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The 5 Giants of he 2020s
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The 2020s have been the WORST of times thus far... but the five giants David and his mighty men faced warned us they were coming all along!
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Introduction to Hardships and Famine in King David's Reign
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All right, 2 Samuel 21.
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During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years. So David sought the face of the Lord.
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David was a very good king. Other than Jesus, he is probably the hero of the Bible, the biggest hero in the Bible. And yet even he went through three years of famine.
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So if in your life, you're looking around and you see famine of faith over there, a current famine of healing over there, a famine of good relationships here, meaning you have no relationships or all your relationships are bad ones,
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It's nothing new.
The Curse from Saul's House and Its Impact
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You're in very good company. God's people have always experienced many afflictions.
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The Lord said, it is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house. It is because he put the Gibeonites to death.
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We spoke earlier this morning about how God's people can be afflicted and oppressed because of the evil and sins of others, especially those in witchcraft and the system of the occult.
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Here you see it very clearly. Someone else's wickedness can affect and infect you and yours.
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This wickedness was not something David was responsible for. okay it was something the previous king was responsible for. And the previous king was not even a blood relative of David. David married into his family. They weren't even related by blood.
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But the evil of one person... Think of about this way. Think of evil, whether it's evil deeds or evil words, as...
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Metaphysical. Think of them as solid in the spirit realm. And demons can just see them.
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If it's there, it can be taken advantage of. If there's a hole, if there's a gap, if a door is left open, rats are going to come in.
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If windows are left open, thieves are going to come in. And the thieves we're dealing with come to steal, kill, and destroy them.
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um now we don't know we looked at soul's life last year we've been on the first second samuel for a long stretch you don't actually see soul kill the gibeonites in first samuel because obviously i mean he lived for many years you only get snapshots the most important details but in like first samuel 22
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16 to 19, you see him murder priests just because one of them happened to help David by giving him Goliath's sword. So you see that there is a malevolence to soul. There is a murderous streak in soul.
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And the sins of one person can actually impact others. Someone gave me a call two years ago, maybe, three years ago, and she said that her One of her relatives, or her husband's relative, was working in County Cork. um They were working in a field, building new property, and two or three of the workers had just dropped dead.
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With no explanation. And she called just said, Brendan, what's happening? What's going on?
Historical Wickedness and Spiritual Effects
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And God just told me there's a curse in that land.
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So... There are some people you can say that to and just believe you. There are some people can say that to and look at you and have two heads. So to verify it, did a bit of Googling to actually see what had happened in that particular location where this property was being built.
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And it turns out that the ira the Irish Republican Army, had killed, i think it was, I'm not mistaken, maybe British.
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military or British paramilitary forces, like, decades ago, in the early 1900s. But it was an ambush, a surprise attack, people were killed, obviously demons were behind that a whole colonial project, demons were behind the the killing, the terrorists, and everything else.
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They don't just leave. They're like, well, we've got a legal right to be here, so they just stuck around. I do not know how many people they had just killed, just touched them, just died over the last century.
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When this person called me, i just decided okay, this is this was the open door. And I said, right, this is what you do. Pray against this. Pray against this. Declare the blood of Jesus to saturate that land and clean it in Jesus' name.
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and I had other friends in them those of us and in in Ireland, where at least three of us, live in County Louth, the smallest county in Ireland.
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i And we went to, sorry, there's a big hotel there called the Four Seasons. And one of my friends was staying there one night, again, this few years ago.
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And she had this dream of a corpse. And she woke up deeply disturbed and was like, I'm going call it Brandon there today. But in Carlingford, it's in our county, it's most gorgeous, stunning place. There's actually a sign in the car park that says this is the Garden of Eden of Ireland.
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And near the car park, there's a museum, which I literally only found earlier this year. I had no idea it was there. And she called me and said, Brendan, I had this really horrible dream last night of a corpse. And I said, okay.
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And she said, I went to the museum in Carlingford and the very corpse I had dreamt of is right there in the museum. There there are pictures of it here in the museum. And she said, now this is even before she spoke to me.
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She went to the reception desk and said, this is going to sound cray cray. But. And the receptionist said, let me guess. You saw that corpse in dream last night and you're staying in the Four Seasons Hotel.
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And my friend was like, ah yeah. And said, it was built on a bog. It should never have been built. And very many people have that experience.
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Because bogs in Ireland, in ancient Ireland, if you murdered someone and you never wanted them found, you dumped their body in a bog. So if you go to the archaeology museum in Dublin, they have and the bog bodies section.
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where they show you bodies, or what's left of bodies, that came out of bugs, and they tell you, okay, this one was killed for this reason, this guy was six feet tall, this guy used to eat this kind of food, there's one corpse where his nipples were cut off, and his head.
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Because if you were the son of a chief, or the son of the king, or the son of the kinglet. You had to be physically flawless in order to be the king.
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So this guy was probably abducted, had his nipples cut off, like, oh, you're not so perfect. No, right they tortured him. And then they killed him, dumped in a bug.
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And so you have all this all around the island. A lot of it was to do with Halloween occultism as well over the years for Samhain. So basically what happened is someone was murdered, dumped in a bog, demons are therefore all around that area, hotel was built, but those demons now plague people in their dreams when they stay in the hotel.
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So it's very, very common, very, very normal. It's kind of how haunted houses became a thing. Something wicked happened in a house and the demons just decided to stay and invite more and more demons into it.
Addressing Past Wrongs for Resolution
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So here, Saul did something wicked. Demons got in. Created a famine. David's not responsible. But evil was done there.
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And therefore, evil has a right to stay.
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All right, verse 2. 21 verse The king the Gibeonites spoke to them. the king summoned the gibeonites and spoke to them Now, the Gibeonites were not the parts of Israel, were survivors of the Amorites.
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The Israelites had sworn to spare them. and This all happened in Joshua, chapter 9, 25 to 27, okay? This was written about books ago in the Bible, in book of Joshua, this was written.
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So, they made a deal, and the Israelites were like, yeah, okay, you can stay here, you can live among us, whatever. But Saul... in his zeal for Israel and Judah, had tried to annihilate them.
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He was so I'm all being passionate about your country, I'm a big patriot. He was passionate to the point of, let's kill everyone who don't belong to us. Let's kill everyone who's got different air ancestry.
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David asked the Gibeonites, what shall I do for you? How shall I make atonement so that you will bless the Lord's inheritance?
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Now, this solution is going to sound pretty crazy, but it'll make sense in a few minutes. The Gibeonites answered him, We have no right to demand silver or gold from Saul, who's dead, or his family, his descendants, nor do we have the right to put anyone in Israel to death.
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So they're telling him, What they don't want. It's like in Ireland, if you ask someone for directions, it's like, okay, you see the second right there? Yeah, don't take that right. Take the third one. They're giving the negative before the positive.
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What do you want me to do for you? Said David, because they didn't seem to hear the first time. They answered the king. As the man who destroyed us and plotted against us,
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So that we have been decimated, have no place anywhere in Israel. Let seven of his male descendants be given to us to be killed and their bodies exposed for the Lord at Gibeah of Saul, the Lord's chosen one.
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And David said, i will give them to you. This might sound absolutely mental.
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Wickedness was done. The land is now under a curse, a three-year-long famine. And David does
Blood Atonement: From Gibeonites to Christ
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not deal with it, it will last four years, or five years, or six years, or seven.
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He goes the ones have been hurt. What is you want? What's going to fix this? And they say, seven descendants of Saul.
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The only thing that can wash away sin is blood.
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Thanks be to God. We have a better sacrifice to make atonement for us. And his name is Jesus. It's not a coincidence that they said seven, because seven is the Lord's number of completion.
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know, a seven-day week, for instance. The apocalypse will last seven years before Jesus comes back and saves the world. So seven is the number of God's completion.
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It's a perfect number.
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A male descendant.
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in Male and female both came from God. The first man, the first woman, Adam and Eve, both came from God. In God there is male and female, but he expresses himself as male, as masculine. He, him, his.
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And Jesus, who is God, well, he had the dangly bits. He was a boy, he was a man. So we've got the number seven, Lord's number of perfection.
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We've got male and the shedding of blood. Our atonement for our sin and for other sin, is Jesus.
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They wanted the descendants of a sinner.
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God sent us a sacrifice who had never sinned.
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They wanted the blood of the one who had offended them, who had massacred them.
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God gave us a sinless sacrifice. spotless, perfect sacrifice.
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Verse 7. The king spared Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan. We looked at him last week. This is Jonathan's dead. David basically adopted Mephibosheth, let him live with him, let him eat at the prince's table.
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The son Saul, Mephibosheth is Saul's grandson. Because of the oath before the Lord between David and Jonathan, son Saul. David Jonathan were BFFs.
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David was not going to kill John's son.
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But the king took Armoni and a different Mephibosheth. For such a strange name, it was strangely popular back then.
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But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aya's daughter Rizpah, whom she had born to Saul, and basically she was Saul's concubine, together with the five sons of Saul's daughter Morab, whom she had born to Adriel, St. Abarzel, the Mahalopite. That's a long sentence.
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Those of you who've been on this journey for a while might remember that Saul said, whoever kills Goliath will marry my daughter. David killed Goliath.
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And Saul said, okay, you're going to marry Merab. then Saul changed his mind and said, ha, psych! And Merab married someone one else, married Adriel.
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So Saul had two daughters. Merab, who married Adriel. And Michal, who married David. But then she woke up one day and didn't like him anymore.
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David handed them over to the Gibbonites. Who killed them and exposed their bodies on a hill before the Lord.
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What do you think expose their bodies means? Drop the all illusion the Bible is PG. What do think expose their bodies means?
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If someone exposes their body to you, what are they doing?
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They're naked anyway. They're naked, it exactly. When Jesus hung on the cross, was he fully clothed? Nope. Because we're told that the Roman soldiers drew lots to get his clothes.
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They gambled, and the winner of the gambling of of ancient world bingo took his clothes. So Jesus was exposed. Jesus was naked for all the world to see
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It says that they killed them and they exposed the bodies on a hill. Where was Jesus crucified?
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a hill. On a hill. Mount Calvary, Golgotha, the place of the skull. and So you see here that what they're doing, it's a foreshadow of Jesus. It's a picture of what Jesus did for us.
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All seven of them fell together. They were put to death during the first day of the harvest, just as the barley harvest was beginning.
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What is the verse you are reading? That is verse nine. Ah, okay, thank you. No problem.
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So, when... You're under ah curse. This is the solution. The land was under a curse that David was not responsible for. That his contemporaries were not responsible for. It was that generational curse, if you will.
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Wickedness that other people had done. And the solution was someone had to shed their blood naked and exposed on a hill.
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It's Jesus. It's the number seven. He is the perfect sacrifice. No one else has to die in his place.
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You can't add to the gospel. It's a done deal. It's perfect and of itself.
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Like these seven guys, these seven men were not responsible for what Saul had done. Jesus was not responsible for what any human had ever done. But he did anyway, and it was what broke the curse.
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So if you feel, or if God tells you, there is a curse on your finances, or there's a curse on your body, there's a curse on your mind, there's a curse on your home, there's a curse in your nation, there's a curse in your estate, there's a curse on your car, whatever is,
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This is how you deal with it. You declare the finished work of the cross. You declare the blood of Jesus over it to break the yoke of evil.
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All right, verse 10. Rizpah, daughter of Ayah, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock.
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Sackcloth, know if ever felt it before. It's not comfortable. In the ancient world, it was common to lie on sackcloth or put on sackcloth when you were going through a difficult time, when your nation especially was going through a difficult time.
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It was your way of saying, people all around me are suffering and very uncomfortable. I will suffer, I will be uncomfortable. It was your way of showing humility It was a physical picture of a national problem.
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From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies. She did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night.
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This took months. Dedication. humility,
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being steadfast, making a decision and sticking to that decision day after day after day.
Steps to Spiritual Deliverance
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When David was told what Ayah's daughter Rizpah, Saul's concubine, had done, he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh, Gilead.
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The Philistines killed them and made a public humiliation ritual of them.
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The citizens of Jebesh Gilead had stolen their bodies from the public square of Bathshean, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.
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David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from there. and the bones of those who had been killed and exposed were gathered up.
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They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul's father Kish, Azela and Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded.
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After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land. All right, we've a few things here. First, the male, the male,
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Who is innocent who shed blood on a hill? First, you bring the blood of Jesus into it.
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Second, you see Aya lying on sackcloth, which is very uncomfortable, for days, weeks, and months on end. Humility.
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You fight in the Lord's strength, not your own.
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Third, she would not let the birds touch them or the wild animals. Resist the devil. Resist evil. You have to make a conscious decision not to let the darkness in.
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And fourth, David took the bones of Saul and Jonathan and he put them in a more appropriate place. put your life in order.
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What a lot of Christians like to do is they say, oh my goodness, I'm under curse, the devil's attacking me. ah And they look for a short-term fix, they look for prayer, but actually they don't want to be humble enough to obey God.
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Or they want prayer. They want someone to go, the blood of Jesus, the blood the blood the blood the blood the blood But the idea of actually putting their life in order, oh no.
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No, I'm actually very okay with my sin, thank you. I just want this dealt with. No. You have to put everything in its proper place. That means getting rid of certain things, getting rid of certain people, putting this in place, dealing with that, forgiving that person, apologizing that one, and actually ducting every I, crossing every T, righting every wrong,
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shutting every door and every window that's necessary. Otherwise, the famine's gonna continue. It's only after they've done all these, apply the blood, humility, resisting the blackbirds, the demons, and the wild beasts, the demons, and put everything into it proper place.
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After that... God answered in prayer on behalf of the land. That is how you deliver nation. That is how you revive a nation. That is how you resuscitate a nation.
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Brandon, can I ask you a quick question? right again i Just because I was in the bathroom. a aya yeah but yeah i heard if is iah a demon No, no, no. So Sol had... I don't know you're Rizpa.
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Rizpa had a daughter named Aya. Because I worked with a girl called Aya. Okay, okay. Now what? We can look up the meaning of her name now. Why not? I don't need anything.
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Thanks, I'm good. And she's causing mayhem in work. Right. i asked And she was God lover. She was a severely attacked by the enemy and it's kind of left her with a brain acquired injury.
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Right. That's why I'm asking. Okay. and In Hebrew, the name can mean falcon or vulture. Right. Falcon or vulture. Okay. and Makes sense then.
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Okay. Okay. Thank you. No problem.
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Okay. Are there any more questions on those first 14 verses? Are they okay?
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No difficulties? Alrighty.
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Okay. Now... We're going to talk about what happened next. This 1 Chronicles 20. 1 Chronicles 20. twenty
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Starting with verse 1.
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It says, in the spring, but and at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces.
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We're going to start a study now on different threats that David had to face. And we are facing the same threats today.
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He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah and besieged it. But David remained in Jerusalem.
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Joab attacked Rabbah and left in ruins.
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David took the crown from the head of their king. Its weight was found to be a talent of gold, and it was set with precious stones, and it would play was placed on David's head.
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He took a great quantity of plunder from the city and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with sails and iron picks and axes.
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David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his army returned to Jerusalem. So they're experiencing the Lord's favor again and again and again and their military conquests.
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But some of their military conquests take on very spiritual things.
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meaning and global significance for us today. All right, go back to 2 Samuel 2115. 2 Samuel 2115.
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twenty one fifteen second samuel twenty one fifteen
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When I read these first few verses, you're going ask yourself how are that relevant. But when you know, you know. You're going to need to have your pens and paper ready for this.
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So 2 Samuel 21 15.
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Once again, there was battle between the Philistines and Israel. David went down with his men to fight against the Philistines.
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And he became exhausted. He's getting older, you know. The years are moving on.
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And Ishbi Banob. Circle that name. Highlight it. Undraline it. Ishbi Banob.
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This is page three.
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First six to me, so the third line.
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Ishbi Benab. One of the descendants of Rafa. Rafa was a Nephilim. He was a giant.
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So an Ishbi Benab, one of the descendants of Rafa. whose bronze spearhead weighed 300 shekels and who was armed with a new sword, said he would kill David.
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But Abishai, san ah son of Zeruiah, this is Job's brother, came to David's rescue. He struck the Philistine down and killed him.
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Then David's men swore to him, saying, never again will you go out with us to battle. so the lamp of Israel will not be extinguished. You're getting too old, you're going to back at home, we're going to do fighting for Nebon.
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You're too important.
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In the course of time, there was another battle with the Philistines, at Gob. At that time, Sibachai the Hoshatite killed Saf.
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Underline Saf, highlight Saf, circle Saf, one of the descendants of Rapha. Hmm, another descendant of Rapha, another giant, another Nephilim.
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Verse 19, in another battle with the Philistines at Gob, Elhanan, son of Jair, the Bethlehemite, killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite.
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who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod. All right. He killed the brother. Now, this story appears in 2 Samuel and in Chronicles.
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The brother's name, write this one first, is Lami. L-A-M-I. Okay, that's the name of the brother. L-A-M-I, Lami.
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Once you've written it, underline it, circle it, or highlight it. Lami.
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And he's the brother of Goliath. Hmm, a very interesting, familiar name to us all. Underline it, circle it, highlight it. So now you have Ishbi Benob, you got Saf, Lamy, and Goliath.
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In still another battle, which took place at Gat. There was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.
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Nephilim are humanoids, but they're the very same as humans. There are distinct differences. We are not told this guy's name, but, underline, circle, or highlight, a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.
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24 in all. Just underlined, circle, violet, all that.
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He also was descended from Rafa. Mmm, another Nephilim. This is not just a huge man, this is a huge man plus. This is a man, but not really a man.
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A kind of man, but extra than a man. It's a giant.
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When he taunted Israel, Jonathan, son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him. So David has a brother called Shimea. Shimea has a son, Jonathan, so it's another Jonathan.
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It's David's nephew. David's nephew kills this giant.
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So these four were descendants of Rafa and Gath. It says four because Goliath's already been killed. So five in total. And they fell at the hands of David and his men.
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What are theyre looking at here? Well, I think Goliath, four brothers. So five giants.
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Now, each of these five, prophetically, are very important for the days in which we are living. Let's go back to the first name I told you highlight.
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Ishbi Banab.
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Banab is a place Ishbi means to sit in. It means I sit in Banab.
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Now this is a giant, so presumably the ruler of the place. How do you become the ruler of a place that you sit on the throne? By conquering it.
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So write, I sit in Banab. Then write, conquer.
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How you conquer? Through war.
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Banab is a city, so write city.
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And now we're gonna 2020-ify this. I want you to write 15-minute cities.
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So it literally means i sit in Banab. You only sit in a throne if you have conquered the place.
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You conquer through war. it is a city. And in the twenty twenty s what do you see world governments doing the UK, in Ireland, abroad?
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We're going to invent 15-minute cities. Everything you need will be there. You will no longer need a car. So when we try killing you, little plaid, little civilians, you will not be able to escape.
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Try to limit your mobility, limit your transport, limit your ability to escape.
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Okay, giant number two is SAF. SAF translates as a gatekeeper.
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A gatekeeper is in charge of doors. So for instance, if I'm the gatekeeper, I choose who comes in,
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who goes out, who stays in, who stays out. In the 2020s in which we live, what was the most infamous example Of gatekeepers choosing who can go in places and who stays out of places.
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The COVID vaccine ID. Exactly.
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You couldn't go and see a Downton Abbey movie without... Have you gotten the jab?
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Have you gotten the vaccination with your free Krispy Kreme donut afterwards? No? Then leave.
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Okay, then we have the brother, Lamy.
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Lamy means bred in battle.
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It means to be used as food.
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It means cannibalism.
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More broadly, death.
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With this Green New Deal that the leaders of the world are trying to force on us, even though no one actually wants it, no one with a brain wants it, a where human beings are responsible for absolutely everything bad in the world. and You have RAINN,
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Climate change. It's summer. You have warmed the world globally and now people going to die in Africa because of you. That's nonsense.
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The most fringe and the most extreme voices in the Green New Deal. think there's a guy in Sweden who said this. He's already published the material. Said the best way we can stop CO2. Now, when I was growing up, CO2 was a good thing. The trees would eat it and get the oxygen. and For me, was it was good.
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But, you know, what did I know about the 1990s and the noughties? Now, the most fringe, but here is the thing. The fringe, if it's not dealt with, becomes the mainstream.
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The most fringe voices in the Green New Deal say the best way we can deal with CO2 emissions is to have babies and eat the babies. Babies will create carbon dioxide.
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Babies destroy the world. i mean, five years ago, it was cows. Now they're saying it's actually it's babies. But if you eat the babies, you will save the planet from extinction.
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Don't complain about, you know, bad practices in the USA, in India, in China. No, just eat your children.
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Okay, giant number four. Now he's dead by this stage, but he's still the list, is Goliath. Goliath literally means champion.
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But in the Talmud, now the Talmud is not the Bible, it's what I call extra-biblical literature. it's It would be like reading a devotional today.
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It's not the Bible, but it's about the Bible. The Talmud, rightly or wrongly, says that Goliath was a crossbreed of 100 father sperms, male sperms, human sperms, and one dog sperm.
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Does that sound mental? Yes. Do I believe it? Not necessarily. Could I imagine scientists... in the ancient world, being as crooked as scientists today, absolutely, let's shout it out.
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So, traditionally, Biblia, traditionally, he is seen as, they got 100 male sperms of humans, a dog sperm, put them all together, stuck them in a woman. That is the Talmud Jewish, call it tradition, call it mythology, call whatever whatever you want, crossbreed.
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You might say, A dog, man, woman, trans class breed, it's transgenderism. That's the equivalent today.
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You're a man, no I'm a woman. You're a teenager, no I'm trans dragon. Yes, I've seen people professing to do that. I'm trans-alien.
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I'm a crossbreed. I'm a two-in-one, depending how I feel. Depending what side of the I get out of in the morning.
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And then verse 20. A huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes. On each foot, 24 in all. How many digits are people supposed to have between their fingers and their toes? 20. 20.
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twenty How many does he have? Well, six plus six plus six plus six. Twenty-four. Twenty.
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Twenty-four. What happened in 2024? Everyone started proclaiming World War III was upon us.
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So for this guy, you're going to write 2024, and in brackets, World War III.
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So these are just the five names of giants that David and his men and family had to contend with and defeat and cut down. To be honest, this is why David brought five stones to his battle with Goliath. He had one stone for Goliath and he had one stone for the other four.
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So Ish-Viv-Inab
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represents conquering cities, 15-minute cities.
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SAF represents gatekeeping, being a gatekeeper. The COVID ID vaccine, or COVID vaccine ID.
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The Brother Alami, bread and battle, represents cannibalism. If the Green New Deal is not stopped, that is the extent that they'll bring it to.
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Champion Goliath, a crossbreed, a transformed being, transgender, because that's what transgender is, transforming gender, using your imagination.
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And a huge man with 24 digits instead of 20. In 2024, people began, you know, obviously the the people who run the world, the powers that be, the ones who are itching for a world war, began declaring...
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ah World War would be upon us any second now. a Two years in, and they've it was clearly a lie, but a you know don't underestimate their ability to keep on poking that bear.
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All right. I know it's kind intense. Any comments, further questions on that? Or the five giants okay? It's very interesting the way you brought it down. You know he can see the connection between it all. Absolutely. And that's what I mean when I say the Bible is a living word.
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Yes, you're looking at ancient history. But that does not mean it ended there. is It happens again and again and again in different ways.
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Almost like the world on a cycle, the world on a loop. And there's nothing you want to have thought. So is the Bible. That's exactly it. So it's like everything coming full Because what that does it actually, yes, evil is running amok right now, but it does put a limit on evil.
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So whatever it is you're going through, you're gonna find a Bible story that relates to It's like, oh, yeah, I totally see that. And even better, You can see how God's people dealt with it back then.
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It requires bravery. It requires deep, deep courage. It requires facing these things head on. It requires talking about strategizing, and being on the battlefield. If these guys, these heroes, you might really just think, I can't pronounce that name. Why are they telling he's the son of that person? I don't care.
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Why is he from Bethlehem? i don't know where that is in the map. Forget the detail, but don't matter to you. These guys were not hiding in their homes like, to be honest, most the nation probably was.
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They weren't sitting in their beds under their blankets telling God how terrible the world is. In the moment of battle, were on the battlefield. When it mattered, they were in the fight.
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They had something to say and they said it. They a place to be and that's where they were. There was a battle to be fought and they had a sword in their hand.
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Even though the enemy was bigger and more powerful and had superior weapons and had i mean i a sha sorry a spear with a shaft and a weaver. of I don't know what that is.
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But they still contended anyway. They didn't say, i don't understand. can't do this. I'm so small. i don't get that. over No, there was a battle to be fought and are on the battle lines.
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For us, we do that prayerfully and we do it by exposing evil and we do it by resisting evil.
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All right. Chapter 22. David's Song of Praise.
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Will you read this one, please? I've heard myself speaking off. David sang to the Lord the words of the song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the land of Saul.
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He said.
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Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer. My God is my rock in whom I take refuge. my shield and the horn of my salvation.
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He is my stronghold, my refuge and my saviour. From violent people you saved me. I call to the Lord who is worthy of praise and have been saved from my enemies.
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The waves of death swirled about me. The turns of destruction overwhelmed me. The cords of the grave coiled around me The snare of death confronted me.
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In my distress, I called to the Lord. i called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice. My cry came to his ears.
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The earth trembled and quaked. The foundations of the heavens shook. It trembled because he was angry. Smoke rose from his nostrils. Consuming fire came from his mouth.
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Burning coals blazed out of it. He parted the heavens and came down. Dark clouds were under his feet. He mounted the shrew and flew.
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He soared on the wings of the wind. He made darkness's canopy around him, the dark rain clouds of the sky. Out of the brightness of his presence, bolts of lightning blazed forth.
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The Lord thundered from heaven. The voice of the Most High resounded. He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy. With great bolts of lightning he rooted them.
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The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. He reached down from on high and took hold of me.
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He drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes who were too strong for me. He confronted me in the days of my disaster, for the Lord was my support.
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He brought me out into a spacious place. He rescued me because he delighted me.
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The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanliness of my hands, he has rewarded me, for I have kept the ways of the Lord. I am not guilty of turning from my God.
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All his laws are before me. I have not turned away from his decrees. I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin. The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, a according to the at my cleanliness in his sight.
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To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless. To the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.
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You save the humble, but your eyes are on the unhaughty to bring them low. You, Lord, are my lamp. The Lord turns my darkness into light.
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With your help, I can advance against troop. With my God, I can scale a wall. As for God, his way is perfect. The Lord is flawless. The Lord's word is flawless.
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He shields all who take refuge in him. For who is God beside the Lord? And who is the rock except our God? It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure.
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He makes my feet like the feet of a deer. He causes me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands for battle. My arms can bend a bow of bronze.
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You make your saving help my shield. Your help has made me great. You provide a broad path for my feet so that my ankles do not give way.
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I pursued my enemies and crushed them. I did not turn back till they were destroyed. I crushed them completely. They could not rise. They fell beneath my feet.
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You armed me with strength for battle. You humbled my adversaries before me. You made my enemies turn their backs in flight and I destroyed my foes. To cry for help because there's no one to save.
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But the Lord's, but he did not, he had the pride to the Lord, but he did not answer. I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth. I pounded and trumped them like the mud in street. You have delivered me from the attacks of the people.
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You have preserved me as head of the nations. People I did not know now serve me. Farmers cower before me. As soon as they hear of me, they obey me.
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They all lose heart. They come trembling from their strongholds. The Lord lives. Praise be to my rock. Exalted be my God, the rock, my saviour.
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He is the God who avenges me, who puts the nations under me, who sets me free from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes. From a violent man you rescued me.
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Therefore I will praise you, Lord, among the nations. I will sing the praises of your name. He gives his king great victories. He shows unveiling kindness to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
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Amen. That is Hanson, one of my favourite chapters in the Bible. It's the longest. why as't a can what one out there there is but yeah Yeah, there's that just goes on, on,
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but it's a lengthy one if sounds as well that's eighteen Yeah, very good. Yeah, that's why I got you to read it because like you'd recognize it straight away. Yeah, it's not common that something occurs in 2 Samuel and in Sam's, that word for word. But yeah, it's even God knew was so good, that we had it written about the place. Yeah, good. yes Yeah, that is a whopper a song, my goodness. There's so much we take out that.
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But I just want to focus on a couple of verses. One is verse 16 there. And verse is page five. The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare.
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In all of this, David is going through and absolutely horrific challenge or a set of challenges. And he says, Lord, help.
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And he looks up and he in the supernaturally sees Jesus. Hopping onto a cherubim. A cherubim is a heavenly creature, like Jesus' bodyguard. They can look like humans. They can look like animals. They're covered in eyeballs. They have wings.
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They're nuts. And Jesus flies on this cherubim in a dark scud cloud. This is called this the dark glory of God. Yes, God is light.
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And there's no sinful darkness in him. But he can appear in darkness if he still wants to, because he's got to do whatever he wants. And this is the the the mystery of of the dark glory of God.
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This is God on the warpath, Jesus on the warpath, to defend and rescue his man. And this is true for all of us today as well.
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And in verse 16, the valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare. When you're being attacked by the enemy and you don't know where the attack is coming from, or you you know you're being attacked, but you don't know what their plans are.
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You know they have operations against you. you don't quite know their strategies. You could pray this entire chapter, but verse 16, Lord God, expose the valleys of the sea.
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lay bare the foundations of the earth, expose what is hidden. Expose what is concealed. Expose what has been covered over.
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So I can see the enemy's blueprints, their battle plans, and counteract them, come against them.
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This revelation Because you don't see this anywhere else. Okay, this chapter appears twice in the Bible. It's here and it's in Psalms as well. But David is the only person in the Bible you ever read about who sees Jesus hopping onto a cherubim to fight for him. Usually he's flying under clouds or in fire or whatever.
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This is the only time you see Jesus riding a cherubim. and And why? Because his man is in distress. His man is in deep waters. Verse 17.
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He reached down from on high into cold of me. He drew me out deep waters. And again, what song did we have this morning? Oceans. Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander. That my faith would be made stronger in the presence of my savior.
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Lead me not into hard times I suffer. Lead me into impossible situations and circumstances and make them possible.
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Lead me deeper than i would ever actually want to go. Lead me where I am actually in my humanity incapable of going.
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Because that is where I will have an encounter with the God of the impossible. I love the God of the possible because it doesn't really require too much work on my part or too much faith.
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But the God of the impossible, you only encounter him in an impossible situation or circumstance. And David was led into a situation, oceans where feet may fail. And that is where he had this impossible encounter with the Lord, where the Lord rescued and delivered him so amazingly, so mightily.
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And what helped trigger that breakthrough are verses 21 to 25. Just in case you don't hear it, he says it five different ways.
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The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness. You know, let let's count the ways as he says it. That's one. If you don't know what that means, it's two Christianese for you. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has awarded me. That's two.
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So right living is a catalyst for the move of God in your life. I've kept the ways the Lord. I'm not guilty of turning away from God. He says it again.
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What's he saying? He's saying, don't sin. That's he's saying. All his laws are before me. If they're behind you, you've turned your back on God. If they're before you, you're looking at what says.
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I've not turned away from his decrees. I'm doing whatever God tells me to do.
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I've been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin. Does everyone sin? Yeah. What do you do, you deal with it. He's not living the wicked way. He's not walking the unrighteous road.
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If he does go left or right, he gets back on track pretty darn quickly. By faith, he's blameless for God. And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.
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Because I'm right living, and I love the Lord's, He says that in his opinion, I'm clean. We're good. In short, he's saying right living triggers blessing.
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Right living triggers breakthrough. Instead, what happens is if someone does something wrong, they make a mistake, they sin, well, then they tend to be like, you know, oh, God doesn't love me. And then they do a hundred other stupid things on top of it.
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No, you turn straight back to God. and or there are people who say, God, help me. I'm still going to tolerate this sin in my life. I'm going to accept that one.
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God, that's a sin that I like. I've had it for years. I'm do anything with that. And they try to make all these excuses. They keep all the rats and all the filth and all the scum in their home, in their life, in their bedroom, on their laptop screen, whatever.
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And then they're saying, oh, God, rescue me. from the bondage they've chosen to stay in. Doesn't work that way.
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But if you're right living, and the like I said earlier, the afflictions of the righteous are many. Right living does not mean an easy life.
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The devil hates everyone. The afflictions of the righteous are many.
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But you can lessen their hold on you. You can lessen number of open doors in your life.
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You can lessen enemy's ability to attack you from multiple directions.
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And the Lord will put you in character schools and train your hands so you're strong enough With a bow to fight these enemies yourself. And verse 30. With your help I can advance against a troop.
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A troop of demons. Because we're in a spiritual war. We have angelic troops helping us. You have guardian angels helping you. But we have demonic troops facing us.
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With God's help. Not in our own strength. In his strength. I can advance against a squad of demons and prevail. With my guard, I can scale a wall.
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If... This me, blue, my favorite color, so I'm blue. This is me. And this is a wall.
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With God's help, I can scale, with God's help, I can climb obstacles. I can overcome obstacles. I can soar on wings like eagles and overtake the enemy. Overcome the walls, the blockages.
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The limitations. Limitations that your father spoke over you when you child. Oh, you'll never be able to do that. Overcome limitations that your mother, or your siblings, your school friends, your teachers spoke over you. You're a dunce.
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You're an idiot. You're a joke. You're not smart enough. You'll never be good enough. Oh, you're the oldest. You have to do this. You can't do that. You're the youngest. of anything You're the middle child. You're invisible.
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whatever word this will go for you, whatever whatever that limitation is, without God, that that stumbling block can become a stepping stone.
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Something that I pray regularly, When I encounter these blocks in the spiritual, i imagine it like a mountain. And I say, mighty mountain, because there's no point pretending it's small, it's big, don't lie.
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I say, mighty mountain, you are nothing but rubble before the Son of God. Mighty mountain, you are nothing but rubble before the Son of God. Break.
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Break. fall down, collapse.
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All right, any thoughts, comments, or queries on chapter 22? Or that all good?
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All right, well, next time you are facing an obstacle in life or an attack of the enemy or the likes, That is such an amazing chapter to pray. You can pray it from here or it repeats in Psalm 18. Holy Spirit just said, ah, that's brilliant.
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So he wrote it twice.
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All right. And we'll finish off today with the first part of 2 Samuel 23. second samuel twenty three
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Zagin Psalm 23. These are the last prophetic utterances and that David spoke. and His story at the end today, look at him for another couple weeks, but that's prophecy he gave.
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The inspired utterance of David, son of Jesse. The utterance of the man exalted by the Most High. The man anointed by God of Jacob.
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The hero of Israel's songs.
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The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me. His word was on my tongue. Now, sometimes I hear Christians say, I have a word from God. and And then they speak and I'm like, no, chicken. eat don That was not God. That was a spirit. That was not Holy Spirit.
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But there are times when Holy Spirit will literally just put a word on your tongue and you'll just speak it. You'll just know you know that you know that it's from God. It's not a thought you would normally have. It's not something you would normally say. You're speaking something you know nothing about. But you end up speaking a word of life or instruction, wisdom, knowledge, um divine solution or strategy straight into someone's life or a voice break as your picture, ah vision.
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And you just say oh, I believe God is saying blah. Or I see a picture of blah, blah, blah, blah. blah blah blah And they go, wow, yes, that's exactly what's going on. Okay. That's the spirit the Lord speaking through you.
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He speaks to your spirit. And then with your soul, you kind of rationalize it. And then with your physical tongue, you release the word.
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The God of Israel spoke. Back then, Israel was the only nation who believed in God. Not all of them did, but the only nation who had any revelation of him. Now the whole world has that access.
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The Rock of Israel said to me, when one rules over people in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning.
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Like the brightness after rain that brings grass from the earth.
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That is a beautiful picture. It's a poetic picture. And I am willing to guess if I asked everyone here about your political situation, that is not something any of us have ever experienced.
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When one rules over a people in righteousness, well, how many of our leaders rule in righteousness? Hell yeah. When he rules in the reverential awe of God.
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How many political leaders, if any, do that? He is like the light of morning at sunrise. i think most of our politicians are like darkness 24-7.
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On a cloudless morning, all they do is try to cloud over truth and goodness and blessing. Like the brightness after rain, most of our politicians are the rain that brings grass from the earth and, well, they might f flood your country with marijuana grass, but not the natural kind.
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This is what a nation should look like. That is what leadership in a nation should look like.
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Sadly, it's a case of expectation versus reality. God's will versus we're actually living in. So when someone tells you, oh, God's will is going to happen. If if God wants it, it's going to happen.
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Clearly not. If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part.
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Because David was told from you um and from your descendants, a king is going to come and that king is going to destroy all of evil and save the day and all of happily ever after. Amen.
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From the seed of David, Jesus would come.
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Surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire. If we were living in Rebellion. But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered by the hand.
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Whoever touches thorns use a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear. They are burned up where they lie. So again, he's saying because we're living in righteousness in the ways of the Lord,
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He brings us salvation. He grants to every desire. He blesses us. He speaks words of life, words of prophecy, and they will come to pass. But those who do not, well, they are going to reap their rewards for the wickedness that they have sown.
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And based on the teaching I gave at the Giants related to today, that day cannot come soon enough.
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I'm sure you agree.
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The rest of that chapter goes into David's mighty men. David could not have accomplished everything that he did alone. He needed a network, he needed a team. so if you are mildly curious about David's friendships and the people around him, by all means,
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for Feel free to read the rest in your own time. But I think that's a a nice place to end that for today. So at this point, David's getting on in years. He's getting older.
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But so long as you have breath in your lungs, you have a battle to fight and an enemy to contend with. So David is saying here, you know, oh, so long as a leader is righteous, you know, it's like a blessing to land.
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So what happens if a leader is unrighteous? What happens if a leader goes dark side? Next week, even though he's getting older, he is still on Satan's radar.
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And Satan will pay David a visit and try to turn him the dark side of the force. onto the destruction of his nation before his final death knell.
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gen Will he resist temptation? You'll find it this day next week.