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Good evening.

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Good to see you this evening.

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Would you turn with me in your Bibles to the book of 1 Samuel?

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First Samuel chapter 12.

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Chapter 12?

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Good.

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Okay.

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First Samuel chapter 12.

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As is our custom, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse 1.

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First Samuel chapter 12.

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And in First Samuel chapter 12, the Bible reads,

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And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice,

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And all that ye said unto me, And have made a king over you.

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And now behold, the king walketh before you.

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And I am old and gray-headed, And behold, my sons are with you,

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And I have walked before you From my childhood unto this day.

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Behold, here I am, Witness against me before the Lord,

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And before his anointed.

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Whose ox have I taken, Or whose ass have I taken,

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Or whom have I defrauded, Whom have I oppressed,

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Or of whose hand have I received any bribe To blind mine eyes therewith,

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And I will restore you.

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And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, Nor oppressed us,

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Neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.

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And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you,

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And his anointed is witness this day, That ye have not found aught in my hand.

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And they answered, He is witness.

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And Samuel said unto the people, It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron,

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And that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

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Now therefore stand still, That I may reason with you before the Lord

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Of all the righteous acts of the Lord, Which he did to you and to your fathers.

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When Jacob was come into Egypt, And your fathers cried unto the Lord,

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Then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, Which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt,

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And made them dwell in this place.

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And when they forgot the Lord their God, He sold them into the hand of Sisera,

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Captain of the host of Hazor, And into the hand of the Philistines,

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And into the hand of the king of Moab.

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And they fought against them.

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And they cried unto the Lord, And said, We have sinned because we have forsaken the Lord,

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And have served Baalim and Ashtaroth.

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But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, And we will serve thee.

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And the Lord sent Jeroboel and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel,

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And delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side,

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And ye dwelt safe.

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And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you,

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You said unto me, Nay, but a king shall reign over us,

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When the Lord your God was your king.

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Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen,

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And whom ye have desired, And behold the Lord hath set a king over you.

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If ye will fear the Lord and serve him, And obey his voice,

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And not rebel against the commandment of the Lord,

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Then shall both ye, and also the king that reigneth over you,

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Continue following the Lord your God.

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But if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord,

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But rebel against the commandment of the Lord,

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Then shall the hand of the Lord be against you,

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As it was against your fathers.

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Now therefore stand and see this great thing,

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Which the Lord will do before your eyes.

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Is it not wheat harvest today?

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I will call unto the Lord, And he shall send thunder and rain,

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That ye may perceive and see, That your wickedness is great,

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Which ye have done in the sight of the Lord, In asking you a king.

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So Samuel called unto the Lord,

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And the Lord sent thunder and rain that day.

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And all the people greatly feared the Lord, and Samuel.

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And all the people said unto Samuel,

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Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God,

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That we die not, for we have added unto all our sins this evil,

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To ask us a king.

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And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not, ye have done all this wickedness,

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Yet turn not aside from following the Lord,

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But serve the Lord with all your heart, And turn ye not aside.

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For then should ye go after vain things, Which cannot profit nor deliver,

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For they are vain.

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For the Lord will not forsake his people, For his great name's sake,

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Because it hath pleased the Lord To make you his people.

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Moreover as for me, God forbid That I should sin against the Lord

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In ceasing to pray for you, But I will teach you the good and the right

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Only fear the Lord, And serve him in truth with all your heart,

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For consider how great things he hath done for you.

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But if ye shall still do wickedly, Ye shall be consumed,

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Both ye and your king.

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Brother Alex, would you pray for us?

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Dear Father in heaven, thank you for your word,

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And thank you for the power it has.

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And we ask that you show Pastor Johnson the Holy Spirit,

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And that he may preach the Holy Spirit to us,

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And show us wondrous things, And give us ears to hear,

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And high and low in our hearts. Amen.

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Amen. Man, that sounded like Samuel himself was reading that.

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That's sort of, amen, we can just close our Bibles and go home.

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Messages received.

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All right.

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Last week, Saul, he ended up chopping up those oxen

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and sending them all over the nation of Israel

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because we saw the connection between the raimoth Gilead,

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which is a combo word there,

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named after Gilead, which was an actual person.

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As you can see from this chapter, Gilead was an actual,

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well, maybe not from this chapter,

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but Gilead was an actual person in the lineage of Manasseh.

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And I was doing a little bit of study on this,

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and Manasseh was actually the smallest tribe in all of Israel

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before the Benjaminites got beat up.

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And I showed the connection between Benjamin's tribe

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and that city of raimoth Gilead,

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and how the virgins that were left over

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from getting beat up and basically annihilated

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because they didn't go and help against the Benjaminites

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that were harboring those sodomites in Judges 19.

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There is a deep connection between these two places.

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So I showed that, so there is a deep connection there.

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But you have, Samuel kind of brings some stuff up here

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in this chapter that I think is also kind of a callback to it,

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and I'll get to that.

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But it's interesting how in Judges 19,

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somebody brought this up to me after the sermon last week,

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in Judges 19 that priest cuts up his concubine

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and sends the concubine's pieces all over Israel,

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and that's how they call all the rest of the tribes

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in order to fight them and say that this is a horrible thing that's happened.

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And then Saul, he cuts up an ox and sends it to all the places

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and says, hey, if you guys don't come and fight,

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this is what I'm going to do to all your oxen.

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And it's kind of interesting how those things tie together.

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I don't know, I just thought that was really cool

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that someone thought about that.

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Who was it that came up to me with that?

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Was that Brother Alex or who was that?

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I can't remember who it was.

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But anyway, that was really kind of a cool perspective there.

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The Bible is just so deep,

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there's lots of cool things that you can come up with.

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But tonight we're going to see Samuel's kind of farewell,

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it's kind of like his little farewell speech,

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farewell sermon to the nation as the leader.

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Now he still remains a prophet,

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and really he does kind of come back in a capacity

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to have to still do some leadership stuff that Saul won't do when he goes bad.

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But Samuel's telling them, he's kind of giving them a last hurrah here

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and addressing them when he's an old man.

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And so the first point I have tonight,

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and again, Saul has been coronated,

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and I believe that this is happening right after the coronation

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because it doesn't say like an after this or this happened at a certain place.

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It kind of seems like it just carries on after he's officially coronated as the king here.

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So, and this has gone on for many chapters,

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and they officially in the last chapter did this.

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They sacrificed all these sacrifices,

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and remember the chapter breaks are only done after the fact.

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Many, many years later after the Bible is already written.

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And so, and it says, because if you look at verse 15 in chapter 12,

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it says, Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly,

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and Samuel said unto all Israel.

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So it's continuing on from the last passage.

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So this is happening right at the same time.

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It's not like there's a chapter break and this is years later,

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or a chapter break and this happened two weeks later.

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This is happening at the same exact time and moment.

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So this is probably awkward.

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This is an awkward moment,

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because you would think this is a time for everybody to celebrate,

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and oh yeah, this is a great day. Saul's the king.

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You know, we have a king now.

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But it's like Samuel kind of reigns on their parade, literally.

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And he gives them positives here, very positive message,

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but he also gives them some very negative things,

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and it's things that they need to hear.

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And this is what a true man of God will do,

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and he kind of starts out by just saying something that needs to be said

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that leaders have got to have integrity.

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And he in the first verse here shows this,

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but point number one in the sermon,

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and this is Samuel's farewell address,

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that leaders must have integrity.

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So verse number one, the Bible says,

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And Samuel said unto all Israel,

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Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice,

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And all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.

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And now behold, the king walketh before you,

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And I am old and gray-headed,

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And behold, my sons are with you,

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And I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

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Behold, here I am, witness against me before the Lord,

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And before his anointed, whose ox have I taken,

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Or whose ass have I taken,

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Or whom have I defrauded, whom have I oppressed,

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Or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes therewith,

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And I will restore at you.

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And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us,

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Neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.

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And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you,

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And his anointed is witness this day,

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That ye have not found aught in my hand.

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And they answered, He is witness.

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And I think that this is, he has to say this because,

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I mean, aside from the fact that he did put his sons in charge,

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which he shouldn't have done if they were not doing the job right,

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but he could have just stopped them from being judges or whatever,

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and he kind of has it seems like,

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because they came to him and are like,

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your sons aren't like your,

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because what they should have done instead of demanding a king,

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say, hey, your sons aren't doing their job right,

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you need to step in and do your job again

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until we can find somebody that's better,

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instead of demanding a king.

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That's where they went wrong, okay?

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And that's why I think he's bringing this up,

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because they don't really have a right to ask for a king,

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they should just ask for better judges.

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Because maybe Samuel just didn't know his sons were going to be like that, you know?

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So it's not like he is not, you know, he's perfect in, you know,

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that he's not prone to make mistakes.

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So Samuel first stood before the people, you know, with clean hands here,

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his honest testimony, and they said he is witness.

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They admitted that there's nothing that he's done,

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there's nothing they could accuse him of.

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And his life showed that, you know, true spiritual leadership

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is not built upon his position alone, but his character.

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And that's true with any leader that is in spiritual leadership.

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You have to have character, faithfulness, and accountability before God and men.

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And so that's what Samuel is calling down here from them.

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Now let's take a jog over to 1 Corinthians chapter 4.

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And the Bible, the New Testament teaches this concept,

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it's not just in things of monetary things,

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because that's what he's kind of talking about, because he's a judge.

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It's very important for judges to not be corrupted by gifts,

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by, you know, bribes and things like that.

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As a matter of fact, God lays the rules out for someone to be a judge.

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You cannot accept gifts.

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You cannot accept bribes because those things will poison you

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and make you, cause you to make judgments for somebody in their favor

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because that person's given you gifts and things like that before.

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It's really easy to corrupt somebody like that.

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And so they're not, they weren't supposed to be able to take things.

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In our country today, they are not supposed to take gifts and bribes from other people,

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including the position of becoming a judge in the first place.

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I mean, that is corruption.

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Hey, you know, I'll make you the Seventh Circuit judge or the Ninth Circuit judge in this place,

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but you gotta, you know, you gotta play ball.

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And so, sure.

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You know, and what happens in our country, the Ninth Circuit,

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isn't it the Ninth Circuit that always appeals all this stuff

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and makes all these crazy rulings?

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The Ninth Circuit.

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Yeah, the Ninth Circuit, is that what you said?

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Yeah, pretty much.

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It's based in San Francisco.

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It's based in San Francisco.

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That's what I was just gonna say.

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And they are able to just legislate from the bench there all kinds of insane rulings.

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And that's not the way it's supposed to be.

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You're supposed to judge by the law, not by your political stance.

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So, or by who gave you what.

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So it's funny how there's always just some weird liberal there

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that makes all these crazy rulings.

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Okay, 1 Corinthians 4, 1, it says,

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Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ

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and stewards of the mysteries of God.

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Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.

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So, whatever it is that you're stewarding over,

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you need to be faithful in that thing.

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And he's just saying a generalized statement here,

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but he is talking specifically about something in context.

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He's talking about the stewards of the mysteries of God.

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It was the apostle Paul's responsibility to be a steward of the mysteries

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of the things that God has taught him.

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He's supposed to teach those things to other men as they're given to him.

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If he just goes and starts teaching whatever he feels like,

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or he just holds back part of the message because he thinks it's gonna hurt people's feelings,

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or he thinks it's gonna offend people, he's not gonna be doing his job.

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That was one of the main things that God demanded of the prophets in the Old Testament

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and the things that he demands of people even today that are preaching God's word

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is that you need to say what the Bible says.

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You cannot hold back.

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And a lot of people want to hold back and trim the message

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and not say what they're supposed to be saying,

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but it says that it's required in stewards that a man be found faithful.

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Let's read on. It says,

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But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of man's judgment,

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yet I judge not mine own self, for I know nothing by myself,

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yet am I not hereby justified, but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

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Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come,

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who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness,

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and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts,

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and then shall every man have praise of God.

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So sometimes people just get too quick to judge about things,

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and he's just saying, hey, you shouldn't judge anything before the time,

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especially things that you don't really know 100% for sure.

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But what is the apostle Paul's point though, and why was I showing this to you,

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because as God's people we're supposed to be the stewards of the things of God.

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But in reality whatever responsibility you have even in this church,

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we're supposed to do those things and be faithful in the things that God's given us stewardship over.

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Whether it's counting the offering, whether it's being an usher,

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whether it's just doing your job out-soul-warning, whether it's cleaning the church,

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just whatever it is, even just the jobs that God has given you in your home.

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The roles that he's given you as husbands and wives to teach your children.

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Those things are things that he's given you stewardship over your children.

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He gave your children to you.

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And people are just like, well, those are my kids, I can do whatever I want with my kids.

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It's like, really? Because they're the heritage of the Lord.

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The children are a heritage of the Lord.

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He wants a godly seed to be brought forth.

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And so when people have that attitude, well, those are my kids, and I'll do what I want.

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Well, I mean, I don't think that's how God sees it.

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So I think that he sees it as he's given you stewardship over those children,

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and you should probably think about what God wants you to do with your children.

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And not just what your selfishness wants to do with your children.

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First, let's look at Colossians chapter 3.

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Verse number 23.

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And just anything that we do should be done with faithfulness.

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Colossians 3.23 says,

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And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as unto the Lord, and not unto men.

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If we just have that as our baseline, that when we're doing stuff, we're doing it for God,

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it kind of just gets rid of the whining and complaining, because then really you're just,

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if that's how your attitude is, then you're essentially whining and complaining about God,

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or whining and complaining about God, because he's the one that allowed you to have that job.

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He's the one that allows you to work there. He's the one that gave you that boss.

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So if you're just complaining all the time, you're really just kind of like the children of Israel in the wilderness,

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just constantly griping.

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I mean, doesn't it make you sick when you read those stories in the Old Testament?

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It's like, why don't you just shut up, you little whiner?

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And it's like, then you just realize that you're just like them.

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That's what we're supposed to see, though.

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That's what we're supposed to see about the children of Israel in the wilderness.

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That's why it shows us that in the book of Hebrews, is that don't be like those people in the wilderness.

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Don't be like those people in the wilderness, and he applies it to us as Christians,

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because we can be just like them, even though we're saved and they weren't.

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But, you know, a lot of those people were, but some of them weren't, okay?

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But it says,

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It says,

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It doesn't matter what your last name is.

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It doesn't matter what your title is.

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You're going to receive the wrong that you do, because God does not respect titles.

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He doesn't respect persons.

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What does that mean?

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You're not better than anybody else.

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When you sin, He doesn't look at you, oh, but that's that person.

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I'm not going to punish that person like I'm going to punish that person,

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because that person's name is, you know, Rockefeller.

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Or, you know, if it's Rockefeller, it might be even worse.

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No, I was kidding.

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He doesn't respect persons in that way.

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God just judges everybody equally.

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And so that's what's funny when people think that they're better than other people.

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It's like you're not, though.

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And as a matter of fact, if you have that attitude,

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that He might actually punish you more severely, because you have a haughty attitude.

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God does not like haughty attitudes.

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You know, the more you're humble, the less He's going to punish you.

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The more mercy that you request, the more He's going to give you.

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But if you're just proud and just, you know, you just harden your neck,

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those are the people He has to correct more.

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It's just like your children when they, you know, babies, you know,

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if you had like, because there's willful babies too, right?

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And I remember when the babies like would try to not let you get them dressed, you know,

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they're just like, you know, they stiffen up and they'll arch their backs and stuff.

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You know what I'm talking about, right?

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It's been a long time since I had to dress a baby, though.

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But I just remember them, you know, doing the little stiffy, try to, you know,

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it's like, why don't you just sit still and let me put your onesie back on or whatever.

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And, but there's just some that are more difficult than others.

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Some are just like all pliable and they're smiling when you're doing everything.

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And some are just like, mm, mm, mm.

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Or you put them in the car seat and they instantly just start crying,

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as if they're just, you're just putting them in like some, you know,

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house of pain, like torture chamber or something, you know.

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They know, they just know they're going to fall asleep as soon as you start driving off in the car.

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That's what their problem is.

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They don't want to go to sleep and they know, this is the sleep device you're putting me in.

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I know what happens when I go around the corner a few times and you're going to go to sleep.

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That's why we got Remy to sleep for like a long time.

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We just put him in, we strap him in, go around the block a few times.

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Sometimes we'd have to go faster on the block, so just, I don't know what it was,

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but we used to put that kid, we had to put him in this.

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At one point, he'd fall asleep so hard, we had to put him in like one of those,

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back then they didn't have the battery powered swings.

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We're older, so they had the ones you had to wind up like this, you know.

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And they made a lot of noise when you wind them up, so you'd have to,

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we'd do it really fast so we could just hurry up and get it over with

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so he wouldn't wake up when he'd rewind it.

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But he was like hanging out of that thing.

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It was probably a danger, but we didn't care, we wanted him to sleep.

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We had to turn on the shop vac and put him in the swing at the same time.

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And we couldn't have the TV going, so we just, we couldn't watch TV anymore.

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So, you know, just him in the swing with the shop vac going,

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and that was just our life for a while.

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Yeah, Remy was a rough one.

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He was.

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He stopped taking naps at like two weeks old or something.

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I don't know. No, I don't know if it was two weeks, but it was pretty soon.

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You know those babies that you have that just sleep all the time?

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He was not one of those.

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But anyway, he's good now. He likes to sleep now.

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No, he's not in our house. I'm just joking.

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I'm kidding. So anyway, but yeah, I mean, God's not a respecter of persons.

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And so, you know, Samuel's, you know, he's putting the children of Israel

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and he's just saying, hey, look, you know, I didn't take anything from you.

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And he's kind of setting the stage for what he's going to say next here.

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So number two, God is faithful in every generation.

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So he's going to go on with his preaching here in verse six.

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It says, and Samuel said unto the people,

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It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron

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and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

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Now it wasn't them that did it. It was the Lord that did it.

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God's the one that appeared to Moses at the burning bush.

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He's the one that sent him to Aaron because he said he couldn't speak very well.

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He's the one that led them out with a heavy hand.

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He's the one that did all those miracles.

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He just told Moses to tap his stick or whatever and then things would happen.

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Take your staff and point it this way or whatever and then God would make the miracle happen.

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It's like Moses didn't have the power. It was God that had the power.

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And God is the one that led them out.

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And it says, Now therefore stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord

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of all the righteous acts of the Lord which he did to you and to your fathers.

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And when Jacob was come into Egypt and your fathers cried unto the Lord,

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then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt

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and made them dwell in this place.

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So he's basically giving them a big sum up here.

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Hey, God is the one that led you here.

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This is the place, the land of milk and honey.

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And this is the land of plenty that God led you to.

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And he's the one that is, he's your savior basically.

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And when they forgot the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera,

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captive of the host of Hazor and into the hand of the Philistines

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and into the hand of the king of Moab.

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And they fought against them and they cried unto the Lord and said,

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We have sinned because we have forsaken the Lord and have served Balaam and Ashtaroth.

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And now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies and we will serve thee.

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So he's basically telling them about what Israel always does.

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They always do good when they have that savior come and help them and lead them.

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But then when that person would die, then they would just fall back into the same traps.

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They'd let the people around them influence them and then they would start serving other gods.

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And then they'd be oppressed by those people.

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So verse number 11 it says, And the Lord sent Jerubal.

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Who is Jerubal's, what is his name in the Bible though?

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Gideon, yes Gideon.

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And it says, And Bidan, who's that guy?

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Anybody know who that is?

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Neither do I. And neither does anybody else.

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And Jephthah and Samuel delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side and you dwelled safe.

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So these are, you know he's listing judges so Bidan must have lived in the time of the judges.

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So who is he? Well people don't really know who he was.

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It's kind of a mystery as to who he is.

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Some people think that it's talking about that it's just another name for Barack or Barack.

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Barack, not Obama, but a different Barack, a way cooler Barack, not a homo.

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But I think it ties back once again to Manasseh.

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Because the only other time that this name is mentioned is in 1 Chronicles chapter 7.

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Go ahead and turn to 1 Chronicles chapter 7.

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And I'm not sure if this is the same guy or not, but I mean Samuel just pops this name out, Bidan.

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And if it was, I don't know, it's just weird that it's only one other name in the whole Bible.

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And who is he in front of? Well he's in front of Saul, who's the king now.

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And I don't know, I mean there might be something I'm just missing here.

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And maybe I'll come back to you later on and I'll have done some deep dive into this genealogy right here

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and figure something out that I haven't figured out yet.

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But as of right now, I'm not 100% sure if this is even the right guy.

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But I'm just going to show you the only passage that ever mentions this guy.

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And we'll just leave it at that.

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It could be just a totally different guy that the Bible just doesn't mention in the list of judges.

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And it's just Samuel just giving us an extra guy that we didn't know about.

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So he's even talking about himself in the passage.

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So anyway, it says in 1 Chronicles 7.14, it says,

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The sons of Anassah, Asriel, whom she bare, but his concubine, the Arimatus, bear Macur, Amature, the father of Gilead.

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So here's Gilead, right? This is where it names him.

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Amature or Macur or however you want to, how do you say that brother Eli?

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That mature, is it mature?

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Oh sorry, he's reading something else. He's not even listening to me.

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All right, I love when I get a call you out and you're not paying attention. Love it.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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Amature took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim.

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There's some baby names for you in case you're looking for ones.

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Whose sister's name was Macca.

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And the name of the second was Zolophahad.

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And Zolophahad had daughters.

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I'm guessing these are the ones that their dad died and they didn't have, they asked for an inheritance from Moses is what I'm guessing here.

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And Macca, the wife of Macur, bare a son and she called his name Poresh.

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And the name of his brother was Shoresh.

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And his sons were Ulam and Rekem.

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And the sons of Ulam, Bidan.

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So there's only another time it's ever mentioned in the Bible.

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And these were the sons of Gilead, the son of Macur, the son of Manasseh and his sister, Hemoliketh.

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Bear Ishad and Ebbeazer and Mahala.

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And the sons of Shemita were Ahayan and Shechem and Lichai and Anayam.

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So baby names in case anybody was looking for them.

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But one thing that I was having a hard time figuring out, I just kind of came to a dead end last week, was the name of that city,

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Reymoth Gilead.

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It doesn't really tell why it was named in the two different names.

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So why it was mixed with that first name before it.

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But that I haven't been able to figure out yet.

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So I probably never will.

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But it is interesting how this person's name ties back to being a relative of Gilead.

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Because in the sons of Ulam, Bidan, these were the sons of Gilead.

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And Gilead has those ties to the tribe of Benjamin because of the intermarrying of those virgin daughters from that city that got destroyed.

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I don't know if that really is enough to, I don't even know if you find that interesting or not.

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I just, I had never noticed that in First Samuel before, in my Bible reading before.

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I never knew who Bidan was.

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And then I was asking you guys and you didn't know who he was either.

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So I didn't know if anybody else has been stumped by this before.

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But every once in a while you'll come across, as a pastor you'll come across a pastor and I'm like, who's Bidan?

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And I'm glad that I looked because I just, I was thinking, I don't remember a judge named Bidan.

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And then I started looking and I was like, oh yeah, nobody else does either.

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So here's the answers that come up when you look at a commentary.

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And this is why we don't follow commentaries, by the way.

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It says, the mention of Bidan in his passage has led to some debate among biblical scholars and theologians regarding his identity.

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The name Bidan does not appear in the book of Judges, which is the primary biblical source detailing the lives and deeds of the judges of Israel.

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This absence has led to various interpretations and theories about who Bidan might be.

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One common interpretation is that Bidan is another name for Barak, one of the judges mentioned in the book of Judges.

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Barak, alongside the prophetess Deborah, led Israel in victory against the Canaanite army commanded by Sisera, judges four and five.

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And then Sisera is mentioned in the passage, so I think maybe that's why they tie him in together.

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I don't know.

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But there's other things that aren't tied together with some of the names either, so I don't know if that's really a dog that hunts.

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But this view is supported by the sub-tugent, an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible,

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which substitutes the name Barak for Bidan in 1 Samuel 12-11.

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So really, the real reason is because the sub-tugent.

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That's why.

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And I'm not going to use that as a primary source as to why I would think it's Barak.

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Anyway, another theory suggests that Bidan could be a reference to Samson.

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Yeah, they sound pretty much almost the same.

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Another prominent judge of Israel.

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Ben Dan.

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Son of Dan.

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Ben Dan?

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Ben Dan.

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It's a contraction of, or could be a contraction of Ben Dan.

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Son of Dan.

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Oh, but it says Bidan.

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I know, but it could be a contraction of Ben Dan.

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Oh, I see what you're saying.

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Dan shall judge his people.

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Oh, maybe.

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Samson's exploits against the Philistines are well documented in Judges 13-16,

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and his inclusion in Samuel's speech would be fitting given the role in delivering Israel from their enemies.

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A less common interpretation is that Bidan might be a reference to Jer,

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a judge mentioned in Judges 10-35.

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I'm just giving you all the options here, okay?

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Jer judged Israel for 22 years and had 30 sons who rode 30 donkey asses, ruling 30 towns in Gilead.

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However, there was little direct evidence to support this identification.

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Some scholars propose that Bidan could be a textual corruption.

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Oh, yeah, let's go with that one.

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No.

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Or a scribal error.

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No.

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Possibly arising from the similarity of Hebrew letters.

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These guys, man.

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Or the transmission of oral traditions.

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This theory suggests that the original text may have intended to refer to a different judge.

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See, they always want to just, oh, it's just a mistake.

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We can't figure it out, so it's a mistake.

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Despite the uncertainty, blah, blah, blah.

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So, I don't know.

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I don't know.

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The Bidan, because, well, there's B times.

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It's the early Dan.

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No.

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Huh?

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Yeah.

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Gotcha.

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Yeah.

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Either way, the name's only mentioned twice in Scripture.

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It's here and then also in 1 Chronicles chapter 7.

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So, it could be the same person.

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It fits the timeline because of the time of the birth of him that would be in the time of the judges.

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But I don't really know.

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And he's not mentioned in the timeline of the judges, but there's a lot of things that aren't mentioned.

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And then they get, well, it's like Enoch's words are not recorded in the Old Testament, necessarily.

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But they are recorded in the New Testament.

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Things like that.

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So, I don't know.

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It's kind of a little bit of a mystery.

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I don't think that there's anything that's super rock solid besides the fact that his name is only mentioned twice.

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Alright.

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Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 10.

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1 Corinthians chapter 10.

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But my opinion is, you know, it probably is just the same guy.

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But that's just my, like, my opinion, man.

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So, anyway, I'll do some more studying about that.

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I felt like I was beating my head against the wall for quite a long time.

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1 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 4, the Bible says,

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And did all drink that same spiritual drink, and they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

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But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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Now, these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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Neither be ye adulterers, as were some of them.

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As it was written, as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell one day three in twenty thousand.

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Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

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Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

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Now, all these things happened unto them for in samples, and they are written for admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.

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So, the Bible talks about all these examples from the Old Testament, but God is faithful, and Christ followed them around in the wilderness.

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It says that rock was Christ. There was a spiritual rock that followed them.

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And he's mentioning all these things of the Old Testament that they committed these wicked sins.

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And look what it says in verse 12, Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth take heed, lest he fall.

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There is no temptation taking you, but such is common to man, but God is faithful.

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So, see, God is faithful. We're not necessarily always faithful, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able.

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But will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it?

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So, God has made it to where we are able to bear temptation.

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So, when people say, well, I just couldn't help myself, you know, the devil made me do it, or whatever excuse people have to sin.

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And yeah, we do give in to sin, but it doesn't mean that God, it's not God's fault that we're doing that.

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And to say that the devil made me do it is a bad excuse.

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You know, our flesh overcame us, well, because you weren't being spiritual.

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There's always a reason. It's like, you know, it's like when you get in an accident, and somehow it's always made out to be your fault.

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There's some way that was your fault somehow at work.

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Have you ever been in like maybe some sort of a work accident, like maybe you hurt yourself at work or something?

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They always make it where somehow it was your fault and you could have done something better.

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But it really is that way when it comes to sin.

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I mean, that's what this verse is teaching, you know, and but God understands how we are.

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Even though he will give us a way to get out of the temptation, it doesn't mean that we always take the right way out.

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This is wherefore my dearly beloved flee from idolatry.

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If we would flee from things and get away from the situation, that would be helpful or not give provision to the flesh to fulfill the loss thereof and things like that.

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If we would put our own guards upon our hearts and upon our eyes and upon our ears,

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then we'd probably be out of a lot of situations that we wish we hadn't been in or do things that we wish we hadn't done.

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So but God is faithful and he is not going to allow us to be tempted about that which we're able to deal with.

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So we might be put in hard situations, but there's always a way to get out of it.

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It's what God's I mean, do you believe God's work or do you not?

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I mean, I believe his word.

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So turn to Second Timothy, Chapter two, Second Timothy, Chapter two.

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Second Timothy, Chapter two, Verse 11 says, Is a faithful sane, for if we be dead with him, we also live with him.

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If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.

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If we deny him, he also will deny us.

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If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful, he cannot deny himself.

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See how it says, yet he abided faithful.

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See God's faithfulness endures always.

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He's always faithful.

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There's times when we have lack of faith.

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Whatever it is in our life that we have a lack of faith on, there's people, all of us have times where we lack faith.

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I'm not saying, I'm not even talking about necessarily salvation or eternal security right here.

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I'm just talking about in general.

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There's times when we lack faith.

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There's times when we think, well, there's no way that this is going to happen.

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But if you have that attitude, then you're right, it probably isn't going to happen.

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Because you lack faith.

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But if it's something that God promised to do, and you lack faith, he is going to pick up a slack on that because he already promised and he is faithful.

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He's not going to let that promise fail no matter what.

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No matter what.

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That's why it says, he abided faithful.

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He cannot deny himself.

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See this is why it's so important to not just be messing around with false prophets and listening to their preaching and fighting with them.

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Why?

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Because this is subverting to the hearers.

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Because their bad doctrine can rub off on you.

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Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly

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dividing the word of truth.

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But shun profane and vain babblings, for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

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And their word will eat as doth a canker or cancer, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is already past and

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overthrow the faith of some."

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See the end of messing around with people like this is that you can be affected by their

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bad doctrine.

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And this is why it's always advised to just not listen to these types of people.

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Even if it's just to see the dumpster fire sometimes, it's just a good thing to avoid

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the dumpster fire.

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Dumpsters stink, burning garbage stinks, and it's like there's better things to look at

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than garbage that's on fire.

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And Samuel here is reminding the children of Israel of the righteous acts of the Lord,

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even when the people of God just forget God and they fall into sin, the Lord still heard

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their cries though when they're ready to get right with him.

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That's the thing about God is that we can be the biggest betrayers of him sometimes,

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and sometimes just we're not thinking about him, we're not right with him, we aren't

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we're not reading our Bible, whatever it is that we're not doing right, and then we have

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this kind of like get right time, and then he's just right there.

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He's already being faithful to us because when we reach out to him, he's just already

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ready to reach out back to us.

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And he raises up deliverers every time for the children of Israel.

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We don't think that's a guide for us, that every time that they actually really meant

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it though, it's not like just oh please forgive me, blah blah blah and then go to bed.

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They actually were crying out to God because they're being oppressed.

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It's just a weird cycle that goes through the whole Old Testament of the Bible, but

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it goes through the New Testament too.

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It had problems too.

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People in the New Testament had problems too, and we have the same problem that the children

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of Israel had, whereas we have times where we're slumping.

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We have times where we're not being the best Christians.

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But you know what, God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and he'll be right there

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for us the minute we're ready to jump right back in.

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So the thing that's different is that we have the Holy Spirit.

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They didn't have that necessarily at the time.

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But God was still ready to just show mercy again and again, and he's like that now too.

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So number three, rejecting God's laws brings God's chastening.

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Yes, God still does chasten you.

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Look at 1 Samuel 12, 12.

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It says, And when ye saw that Nahash the son of, or the king of the children of Ammon came

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against you, ye said unto me, Nay, but a king shall reign over us, when the Lord your God

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was your king.

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Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired, and behold

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the Lord has set a king over you.

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If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against

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the commandment of the Lord, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you

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continue following the Lord your God.

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So what's he saying?

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He's saying, hey, just keep following God, you know.

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And even though you rebelled, you can still just keep following God.

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He says, verse 15, But if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the

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commandment of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was against

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your fathers.

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Now therefore stand and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes.

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Is it not the wheat harvest today?

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I will call unto the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain, that ye may perceive and

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that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the Lord, and asking

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you a king.

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So was it wrong for them to ask for a king?

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Yes it was.

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He's just flat out saying it.

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It was.

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That's what their problem was.

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So Samuel called unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the

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people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

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It wasn't just God that they feared, they feared Samuel too.

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So this day, because the first day of the wheat harvest, that should have been a day

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of celebration for them.

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That's like a big deal.

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They're supposed to be having some sort of mirth.

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The king just got inaugurated.

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God save the king.

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Cut down on the fields.

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Let's have a harvest party.

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This is supposed to be a great day.

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But instead it's like, you asked for a king though.

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Now it's going to rain.

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Now it's going to thunder.

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I don't know, who heard that thunder the other night?

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That was like thunder that's not normal for this area.

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I was like, what is that sound?

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I was like, that's thunder.

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And I don't know about you, but when I hear thunder, it immediately makes me think of

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God's angry.

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And maybe he's not, but I mean there's too many times in the Bible where thunder

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is God being angry.

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And I'm not saying that that's the only reason when thunder strikes.

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I'm just saying that thunder claps or whatever.

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But it's a scary feeling to feel that thunder, because you can feel it.

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And then you know that that rain's coming because it's not too far behind.

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And it can do damage.

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That lightning that strikes, it can do damage and burn places up.

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It can cause forest fires.

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Obviously, it's not going to cause a forest fire necessarily here, but the wind that comes

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from the storm and all that, it's scary.

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And it makes me think right away to repent.

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What have I done?

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I don't know about you, but that's exactly what I think immediately.

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I'm like, whatever I've done, Lord, just pass over my house.

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I'm saved.

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Whatever I've done, I'm sorry.

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I mean, I'm just being honest with you.

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Nobody else is listening anyway.

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And that's what you should think too.

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Because what is he doing?

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He's intentionally scaring them here.

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And they are afraid.

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But people are like, what do people outside of churches like this

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say when we preach stuff like this?

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You shouldn't be afraid of God.

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God is love.

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Yeah, well, there's love mixed in with this sermon that he's preaching.

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But he's also saying, but you've got to fear God also.

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Because if you don't, then you're going to do whatever you want.

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And we shouldn't just do whatever we want, because God will cloud up and rain on you.

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He will put the thunder and lightning upon your life.

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And he's just showing them his power.

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And he's showing them the power of God's word and the power of the man of God.

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He just prayed, and then God just did what he said.

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So obviously, Samuel had a lot of power with God.

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And God was with him.

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And God was with the message that he was preaching so much to the fact

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that he just did exactly what he said.

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Watch what happens.

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And then it's just like, boom.

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And I'm sure that wasn't just some normal thunder and lightning storm and rain.

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I'm sure it was something that scared them half to death.

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Because they're like, OK, we get it.

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Message received.

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Don't kill us.

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Because what are they instantly afraid of?

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They're instantly afraid of dying.

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Because it does put dread in your heart when you hear the claps of thunder.

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Brother Bill, is it worse on the East Coast when thunder and lightning happen?

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Yeah, we all have baby lightning.

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Yeah, we have baby lightning.

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I've heard that before, though.

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Like, Nia and Brandon live in Texas now.

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And they're like hiding in closets and stuff when the storms are coming.

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Every place in the South is more bad.

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Yeah.

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That's why there's churches on every corner in the South.

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Because they all know what happens.

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God gets angry.

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But a few nights ago, those loud cracks of thunder,

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it got me definitely fearing right away.

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And they're afraid of the Lord's man here, too.

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And again, there's that modern belief that we should never fear God.

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We should never be afraid.

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And that God's men should never be feared either.

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There should all be like Joel Osteen, big smiles on their faces,

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big million dollar tooth jobs, and tooth, yeah, teeth jobs, tooth,

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whatever, however you would say that.

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But he's just always like, hi.

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God's not mad at you at all.

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He's just happy.

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Don't let the devil steal your joy.

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All that stuff.

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But it's just always positive.

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And look, there's nothing wrong with positive messages.

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There's nothing wrong with it.

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If that's all it is, then what are they getting out of it?

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How is their life being fixed at all?

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It's not.

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And Samuel's not just giving only negative.

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He's giving positive in here, too.

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But he's also mixing it together.

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And then he's just like, well, here's what's going to happen.

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Boom, boom.

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He's just like, the thunder's clapping.

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And it rains all day.

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And he's just giving a little, here's what you can expect

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if you don't obey the Lord, if you don't serve the Lord,

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if you don't keep his commandments.

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And look, obviously, we're in the New Testament.

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And we're not required to keep the law as some sort of a way

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to, we're not under the law.

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We're under the New Testament.

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We're under grace.

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But that doesn't mean that we don't keep God's moral law.

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That doesn't mean that we can just do whatever we want.

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And God's not going to be mad.

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That's ridiculous.

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That is Joyce Meyer's teaching.

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That is Joe Jones teaching.

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That is not what the Bible teaches.

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Because all the way through the New Testament,

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it brings us up over and over again.

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And it brings it up in Hebrews chapter 10.

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It brings it up all over the Bible.

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Why is he bringing, why are Old Testament concepts brought

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into the New Testament and saying, hey,

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don't be like these guys in the wilderness that

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died 23,000 in one day, flee idolatry.

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No, idolatry is just fine, man.

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You can just wear Jesus as a cross necklace around your,

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no, don't wear Jesus as a cross necklace around your neck.

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Because that's idolatry.

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Jesus isn't on the cross anymore, number one.

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And number two, you're not supposed to make images of God.

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And Jesus is God.

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And you don't know what he looked like.

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And you know what he didn't look like?

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He didn't look like a skinny hippie with long hair.

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OK?

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So that shouldn't be around your neck.

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When you walk into a church, it shouldn't

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have statues of a bunch of angels and demons

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all over the place.

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And Mary praying for us because she's not

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the one that prays for us.

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And we shouldn't have to walk into a building

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and kiss a bunch of icons of saints

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that you don't know what they look like.

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And you know what you're doing?

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You're kissing the lips of every person

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that kissed those things before you.

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How many people have herpes in the Orthodox church?

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It's probably an epidemic.

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I mean, maybe they use Windex in between.

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I don't know.

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Maybe that's why Windex is such a big deal

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in the Greek community.

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I don't know.

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That's the connection.

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I just made it.

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That's why they use Windex for everything.

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But look, Israel's demand for a king,

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it revealed fear, unbelief, and a desire

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to trust human government more than divine leadership.

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They wanted a king.

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The king's going to save them.

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And Samuel made it clear that when people move away

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from God's authority, they invite sorrow and correction

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in their lives.

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That's what he's teaching them.

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He's saying, hey, you want to desire a king?

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God's your king.

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You left your king.

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And today, the Old Life Bees are more worried

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about who's getting elected and what mayor's

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going to be on their platform and what flags from Israel

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they're going to fly in their building

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and what's happening in Israel than what they

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should be worrying about.

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People getting saved, preaching right doctrine.

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How about just preaching doctrine, period?

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They saved the doctrine for times when, I don't know,

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what the cameras aren't rolling.

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I don't know.

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When do they actually preach doctrine anymore?

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Maybe some churches do, but they don't put it on the internet

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because they know people get upset.

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They don't want people to leave their churches.

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So they don't preach doctrine because there's

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a lot of people that believe different things

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in their church.

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They're afraid to preach stuff.

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They're afraid to preach because they

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know if they preach it, people will leave.

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Deacons will fire them or whatever else

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they're afraid of.

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And it's sad because you shouldn't

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be afraid to preach what the truth is.

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And if people don't like it, then they should just

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leave.

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But you know what?

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Just because you learn something new

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and you think that you're right about it,

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it doesn't mean I have to tiptoe around your new belief

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because I'm not going to.

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I'm going to preach what I believe the Bible teaches.

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And I'm not going to apologize for it.

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And I'm not going to go, oh, well,

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you don't believe that God punishes people anymore?

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Well, I'm just not going to preach about that anymore.

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You don't believe in the universal church now?

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Oh, OK.

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Well, you know what?

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Our church doesn't believe that.

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So I'm not going to tiptoe around that.

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You don't believe, oh, you don't believe

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you have to go to church anymore?

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Well, guess what?

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That's not what our church believes.

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And we've never believed that.

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So go into the woods and then pretend

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that that's where two or three are gathered in my name

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or whatever you believe about that.

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I've been hearing that crap my whole Christian life.

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But we're already in church.

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Me and my dogs and I got the fishing poles.

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I'm headed out to church right now.

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That's not church, you idiot.

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Church means congregation.

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You're not congregating with your fish

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that are in the bucket next to you or something.

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You know, you got the little talking fish or whatever.

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You know, the people that had the fish, whatever.

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Nature is not God's congregation.

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I know that people think that.

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I know the people worship animals now.

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But that's just not what God's talking about.

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So last thing here really quickly, verse 19.

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Repentance and reverence restore the people of God.

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Verse 19, and all the people said unto Samuel,

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pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not.

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For we have added unto all our sins this evil

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to ask us a king.

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So what are they doing?

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They're admitting their sin, aren't they?

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And Samuel said unto the people, fear not.

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You have done all this wickedness,

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yet turn not aside from following the Lord,

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but serve the Lord with all your heart.

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And turn ye not aside, for then should you

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go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver,

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for they are vain.

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So what's he saying here?

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And this is really important.

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This is probably the most important part

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of this whole thing.

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He's saying, hey, you know, you've

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admitted that you've done wrong.

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Fear not, though.

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You have done all this wickedness,

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yet turn not aside from following the Lord.

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Yeah, you've admitted you've sinned.

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You have sinned.

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But that doesn't mean to quit.

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We used to have this guy in our youth group named Rudy.

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And every time things would start to go bad in his life,

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he'd always say, I'm done.

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I'm going back to my old life.

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Like, that's the answer when things are going wrong

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or when you've done something wrong

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and you've been called out on it.

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It's just, I'm just going to go back to my old life.

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That's like saying, I'm going back to Egypt.

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I'm going back to the world.

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That's not the answer.

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And Peter did that.

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When he denied the Lord three times, what did he do?

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He went back to Galilee and went fishing again

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and thought he was just going to quit being an apostle,

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quit being a follower.

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And Jesus is like, no, that's not what you're doing.

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You need to put down the fishing nets

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and come and follow me.

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Feed my sheep.

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Feed my lambs.

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Feed my sheep.

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So Peter tried to do that.

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That's not what he wants.

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He just wants us to get it right.

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He just wants us to get back up.

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The Bible says in Proverbs 24, verse 16,

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for a just man falls seven times and riseth up again,

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but the wicked fall into mischief.

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So we shouldn't be wicked and just fall into mischief,

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just go get out of church.

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And hey, I just can't keep up this appearance

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that I'm just so good all the time.

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Who's saying you have to do that?

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Nobody's saying you have to do that.

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Nobody's perfect.

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Nobody's just sinless in this room.

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Nobody's sinless in this church.

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But what is Samuel saying here?

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Yeah, you sinned.

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You did something wrong.

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But don't turn away from following the Lord.

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Look at it again.

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You have done all this wickedness,

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yet turn not aside from following the Lord,

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but serve the Lord with all your heart.

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And turn you not aside, for then should you

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go after vain things, like things that mean nothing,

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things that are worthless, which cannot profit nor deliver,

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for they are vain.

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Look, there's nothing back in the world for you.

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There's nothing back in your old life for you

01:00:04.740 --> 01:00:07.900
that you're going to find any enjoyment out of.

01:00:07.900 --> 01:00:10.300
You might think that you are, but you're not.

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It's never going to be the same.

01:00:12.100 --> 01:00:14.660
It's never going to be like it was before.

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And so you're just wasting your time

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doing vain things that aren't going to help you anyway.

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1 John chapter 1.

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1 John chapter 1.

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I'm almost done.

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I really am.

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Sorry.

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1 John chapter 1.

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Here's the thing.

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People were self-deceptive.

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And we like to lie to ourself.

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And we deceive ourselves sometimes.

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It says, if we say that we have no fellowship with Him,

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if we say, excuse me, if we say that we have fellowship

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with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.

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So there's people that say that they're

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in fellowship with Jesus.

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But in reality, they're walking in darkness.

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They're not doing what they're supposed to be doing.

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It says they do not the truth.

01:00:57.500 --> 01:01:00.220
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light,

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we have fellowship one with another.

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And the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son,

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cleanseth us from all sin.

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If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves

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and the truth is not in us.

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Look, everybody sins.

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That's what it's saying.

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We are deceiving ourselves that we say that we don't.

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But if we confess our sins, He's faithful and just

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to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us

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from all unrighteousness.

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That's what He expects.

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He expects us to admit it, just like they admitted it up here.

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But if we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar

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and His word is not in us.

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It just shows that you're not reading your Bible.

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You're not being very spiritual at all.

01:01:41.340 --> 01:01:44.180
Because if you say that you haven't sinned,

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you're just making Him a liar because it's just

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ridiculous to say that.

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And His word is not really abiding in you.

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So back to 1 Samuel chapter 12, verse 22.

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Look, He doesn't want us to quit.

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He just wants us to get right and get back up again.

01:02:01.620 --> 01:02:04.900
Because if you're a just man, if you're a just lady,

01:02:04.900 --> 01:02:06.540
you're going to get back up.

01:02:06.540 --> 01:02:08.460
You're going to get back in the fight.

01:02:08.460 --> 01:02:11.180
1 Samuel 12, 22 says, for the Lord will not

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forsake His people for His great name's sake,

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because it hath pleased the Lord to make you His people.

01:02:19.540 --> 01:02:22.100
Moreover, as for me, God forbid that I

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should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you.

01:02:25.340 --> 01:02:28.260
But I will teach you the good and right way.

01:02:28.260 --> 01:02:32.260
This is the job of a pastor, of a preacher,

01:02:32.260 --> 01:02:34.900
is to teach the right way.

01:02:34.900 --> 01:02:38.020
Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth

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with all your heart.

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For consider how great things He hath done for you.

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And that's a good motivating factor, right?

01:02:47.060 --> 01:02:48.460
Remember what God's done for you.

01:02:48.460 --> 01:02:49.500
Remember that He saved you.

01:02:49.500 --> 01:02:52.220
Remember He gave you eternal life.

01:02:52.220 --> 01:02:55.860
Remember the things, the former things that you used to be.

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And serve Him.

01:02:58.820 --> 01:03:01.180
It's our reasonable service.

01:03:01.180 --> 01:03:04.900
But if you shall still do wickedly,

01:03:04.900 --> 01:03:08.900
ye shall be consumed both ye and your king.

01:03:08.900 --> 01:03:12.260
So he's like, hey, you still want to be stupid?

01:03:12.260 --> 01:03:15.060
You still want to just be wicked?

01:03:15.060 --> 01:03:19.620
Then you're going to be consumed.

01:03:19.620 --> 01:03:23.180
And he's just going to keep beating you until you're done.

01:03:23.180 --> 01:03:24.380
And what did he do with Saul?

01:03:24.380 --> 01:03:27.140
He went back and started being wicked

01:03:27.140 --> 01:03:28.700
and started doing wicked things.

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And what did he end up finally doing when he went to the witch?

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He kills him.

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He allows him to be killed.

01:03:35.180 --> 01:03:38.660
It says in Proverbs 14, 34, it says,

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righteousness exalted the nation,

01:03:40.580 --> 01:03:44.100
but sin is a reproach to any people.

01:03:44.100 --> 01:03:47.540
Joshua 24, verse 14 says, now therefore, fear the Lord

01:03:47.540 --> 01:03:49.780
and serve Him in sincerity and in truth

01:03:49.780 --> 01:03:51.980
and put away the gods which your fathers served

01:03:51.980 --> 01:03:56.180
on the other side of the flood and in Egypt

01:03:56.180 --> 01:03:58.820
and serve ye the Lord.

01:03:58.820 --> 01:04:02.380
So he just wants you to serve Him

01:04:02.380 --> 01:04:04.900
and to follow Him.

01:04:04.900 --> 01:04:09.620
And when we sin, we need to get back up and dust ourself off

01:04:09.620 --> 01:04:12.820
and get back in the fight and not to quit.

01:04:12.820 --> 01:04:14.340
And that's the biggest thing.

01:04:14.340 --> 01:04:16.300
I think that's talked about so much in the Bible

01:04:16.300 --> 01:04:18.220
because a lot of people do quit.

01:04:18.220 --> 01:04:19.260
A lot of people do give up.

01:04:19.260 --> 01:04:20.420
And they say, this is just too hard.

01:04:20.420 --> 01:04:21.220
I just can't do this.

01:04:21.220 --> 01:04:25.620
And what's hard is going back to that life

01:04:25.620 --> 01:04:28.020
and being mocked and ridiculed for it

01:04:28.020 --> 01:04:35.340
and ending up as a quitter.

01:04:35.340 --> 01:04:38.660
Quitters are not highly looked upon with favor.

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So in conclusion, as Samuel closed his address here,

01:04:42.820 --> 01:04:45.140
he left Israel with this message.

01:04:45.140 --> 01:04:48.100
And it still speaks today, though, doesn't it?

01:04:48.100 --> 01:04:50.900
It's just like the modern message

01:04:50.900 --> 01:04:52.860
that we all need to hear.

01:04:52.860 --> 01:04:55.860
And God honors integrity.

01:04:55.860 --> 01:04:58.580
He remembers every generation.

01:04:58.580 --> 01:05:02.180
And He judges rebellion.

01:05:02.180 --> 01:05:05.860
And He receives those who return to Him in sincerity.

01:05:05.860 --> 01:05:11.460
And the call of this chapter is simple yet powerful.

01:05:11.460 --> 01:05:12.980
Fear the Lord.

01:05:12.980 --> 01:05:15.660
Serve Him with truth with all your heart.

01:05:15.660 --> 01:05:17.220
And never forget the great things

01:05:17.220 --> 01:05:18.820
that He's done for you.

01:05:18.820 --> 01:05:21.980
And if we stay faithful to Him, His mercy will sustain us

01:05:21.980 --> 01:05:25.020
and His hand will lead us in the right way.

01:05:25.060 --> 01:05:27.260
And His word will lead us in the right way.

01:05:27.260 --> 01:05:29.660
We still have these words of Samuel.

01:05:29.660 --> 01:05:31.380
It's a great message that Samuel preaches.

01:05:31.380 --> 01:05:35.540
This is like basically a sermon.

01:05:35.540 --> 01:05:38.380
1 Samuel 12 is just basically a sermon from Samuel.

01:05:38.380 --> 01:05:39.300
It's pretty cool.

01:05:39.300 --> 01:05:40.860
I like it.

01:05:40.860 --> 01:05:44.180
And then we got the mystery man.

01:05:44.180 --> 01:05:45.540
Be Dan.

01:05:45.540 --> 01:05:46.420
Badan.

01:05:46.420 --> 01:05:46.940
Whatever.

01:05:46.940 --> 01:05:47.460
OK.

01:05:47.460 --> 01:05:47.740
All right.

01:05:47.740 --> 01:05:48.060
Let's pray.

01:05:48.060 --> 01:05:50.220
Lord, we thank you so much for this chapter.

01:05:50.220 --> 01:05:52.700
And Lord, help us to be right in our hearts toward you

01:05:52.740 --> 01:05:55.340
and to remember the great things that you've done for us, Lord.

01:05:55.340 --> 01:05:57.860
And help us to remember where we were before we were saved

01:05:57.860 --> 01:06:01.660
and to remember what great salvation you've given to us.

01:06:01.660 --> 01:06:04.140
Help us to not get too high and lifted up

01:06:04.140 --> 01:06:07.100
in thinking that we did something when it was actually

01:06:07.100 --> 01:06:09.180
that you that did it for us.

01:06:09.180 --> 01:06:12.980
Help us to love you and to serve you

01:06:12.980 --> 01:06:15.180
and to train up the next generation.

01:06:15.180 --> 01:06:18.460
Help us to be red hot for soul winning.

01:06:18.460 --> 01:06:23.060
Help us to, Lord, to love doctrine

01:06:23.060 --> 01:06:26.500
and to love the truth and to not be ashamed of the church

01:06:26.500 --> 01:06:29.380
that we go to and not be ashamed of our brethren

01:06:29.380 --> 01:06:31.180
that we go to church with.

01:06:31.180 --> 01:06:34.740
And help us to love each other and help us forgive each other

01:06:34.740 --> 01:06:38.420
and help us to go to you when we sin

01:06:38.420 --> 01:06:40.540
and to ask us to be cleansed, Lord.

01:06:40.540 --> 01:06:43.060
And pray that you just bless us as we go our separate ways

01:06:43.060 --> 01:06:44.540
here and take us home safely.

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In Jesus' name we pray.

01:06:45.540 --> 01:06:47.060
Amen.

01:06:48.460 --> 01:06:56.060
All right, David.

01:06:56.060 --> 01:07:00.380
It's funny that the different perspective you have being on a plane like Texas or Kansas

01:07:00.380 --> 01:07:05.060
versus the mountains of West Virginia, because we just sit on the porch and watch the lightning

01:07:05.060 --> 01:07:06.980
like it was a firework show.

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But if you're out in the plains, like you don't know if your house is going to get taken

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away like Toto in Wizard of Oz.

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All right.

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370.

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Christ is all I need.

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All together on the first.

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Christ is all I need.

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Christ is all I need.

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All I need.

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Christ is all I need.

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Christ is all I need.

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All I need.

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Christ is all I need.

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All I need.

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Christ is all I need.

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All I need.

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Christ is all I need.

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All I need.

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Christ is all I need.

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Amen.

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Good to see you.

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Brother Eli, can you close us with a prayer?

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Heaven and Father, Lord, thank you for your word.

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Father, thank you that we've got an oasis here that we can come and hear your word preached,

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Lord, and get away from the world for a while.

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Lord, I pray that we go out with your word, Lord, and preach it to others, how we can be

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more successful in the world.

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Thank you.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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We're dismissed.