WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:30.000 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW 00:30.000 --> 00:58.820 Quan Multiple 00:58.820 --> 01:00.820 you 01:28.820 --> 01:31.820 you 01:58.820 --> 02:01.820 you 02:28.820 --> 02:31.820 you 02:58.820 --> 03:01.820 you 03:28.820 --> 03:31.820 you 03:58.820 --> 04:01.820 you 04:28.820 --> 04:31.820 you 04:58.820 --> 05:01.820 you 05:28.820 --> 05:31.820 you 05:58.820 --> 06:01.820 you 06:28.820 --> 06:31.820 you 06:58.820 --> 07:01.820 you 07:28.820 --> 07:31.820 you 07:58.820 --> 08:01.820 you 08:28.820 --> 08:31.820 you 08:58.820 --> 09:00.820 you 09:29.820 --> 09:31.820 Wow 09:49.820 --> 09:55.820 δΎ‹ 09:55.820 --> 10:01.100 Samuel chapter 11 the Bible reads, then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against 10:01.100 --> 10:06.860 Jabesh-gilead and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, make it a covenant with us and 10:06.860 --> 10:11.820 we will serve thee. And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, on this condition will I make 10:11.820 --> 10:18.380 a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes and lay it for a reproach 10:18.380 --> 10:24.280 upon all Israel. And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, give us seven days respite that 10:24.280 --> 10:29.280 we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel and then if there be no man to save 10:29.280 --> 10:35.400 us we will come out to thee. Then came the messengers of Gibeah of Saul and told the 10:35.400 --> 10:40.360 tidings in the ears of the people and all the people lifted up their voices and wept. 10:40.360 --> 10:45.540 And behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field and Saul said, what aileth the people 10:45.540 --> 10:50.720 that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh. And the spirit of God 10:50.720 --> 10:56.520 came upon Saul when he heard those tidings and his anger was kindled greatly and he took 10:56.520 --> 11:02.080 a yoke of oxen and hewed them in pieces and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel 11:02.080 --> 11:08.080 by the hands of messengers saying, whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel 11:08.080 --> 11:13.480 so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell on the people and they 11:13.480 --> 11:18.760 came out with one consent and when he numbered them in Bezik the children of Israel were 11:18.760 --> 11:26.000 300,000 and the men of Judah 30,000. And they said unto the messengers that came, thus shall 11:26.000 --> 11:31.760 ye say unto the men of Jabesh, Gilead, tomorrow by that time the sun be hot ye shall have 11:31.760 --> 11:37.520 help. And the messengers came and showed it to the men of Jabesh and they were glad. Therefore 11:37.520 --> 11:42.860 the men of Jabesh said, tomorrow we will come out unto you and ye shall do with us all that 11:42.860 --> 11:49.260 seemeth good unto you. And it was so on the morrow that Saul put the people in three companies 11:49.260 --> 11:54.660 and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch and slew the Ammonites until 11:54.660 --> 11:59.580 the heat of the day. And it came to pass that they which remained were scattered so that 11:59.580 --> 12:04.900 two of them were not left together. And the people said unto Samuel, who is he that said 12:04.900 --> 12:11.060 shall Saul reign over us? Bring the man that we may put them to death. And Saul said, there 12:11.060 --> 12:16.260 shall not a man be put to death this day for today the Lord hath wrought salvation in Israel. 12:16.260 --> 12:23.100 Then said Samuel to the people, come and let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there. And all 12:23.100 --> 12:29.660 the people went to Gilgal and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. And there 12:29.660 --> 12:35.060 they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men 12:36.060 --> 12:39.060 of Israel rejoiced greatly. Brother Saul, would you pray for us? 12:39.060 --> 12:43.060 Lord, thank you so much for this day. Lord, thank you so much for this. 12:56.060 --> 13:02.060 Amen. We're in 1 Samuel chapter 11 and if you remember last week, just to recap a little bit here, 13:02.060 --> 13:08.660 Saul has been anointed by Samuel. First he was called by the Lord in chapter 9, chapter 10. He's 13:08.660 --> 13:18.420 anointed by Samuel and then Saul basically goes back to his house. And in between there though, 13:18.420 --> 13:24.340 he's filled with the Holy Spirit comes upon him. He preaches with all these prophets, all the things 13:24.340 --> 13:30.380 that Samuel tell him come to pass. So it's very obvious that what Samuel has told him is true, 13:30.380 --> 13:36.140 that he is going to be the king and there's just no doubt about it. But he doesn't really seem to 13:36.140 --> 13:43.700 be accepting of it very much when it comes time to meet up. And Samuel's telling everybody, 13:43.700 --> 13:51.700 he kind of is revealed by Lot who's chosen. And so all the people can see this too. And when it 13:51.700 --> 13:57.460 comes time for Saul to come out, then he's hiding amongst the stuff. And then the Lord's like, 13:57.660 --> 14:02.100 he's hiding amongst the stuff. Six foot, whatever he is, taller than everybody else, 14:02.100 --> 14:07.580 he then he comes out. And then people are kind of, it seems like they're a little bit, 14:07.580 --> 14:12.100 everybody seems to be like, except for the sons of Belial, everybody's accepting of it. They say, 14:12.100 --> 14:18.340 God saved the king. But there's no formal service of him being the king. They just say that, 14:18.340 --> 14:24.540 which is kind of said in a lot of kingdoms today, even in England. That's something that's said, 14:25.020 --> 14:34.140 God saved the queen, which is not biblical. But anyway, so then he goes back to his place, 14:34.140 --> 14:39.900 everybody goes back to their place, the sons of Belial. They kind of say the little snide remarks, 14:39.900 --> 14:46.100 which the Holy Spirit is telling us that their sons of Belial, not necessarily everybody knows 14:46.100 --> 14:54.660 that that's what they are. And the people are excited, it seems like. But God's told them, 14:56.460 --> 15:02.540 he told them last week though, in our chapter that said that they've rejected God as their king. And 15:02.540 --> 15:11.260 so despite that fact, they seem still excited anyway. And the children of Israel will reap 15:11.260 --> 15:17.220 what they sow here. And I've kind of talked about this multiple times, but in the end, 15:17.220 --> 15:22.580 when Jesus Christ comes to be their king, they're going to reject him just like they rejected him 15:22.580 --> 15:26.900 then. The king that they're actually looking for, the Messiah that they're actually looking for, 15:26.900 --> 15:32.060 when he actually comes, they're going to reject him. And so you're going to see it play out. 15:32.060 --> 15:37.180 Obviously, we saw it play out with the Lord Jesus Christ, so they rejected him as the king. And you 15:37.180 --> 15:43.500 kind of see it manifesting itself in a shadow fulfillment in this chapter. So it begins to take 15:43.500 --> 15:50.500 root here. But we'll cover that at the end of the chapter here. But look back just in chapter, verse 15:50.500 --> 15:58.660 27 in 1 Samuel 10, just one page back in your Bible, or maybe it's just one verse back in your 15:58.660 --> 16:05.220 Bible before chapter 11. Verse number 27, it says, But the children of Belial said, How shall this 16:05.220 --> 16:13.260 man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presence, but he held his peace. So it's 16:13.260 --> 16:18.500 obviously set out loud to where everybody can hear what they're saying. So people heard what these 16:18.500 --> 16:25.180 guys are saying. Saul heard what they were saying, but Saul didn't say anything. He just kept quiet. 16:25.180 --> 16:28.980 I mean, he's already hiding among the stuff. He probably doesn't want to just be like, have this 16:28.980 --> 16:35.820 big public challenge right then and there over him being the king. You know, but it says they despise 16:35.820 --> 16:41.340 him, they hated him. That's what that means. Despise means they hated him. And they didn't give him any 16:41.340 --> 16:47.060 presence, right? So apparently, other people were given him presence, or something along those lines. 16:47.060 --> 16:55.300 And they said, How shall this man save us? So part of Saul's job was to be the captain of the host of 16:55.300 --> 16:59.700 Israel and to lead them into battle. And what God said is he was going to deliver them from the 16:59.700 --> 17:04.820 Philistines. But not just the Philistines. I mean, in this chapter, it's the Ammonites. And if you 17:04.820 --> 17:11.860 remember who the Ammonites are, the Ammonites are the children of Lot through that incestuous 17:11.860 --> 17:18.500 relationship. And so it's the Moabites and the Ammonites. And the Ammonites are related to the 17:18.500 --> 17:25.280 children of Israel in the sense that Lot was the nephew of Abraham. And so they are related to them 17:25.280 --> 17:31.520 in a way. It's a little more distant now. But they're still brethren with them to a certain extent. 17:31.520 --> 17:39.360 And God says that they have their own territory. So the nation of Israel say this is the dividing 17:39.360 --> 17:45.680 line. You've got Israel over here. And then Ammon is right here next to Gilead. The northern part of 17:46.960 --> 17:54.160 Israel is right next door to them. So I thought if you look at my make-believe map that I just made. 17:55.440 --> 18:04.400 But you do see a foreshadowing of the millennium, the millennial reign a little bit here. And so 18:04.400 --> 18:09.280 just keep this in mind in the back of your mind as we go through this here. But look at verse number 18:09.280 --> 18:16.480 one in our text. It says, In Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead. And 18:16.480 --> 18:23.680 all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us and we will serve thee. So these 18:23.680 --> 18:32.800 are the half tribe of Manasseh. It's Gad and it's Reuben. Remember they made a deal with Moses that 18:33.440 --> 18:39.680 they'll go fight with everybody. But they wanted that property right there. And so they did what 18:39.680 --> 18:46.080 they said they were going to do before the promised land was all divided up. But Moses gave them their 18:46.080 --> 18:53.520 lot before everybody else got theirs. And so Gad, the half tribe of Manasseh, and Reuben all got that 18:53.520 --> 19:01.120 big stretch of Gilead where it was good for farming, good for raising cattle, and all that stuff. Well, 19:01.120 --> 19:07.680 this is where it's talking about. So Ammon is right next door to that. And so it doesn't say this guy's 19:07.680 --> 19:13.360 a king, but obviously he's a powerful man. He's some sort of a warlord. And he doesn't like the 19:13.360 --> 19:19.440 children of Israel either. And so he's picking a fight. And who's he picking it with? Jabesh Gilead. 19:19.440 --> 19:26.240 So this is some sort of a, you know, probably a bigger city within their area, their territory. 19:27.440 --> 19:32.720 And so they're like, hey, let's make a covenant. Obviously they're afraid of them. They don't think 19:32.720 --> 19:36.240 they could beat them in a battle. And so they're like, hey, let's make a covenant. You know, we'll 19:36.240 --> 19:40.880 serve you. You don't have to kill us. You don't have to do anything like that. We'll just 19:41.440 --> 19:45.600 make a deal with you. This is what people usually do to try to sue for peace, right? 19:46.160 --> 19:52.000 So basically, they're sent out to Nahash and they're afraid of them. 19:53.760 --> 20:00.800 And you know, Jabesh Gilead has a history of being punished by God. You might not recall who Jabesh 20:00.800 --> 20:08.000 Gilead is or what happened with them. Who remembers? Does anybody remember what happened with Jabesh 20:08.000 --> 20:14.320 Gilead in the Bible before these events? Anybody? All these names get kind of thrown out and you're 20:14.320 --> 20:19.360 kind of like these different city names and things like that. And you kind of forget. Well, 20:20.560 --> 20:27.680 they are punished because they didn't show up to the fight against the Benjaminites of 20:28.400 --> 20:33.440 Gibeah. When those sodomites did what they did to 20:36.240 --> 20:42.880 that priest's wife or concubine, then they're the only ones that didn't show up. So let's turn over 20:42.880 --> 20:47.520 to judges and we'll, I just want to show you some things before. So you kind of get an idea of, 20:48.880 --> 20:54.480 there's a relationship between Benjamin and this specific city. And I just want to foreshadow this 20:54.480 --> 21:02.240 before we get into the main meat of this sermon. So you kind of understand like why Saul feels so 21:02.240 --> 21:07.920 much towards this place because it's not really on the surface of the sermon, but if you kind of 21:07.920 --> 21:14.800 know a little bit of history, then you'll understand a little bit more of why Saul feels so much for 21:14.800 --> 21:21.280 Jabesh Gilead. But look at Judges chapter 21 verse 5. Judges chapter 21 verse 5. And remember, 21:21.520 --> 21:34.160 the priest, the Levite, after the sodomites kill his concubine by forcing her and hurting her, 21:34.160 --> 21:40.960 and basically they kill her by whatever sick things that they did to her. And she dies before 21:40.960 --> 21:47.520 she can get back up to the door. And whatever, the guy's a weirdo too, that was his concubine, 21:47.520 --> 21:53.040 the husband just lets his concubine go outside instead of him having something happen to him, 21:53.040 --> 21:59.040 he doesn't fight for her, he just allows her to get killed. But then he cuts up her body 21:59.040 --> 22:06.240 and sends it all over the place. And then God says, they asked should we go up against Benjamin, 22:06.240 --> 22:12.880 our brother, and God said yes, go up, for I'll deliver them into your hands. And so there's a 22:12.880 --> 22:19.680 couple of fights, and Judah I think goes up first, and Judah gets beat up twice. And one thing I 22:19.680 --> 22:30.640 wasn't thinking about last week was that when Joseph was asking for Benjamin to come up in 22:30.640 --> 22:36.640 Genesis, Judah said that he was going to make sure that Benjamin was protected. Do you remember that? 22:36.640 --> 22:41.520 And so when I was making that connection like Benjamin was asking for Benjamin to come up, 22:41.520 --> 22:45.440 I was making that connection like Benjamin has this connection with Judah that lasted 22:45.440 --> 22:52.400 throughout all these ages. And even when Jesus Christ picks Saul who is of the tribe of Benjamin, 22:52.400 --> 22:57.280 I kind of missed that connection. Someone reminded me of that connection that watched the sermon. 22:57.280 --> 23:03.440 I was like, oh man, I completely forgot all about that. But if you think about that, remember Jacob 23:03.440 --> 23:09.120 did not want to give Benjamin up to be taken to Joseph because remember they're holding 23:09.120 --> 23:15.440 Reuben hostage there. But Judah said that I will take the blame forever, and he said, 23:15.440 --> 23:21.760 I will bring Benjamin back. And so there's that connection from the very beginning of Genesis 23:22.400 --> 23:26.320 with Benjamin. But anyway, that was just something that somebody pointed out to me, 23:26.320 --> 23:30.800 and I thought, oh, that's really cool. So anyway, let's look at verse five. It says, 23:30.800 --> 23:35.200 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up 23:35.200 --> 23:41.120 with the congregation unto the Lord? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came 23:41.120 --> 23:48.000 not up to the Lord, to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death. So anybody that went not 23:48.000 --> 23:52.960 up to this battle, they're surely going to be put to death. And the children of Israel repented then, 23:54.160 --> 24:00.160 excuse me, for Benjamin, their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. 24:00.160 --> 24:05.360 How shall we do for the wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that 24:05.360 --> 24:11.840 we will not give them of our daughters to wives? And they said, What one is there of the tribes of 24:11.840 --> 24:18.000 Israel that came not up to Mizpah to the Lord? And behold, there came none to the camp from 24:18.000 --> 24:23.520 Jabesh-gilead to the assembly. So what do they say is going to happen if they don't come up? 24:24.080 --> 24:28.400 They're going to surely be put to death, right? So it says, For the people were numbered, and 24:28.400 --> 24:32.880 behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there. And the congregation 24:32.880 --> 24:38.960 sent thither 12,000 men of the valiantists and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the 24:38.960 --> 24:43.600 inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. 24:43.600 --> 24:50.080 So this is a huge judgment, isn't it? This is not something that's pronounced usually upon the worst 24:50.080 --> 24:56.320 enemies of God. And since they did not help the rest of the children of Israel to overcome 24:56.400 --> 25:02.240 these sodomite protecting weirdos, then they're getting a huge judgment against them. This 25:02.240 --> 25:09.520 specific place, this specific city where, I mean, these are brethren with the children of Israel. 25:09.520 --> 25:14.720 It says, And this is the thing that ye shall do. Ye shall utterly destroy every male and every 25:14.720 --> 25:21.920 woman that hath lain by man. And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins 25:21.920 --> 25:27.440 that had known no man by lying with any male. And they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, 25:27.440 --> 25:33.680 which is in the land of Canaan. So everybody else has to die except for these 400 virgins. 25:35.120 --> 25:41.200 And so they're trying to repopulate Benjamin, the only ones that are left. And there's not a 25:41.200 --> 25:47.440 lot left, but there's more than 400, apparently. And it says, And the whole congregation sent some 25:47.440 --> 25:54.160 to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock rimmin and to call peaceably unto them. 25:54.160 --> 25:59.280 And Benjamin came again at that time, and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of 25:59.280 --> 26:05.120 the women of Jabesh-gilead, and yet so they sufficed them not. So there wasn't enough 26:05.120 --> 26:08.320 to go around. And so later on, that's when they went and caught the ones at the 26:09.040 --> 26:14.400 festival or whatever, which is a weird story too. But this one isn't quite as weird, but they're 26:14.400 --> 26:22.640 still kind of, you know, it's kind of like they're kind of lucky to be alive type of thing. 26:22.640 --> 26:28.720 So it's like, here you go, you got to marry these guys, these losers, or whatever, you know, 26:28.720 --> 26:32.960 because the Benjaminites are lucky to be alive also. They're lucky that they're not wiped off 26:32.960 --> 26:38.320 the face of the planet, but God had mercy and left a remnant for them. And he had mercy and left the 26:38.320 --> 26:46.640 remnant of women alive in Jabesh-gilead because God is a merciful God. Even through severe judgment, 26:46.640 --> 26:53.040 he still has mercy on his people for a remnant of his people, which is pretty interesting, right? 26:53.600 --> 27:00.800 And it says, so there is, so it says, yeah, and so yet they sufficed them not. So I'm not going to 27:00.800 --> 27:06.560 go further into the tale here, but there's 400 women that were virgins that were left over. 27:07.520 --> 27:12.480 Everybody else they killed. They killed everybody else in Jabesh-gilead except for these 400 women. 27:13.520 --> 27:22.080 So that means what? That the tribe of Benjamin is related to the people that are in Jabesh-gilead. 27:22.080 --> 27:26.320 So everybody else has populated this except for probably people that just came and joined 27:26.320 --> 27:33.120 later on. But there's probably not much time that's passed after this to the time that we're at now in 27:33.120 --> 27:39.840 this chapter. But so there is a big connection with the tribe of Benjamin and the inhabitants 27:39.840 --> 27:45.840 of Jabesh-gilead, which, you know, Saul's connection to the men of Benjamin that were slaughtered by 27:45.840 --> 27:50.560 the other tribes is that he is from the very place that the atrocity happened in the first place. 27:50.560 --> 27:58.400 Where is King Saul from? Does anybody know where King Saul is from? Well, back up to 1 Samuel 10 27:58.400 --> 28:04.000 verse 26. 1 Samuel chapter 10 verse 26, it tells us exactly where Saul is from. 28:05.520 --> 28:13.600 Where were the sodomites at when they did this attack? Gibia, right? Look at where Saul's from. 28:13.600 --> 28:21.280 1 Samuel chapter 10 verse 26. And Saul also went home to, what's it say there? Gibia. And there 28:21.280 --> 28:28.480 went with him a band of men whose hearts God had touched. So Saul is from Gibia. So, you know, 28:28.480 --> 28:34.480 that place got decimated in this whole battle against the ones that were protecting the sodomites. 28:35.440 --> 28:40.720 You know, and it just goes to show that if you're saved, that you should not be sticking up and 28:40.720 --> 28:47.280 protecting sodomites because that's how God feels about it. And these people that were like, oh yeah, 28:47.280 --> 28:53.200 we let all are welcome in our church. God doesn't feel that way. He says, get them out. Don't let 28:53.200 --> 28:58.640 them into your church. They should not go into the congregation of the Lord. There should no dogs be 28:58.640 --> 29:03.680 allowed in the congregation of the Lord. And, you know, and so how did God feel about it? Well, 29:03.680 --> 29:10.240 he almost wiped out a whole tribe about over it. And then he wiped out a whole city except for 400 29:10.240 --> 29:16.160 virgins that refused to help fight against it. So when people are like, you guys fight against this 29:16.160 --> 29:22.240 too much. Oh, really? Well, I mean, he had all the other tribes of Israel fight against the 29:22.240 --> 29:28.080 benjamites who are protecting the sodomites. That's why he did it. But we're just too radical. 29:29.280 --> 29:33.920 And look, I'm not saying that we should go fight physically against them, but to fight against them 29:33.920 --> 29:37.520 with our mouths and to fight against them in preaching, there's nothing wrong with that in 29:37.520 --> 29:44.320 the world. God is okay with that 100%. And the people that are actually the bad people are the 29:44.320 --> 29:50.400 ones that refuse to preach about it and that let them into their churches and let them brain defile 29:50.400 --> 29:56.640 and brain and let their children see these people and say, Oh yeah, they're the perfect ones to work 29:56.640 --> 30:03.600 with your children. What? That's the whole thing that that Johnny Nixon guy was teaching 30:03.600 --> 30:09.920 who basically our movement put out of business. They went into hiding. When's the last time you 30:09.920 --> 30:14.080 heard of, you know, that ministry, what was the name of it again? Anybody remember? Yeah, 30:14.080 --> 30:22.080 because they're destroyed. Born that way after all. No, no, they weren't. They're not confused 30:22.080 --> 30:29.200 eunuchs. They're confused faggots. That's what they are. And you know, we obliterated them 30:30.000 --> 30:38.000 with what? Our words, with doctrine, with going on a campaign against them. But our campaign 30:38.080 --> 30:44.800 was words against them, preaching against them, exposing it, putting their sin out in front of 30:44.800 --> 30:50.400 everybody and embarrassing them to the point where they just stop preaching it and stop this whole 30:50.400 --> 30:56.320 movement from happening. When's the last time you heard anything about it? Yeah. And people might be 30:56.320 --> 31:00.960 mad about it because we exposed it, but you know what? I'm glad. And if people hate us for it, 31:00.960 --> 31:06.560 then so what? I'm glad that they hate us for it because you know what? It shows that we were 31:06.560 --> 31:12.480 doing something right. You know what? They hated Jesus too. And all those sodomites out there 31:13.040 --> 31:20.000 hate Jesus still. And if they say that they love him, they're loving the wrong Jesus. They're 31:20.000 --> 31:25.840 believing in another Jesus, in another gospel, in another spirit because the spirit of the Lord 31:25.840 --> 31:31.920 Jesus Christ hates iniquity. He hates lawlessness. And you know what he said when they said, shall 31:31.920 --> 31:39.040 I go up against my brother Benjamin? He said, go up. That's what he said. Go up. And this is what 31:39.040 --> 31:48.400 happened to him. So now Amman is modern day Jordan. Like I said, it's next door to Israel. 31:48.400 --> 31:54.560 Right now they're on the border. There's actually still a place called Amman. It's a city in Jordan. 31:55.040 --> 32:04.160 So the backdrop, just to show again this connection between the inhabitants of Jabesh, Gilead, and the 32:04.160 --> 32:11.360 tribe of Benjamin specifically is Saul's connection being of Gibeah. So let's go back to our text in 32:11.360 --> 32:18.880 1st Samuel chapter 11 verse 2. It says, and Nahash the Ammonite answered them on this condition. So 32:18.880 --> 32:22.640 they want to make a covenant with them. He said, on this condition will I make a covenant with you 32:22.640 --> 32:28.800 that I may thrust out all your right eyes and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. 32:28.800 --> 32:35.440 Do they just want to mess with that place? No, they want to mess with all Israel. They want to 32:35.440 --> 32:41.840 pop out their right eyes, turn them into pirates or something, and then they want to make them 32:41.840 --> 32:48.400 walk the plank or something. They want to embarrass them. They want to say, hey, we're dominating you 32:48.480 --> 32:53.360 and we're going to make you come out, poke out your right eye, and then so we can what? 32:54.160 --> 33:00.400 Lay it as a reproach upon all Israel. So they're not going to just stop here. This is what bullies 33:00.400 --> 33:07.920 do. People think that, oh, well, if they just stop by, stand by, and let somebody bully one person, 33:07.920 --> 33:11.680 oh, they're not going to bully me. No, they're going to keep bullying everybody that they can 33:11.680 --> 33:18.320 until somebody puts a stop to it. And so if you think that, oh, well, they should have just 33:18.320 --> 33:23.200 let them do that because this place is wicked. No, God is giving them another chance. It's not 33:23.200 --> 33:29.040 like people don't deserve second chances. God did wipe out the ones that deserve to be wiped out, 33:29.040 --> 33:35.840 the cowards that they were, but they're getting another chance here. Why? Because Saul is there 33:35.840 --> 33:41.440 to be the captain and to help these people out. Look what it says in verse number three. It says, 33:41.440 --> 33:48.640 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days, respite, that we may send messengers 33:48.640 --> 33:53.920 unto all the coast of Israel, and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee. 33:54.720 --> 33:59.600 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people. 34:00.160 --> 34:06.640 And all the people lifted up their voices and wept. And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the 34:06.640 --> 34:12.240 field. And Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the 34:12.240 --> 34:17.680 men of Jabesh. So interesting here, I never really thought of Saul as a man of the field. 34:18.800 --> 34:24.880 Who thought of Saul as a man of the field? Because I really didn't. And I just was reading this 34:24.880 --> 34:30.480 tonight, and I just was like, wow. I just never thought of him as a, like, I mean, I know he went 34:30.480 --> 34:35.280 looking for his father's ashes or whatever, but I just never thought of him as like a herdman. I mean, 34:35.280 --> 34:39.600 I just didn't. I thought, I always kind of thought of him as like kind of a, maybe a spoiled kid or 34:39.600 --> 34:45.840 something. I don't know why. Maybe it's because of the way he acted afterward. But he comes in 34:46.560 --> 34:52.880 after the herd of the field. So he's a shepherd too. And it makes sense because that's the type 34:52.880 --> 34:58.240 people that God calls in the Old Testament. And it says, And the Spirit of God came upon Saul 34:58.240 --> 35:02.400 when he heard those tidings. So as soon as he heard that, what they were going to do, 35:02.400 --> 35:08.080 he heard those tidings and the Spirit of God came upon him and his anger was kindled greatly. 35:09.120 --> 35:14.320 And people get this idea that when you're a Christian that you're never supposed to be angry. 35:14.880 --> 35:20.400 And Mormons are like, they think that anger, you know, they're kind of like these Star Wars 35:20.400 --> 35:25.200 people or whatever, that anger leads to hatred and hatred leads to the dark side or whatever. 35:25.200 --> 35:34.000 Look, Yoda, that is just, that's foolishness. God gets angry sometimes. God actually gets angry 35:34.000 --> 35:42.000 in his, in his wrathful sometimes. His is always right. His is always for the right reason. 35:42.000 --> 35:47.200 Obviously we get angry sometimes over things that we shouldn't get angry for. But God's is always 35:47.200 --> 35:56.480 right. But if the Holy Spirit comes upon Saul and he's angry, then obviously the Holy Spirit is, 35:56.480 --> 36:02.800 is, you know, the one that's kind of getting him that way. Right. This is called righteous indignation. 36:03.840 --> 36:12.560 He's angry because some enemy of God is trying to reproach Israel, not just this one guy, you know, 36:12.560 --> 36:18.800 this one town, but all of Israel, because he said that the, that, you know, we can reproach the whole 36:19.440 --> 36:23.760 of Israel. That's what the, that's what the goal is. So this guy is an enemy of God. 36:23.760 --> 36:29.200 He is an enemy of the whole nation of Israel. He wants to make Israel a laughing stock. He wants 36:29.200 --> 36:36.160 to conquer Israel. I mean, look, they're surrounded by enemies and this is just somebody stepping up 36:36.160 --> 36:42.320 the first time when he's king. Obviously God's going to test his anointed too. You know, I mean, 36:42.320 --> 36:48.400 God proves his people. He proves each and every one of us probably on a weekly basis. How can I 36:48.400 --> 36:54.560 prove them? You know, he, he proves us. He puts us in situations and see, and to see how we're going 36:54.560 --> 36:59.760 to respond to things. And he might not realize that, but he does do that. He does prove his people. 37:00.640 --> 37:04.240 It's not like he's tempting us with sin necessarily, but he is proving us to see 37:05.200 --> 37:09.440 how they can respond in this situation. What are they going to do in this situation? If I put, 37:09.440 --> 37:14.480 you know, Hey, if your boss offers to have you earn some extra money doing something that's not 37:15.040 --> 37:19.680 quite right, how are they going to respond to that? How, what are they going to do? You know, 37:19.680 --> 37:22.800 are they going to cut corners? Are they going to do the job right? Those types of things, 37:23.680 --> 37:29.440 but God will test his people. And I think that God here is testing to see what Saul is going to be 37:29.440 --> 37:37.840 like, but how, how did he respond? Well, he responded by getting angry and there's nothing 37:37.840 --> 37:46.800 wrong with being angry over the right things. So, and again, I didn't realize that Saul was this 37:46.800 --> 37:55.360 shepherd type guy, but he is, it's obvious that he cares for the people. And he obviously has a 37:55.360 --> 38:00.720 connection with this place, J. Bash Gilead. It's not really specifically said in the text though, 38:00.720 --> 38:05.200 but if you, if you know the Bible somewhat, or if you just got told that by going back to 38:06.160 --> 38:14.080 Judges chapter 21, you know, it's right there. There's a connection. He's probably related to 38:14.080 --> 38:19.440 some of these people. His mom is probably, or his great grandma or his great granny or great, 38:19.440 --> 38:27.280 great granny or something is probably from there because, you know, or he's related in somehow, 38:27.280 --> 38:32.320 some way, shape or form, but they were protectors of them. Obviously Saul wants to protect them. 38:32.320 --> 38:37.360 He cares about them. So the first, so this is the second time that the Holy Spirit has come upon 38:37.360 --> 38:44.240 Saul. Okay. The first time he preached the second time he gets this righteous indignation. Now, 38:45.120 --> 38:50.080 Jesus got righteous indignation when the, when, when he was on this earth a couple of times. 38:50.080 --> 38:54.720 Okay. People were like, Oh, Jesus would never get mad. Jesus is never angry. That's not true. 38:55.600 --> 39:00.320 That's not true. And he got, and he rebuked people. He rebuked his disciples all the time. 39:01.200 --> 39:04.640 There's multiple times in the Bible when he rebukes his disciples and look, 39:04.640 --> 39:12.560 rebuke isn't going, Hey guys, don't do that. That's not rebuke. Rebuke is sharply disapproving of 39:12.560 --> 39:16.160 something that somebody's doing and you're, and you're, you're not necessarily saying it in a nice 39:16.160 --> 39:23.040 kind way. So there's a difference between reproving and rebuking, but let's, let's look over at Isaiah 39:23.040 --> 39:29.840 chapter 59 real quick. And this is a prophetic passage about the Lord Jesus Christ from the book 39:29.840 --> 39:43.200 Isaiah. But people just get this idea that Jesus is just always smiling buddy Jesus from 39:44.320 --> 39:53.840 the movie dogma or something. He's just like long hair, wearing a dress, always smiling, 39:53.920 --> 40:00.960 never mad at anybody. This is not true. He's just not always like that. Obviously he does love his 40:00.960 --> 40:06.000 people. He cares about us, but you know, people that care about you also give you tough love 40:06.000 --> 40:15.200 sometimes and people that are your boss discipline you sometimes, you know, your dad hopefully 40:15.200 --> 40:20.640 disciplines you sometimes kids. And you know, you're like, well, why does he have to do that? Well, 40:20.640 --> 40:26.640 because you're doing stupid things. You're disobeying. You're doing things wrong. 40:27.760 --> 40:32.000 And it's good for you because if you just, if they, if your parents just let you do anything 40:32.000 --> 40:39.200 you wanted, you're like, dad, just let me for one day do anything I want. You'd be having a stomach 40:39.200 --> 40:43.440 ache when you went to bed. You'd be eating, wake up. I'm eating ice cream for breakfast, 40:44.720 --> 40:50.560 but you know what? You'd be sick by the time you got to bed. I'm eating ice cream for breakfast. 40:50.640 --> 40:58.560 And popsicles for lunch. And then I'm having like suckers for my afternoon snack. And for dinner, 40:58.560 --> 41:08.000 I'm having cinnamon rolls with ice cream again. That's kids with kids. You know, you would do that. 41:08.000 --> 41:13.840 You do something like that. You, if you just were never restrained with how much food you could eat 41:14.560 --> 41:20.560 or how much you could play, you'd never get worked on at school. You'd be idiots. And then you'd be 41:20.640 --> 41:26.560 sick all the time. So it's just the way it is. Someone has to teach you how to live in this world 41:26.560 --> 41:30.480 and your parents are there to guide you and direct you. You're like, well, I didn't ask to be born. 41:32.000 --> 41:36.640 Look, it doesn't matter whether you're asked to be born or not. God put you in your parents' home 41:36.640 --> 41:42.640 so that they could teach you and guide you and help you to get saved and help you to one day 41:43.280 --> 41:47.680 be a contributing member of society and a contributing member of God's kingdom, 41:47.680 --> 41:54.560 more importantly than anything else. And to be an upstanding citizen, you know, but most importantly, 41:54.560 --> 42:00.720 saved, you know, to guide you into salvation so that you can be saved and so that you can marry 42:00.720 --> 42:06.560 someone that's saved and so you can produce more people and so they can be saved and so on and so 42:06.560 --> 42:14.240 forth. But, you know, it's really important that you obey your parents, that you love your parents, 42:14.240 --> 42:18.320 that you listen to your parents because they know what's best for you. You're like, I've heard that 42:18.320 --> 42:23.840 before. My parents don't know what's best for me. They're wrong sometimes. Hey, guess what? 42:23.840 --> 42:30.880 Parents are wrong sometimes. We're sinners just like everybody else. We make mistakes too, yeah. 42:31.520 --> 42:34.880 But just because we make mistakes, it doesn't mean that we don't know more than you. 42:34.880 --> 42:39.520 Guess what? We were your age too once. And guess what? We were teenagers once too. 42:39.600 --> 42:44.400 Guess what? We were 20 years old once too. And 25 and 30 and so on and whatever. Some of us aren't 42:44.400 --> 42:51.920 there yet, but, you know, some of us are 50. Some of us are over 50. I'm over 50. Like, you know, 42:51.920 --> 42:56.240 we, trust me, we know some stuff. We've been through some stuff. We understand things. 42:57.040 --> 43:03.760 And, you know, you should understand that some people know more things than you and I know when 43:03.760 --> 43:08.560 you turn 13 that you think you know everything, but you really don't know everything. You really 43:08.560 --> 43:13.120 don't. You're not smarter than your parents even though you think you are. You're really not. 43:14.400 --> 43:18.320 So it's just something that happens with a 13-year-old brain. They think that they're 43:18.320 --> 43:21.840 smarter than their parents all of a sudden and you're really not. I don't care how many books 43:21.840 --> 43:27.200 you've read. You're not smarter than your parents. So anyway, time out, commercial time out. But 43:27.200 --> 43:33.680 anyway, I had to turn to Isaiah 59. Look at verse 17. It says, For he put on righteousness as a 43:33.680 --> 43:38.960 breastplate and helmet of salvation upon his head, and he put on the garments of vengeance for 43:38.960 --> 43:44.880 clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak. So this is, again, talking about the Lord Jesus 43:44.880 --> 43:50.240 Christ, I believe, and it says vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak. 43:50.240 --> 43:58.080 And zeal is like a fervent passion to do things, right? And so the Lord Jesus Christ had a passion, 43:58.640 --> 44:06.160 fervent passion to do things. And so that is an attribute of someone that's on fire for the things 44:06.160 --> 44:14.320 of God. Well, the Holy Spirit put this on Saul to have this fervent fire and this passion and anger 44:14.320 --> 44:24.000 to what? To do the same things that it says here, of vengeance against God's enemies. And of course, 44:24.000 --> 44:27.120 the Lord Jesus Christ wasn't doing that the first time he came, but he is going to do it the second 44:27.120 --> 44:32.800 time he comes. He's going to destroy people with the sword of his mouth. And so some of these things 44:32.800 --> 44:38.480 are fulfilled in the second coming of Christ. It says, According to their deeds, accordingly, 44:38.480 --> 44:45.600 he will repay fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. To the islands he will repay 44:45.600 --> 44:51.680 recompense. So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west and his glory from the rising 44:51.680 --> 44:56.880 of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a 44:56.880 --> 45:05.040 standard against him. See, the spirit of the Lord, he also is the one that helps us to battle and 45:05.040 --> 45:10.560 fight battles. Like when David killed Goliath, do you think that he just did that by himself with 45:10.560 --> 45:17.760 his own skills? No, God helped him do that. He was filled with the spirit. And what about Samson? 45:17.840 --> 45:21.840 And the spirit of God came upon him and he killed a thousand men with the job of an ass. 45:21.840 --> 45:28.880 So God's spirit also allows men to become mighty warriors like this. He allows us to become mighty 45:28.880 --> 45:34.640 warriors when we're out knocking doors, when verses are being brought to our memory, when the passion 45:34.640 --> 45:41.840 of God fills us and that fervent fire fills us with his spirit so that we're able to convince people 45:41.840 --> 45:46.560 with what the word of God says and convince people with the passion that we have 45:47.680 --> 45:51.360 and the zeal that God gives us to care for people and they can see it. 45:52.000 --> 45:59.200 You know, the people saw Saul's zeal for the Lord and they followed him. The fear of God falls upon 45:59.200 --> 46:07.680 them. In John chapter 2, go ahead and turn to John chapter 2. I had a bunch of verses here but I'm 46:07.680 --> 46:12.800 not going to go to all of them. But John chapter 2, you have this specific instance where John, 46:13.840 --> 46:20.080 in John where it's recorded that the Passover, the Jews Passover was at hand and you have all 46:20.080 --> 46:25.360 these people going and slinging their birds at the marketplace. They're selling all kinds of stuff 46:27.440 --> 46:34.080 in the temple and making money off of God's, you know, they're making a marketplace out of God's 46:34.080 --> 46:40.560 house. It says in verse 13, and the Jews Passover was at hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem and 46:40.560 --> 46:46.080 found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money sitting. 46:46.960 --> 46:51.440 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them out of the temple and the sheep 46:51.440 --> 46:56.880 and the oxen and poured out the changers money and overthrew the tables. But he was being really nice 46:56.880 --> 47:04.160 when he did it, right? And said unto them that sold doves, take these things hence make not my 47:04.160 --> 47:09.280 father's house a house of merchandise. And his disciples remembered that it was written, the 47:09.280 --> 47:14.960 zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. So did he do this because he wasn't zealous? No, he did it 47:14.960 --> 47:21.840 because he was zealous. He was zealous of God's house and that's why he did it and flipped tables 47:21.840 --> 47:28.240 over and made the whip and was, you know, throwing all those people out there. 47:31.680 --> 47:36.480 Jesus went to heal somebody's hand one time and in Mark, you don't have to turn there, but Mark 3, 47:36.480 --> 47:40.320 it says that he entered again into the synagogue and there was a man there which had a withered 47:40.320 --> 47:44.480 hand and they watched him whether he would heal on the Sabbath day that they might accuse him. 47:45.120 --> 47:50.400 And this made him angry. Well, I mean, this would make me angry too. And he saith unto the man with 47:50.400 --> 47:55.840 the withered hand, Stand forth. And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath day 47:55.840 --> 48:02.160 or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they held their peace. And when he had looked roundabout 48:02.160 --> 48:08.000 on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch 48:08.000 --> 48:14.080 forth thy hand. And he stretched it out and his hand was restored whole as the other. And the 48:14.080 --> 48:18.480 Pharisees went forth and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him how they might 48:18.480 --> 48:24.400 destroy him. So Jesus had run-ins with people too that hated God. And these guys were like, 48:24.880 --> 48:30.720 you know, these were like the people, these wicked people that Saul had to deal with at the very 48:30.720 --> 48:38.640 beginning of his kingship where, you know, they're like these sons of Belial that were like, 48:38.640 --> 48:44.480 we don't want this man to rule over us. We're not going to have this guy rule over us. He's not 48:44.480 --> 48:48.800 going to bring us salvation. He's not going to be able to fight against the Romans and deliver 48:48.800 --> 48:55.440 us from the Romans. They're the people in that story. They're the people that, they're the picture 48:55.440 --> 49:02.480 of what these sons of Belial are in the story. They're exactly who it's talking about if you 49:02.480 --> 49:09.120 will look at it spiritually that way. So, but Jesus looked around on them with anger. So to say that 49:09.120 --> 49:16.160 Jesus never got angry is just ridiculous. It's not true. And people will be like, Jesus never 49:16.160 --> 49:20.560 brought up anything against homosexuals in the whole New Testament. It's like, okay, well, first 49:20.560 --> 49:30.080 of all, that's not true. But the Old Testament, he is God in the Old Testament too. Just say no. 49:30.080 --> 49:35.120 He's the one that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So he's the one that went to Abraham and talked 49:35.120 --> 49:44.560 with Abraham, had a stake with them and everything. So, I mean, huh? Yeah. Yeah, he called it the 49:44.560 --> 49:50.880 air strike. He's like, all right. Yeah, we got confirmation here. All right. Tactical Nukes, 49:50.880 --> 49:57.600 Coleman. You know, and the remnants are still there today. So, but like to say that he never, 49:58.240 --> 50:03.120 he never like brought it up. I mean, he called people dogs in the New Testament too. So 50:03.120 --> 50:08.160 given all that, which is holy unto the dogs. I mean, was he talking about literal dogs? 50:08.160 --> 50:15.680 No, he was talking about sodomites too. But let's see, let's go back to the first Samuel chapter 11, 50:15.680 --> 50:25.040 verse seven. It says, and he took a yoke of oxen, this is Saul, and hewed them in pieces 50:26.000 --> 50:30.880 and sent them throughout all the coast of Israel by the hands of messengers saying, 50:30.880 --> 50:37.440 whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. 50:38.160 --> 50:45.840 And the fear of the Lord fell on the people and they came out with one consent. So all he had to 50:45.840 --> 50:53.200 do is say, I'm going to chop up your oxen. And they all just got really afraid. Why? Because 50:53.200 --> 50:59.360 Saul is showing what? That he's a powerful leader and, you know, he's filled with the spirit. They 50:59.360 --> 51:03.440 want to get behind him because he's a strong leader, not because he's like, well, if you guys 51:03.440 --> 51:10.080 don't mind coming out and helping. No, he's strong. He's a strong leader. They're ready to follow him. 51:10.080 --> 51:13.600 They're looking, you know, this is what they wanted. They wanted someone that's strong. They 51:13.600 --> 51:18.880 want someone that's powerful. And Saul is that. And he also looks the part also, which doesn't hurt. 51:20.640 --> 51:24.960 And so it says, and they came out with one consent. So which, you know, they're, 51:24.960 --> 51:30.400 it's showing unity, you know, unity of the brethren. And when he numbered them in Bezek, 51:30.400 --> 51:40.320 the children of Israel were 300,000 and men of Judah, 30,000. So I don't know why it's given 51:40.320 --> 51:47.440 that differential there, but Bezek is the place where the guy that had, that they killed and put 51:47.440 --> 51:53.840 the pile of stones on top of him or whatever, Adonai Bezek, he's the one that they hung. And 51:53.840 --> 52:00.880 he's like kind of pictures the Lord Jesus Christ in a way. But he, he's, I want to say he had like 52:00.880 --> 52:05.680 six fingers and six toes, but that wasn't the, that's not the same guy. But anyway, he was a king 52:06.640 --> 52:11.760 when Joshua did his conquest, but Bezek is the place where they put pile of those stones on top 52:11.760 --> 52:20.960 of them. But anyway, so you got, he has 300,000, 330,000 people that showed up for the party. 52:21.520 --> 52:25.600 So he's got plenty of soldiers to help him fight. It says, And they said unto the messengers that 52:25.600 --> 52:32.160 came, Thus shall you say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow by that time the sun be hot, 52:32.160 --> 52:38.160 ye shall have help. And the messengers came and showed it to the men of Jabesh, and they were glad. 52:38.160 --> 52:43.360 So I'm sure they were. They didn't want to become pirates against their own free will and didn't 52:43.360 --> 52:48.800 want to have their eyes poked out. So therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come to you, 52:48.800 --> 52:56.240 out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you. So they're helping Saul 52:56.240 --> 52:59.520 set this trap for him. They're saying they're going to pretend like they're going to let him 52:59.520 --> 53:05.120 poke their eyes out when they're really not. And it was so that on the morrow that Saul put the 53:05.120 --> 53:10.560 people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, 53:11.200 --> 53:16.960 and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And it came to pass that they which remained were 53:16.960 --> 53:23.680 scattered so that two of them were not left together. So they completely just annihilated 53:23.680 --> 53:30.080 them. So they used the three different companies technique and just totally annihilated their whole 53:30.080 --> 53:37.600 army. So again the half tribe of Manasseh, Reuben, and Gad, the land of Gilead is where they're at. 53:38.480 --> 53:44.560 And then verse 12 it says, And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign 53:44.560 --> 53:50.320 over us? Bring the men that we may put them to death. And so I don't think it's an accident that 53:50.320 --> 53:57.440 this is here. Okay. And it really does remind you of Luke when at the end when the millennium comes 53:58.320 --> 54:05.840 that Jesus says the same thing about the Jews that don't want them to reign over them. I mean 54:05.840 --> 54:12.240 I think this is a perfect you know picture of that. And because people heard them say it. 54:12.800 --> 54:18.160 Saul heard them say it. He held his peace. You know and Jesus kind of held his peace also for 54:18.160 --> 54:22.400 the most part when he was here. But what's going to happen when he comes back? He's not going to 54:22.400 --> 54:26.560 hold his peace when he comes back is he? He's going to slay them with the sword of his mouth. 54:28.080 --> 54:32.080 And then those that are left over that don't want him to reign over them, 54:32.080 --> 54:38.640 he's going to say bring them before and slay them. Just like but see obviously this is not a perfect 54:38.640 --> 54:43.840 picture because Saul's just like hey no we you know this is because this isn't some fulfillment 54:43.840 --> 54:51.440 of the prophecy. This is just a picture of what's going to come to pass at some point. So but let's 54:51.440 --> 55:02.240 turn over to Luke and just read that really quickly. Luke chapter 19. So obviously this was 55:02.240 --> 55:08.720 not a secret that these guys were against Saul and that they were saying these things because 55:08.720 --> 55:13.520 they're like bring them bring them forth that we could put them to death. But it probably was a good 55:13.520 --> 55:19.360 idea in reality because they were reprobates you know. But they didn't know that you know obviously. 55:21.840 --> 55:26.480 That just goes to show that you're always going to have these types of people around. Luke chapter 55:26.480 --> 55:31.200 19 verse 11 it says and as they heard these things he added and spake a parable because he was nigh 55:31.200 --> 55:36.400 to Jerusalem because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 55:37.280 --> 55:42.240 He said therefore a certain nobleman went to a far country to receive for himself a kingdom 55:42.240 --> 55:47.520 and to return. He called his ten servants and delivered them ten pounds and said to them occupy 55:47.520 --> 55:53.520 till I come. But his citizens hated him and sent a message after him saying we will not have this 55:53.520 --> 55:59.920 man to reign over us. So again they definitely picture the reprobates and the Jews of Jesus's 55:59.920 --> 56:05.680 time. And it came to pass that when he was returning when he was returned having received 56:05.680 --> 56:10.080 the kingdom then he commanded these servants to be called unto him to whom he had given the money 56:10.800 --> 56:16.240 that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. Then came the first saying lord thy 56:16.240 --> 56:22.720 pound hath gained ten pounds and he said unto him well thou good servant because thou has been 56:22.720 --> 56:28.320 faithful and very little have thou authority over ten cities. And the second came saying lord thy 56:28.320 --> 56:34.960 pound hath gained five pounds. He said likewise to him be thou over five cities. And another came 56:34.960 --> 56:41.360 saying lord behold here's thy pound which I've kept laid in a napkin for I feared thee because 56:41.360 --> 56:47.840 thou art an austere man thou takest up that thou layest not down and reapest that thou didst not so. 56:48.480 --> 56:53.200 And he saith unto him out of thine own mouth will I judge thee thou wicked servant thou 56:53.280 --> 56:58.320 knewest that I was an austere man taking up that I laid not down and reaping that I did not so. 56:58.320 --> 57:04.080 Wherefore then gavest thou or gavest not thou my money into the bank that at my coming I might have 57:04.080 --> 57:10.880 required my known with usury. And he said unto them that stood by take him or take from him the pound 57:10.880 --> 57:16.640 and give it to him that hath ten pounds. And they said unto him lord he hath ten pounds for I say 57:16.640 --> 57:23.680 unto you that unto everyone which hath shall be given and from him that hath not even that he 57:23.680 --> 57:29.200 hath shall be taken away from him. But those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over 57:29.200 --> 57:37.520 them bring hither and slay them before me. So in the fulfillment of this Jesus Christ is what he's 57:37.520 --> 57:42.400 going to do that in the actual fulfillment when he actually does come back see because the kingdom 57:43.280 --> 57:49.280 has not been fully fulfilled yet. And so why would Saul have them come and be slain before him? 57:50.160 --> 57:56.320 He doesn't understand who these people are. But Jesus does. Jesus is going to know exactly who 57:56.320 --> 58:00.080 these people are. He knew who they were when he was here first time but that's not what his mission 58:00.080 --> 58:08.880 was. His mission was to die for us and to rise from the dead for us and to redeem us from our sins. 58:09.680 --> 58:13.760 He's going to do his battle when he comes back and it's not going to be even close to a fair fight. 58:13.760 --> 58:21.120 Like he doesn't even have to lift a finger to defeat them. Like he literally just he probably 58:21.120 --> 58:28.160 doesn't even have to speak a word. In reality he could just think of thought. I mean Jesus is God. 58:28.160 --> 58:37.360 He's all-powerful. He is the Almighty. Like he could just these people are nothing to him. 58:38.080 --> 58:43.600 You know the the devil is not even close to as powerful as Jesus Christ is. And people that 58:43.600 --> 58:47.600 think that they're going to just take come and take over they're so dead wrong about that. 58:48.560 --> 58:53.840 It's not even going to be close. It's like when he throws the beast and the false prophet into hell 58:54.560 --> 58:58.480 I don't even think he has to do it. I think it's just his angels are going to do it. It's just 58:58.480 --> 59:04.080 it's not even when it when it talks about it. I think of Revelation chapter 19 it just seems 59:04.480 --> 59:09.760 like it's an afterthought. Oh yeah and he just throws him in hell. It's like they just come like 59:09.760 --> 59:14.880 this this big giant army raving and roaring. It's like oh yeah and then they get thrown into hell. 59:14.880 --> 59:20.800 It's like oh okay. It's not like they give up a big fight. Oh and Jesus is against the ropes. You 59:20.800 --> 59:26.320 know they always act like they always act like in these things where they mock Jesus and stuff. Like 59:26.320 --> 59:30.480 South Park and these other stupid shows. Like that Jesus could actually get beat up by the 59:30.480 --> 59:36.720 devil or something like that. It's not even they can't even land a blow on him. It'd be a perfect 59:37.440 --> 59:43.600 you know like what is that Mortal Kombat or whatever perfect or whatever some kind of those 59:43.600 --> 59:48.800 fighting games or whatever Tekken and Street Fighter. It's a perfect match every time. Jesus 59:48.800 --> 59:54.800 would never even get touched. He wouldn't even get they wouldn't even get close. Just automatic 59:54.800 --> 01:00:02.800 destroyed. All right back to our chapter here. We're almost done. Verse 13. 01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:22.880 So it always seems like their Gilgal is the place where they go to make these judgments. 01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:29.440 Shiloh is the place where they do you know a lot of a lot of things but like Gilgal is the place 01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:37.600 where judgment is done. So where does he chop up Agag later on? Gilgal. And so where's where 01:00:37.600 --> 01:00:43.360 they about to make him king? Gilgal. So this is where they do the formal making him king. It seems 01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:48.240 like it's been like a long time coming. Chapter 9, chapter 10, now finally chapter 11. They're 01:00:48.320 --> 01:00:54.240 actually going to make him officially the king here. Verse 15. 01:01:08.240 --> 01:01:14.000 So this is you know Saul at his pinnacle at his peak. This is where Saul is at his greatest moment 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:20.240 here. He's still a really good guy. He's still a really good king. He takes you know the bull by 01:01:20.240 --> 01:01:27.040 the horn so to speak. I mean he did. He chopped it up but he he's a great guy here. You know he's a 01:01:27.040 --> 01:01:33.760 he's a great king. He's a great man of God and you know the kingdom is restored here. So obviously 01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:39.920 Samuel's just trying to make things happen here and make things great. Make God's kingdom great 01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:46.080 again because over the time of the judges it's just been really bad and so I'm sure Samuel's very 01:01:46.080 --> 01:01:53.040 happy about all this. He likes Saul. He loves Saul and everything's going great. So but a good 01:01:53.040 --> 01:01:59.520 question to ask ourselves is how is your inner kingdom doing with God? You know does your unity 01:01:59.520 --> 01:02:07.200 need to be restored? Are you just hanging on like Jabesh Gilead? Are you zealous and fearing God like 01:02:07.200 --> 01:02:10.960 you should? I mean these are questions that we should ask ourselves from time to time. Maybe not 01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:18.400 that exact question but I mean it's good it's good to just again take self checks on how you're doing 01:02:19.040 --> 01:02:27.360 spiritually and you know sometimes we need to have our spiritual tanks refilled and it's it's good for 01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:35.120 us to have our balm of Gilead put on our wounds and you know get back up and get back in the fray. I 01:02:35.120 --> 01:02:40.720 mean because if you think about the difference between Jabesh Gilead I mean they're just they're 01:02:40.720 --> 01:02:47.520 just trying to rise back up again and and and do well because they really you know both places that 01:02:47.520 --> 01:02:53.600 are mentioned these places the place where Saul's from I mean they had a bad start didn't they? 01:02:54.400 --> 01:03:00.960 But now Saul's making that place great and making the name great again you know. Well if it was ever 01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:08.240 great before it wasn't really because Gidea was where those people came from that tricked Joshua 01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:15.840 and then they were eternally you know the servants of the children of Israel and then you know all 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:19.520 those people from Benjamin inherited that place and then the sodomites came out of there. 01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:25.440 So Saul's the best thing that's come out of Gidea and now he's trying to make that place great 01:03:26.240 --> 01:03:30.800 and it just kind of goes to show that God can make something great out of something that's not so 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:38.320 great and that kind of speaks to us a little bit you know Gentiles were not were not I mean people 01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:46.480 say we weren't really in the plan but we were you know he he made us a people and and here we are 01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:52.640 we're we're saved and following the Lord and really people think oh Israel was the plan all along 01:03:52.640 --> 01:03:59.920 well it was but it's spiritual Israel and you know we most of us don't come from the royalty in here 01:03:59.920 --> 01:04:06.320 I'm pretty sure. Also those none of us is famous movie stars or anything like that we're just 01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:14.000 normal people and God can make very humble beginnings and make us into great people like 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:20.880 as far as like making us saved I mean there's not a lot of saved people in the world and there's a 01:04:20.880 --> 01:04:26.240 great group of people in here and you know we we can get off the path though just like anybody else 01:04:26.240 --> 01:04:29.600 it's good for us to take our you know spiritual temperature from now 01:04:30.160 --> 01:04:35.920 and again and just you know how are we doing how you doing out there I hope you're doing good but 01:04:36.720 --> 01:04:41.280 you know it's taught the bomb of Gilead's talked about as a good thing you know there were great 01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:48.800 things about Jabeish Gilead but not at first so you know they got decimated there were four 01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:56.560 400 virgins were all that was left of it but you know better times were ahead so and yeah so 01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:02.960 it's good for us to just like I said take your spiritual temperature see how you're doing 01:05:02.960 --> 01:05:08.240 maybe apply some of that balm and Jesus is the balm of Gilead in reality he's the one that actually 01:05:08.240 --> 01:05:13.360 can heal us from things and you know sometimes you know we can have these nagging injuries and 01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:18.160 nagging problems and stuff like that but you know we we just need to go call upon Jesus and ask him 01:05:18.160 --> 01:05:24.080 to help us and help him to restore ask him to restore us and our health and you know our 01:05:24.080 --> 01:05:28.720 spiritual health that's the most important thing you know is our spiritual health so 01:05:29.600 --> 01:05:32.960 or regain our fear of God you know sometimes we can lose our fear of the Lord and 01:05:33.760 --> 01:05:40.240 and forget that he is a god to be feared you know when the people had that fear of God come upon 01:05:40.240 --> 01:05:46.000 them what did they do they all just became as one and then followed Saul like they were supposed to 01:05:46.720 --> 01:05:50.000 and you know when they saw that their cows were going to get chopped up they're like hey I don't 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:54.960 want my cow looking like this you know that's not how I cut my beef you know I don't know 01:05:56.640 --> 01:06:00.960 so they don't want their barbecues going to somebody else I don't know but you know it's 01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:06.880 it's if you're not following God that close well follow him closer you know what I would say that 01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:10.160 someone says they're going to follow me in their car you better follow me close because I go a 01:06:10.160 --> 01:06:15.360 little faster than most people do so follow follow me like you follow Jesus close all right 01:06:16.080 --> 01:06:20.000 let's pray Lord we thank you so much for this chapter of the Bible and Lord for the lessons 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:24.720 that can teach us pray Lord that we take these things to heart and Lord that we would 01:06:26.560 --> 01:06:32.880 just take our spiritual temperature from time to time and help us to do checklists on ourselves and 01:06:33.520 --> 01:06:40.800 and help us to to love you and to follow you and and Lord that we would apply the balm whenever 01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:46.480 we need it Lord and pray that you'd help us to humble ourselves and and pray and to read our 01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:51.520 Bibles and Lord to count on you for everything that we have and everything that we are pray that 01:06:51.520 --> 01:06:59.120 you just bless us now as we go our separate ways in Jesus name we pray amen