Second Samuel chapter number one we're starting a brand new book tonight and this book kind of starts off
at a place where you need a back story and
The
Chapter so i'm just going to briefly
Explain to you the end of first samuel. I preached through first samuel a few years back, but it's been a while
So i'm going to go ahead and just kind of refresh our memory on where we are in
Samuel
First samuel ends with the death of saul and the reason for the division where it is there
between first samuel and second samuel is that first samuel covers obviously the life of samuel and then the first king of israel
saul
And it covers david's early life before he's king
And we get the story of david and we get the
Stories about saul pursuing david and trying to kill him and so forth
and when we get into second samuel
Saul has just died. So the book of
about
David rising to power becoming king and ruling over israel
And at the end of second samuel david's going to die and then with first
get into
So at the end of first samuel there was a major battle with the philistines
And if you remember saul had gotten away from the lord and because god was answering him
He went
And sought after a woman that had an unclean spirit the witch at endor and when saul consulted with the witch at endor
He was told
That as a punishment for disobedience to god
He was going to be slain in battle and all of his sons would be slain with him
And that battle took place on mount gilboa against the philistines
where
Was wounded and and that's where we get into the story here about it
But as far as what was going on with david at the same time
David because he was by king saul
He
Had gone
Into the land of the philistines and he was hiding out there so that saul would not kill him
And he actually was going to go to battle or at least that's what he told the philistines
That he was going to go to battle on their side against king saul
But you know, it was probably he was we went over it at the time that yeah
That's probably not really what he was going to do
But the philistines said no, we don't want you on
our side
So when david had gone back to ziklag where he and his men had been stationed
He gets back there to find that the amalekites had come
And taken all the women captive and had taken all their cattle and everything that they owned
So david and his men had to go and attack the amalekites and children
Their goods back
And in second samuel chapter one, that's where we pick up the story
So david just got back from this victory where he recovered all the why all the things
that they
The amalekites and at the same time he was victorious
King saul was dying and falling in battle against the philistines now when saul
battle with the
Basically invaded the land of juda and took over the cities
And uh just encroached on the territory of the children of juda. So right now david is not yet king
They have no king
Saul is dead. There's no replacement yet
And they've all just been scattered and the philistines have pretty much just come in and invaded
So that's where we are in the story right now. Let's look at verse one
It says now it came to pass after the death of saul
When david was returned from the slaughter of the amalekites what we just talked about
And david had abode two days in ziklag
It came to pass on the third day that behold a man came out of the camp from saul with his clothes rent
And earth upon his head and so it was when he came to david that he fell to the earth and did obeisance
And david said unto him from whence comest thou and he said unto him out of the camp of israel am I escaped?
And david said unto him
How the matter I pray thee tell me
And he answered that the people are fled from the battle
And many of the people also are fallen and dead and saul and jonathan his son are dead also
And david said unto the young man that told him how knowest thou that saul and jonathan his son be dead
and the young man that told him said as
Behold saul leaned upon his spear
And lo the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him and when he looked behind him
He saw me and called unto me and I answered here am I?
He said
And I answered him I am an amalekite
He said unto me again stand I pray thee upon me and slay me
For anguish has come upon me because my life is yet whole in me
So I stood upon him and slew him because I was sure that he could not live after that
He was fallen and I took the crown that was upon his head and the bracelet that was on his arm
And have brought them hither
unto
my lord
Now david takes the the the the implements there the crown and so forth and they all weep and mourn for saul
And uh eventually he's gonna have this man killed now
Let me start out by saying this this man's story is a lie
He's not telling the truth and that can be proven from scripture. He claims
Oh, I found saul and he was still alive
And so, you know, uh, he asked me to put him out of his misery and that's what I did
I killed him and to prove that my story's true. Here's the crown and the bracelets and so forth. But actually this we back
To first samuel chapter 31, let me show you what the bible says here in verse three of first samuel chapter 31
And i'll explain to you his motive for lying but look at first samuel 31 3 it says in the battle went sore against saul
And the archers hit him and he was sore wounded of the archers. So he is hit by an arrow
has wounded
Then
Said saul unto his armor bearer
Draw thy sword and thrust me through therewith lest these uncircumcised had come and thrust me through and abuse me
But his armor bearer would not for he was
sore afraid
Therefore saul took a sword and fell upon it and when his armor bearer saw that saul was dead
He fell likewise upon his sword and died with him
So saul died and his three sons and his armor bearer and all his men that same day together
So if we read the bible's narrative, it's clear that he falls on the sword and dies and when the armor
He is dead
He falls on the sword also
now it says
That he saw that the armor bearer. I mean that the armor bearer saw him that he was dead now whenever you're
Studying the bible is that whenever the narrator of the bible is speaking we know that it's always truth
but when characters in the bible are speaking sometimes
right
So obviously the whole bible is true, but here's the thing that's true about second samuel chapter one
It's true that that guy said that
But he was lying
Because the stories don't match so we have a choice
Are we going to believe the narrator of the bible?
In first samuel 31 that tells us he saw that he was dead
And that that's how they died. It says so saul died. That's how he died
By
slaying himself with the sword
Or are we going to believe this amalekite who has a big motive for lying?
Look at verse number one of second samuel
Now
Came to pass after the death of saul when david was returned from the slaughter of who?
So who did david just finish slaughtering?
the amalekites and who's
the story
About killing saul he's what?
He's an amalekite so you can see why he would lie because he thinks oh man i'm in trouble here
These are my enemies these people just killed
They're going to kill me
And so when this young man comes to him it says in verse two
That he came out of the camp from saul with his clothes rent and earth upon his head
Now, why does he have his clothes rent and earth upon his head?
Well because he's trying to show
Outwardly, oh man i'm on your side israel, you know israel just lost the battle and i'm mourning about it
I've got dirt on my head. I've got sackcloth and then he's got this story about putting saul out of his misery now
The bible's clear later on david says about this occurrence
He says that this man came to him with this story expecting to receive a reward from him
Because everyone knew that saul was hunting david and trying to kill him so this amalekite thing
Well, here's how I can get in good with david
By telling him this story about how I killed saul because saul is his arch enemy
And so if I come to him and tell him that I killed saul
You know, then basically i'll be able to get a reward and he makes the story believable, you know that he just put him out
Of his misery
Not that he defeated him in battle in some grandiose way and so on and so forth
Now some people when you show them this are still not quite convinced about this when you show them first samuel 31
I think it's crystal clear in first samuel 31, but in case there's any doubt go to first chronicles chapter number 10
Because we have a parallel account in first chronicles chapter number 10
You see the books of first and second samuel and first and second kings form one narrative
And then there's another narrative in first and second chronicles and if you put them side by side you can compare them and learn things
But if you look at first chronicles chapter number 10
We'll get a different account of the same story and it says in verse number three the battle went sore against saul
And the archers hit him and he was wounded of the archers then said saul to his armor bearer
Draw thy sword and thrust me through where therewith lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me
But his armor bearer would not for he was so afraid so saul took a sword and fell upon it
And when his armor bearer saw that saul was dead he fell likewise on the sword and died
So saul died and his three sons and all his house died together
And what we don't get in first chronicles is the story about the amalekite. It doesn't even come up. It's not even mentioned
So that story is only in second samuel one
So if the story of the amalekite were true then this account in chronicles wouldn't be right
Because it would be telling that saul killed himself
and
Was really the one who killed him
But if the story of the amalekite was a lie
Then it makes sense that they just decided to leave that detail out in in first chronicles because it wasn't necessary to the book of
first chronicles now there are also inconsistencies in the story because both
First samuel and first chronicles both say that saul fell upon his what?
Sword, but what does the amalekite say when he tells the story?
He says that he fell upon his spear now
There's a major difference between a sword and a spear in verse six of second samuel one
It says saul leaned upon the spear that is a completely different weapon
And so this shows that this guy has got the wrong story just because he has
The crown and the bracelets he could have got the crown and the bracelets another way
He could have just found a dead body grab the crown and bracelets or
Gotten them from somebody who got it off of saul or whatever
However, he acquired them is not the issue that does not prove
That he was actually the one who killed saul and you say why do you care?
Why do you make a big deal about this?
Well, because this is often something that I will bring up as an example of a person in the bible who committed suicide
Because when you talk about different people in the bible who committed suicide
Saul is a great example to go to and bring up because there are a lot of people that teach a false doctrine that says
If you commit suicide, you will not be saved now according to the bible if you believe on jesus christ, you're saved
If you don't believe on the lord jesus christ
You shall be damned and whether or not you commit suicide is not relevant to your eternal salvation
Now obviously committing suicide is a horrible sin
It's not something that god wants anyone to do. I preach the whole sermon on suicide, but when people commit suicide
It's a very hurtful thing to the people around them
It often destroys the life of their spouse of their children of their friends their family their parents
And so it's a very horrific thing to do but it doesn't take away yourself
It's impossible to lose your salvation because it's eternal life
It's everlasting life. Jesus said I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither
Shall any man pluck them out of my hand and what's amazing to me?
We're just out soul winning right before church and two different doors that I knocked on tonight
I asked the person if they knew for sure they're going to heaven. They said yes. I said, how do you know?
Oh, just believe on jesus christ or oh just accept jesus christ as your personal savior
Sounds good, right but then
I asked them do you think there's anything a person can do to lose your salvation?
Oh, yeah, of course
Like what backslide they said if you backslide you'll lose it two people two totally different doors
That said oh, it's just faith. It's just believe it's just receive jesus christ as savior
But then they turn around and say you can lose your salvation if you backslide if you don't live right now
Look that doesn't make any sense
because if it's just believe
Then what would your lifestyle have to do with it? If it's not of works
Then how could you lose?
Lose it
By not doing the works because what does it mean to backslide?
You're not doing the works anymore. You're not living the life anymore
And so it's strange how people have this cognitive dissonance where on one side they can say yup
It's just by faith but that well, but you can't just live however you want
If you don't live right you're gonna lose it if you backslide you'll lose it if you commit sin
You're gonna lose it doesn't make any sense. Jesus paid it all and if we believe on the lord jesus christ
We shall be saved now just as my children will always be my children once you believe in jesus
You'll always be his child. Now. He'll discipline you when you break his commandments just like I did
When they break the rules
I'm not going to kick them out of the family. I'm not going to hate them and god will not do that to us either
We're still going to be saved. We're just going to experience discipline in this life whom the lord loves
And
Discourageth every son whom he received and so saul is an example of a person in the bible who committed suicide
And yet went to heaven samson is another
and
There are a few others that could be debatable, but this is a great example
But but people because they want to resist the truth of this doctrine will say oh, well, he didn't really commit suicide
You know, he was killed by the amalek
This doesn't
God knows what he's talking about when he says it was a sword when he says that saul died in that way
And i'll trust the lord and the holy spirit
narrating the first the book of first samuel then to trust this amalekite who's clearly lying, but
What's interesting is that david kills this man?
Because he says well you shouldn't have killed
god
Even because
He he there's so much you can learn from the bible. Everything's always in the bible
First of all, there are many people who confess
To crimes that they didn't commit
And this is an example and a lot of people when you tell them that
They don't understand that and they it's mind-boggling to them because to your average person today in america
If someone confesses to a crime or pleads guilty in court
99 of people would say oh, yeah, that person's guilty, wouldn't they?
But did you know that innocent people will often plead guilty and often can
crimes that they never committed
And I know it sounds weird and and it sounds crazy even as i'm saying it. It's kind of embarrassing to say it
But honestly if you actually do the research and read up on it
people often
Often confess to crimes that they've never done and plead guilty when they were actually not guilty
It really does exist and it's actually way more than you think and here is an example of it in the bible
Here's a guy saying that he killed somebody that he didn't kill
And then he's punished for it
And then he's slain for it and he's thinking as the sword goes into his body
Maybe that wasn't such a good idea, you know, it should have come up with a different story
So that's one thing that we can see here in the bible just an example of someone confessing to a crime that they didn't commit
which is
Which is why
You know you're not
Required in america to testify against yourself. That's what the fifth amendment says in the bill of rights. No person shall be
you
to be
The witness
Against themselves in court you don't you know, you have the right to remain silent
That's where that comes from and when you're in court
You don't have to take the witness stand when you're when you're on the defense. You do not have to take
You don't have to say a word
You you know other people can defend you and you do not have to be
Up there and incriminate yourself. Have you ever heard of people pleading the fifth amendment, you know, they're asked a question
say well
The amendment meaning i'm not going to answer that I have the right not to incriminate myself now a lot of times people are interrogated
tortured
pressured
cajoled and convinced to plead guilty and confess to things that they didn't do and corrupt governments
Constantly have people getting up and making false confessions and and self criticisms and stuff
That's a major part of communist regimes throughout history and so just something to pay attention to there in the bible
Not only that but we have another important lesson in this chapter
Look at verse number 10 where it says so I stood upon him and slew him
Because I was sure that he could not live after that. He was fallen now that statement right there pay attention to that statement
Oh, I was sure that he couldn't live
You know, there are a lot of doctors out there who will say oh, I I was sure that this patient couldn't live
So we went ahead and harvested their organs
And let me tell you something I am not registered as an organ donor and I don't recommend
Being registered where they take your organs as your diet because after you're dead the organs are no good
So and I know this sounds bad and it's that but look it up
often
They'll declare you dead
Because you know like the malachite, you know, they're they're sure that you couldn't have lived anyway
And they'll harvest the organs because they got to get you right before you die
And so they think oh, yeah, you know, this guy's going to die
This guy's not going to make it or or all he's legally dead or whatever even though he's actually still alive
And then they'll they'll often harvest the organs because the organs are worth big money and I know it sounds really cynical
mystic
That anybody would actually harvest someone's organs for financial gain
But they justify it in their mind of thinking like oh, well this guy was almost going to die
Anyway, you know this guy probably wasn't going to make it but how many times have I heard about stories of pregnant women?
Who went to the doctor and were told by the doctor your child cannot survive your child will not live
Or it's going to be born and it's going to live for three days
And then it's going to die or it's going to be alive for three hours or it can't survive just have an abortion
Or even people who said, you know, oh, yeah, there's something wrong with your baby and you know
We need to just do a dnc and just scrape it all out and just you know
Because otherwise you're going to have this painful miscarriage and you know, there could be tissue left honestly
You need to be careful
With doctors telling you these type of things first of all if you have a baby in your womb that's alive
You know, you can't let somebody tell you
Oh, it's not going to make it because i've heard of a ton of stories of people who were told by a doctor
Your child will die your child cannot survive to have an abortion just get you know
It's for your health and then that child was born and was completely normal
Who's heard of stories like that of people that you've known lay hands all over the building?
Of people who say yeah, I was told that my baby wasn't going to make it and then it was wrong or they did an ultrasound
They're like, whoa, there's a major problem here. This is out of proportion from this and
baby comes out
the perfect size
Perfect shape because ultrasounds are done with sound waves
You're not actually putting a camera in there and looking at it
And there can be an illusion sometimes
on an ultrasound
And especially because I and I learned a lot when my wife was pregnant with twins
Because I learned that you know, not all ultrasounds are the same because when she was having issues with the twins
We went doctor
And we went to specialized, uh, what are they called?
Mfm what does that stand for?
You don't know what that second name is for
maternal fetal something but anyway these specialists have way better ultrasound equipment
Than the typical ultrasound you get because whenever we've had an ultrasound done throughout other pregnancies
Which you know, we don't always get it, but sometimes we do and when we would look at the ultrasound
It would look a certain way
But then once we went to a specialist and looked at the ultrasound it was so much more of a clear picture
And it would just had a lot more features and so forth
so you got to be careful because i've known people who almost
Killed their child because they were told like oh, yeah
The baby isn't attached right or oh there's a problem or oh, you know
You're you know, you've got to be really careful with this
But this verse right here also shows us that euthanasia is not right
Helping someone die assisted suicide euthanasia because this guy is basically basically claiming that he euthanized
Saul
He's saying well Saul's in his misery and he couldn't have lived anyway. So I just went ahead and killed him
I just went ahead and put him out of his misery. And what does David?
Do in response he has the guy put to death and says you shouldn't have done that. You should not have
Murdered the lord's anointed. So let's keep reading here
It says in verse 11 then David took hold on his clothes and rent them
and
That means that he tore them
So he basically grabbed his garment and ripped it as a just a sign of mourning and being upset
And it says he fasted until even even is the time when the sun goes down like we would say evening
fasted till even
For saul and for jonathan his son and for the people of the lord and for the house of israel
Because they were fallen by the sword. I mean the whole nation has lost the battle the philistines have invaded
And it says in
Verse number 13 and david said unto the young man that told him
whence art thou
Whence means from where where where are you from? He's saying
now
and he
I'm the son of a stranger of an amalekite
And david said unto him how was thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the lord's anointed?
and david called one of the young men and said go near and fall upon him and he smote him that he
died
And david said to him thy blood be upon thy head for thy mouth hath testified against thee saying I have slain
the lord's anointed and david lamented with his
Lamentation
Over saul and over jonathan his son also
He bade them teach the children of judah the use of the bow behold has written the book of asher. So here we have
david being upset mourning fasting because
Saul has died
He avenges saul's blood on his murderer even though the guy didn't really do it, but he thought he did
And what this shows us is a great example of loving your enemies, right?
Now it's funny how a lot of people
They take a lot of the teachings of jesus in the new testament and they go to matthew chapter five
They'll take the teachings of jesus in the new testament and they'll act like they're just new
Like they've never been taught in the old testament when in reality most of what christ taught can be found in the old testament
Most of it's already there
majority of it
When you look at jesus ministry and when you look at jesus's preaching
If you look at all the things jesus taught and all the things christ commanded most of them
You will find in the old testament. You know why because jesus did not come to destroy the law of the prophets. He came to fulfill
He came and preached the word of god and he taught the same truth
that the old
Testament taught and it says in matthew chapter five a lot of people misunderstand this in verse 43
It says ye have heard that it has been said thou shalt love thy neighbor
me
now
Does that say that the old testament taught that
Does that say well back in the old testament you love your neighbor and hate your enemy? Is that what it says?
He says you have heard
That it has been said look you've heard somebody say that somebody had that saying
This is not a saying that ever came from the bible that ever came from god
This isn't jesus coming along and saying oh well in the old testament
You love your neighbor and hate but now in the new testament, it's just all love
Love love love in the new testament the love testament. No, actually
Jesus christ is the same yesterday and today and forever and the teachings of the old
Otherwise the new testament wouldn't be true
See when a book like the book of mormon comes along and claims to be another testament of jesus christ, you know how we know
Line up with this book it contradicts this book
And because the book of mormon does not jive with this book. We know it's false
Well, here's the thing if jesus came along
Something completely than what the old testament taught then either one of two things would be true either he's a false prophet
Or the old testament was false
The only way that the new testament and the old testament could both be true is if they're both
Teaching the same things and they're consistent and they teach about the same god
Right, I mean
And it does and in fact matt, I mean, you know, I don't have time to go through the whole chapter but all the examples
That christ gives in matthew five
Are examples of confirming and strengthening?
And just
Adding insight onto it and just building upon it and and and shoring them up on these things
But a lot of the teachings are already there the teaching to love thy neighbor as thyself is found in
leviticus chapter 19
And that's what jesus is quoting and also it says that if the the the ox or the ass of your neighbor
Falls into a ditch i'm sorry
If your enemy's ox or ass falls into a ditch
you pull
And you love your enemies that's what the old testament teaches also and here we see david has a personal enemy
Doesn't he is saul david's enemy?
No question. Saul has been trying to kill him for years
And when someone's trying to kill you and when someone is bringing a whole army out to hunt you and kill you that is your
Anybody's your enemy
And yet we see that david loved his enemy didn't he now, let me ask you this about david's enemy king
A godless reprobate
No, king saul was saved king. Saul's in heaven right now. He was a believer now. He was backslidden. He was committing
and he
was
Wrong to be hunting david and trying to kill him and so forth but saul was still saved and saul is in heaven
There's no question about that
But look what the bible says here in matthew chapter 5 verse 43 it says
You've heard that it has been said and again. It wasn't god that ever said it
Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy, but I say unto you
Of your enemies
Bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you
That you may be the children of your father, which is in heaven for
On the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust for if you love them which love you
What reward have you do not even the publicans the same?
So the bible is clearly telling us to love our enemies and the bible explains what our enemies are
It's the people who curse us
It's the people who despitefully use us
It's the people who hate us and say all manner of evil against us falsely
Those are our enemies and god says that we should love our enemies go to romans chapter 12
And we'll see the same teaching in romans chapter 12
It says in romans 12 verse 19
And again, the bible is always very consistent from genesis to revelation. Look at romans 12 verse 19 dearly
Not yourselves
But rather give place under wrath for it is written
Vengeance is mine. I will repay sayeth the lord. Therefore if thine enemy
feed him if
Thirst give him drink for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head be not overcome of evil
But overcome evil with good now in this passage. We see the exact same thing
Because if it says don't take vengeance
Obviously, this is a person who's done wrong to you personally, right because vengeance is payback
bench
And so somebody has done you wrong
God says
Do not return evil for evil
overcome evil with good
bless them that curse you
And do good to those that hate you and so forth. So this is teaching the identical thing
That matthew five is teaching and both of them are specifically your
Personal enemies who have specifically done wrong to you
Isn't that what it's saying?
It's saying someone's done wrong to you
Do not avenge your
Don't avenge yourselves give place under wrath
When they curse you when they hate you when they use you
Love your enemies that are
now here's
Understand this people will take this teaching and just change it to this love everybody
Love everybody now look I can see where they're coming from
But they're dead wrong and they need to read the rest of the bible
Because there are 22 scriptures. I could clearly point you to and I don't have time to make a whole sermon about it
But there are the bible says there's a time to love and a time to hate
And the bible does not teach. Hey, just love everybody at all times
Until the bitter end for all reasons, but people will take a scripture that says love your enemies and just in their mind
Just oh just love everybody love love pedophiles
Love hitler love mousetongue just love everybody, but that's not what the bible's teaching
Now the bible teaches that we should hate those who hate the lord
Now that's a small minority of people that just hate the lord. I mean most unsaved people don't hate the lord
They're just unsaved. I'm not saying they're good people even bad people, but they don't just hate the lord
But there are some people who hate god so much. They don't even want to retain god in their knowledge
And god gave them over to reprobate mine and these enemies of the lord and david himself
and look is not just
Listen carefully to me tonight
Isn't david a great poster child for loving your enemies?
I mean can anybody think of anybody in the bible who loved their enemies more than david?
Somebody call it out to me or one that was a quick
Jesus Jesus
Father forgive them for they know not what they do
I mean, you know, I can't think of anybody who exceeded this. I mean, you know, there are other people somebody said joseph
That's another great example, right?
Joseph loved his enemies, but you know what I would say that david
Provides a great example of a man who went way above and beyond
and loved his enemies
King psalm he blessed he's fasting for him. He's mourning when he dies and even later on he's gonna just out of nowhere
Isn't there
Buddy
It's related to king psalm just so I can do good unto them. I mean, this is a guy who is practicing
matthew 5 and 44 and romans 12, right, but this is the exact same man who said in the book of
Psalms do not I hate them. Oh lord that hate thee
Now think about that. So people will try to say oh
you hateful person
What about matthew 544 but look it's funny how david had the balance right david had it figured out
David understood that his personal enemy was someone that he should bless and over
And that's that's what he did
But when it came to just wicked reprobate enemies of the lord
David said do not I hate them. Oh lord that hate thee
And i'm not I grieve with those who rise up against me and he said this I hate them with a perfect hatred
Now perfect in the bible means complete
Entire so when he says I hate them with perfect hatred. He's saying I I just complete hatred
Just total hatred
So it's not inconsistent and you know these these bunch of atheists just want to try to find a contradiction bible
But you know we as bible believing christians need to by faith believe that the whole bible is true
And we need to take all the scripture and put it all together and say okay. How could all of this be true?
How could both of these be true?
And we come to the conclusion that okay when it comes to our personal enemies people who do wrong
To us we're supposed to love our enemies, but when it comes to evil wicked
Hateful reprobate enemies of the lord. We're not supposed to love them
It's not that and by the way turn the other cheek
Is talking about your own cheek also. I mean, I just wish people would understand what i'm preaching right now
Now I have had people slap me across the face
I've had people push and shove me and if somebody comes up to me and slaps me across the cheek
Okay
My life's not really in danger
It's not really a self-defense thing because if somebody really wants to hurt you, what are they going to do?
They're going to punch you or they're going to use a weapon. They're not just going to slap you in the face
Okay, so what the bible is saying here, you know, if somebody smites you on the one cheek
You know what turn to him the other also basically what's he saying? Don't take vengeance
Just allow yourself to be mocked and ridiculed
And and so forth because god will judge and god will avenge that's what the bible's teaching
Now he's not teaching against self-defense somebody's coming to kill you in the middle of the night you can kill that person, you know
Because that's you know self-defense and the bible teaches that self-defense is appropriate but when it comes to just somebody slapping you in the face
But here's the thing. It doesn't say if someone slaps someone else in the face
Forgive be forgiving. No because it's so easy to forgive when other people are the victim
God's telling you to forgive people that do you wrong. I mean listen if i'm out in public
And somebody walks up and slaps my wife across the face
Do you think i'm gonna turn
It's not my cheek she'll turn the she'll turn the other cheek and then i'll step in and you know
And i'll turn the other cheek, you know, but the point that
People get mixed up
Of saying, you know, oh, yeah forgive and they want to forgive things that have nothing to do with them
They just want to
Horrible pedophiles and and and serial rapists and just oh just forget you're not even the victim
And just oh just forget you're not even the victim
You know god has ordained that people would execute justice upon criminals
Okay
And so people mix up these things
I just for the life of me. I can't understand where this contradiction is coming from because it seems just really simple
I mean who thinks that who understands what I just said over the last five or ten minutes
Hands all over the building. I I think it makes pretty good sense that there's a difference between your personal enemy who's harming you
And just horrible reprobates out there
That have nothing to do with you personally, but you just don't want anything to do with them because they're so bad
And you know what? There are a lot of opportunities to put this into practice go back to second samuel one
But at your job, you're gonna have people who lie about you at the job
You're gonna have people who throw you under the bus when something goes wrong because they don't want to take the heat for it
You're gonna have people who just chew you out for no reason at work
And you know how you handle that is a part of your christian testimony
You know when someone comes to you at work and just starts laying into you and cussing you out
You know if you can actually handle that and take that and be humble and and and remain on good terms with people
You know, that's a powerful testimony
And when people lie about you and curse you on the job and you do good unto them, you know
That goes a long way I remember this one guy treated me like dirt at this one job
I had and one day I bought him a soda at the gas station
just
Here I bought you I was at the the gas station I bought you this
It was like a dollar fifty or something. I said, yeah, I thought you might want this and that guy was never rude to me again
He was very nice to me, but just I mean that was the best dollar fifty I ever spent in my life
The guy treated me great after that and then another guy had a different job one time
Just I walked up and asked him a question
He just started yelling at me and cussing me out had nothing to do with me what he was mad about
And I just I just said hey man, you know, you're upset. I'm just gonna walk away and then I ended up, you know
Doing something for him some might some tiny minor thing and then that guy was just my best buddy after that
You know, so you can you can often
Turn people around just with a just by reaching out a little bit but pride is what doesn't want to reach out to people
It's probably it's not that you don't want to spend the dollar fifty
It's pride
because when somebody's treating you bad when somebody's a jerk the flash is like
Oh, i'm gonna show them, you know, i'm gonna i'm gonna win this but you know what that isn't right
It'd be like david
Be one who reaches out and says you know what
I'm humble enough to buy you a soda and be your servant, you know and do something nice for you
And that goes a long way with people because it's rare
And so that's what we learned from the story about loving your enemies and people who've uh, who've hurt you and and despitefully used you
You know, uh, you should forgive those people, you know
for example
You know, I was kind of this week. I was kind of revisiting the whole
Incident that happened to me in 2009 with the border patrol because I was making a video about it
and
You know, I I remember honestly
sitting in the back of the police car
Jammed in there with my hands cuffed behind my back and you know blood coming out of my face and everything and I I literally
prayed for the salvation of
The agents who beat me up and tasered me and bashed my face in you know
I just pray I remember because I just remember thinking you know what that's what god wants me to do
Now that doesn't mean that I didn't want justice
It doesn't mean that I didn't think they should be you know punished or fired from their jobs or something for what they did
It doesn't mean that i'm you know
For the loss of our freedoms in this country or that I don't believe in the bill of rights
It's just a simple thing of you know, what those guys
Are just brainwashed. They don't know what they're doing. I mean, did you see the guys in court on the witness stand?
I mean the guy
Is is not playing with a full deck
and so therefore
You know
You got to have the attitude of kind of like father forgive them for they know not what they do
Because obviously there are much more powerful evil people
That are the ones controlling these people and training these people and brainwashing. I mean that individual guy
Even the one who grabbed my face and shoved it in the broken glass or shot me with the tape, you know
those individual guys
You know, there's no reason why they couldn't believe on jesus and be saved
There's no reason why they they they just have to be a horrible person rotten to the core
I'm sure that they're not
Maybe some of them are I don't know but you don't know
So I just pray I remember just praying I said god I pray
This is exactly what I prayed. I remember this this came
I pray god, would you
Whatever baptist church in yuma does soul winning
Send someone by their door lord
Just just move that some soul winner would go by the door and that they would at least get the gospel
And be safe. It doesn't mean that I don't think that they should be held accountable before what they did
But you know what? I don't hate them. I can honestly stand here
and say that I
Those people that did that to me and other people who've done other things to me. I don't hate them
The only people that I hate are those who hate the lord
And it's a very small minority
But you know what when people wrong me and and say bad things about me
It doesn't mean that I hate we shouldn't hate them. We should love them love our enemies and I think it's pretty clear and I think
There are other examples obviously jesus, but you know monks mortal man, I think uh,
David's the best and then uh, joseph would be another good one. So let's keep reading here
Uh, there's the lamentation that david laments with in verse 17
And it says in verse 18 also he bade them
Teach the children of judah the use of the bow. This is talking about the bow and arrow because this was a weapon
That jonathan was very proficient with so in honor of jonathan. He says, you know what as a memorial judge of jonathan
Let's teach the people how to use a bow and arrow and and get good at it
Just as a memorial unto him basically because that was something that he loved
Now it says this at the end of the verse behold
It is written in the book of jaysure now people will make a big deal out of that statement and oh the book of jaysure
Let's go find it. And of course, there are these fraudulent the book of jaysure, you know
The hidden secret book has been revealed and you know
What's funny that most of the people who want to talk to you about the book of jaysure?
And the book of enoch and the gospel according to bartholomew
And the gospel according to thomas and all these books have not read the bible cover to cover
I mean define irony
God gives you 66 books that you know are part of the bible and you're just like, oh
I want to read this other book book number 67
Book number 68, you know what it is. It's just this trendy
You know always seeking some new what's the new thing? You know what? Why don't you just read the old?
Book here of 66 books that you know are the word of god and these books they're all fraudulent i've looked into them
They're a joke. They're ridiculous
And uh, you know, I don't know how anybody could be tricked by these things when you start reading the content
I mean when you put them next to the bible, it's like putting mcdonald's next to a filet mignon
And saying hey these both came out of the same kitchen the same chef made these two things
No, they didn't
so
anyway, that's that's what uh
That's what I the feeling that I get when I read these, uh, or I don't read them
But whenever i've looked at them, but you say well right there it's mentioned though. It's written in the book of jayshir
Here's the thing though just because the bible mentions a book
Does it say that the book of jayshir is the word of god?
Does it say it's written in the book of jayshir which is scripture?
No, now here's the thing. What if i'm preaching right and i'm preaching along and I make reference to a book
And I like I was preaching the other day and I said, oh, yeah, that's in that book fast food nation
You'll you'll find it in that book
Oh, that's some other scripture that we need
Fast food nation is a new scripture that we're going to add to the to the holy bible
No, because it's okay to mention books that are not in the bible
It's a history book
The book of jayshir. It's just a book that was around at that time where it had been chronicled that this took place
But it doesn't mean that it's scripture. This is the word of god and
God
This is what's been preserved god said he would preserve his word and he has preserved it
So these new things that they're supposedly digging up they can't be god's word because they haven't been preserved
They wouldn't have fallen off the face of the earth if they were god's word
So the book of jayshir is a book that was around back then it's not scripture
It says in verse 19 the beauty of israel is slain upon the thy high place
mighty
Tell it not in gaff
Publish it not in the streets of ashequan
Those are two key cities of the philistines and he's saying don't publish it there, you know
Because we don't want them to rejoice over the victory over saul
He says lest the daughters of the philistines rejoice lest the daughters of the uncircumcised
Triumph he mountains of gilboa. Let there be no dew
There be
Upon you nor fields of offering so he's basically cursing mount gilboa just for being the place where saul died
And he says for the mighty
Cast away the shield of saul as though he had not been anointed with oil
From the blood of the slain from the fat of the mighty the bow of jonathan turned not back
And the sword of saul returned not empty
So again making reference to the weapon of choice of jonathan being the bow and arrow and and saul being the sword
Again, confirming that it wasn't a spear
Verse 23 saul and jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death. They were not divided
They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions
Ye daughters of israel weep over saul who clothed you in scarlet and other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your peril
You know saul really had done a lot for the children of israel because the felistines were were in charge
Before saul came along and saul came and delivered them and gave them freedom
He brought them freedom and liberty and he's been reigning over them for 40 years
So he did a lot for them and david is saying you know what even though later in life
He did bad things. He did some stupid things and especially he became my enemy
Let's still remember the good that he did
in the early days
And let's remember the fact that he did give us prosperity and liberty and peace, uh for a lot of his reign
He's saying weep over saul
Who clothed you in scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel verse 25?
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle?
Oh, jonathan now was slain in thy high places. I am just
My brother jonathan, so he's showing how much he loves saul
He loves jonathan because if you remember the soul of david and the soul of jonathan were knit together the bible says in first samuel
they
Loved each other
They were best friends
They wept over each other when they had to separate because of the hatred that saul had for david and when they had to go
their separate ways
And he says i'm distressed for thee my brother jonathan very pleasant has thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful
Passing the love of women now go to titus chapter one
Because we are really living in some strange days
And so perverted wicked people
will actually point to
this scripture and say
You know, well david was a sodomite
They won't use that word they'll say david was gay
You know, I don't use the word gay because gay means happy and lively and friendly and cheerful
Okay
And there's nothing wrong with being
There's something wrong
With being
a pervert
Okay, and so they'll say oh
Well, david loved jonathan more than the love of women, but let me show you why they're coming up with such a perverse interpretation
because
In verse number 15 unto the pure
All things are pure
But unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure
But even their mind and conscience is defiled they profess that they know god
But in works, they deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work
reprobate
so these vile
Relieving reprobate says they're unbelievers, but they profess that they know god
So they'll try well, I believe
And the bible says and they get a filthy interpretation of god's word and you know what anybody who reads that scripture
in second samuel chapter one and walks away
Thinking that it has anything to do with sodomy is a pervert for even thinking along those lines. It's disgusting
I mean I grew up with the bible
That thought never entered my mind
You know
that's
Just because and you say well that thought entered my mind whenever I read it just because we're living in
stinking sodom in america here
that's why these thoughts even in here because
three
people
Thought that when they read that they would have just thought to themselves
You know what he loved jonathan more than he loved any woman because here's the thing
David did not really have a woman in his life that he really had great love for if you look at the life of david
You know, it's not really a a storybook romance
When you look at the life of david, I mean david loved the lord
Loved his friend
Jonathan, but you know what? He didn't really have a woman in his life that he loved and and because think about it
The first wife that he married
He ends up having to flee out the window because saul's trying to kill him. It's saul's daughter
Then he's on the run and he's not seeing her for years on end so then king saul gives his wife to someone else
I mean, can you imagine that you're can you imagine you flee from the law or you flee from whatever?
Is left behind
Someone gives your wife to someone else to be their wife
That's what happened to david. So that's what happened with his first marriage. So then david marries some other woman
Here's well walla
Well marry a third it's funny when he marries the second wife the third is like in the next breath
Because once you once you go beyond what god has commanded the sky's the limit. God has commanded one wife
God says one man one woman is marriage
Okay, but if you're gonna go to two you might as well make it three
that's kind of where david was at because
And we covered that when we were in first samuel
So, you know when you see a guy who's marrying a second wife and a third wife
Then he goes back home
and demand
So then she's stripped from the second husband and given to him
again
okay, but then she
mouths off to him
And then he mouths off to her basically
They never have anything to do with each other ever again
And he's just with wives two three four and he adds a few more
But anyway the but you know, and by the way every king in the bible did
Because the power goes to their head it's too much. That's why god never intended a human king. The only king should be jesus
You know, we're supposed to have just the judges and and basically a representative government laid out in deuteronomy chapter number one and so
Uh, that's why these kings it goes to their head. They get too much power
Even a man after god's own heart is abusing his power too many wives
commits adultery later
Remember when david committed adultery with beth shiba? So is this guy's life a storybook romance of one man one woman?
No, so, can you see why he says well my love for jonathan
The love that I found with women see here's the problem with that sentence women
I mean think about what he's saying
He says i'm distressed for thee my brother. Jonathan
Very pleasant has thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful passing the love of women. See that's the problem
He didn't say passing the love of woman
Because if he would have just had one wife
They would have stayed true to and stayed faithful to and not practiced any polygamy
Then he probably would have found more love with that woman or he could have found more love with that
Jonathan as just a friend
So this guy didn't have uh, a serious romance with any woman. So therefore
You know his best friend was jonathan he he had more closeness with jonathan than he had with his wives plural
Which is part of the problem?
And people will take a perverse interpretation of this because they're unbelievable
Literally sent me an article
In response to my sermon on on the birth control pills. Somebody sent me an article
saying that song of solomon showing
teaches
How to um how to use birth control and give yourself an abortion
Song of solomon
Some oh, but but but the the woman who wrote it was therefore
I mean whatever she's saying must be true because I mean
If anybody knows what the old testament means it's the unbelieving jews. I mean, you know there after all they're god's chosen people
She said that song is
Actually teaching you how to have an abortion and how to use birth control
Because some of the plants mentioned in song of solomon could be used as abortificience
And so therefore it's like a code. It's like a secret code
And then this lying jew also said that in this in the book of song of solomon. It's about this unmarried couple
Fornicating really because it says the word spouse over and over again
Spouse isn't your spouse your wife
You don't say about your girlfriend or your boyfriend. This is my spouse. No spouse means you're married
And so they're just lying
all lies
I think I preached a sermon like that the jews and their lies. But anyway, but these you know, anybody who doesn't believe in jesus
Don't listen to their interpretations of the old testament
Right because if they don't believe in jesus the bible says they have a veil over their reading of the old
And when their heart turns to christ the veil is removed so if they don't believe in jesus, they're reading it literally blindfolded
So here we see
It really really loved
It was really his best friend on on the earth
Even more than the women in his life, you know, jonathan was his closest companion
So he's sad about his death and then it says in verse how are the mighty fallen?
And the weapons of war
perished
And so as we get into chapter two next week, we're going to get into where do they go next right now?
They're in a bad position the king's dead
Israel has pretty much been scattered every man to his tent
and the cities have been forsaken of judah because the phalistines have
And so now we're going to begin to see david rise to power
You know first in judah and in hebron and then eventually over all
We're going to
After
But at this point we're just dealing with
Basically the epilogue of first samuel dealing with the death of saul and david's reaction to it and so forth
Let's borrow and have a word of prayer father
We thank you so much for this great chapter lord, and and we thank you for the lessons that we could learn
Especially about loving our enemies and treating those who do us wrong
In a godly manble enough to put the world whether it has to do with euthanasia
Asia whether it has to do with the believing that every single person who uh,
uh
guilty
Committed the crime whether it has to do with euthanasia or abortion or sodomites lord
There's so much, uh ungodliness lord help us to
These lies lord and also just help us to uh,
Live our lives in a way that would be honoring and pleasing to you and and to follow the good examples
That are in david's life. He wasn't perfect. He made mistakes lord, but help us
things
We pray amen