WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.500 Saul and Jonathan were taken, but the people escaped. 00:04.500 --> 00:08.340 And Saul said, cast lots between me and Jonathan, my son. 00:08.340 --> 00:10.660 And Jonathan was taken. 00:10.660 --> 00:14.820 Then Saul said to Jonathan, tell me what thou hast done. 00:14.820 --> 00:16.940 And Jonathan told him and said, I did, 00:16.940 --> 00:18.940 but taste a little honey with the end of the rod 00:18.940 --> 00:21.580 that was in my hand, and lo, I must die. 00:22.600 --> 00:27.960 And Saul answered, God do so and more also, for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. 00:28.680 --> 00:34.920 And the people said unto Saul, shall Jonathan die? Who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? 00:35.560 --> 00:41.640 God forbid! As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he 00:41.640 --> 00:47.320 hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan that he died not. 00:48.400 --> 00:54.400 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place. 00:54.400 --> 01:00.400 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel and fought against all his enemies on every side, 01:00.400 --> 01:05.400 against Moab and against the children of Ammon and against Edom and against the kings of Zobah 01:05.400 --> 01:10.400 and against the Philistines, and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them. 01:11.300 --> 01:14.660 and he gathered in host and smote the Amalekites 01:14.660 --> 01:18.260 and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them. 01:18.260 --> 01:21.940 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan and Ishui 01:21.940 --> 01:25.380 and Melchishua and the names of his two daughters were these 01:25.380 --> 01:29.140 the name of the firstborn Merab and the name of the younger 01:29.140 --> 01:33.060 Mikal and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam 01:33.060 --> 01:34.900 the daughter of Ahimaaz. 01:35.100 --> 01:40.460 And the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. 01:41.260 --> 01:46.860 And Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, was the son of Abiel. 01:47.660 --> 01:51.500 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul. 01:52.060 --> 01:57.580 And when Saul saw any strong man or any valiant man, he took him unto him. 01:58.300 --> 01:59.660 Brother Ramon, would you pray for us? 02:07.500 --> 02:08.340 Thank you. 02:11.100 --> 02:11.800 Thanks for watching! 02:19.900 --> 02:23.420 All right, we are back in first Samuel chapter 14. 02:24.420 --> 02:30.020 And last week, Jonathan saved all of Israel through his act of bravery. 02:31.420 --> 02:36.380 When he did the free solo climb with his armor bearer and took on 20 02:37.140 --> 02:39.260 Philistines and killed them with his armor bearer. 02:40.140 --> 02:43.860 And so this is kind of where we picked up because we went through the last 02:44.300 --> 02:45.780 of the first 23 verses last week. 02:46.400 --> 02:57.200 And so Jonathan has gotten the victory and the Philistines are on the run because God made an earthquake happen and they set everybody on the run. 02:57.200 --> 03:02.400 They're trampling each other and then they're also fighting each other. 03:02.400 --> 03:04.600 You know, God has them in derision. 03:04.800 --> 03:09.460 And so now people have come out of the holes that they're hiding in and away from Mount 03:09.460 --> 03:12.860 Ephraim and everybody's chasing the Philistines. 03:12.860 --> 03:14.060 They're on the run. 03:14.060 --> 03:18.140 And so two can chase 10,000, thousands. 03:18.140 --> 03:22.460 I mean, there was, there's thousands of people that they're chasing and it all started from 03:22.460 --> 03:23.780 the heart of Jonathan. 03:23.780 --> 03:24.220 And so. 03:24.700 --> 03:29.080 It wasn't Saul that got the victory, it was Jonathan that really got the victory. 03:29.080 --> 03:34.160 And so that kind of sets it up for Saul to start to erode. 03:34.160 --> 03:40.360 His leadership is starting to get worse and he's starting to show some character flaws 03:40.360 --> 03:45.080 in his leadership in this chapter and it just gets worse from here. 03:45.080 --> 03:50.160 So verse 24, my first point is Saul's stupid vow. 03:50.160 --> 03:52.680 24 says, and the men of Israel were distracted. 03:52.700 --> 03:57.040 that day for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Curse be the man that eateth any food 03:57.040 --> 04:03.140 until evening, that I may be avenged of mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any 04:03.140 --> 04:09.000 food." And really this is a selfish thing for Saul to do because Saul's probably riding 04:09.000 --> 04:12.900 on some animal. He's not on foot. He's not chasing on foot. And I think a lot of people 04:12.900 --> 04:18.200 probably are. He's the only one that has a sword. He's the only one that has armor. 04:18.200 --> 04:19.440 And so he's not really. 04:19.900 --> 04:23.900 you know, having to suffer too much from not eating food, but... 04:24.300 --> 04:31.300 It's really a stupid thing to have people fast when they're trying to exert a bunch of physical energy. 04:31.300 --> 04:35.300 That's not the time when you want to fast. It's right when you're about to play some sports. 04:35.300 --> 04:41.300 That's why Israelis are probably not very good at sports because they always have to miss the Sabbath day or whatever. 04:41.300 --> 04:46.300 That's why Muslims aren't very good at sports either because during Ramadan they can't eat all day. 04:46.300 --> 04:51.300 So you just don't hear about these great athletes that are from these countries. 04:51.700 --> 04:55.700 The Blazers have like some super-jew on their team that's... 04:55.700 --> 04:59.700 He skips the Sabbath day, so he must be allowed to do that. 04:59.700 --> 05:03.700 So, for some reason or another. But anyway... 05:03.700 --> 05:07.700 So yeah, so Saul is... Now, Nosoth says that I may be avenged of mine enemies. 05:07.700 --> 05:11.700 He acts like it's just a personal affront to him. 05:11.700 --> 05:15.500 And so he doesn't really... He's not really thinking about the people that he's leading. 05:15.600 --> 05:19.040 Because if he was, he's not going to let his people starve and get hung. 05:19.040 --> 05:22.720 I mean, because if you exert a bunch of physical energy like this, you're battling and you're 05:22.720 --> 05:27.200 chasing people, you're running after people, you're going to get hungry after doing this 05:27.200 --> 05:28.520 all day long. 05:28.520 --> 05:33.200 And so they're really trying to hunt these Philistines down and do some major damage 05:33.200 --> 05:37.940 against them and spoil them and take back the stuff that they, the properties that they've 05:37.940 --> 05:39.420 taken over and things like that. 05:39.420 --> 05:43.420 So it says, and all they of the land came to a wood. 05:43.600 --> 05:45.960 and there was honey upon the ground. 05:45.960 --> 05:47.800 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, 05:47.800 --> 05:49.240 the honey dropped. 05:49.240 --> 05:51.200 But no man put his hand to his mouth, 05:51.200 --> 05:53.560 for the people feared the oath. 05:53.560 --> 05:56.360 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged 05:56.360 --> 05:58.320 at the people with the oath. 05:58.320 --> 06:02.600 Wherefore, he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand 06:02.600 --> 06:03.320 and dipped it. 06:03.320 --> 06:03.500 you 06:03.700 --> 06:07.700 in a honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth and his eyes were enlightened. 06:07.700 --> 06:11.540 So that sugar rush happened. He's going to get a 20 minute sugar rush 06:11.540 --> 06:12.700 from this and... 06:13.400 --> 06:19.240 So all he needed was just something a little bit to get his metabolism going and that honey did it. 06:19.240 --> 06:25.960 So, and you know, a kind of a spiritual lesson with this is that God's word is like honey. 06:25.960 --> 06:30.840 You know, the Bible says in Psalm chapter 19 that it's like sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. 06:31.400 --> 06:36.040 And so when we delight ourselves in the word of God, it's like honey to us 06:36.680 --> 06:40.760 and it enlightens our eyes also, it lightens our soul to 06:41.400 --> 06:42.680 take in the word of God. 06:42.680 --> 06:45.360 So, and it says in verse number 28, 06:45.360 --> 06:47.160 it says, then answered one of the people 06:47.160 --> 06:49.840 and said, thy father straightly charged the people 06:49.840 --> 06:50.720 with an oath saying, 06:50.720 --> 06:53.960 curse be the man that eateth any food this day. 06:53.960 --> 06:55.960 And the people were faint. 06:55.960 --> 06:58.840 So they just watched Jonathan dip his. 06:59.000 --> 07:04.200 rod into there and eat and they're probably just like salivating, you know, like, 07:04.200 --> 07:08.200 I want some of that honey too. They're probably ready to just grab hunks of it and just start eating it, 07:08.200 --> 07:15.200 but they don't do it. And so they're faint. They're already just out of gas. They're already out of energy. 07:15.200 --> 07:16.600 They need something to eat. 07:16.800 --> 07:19.200 So it's really just a stupid time to fast. 07:19.200 --> 07:20.600 It's a stupid time. 07:20.600 --> 07:22.160 That's why it's a stupid vow. 07:22.160 --> 07:24.400 And it's a selfish one because he's like, 07:24.400 --> 07:27.720 I and mine and my enemies, what about me? 07:27.720 --> 07:28.560 What about me? 07:28.560 --> 07:29.960 What about mine? 07:29.960 --> 07:33.960 And so it's not a very good position for Saul to be in. 07:33.960 --> 07:38.280 And we should not go on these big fasts 07:38.280 --> 07:40.440 when we're trying to do major things like that. 07:40.440 --> 07:43.040 And you should never have your pregnant wife fast. 07:43.040 --> 07:43.880 Okay. 07:44.200 --> 07:47.400 We had some bozo that was going to our church in Spokane one time and he was 07:47.960 --> 07:53.000 Told me how he was having his wife fast and she was pregnant. I was like dude. That's what are you doing? 07:53.000 --> 08:02.160 That's stupid like that's never okay like oh, no. It's it's okay. It's controlled. It's like yeah, but she's eating for two I mean 08:03.000 --> 08:09.560 They need to eat. The baby needs nourishment. You don't starve a growing baby in your womb. 08:09.560 --> 08:15.640 And the guy turns out to be an unsaved Catholic anyway later on, so no surprise, no big shocker there. 08:15.640 --> 08:20.600 But yeah, we should never have our pregnant wives fast. 08:20.600 --> 08:25.960 She's getting big because there's a baby growing in her belly, just so you know. 08:28.300 --> 08:32.300 But the Bible says there's a time for everything, a time and a season for everything, right? 08:32.300 --> 08:37.180 And for every activity under the sun, there's a time to fast and there's a time to not fast. 08:37.180 --> 08:43.020 And the time to fast is not when you're in the heat of a battle and you're using a massive amount 08:43.020 --> 08:50.860 of calories to try to hunt down the Philistines. So, and then let's turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 08:50.860 --> 08:53.260 5, Ecclesiastes chapter 5. 08:53.260 --> 08:54.380 And here's the other thing is that... 08:54.900 --> 08:56.900 When you're vowing vows or 08:58.720 --> 09:05.780 You know making oaths and all these things in the Bible first of all the New Testament condemns us and we're not supposed to be doing that 09:05.780 --> 09:07.780 but 09:07.960 --> 09:13.360 Paul the Apostle did do vows later on and I think that he probably wasn't supposed to be doing that but 09:14.100 --> 09:19.500 I think that if you do, but people still do these things anyway, even though the Bible says not to do them, 09:19.500 --> 09:22.540 even though Jesus said not to do them, even though James said not to do these things, 09:23.460 --> 09:27.500 people still do them. So you're still held responsible. 09:28.200 --> 09:31.320 to the vow, regardless of whether it's the New Testament or not. 09:31.320 --> 09:34.840 So these are things that you must think about when you say you're going to do something, 09:34.840 --> 09:38.920 when you tell God, hey God, if you get me out of this situation, I'm going to do this. 09:38.920 --> 09:43.400 You better do what you said you were going to do, because it is sin to not do it. 09:43.400 --> 09:47.240 And God doesn't accept excuses in this situation. 09:47.880 --> 09:50.840 Now I'll go through all this stuff here, but this is a, 09:50.840 --> 09:54.280 this is, I'm going to go into some important doctrinal things tonight. 09:54.280 --> 09:55.880 And this is an important doctrinal. 09:56.200 --> 09:59.720 issue. So look at Ecclesiastes 5.1, it says, 09:59.720 --> 10:03.100 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be 10:03.100 --> 10:06.700 more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice 10:06.700 --> 10:07.600 of fools. 10:08.200 --> 10:10.760 for they consider not that they do evil." 10:10.760 --> 10:12.200 And what is it talking about? 10:12.200 --> 10:14.500 Well, I believe it's talking about 10:14.500 --> 10:17.340 trying to sacrifice something with your mouth 10:17.340 --> 10:18.940 and saying you're going to do something 10:18.940 --> 10:20.340 and then you don't do it. 10:20.340 --> 10:22.980 I can't tell you how many times people have visited him. 10:22.980 --> 10:24.580 Look, I'm not mad at him or anything like that, 10:24.580 --> 10:26.320 but people have visited our church and said, 10:26.320 --> 10:28.180 Pastor, I'm going to start coming every week 10:28.180 --> 10:30.080 and then they don't come back. 10:30.080 --> 10:31.820 Or they might come for a couple of weeks 10:31.820 --> 10:32.380 and then they don't. 10:32.380 --> 10:35.320 And I would rather just people not say that stuff to me 10:35.320 --> 10:36.200 than for them to say those things. 10:36.200 --> 10:40.440 those things and then to not do them because God is going to still hold you responsible 10:40.440 --> 10:41.440 for the things that you say. 10:41.440 --> 10:43.680 And it's not, don't vow things to me. 10:43.680 --> 10:45.200 I don't need to know these things. 10:45.200 --> 10:46.960 If you're going to do it, just do it. 10:46.960 --> 10:49.000 Talk is cheap. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.560 Just back up what you say you're going to do. 10:50.800 --> 10:54.820 And, you know, we all fail, I'm sure, in areas where we say we're going to do something 10:54.820 --> 10:58.680 and don't do it, but, you know, to minimize those things is probably the best thing because 10:58.680 --> 11:01.680 God isn't playing around when it comes to this stuff. 11:01.680 --> 11:03.280 Look at verse number two, it says, 11:03.280 --> 11:09.440 be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God." 11:10.200 --> 11:14.680 For God is in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few 11:14.760 --> 11:18.800 It's better to just not say much than to say a bunch of stuff that you're gonna do 11:18.800 --> 11:22.400 Oh God, I'm gonna do this or oh God. I'm gonna sacrifice this I'm gonna give that 11:22.400 --> 11:25.280 I'm gonna be at church all these different times then to sit 11:25.280 --> 11:27.660 You know if you sit there and say you're gonna do something not do it 11:27.780 --> 11:31.400 Then you're gonna be in a lot of trouble because look what it says in verse 3 11:31.400 --> 11:34.320 It says for a dream coming through the multitude of business 11:35.300 --> 11:37.300 which I was trying to figure out what that meant, 11:37.300 --> 11:39.300 but I think that what it's talking about is 11:39.300 --> 11:43.300 all the things that happen in your busy life throughout the day, 11:43.300 --> 11:45.300 they'll come forth in your dreams. 11:45.700 --> 11:48.780 You'll have these dreams of things that you know, 11:48.780 --> 11:50.500 and you're like, well, what does that mean? 11:50.500 --> 11:52.540 But you can usually, if you backtrack it, 11:52.540 --> 11:54.180 you can usually backtrack it to things 11:54.180 --> 11:57.020 that are happening in your life or your workday or whatever. 11:57.020 --> 12:00.220 And it's not really some, it's just 12:00.220 --> 12:02.500 your mind is defragging from all the stuff that 12:02.500 --> 12:03.500 is going on in your life. 12:03.500 --> 12:05.220 That's what I think it's talking about here. 12:05.220 --> 12:07.420 But it says, for a dream coming through the multitude 12:07.420 --> 12:09.500 of business, and a fool's voice is 12:09.500 --> 12:11.740 known by the multitude of words. 12:11.740 --> 12:12.240 So. 12:12.500 --> 12:18.500 The more that you're just flapping your gums and bumping them gums, the more foolish you can be. 12:18.500 --> 12:23.300 So it's best not to just keep saying things to God that you're not going to do. 12:23.300 --> 12:24.100 Look what it says, 12:24.100 --> 12:30.900 When thou vowest to vow unto God, defer not to pay it, for he hath no pleasure in fools. 12:30.900 --> 12:33.300 Pay that which thou hast vowed. 12:33.300 --> 12:35.700 And it's not necessarily talking about money, 12:35.700 --> 12:38.100 but it could be just anything that you say you're going to do. 12:38.300 --> 12:41.500 But if you, it says, pay that which thou has vowed. 12:41.500 --> 12:42.800 God has no pleasure in fools. 12:42.800 --> 12:45.700 So the context of this is talking about, you know, 12:45.700 --> 12:49.800 going into the house of God and then the sacrifice of fools. 12:49.800 --> 12:52.700 Because it's the sacrifice of someone that's just an idiot 12:52.700 --> 12:55.600 saying things that he's not going to do, basically, right? 12:55.600 --> 12:59.900 So, better it is that thou shouldest not vow 12:59.900 --> 13:02.500 than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 13:02.700 --> 13:08.880 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, neither say thou before the angel that 13:08.880 --> 13:10.380 it was an error." 13:10.380 --> 13:13.780 So once you said it, you can't take it back. 13:13.780 --> 13:19.140 Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice and destroy the work of thine hands? 13:19.500 --> 13:24.660 So, once you say something, it's better to just do it and do what you said you were going 13:24.660 --> 13:27.740 to do because it's going to make God angry if you don't. 13:27.740 --> 13:30.740 And He's not going to put up with the, hey, I said that in error. 13:30.740 --> 13:32.660 No, you already said you were going to do it. 13:32.660 --> 13:35.660 He expects you to do what you say you're going to do. 13:35.660 --> 13:42.020 It says, for the multitude of dreams and many words, there are also diverse vanities, but 13:42.020 --> 13:44.660 fear thou God. 13:44.660 --> 13:45.300 Hope. 13:45.300 --> 13:49.860 The point is, hey, it's better to fear God and to keep the vows that you've made. 13:49.860 --> 13:54.820 Turn to Numbers chapter 30 verse number 1. Numbers chapter 30 verse number 1. 13:57.300 --> 14:05.080 Numbers 30 verse number 1 the Bible says, And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes 14:05.080 --> 14:10.560 concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded. 14:10.560 --> 14:16.200 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall 14:16.200 --> 14:21.280 not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. 14:21.280 --> 14:21.780 So. 14:21.900 --> 14:25.300 A vow or an oath he should not break. 14:25.300 --> 14:30.700 And there is a difference between these things. 14:30.700 --> 14:34.620 And look, when you get married, do you vow vows before God? 14:34.620 --> 14:36.100 I mean, you should. 14:36.100 --> 14:39.620 Yeah, I mean, that's what I have you do. 14:39.620 --> 14:42.820 And you're like, well, you shouldn't do that because the New Testament says not to do that. 14:42.820 --> 14:43.820 No. 14:43.820 --> 14:46.860 The New Testament says not to swear. 14:46.860 --> 14:47.600 So. 14:47.800 --> 14:51.440 Vowing a vow, that you're supposed to stay with them 14:51.440 --> 14:53.840 till death do us part is something 14:53.840 --> 14:56.140 that you're just expected to do anyway. 14:56.140 --> 14:58.600 So when you're saying that you will do that, 14:58.600 --> 15:01.440 then you're promising to do something 15:01.440 --> 15:03.240 that you're already expected to do. 15:03.240 --> 15:06.400 So it's not wrong to do that. 15:06.400 --> 15:08.740 So it says, or, so it says, 15:11.500 --> 15:17.900 If a man vow, vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. 15:17.900 --> 15:20.780 He shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth." 15:20.780 --> 15:27.420 So when you get, you know, the Bible says that, you know, when it talks about in Malachi chapter 2, I believe, 15:27.420 --> 15:32.060 where it's talking about being treacherous against the wife of your youth, 15:32.400 --> 15:38.000 that she is the wife of thy covenant, she's the wife of your youth, she's the wife of your covenant. 15:38.000 --> 15:41.100 And so the Bible calls it a covenant. 15:41.100 --> 15:46.400 So it's an agreement between two people to be married to each other for life. 15:46.400 --> 15:50.800 Till death do us part, that's part of the vows. 15:50.800 --> 15:53.600 And God expects you to keep those words. 15:53.900 --> 15:59.140 So that's I mean that's just a for instance of something that yeah, you should keep that word 15:59.140 --> 16:02.520 You should keep that oath because God's gonna be angry when you say well 16:02.520 --> 16:06.020 I didn't know that she was like this or I didn't know he was like that. It's too bad 16:06.420 --> 16:11.680 God still expects you to stay married. So now it says 16:12.940 --> 16:14.940 Let's see in verse number three 16:14.940 --> 16:20.300 It says if a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord and bind herself with a bond 16:21.000 --> 16:24.000 being in her father's house in her youth, 16:24.000 --> 16:26.080 and her father hear her vow, 16:26.080 --> 16:28.840 and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, 16:28.840 --> 16:31.880 and her father shall hold his peace at her, 16:31.880 --> 16:33.760 then all her vows shall stand, 16:33.760 --> 16:37.400 and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand." 16:37.400 --> 16:42.600 So, this is teaching the concept that daughters are under the rule of their father 16:42.600 --> 16:44.440 while they're in their father's house. 16:44.440 --> 16:46.440 And so, if a girl... 16:46.700 --> 16:52.640 If a maid or a young girl is in her father's house and she says something that she wants 16:52.640 --> 16:58.920 to do and her dad says, hey, that's not going to stand, then the dad has the right to dismiss 16:58.920 --> 16:59.260 that. 16:59.800 --> 17:01.200 Isn't that what it says? 17:01.200 --> 17:03.360 I mean, that's what the Bible teaches. 17:03.360 --> 17:06.880 But if her father disallow her in the day that she heareth not, 17:06.880 --> 17:11.320 any of her vows or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul 17:11.320 --> 17:13.200 shall stand, and the Lord shall forgive her, 17:13.200 --> 17:15.000 because her father disallowed her. 17:15.100 --> 17:24.180 So, the father has the right to disallow the vows of a daughter in her father's house. 17:24.180 --> 17:29.980 Now verse 6 it says, And if she had at all a husband when she vowed or uttered out of 17:29.980 --> 17:35.220 her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, and her husband heard it and held his peace at 17:35.220 --> 17:38.580 her in the day that he heard it, then her vow shall stand. 17:38.900 --> 17:41.700 and her bonds, wherewith she bound her soul, shall stand." 17:41.700 --> 17:49.540 So if the husband hears it or the dad hears it and he doesn't say anything about it, those 17:49.540 --> 17:50.980 vows stand. 17:50.980 --> 17:52.980 You're held responsible for what you said. 17:53.500 --> 17:59.060 But, verse 8, but if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it, then he shall 17:59.060 --> 18:04.800 make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound 18:04.800 --> 18:09.100 her soul of none effect, and the Lord shall forgive her. 18:09.100 --> 18:10.100 So there's caveats. 18:10.500 --> 18:14.140 to those things when it comes to women. 18:14.140 --> 18:18.140 It says, but every vow of a widow and of her that is divorced, 18:18.140 --> 18:22.140 wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her. 18:22.140 --> 18:27.620 And if she vowed in her husband's house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, 18:27.620 --> 18:29.020 and her husband heard it, 18:29.200 --> 18:33.820 held his peace at her and disallowed her not then all her vows shall stand and 18:34.040 --> 18:38.320 Every bound or bond excuse me wherewith she bound her soul shall stand 18:38.660 --> 18:41.740 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day 18:41.740 --> 18:49.100 He heard them then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul shall not stand 18:49.280 --> 18:53.800 Her husband hath made them void and the Lord shall forgive her so 18:54.500 --> 18:59.780 Again, this is teaching the authority in the home, the authority of husbands over their wives, 19:00.340 --> 19:04.980 and of husbands, or I mean, excuse me, dads over their daughters while they're in their father's 19:04.980 --> 19:12.260 house. Verse 13, every vow and every binding oath to afflict the soul, so that could be fasting. 19:12.800 --> 19:17.400 or anything else that you are withholding yourself, 19:17.400 --> 19:21.000 her husband may establish it or her husband may make it void. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.400 But if her husband altogether holds his peace 19:23.400 --> 19:27.880 at her from day to day, then he establisheth 19:27.880 --> 19:32.040 all her vows or all her bonds which are upon her, 19:32.040 --> 19:34.840 he confirmeth them because he held his peace at her 19:34.840 --> 19:36.400 in the day that he heard them. 19:36.700 --> 19:43.180 But if he shall in any ways make them void after he hath heard them, then he shall bear 19:43.180 --> 19:44.500 her iniquity." 19:44.500 --> 19:46.940 So there is the responsibility also. 19:46.940 --> 19:51.520 If you try to void them out after you've heard them and you didn't say anything the day that 19:51.520 --> 19:57.860 she vowed those vows or swore those oaths, then God's going to take it out on you. 19:57.860 --> 20:01.620 So a lot of times people are like, why can't you know? 20:02.200 --> 20:06.760 The Bible is just male chauvinistic and it's you know all this other stuff but 20:06.760 --> 20:10.600 but men have a responsibility that is also 20:11.000 --> 20:16.200 accountability to God. And so where you're going to be, where we're going to be accountable 20:16.200 --> 20:22.560 is for doing things wrong also when there's clear scripture in order for us to know what 20:22.560 --> 20:27.500 we're supposed to do. So again, the day that it's made, the day that an oath is made by 20:27.500 --> 20:32.400 your daughter or some kind of vow, you say they're going to do something, you hear about 20:32.400 --> 20:35.960 it, you can null and void it that day, but the next day if you try to do it afterwards 20:35.960 --> 20:39.000 or say, hey, that was too hasty, you shouldn't have said that and it's like a week later. 20:39.000 --> 20:43.440 then God's going to hold you accountable because they're still supposed to obey their husband. 20:43.440 --> 20:49.380 But then God's going to come down on you for not keeping, not allowing her to keep the vow when 20:49.380 --> 20:55.300 you had a chance, you had the caveat chance of that one day, if that makes sense. So, 20:55.300 --> 21:00.820 and that could be, I mean, what could be the, what could these vows be? Well, I vow I'm going to 21:00.820 --> 21:03.580 start giving this specific missionary money or something. And maybe... 21:04.400 --> 21:08.800 you don't want her to do that or you don't have the money to do that and she's just vowing something that you don't 21:09.120 --> 21:14.000 You know, you're not allowing to happen or you're saying that you know, it doesn't matter what it is 21:15.680 --> 21:17.360 Whatever it is 21:17.360 --> 21:20.160 You know the husband has the right to just nullify that 21:20.800 --> 21:25.040 And you're like well, that's doesn't seem right. You know, that means that he's controlling me. Well 21:25.920 --> 21:27.040 No 21:27.040 --> 21:30.580 But he is the head of the house and he also is the head of the money 21:31.000 --> 21:35.720 He's the head of what goes on in the house, he's the boss of the whole house, and when 21:35.720 --> 21:39.280 he's gone then you're the boss of the house, you know, if you're the spouse. 21:39.280 --> 21:41.000 So it's just the way it is. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.320 It's the way the Bible set things up. 21:43.320 --> 21:47.680 Because if there's too many chiefs and not enough Indians, then who's running the show? 21:47.680 --> 21:49.960 You know, it's just madness. 21:49.960 --> 21:52.300 It descends into madness. 21:52.300 --> 21:55.700 So verse 16 says, these are the statutes. 21:56.000 --> 22:00.000 which the Lord commanded Moses between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, 22:00.640 --> 22:08.800 being yet in her youth in her father's house." So he also has the right to veto weddings. 22:08.800 --> 22:14.000 If a girl wants to get married to a certain guy, then the dad has the right to say, 22:14.000 --> 22:15.500 I say, no, that guy's a creep. 22:15.600 --> 22:20.960 or I don't like him, he's a scumbag, or I just don't like the way he looks, you know, whatever it is, 22:20.960 --> 22:24.480 he has the right to do that. Now, I think that people should be able to marry who they want, 22:25.120 --> 22:31.200 but it does, the Bible does teach that a man can, you know, a husband or a father, excuse me, 22:31.760 --> 22:34.300 can veto those marriages. So... 22:34.500 --> 22:39.320 But, you know, I mean, arranged marriages aren't always the best either, but sometimes 22:39.320 --> 22:40.320 they work out. 22:40.320 --> 22:43.120 But that's not really a thing in our country for the most part. 22:43.120 --> 22:44.600 It's usually in other cultures. 22:44.600 --> 22:48.440 So now turn to Deuteronomy 23 verse 21. 22:48.440 --> 22:53.080 Deuteronomy 23 verse 21. 22:53.080 --> 23:00.240 Because like I said, in the New Testament, these things are things that Jesus has told 23:00.240 --> 23:01.240 us not to do. 23:01.240 --> 23:01.880 and court. 23:02.400 --> 23:05.840 And they say, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, 23:05.840 --> 23:08.480 so help you God? 23:08.480 --> 23:09.960 They're asking you to swear. 23:09.960 --> 23:12.400 Jesus said not to swear. 23:12.400 --> 23:17.000 Not to swear an oath, especially that you're going to tell the truth. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.200 Because what if you don't remember it right? 23:19.200 --> 23:20.840 I mean, just think about that. 23:20.840 --> 23:21.500 And you're... 23:22.300 --> 23:28.620 You're saying something that might you might not remember all the details perfectly and then you're putting someone in prison for the rest of their life 23:28.620 --> 23:30.620 off of your bad memory. I 23:31.140 --> 23:32.140 mean 23:32.140 --> 23:35.580 You're swelling swearing to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth so help you God 23:35.580 --> 23:40.420 I mean if you say I swear then you're breaking scripture 23:40.420 --> 23:43.760 you're breaking Jesus's commandment not to do that and so 23:44.260 --> 23:49.740 If you want to you know a lot of Christians are given the opportunity to say I affirm I affirm that I will I will 23:50.200 --> 23:54.440 I will do my best to tell the truth, you know, as much as I know it or whatever. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.880 So affirming is different than swearing an oath. 23:58.440 --> 24:00.600 Anyway, Deuteronomy 23 verse 21 says, 24:00.600 --> 24:05.400 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it, 24:05.400 --> 24:11.560 for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee, and it would be sin in thee. 24:11.560 --> 24:14.840 So is it a sin to break a vow that you've made to God? 24:14.840 --> 24:15.880 It absolutely is. 24:16.600 --> 24:23.400 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, like not do it, it shall be no sin any." 24:23.400 --> 24:31.040 So if you don't vow a vow, that which is gone out of thy lips thou shall keep and perform 24:31.040 --> 24:36.180 even a free will offering according as thou has vowed unto the Lord thy God which thou 24:36.180 --> 24:38.520 has promised with thy mouth. 24:38.520 --> 24:41.560 So when it comes to money, some people... 24:41.900 --> 24:44.540 might say, well, I'm going to give $10,000 to the Lord. 24:44.540 --> 24:45.340 I just feel blessed. 24:45.340 --> 24:47.500 And then it's just like, but then you get down 24:47.500 --> 24:49.300 to the goal line, you're like, I don't know 24:49.300 --> 24:50.900 if I really want to do that. 24:50.900 --> 24:53.020 And you've already said you were going to do it. 24:53.020 --> 24:56.900 That is vowing a vow to the Lord. 24:56.900 --> 24:58.660 And then if you don't do it, then what is it? 24:58.660 --> 25:00.340 It's sin. 25:00.340 --> 25:03.340 So even when it comes down to an offering. 25:03.340 --> 25:05.940 So God does not plan around about stuff like that. 25:05.940 --> 25:07.020 So just don't do it. 25:07.020 --> 25:09.100 And that's a real simple way of getting out of it. 25:09.500 --> 25:15.260 That's why it says if you forbear, forbearing means that you're just not vowing. 25:15.260 --> 25:19.560 You shall, if thou shalt forbear to thou, just don't do it. 25:19.560 --> 25:21.600 Then it shall not be a sin any. 25:21.600 --> 25:24.140 Because a free will offering is just that, it's free will. 25:24.140 --> 25:29.060 It's something that you give out of your own heart because the tithe belongs to the Lord. 25:29.060 --> 25:32.900 But a free will offering is something that you're doing above the tithe that you don't 25:32.900 --> 25:33.740 have to give. 25:34.200 --> 25:39.200 But if you're doing something like that and you're saying you're going to do it, you've got to do it. 25:39.200 --> 25:45.200 So anyway, Psalm chapter 50 verse 14. 25:45.200 --> 25:48.100 I know we're going into a lot of scripture, but... 25:48.200 --> 25:50.700 I think it's really important that people understand these things because a lot of times 25:50.700 --> 25:55.940 I think even children will say things that they don't mean and people will say things 25:55.940 --> 25:56.940 that they don't mean. 25:56.940 --> 26:00.380 You know, I think that it's just important to nail these kind of doctrines down so that 26:00.380 --> 26:04.620 you understand where God's position is in these things because a lot of times we are 26:04.620 --> 26:05.620 rash with our mouth. 26:05.620 --> 26:07.820 A lot of times we say things that we don't mean. 26:07.820 --> 26:13.100 A lot of times we'll say things and not do them and God feels a certain way about it, 26:13.100 --> 26:14.100 doesn't he? 26:14.100 --> 26:16.140 It doesn't seem like he's really bendable in this situation. 26:16.200 --> 26:23.000 not very flexible when it comes to not keeping your word. Psalm 50 verse 14. 26:23.200 --> 26:30.960 offer unto the God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most high and call upon me in the day of trouble 26:30.960 --> 26:36.960 I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me but unto the wicked God saith what has thou to do 26:37.280 --> 26:44.160 thou to do to declare my statutes or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth seeing that thou hatest instruction and castest 26:45.400 --> 26:51.640 my words behind me. So God will, you know, if you're doing what, you know, you're pleasing 26:51.640 --> 26:55.320 God, He's going to, you call on Him on the day of trouble, He's going to deliver you. 26:55.320 --> 26:59.400 But, you know, if you're wicked and you don't do those things, then, you know, He's... 26:59.700 --> 27:01.940 He's like, what do I got to do with you? 27:01.940 --> 27:04.260 You know, I don't want anything to do with you. 27:04.260 --> 27:07.340 And God will punish us for the sins that we commit. 27:07.340 --> 27:09.860 So it's just the fact of the Bible, 27:09.860 --> 27:11.180 from Genesis to Revelation. 27:11.180 --> 27:14.180 So Psalm chapter 15. 27:14.180 --> 27:16.900 Now this is a Psalm that we sing in church, 27:16.900 --> 27:18.900 and you probably know these verses really well. 27:18.900 --> 27:22.820 Psalm chapter 15 verse four says, 27:22.820 --> 27:25.940 and whose eyes a vile person is contempt. 27:26.500 --> 27:29.260 but he honoreth them that fear the Lord. 27:29.260 --> 27:33.460 He that swearth to his own hurt and changeth not." 27:33.460 --> 27:38.180 So if you swear to your own hurt and you know, say that you are a contractor and you bid 27:38.180 --> 27:44.460 on a job and you underbid the job and you have to, you signed a contract that I'm going 27:44.460 --> 27:47.620 to do it for this much money and it's hurting you. 27:47.620 --> 27:51.780 You're going without food, you're going without sustenance because you underbid a job. 27:52.200 --> 27:56.920 A lot of contractors today will just try to make the customer eat it somehow. 27:56.920 --> 27:57.920 Oh, I underbid it. 27:57.920 --> 28:00.160 I need to charge you more for this or whatever. 28:00.160 --> 28:07.260 But the Bible says that if you swear to your own hurt and change not, that's when God is 28:07.260 --> 28:08.160 going to bless you. 28:08.500 --> 28:11.380 Because, you know, next time just do better. 28:11.380 --> 28:14.100 But don't change what you said that you were going to do. 28:14.100 --> 28:18.820 It says, He that putteth not out his money to usury nor take reward against the innocent, 28:18.820 --> 28:22.140 he that doeth these things shall never be moved. 28:22.600 --> 28:27.960 And these are good things to live by because God doesn't want us putting out our money to usury. 28:27.960 --> 28:30.840 Hey, I'll let you borrow some, but you got to give me 10% on the VIG. 28:30.840 --> 28:35.320 You know, that's called extortion. I mean, 10% is a lot, right? 28:35.880 --> 28:40.360 But I mean, predatory lending is something that's okay in this country, apparently, 28:40.360 --> 28:44.040 because you can go way high in these categories. 28:44.040 --> 28:49.320 But God doesn't even want us to lend out to 1% or a half a percent or 0.001%. 28:50.100 --> 28:56.060 You know, it's a sin to lend out to usury, especially to other Christians. 28:56.060 --> 28:59.900 I mean, it's even worse, but it's still just God doesn't want us doing that. 28:59.900 --> 29:02.420 It says, nor take a reward against the innocent. 29:02.420 --> 29:04.700 He that doeth these things shall never be moved. 29:04.700 --> 29:09.100 But he that put his money not out to usury. 29:09.100 --> 29:12.180 Brother Bill has preached some good sermons on this subject. 29:12.180 --> 29:15.100 So is that sermon still up, Brother Bill? 29:15.100 --> 29:16.100 Do you know? 29:17.800 --> 29:23.200 Yeah, I'm not sure if it's still up or not. 29:23.200 --> 29:24.720 We've had many shutdowns of our channels. 29:24.720 --> 29:27.560 So okay, Judges chapter 11 verse 30. 29:27.560 --> 29:28.960 Judges chapter 11 verse 30. 29:37.600 --> 29:43.840 I know this is kind of a deep dive, but it's necessary. 29:43.840 --> 29:46.360 So here's an example of somebody that does vow a vow 29:46.360 --> 29:49.080 and wishes that he never vowed this vow. 29:49.080 --> 29:51.960 And it's even stupider than the vow 29:51.960 --> 29:53.960 that Saul makes in this chapter here. 29:53.960 --> 29:57.080 It's Jephthah, Judges chapter 11, verse 30. 29:57.080 --> 30:00.120 And God gave him this great victory, 30:00.120 --> 30:02.840 but he vowed a stupid vow before God. 30:03.300 --> 30:05.900 And, you know, he didn't have to do that. 30:05.900 --> 30:08.100 He didn't have to do that. 30:08.100 --> 30:11.260 But you know, and the funny thing is that if you back up one verse, it says that he 30:11.260 --> 30:13.500 was filled with the Holy Ghost. 30:13.500 --> 30:16.460 I'm just like, how are you filled with the Holy Ghost and then you make a stupid vow 30:16.460 --> 30:17.460 like that? 30:17.460 --> 30:19.300 I just, I don't get that. 30:19.300 --> 30:23.900 But anyway, it says in verse 30, and Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord and said, if thou 30:23.900 --> 30:26.940 Thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon. 30:27.400 --> 30:33.400 into mine hands, then it shall be that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, 30:33.960 --> 30:39.880 when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up 30:39.880 --> 30:46.680 for a burnt offering." So God does. I think God would have done it without him vowing to vow, 30:47.240 --> 30:50.760 because he was using him in a great way. But look, skip down to verse 34. 30:51.400 --> 30:54.300 So he does defeat them all and then he goes home. 30:54.300 --> 30:55.400 And verse 34 says, 30:55.400 --> 30:58.700 And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house, 30:58.700 --> 31:00.740 and behold, his daughter came out to meet him 31:00.740 --> 31:02.700 with timbrels and with dances. 31:02.700 --> 31:04.600 And she was his only child. 31:04.600 --> 31:08.500 Beside her he had neither son nor daughter. 31:08.500 --> 31:10.100 And it came to pass when he saw her 31:10.100 --> 31:11.500 that he rent his clothes and said, 31:11.500 --> 31:14.700 Alas, my daughter, thou hast brought me very low, 31:14.700 --> 31:16.700 and thou art one of them that troubled me. 31:17.100 --> 31:20.700 For I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back. 31:20.700 --> 31:25.360 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to 31:25.360 --> 31:29.340 me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth, forasmuch as the Lord hath 31:29.340 --> 31:34.920 taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Amon." 31:34.920 --> 31:42.200 So she was able to bewail her virginity for several days. 31:42.200 --> 31:44.600 I mean the Bible... 31:44.600 --> 31:47.640 I think it's very clear that he sacrificed his daughter. 31:49.320 --> 31:57.240 I mean, what a stupid vow. But, I mean, people will be like, well, why would he do that? Well, 31:58.200 --> 32:01.560 I mean, he took the vow seriously, you know, and his daughter said, hey, 32:02.120 --> 32:07.240 and obviously it pictures Christ in a way, you know, that God's sacrifice has only begotten son. 32:07.240 --> 32:11.400 She's a daughter, so it doesn't like perfectly match up. But, you know, it's his only daughter. 32:12.200 --> 32:15.480 You know, so, I don't know. 32:15.480 --> 32:18.120 I mean, it's a very troubling passage to me 32:18.120 --> 32:20.720 that you would actually do that and go through with it. 32:20.720 --> 32:25.480 But this is just an example of why you don't say things 32:25.480 --> 32:27.520 rashly with your mouth. 32:27.520 --> 32:30.240 And some people think, well, he didn't really do it. 32:30.240 --> 32:33.840 The way the passage reads, to me, seems like he did do it. 32:34.600 --> 32:38.400 Which I couldn't even imagine that being taking place, how you would do that. 32:38.400 --> 32:41.440 But it doesn't give us the gory details. 32:41.440 --> 32:45.520 But this is the time of the judges, whenever a man did that which was right in their own eyes. 32:45.520 --> 32:49.480 And they were like sheep, having no shepherd. 32:49.480 --> 32:51.800 But he was supposed to be one of the good ones. 32:51.800 --> 32:54.360 And he was good besides this stupid thing that he did. 32:54.360 --> 32:57.320 But that's why you don't say things that you don't. 32:57.700 --> 33:00.900 You know, because you don't know in some situations. 33:00.900 --> 33:04.100 Like he probably thinks that the family dog is going to come running out to him or something. 33:04.100 --> 33:05.580 It's like, I'll sacrifice that dog. 33:05.580 --> 33:08.500 I want to get rid of him for a long time anyway. 33:08.500 --> 33:11.580 Dang thing's always barking and they can barely see anymore. 33:11.580 --> 33:12.940 And it's always, you know, dragging it. 33:12.940 --> 33:15.420 You know, it's always going to the bathroom in the house or whatever. 33:15.420 --> 33:15.900 I don't know. 33:15.900 --> 33:17.140 I don't know what he thought. 33:17.140 --> 33:20.980 The family hog was going to come out, the sheep that he takes care of. 33:20.980 --> 33:23.700 I don't know what he thought was going to come out of his door and greet him. 33:24.400 --> 33:30.240 you know, besides a dog, but it was his daughter. I mean, what a dumb vow. 33:30.240 --> 33:34.720 Now turn to Matthew chapter 5, Matthew chapter 5. We're almost through this part, 33:34.720 --> 33:39.760 and we'll get going into the rest of the sermon here. But here's what Jesus actually says, 33:40.720 --> 33:46.880 and this is, you know, the thing of the situation with Jephthah is a perfect example of why 33:47.700 --> 33:49.700 Jesus is saying these things. 33:49.700 --> 33:54.680 Matthew 533 says, again, you have heard that it had been said by them of old 33:55.080 --> 34:00.000 Time thou shall not forswear thyself, but shall perform unto the Lord thine oaths 34:00.640 --> 34:04.880 But I say unto you swear not at all neither by heaven 34:05.400 --> 34:12.040 for it is God's throne, nor by the earth, for it is his footstool, neither by Jerusalem, 34:12.040 --> 34:17.560 for it is the city of the great king, neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not 34:17.560 --> 34:22.440 make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, yea. 34:22.600 --> 34:27.120 Ye, like yes, yes, or nay, nay, no, no. 34:27.120 --> 34:30.480 For whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." 34:30.480 --> 34:34.120 So you should just give short answers, yes or no. 34:34.120 --> 34:36.240 And that's basically what Jesus is saying. 34:36.240 --> 34:38.560 Just be clear in your communication. 34:38.560 --> 34:40.280 Don't say more than you have to. 34:40.280 --> 34:43.560 And doesn't that kind of fall back to what it said in Ecclesiastes? 34:43.560 --> 34:46.040 Let your words be few. 34:46.040 --> 34:49.160 And know how the fool is known by the multitude of his words. 34:49.600 --> 34:52.440 And so Jesus is just saying, hey, just say yes or no. 34:52.440 --> 34:53.280 It's just that simple. 34:53.280 --> 34:55.080 Don't swear. 34:55.080 --> 34:58.040 And why is he saying these things? 34:58.040 --> 35:02.760 Why is he saying that you can't make one head of your hair? 35:02.760 --> 35:03.960 Let's see, what's it say? 35:03.960 --> 35:05.500 It says, uh. 35:07.400 --> 35:11.560 Neither shall thou swear by the head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black." 35:11.560 --> 35:16.520 Because basically people, this is like people are like, you know, I put that on my mama, 35:16.520 --> 35:21.480 you know, I've had people, I've heard people say all kinds of stupid things in my life, but, 35:21.480 --> 35:26.040 you know, I put that on my homies or, you know, that's kind of, that's like swearing an oath. 35:26.040 --> 35:30.040 You're saying, hey, you know, or they'll say, I swear to God, they'll say that. 35:30.600 --> 35:34.080 And which is a really dumb thing to say too. 35:34.080 --> 35:36.360 Or I put that on my mama. 35:36.360 --> 35:38.560 I'm sure you've heard that before. 35:38.560 --> 35:42.080 Don't put anything on anything because you can't change that. 35:42.080 --> 35:45.000 You can't make yourself taller or shorter. 35:45.000 --> 35:49.000 Well, may I shrink six inches if what I say isn't true? 35:49.000 --> 35:51.680 It's kind of like that's what it's talking about, the kind 35:51.680 --> 35:54.240 of swearing that he's saying that you're doing. 35:54.240 --> 35:55.960 You can say, well, I put this on that. 35:56.500 --> 36:01.140 And it doesn't really mean anything, because you can't change the stature of yourself. 36:01.140 --> 36:06.420 You can't change, you know, may all your hairs turn white and fall out of your head, 36:06.420 --> 36:11.620 or my hairs fall out of my head if what I say isn't true. 36:11.620 --> 36:14.180 But you can't, that's not how swearing works. 36:14.180 --> 36:16.100 That's not how your oaths work. 36:16.100 --> 36:19.300 You know, it's not going to happen, is basically what he's saying. 36:19.300 --> 36:21.140 So it's a stupid thing to do. 36:21.140 --> 36:22.380 It's a stupid thing to say. 36:22.800 --> 36:29.200 So just say yes or no and let your communication just be really straightforward and honest. 36:29.200 --> 36:30.600 It's a yes or no. 36:30.600 --> 36:35.400 I like how when people are getting grilled in Congress sometimes and they'll just say, 36:35.400 --> 36:37.400 it's a yes or no answer. 36:38.100 --> 36:42.100 And they do that so that they can't try to score them out 36:42.100 --> 36:42.600 of the ant. 36:42.600 --> 36:44.260 It's like they'll ask a question and they'll 36:44.260 --> 36:45.580 frame it in a certain way. 36:45.580 --> 36:46.780 And they do it to set them up. 36:46.780 --> 36:48.580 I mean, it's pretty funny sometimes. 36:48.580 --> 36:52.220 But it's like, and it's yes or no. 36:52.220 --> 36:55.100 It's not like, yes, but let me explain. 36:55.100 --> 36:56.500 No, it's just yes or no. 36:56.500 --> 36:58.180 Answer the question. 36:58.180 --> 37:00.140 People don't like to answer questions 37:00.140 --> 37:02.940 in a straightforward manner when they're trying to be deceptive. 37:02.940 --> 37:04.940 So now the last one, I won't have you turn there, 37:04.940 --> 37:05.940 but you can if you want. 37:06.100 --> 37:14.300 chapter 5 verse 12 says, but above all things my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, 37:14.300 --> 37:22.220 neither by earth, neither by any other oath, but let your yea be yea and your nay, nay, 37:22.220 --> 37:25.020 lest you fall into condemnation. 37:25.020 --> 37:30.220 So I mean this is a specific type of swearing is what it's talking about. 37:30.220 --> 37:30.800 So. 37:30.800 --> 37:33.400 If you do say, I'm going to do something, 37:33.400 --> 37:35.440 I don't think it's wrong to do that. 37:35.440 --> 37:37.900 But what I do think is wrong, I think what it's saying 37:37.900 --> 37:40.620 is that you're swearing by something else. 37:40.620 --> 37:44.280 I swear by heaven and earth that these things are true. 37:44.280 --> 37:46.120 That's what it's talking about. 37:46.120 --> 37:50.960 But as far as saying, I promise to stay married to my wife, 37:50.960 --> 37:52.760 till death do us part, I don't think that that's wrong, 37:52.760 --> 37:54.680 because you're supposed to do that anyway. 37:54.680 --> 37:55.180 So. 37:55.400 --> 38:01.700 And, you know, sometimes people break those oaths or those promises and, you know, God 38:01.700 --> 38:03.200 does punish those things. 38:03.200 --> 38:06.600 Obviously, He doesn't, you know, you don't have to keep living it down for the rest of 38:06.600 --> 38:09.420 your life necessarily. 38:09.420 --> 38:12.640 But for the children in here and for the people who have never been married, you know, those 38:12.640 --> 38:17.140 are things that you should know in going into a marriage that you should get to know the 38:17.140 --> 38:18.840 person really well. 38:19.600 --> 38:21.840 I know that people fall in love and they're like, 38:21.840 --> 38:23.080 oh, I love him. 38:23.080 --> 38:23.920 It's like in two weeks. 38:23.920 --> 38:25.240 I just want to get married right now. 38:25.240 --> 38:26.080 I want to just get married. 38:26.080 --> 38:27.640 It's love at first sight. 38:27.640 --> 38:29.760 It's like, wow, hold on there. 38:29.760 --> 38:31.240 Slow down, chief. 38:31.240 --> 38:33.720 I know that love can seem like it's love, 38:33.720 --> 38:38.480 but it might not necessarily be that kind of love. 38:38.480 --> 38:39.800 It might not be agape love. 38:39.800 --> 38:40.880 No, I'm just joking. 38:40.880 --> 38:43.040 I'm joking. 38:43.700 --> 38:47.780 It might be more infatuation or something. 38:47.780 --> 38:51.060 It might be you love their looks. 38:51.060 --> 38:55.540 You love how well they talk on the phone for hours and hours on end or something, but you 38:55.540 --> 39:01.060 don't necessarily, you know, you don't really necessarily know what love really is until 39:01.060 --> 39:03.540 you've been with someone for a long time. 39:03.540 --> 39:06.660 So even when you first get married, sometimes you don't really. 39:07.200 --> 39:09.200 fully understand it, I don't think, but 39:09.600 --> 39:13.220 You should you should probably be with someone for a season of life 39:13.220 --> 39:17.580 I think that's a an important thing to do so that you kind of just get to know them in all 39:18.200 --> 39:21.840 Aspects of the year and you know wait a while, but I don't think you should wait too long 39:21.840 --> 39:26.200 I don't think you should be engaged people like five or ten years or something. I think that's a little long 39:26.200 --> 39:28.460 It's gonna. You know cause problems also 39:28.980 --> 39:30.120 so 39:30.120 --> 39:31.100 anyway 39:31.300 --> 39:37.060 So the New Testament makes it very clear that vowing or that swearing oaths should be avoided. 39:37.060 --> 39:42.660 So and vowing vows unless you plan on keeping them. Don't vow if you don't think you're going to keep 39:42.660 --> 39:48.420 it. Now back to our chapter, first thing in chapter 14 verse 29 it says, then said Jonathan, 39:48.420 --> 39:55.380 so he's broken something that he didn't hear. He didn't even hear it being said. So 39:56.200 --> 39:59.600 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land. 39:59.600 --> 40:04.880 See I pray you how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little bit of this honey. 40:04.880 --> 40:09.600 How much more happily the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies 40:09.600 --> 40:10.840 which they found. 40:10.840 --> 40:11.500 For had 40:11.600 --> 40:15.680 They're not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines. 40:15.680 --> 40:17.200 So they could have done a lot more damage. 40:17.200 --> 40:21.000 They could have destroyed the Philistines more, but because they were so fatigued and 40:21.000 --> 40:22.000 tired. 40:22.000 --> 40:25.000 I mean, imagine they're spoiling their tents and everything and they're finding all this 40:25.000 --> 40:31.480 sausage, you know, all these dry foods, all the dry summer fruits and everything. 40:31.480 --> 40:35.520 And they're just like, oh, you know, I mean, they're just, they're starving, but they're 40:35.520 --> 40:39.600 under this stupid oath that Saul had, this vow that... 40:39.600 --> 40:49.000 Suleiman. So it said, so for had there not been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines, 40:49.000 --> 40:51.960 and they smote the Philistines that day from mcmash. 40:52.300 --> 40:56.300 to Agilon and the people were very faint. 40:56.300 --> 41:00.300 So they just keep going and going, they're slaughtering the Philistines. 41:00.300 --> 41:04.300 And the people flew upon the spoil and took sheep 41:04.300 --> 41:08.300 and oxen and calves and slew them on the ground and the people did eat 41:08.300 --> 41:11.700 them with the blood. So... 41:12.100 --> 41:14.020 Enough was enough. 41:14.020 --> 41:18.700 Eventually they were so hungry that they're just finding cattle and they're just throwing 41:18.700 --> 41:23.020 them on the ground and then ripping them open and eating them right then and there. 41:23.020 --> 41:25.380 That's how hungry they are. 41:25.380 --> 41:30.340 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the Lord, and that they eat with 41:30.340 --> 41:31.340 the blood. 41:31.340 --> 41:33.400 And he said, you have transgressed. 41:33.500 --> 41:36.220 Roll a great stone unto me this day." 41:36.220 --> 41:41.260 So, and look, it's not the eating of the raw meat that the problem is. 41:41.260 --> 41:44.140 It's the eating with the blood in the meat. 41:44.140 --> 41:49.460 Because you have to slaughter animals and drain the blood out of them before you eat 41:49.460 --> 41:50.740 them. 41:50.740 --> 41:56.820 That is the way, that has been, it has been that way since time immemorial, since God, 41:56.820 --> 41:57.820 since the beginning. 41:58.100 --> 42:05.140 When God allowed, when he finally said it was permissible to eat the animals, that is how, 42:05.140 --> 42:08.260 that is what God said before the law of Moses was even in existence. 42:09.060 --> 42:14.660 That is what it says in the New Testament after, you know, the New Testament has been established 42:14.660 --> 42:20.020 already for years that, you know, eating blood is still not permissible, okay? 42:20.600 --> 42:25.220 So, it's still something that God still considers a sin. 42:25.220 --> 42:27.300 And it's different. 42:27.300 --> 42:32.240 I think it's set apart from the meats, drinks, diverse washings, and carnal ordinances. 42:32.240 --> 42:36.040 I think it's separate from those things. 42:36.040 --> 42:38.960 And people might disagree with me about that, but I don't really care because I have the 42:38.960 --> 42:39.960 Bible on my side. 42:39.960 --> 42:42.160 Look at Genesis 9 verse 1. 42:42.160 --> 42:43.400 Genesis 9 verse 1. 42:43.900 --> 42:48.600 Because it's kind of like tithing people say well the tithing is over because the New Testament pastor 42:48.600 --> 42:52.160 Don't you know it's like well, that's not what Paul teaches in first Corinthians chapter 9 42:52.840 --> 42:59.020 That's not what the Bible teaches in the New Testament. It just kind of has transferred into the church and 42:59.780 --> 43:05.080 It never it never gets rid of the tide. There's no verses that say that yeah, we get bozos up 43:05.080 --> 43:07.080 That'll say that it's you know 43:07.300 --> 43:12.000 God loves a cheerful giver things like that. But in the context of that he's talking about 43:12.740 --> 43:15.660 Taking free will offerings and taking them to the poor saints at Jerusalem 43:16.100 --> 43:20.740 And people will take that out of context and act like tithing isn't a thing anymore or something 43:20.900 --> 43:23.980 But that's not if you read the context that's not what it's talking about 43:24.380 --> 43:30.500 Paul wasn't taking the tithes. He was taking offerings for the for the poor saints in Jerusalem. Anyway 43:31.780 --> 43:34.020 Genesis 9 1 it says this is after Noah 43:34.700 --> 43:38.540 after the flood and everything has been done and God's dealing with Noah, 43:38.540 --> 43:42.380 says, And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, 43:42.380 --> 43:45.340 Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. 43:45.340 --> 43:50.620 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, 43:50.620 --> 43:52.700 and upon every fowl of the air, 43:52.700 --> 43:54.780 upon all that move upon the earth, 43:54.780 --> 43:56.860 and upon all the fishes of the sea, 43:56.860 --> 43:59.340 into your hand are they delivered. 43:59.340 --> 44:00.700 So they fear us. 44:00.900 --> 44:05.900 And they run from us in most cases because they don't want to be dinner. 44:05.900 --> 44:08.900 I mean fish are afraid. 44:08.900 --> 44:12.900 I remember I had this friend and we were fishing and he was being really loud. 44:12.900 --> 44:15.900 And I was like, dude, shut up. Would you shut up? 44:15.900 --> 44:18.900 Just lower your, use your inside voice right now. 44:18.900 --> 44:22.900 They can hear you. They can pick up on your sound waves at least. 44:22.900 --> 44:24.900 And he was like, yeah, right. Fish can't hear. 44:24.900 --> 44:26.500 I was like, dude, yes they can. 44:26.800 --> 44:29.680 Like you see them moving real fast when you're talking loud? 44:29.680 --> 44:33.520 That's because they know you're there. 44:33.520 --> 44:36.800 I mean, I don't know if they hear exactly how we hear, 44:36.800 --> 44:41.440 but they definitely, if you're loud, fish will bolt. 44:41.440 --> 44:43.880 So I don't know if they're just picking up on the sound waves 44:43.880 --> 44:45.920 or what, but anyway. 44:45.920 --> 44:47.160 Don't pick apart my science. 44:47.160 --> 44:48.200 I'm not sure about that. 44:48.200 --> 44:51.640 But somebody will Google me and message me 44:51.640 --> 44:53.280 or will put a comment on the. 44:53.700 --> 44:58.780 YouTube stream or something. But anyway, I don't know for sure, but I just know that fish run if you make loud noises, okay? 45:00.100 --> 45:07.220 So anyway, so God is saying here that all these creatures are going to be afraid of us because they're delivered into our hands 45:07.420 --> 45:10.860 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you 45:11.660 --> 45:15.980 So does that include shellfish does that include lobster does that include? 45:17.020 --> 45:18.420 oysters and 45:18.420 --> 45:20.420 pigs and everything else 45:21.000 --> 45:22.080 Yeah, it does. 45:22.080 --> 45:26.400 So the law of Moses is what separated 45:26.400 --> 45:29.080 the clean and unclean beasts. 45:29.080 --> 45:33.480 But even on the ark, there was clean birds that were taken. 45:33.480 --> 45:40.160 Or clean some certain unclean birds were taken. 45:40.160 --> 45:42.720 So there was a separation of that, 45:42.720 --> 45:45.880 but he still took all the unclean animals on the ark. 45:45.880 --> 45:48.040 So they were still OK to eat. 45:48.800 --> 45:55.200 They're just unclean because they eat other animals or that they eat stuff on the bottom of the ocean or on the bottom of rivers. 45:55.200 --> 45:58.800 So like catfish and fish that don't have scales. 45:58.800 --> 46:04.640 Fish that have scales, normally they just eat like flies and worms and stuff like that. 46:04.640 --> 46:07.280 Or you know, fish that eat algae. 46:07.400 --> 46:11.040 But something like a catfish, they eat gross stuff. 46:11.040 --> 46:14.480 They eat dead things and doo-doo and all kinds of stuff. 46:14.480 --> 46:17.040 So I'm not a particular fan of catfish, OK? 46:17.040 --> 46:18.400 I just don't think it's very good. 46:18.400 --> 46:21.520 But if you have to put all kinds of batter and salt and pepper 46:21.520 --> 46:24.240 on it to taste like anything, then yuck. 46:24.240 --> 46:24.760 I don't know. 46:24.760 --> 46:26.040 But people just love catfish. 46:26.040 --> 46:27.720 But I just, I don't know. 46:27.720 --> 46:29.760 Maybe it's my wife that made me not like it. 46:29.760 --> 46:31.520 But I just don't think it's that great. 46:31.520 --> 46:32.500 Yeah 46:32.600 --> 46:34.520 Now, lobster is another thing altogether. 46:34.520 --> 46:36.440 That's like the steak of the sea. 46:36.440 --> 46:38.840 And scallops are like the T-bone. 46:38.840 --> 46:41.000 Scallops are like, they're right there 46:41.000 --> 46:42.040 with the steak of the sea. 46:42.040 --> 46:45.400 But oysters are really good, too, if you make them right. 46:45.400 --> 46:46.520 But not raw. 46:46.520 --> 46:48.160 Anyway, I'm getting off on the food. 46:48.160 --> 46:49.240 I must be hungry. 46:49.240 --> 46:50.960 All right. 46:50.960 --> 46:53.680 But it says, OK, so this is the point I'm trying to make here. 46:53.680 --> 46:55.120 I'm fumbling here. 46:55.120 --> 46:56.040 Verse four. 46:56.040 --> 46:56.540 But... 46:56.900 --> 47:04.060 Flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof shall you not eat Genesis chapter 9 that's 47:04.580 --> 47:06.580 1500 years after or 47:07.220 --> 47:14.820 1600 yeah 1500 and something years after the beginning God said was okay to eat everything, but you can't eat the blood 47:15.460 --> 47:19.520 Okay, so you have to drain the blood out now people think that stakes 47:20.400 --> 47:23.840 When you cook them and they have that, there's that red stuff on the plate afterwards. 47:23.840 --> 47:28.800 If you have cooked it to medium rare, that that's blood on the plate, it's not blood. 47:28.800 --> 47:31.440 It looks like blood, but it's called myoglobin. 47:32.320 --> 47:37.200 And it's just, it's like some, it looks like blood, but it's not blood, trust me. 47:38.000 --> 47:39.760 They drain the blood out of the animals. 47:40.320 --> 47:44.160 It's like some kind of protein that helps, you know, things circulate in the animal, 47:44.160 --> 47:45.520 but it is not blood. 47:45.520 --> 47:47.920 As people say, well... 47:48.500 --> 47:51.820 You know, you want it burnt to a crisp or bloody as hell. 47:51.820 --> 47:53.940 You know, how do you want your steak? 47:53.940 --> 47:56.140 And if you eat it well done, then there's 47:56.140 --> 47:59.380 something wrong with you, or you're Mexican. 47:59.380 --> 48:03.740 No offense to the Mexicans, but they just like well done meat. 48:03.740 --> 48:05.740 But if they hang around us for a little while, 48:05.740 --> 48:08.660 they'll start having it medium rare. 48:08.660 --> 48:09.820 I'm just kidding. 48:09.820 --> 48:11.660 So you're racist, pastor. 48:11.660 --> 48:13.780 No, it's just a reality, OK? 48:13.780 --> 48:15.780 I just know. 48:16.000 --> 48:20.320 Well, we went to Yakima one time. 48:20.320 --> 48:22.280 One of the guys that was with us was Mexican. 48:22.280 --> 48:25.720 He first ordered chicken strips, which 48:25.720 --> 48:26.720 was at a steak restaurant. 48:26.720 --> 48:31.600 We're just like, bro, what are you doing, man? 48:31.600 --> 48:35.360 Nobody orders chicken strips at a steak restaurant. 48:35.360 --> 48:36.880 That's just wicked and wrong. 48:36.880 --> 48:38.840 Somehow there's got to be a commandment in here 48:38.840 --> 48:39.840 about that somewhere. 48:40.500 --> 48:45.500 But then he had the primer of the next night and he asked for it well done. 48:45.500 --> 48:49.500 It's like, what are you doing? 48:50.600 --> 48:55.720 But I do have to admit, they cooked the fat really good. 48:55.720 --> 48:58.360 And so the fat was actually really good on that. 48:58.360 --> 48:59.680 So I've got to give it up. 48:59.680 --> 49:01.400 It was actually pretty good with the fat. 49:01.400 --> 49:03.680 I don't like the fat where it's not cooked all the way. 49:03.680 --> 49:04.520 It's kind of gross. 49:04.520 --> 49:07.240 But anyway, all right, I'm still talking about food. 49:07.240 --> 49:08.760 OK, but anyway, the point is. 49:09.200 --> 49:14.200 The point is, is that the flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat. 49:14.200 --> 49:15.700 The Bible is very clear on that. 49:15.700 --> 49:18.700 Now go to Leviticus chapter 17 verse 10. 49:18.700 --> 49:23.700 So here we have a clear instance where God is saying, do not eat blood. 49:23.700 --> 49:24.700 Don't do it. 49:24.700 --> 49:31.700 And then in the law of Moses, it very clearly tells you not to do it either, and it tells us why. 49:34.000 --> 49:39.320 Because well it told us why in Genesis because it's the life thereof if you drain all the blood out of your body 49:39.320 --> 49:43.200 Guess what you're gonna die. That's the life of your of your body 49:43.480 --> 49:48.080 So the biggest 17 verse 10 and whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel 49:48.520 --> 49:54.400 Or the strangers that sojourn among you that Edith any manner of blood. I will even set my face 49:55.160 --> 49:59.040 Against that soul that Edith blood and will cut him off from among his people 49:59.500 --> 50:06.320 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar 50:06.320 --> 50:08.820 to make an atonement for your souls. 50:08.820 --> 50:12.660 For it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 50:12.660 --> 50:17.620 Therefore, I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall 50:17.620 --> 50:20.460 any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. 50:20.900 --> 50:24.060 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn 50:24.060 --> 50:29.300 among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall 50:29.300 --> 50:33.660 even pour out the blood thereof and cover it with dust." 50:33.660 --> 50:37.380 So they had to drain all the blood out of it, right? 50:37.380 --> 50:41.260 For it is the life of all flesh. 50:41.260 --> 50:44.620 The blood of it is for the life thereof. 50:44.620 --> 50:47.620 Therefore, I said to the children of Israel, you shall eat. 50:48.400 --> 50:54.400 The blood of no manner of flesh, for the life of all flesh, is the blood thereof. 50:54.400 --> 50:57.400 Whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. 50:57.400 --> 51:04.400 And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that was torn with beast, 51:04.400 --> 51:08.400 whether it be one of your own country or a stranger, 51:09.300 --> 51:13.140 He shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, 51:13.140 --> 51:17.220 and be unclean until the even, then shall he be clean. 51:17.220 --> 51:20.500 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, 51:20.500 --> 51:22.740 then he shall bear his iniquity." 51:22.740 --> 51:26.500 So I would say that this part of it is the law of Moses. 51:26.500 --> 51:29.940 Obviously, I don't think this is something that you would still do 51:29.940 --> 51:31.140 if you accidentally did that. 51:31.140 --> 51:33.140 but 51:33.500 --> 51:39.660 as far as like not eating the blood, it's still a thing. Okay. And here's why I think that turned 51:39.660 --> 51:50.140 to Acts chapter 15, Acts chapter 15 verse 28. Now it says it more than this passage in the New 51:50.140 --> 51:55.980 Testament, but Paul goes up to the elders of Jerusalem after many years and 51:56.700 --> 51:59.340 They're talking about that you have to you know 51:59.340 --> 52:05.060 These these fake these fake Christians came down and said that you have to keep the law of Moses and be circumcised 52:05.580 --> 52:07.580 to be saved so 52:08.260 --> 52:10.720 Paul's going up to make sure that you know 52:10.720 --> 52:15.100 this isn't something they're teaching up there too, and they're trying to get all this doctrine straightened out and 52:15.620 --> 52:21.300 Once they get it all straightened out then here's what is said in the aftermath here verse 28 52:21.300 --> 52:24.080 It says for it seemed good to the Holy Ghost 52:25.100 --> 52:29.580 and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things." 52:30.700 --> 52:34.220 So if it seems good to the Holy Ghost, then that means the Holy Ghost is directly 52:34.860 --> 52:40.700 interacting with them, I would guess. And to us, the apostles, to lay no greater burden upon you 52:40.700 --> 52:46.780 than these necessary things, that you abstain from meats offered to idols and from blood 52:47.580 --> 52:51.580 and from things strangled and from fornication. Aren't those things that God... 52:52.200 --> 52:59.200 backs up in other scriptures and 1st Corinthians and many other passages in the Bible. 52:59.200 --> 53:04.200 So it says, from blood. And then it says from things strangled. 53:04.200 --> 53:07.200 So that's not in the Old Testament where it says things strangled, 53:07.200 --> 53:11.200 but what happens if you strangle something and then you eat it? 53:11.200 --> 53:14.200 Well, it still has blood in it, doesn't it? 53:14.200 --> 53:18.200 And that blood coagulates and it's not good for you. 53:19.100 --> 53:21.020 But that would be eating things with the blood. 53:21.020 --> 53:22.820 That's why that prohibition is there. 53:22.820 --> 53:26.980 So because some people do strangle their animals 53:26.980 --> 53:29.980 like that, and that's how they get rid of them or whatever. 53:29.980 --> 53:33.420 And God, He's saying don't do that. 53:33.420 --> 53:36.380 So from things strangled, from fornication, 53:36.380 --> 53:37.980 from which if you keep yourselves, 53:37.980 --> 53:40.140 you shall do well, fare you well. 53:40.140 --> 53:42.900 So we're already told to avoid fornication. 53:42.900 --> 53:43.980 And so. 53:44.200 --> 53:49.160 Just like Genesis, before the law of Moses was in effect, God said don't eat blood. 53:49.880 --> 53:55.320 In Leviticus it says don't eat blood. In Acts chapter 15 they said don't eat blood. 53:55.320 --> 53:59.080 This is in the New Testament. So what would you think then? We're not supposed to eat blood. 54:00.040 --> 54:03.960 Just plain and simple. I mean I don't know any other way you could look at it besides that. 54:05.700 --> 54:09.700 So, then back to our text here. 54:09.700 --> 54:12.100 So, it's a big deal that they're doing this. 54:12.100 --> 54:14.400 It's a big deal that they've jumped on the spoil and they're eating. 54:14.400 --> 54:16.300 They're so hungry that they just don't even care. 54:16.300 --> 54:19.600 They're not going to worry about draining the animal's blood. 54:19.600 --> 54:23.260 Verse 34, 1 Samuel chapter 14, and Saul said, 54:23.260 --> 54:26.500 Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, 54:26.500 --> 54:29.880 Bring me hither every man his ox and every man his sheep, 54:29.880 --> 54:31.640 and slay them here and eat. 54:32.000 --> 54:34.800 and sin not against the Lord in eating with the blood. 54:34.800 --> 54:38.400 And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, 54:38.400 --> 54:40.000 and slew them there." 54:40.000 --> 54:44.880 So, I mean, Saul obviously realizes that he's made a great error here, 54:44.880 --> 54:47.200 and he's going back on what he said. 54:47.200 --> 54:49.680 So he's going back on something he said. 54:49.680 --> 54:52.720 I mean, it's saying that they brought him that night. 54:52.720 --> 54:56.720 So, but he's just, you know, he's just bumbling here. 54:56.720 --> 54:57.920 He's fumbling. 54:58.100 --> 55:02.300 the ball and he's not showing good qualities of leadership and it's just 55:02.300 --> 55:05.980 going to get worse from here. But it says, 55:05.980 --> 55:11.020 And Saul built an altar unto the Lord, the same was the first that he built 55:11.020 --> 55:15.860 unto the Lord. And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistine by night and 55:15.860 --> 55:17.380 spoil them until the morning light, 55:17.380 --> 55:21.500 and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto 55:21.500 --> 55:21.900 thee. 55:21.900 --> 55:24.900 Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God. 55:25.900 --> 55:30.100 So, Saul built an altar unto the Lord himself. 55:30.100 --> 55:33.100 So, and I don't think there's a prohibition against him doing that 55:33.100 --> 55:35.600 because other people build altars unto the Lord, 55:35.600 --> 55:38.400 and the priest, you know, is there to do the offerings, 55:38.400 --> 55:40.600 so he's still doing okay with that. 55:40.600 --> 55:41.500 But then the priest says, 55:41.500 --> 55:44.300 let us draw hither unto God. 55:44.300 --> 55:48.200 So, it seems like the priest is a godly guy here, 55:48.200 --> 55:49.000 and it says, 55:49.500 --> 55:53.060 And Saul asked counsel of God, shall I go down after the Philistines? 55:53.060 --> 55:55.660 Will thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? 55:55.660 --> 55:57.380 But he answered him not that day. 55:57.380 --> 56:04.140 So this begins a trend in the life of Saul where God stops answering Saul. 56:04.140 --> 56:07.700 And he doesn't answer him this day because he's probably not very happy with him. 56:07.700 --> 56:10.620 So he just flat out just doesn't answer him that day. 56:10.800 --> 56:12.560 And it's because he's fumbling. 56:12.560 --> 56:14.320 It's because he's messing things up. 56:14.320 --> 56:17.560 And he's already starting to get irritated with them. 56:17.560 --> 56:20.920 And it says, and Saul said, draw ye near hither 56:20.920 --> 56:23.960 all the chief of the people, and know and see wherein this sin 56:23.960 --> 56:25.760 has been this day. 56:25.760 --> 56:28.820 For as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, 56:28.820 --> 56:32.040 though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. 56:32.040 --> 56:33.920 But there was not a man among all the people 56:33.920 --> 56:35.400 that answered him. 56:35.400 --> 56:36.640 So it's kind of weird that he. 56:37.100 --> 56:39.580 was even like, yeah, and even if it's Jonathan, 56:39.580 --> 56:42.060 it's like, why would he even think to say that? 56:42.060 --> 56:43.100 But he does. 56:43.100 --> 56:47.180 And then said he unto all Israel, be on one side, 56:47.180 --> 56:49.580 and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. 56:49.580 --> 56:52.700 And the people said unto Saul, do what seemeth good unto thee. 56:53.340 --> 56:56.700 Therefore Saul said unto the Lord God of Israel, 56:56.700 --> 56:58.220 give a perfect lot. 56:58.220 --> 57:00.940 And Saul and Jonathan were taken, but the people escaped. 57:02.000 --> 57:05.000 And Saul said, cast lots between me and Jonathan, my son. 57:05.000 --> 57:06.840 And Jonathan was taken. 57:06.840 --> 57:10.120 Then Saul said unto Jonathan, tell me what thou hast done. 57:10.120 --> 57:13.480 And Jonathan told him and said, I did but taste a little honey 57:13.480 --> 57:15.800 with the end of the rod that was in my hand. 57:15.800 --> 57:17.400 And lo, I must die. 57:17.400 --> 57:20.000 And Saul answered, God do so and more also, 57:20.000 --> 57:23.000 for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. 57:23.000 --> 57:26.620 And so here we see that Saul's judgment and lack of ability 57:26.620 --> 57:29.400 to read the room is just completely gone at this point. 57:29.800 --> 57:32.600 I mean, to the point where he's going to kill his son. 57:32.600 --> 57:35.000 And his son is the one that got them the victory. 57:35.000 --> 57:36.680 And all the people understand this. 57:36.680 --> 57:39.400 And so he's just kind of looking like a foolish leader 57:39.400 --> 57:41.080 in front of the whole nation. 57:41.080 --> 57:43.640 And he gets called out for it in front of everybody. 57:43.640 --> 57:48.280 It says in verse 45, and the people said unto Saul, 57:48.280 --> 57:49.400 shall Jonathan die? 57:50.000 --> 57:53.200 Who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid! 57:54.000 --> 57:58.000 As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground. 57:58.000 --> 58:03.520 For he hath wrought with God this day, so the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not. 58:04.100 --> 58:06.740 So they're going against what the king's commandment is. 58:06.740 --> 58:09.300 I mean, they're just flat out refusing to let him do. 58:09.300 --> 58:11.460 At first they're saying, do what seems good to thee. 58:11.460 --> 58:12.860 And then he's like, Jonathan's going to die. 58:12.860 --> 58:13.940 And they're like, no, never mind. 58:13.940 --> 58:14.740 Don't do it. 58:14.740 --> 58:17.260 Don't do what's good unto you. 58:17.260 --> 58:19.540 No, Jonathan's not going to die. 58:19.540 --> 58:21.580 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines, 58:21.580 --> 58:25.420 and the Philistines went to their own place. 58:25.420 --> 58:26.180 So I mean, 58:26.180 --> 58:26.200 you 58:26.600 --> 58:33.000 This all, there's lots of chain reactions that happened because of all this, because they would have gone on and continued slaughtering the Philistines. 58:33.480 --> 58:36.800 But Saul really caused Jonathan to sin. 58:37.600 --> 58:47.480 He caused him to sin and it was a sin because God, you know, with this whole thing with the lots, it was obviously God was, you know, he wasn't speaking to Saul because he caused all this. 58:47.800 --> 58:53.400 stuff and then Jonathan did sin inadvertently. It was a sin of not, you know, he didn't know 58:53.960 --> 59:00.600 but he still did and then he's going to kill his own son because he just keeps uttering stupid 59:00.600 --> 59:05.000 things out of his mouth. You know, the person that did this is going to die. You know, it's 59:05.000 --> 59:09.960 like even if it's my son Jonathan, oh wait it is my son Jonathan. It's like that's his firstborn 59:09.960 --> 59:12.960 That's his loyal son that loves him. 59:13.600 --> 59:19.960 And he even, but he knows that his dad's kind of a dummy in a way because he's saying, 59:19.960 --> 59:22.460 hey, my dad's kind of, you know, troubling. 59:22.800 --> 59:29.160 nation today because of, you know, making them all fast. So verse number 47 it 59:29.160 --> 59:32.960 says, So Saul took the kingdom over Israel and fought against all his enemies 59:32.960 --> 59:37.520 on every side, against Moab and against the children of Ammon and against Edom 59:37.520 --> 59:40.880 and against the kings of Zobah and against the Philistines. And whithersoever 59:40.880 --> 59:46.920 he turned himself, he vexed them. So Saul moves on to do, he's doing great things 59:46.920 --> 59:50.800 here. I mean he's still fighting the Lord's battles here. 59:51.000 --> 59:56.560 So, because he doesn't get bad all at once, but I mean, he's progressively going to get 59:56.560 --> 59:57.680 worse here. 59:57.680 --> 01:00:03.820 But Saul is saved, but he just, you know, he just got problems, you know, and his problem 01:00:03.820 --> 01:00:04.980 is envy. 01:00:04.980 --> 01:00:09.160 His problem is, you know, his heart isn't right with God and that he likes to blame 01:00:09.160 --> 01:00:12.120 other people for his problems and he's very self-centered and selfish. 01:00:12.120 --> 01:00:17.180 It says in verse 48, and he gathered a host and smote the Amalekites and delivered Israel 01:00:17.180 --> 01:00:18.640 out of the hands of them that spoiled them. 01:00:19.100 --> 01:00:22.860 So, I mean, he's doing what God wants him to do in these instances here. 01:00:22.860 --> 01:00:29.740 Now, the sons of Saul were Jonathan and Ishua and Melchishua, and the names of his two daughters 01:00:29.740 --> 01:00:35.260 were the name of the firstborn Merib and the name of the younger Micol. 01:00:35.900 --> 01:00:41.260 The name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimez, and the name of the 01:00:41.260 --> 01:00:45.660 captain of the host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. So it's kind of just giving you, 01:00:45.660 --> 01:00:49.980 you know, it's telling us who his family members are because they're going to come into play 01:00:50.620 --> 01:00:54.140 in the rest of the book of 1 and 2 Samuel. So it says, 01:00:54.140 --> 01:00:58.220 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul. 01:00:58.220 --> 01:01:02.220 And when Saul saw any strong man or any valiant man, 01:01:02.800 --> 01:01:05.400 He took him unto him. 01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:11.160 So he's definitely trying to gather all the best warriors to himself. 01:01:11.160 --> 01:01:12.560 And again, nothing wrong with that. 01:01:12.560 --> 01:01:16.280 But why did he have sore war against the Philistines all the days of his life? 01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:21.480 Well, because he just, you know, because that wasn't really the case with David. 01:01:21.480 --> 01:01:24.120 David subdued his enemies after a time. 01:01:24.120 --> 01:01:27.920 And there was relative peace when he handed the kingdom over to Solomon. 01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:30.720 That was the zenith of the time of Israel. 01:01:30.900 --> 01:01:33.300 But Saul's just having a fight the whole time. 01:01:33.300 --> 01:01:36.740 Well, and part of the time he's because he's chasing David. 01:01:36.740 --> 01:01:38.900 And we'll get to that later on. 01:01:39.700 --> 01:01:42.180 But a little bit of application for ourselves, you know, 01:01:42.820 --> 01:01:48.260 we should be careful what we say with our mouths and what we say we're going to do. 01:01:48.900 --> 01:01:51.140 And we need to do the things that we say we're going to do, 01:01:51.140 --> 01:01:54.420 especially when it's concerning things in the service of God 01:01:54.980 --> 01:01:57.460 and things that we say to God that we're going to do. 01:01:57.460 --> 01:01:58.340 and if you... 01:01:58.600 --> 01:02:00.600 don't think that you can do them, then don't. 01:02:00.600 --> 01:02:06.100 You know, faith promise missions is a thing that was big in our old IFB church, 01:02:06.100 --> 01:02:10.600 and they're trying to get you to promise to pay a certain amount a week 01:02:10.600 --> 01:02:13.600 so that they can send it to the missionaries. 01:02:13.600 --> 01:02:16.100 You know, I'll give a dollar a week or I'll give two dollars. 01:02:16.100 --> 01:02:17.600 What if you lose your job though? 01:02:17.600 --> 01:02:19.600 Can you really promise to give what you're... 01:02:19.600 --> 01:02:22.100 like some people give some big money to the missionaries, 01:02:22.100 --> 01:02:24.600 and it's like, well what happens if you die? 01:02:25.700 --> 01:02:28.200 and your spouse can't pay that. 01:02:28.200 --> 01:02:30.100 I mean, you vowed a vow that you can't. 01:02:30.100 --> 01:02:31.300 Obviously, when you die, there's nothing 01:02:31.300 --> 01:02:31.880 you can do about it. 01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:34.500 But I mean, you've promised that you're going to do something. 01:02:34.500 --> 01:02:40.620 And to me, that's a wrong system to be using 01:02:40.620 --> 01:02:42.220 is faith promised missions, because you're 01:02:42.220 --> 01:02:43.800 promising to do something that you don't 01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:45.260 know that you can keep. 01:02:45.260 --> 01:02:48.660 And so there's things like that in the Christian world 01:02:48.660 --> 01:02:50.780 that we should be careful to avoid. 01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:53.900 And we also don't want to be flakes. 01:02:53.900 --> 01:02:55.600 You know, there's... 01:02:55.600 --> 01:02:57.900 Being a flake is annoying to people, 01:02:57.900 --> 01:03:01.800 and it's not a very good quality 01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:04.700 of characteristic in a Christian 01:03:04.700 --> 01:03:07.000 to just be a flake and flaking on things all the time. 01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:09.800 So, and we don't want to be truce-breakers. 01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:11.400 We don't want to say we're going to do something 01:03:11.400 --> 01:03:13.100 and then not do it, or, you know, 01:03:13.100 --> 01:03:15.800 be friends with someone and then not really mean it. 01:03:16.100 --> 01:03:22.600 If you make friends with somebody that you're at odds with and then you really still just hate them anyway, 01:03:22.600 --> 01:03:24.600 that's not really making friends with them again. 01:03:24.600 --> 01:03:31.600 And we're not supposed to be truce breakers. These are things that are not quality characteristics in Christians. 01:03:31.600 --> 01:03:36.100 And we should pay attention to what we eat. 01:03:36.700 --> 01:03:47.700 And I'm not saying get on some hallelujah diet or some kind of, you know, like I'm not trying to like preach some kind of diet thing to you, but avoid things that have blood cooked into them or blood in them. 01:03:47.700 --> 01:03:53.700 Because in England they have this thing called black pudding and it's blood. 01:03:53.700 --> 01:03:56.700 It's black because it's blood inside the pudding. 01:03:56.700 --> 01:04:03.500 But I was looking up some other things and I didn't realize how much stuff is made with blood in it. 01:04:03.700 --> 01:04:07.660 And so, I mean, if someone says, hey, you got to try this, 01:04:07.660 --> 01:04:10.540 it's really good, but they don't want to tell you what's in it. 01:04:10.540 --> 01:04:12.800 Usually that's because there's something gross in it that you 01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:16.860 probably don't want to eat, or it could be blood in it. 01:04:16.860 --> 01:04:19.980 And we just shouldn't be eating blood. 01:04:22.820 --> 01:04:25.340 The French like to cook with it, I found out, 01:04:25.340 --> 01:04:26.980 which doesn't surprise me. 01:04:26.980 --> 01:04:28.060 They eat frog legs. 01:04:28.060 --> 01:04:28.740 They eat snails. 01:04:28.740 --> 01:04:30.300 So. 01:04:32.300 --> 01:04:36.060 It doesn't surprise me at all. 01:04:36.060 --> 01:04:42.500 And then as far as leadership is involved here, 01:04:42.500 --> 01:04:44.820 Saul is becoming corrupted. 01:04:44.820 --> 01:04:47.660 And nobody is beyond being corrupted. 01:04:47.660 --> 01:04:51.500 And power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 01:04:51.500 --> 01:04:54.620 So it seems like Saul is already kind of getting 01:04:54.620 --> 01:04:56.860 this pity party attitude. 01:04:56.860 --> 01:04:57.360 Well... 01:04:57.900 --> 01:05:02.620 You guys can't eat for the rest of the day because my enemies need to be avenged. 01:05:02.620 --> 01:05:03.740 It's all about me. 01:05:03.740 --> 01:05:07.300 And leadership can't be that way where it's just all about you. 01:05:07.300 --> 01:05:10.020 You got to think about other people beside yourselves. 01:05:10.020 --> 01:05:13.740 And in order to be a good leader, you have to learn to be a good follower first. 01:05:13.740 --> 01:05:17.660 So some people want to lead, but they are sucky at following. 01:05:17.660 --> 01:05:22.820 So if you are a sucky person at following, then you're never going to be a leader. 01:05:22.820 --> 01:05:24.420 Or at least you're never going to be a good one. 01:05:24.800 --> 01:05:30.800 So it's important to, before you learn to lead, you need to learn to follow first. 01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:35.800 And Sol, he is having some difficulty already. 01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:38.800 And it's just, like I said, it's going to be a downward spiral from here. 01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:42.800 and that gets to the point where he's chasing his own. 01:05:42.900 --> 01:05:47.860 his own people, he's marrying, I mean he's just, he's killing the priest, he's trying to kill David 01:05:48.420 --> 01:05:54.100 and it just, you know, it gets bad from here. So anyway, let's pray. Lord, we thank you so much 01:05:54.100 --> 01:06:00.020 for the scriptures and Lord, thank you for doctrinal truths. I pray that you just help us to 01:06:00.580 --> 01:06:06.980 remember these things and keep them in our hearts and Lord help us to not be rash with our mouths 01:06:07.540 --> 01:06:09.140 and say things that we don't mean and 01:06:09.700 --> 01:06:12.700 and promise to do things that we can't keep, 01:06:12.700 --> 01:06:16.620 help us to realize that it's better to just keep our mouth 01:06:16.620 --> 01:06:19.940 shut instead of just saying things that we shouldn't say, 01:06:19.940 --> 01:06:23.820 and help us to be discerning in some of the ingredients 01:06:23.820 --> 01:06:26.900 of the things that we eat, and Lord, help us, 01:06:26.900 --> 01:06:30.540 and help us to be healthy and make wise decisions. 01:06:30.540 --> 01:06:34.340 Help us to follow leadership where it exists in our life, 01:06:34.340 --> 01:06:35.940 because it exists in all of our lives. 01:06:36.500 --> 01:06:41.060 and help us to those that are leaders to lead well. 01:06:41.060 --> 01:06:42.380 In Jesus' name we pray. 01:06:42.380 --> 01:06:42.880 Amen. 01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:43.380 All right. 01:06:43.380 --> 01:06:45.860 We're going to have a baptism right after the song. 01:06:45.860 --> 01:06:47.660 So just hang out here for a second. 01:06:47.660 --> 01:06:49.380 Brother Billy might have to do two songs. 01:06:49.380 --> 01:06:52.780 It depends on how fast he can get ready. 01:06:52.780 --> 01:06:53.280 All right. 01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:53.780 Come on up. 01:06:57.400 --> 01:06:59.400 Can I get some mushrooms? 01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:07.300 All right, just for the record hillbillies eat frogs too, it's not just the French. All right 64 01:07:10.600 --> 01:07:12.600 64 01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:19.400 64 shall we gather at the river. 01:07:27.900 --> 01:07:31.180 All right, 64 in the red of the green, all together on the first. 01:07:55.200 --> 01:08:10.120 Yes, we'll gather at the river, the beautiful, the beautiful river, gather with the saints 01:08:10.120 --> 01:08:19.120 at the river that flows by the throne of God. 01:08:19.700 --> 01:08:31.700 On the bosom of the river, Where the Savior King we own, 01:08:31.700 --> 01:08:43.700 We shall meet in sorrow never, Neath the glory of the throne. 01:08:43.700 --> 01:08:46.940 Yours will gather a- 01:08:50.100 --> 01:08:56.700 the beautiful, the beautiful river. 01:08:56.700 --> 01:09:02.100 Gather with the saints at the river, 01:09:02.100 --> 01:09:09.000 that flowed by the throne of God. 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:16.600 There we reached the shining river, lay we... 01:09:17.300 --> 01:09:32.860 burdened down. Grace our spirits will deliver and provide all hope and crown. 01:09:32.860 --> 01:09:35.200 Yes we'll give. 01:09:39.300 --> 01:09:45.860 the beautiful, the beautiful river, 01:09:45.860 --> 01:09:51.220 gather with the saints of the river 01:09:51.220 --> 01:09:57.700 that flows by the throne of God. 01:09:58.100 --> 01:10:04.220 Soon we'll reach the shining river. 01:10:04.220 --> 01:10:10.300 Soon our pilgrimage will cease. 01:10:10.300 --> 01:10:15.660 Soon our happy hearts will quiver 01:10:15.660 --> 01:10:20.580 with the melody of peace. 01:10:21.300 --> 01:10:33.500 Yes, we'll gather up the river, the beautiful, the beautiful river. 01:10:36.700 --> 01:10:46.600 into the river that flows by the throne of God.