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1 SAMUEL 19 The Worst Wife in the Bible?!
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David's fought hard for a decade to keep his country safe... but the real threat is closer to home!!!
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Introduction by Brendan Thomas Marrett
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Hey there friends, how's it going? Great to see you today. I'm Brendan Thomas Marrett. Thank you so much for clicking on this video, for checking it out. If you are new here, i hope that you enjoy it. If you are an old familiar, you are check in regularly, it's great that you are back.
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Saul's Frustration with David
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Okay, so let's crack open the word of God. and see what God has for us today.
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we're going to look at 1 Samuel 19, This happened about 1014 at which point David is approximately 26 old.
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at which point david is approximately twenty six years old Alright, so Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. He got fed up, sick and tired of the Philistines failing to kill David themselves. So he just said, alright, let's just take it closer to home. If you can't get someone else to do the work correctly, do it yourself.
Jonathan's Loyalty to David
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But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David. They were soul brothers. He loved David with all of his heart. And therefore he warned him. My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you.
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Be on your guard tomorrow morning. Go into hiding and stay there. I'll go out and start with my father in the field where you are. I'll speak to him about you and tell him.
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I won't. I'll tell you find out from him. so Jonathan's being very sneaky right now. He's going to do some subterfuge. He's going to spy on his father, learn as much as he can, the report back to his BFF, his best friend forever, David.
Saul's Temporary Change of Heart
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Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul, his father, and said to him, Let not the king do wrong to his servant David. He hasn't wronged And what he has done has benefited you greatly.
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All he's done is make your life easier.
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He took his life in his hands when he killed the Philistine. He almost died in that fight against Goliath. But he did it for you. The Lord won a great victory for all Israel.
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The whole country benefited from this. And you saw it and were glad. When you sat there watching it, you were a fist pumping. Yeah, on David. Kill the life ahead of me. What's changed?
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Why have you changed your tune? Hello.
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I took off my glasses and I've lost my place. I've ended again.
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why you would do and to put them on he Why would you do wrong it' to an innocent man like David by killing him? For no reason.
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This makes literally no sense.
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Saul listened to Jonathan and took a note. As surely as the Lord lives, David will not be put to death.
David's Escape and Reflection on Psalm 11
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Easily convinced, apparently. But 1 Samuel is a long boog, not a short boog, so that does not stick.
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So Jonathan called David and told him the whole conversation. He brought him to Saul, and David was with Saul as before. It's a big thing to forgive when someone literally wants you dead and starts telling people to assassinate you.
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Once more, war broke out, and David went out and fought the Philistines. He struck them with such force that they fled before him. He's a mighty man of gold.
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But an evil spirit from the Lord. Again, this is a demon. It's an angel in rebellion. But Saul is also in rebellion. so the Lord will soon send agents of the enemy to afflict other agents of the enemy.
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Um... Came on Saul as he was sitting in his house. Hmm. Again, with his spear in his hand. So this guy tens to just sit around holding a spear when conveniently, David's playing the liar.
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Whenever David's worshipping, this guy just seems to be sitting there with a spear in his head. One might be thinking, hmm, despite what he said, despite what he promised, despite what he swore, did he still have murderous intentions in his heart?
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No way.
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While David was playing the liar, Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. This is getting tiring, seriously. But David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall.
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And that night, David made good his escape. I should hope so. Psalm 11 might just give us an indication as to what David was thinking at this moment in time.
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In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me, flee like a bird to your mountain. For look, the wicked bend their bows.
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They set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the uprights in heart. When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? So basically David's being told, listen, you have enemies, bub.
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And you can't fight them all. This is a fight you cannot win. You're screwed. There is nothing you can do. The enemies are hiding in the shadows.
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Okay, Saul was probably sitting on his bed or his throne. He was pretty easy to see. But were his attendants convinced that David was a threat and needed killing? What about the butler and the barbers and the people in the street corners?
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They're trying to make him paranoid.
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But David, He knows God's in his side. He will not be waylaid by this.
God's Justice and Righteousness
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Verse 4. The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord is on his heavenly throne. He observes everyone on earth. Nothing is hidden from his sight. No one is hidden from his sight.
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He examines them. His eyes examine them His eyes watch them. He perceives everything.
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Christmas time. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows when you've been bad or a good, so for goodness sake, or be good, however that song goes.
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yeah It's not about Santa Claus. It's about God. It's about Jesus.
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Verse five, the Lord examines the righteous. He's not just looking at the wicked, look the righteous as well. But the wicked, those who love violence, He hates with a passion in his soul.
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Some people might say, but God loves everybody. Of course he does. That's why he sent Jesus to the cross. But two things can be true at once.
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You can have unconditional love for everybody, but still, because you love justice and goodness, uprightness and righteousness, absolutely abhor evil,
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And you want the wicked to get their comeuppance, to get their just desserts. In fact, you should. If you don't, that's a problem.
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On the wicked, this is verse 6, he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur. Hello. That's called hell, people. A scorching wind will be their lives.
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For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice, and the upright will see his face. God will move on behalf of the do-gooders, of those who do his will.
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All right, 1 Samuel 19, 11. Saul sent men to David's house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, warned him.
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If you don't run for your life tonight, tomorrow, you'll be killed.
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Now let's see what David prayed and sang on to the Lord. Psalm 59. For the director of music, to the tune of Do Not Destroy, of David and Mictum, when Saul had sent men to watch David's house in order to kill him.
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Deliver me from my enemies, O God. Be my fortress against those who are attacking me. Deliver me from evildoers and save me from those who are after my blood.
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See how they lie in wait for me. They are predators. They're like animals. Fierce men conspire against me. Not idiots, you know, with chicken legs. We're talking brusque, burly, born killers. For no offense or sin of mine, Lord, I've not wronged these people at all.
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I've literally done nothing wrong with I've never even looked at them funnily. And they...
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They get this euphoric, blissful sensation. Butterflies. Butterflies. when they think of the metallic taste and scent of my blood.
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I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Arise to help me. Look on my plight. Things are bad, God, are you watching? Do you know what's happening down here? Hello, i need to see you move.
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You, Lord God Almighty, you who are the God of Israel, Rouse yourself to punish all the nations. Show no mercy to wicked traitors.
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They return an evening, snarling like dogs, her and prowl about the city.
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See what they spew from their mouths. The words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think, you can hear us.
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Everything we're doing is a secret no one knows.
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But you laugh at them, Lord. You scuff at all those nations. You are my strength. I watch for you.
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You, God, are my fortress.
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My God on whom I can rely, God will go before me and will let me go gloat over those who slander me. He will rescue me and I'm gonna have the last laugh.
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But don't kill them, Lord, our shield, or my people will forget. In your might uproot them and bring them down. Or the sins of their mouths for the words of their lips. Let them be caught in their pride. Isn't this interesting? Look at how words are described. They're being described as swords. And now they're being described almost as a net or a trap.
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You know, in the spirit realm, words last forever. Everything spoken lasts forever. Jesus would say that later on.
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Everything in the spirit realm is thing. They have substance. A sense of physicality or meta-physicality.
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That's why when someone speaks something wicked to you, it cuts deep. Like a sword. Like in verse 7.
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Or when someone is up to no good and you say, okay, i want to trap them in their words. What are you saying? You're saying verse 12. You want them to get caught to a net.
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For the curses and lies they utter, consume them in your wrath, consume them till they are no more. Not quite sure what happened to Don't Kill Them. He has a lot of feelings going on, all right?
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He's honest.
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Then it will be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob, nation of Israel. They return at evening, snarling like dogs, and prowl about the city.
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They wander about for food. wonder if David's on the menu. And howl if not satisfied. But I will sing of your strength.
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In the morning I will sing of your love. You know, Mikhail seems to think he'll be dead by morning if he doesn't get a move on. But David's saying, I'm going to see tomorrow.
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I'm going sing of God's amazing love, his unconditional love, his phenomenal love, supportive love, his fatherly love. He's on my side and he loves the upright.
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What he spoke over of my life will come to pass. For you are my fortress. my refuge in times of trouble.
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You are my strength. I sing praise to you. You, God, are my fortress, my God, on whom I can rely.
Michal's Deception and David's Escape
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Now back to 1 Samuel 19. We're going to read verses 12 to 24 together.
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So Michal let David down through a window, And he fled and escaped.
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And just if you're beginning to like her, you're about to dislike her very, very greatly, because this is pretty much where their marriage ends.
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Then Mikkel took a teraphim. A teraphim is a life-sized, cultic household idol used for protection, divination, or illegitimate worship.
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Where did she get one of those? Good question.
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Was Saul so far gone that he'd filled the country with demonic idols? Maybe. Were the people, supposedly the people of God, the Israelites, were the people so invested in the demonic and wickedness that she just came across one easily?
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Was she practitioner of dark magic? You would imagine that David would have laid down the law and said, Wife, not under this roof. Maybe she had taken them from Sol's house and kept them in the back of her wardrobe among her perfumes. We don't know.
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But she ended up with one of these anyway.
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And she laid this teraphim idol on the bed, covering it with the garments and putting some goat's hair at the head.
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When Sol sent them in to capture David, Mikal said, Oh, he's sick. He's in bed. He's fast asleep. Sorry. Come kill him tomorrow. but Bye bye.
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Then Saul sent the men back. ah but So basically she's like, sorry, he's sick, and everyone just left. David's would-be killers just
The Overpowering Spirit of God on Saul's Men
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went back to the king. They're like, sorry, well'll we'll kill him when he feels better. It's like in Kill Bill, you know, when Bill wouldn't kill the bride because she was, like, in a coma.
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And he's like, you know, we we we don't do this. yeah Nah, nah, she deserves to die a better death, right?
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Only, that's not Saul's opinion. am And then Saul says, you know, bring him up to me in his bed that I may kill him.
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So, go and just bring him to me and then I'll do the job. He's sick. I'll win. I have the advantage. of have the upper hand. I shouldn't lose.
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But when the men entered David's bedroom, Okay, they're not standing at the door anymore, they've pushed their way in. There was a Terraphim, a life-sized cultic household idol in the bed, and at the head was some goat's hair.
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I just imagine Mikal like, oh my goodness, how did that happen? bad This is when going start disliking her. Sol said to Mikal, why did you deceive me like this and send my enemy away that he escaped?
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And look at what this traitorous snake responds. He said to me, let me get away. Why should I kill you? She literally accuses her husband of threatening to murder her.
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I mean, i understand the woman's afraid. But was Saul really going do something too bad to his daughter? Probably not. And she's like, oh, well, you know, he's he's wicked.
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He is evil. He's everything you said, daddy. And he doesn't just want you dead. And he does not just want to take Jonathan's place as the future king of the realm.
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He'll kill us all if he has a chance.
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So this just, you know, what it solidified Saul's hatred and rage towards him. When David had fled and made his escape, he went to Samuel, the prophet at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him.
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Oh my goodness, I just imagine Samuel just shaking and his head and tutting and putting his head in his hands thinking, how far gone is this idiot? Can he not go any lower?
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How could start off so good just to end up here? Then he and Samuel went to Nihot and stayed there.
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Word came to Saul, David is a Mayoth of Ramah. So he sent men to capture him. Who said this? We don't know. Probably normal people. Probably the people whose lives David had rescued when he was leading soldiers.
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Probably men or women or children that David would eventually rule over. Imagine this righteous king comes to power and you're left there with this sinking feeling, oh my goodness, I actually tried to have him murdered.
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But when they saw a group of prophets prophesying, this is Saul and his men, with Samuel standing there as their leader, the spirit of God came on Saul's men and they also are prophesied.
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Saul was told about it, and he sent more men. ah And the spirit hit them when they had prophesied to.
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Saul was so embarrassed and livid and agitated and frustrated that he sent a third group of men.
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And they all prophesied. And finally he himself left for Ramah and went to the great cistern Seku. And he asked, where are Samuel and David?
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Over in Nyoth at Ramah, they said. Saul went to Nyoth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God, Holy Spirit, came upon him. And he walked along prophesying until he came to Nyoth.
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He stripped off his garments and he too prophesied in Samuel's presence. And he lay naked all that day and all that night. That is why people will say it's all awesome on the prophets.
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So God just gave him this supernatural ability as he'd given the three squadrons of men earlier. And instead of coming after the Lord's anointed, they just began to prophesy the Lord's goodness and the Lord's plans and the Lord's favour. We don't know what exactly they prophesied, but it would not surprise me if they began to prophesy, one, what the kingdom of David was going to look like, or two, infinitely better, what the kingdom of Jesus is going to look like in the millennial kingdom at the end of time for that one last final millennium. that the book of Revelation describes so beautifully.
Conclusion and Teaser for David's Future
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So, um, hope you enjoyed that study there on 1 Samuel chapter 19. Things are really heating up. The pressure is intensifying.
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And, um, David's really going to become the James Bond, the 007 or 004. heaven, the case may be, of the Old Testament over the next number of chapters as he does his utmost best to stay out of Saul's way.
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But Saul is not going to give up that easily. All right, catch to the next one, friends. Have a good one.