WEBVTT 00:00.500 --> 00:08.260 our church and thank you for keeping us safe father and looking after us and ask you to 00:08.260 --> 00:13.700 bless this offering both the gift and the giver we can further your kingdom in Jesus name amen 01:44.900 --> 01:49.900 Alright turn in your Bibles if you would to 1st Samuel chapter 21. 01:49.900 --> 01:52.400 1st Samuel chapter 21. 01:58.600 --> 02:00.500 The Bible reads in 1 Samuel 21, 02:25.200 --> 02:28.500 and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. 02:29.400 --> 02:35.540 Now therefore, what is under thine hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or what there is present." 02:36.540 --> 02:38.820 And the priest answered David and said, 02:39.220 --> 02:46.420 There is no common bread under my hand, but there is hallowed bread, if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. 02:47.200 --> 02:52.480 And David answered the priest and said unto him, Of a truth, women have been kept from us about 02:52.480 --> 02:58.960 these three days since I came out. And the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a 02:58.960 --> 03:04.800 manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. So the priest gave him 03:04.800 --> 03:11.920 hallowed bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread. That was taken from before the Lord, 03:11.920 --> 03:14.720 to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. 03:16.300 --> 03:20.780 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord, 03:21.340 --> 03:26.380 and his name was Doeg and Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul. 03:27.420 --> 03:32.780 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? 03:33.500 --> 03:39.340 For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste. 03:40.200 --> 03:45.720 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, 03:45.720 --> 03:48.920 behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the Ifod. 03:49.880 --> 03:54.040 If thou wilt take that, take it, for there is no other save that here. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.960 And David said, There is none like that, give it me. 03:58.760 --> 04:04.200 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. 04:05.240 --> 04:07.400 And the servants of Achish said unto him, 04:08.000 --> 04:10.400 Is not this David the king of the land? 04:11.360 --> 04:14.800 Did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, 04:14.800 --> 04:17.840 Saul hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands? 04:18.800 --> 04:23.920 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 04:24.880 --> 04:29.200 And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, 04:29.920 --> 04:34.800 and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. 04:35.900 --> 04:41.060 Then said Akish unto a servant, Slow, ye see the man is mad. 04:41.060 --> 04:43.820 Wherefore then have ye brought him to me? 04:43.820 --> 04:49.020 Have I need of madmen that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? 04:49.020 --> 04:52.860 Shall this fellow come into my house? 04:52.860 --> 04:54.220 Brother Shawn, can you pray for the service? 05:07.600 --> 05:15.280 I met in 1 Samuel chapter 21 and just to quickly recap from last week we took a long look at 05:15.280 --> 05:21.920 the friendship between David and Jonathan and took a deep dive into the covenant because they made 05:21.920 --> 05:27.760 the covenant the first time that they met and Jonathan literally gave him the clothes off his 05:27.760 --> 05:30.000 back and weapons and 05:30.500 --> 05:38.140 Basically, they became best friends instantaneously. 05:38.140 --> 05:42.740 And then basically, I went over what good friends should do. 05:42.740 --> 05:49.980 Friends should not have a one-sided friendship where one is just doing stuff for the one 05:49.980 --> 05:52.260 and the other is not doing anything for the other. 05:52.260 --> 05:53.800 should be a mutual. 05:53.800 --> 05:59.640 Obviously, you're not just always favor for favor all the time, but there should be some 05:59.640 --> 06:01.280 benefits to a friendship. 06:01.280 --> 06:07.480 So I'm not saying you're supposed to take care of them all the time and give them money 06:07.480 --> 06:08.480 all the time. 06:08.480 --> 06:15.800 I'm just talking about friendship has advantages as far as having counsel and prayer and just 06:16.700 --> 06:20.780 someone that you can count on to tell you the truth when you need to hear the truth, 06:20.780 --> 06:29.060 things like that, and to protect you, to vouch for you when you need it. 06:29.060 --> 06:35.740 When I think about Silas became friends with Paul and vouched for him, or Barnabas, excuse 06:35.740 --> 06:39.720 me, Barnabas vouched for Paul when nobody else wanted to let him in church. 06:39.720 --> 06:41.320 And he came alongside Paul and... 06:41.900 --> 06:45.040 introduced him to everybody and said, no, no, he really did change. 06:45.040 --> 06:50.140 Because he was basically running around torturing people and they're like, I don't know about this Paul guy. 06:50.140 --> 06:54.140 Then Barnabas came and helped him out, you know. 06:54.140 --> 06:58.640 And I kind of talked about how our best friends should be Christians and 06:58.640 --> 07:03.580 if all of our best friends are people that are worldly and not saved then 07:03.580 --> 07:08.580 we kind of have a problem. We need to find some friends that are Christians. 07:09.100 --> 07:13.260 But then we also looked at the spiritual fulfillment of their covenant in Christ 07:13.980 --> 07:19.420 and pointed out quite a few things about that. And if you, I'm not going to rehash that whole 07:19.420 --> 07:26.380 sermon, but there's some pretty interesting things about it being fulfilled physically. 07:27.180 --> 07:33.500 Jonathan's, because most kings will kill, you know, the next king if there's a takeover. 07:34.000 --> 07:40.240 of a different family like what happened, like Judah taking over Benjamin, they would kill all 07:40.240 --> 07:46.240 the heirs that are remaining and then just to make sure nobody tries to rival that king later on. 07:46.240 --> 07:49.840 That was general practice in the world and many different countries, you know, 07:49.840 --> 07:57.280 all countries around the world is like that. But David honored his covenant with Jonathan 07:57.280 --> 07:59.780 and with Saul later on we'll see. 08:00.100 --> 08:06.860 So, Jonathan's family did live on and we can see it through the Chronicles. 08:06.860 --> 08:13.820 And then there's no like genealogy in the New Testament that shows that they lived past 08:13.820 --> 08:14.820 in there. 08:14.820 --> 08:20.020 But like I believe what the Bible says and I believe that Jonathan's ancestors still 08:20.020 --> 08:22.780 live today. 08:22.780 --> 08:26.140 And I stopped short of this because there's no... 08:26.600 --> 08:31.600 like verse that says that Paul was related to Saul or Jonathan. 08:31.600 --> 08:34.000 But, I mean, I was thinking about it after the service, 08:34.000 --> 08:36.500 we were kind of talking about it, the guys. 08:36.500 --> 08:40.360 And let's turn over to Luke chapter one real quick, 08:40.360 --> 08:43.040 Luke chapter one. 08:43.040 --> 08:45.200 There's a couple of things that I thought were, 08:45.200 --> 08:49.840 it's not evidence, but the Apostle Paul 08:49.840 --> 08:53.200 could have been directly related to Saul and Jonathan. 08:53.800 --> 08:56.760 I think it's circumstantial but it's still interesting nonetheless. 08:57.640 --> 09:03.480 And I think it's definitely circumstantial. It's not like hard evidence or anything. 09:04.120 --> 09:10.920 But this story of Luke where Zacharias is the is the priest and he is not able to speak so he has 09:10.920 --> 09:13.400 to write everything down and 09:13.500 --> 09:20.060 his son John is born and John is John the Baptist, right? So, let's pick it up in verse 59. It says, 09:20.060 --> 09:24.140 And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child and they called him 09:24.140 --> 09:29.260 Zechariah. So, they're trying to name John Zechariah because that's his family name or whatever 09:29.820 --> 09:33.580 after the name of his father because that's his dad's name. And his mother answered and said, 09:33.580 --> 09:36.420 Not so, but he shall be called John. 09:36.900 --> 09:41.780 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name. 09:42.740 --> 09:47.860 And they made signs to his father how he would have him called." So they're like trying to 09:47.860 --> 09:53.220 bypass mom. They're like, yeah, whatever, lady. You know, there's nobody in your family named John. 09:53.220 --> 09:58.500 We're going to call him Zacharias. And he asked for a writing table and wrote saying, 09:58.500 --> 10:02.020 His name is John and they all marveled. 10:02.600 --> 10:08.800 So, what's interesting about that though is that it's custom or practice at this time, 10:08.800 --> 10:14.480 at least, that you would call your name, you wouldn't call him some strange name. 10:14.480 --> 10:22.000 So the fact that Saul's name is Saul of Tarsus would indicate that it's probable that he 10:22.000 --> 10:24.120 had people in his family that were named the same thing. 10:24.600 --> 10:27.600 So, I'm just saying it's circumstantial. 10:27.600 --> 10:32.860 It's my opinion that it's possible that he was a relative of Saul. 10:32.860 --> 10:38.000 Because if he was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, and a Pharisee of the Pharisees, and they 10:38.000 --> 10:44.780 were like really into all that kind of stuff, it's very possible that Paul was a direct 10:44.780 --> 10:46.780 descendant of him. 10:46.780 --> 10:51.400 taken years is a long time to have the family tree branch out of itRed 10:55.220 --> 10:51.400 dot com 10:52.500 --> 10:53.000 Yeah. 10:53.000 --> 10:53.500 Yeah. 10:53.500 --> 10:54.000 So. 10:54.000 --> 10:54.500 Yeah. 10:54.500 --> 10:56.500 Did you say it's very likely? 10:56.500 --> 10:57.000 Yeah. 10:57.000 --> 10:58.500 Yeah, I think it is. 11:03.400 --> 11:07.800 Yeah, yeah, so I mean if that's because there's a lot of Zechariahs in the Bible and you're like, 11:07.800 --> 11:12.200 well which Zechariahs is this? Because there's a lot of names that are repeated in the Chronicles 11:12.200 --> 11:17.240 if you've noticed and like Elkanah, there's a ton of Elkanahs in the Bible and so that was very 11:17.240 --> 11:22.760 confusing to me trying to figure out Samuel's lineage because there's so many Elkanahs in the 11:22.760 --> 11:28.280 Chronicles and there's a lot of Zechariahs in there too. There's Zechariah son of Arichaeus 11:28.280 --> 11:30.280 and he was the one that was slain by the altar and all that. 11:30.900 --> 11:36.420 But I thought it was very interesting because nothing in the Bible is incidental, coincidental, 11:36.420 --> 11:40.740 or incidental, coincidental, or what's the other one? 11:40.740 --> 11:41.740 Accidental. 11:41.740 --> 11:42.740 Yeah, accidental. 11:42.740 --> 11:43.980 Thank you. 11:43.980 --> 11:48.000 And so I don't think that that's an accident. 11:48.000 --> 11:52.540 In my opinion, I do think that Saul probably was related to Jonathan and Saul, but that's 11:52.540 --> 11:53.540 my opinion. 11:53.540 --> 11:55.700 So not being dogmatic about it. 11:55.700 --> 11:58.660 Also Brother Bill brought up something that was really cool that I hadn't considered 11:58.660 --> 11:58.900 the day. 11:58.900 --> 12:03.580 David is representative of Christ, of course, and Christ had a forerunner. 12:03.580 --> 12:06.180 What was the forerunner's name? 12:06.180 --> 12:07.860 We just talked about him. 12:07.860 --> 12:12.820 His name is John, middle name The, last name Baptist, right? 12:12.820 --> 12:14.660 That's not really, but that's what we call him, right? 12:14.660 --> 12:16.140 John the Baptist. 12:16.140 --> 12:18.740 So and what was David's friend's name? 12:19.400 --> 12:25.560 Jonathan, right? So I hope I'm doing this justice for you, Brother Bill. I'll try to do my best. 12:25.560 --> 12:31.800 So, but who was winning all the battles and who was the star of Saul's army getting the victory 12:31.800 --> 12:37.960 over God's enemies before David came on the scene? It was Jonathan, wasn't it? So, and he was the 12:37.960 --> 12:41.880 prince that was supposed to be the king, right? He, everybody was kind of flocking towards Jonathan 12:41.880 --> 12:43.800 because Saul was already kind of screwing up, right? 12:44.300 --> 12:48.380 But John was leading all these battles. Remember he went up with his armor bearer 12:48.380 --> 12:53.980 and won a great victory. He sent all the enemies to flight. So he was doing great works, wasn't he? 12:53.980 --> 12:57.980 He had faith. He was doing great works. Just like John the Baptist had faith, 12:57.980 --> 13:03.660 was doing great works before Christ came. And he's the one that kind of led the way for Christ to 13:03.660 --> 13:08.060 come in. He was the forerunner of Christ. Now let's turn to 1 Samuel chapter 20. 13:12.000 --> 13:16.960 first sandwich of 20 back one chapter from where we're at. So in our regular text, so 13:18.640 --> 13:24.000 but in this in this last part of the passage it says and Jonathan 13:26.600 --> 13:29.100 gave his artillery to his lad and said unto him, 13:29.100 --> 13:31.200 go carry them to the city. 13:31.200 --> 13:32.760 And as soon as the lad was gone, 13:32.760 --> 13:35.560 David arose out of a place toward the south 13:35.560 --> 13:36.880 and fell on his face to the ground 13:36.880 --> 13:38.640 and bowed himself three times. 13:38.640 --> 13:43.360 And they kissed one another and wept one with another 13:43.360 --> 13:44.720 until David acceded. 13:45.100 --> 13:48.700 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace for as much as we have sworn both of us 13:48.700 --> 13:52.700 in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee, between my seed and my 13:52.700 --> 13:56.060 seed forever. And he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into his city." 13:56.940 --> 14:02.700 So after this, he kind of has to be David's enemy in the sense that his dad is Saul, right? 14:03.980 --> 14:07.900 So they've made this covenant. They have to part ways. David has to run. David has to flee. This 14:07.900 --> 14:11.980 is where we're at in our chapter tonight. But I want you to turn one more place here. 14:13.200 --> 14:18.960 a couple more places. First Samuel chapter 23, first Samuel chapter 23. And this is the last time 14:19.680 --> 14:26.560 that Jonathan and David get to see each other before Jonathan dies. Now 14:28.720 --> 14:35.440 my memory serves me correctly. What happens to John the Baptist in the New Testament? Well, before 14:35.440 --> 14:37.440 Yeah, he dies, doesn't he? 14:37.440 --> 14:38.120 He dies. 14:38.600 --> 14:42.600 He gets his head cut off and it wasn't because he was a bad guy. 14:42.600 --> 14:44.600 It was just what happened. 14:44.600 --> 14:46.600 He was persecuted. 14:46.600 --> 14:51.600 He had to die, apparently. 14:51.600 --> 14:54.600 But it says in 1 Samuel chapter 23 verse 16, it says, 14:54.600 --> 14:59.440 And Jonathan saw his son arose and went to David into the wood and strengthened his hand 14:59.440 --> 15:00.000 in God. 15:00.400 --> 15:04.560 And he said unto him, fear not for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee, and 15:04.560 --> 15:09.000 thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee. 15:09.000 --> 15:12.680 And that also Saul my father knoweth. 15:12.680 --> 15:16.240 And they too made a covenant before the Lord, and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan 15:16.240 --> 15:18.620 went to his house." 15:18.620 --> 15:21.120 So he said, I shall be next unto thee. 15:21.120 --> 15:23.600 So what is Jonathan essentially saying here? 15:24.300 --> 15:25.740 I must decrease." 15:25.740 --> 15:26.740 That's right. 15:26.740 --> 15:30.340 So, and then John the Baptist, and you don't have to turn there if you don't want to, 15:30.340 --> 15:35.600 but John 3.26 says, and they came unto John and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with 15:35.600 --> 15:40.920 thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou bearest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come 15:40.920 --> 15:41.920 to him. 15:41.920 --> 15:46.540 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing except to be given him from heaven. 15:46.540 --> 15:50.940 Ye yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the Christ. 15:51.300 --> 15:53.340 but that I am sent before him. 15:53.340 --> 15:55.500 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom, 15:55.500 --> 15:58.180 but the friend of the bridegroom which standeth and heareth him 15:58.180 --> 16:01.060 rejoiceth greatly because the bridegroom's voice. 16:01.060 --> 16:03.500 This my joy therefore is fulfilled. 16:03.500 --> 16:06.600 He must increase, but I must decrease. 16:06.800 --> 16:11.760 And this is the attitude of Jonathan. Jonathan is the prince. Saul was just getting on his case 16:11.760 --> 16:16.560 and threw a javelin at him in the last chapter because he's like, he's son of a perverse woman 16:16.560 --> 16:21.840 and stupid one. And he's just jumping all over his kid over it. But Jonathan is very humble. 16:21.840 --> 16:23.280 Jonathan loves David. 16:23.700 --> 16:28.020 He also understands that David is going to be the king. 16:28.020 --> 16:32.860 And of course David represents Christ in that picture. 16:32.860 --> 16:40.380 And Jonathan, I don't think it's again coincidental that his name is John. 16:40.380 --> 16:41.380 But what is he doing? 16:41.380 --> 16:43.820 He's decreasing and he's saying I'll be next unto you though. 16:44.800 --> 16:50.880 So he is the actual, he is the heir by all standards of measurement, but that's not who 16:50.880 --> 16:55.760 God picked to be the heir. And God picked John the Baptist to be the forerunner to Jesus, 16:55.760 --> 17:01.440 not to be the Christ. But I mean, John was super popular in his day. John was a powerful preacher. 17:01.700 --> 17:07.220 It takes a lot of a lot of humble pie to be able to just know that you're not you're just you're 17:07.220 --> 17:11.700 going to be a shining star for a bit but then someone else is going to come and you have to just 17:11.700 --> 17:19.700 lower yourself and be humble and and allow someone else to to be the star and Jonathan has been the 17:19.700 --> 17:25.300 has been the star up until the point where David came but did Jonathan hate on David? No. 17:25.900 --> 17:30.900 Jonathan was friends with David. I mean he kills Goliath and Jonathan's like let's be best friends, you know 17:31.340 --> 17:35.340 Instead of like hey, he's a threat to my father. You know, he's a threat to my throne 17:35.340 --> 17:40.280 You know, that's what how most people would act though you get nine people out of ten 17:40.540 --> 17:45.480 They're gonna act just the way Saul did and he's gonna take his father's back and try to kill David 17:45.500 --> 17:47.100 But that's not what he did 17:47.300 --> 17:53.640 He had a good heart, he had a humble heart, and many men would kill to hang on to what 17:53.640 --> 17:55.300 Jonathan had. 17:55.300 --> 17:56.980 But he didn't do that. 17:56.980 --> 18:02.180 And so he gave up his status, he gave up his prestige, he gave up his future throne to 18:02.180 --> 18:08.420 recognize David as the rightful ruler and to accept that, you know, to accept that must 18:08.420 --> 18:11.100 have taken great humility and great... 18:11.400 --> 18:15.400 to be a very humble man, just like John the Baptist. 18:15.400 --> 18:17.840 And John the Baptist, people were asking him, 18:17.840 --> 18:18.960 are you the Christ? 18:18.960 --> 18:19.960 Just tell us plainly. 18:19.960 --> 18:21.560 Well, they did that to Jesus, 18:21.560 --> 18:24.700 but they asked John if he was that prophet. 18:24.700 --> 18:25.620 Are you that prophet? 18:25.620 --> 18:27.000 Are you the Christ? 18:27.000 --> 18:28.900 And he said, no, I'm not. 18:29.100 --> 18:33.100 So, now let's get back to our main text here, 18:33.100 --> 18:34.600 first Samuel chapter 21. 18:34.600 --> 18:36.100 I just thought that was some cool stuff 18:36.100 --> 18:37.600 and Brother Bill brought that up to me. 18:37.600 --> 18:39.600 I was like, man, that's so cool. 18:42.500 --> 18:45.620 Oh yeah, see Bill just got off, come here and preach the sermon with me. 18:47.300 --> 18:52.660 Yeah, that's a good point too that he said they're the last two in a system that was on its way out. 18:53.380 --> 18:58.580 Just like, you know, John the Baptist was the last of the prophets. Of course, Jesus was the last, 18:59.140 --> 19:05.140 the very last prophet, but he was also God. But yeah, the last two and then the New Testament begins 19:05.140 --> 19:06.900 after both of their deaths. So. 19:07.700 --> 19:09.060 Yeah, very interesting too. 19:09.060 --> 19:10.060 Oh geez. 19:10.060 --> 19:11.540 Bill, Bill was thinking. 19:11.540 --> 19:12.540 He had his thinking cap on. 19:12.540 --> 19:13.540 All right. 19:13.540 --> 19:14.540 Good job, brother Bill. 19:14.540 --> 19:15.540 All right. 19:15.540 --> 19:18.700 So, um, number, so we're going to look at David and the Holy Bread. 19:18.700 --> 19:19.700 Verse 1. 19:19.700 --> 19:24.380 Then came David to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. 19:24.380 --> 19:28.900 And Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, 19:28.900 --> 19:30.620 and no man with thee? 19:30.620 --> 19:31.900 This is interesting because... 19:32.200 --> 19:34.760 He seems like he's just paranoid, like he did something wrong. 19:34.760 --> 19:36.760 Like, why is he afraid? 19:37.200 --> 19:41.200 And maybe it's because David killed Goliath and he's like the leader of Saul's armies. 19:41.200 --> 19:44.200 Maybe he's just afraid because he knows what kind of man Saul is. 19:44.200 --> 19:48.200 And maybe he thinks that David is corrupted by Saul. He probably just doesn't know him very well. 19:48.200 --> 19:52.200 But he is by himself and normally that's not something that he probably does. 19:52.200 --> 19:56.200 You know, and then his whole family is about to die. 19:56.200 --> 19:59.200 So, later on because of this meetup. 19:59.200 --> 20:03.200 But I don't want to spoil it too much but I think everybody probably knows that's read the Bible. 20:03.200 --> 20:05.200 What ends up happening after this. 20:05.200 --> 20:11.520 But anyway, so, Himalek was afraid at the meeting of David and said to him, Why art 20:11.520 --> 20:12.880 thou alone and no man with thee? 20:12.880 --> 20:17.200 And David said unto Himalek the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath 20:17.200 --> 20:22.240 said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send. 20:22.600 --> 20:29.240 thee, and what I have commanded thee, and have appointed my servants to such and such a place." 20:30.200 --> 20:36.680 So once again you have David lying to protect life. I mean how many times does this happen now? 20:37.240 --> 20:42.520 I mean Samuel, it seems like almost in every chapter they're having to lie so that someone, 20:42.520 --> 20:48.600 so that Saul doesn't kill them. And this is, you know, again like people will disagree about this. 20:49.400 --> 20:52.880 They're just wrong, but I'm just kidding. 20:52.880 --> 20:56.200 I mean, people can have that perspective that they think it's just wrong no matter what, 20:56.200 --> 21:00.460 but I mean David continuously does it and where does the Lord ever rebuke him for it? 21:00.460 --> 21:04.320 Because he's, I mean this isn't just play time, this is actually you're going to die 21:04.320 --> 21:06.800 if you tell the truth in this situation. 21:06.800 --> 21:10.720 But not only is he protecting his own life, he's also trying to protect the life of Abimelech 21:10.720 --> 21:12.400 who has no clue what's going on here. 21:13.500 --> 21:18.860 And he doesn't want to go and tell him, hey, Saul's trying to kill me, da da da da, 21:18.860 --> 21:22.420 give me this, give me that, give me food, give me sword, so that he can just deny everything 21:22.420 --> 21:24.780 like he does later on. 21:24.780 --> 21:31.460 But Saul doesn't want to hear it because Saul has gone mad, really gone mad. 21:31.460 --> 21:34.620 So he lies to him. 21:34.620 --> 21:37.900 In verse 3 it says, 21:38.100 --> 21:40.860 Now therefore, what is under thine hand? 21:40.860 --> 21:44.020 Give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, 21:44.020 --> 21:46.340 or what there is present." 21:46.340 --> 21:49.020 So, they're at the tabernacle here. 21:49.020 --> 21:51.420 So, this bread is not just regular bread. 21:51.420 --> 21:54.620 This is bread that you'd put on the table 21:54.620 --> 21:56.760 that's supposed to go before the Lord. 21:56.760 --> 21:58.540 This is like sacred. 21:58.540 --> 22:00.060 This is like holy bread. 22:00.060 --> 22:02.700 This is hallowed bread 22:02.700 --> 22:04.660 that is only to be eaten by the priest. 22:04.900 --> 22:11.220 So, a hemlock is the high priest and only the priests that are allowed to go into that portion 22:11.220 --> 22:14.340 of the tabernacle are allowed to eat that bread. 22:14.340 --> 22:19.060 It's holy unto the Lord and anybody that goes in, what's supposed to happen to them? 22:19.060 --> 22:24.180 They're supposed to be thrust through with a dart, correct? 22:24.180 --> 22:25.180 Okay. 22:25.180 --> 22:30.060 So, now he is asking for food. 22:30.060 --> 22:32.300 He said, give me them five loaves, bro. 22:32.400 --> 22:38.640 I need them five loaves." And that's an interesting number that he asked for. Because 12 loaves are 22:38.640 --> 22:44.160 what actually gets put out at the beginning of each week, or at the end of each week. So on the 22:44.160 --> 22:54.400 Sabbath day, 12 new loaves are put out, hot and fresh and ready, and olive oil around it. And those 22:54.400 --> 22:58.880 are supposed to go out every Sabbath day, a new 12 loaves. And then the priest eat that bread. 22:59.600 --> 23:03.800 And so maybe just he thinks that this is all that's left is five loaves or something. 23:03.800 --> 23:04.800 Maybe he's done the count. 23:04.800 --> 23:07.400 Well, okay, they should have eaten this many loaves by now. 23:07.400 --> 23:09.200 But it's interesting because Jesus... 23:09.600 --> 23:14.280 turns five loaves and two fish and feeds five thousand people with it. 23:14.280 --> 23:20.240 So I don't know if that's just, you know, just accidentally there too, but just seems 23:20.240 --> 23:21.480 a little bit symbolic there. 23:21.480 --> 23:26.560 It says, And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread under my hand, 23:26.560 --> 23:28.560 but there is hallowed bread. 23:28.560 --> 23:32.700 If the young men have kept themselves, at least from women, and David answered, 23:32.800 --> 23:38.320 the priest and said unto him of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days 23:38.880 --> 23:44.800 since i came out and the vessels of the young men are holy and the bread is in a manner common 23:44.800 --> 23:52.080 yay though it were sanctified this day in the vessel so the priest gave him hallowed bread 23:52.080 --> 23:54.800 for there was no bread there but the showbread 23:55.400 --> 24:00.680 that was taken from before the Lord to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. 24:01.800 --> 24:05.400 So let's turn over to Exodus chapter 25 and we'll get a little 24:06.280 --> 24:13.480 backstory about this hallowed bread, what it is. So yeah, David is essentially asking for something 24:13.480 --> 24:19.160 that he's not permitted to have. So if I was to sum this whole chapter up, but here's what I would 24:19.160 --> 24:20.160 I would sum it up as. 24:20.700 --> 24:24.380 that we need to do everything we can to stay alive. 24:24.380 --> 24:28.180 I mean, even in the last chapter, 24:28.180 --> 24:31.700 Jonathan and David come up with this plan 24:31.700 --> 24:33.420 and they have to lie to Saul 24:33.420 --> 24:35.420 as to why David is not at the dinner table. 24:35.420 --> 24:36.940 Remember last week? 24:36.940 --> 24:38.740 So it just seems like every week 24:38.740 --> 24:39.860 that they're having to do this 24:39.860 --> 24:41.100 because Saul is trying to, 24:41.100 --> 24:43.860 he's just ready to kill anybody for any offense. 24:43.860 --> 24:45.860 David didn't even do anything wrong. 24:46.400 --> 24:53.400 But at this point, so already David's lied to the priest and told him a fake reason why he was there. 24:53.400 --> 25:00.400 But again, to preserve his own life, but also to preserve the priest's life because he doesn't know what they're going to do. 25:00.400 --> 25:05.400 Which, you know, he does later on say that he knew that he shouldn't have said anything because Doag was there. 25:05.400 --> 25:12.400 But anyway, so Exodus 25 verse 23 says, I'll read this really fast. 25:12.600 --> 25:17.760 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood, two cubits shall be the length thereof, and 25:17.760 --> 25:21.760 a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof, and thou shalt 25:21.760 --> 25:26.640 overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. 25:26.640 --> 25:30.920 And thou shalt make unto it a border of a hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make 25:30.920 --> 25:34.000 a gold crown to the border thereof round about." 25:34.000 --> 25:37.180 So it's just explaining what the table is supposed to look like. 25:37.180 --> 25:38.020 And that shall make it. 25:38.600 --> 25:45.400 Make for it four rings of gold and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. 25:45.700 --> 25:51.100 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table because they can't just pick up the 25:51.100 --> 25:54.660 Table with their hands because they'll die right and thou shalt make the staves of 25:54.860 --> 26:02.080 Shit and wood and overlay them with gold that the table may be born with them and thou shalt make the dishes thereof and the spoons 26:02.420 --> 26:07.440 Thereof and covers thereof and bowls thereof and cover with all of pure gold 26:07.780 --> 26:11.820 Shout thou make them now shalt set upon the table 26:12.300 --> 26:18.180 showbread before me always." So that table was never supposed to be empty of bread. It 26:18.180 --> 26:22.320 always was supposed to have this showbread on it. This is the bread that they're talking 26:22.320 --> 26:27.100 about in the chapter. Now turn to Leviticus chapter 24 verse 5. Leviticus chapter 24 verse 26:27.100 --> 26:33.340 chapter 4, chapter 24 verse 5, excuse me, Leviticus 24 verse 5. 26:34.700 --> 26:42.300 It says in verse 5, and I shall take a fine flour and bake twelve cakes thereof, two tenths 26:42.300 --> 26:45.380 deals shall be in one cake. 26:45.380 --> 26:52.740 Now shall set them in two rows, six on a row upon the pure table before the Lord. 26:52.740 --> 26:58.060 Now shall put pure frankincense upon each row that it may be on the bread for a memorial. 26:58.400 --> 27:02.040 even an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 27:02.040 --> 27:06.040 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, 27:06.040 --> 27:09.540 being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. 27:09.540 --> 27:12.740 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons, 27:12.740 --> 27:15.040 and they shall eat it in the holy place, 27:15.040 --> 27:20.840 where it is most holy unto them for the offerings of the Lord made by fire. 27:21.100 --> 27:25.820 by a perpetual statute. So right there that's saying who's supposed to be able to eat it? 27:25.820 --> 27:32.460 Just the priest, Aaron and his sons. That's it. So David is definitely not from the 27:32.460 --> 27:38.860 Levitical priesthood, but here he is being given this bread. So why is that allowed though? How 27:38.860 --> 27:45.420 come they can just break this rule and just allow this to happen? Well, let's turn to the commentary 27:45.420 --> 27:47.020 from the New Testament about it. 27:47.500 --> 27:53.180 Matthew chapter 12, Matthew chapter 12, because Jesus brings this specific story up in the New Testament. 27:58.800 --> 28:00.400 Matthew chapter 12 verse 1. 28:03.700 --> 28:09.140 It's funny, these Pharisees are supposed to, I mean, they're not even Levites. 28:09.140 --> 28:12.460 That's what's funny about the Pharisees, that they're like, you know, they seem to 28:12.460 --> 28:16.600 be in charge of everything, but they weren't even really supposed to be in charge. 28:16.600 --> 28:18.400 They're not Levites. 28:18.400 --> 28:20.260 So how did they get in charge? 28:20.260 --> 28:25.700 That's strange, because, and then the Levites, I think, ended up being the Sadducees, and 28:25.700 --> 28:27.780 then they didn't even believe in the miracles of the Bible. 28:28.300 --> 28:30.780 They were like Thomas Jefferson's or something. 28:30.780 --> 28:34.200 Anyway, Matthew 12 verse 1, 28:34.200 --> 28:38.620 at that time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn 28:38.620 --> 28:40.720 and his disciples were unhungered 28:40.720 --> 28:43.600 and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. 28:44.600 --> 28:47.600 And this isn't like corn like we would know. 28:47.600 --> 28:51.600 It's like pieces of barley or some kind of wheat or something. 28:51.600 --> 28:57.200 Anyway, it says, and, but the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples 28:57.200 --> 29:00.040 do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day. 29:00.040 --> 29:05.840 But he said unto them, Have you not read what David did when he was unhungered, and they 29:05.840 --> 29:06.840 that were with him? 29:06.840 --> 29:07.100 Thanks for watching! 29:07.500 --> 29:13.180 how he entered into the house of God and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, 29:13.180 --> 29:17.020 neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests. 29:18.860 --> 29:23.420 Or have you not read the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple 29:23.420 --> 29:31.180 profane the Sabbath and are blameless? But I say unto you that in this place is one greater than the temple. 29:31.700 --> 29:36.020 But if you had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. 29:36.660 --> 29:40.340 You would not have condemned the guiltless for the Son of God. 29:40.340 --> 29:42.660 The Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath day. 29:43.700 --> 29:47.700 So what's, what's the problem here? What's the problem with the attitude of these guys? 29:47.700 --> 29:52.500 I mean, when David went to the actual priest, he did, he just said, Hey, 29:52.500 --> 29:57.540 just have you been with any women lately? No. Okay. Well, here you go. They just handed it right over. 29:58.500 --> 30:01.700 of them like seem like he was a good guy, you know, seemed like he was a good priest. 30:02.940 --> 30:05.340 He was afraid of David, but you know, David was a warrior. 30:05.700 --> 30:07.540 David killed a 10 foot tall giant. 30:07.540 --> 30:10.260 So, I mean, yeah, I might be a little afraid, too, if he's like, 30:10.460 --> 30:12.980 hey, what are you doing here, man? 30:12.980 --> 30:15.780 What's going on here? You know. 30:16.740 --> 30:20.900 But these Pharisees, what's their attitude? 30:21.300 --> 30:25.980 His disciples are hungry and they had a couple pieces of barley. 30:25.980 --> 30:28.060 They picked them off of a stamp or something. 30:28.060 --> 30:33.140 It's like, oh, that's not lawful for you to do that. 30:33.140 --> 30:36.060 And then he's just like, Jesus just schools them. 30:36.060 --> 30:41.820 Because really, why did David ask for the loaves of bread? 30:41.820 --> 30:44.100 Why did he ask for them? 30:44.100 --> 30:45.900 Because he didn't have any food. 30:46.600 --> 30:48.440 He needed to eat. 30:48.440 --> 30:49.440 The guys were hungry. 30:49.440 --> 30:51.440 And it's not like they had McDonald's on every corner 30:51.440 --> 30:52.480 back then. 30:52.480 --> 30:55.560 It's not like they could just go. 30:55.560 --> 30:58.840 Food was not as easy of a source to come by 30:58.840 --> 31:01.200 as it is for us today. 31:01.200 --> 31:06.280 So it's a live or die situation, more than likely. 31:06.280 --> 31:08.440 You don't get something to eat, and you're 31:08.440 --> 31:10.760 burning off all those calories running on the run. 31:10.760 --> 31:12.960 I mean, this is him being on the run. 31:13.300 --> 31:17.300 He's on the run, he needs some food, and he needs to go. 31:18.660 --> 31:28.580 And so Abimelek did that which is right because preserving life is more important than having 31:28.580 --> 31:34.340 some bread laying upon a table. I mean, and that's obviously God agrees with that because 31:34.340 --> 31:39.700 in the New Testament it gives us that commentary. I mean Abimelek just gave it over. 31:40.300 --> 31:47.260 and Jesus agreed with him. So preserving life is more important than keeping that commandment, 31:47.260 --> 31:53.420 isn't it? So I mean that's just another way to show you how that when they're not telling the 31:53.420 --> 31:59.020 full truth about these situations that to preserve life they're not keeping that commandment because 32:00.540 --> 32:06.140 they would use it to destroy them. Just like the Baptist, the truth-telling Baptist. 32:06.900 --> 32:14.580 or whatever back in Kentucky. I mean a church, a Baptist church split over that because they thought 32:14.580 --> 32:20.180 that so one son escaped and the dad didn't want to say where the son was escaped to. He was hiding 32:20.180 --> 32:24.900 and he didn't tell the Indians where they were hiding and so their church split because they, 32:24.900 --> 32:30.660 he lied and didn't tell them where the son was hiding and it's like no you should have told them 32:30.660 --> 32:33.700 you lied so that's you're broke one of God's commandments you should have just told them the 32:33.700 --> 32:34.900 truth. It's like... 32:34.900 --> 32:37.980 What are you stupid or something? 32:37.980 --> 32:39.420 I would have split from that church too. 32:39.420 --> 32:40.980 I'd have been like, you're retarded. 32:40.980 --> 32:42.700 You are retards. 32:42.700 --> 32:44.740 Literal retards. 32:44.740 --> 32:46.660 That's what I would have said. 32:46.660 --> 32:48.900 And I would have let my son live. 32:48.900 --> 32:50.740 And you know what? 32:50.740 --> 32:53.060 Jesus agrees. 32:53.060 --> 32:55.060 Give him the loaves of bread. 32:55.060 --> 32:56.900 You know, I mean, nope, sorry. 32:56.900 --> 32:59.420 This is howl of bread. 32:59.420 --> 33:00.460 It's got to stay here. 33:01.900 --> 33:03.900 They can bake more bread, can't they? 33:03.900 --> 33:05.900 Couldn't he just bake? I mean, I'm sure he went. 33:05.900 --> 33:07.900 They were like, fire up the ovens, let's make some more. 33:07.900 --> 33:09.900 I mean, because what's more important? 33:09.900 --> 33:11.900 Preserving David's life 33:11.900 --> 33:13.900 or having that bread laying out there. 33:13.900 --> 33:15.900 Can they make more bread? Yes, they can. 33:15.900 --> 33:17.900 They probably got the ingredients right in the back. 33:17.900 --> 33:22.900 So, I mean, it's clear who Jesus chooses here. 33:22.900 --> 33:24.900 And then he's schooling the Pharisees 33:24.900 --> 33:26.700 that have this mentality. 33:26.800 --> 33:29.800 They're like, it's not lawful for you to eat food. 33:29.800 --> 33:31.800 I mean, that's basically what they're saying. 33:31.800 --> 33:35.800 Where does the Bible say it's unlawful for them to eat food? 33:35.800 --> 33:38.800 I mean, I guess they're not supposed to gather on the Sabbath day. 33:38.800 --> 33:39.800 Okay. 33:39.800 --> 33:44.800 But then Jesus says, for the Son of Man is even Lord of the Sabbath day. 33:44.800 --> 33:46.800 The Sabbath was made for man. 33:46.800 --> 33:48.600 That's what He said too. 33:49.000 --> 33:56.760 And Jesus was the fulfillment of the Sabbath by dying because the picture is that He did all the 33:56.760 --> 34:01.560 work for us so that we can rest in Him and we don't have to do any works for our salvation. 34:01.560 --> 34:12.520 He did all the works for us. And sustaining life trumps being allowed to eat or not eat some bread. 34:12.520 --> 34:16.800 and saving someone's life to preserve your own or 34:17.600 --> 34:27.360 to preserve somebody else's life is a greater commandment. Preserving life trumps being honest 34:28.000 --> 34:34.080 if that honesty is going to get people killed. If you're some sort of an undercover cop, and 34:34.080 --> 34:37.680 look I'm not saying everybody needs to be an undercover cop, okay? I'm just saying if you're 34:37.680 --> 34:42.560 an undercover cop, or just say you're in the military, you get captured behind enemy lines. 34:43.600 --> 34:47.760 And they're like, give us the positions of all these places. 34:47.760 --> 34:51.480 Or we need to know if there's people there, there, there, 34:51.480 --> 34:54.480 and you don't tell them the truth. 34:54.480 --> 34:55.520 Well, you're a Christian. 34:55.520 --> 34:56.760 You should tell them the truth. 34:56.760 --> 34:58.480 No, you're going to get all these people killed. 34:58.480 --> 34:59.920 What are you talking about? 34:59.920 --> 35:02.560 Like, they're just situations where you just wouldn't tell. 35:02.560 --> 35:05.120 Just like Rahab the harlot. 35:05.120 --> 35:09.800 Just like the midwives. 35:10.600 --> 35:16.440 It's like God built them houses for that. So, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what to tell 35:16.440 --> 35:20.920 you if you have a different opinion about that, but I just like, it just doesn't make sense. I mean, 35:22.280 --> 35:28.200 that, that, uh, God never chastises anybody for it in the Bible ever. So. 35:28.300 --> 35:31.100 I don't know how you can make the case otherwise. 35:31.100 --> 35:37.160 So Jesus makes it crystal clear about saving someone's life. 35:37.160 --> 35:41.540 I mean people go, how dare you heal that man on the Sabbath day? 35:41.540 --> 35:48.940 The guy has no hand, he was born without a hand, he had like a withered hand. 35:48.940 --> 35:50.180 He looks on him with anger. 35:51.300 --> 35:56.740 And I could just feel, I could, like when I read that, I'm like, man, that would make me so angry too. 35:57.740 --> 36:00.740 It's just like, don't make that hand, that hand hole. 36:00.740 --> 36:02.380 How dare you do that on the Sabbath day? 36:02.380 --> 36:04.380 Like they're so caught up in the day. 36:04.940 --> 36:05.820 So weird. 36:06.140 --> 36:10.980 It's just like, they really do swallow the camel. 36:11.340 --> 36:16.100 And they're just, that type of stuff is crazy. 36:17.000 --> 36:21.840 So, but over and over in David's reign, you see him changing things, adding things to 36:21.840 --> 36:24.280 the Lord's service. 36:24.280 --> 36:30.360 He creates like a whole, before he dies, he organizes all the Levites. 36:30.360 --> 36:36.440 He changes their times of service, how long they're supposed to serve. 36:36.440 --> 36:41.480 He divides all the, he makes a whole music division. 36:41.480 --> 36:42.480 He makes. 36:42.800 --> 36:45.100 when you're supposed to serve at certain times, 36:45.100 --> 36:46.500 he makes a whole schedule. 36:46.500 --> 36:50.300 He like makes a super organized schedule 36:50.300 --> 36:52.220 for all the Levites, when they're supposed to go, 36:52.220 --> 36:53.300 what months they're supposed to go, 36:53.300 --> 36:54.900 makes a cycle for it. 36:54.900 --> 36:56.460 And he does that when he's old. 36:57.540 --> 36:59.060 He does that right before he dies. 36:59.060 --> 37:01.300 Because he was like, with Abishag, 37:01.300 --> 37:03.540 like barely getting able to get heat. 37:03.540 --> 37:05.380 And then like, it's like the Lord revived him 37:05.380 --> 37:06.300 long enough to... 37:06.400 --> 37:10.560 put all that stuff together and fix everything. 37:10.560 --> 37:13.520 But yeah, I mean, David was, 37:13.520 --> 37:17.020 he's dancing with the e-faw on and he's, 37:17.020 --> 37:21.180 he got in trouble for bringing the cart in the wrong way, 37:21.180 --> 37:25.680 but that was something that was, that's different. 37:25.680 --> 37:28.120 He should have never let them bring that in 37:28.120 --> 37:30.120 on a cart like that. 37:30.120 --> 37:30.700 So. 37:30.900 --> 37:38.580 that is different. It's like, well, he didn't know. Well, that's different. You know, you should 37:38.580 --> 37:43.700 have known better than to do that. So it's not like David went into the showbread and was like, 37:43.700 --> 37:50.020 yeah, well, thanks for the bread. And just like, he's just like, and touched the, I'm sure that 37:50.020 --> 37:55.460 the priest handed it to him, you know, with tongs or something. I'm sure that he didn't go into the 37:55.460 --> 37:58.580 the holiest place and just grab the bread for himself. 37:59.100 --> 38:02.940 So, I'm sure there was rules for that. 38:02.940 --> 38:06.380 So number two tonight, protect your data. 38:06.380 --> 38:07.380 Protect your data. 38:07.380 --> 38:08.660 What do you mean by that? 38:08.660 --> 38:14.740 Well, look at verse 7, it says, Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that 38:14.740 --> 38:20.580 day, detained before the Lord, and his name was Doag, an Edomite, the chiefest of the 38:20.580 --> 38:22.820 herdsmen that belonged to Saul. 38:22.820 --> 38:25.260 And really this is just all it says in this chapter about him. 38:26.100 --> 38:36.100 But spoiler alert in this cameo appearance is just like kind of setting us up for when all the priests do get killed. 38:36.100 --> 38:41.340 So and he was there that day and so he sees everything that happens. 38:41.340 --> 38:43.540 He hears everything that David says. 38:43.540 --> 38:48.500 And when I say protect your data, what I mean by that is. 38:48.500 --> 38:51.420 There's probably some things that you shouldn't say in front of certain people. 38:52.200 --> 38:56.760 You know, they have all these HIPAA rules and HIPAA violations and all this other stuff 38:57.720 --> 39:03.720 today and you should be very careful just who you give your information to. I mean, 39:03.720 --> 39:09.800 people are trying to scam me 24-7 now. I mean, I get texts from people, I have no idea what is this? 39:10.600 --> 39:16.200 How did they get my number? And who are you? Like, sometimes people call me, 39:16.760 --> 39:18.280 I'm like, hello, and it just hangs up. 39:19.300 --> 39:21.300 You guys get those calls too? 39:21.300 --> 39:22.700 It's like, are they trying to get my voice 39:22.700 --> 39:25.860 so they can use it to crack some kind of security code 39:25.860 --> 39:27.860 or something, like probably? 39:27.860 --> 39:30.660 And it's like, man, where are these people? 39:30.660 --> 39:32.500 Can't you just go work a real job? 39:32.500 --> 39:35.780 Or do you just have to constantly try to scan people 39:35.780 --> 39:36.620 out of money? 39:36.620 --> 39:38.540 But that's kind of what's going on in our world. 39:38.540 --> 39:41.700 So that's why they say, protect your data. 39:41.700 --> 39:44.000 Hey, if this will never... 39:44.200 --> 39:47.080 ask you for this certain password. 39:47.080 --> 39:48.280 We'll never ask you for this." 39:48.280 --> 39:49.980 And they get older people because they're like, 39:49.980 --> 39:50.820 oh really? 39:51.400 --> 39:55.920 Just got to transfer that money into your bank account, and you'll give me $20,000 39:57.020 --> 40:01.260 They play on people's like wanting to get rich quick type stuff 40:01.820 --> 40:04.880 You know and sand Jeep gives you a call, and he's like 40:08.580 --> 40:14.380 Don't don't cash in the whatever you know that they get all that after 40:16.000 --> 40:23.520 Yeah, do not redeem madam they get those they can get will buy the Google cards or whatever then like give them to them or whatever 40:23.520 --> 40:24.920 I know it's 40:24.920 --> 40:26.920 Those videos are funny actually 40:26.920 --> 40:31.160 When they when they scan the scammer or whatever and they pretend like they're old ladies or whatever 40:31.960 --> 40:35.620 They're pretty funny, but I like when they get paid back for what they do 40:36.180 --> 40:38.180 But I mean in all seriousness though 40:38.960 --> 40:42.180 There's just certain things that we should have discretion on our private information 40:43.100 --> 40:47.740 And you shouldn't tell everybody everything about you, especially when you first meet somebody. 40:48.100 --> 40:53.300 And you know in church you think that you should be able to just trust everybody, but that's not really the case 40:53.300 --> 40:56.260 I'm sure after being here all these years you guys realize that 40:56.860 --> 41:01.600 So I just want to give a couple verses on that real quick and Proverbs chapter 17 41:01.600 --> 41:06.620 It says he that covereth the transgressions seeketh love but he that repeateth the matter 41:07.400 --> 41:10.300 separated very friends, so 41:11.220 --> 41:12.420 sometimes 41:12.420 --> 41:14.420 It's best to just keep things to yourself 41:15.000 --> 41:20.120 and not repeat things to other people. Obviously, other people's private information 41:20.120 --> 41:24.520 you shouldn't be repeating. Proverbs 11.13 says, a tale bearer reveals secrets, 41:24.520 --> 41:30.120 but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter. You're like, oh, concealing, that sounds bad. 41:30.920 --> 41:35.480 No, concealing is good sometimes because not everything is everybody's business. 41:35.480 --> 41:39.880 And I think that Christians just, they want to be honest. And I think people prey on that. 41:40.700 --> 41:43.980 Like someone will ask you a question, it's like, well, you don't want to lie. 41:43.980 --> 41:48.560 You don't want to be dishonest, but it's not really their business. 41:48.560 --> 41:52.800 So you kind of get caught in these like, oh, well, I don't really want to necessarily 41:52.800 --> 41:54.340 tell this person that's not their business. 41:54.340 --> 41:55.860 Why are they asking me this? 41:55.860 --> 41:56.860 Exactly. 41:56.860 --> 41:57.860 Why are they asking you that? 41:57.860 --> 42:00.420 You know, some people are just nosy. 42:00.420 --> 42:04.980 But you know, there's ways that you can answer questions without having to, you know, to 42:04.980 --> 42:06.080 do that or whatever. 42:06.080 --> 42:07.840 So but you know. 42:08.200 --> 42:14.740 Especially if you're asking if someone's asking about somebody else, you know, that's usually the how gossip starts. That's how 42:15.800 --> 42:21.080 People start tailbearing is that they ask about something and it might seem like they have a good intention 42:21.080 --> 42:23.160 But they're not necessarily having a good intention 42:23.840 --> 42:27.860 Proverbs 20 verse 19 says he that goeth about as a tail bearer reveal his secrets 42:29.000 --> 42:34.880 Therefore metal not with him that flattereth with his lips. That's how they get their your guard down as they tell you how great 42:34.880 --> 42:35.600 you are 42:35.700 --> 42:40.340 and how you're their best friend and nobody's ever been my friend this fast and 42:40.340 --> 42:44.220 and they tell you're the prettiest person they've ever seen and you're the most 42:44.220 --> 42:47.380 handsome guy or whatever the guys don't tell each other that though because then 42:47.380 --> 42:51.660 we'd be like you're gay but women tell each other they're pretty and they like 42:51.660 --> 42:56.180 their clothes and they flatter you you know the people will flatter you and 42:56.180 --> 43:00.380 then next thing you know they're telling you something and then they want to see 43:00.380 --> 43:02.100 how you'll respond to that 43:02.100 --> 43:06.100 And that's the way to get your guard down so that they can tail bear and reveal secrets. 43:06.100 --> 43:11.620 And then once they got you tail bearing back, then they can say all the things that they want to say 43:11.620 --> 43:15.780 and you can't say anything because they got you trapped. Proverbs 25 verse 9 says, 43:15.780 --> 43:20.260 Debate thy cause with thy neighbor or himself, and discover not a secret to another. 43:20.260 --> 43:26.020 Lest he that heareth put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away. 43:26.800 --> 43:32.880 So, we don't want to just go and tell secrets about our neighbors to other people. 43:32.880 --> 43:34.620 And Proverbs 2 verse 11 says, 43:34.620 --> 43:39.920 discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee. 43:39.920 --> 43:40.920 And what is discretion? 43:40.920 --> 43:46.260 Well, it's the ability to make responsible, wise, and thoughtful decisions, particularly 43:46.260 --> 43:52.480 in knowing what to say, what not to say, and how to act in a given situation. 43:53.100 --> 43:54.100 I'm going to repeat that again. 43:54.100 --> 44:00.660 Discretion is the ability to make responsible, wise, and thoughtful decisions, particularly 44:00.660 --> 44:06.500 in knowing what to say, what not to say, and how to act in given situation. 44:06.500 --> 44:07.100 So 44:07.700 --> 44:09.700 You know, we just, that's what discretion is, 44:09.700 --> 44:11.700 and we need to make sure that we're making, 44:11.700 --> 44:16.700 we have, we find the ability to make responsible decisions. 44:16.700 --> 44:18.700 And there's some things you should repeat, 44:18.700 --> 44:20.700 and some things you shouldn't repeat. 44:20.700 --> 44:26.700 And, you know, obviously telling too much about yourself 44:26.700 --> 44:30.700 can lead down a trail that you don't want on the internet later. 44:30.700 --> 44:32.200 You know? 44:32.400 --> 44:35.000 You're telling too much stuff about yourself. 44:35.000 --> 44:36.880 Next thing you know, well, I went to that church 44:36.880 --> 44:39.440 and so-and-so told me this. 44:39.440 --> 44:41.640 And then they're just putting it on blast 44:41.640 --> 44:43.240 in front of God and everybody. 44:43.240 --> 44:46.480 Because you might have a spirit that's 44:46.480 --> 44:48.520 just like a friendly spirit. 44:48.520 --> 44:50.160 You're nice. 44:50.160 --> 44:50.960 You're a good friend. 44:50.960 --> 44:53.440 But that person's a scumbag. 44:53.440 --> 44:54.600 And then we take something. 44:54.800 --> 44:57.760 that they told you in a personal conversation, 44:57.760 --> 44:59.360 or you told them in a personal conversation, 44:59.360 --> 45:00.960 and they would just drag you through the mud. 45:00.960 --> 45:03.200 And then they always make up lies along with it, 45:03.200 --> 45:04.880 so that it makes it sound even more juicy. 45:05.600 --> 45:08.320 It's not just all the truth, 45:08.320 --> 45:10.080 it's always got to have lies mixed in with it, 45:10.080 --> 45:11.920 because those are the best lies. 45:11.920 --> 45:13.760 The ones that have a little bit of truth in it, 45:14.320 --> 45:16.720 and then they just add a little spice. 45:17.520 --> 45:20.000 Oh yeah, they were beating their kids all through that, 45:20.000 --> 45:21.040 all through the church and... 45:21.600 --> 45:23.480 You know, everybody, I don't know. 45:23.480 --> 45:26.440 People just say all kinds of crazy stuff. 45:26.440 --> 45:29.920 And then people on the internet, yep, it did happen. 45:29.920 --> 45:30.880 I bet it did. 45:30.880 --> 45:33.120 It's like they just believe everything. 45:33.120 --> 45:35.940 The simple believe everything, you know. 45:35.940 --> 45:37.360 Because they want to. 45:37.360 --> 45:39.400 They just want, they want everything 45:39.400 --> 45:41.160 that's bad about us to be true. 45:41.160 --> 45:45.280 So it's never, well, you know, how do you, you know, 45:45.280 --> 45:46.240 did anybody else see that? 45:46.240 --> 45:49.000 Or I don't know if that's really true or not, you know. 45:49.300 --> 45:53.380 It's funny how the two or three witnesses work unless it's they're talking crap about us. 45:54.500 --> 45:58.820 Isn't that funny how that works? It's like oh I believe it yeah oh yeah I'm sure it does happen. 45:59.380 --> 46:02.900 It's like there's no there's no two or three witnesses needed when it's talking crap 46:03.620 --> 46:12.740 about uh anybody any of us so funny how that works but uh anyway Proverbs 11 22 says as a 46:12.740 --> 46:16.500 jewel of gold and a swine snout, so is a fair woman. 46:17.100 --> 46:23.340 which is without discretion. So, you know, jewelry is not going to make a pig look any better. 46:25.660 --> 46:29.980 There's still a pig, all right? Proverbs 10, 19, and the multitude of words, 46:30.620 --> 46:34.860 where one wanteth not sin, but he that refraineth his lips is wise. 46:35.580 --> 46:39.500 Sometimes the best thing that you could do so people aren't data mining you, 46:40.060 --> 46:42.860 is just don't open your mouth, you know? 46:43.900 --> 46:50.060 So you want to protect your data, you know, in real life, on your computer, on your phone, 46:50.060 --> 46:52.620 your passwords, make sure your password's good. 46:52.620 --> 46:54.940 Don't just put 12341234. 46:54.940 --> 46:58.860 Those are the ones they first try, the hackers. 46:58.860 --> 47:05.580 Don't make it easy for them, but protect your data in your personal life too. 47:05.580 --> 47:10.060 I'm not saying like don't tell it, you know, like just be afraid of everybody and everything, 47:10.060 --> 47:10.400 . 47:11.000 --> 47:12.600 You know, there's just certain things. 47:12.600 --> 47:17.760 I always tell people, if you have some big sin in your past, don't tell every first-time 47:17.760 --> 47:22.760 friend your life story and every bad thing you've ever done. 47:22.760 --> 47:26.500 And there's some sins that you might have committed that someone can never get past. 47:26.500 --> 47:30.160 Even though we're supposed to forgive everybody, even though we're supposed to be forgiving 47:30.160 --> 47:33.920 like Christ forgave us, not everybody can get past those things. 47:33.920 --> 47:37.520 Not everybody would maybe just, maybe they just wouldn't want to hang around you because 47:37.520 --> 47:38.020 of that. 47:38.600 --> 47:41.660 Because people just they're sinful too 47:42.320 --> 47:46.000 You know and that's not is it right not saying it's right 47:46.000 --> 47:50.920 But that's why I'm saying don't share things like that because you don't want necessarily someone 47:51.400 --> 47:55.740 To think about you in that way. You know some things should just be between you and God or 47:56.400 --> 48:00.080 You and your spouse and God or whatever it is 48:00.680 --> 48:02.600 you know, but 48:02.600 --> 48:05.380 You know we don't have to confess your sins before a priest 48:05.900 --> 48:09.740 And you definitely don't have to confess your sins between you and other Christians. 48:09.740 --> 48:12.860 That's not what that verse is saying. 48:12.860 --> 48:14.340 Confess your faults? 48:14.340 --> 48:15.960 That's not sins. 48:15.960 --> 48:22.740 Your faults are just maybe character flaws that you have or problems that you might have. 48:22.740 --> 48:26.580 But, because character flaws could be bad manners. 48:26.580 --> 48:28.340 Is it a sin to have bad manners? 48:29.000 --> 48:35.580 You know I just have this bad problem where I smack with my mouth open while I'm eating is that a sin 48:38.900 --> 48:40.020 Is it annoying? 48:42.800 --> 48:47.600 Or I talk with my mouth, I chew and I talk at the same time and food just flies out of 48:47.600 --> 48:50.600 my mouth while I'm eating. 48:50.600 --> 48:53.880 I mean, is it sinful? 48:53.880 --> 48:56.400 I mean is it? 48:56.400 --> 48:58.040 No. 48:58.040 --> 49:00.120 But is it a fault? 49:00.120 --> 49:01.120 Yeah. 49:01.120 --> 49:05.280 You're offending people, alright, because it's gross. 49:05.280 --> 49:05.560 So. 49:06.300 --> 49:09.340 I mean, so there's things that are false in our life. 49:09.340 --> 49:12.900 Maybe you're having a hard time being on time for work. 49:12.900 --> 49:16.540 I mean, that might be borderline sin, but I mean, I don't know. 49:16.540 --> 49:18.380 I can't think of anything else off the top of my head right now, 49:18.380 --> 49:21.380 but I'm just saying that there's things in our lives that are false. 49:21.380 --> 49:23.140 It's OK to confess those things to people. 49:23.140 --> 49:24.340 Have someone help pray for you. 49:24.340 --> 49:27.660 It's OK to say that you're struggling with certain sins. 49:27.660 --> 49:31.260 But if it's like, you know, I'm just struggling about all these adulteries 49:31.260 --> 49:32.900 that I'm committing, like. 49:33.000 --> 49:38.460 I would say that you should probably seek different counsel on that instead of like going to all the people in the church about that 49:38.960 --> 49:41.060 Because you still want to be able to save face 49:41.520 --> 49:46.980 You know if everything gets gets better and look I'm not that's not happening here that I know of 49:47.120 --> 49:52.780 I'm just saying that you know you still if you're still gonna work that marriage out at some point 49:52.780 --> 49:55.360 You don't want to just go around telling everybody all of your problems 49:56.160 --> 50:00.600 because you want to be able to show your face here and not be embarrassed and 50:01.000 --> 50:05.560 things like that. So, and if the Bible says you're supposed to stay married till death do us part, 50:06.680 --> 50:11.880 then you need to work it out. And sometimes people have a tendency, especially young couples, to 50:12.840 --> 50:18.760 just get everybody involved in your fights, and everybody knows, and all of Facebook knows, 50:19.960 --> 50:26.600 and Mark Zuckerberg knows, he wants to know your location. I don't know, it's just... 50:28.000 --> 50:30.400 We've got to be careful with our data, okay? 50:30.400 --> 50:33.000 And David should have been careful with his data 50:33.000 --> 50:35.100 when it came to Doag. 50:35.100 --> 50:36.600 He probably should have grabbed the Bimalak 50:36.600 --> 50:38.100 and took him to another room 50:38.100 --> 50:40.200 and just said, hey man, this is what's going on. 50:40.200 --> 50:42.700 But Doag the Edomite was just kind of hanging around 50:42.700 --> 50:45.100 and it kind of explains a little bit about him. 50:45.100 --> 50:47.800 He's the chiefest of all the herdmen of Saul. 50:47.800 --> 50:50.100 But what we know about Doag is that he's ambitious 50:50.100 --> 50:52.800 because what he does later on proves that he is 50:52.800 --> 50:55.300 because he's willing to do anything to be promoted. 50:55.500 --> 51:00.500 It's not good enough to be the chief cowboy of Saul. 51:00.500 --> 51:01.500 He wants more. 51:01.500 --> 51:04.500 And so when Saul tells him to just kill all the priests, he's just like, 51:04.500 --> 51:10.500 shh, okay, you know, the other people won't do it. 51:10.500 --> 51:13.500 He tries to get other people to do it and they're like, no. 51:13.500 --> 51:17.500 So he's like, doe egg, shh, shh, shh, shh, and then doe egg's like, all right. 51:17.500 --> 51:18.200 He just kills them. 51:18.800 --> 51:25.800 And so David said the wrong things in front of the wrong person and then it ended up costing a bunch of people their lives. 51:25.800 --> 51:34.800 Now, I mean it's not David's fault that Doak did that, you know, but sometimes saying things in front of the wrong person can come back to haunt you is all I'm saying. 51:34.800 --> 51:43.800 Alright, so it says, and David said unto Ahimelech, and is there not here unto thine hand, spear or sword? 51:44.500 --> 51:49.060 I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me because the king's business required haste." 51:49.060 --> 51:52.900 So he's asking him for weapons now. You got a gun laying around here somewhere that I can borrow? 51:54.340 --> 51:57.140 I mean you got some kind of way I can defend myself? 51:57.140 --> 52:00.420 And the priest said, the sword of Goliath the Philistine whom thou slewest in the valley of 52:00.420 --> 52:07.220 Elah, behold it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If that will take it, take it, 52:07.220 --> 52:09.460 for there is none other save that here. 52:10.100 --> 52:12.660 And David said, there's none like that. 52:12.660 --> 52:14.060 Give it to me. 52:14.060 --> 52:15.980 And he knows because he's had it in his hand before 52:15.980 --> 52:18.620 and he's used it to chop a big giant's head off with it. 52:18.620 --> 52:22.540 So, but that's interesting too. 52:22.540 --> 52:24.340 And I'm not gonna go for a long time on this, 52:24.340 --> 52:28.380 but I kind of feel like that that verse is, 52:28.380 --> 52:29.220 I've always thought like, 52:29.220 --> 52:31.300 what is that symbolically talking about? 52:31.300 --> 52:34.180 But the world system, 52:34.180 --> 52:37.180 that big statue that Nebuchadnezzar had to build. 52:37.400 --> 52:41.800 or he built and then he had that dream or he's the head of gold and so on and so forth. 52:42.360 --> 52:50.280 But it says he saw Daniel saw this stone come out of the mountains and hit the stone on the feet 52:50.280 --> 52:57.000 and destroyed that and destroyed that statue right. So Jesus when he comes back and I'm covering 52:57.000 --> 53:03.720 this in Revelation when he comes back on the horse what does he use to destroy that whole army? 53:04.300 --> 53:08.300 in the Valley of Megiddo, what does he use again? 53:08.300 --> 53:11.300 The sword of his mouth, right? 53:11.300 --> 53:15.300 So, and if David is representative of the Messiah, 53:15.300 --> 53:17.300 then he's like, give me that sword, because there's none like it. 53:17.300 --> 53:20.300 Well, there's nothing like the sword of the Lord. 53:20.300 --> 53:23.300 There's nothing like the sword of the Ma... you know, 53:23.300 --> 53:25.300 the sword of the Spirit. 53:25.300 --> 53:29.300 I feel like it's kind of representative of the sword of the Spirit. 53:29.800 --> 53:34.000 And that's why he says, like, there's none like that one. 53:34.000 --> 53:35.500 And give it to me. 53:35.500 --> 53:38.100 So I thought that was kind of interesting, 53:38.100 --> 53:39.600 little parallel there. 53:39.600 --> 53:40.600 And he... 53:41.200 --> 53:44.960 wraps it, so it's wrapped up and it was just there to take. 53:44.960 --> 53:48.640 And you know, I can't help but think that he's like, oh yeah, I remember 53:48.640 --> 53:52.080 when God was with me before when I had a giant to fight. 53:52.080 --> 53:56.560 Now he's got a giant of Saul's whole army going to be coming after him. 53:56.560 --> 53:59.600 And it's like kind of like a little reminder. Remember when I... 54:00.200 --> 54:04.800 when I helped you kill Goliath, here's his sword. 54:04.800 --> 54:08.280 So maybe a little, maybe give him a little bit of hope there. 54:08.280 --> 54:09.760 I'd like to think. 54:09.760 --> 54:12.360 And verse 10, and David arose and fled that day 54:12.360 --> 54:16.820 for fear of Saul and went to Achish the king of Gath. 54:16.820 --> 54:18.480 So these are the Philistines. 54:18.480 --> 54:19.400 He went to the Philistines. 54:19.400 --> 54:21.440 I don't know why we think to do that, but, 54:21.440 --> 54:23.840 and the servants of Achish said unto him, 54:23.840 --> 54:26.180 is not this David the king of the land? 54:26.600 --> 54:29.400 Did not they sing one to another of him and dance his saying, 54:29.400 --> 54:32.600 Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands? 54:32.600 --> 54:37.080 And David laid up these words in his heart and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 54:37.720 --> 54:42.440 And he changed his behavior before them and feigned himself mad in their hands 54:42.440 --> 54:47.960 and scrabbled on the doors of the gate and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. 54:48.520 --> 54:53.800 So what's he act like? He acts like he's crazy because he's like, oh man, they're probably going 54:53.800 --> 54:54.600 gonna kill me. 54:55.100 --> 55:01.900 I don't know what possessed him to go to the Philistines when he killed Goliath, but maybe 55:01.900 --> 55:03.160 he just didn't have any... 55:03.160 --> 55:06.020 Maybe that's the direction he was going and he just... 55:06.020 --> 55:09.100 That's the only place that had civilization, I don't know. 55:09.100 --> 55:13.800 But whatever it was, he realized pretty quickly it was a mistake because then they're talking 55:13.800 --> 55:16.500 about how he slayed his 10,000s and it's like, that's me. 55:17.200 --> 55:23.720 Hey, glad to see me. You know, I killed 10,000s of y'all. Oh, remember when I killed Goliath? Oh, yeah 55:23.720 --> 55:30.760 I love the name of that. No, they're not happy with that. And so then David just starts acting crazy 55:30.760 --> 55:35.280 So here again, what does David do? He acts crazy. Is David crazy? 55:35.800 --> 55:40.280 No, but does he act crazy so he can get out of getting killed? Yes. So is he lying? 55:41.280 --> 55:43.840 He's lying again. He's doing it again 55:44.500 --> 55:57.560 And so but if you were about to die that's a pretty good thing to think about I mean who would ever think of that like you know you're walking down the street in Chicago you're going down a dark alley and all of a sudden these guys are about to tech and then you start going 55:59.560 --> 56:01.000 You know and you start acting dumb 56:01.200 --> 56:03.200 They might not attack you. 56:03.200 --> 56:09.200 I don't know. You just start acting crazy and you fall on the ground and fake a seizure or something like that. 56:09.200 --> 56:11.200 Maybe they won't beat you up. 56:11.200 --> 56:15.200 There's some self-defense advice if you're just super overpowered. 56:15.200 --> 56:19.200 Anyway, but it works. 56:19.200 --> 56:23.200 So he's scrabbled at the door of the gate, let the spittle fall down on his beard, 56:23.200 --> 56:27.200 then said, achish, unto his servants, lo, you see... 56:27.400 --> 56:34.440 The man is mad, wherefore then have you brought him to me? Have I need of madmen that you have 56:34.440 --> 56:39.880 brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?" 56:40.440 --> 56:46.920 So, and that's the end of the chapter. It's like, well, David escapes death again. 56:47.800 --> 56:49.640 and he protects people's lives. 56:49.640 --> 56:53.720 And he's, you know, this chapter is pretty much about preserving life. 56:53.720 --> 56:55.640 As you can see, he's preserving his own life. 56:55.640 --> 56:59.080 He's doing, he's pretty much doing whatever it takes to preserve his life. 56:59.640 --> 57:02.200 And he kind of does this in every chapter, it seems like. 57:02.840 --> 57:07.320 And so to sum it up, I would just say that that's what this kind of chapter is teaching us. 57:08.300 --> 57:11.140 that we should do whatever we can to preserve life, 57:11.140 --> 57:12.180 to stay alive. 57:12.180 --> 57:14.820 I'm not saying to do wicked things. 57:14.820 --> 57:16.420 That's not what I'm saying. 57:16.420 --> 57:18.980 But if you might have to act a little crazy sometime 57:18.980 --> 57:20.680 to get out of someone killing you, 57:20.680 --> 57:22.500 well, you know, that's what you do. 57:22.500 --> 57:24.980 To act like you're insane, 57:24.980 --> 57:28.180 it might get you out of getting killed sometime. 57:28.180 --> 57:28.900 Or... 57:28.900 --> 57:31.300 You know, you might need to borrow some bread from somebody. 57:31.300 --> 57:35.940 Don't be so proud that you can't ask your friends for help if you're in a real tough situation. 57:35.940 --> 57:39.300 I mean, none of us are starving to death. We don't live in a country where that's really an option. 57:39.940 --> 57:44.900 But hey, if you need help from somebody, borrow some bread, you know. 57:46.260 --> 57:49.380 And then another situation, he tries to arm himself. 57:50.020 --> 57:53.700 What's he do to protect himself? He gets the sword of Goliath. Arm yourself. 57:54.600 --> 57:57.800 There's a lot of victims in this world because they're, 57:57.800 --> 58:00.040 well, I just don't believe in violence. 58:00.040 --> 58:01.960 Well, you can not believe in it all you want, 58:01.960 --> 58:03.960 but when it happens to you, I bet you believe in it. 58:05.480 --> 58:06.680 And then you're just a victim. 58:07.880 --> 58:11.240 And look, I'm not saying don't learn how to use those things, 58:11.240 --> 58:14.760 but David didn't know how to use that sword very well the first time he ever touched it, 58:14.760 --> 58:16.040 and it was probably way too big for him. 58:16.040 --> 58:16.600 But you know what? 58:17.400 --> 58:18.600 With the power of the Holy Ghost, 58:19.200 --> 58:23.960 And, you know, whatever strength he had, he lopped the head off with it, that was the 58:23.960 --> 58:29.360 biggest head ever, and carried it around with him and invented bowling on the same day. 58:29.360 --> 58:32.200 Anyway, so David, you know, what's he do? 58:32.200 --> 58:33.440 He had to lie to protect himself. 58:33.440 --> 58:36.920 He had to pretend like he's crazy in this chapter to protect himself, and he had to 58:36.920 --> 58:37.920 ask for a weapon. 58:37.920 --> 58:38.920 He had to ask for bread. 58:38.920 --> 58:42.520 I mean, that's like four different things he's done in this chapter alone to preserve 58:42.520 --> 58:43.520 life. 58:43.520 --> 58:45.640 But he also lied to protect Abimelek. 58:46.600 --> 58:50.040 The mistake he made was saying all that stuff in front of Doag the Edomite. 58:50.680 --> 58:55.720 So, which we'll see then, and he regrets it. He's like, dang it, I knew I shouldn't have said 58:55.720 --> 58:59.800 that stuff in front of Doag the Edomite. I just saw him standing there, but we'll get to that later. 58:59.800 --> 59:05.880 I didn't want to spoil that whole chapter, but so, yeah, so he should have taken him aside and told 59:05.880 --> 59:12.360 him those things privately. And just really quickly, I already told you this in the prayer time, but I mean... 59:13.200 --> 59:15.200 Be ready to save somebody's life. 59:15.200 --> 59:18.200 Be ready to step in and protect somebody and help somebody. 59:18.200 --> 59:22.200 I mean, I want to just give some praise to this young man right here 59:22.200 --> 59:25.200 who jumped in and saved this brother's life. 59:25.200 --> 59:27.200 I mean, that is just incredible. 59:27.200 --> 59:30.200 I was so, like, taken aback by the story. 59:30.200 --> 59:32.200 I just had to sit there and think about it. 59:32.200 --> 59:35.200 I was like, man, I was really just blown away by it. 59:35.200 --> 59:36.200 How old are you, Gabe? 59:37.500 --> 59:41.100 You're 14? I thought you were 12. I always think people are one age forever. 59:41.100 --> 59:44.940 I thought he was 12. Someone said, how old is he? I was like 12. 59:44.940 --> 59:51.900 He's 14. And he saved his brother's life by quick thinking and some good training. 59:52.860 --> 59:56.940 You know? And we never know when something crazy is going to happen 59:56.940 --> 01:00:03.260 where we have to step in and make a fast decision. And just standing there and going, that doesn't help. 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:09.040 You know, we have to be ready to make a decision and jump in and save somebody's life if we can, 01:00:09.040 --> 01:00:16.800 you know, and whether that's protecting them being armed, protecting them by giving them their next 01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:24.240 meal if we can, protecting them by, you know, whatever means we have necessary, protecting 01:00:24.240 --> 01:00:26.880 them with first aid and CPR. I mean... 01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:31.400 I went through CPR and first aid classes, I don't know how many times. 01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:34.400 So I do know how to save somebody's life. I'm just a little outside of my training. 01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:37.400 I should probably go. That made me want to go do it again. 01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:42.400 Because I think that we should be up to date on our training when we're doing those types of things. 01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:44.400 Brother Tim, are you CPR first aid, right? 01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:46.400 What? 01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:49.400 You call yourself? No, I was kidding. 01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:52.400 But it is something I thought about. 01:00:52.700 --> 01:00:59.700 You know, and the fact that they had the wherewithal to put their kids through those classes, 01:00:59.700 --> 01:01:01.700 you know, that's an important thing to do. 01:01:01.700 --> 01:01:04.700 Because you never know when you're going to have to save somebody's life. 01:01:04.700 --> 01:01:09.700 And look, foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, and sometimes kids, you know, they hurt themselves. 01:01:09.700 --> 01:01:12.700 They find all kinds of ways to hurt themselves. 01:01:12.700 --> 01:01:16.700 And they're called accidents for a reason, because it happened on accident. 01:01:17.600 --> 01:01:21.440 I got my arm stuck in a tree one time trying to get some birds out of a nest 01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:26.400 and I was in the newspaper for it. I still have the clipping of me looking dumb with my arm stuck 01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:31.520 in a tree. When I was six years old they had to get the jaws of life to get it to get my arm out 01:01:31.520 --> 01:01:36.880 of there. I'm not even kidding. Then the babysitter lied about it and said that I eluded her. 01:01:38.240 --> 01:01:41.600 This baby eluded the babysitter. It's like yeah she told me I could go out and play. 01:01:41.600 --> 01:01:45.200 How's that eluding her? It's like literally right outside the front door. 01:01:45.700 --> 01:01:48.220 But, you know, she didn't want to get in trouble and not get paid or something. 01:01:48.220 --> 01:01:49.220 I don't know. 01:01:49.220 --> 01:01:52.380 I was like, I didn't elude her. 01:01:52.380 --> 01:01:53.820 She is lying. 01:01:53.820 --> 01:01:59.780 So, but I mean, you know, he's, Gabe sprung into action, saved his brother's life, and 01:01:59.780 --> 01:02:02.220 I'm sure he's going to be eternally grateful for that. 01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:06.000 And good job, Brother Gabe. Good job. 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:09.000 So with that, let's close in a word of prayer. 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:12.000 Lord, we thank you so much for this chapter. 01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:14.000 Lord, help us to learn to love life. 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:17.000 Help us to learn to love our life and to never give up. 01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:21.000 And to just cling to life. 01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:24.800 And Lord, sometimes we have to do some extreme things to stay alive. 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:31.560 Sometimes we might have to step in and make some big decisions to save somebody else's life. 01:02:31.560 --> 01:02:36.260 Lord, help us to be ready. Help us to not freeze in the time of need. 01:02:36.260 --> 01:02:42.360 And help us to rise to the occasion when it needs to be risen to. 01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:50.800 And we thank you Lord for the fact that Timothy is alive today and that his brother saved his life. 01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:56.920 We ask that you guide the surgeon's hand as they try to repair him this week, and Lord 01:02:56.920 --> 01:03:02.720 that you would just move in the young man's life and in the doctor's hands that they 01:03:02.720 --> 01:03:08.040 would do everything perfectly fine and he would be able to use that hand the right way. 01:03:08.040 --> 01:03:10.960 And Lord we pray these things in Jesus' name, amen. 01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:26.400 I turned in your hymnals if you would to number 23. 01:03:30.200 --> 01:03:36.040 power in the book 23 in the red or the green 01:06:55.300 --> 01:06:56.500 close this with a prayer please.