restoring light of Jesus both into those places.
02:00:13
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But there's no point in doing a soul excavation. if you don't already have the medicine. And the medicine is the word.
02:00:25
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Some people like to get the spiritual scopes put down their throat and put up the other end. um And then they're like, you know, oh, I was wounded. Oh, trauma. my Oh, yada, yada, yada.
02:00:40
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And they actually settle for that. They're like, oh, well, I can see all the times someone hurt me.
02:00:46
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and It does nothing. You actually have to be willing to go there and to confront all those issues with the word and with faith in order for the strongholds there to come down.
02:00:59
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So, yeah. In these days, a lot of people, even in secular circles, love the the self-reflection. and But they don't actually want to do anything about it.
02:01:13
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That's how they end up in therapy, you know, for 15 years and never achieve anything. They just spend their time walking around the wall of Jericho rather than actually ever having the faith that it's going to come on down.
02:01:26
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um But like i said, in a couple weeks time on Sundays, we'll be looking at the soul and strongholds and how demons get in and the soul gets broken and restored. So i we'll go through all this in more detail then. We'll give it the time and space it needs to breathe.
02:01:44
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And for anyone watching live or on YouTube, who's not in the Joshua Generation Church, ah those videos we put on YouTube at the time anyway.
02:01:59
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Oh, that's great. Thanks very much, Brendan. You're so welcome. Thank you. Alright guys, well I know the evening is moving on and some of you have an early start in the morning.
02:02:10
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So want to thank you all for joining this evening. Thanks
Blessings and Prayers for Attendees
02:02:14
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for your questions. Thanks for your attention. Thanks for interaction. Thanks for trusting me to bring the word of God to you tonight. I pray the hand of God over each and every one of your lives.
02:02:27
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Making all your wishes and dreams come true. healing, where soul healing is needed, restoration, where restoration is needed, and that you will see the goodness of God in your lives, that your soul will prosper, your physical health will prosper, and everything in the external will prosper as well.
02:02:51
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In Jesus' name. and then Amen. Amen. Amen. Always remember, guys, G-I-A-G, G-I-A-G, God is absolutely good. Amen.
02:03:05
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yeah nice god i bless you. i Good and night, Steve. Good night, everybody. Sleep well.