WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.680 to mine hand in the cave. And some bade me kill thee, but mine eye spared thee. And I said, 00:07.680 --> 00:12.800 I will not put forth mine hand against my lord, for he is the lord's anointed. 00:13.920 --> 00:18.880 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand, 00:18.880 --> 00:22.480 for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not. 00:23.000 --> 00:28.360 Know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have 00:28.360 --> 00:33.380 not sinned against thee, yet thou huntest my soul to take it. 00:33.380 --> 00:39.180 The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee, but mine hand shall 00:39.180 --> 00:41.720 not be upon thee. 00:41.720 --> 00:47.580 As sayeth the Proverb of the ancients, wickedness proceedeth from the wicked, but mine hand 00:47.580 --> 00:49.160 shall not be upon thee. 00:49.800 --> 00:53.960 After whom is the king of Israel come out? After whom dost thou pursue? 00:54.680 --> 01:02.680 After a dead dog? After a flea? The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, 01:02.680 --> 01:06.680 and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand. 01:07.640 --> 01:14.120 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, 01:14.120 --> 01:17.120 Is this thy voice, my son David? 01:17.400 --> 01:24.280 And Saul lifted up his voice and wept. And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I, 01:24.280 --> 01:30.040 for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. And thou hast 01:30.040 --> 01:36.200 shewed this day that thou hast dealt well with me, for as much as when the Lord had delivered me into 01:36.200 --> 01:43.560 thine hand thou killest me not. For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? 01:44.400 --> 01:49.520 wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day. 01:49.520 --> 01:53.360 And now behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, 01:53.360 --> 01:58.080 and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand. 01:58.080 --> 02:04.320 Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, 02:04.320 --> 02:09.280 and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house. 02:09.280 --> 02:11.280 and David's swear unto Saul. 02:11.400 --> 02:18.840 and Saul went home. But David and his men got them up into the hold. Brother Sean, would you pray for us? 02:31.500 --> 02:34.700 Amen. We're there in 1 Samuel chapter number 24. 02:35.900 --> 02:38.700 Let's look down at our Bibles at verse number one. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.940 Follow the sermon tonight as David spares Saul's life. 02:44.140 --> 02:47.140 Verse number one, the Bible says, and it came to pass when Saul was returned 02:47.140 --> 02:51.700 from following the Philistines, it was told him saying, behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi. 02:52.380 --> 02:56.100 So he had one of his little snitches come and tell where he was out again. 02:56.100 --> 02:57.140 So just like. 02:57.800 --> 03:01.400 Last week he had little snitches doing the same thing. 03:01.400 --> 03:05.800 So little yes men wanting to just exalt themselves. 03:05.800 --> 03:09.900 They probably saw what Doeg did and thought that they would get some accolades also or something. 03:09.900 --> 03:11.300 But verse 2, 03:11.300 --> 03:16.400 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and upon his men, 03:16.400 --> 03:19.200 upon the rocks of the wild goats. 03:19.200 --> 03:24.200 So if you've ever seen or wild goats or seen any kind of... 03:25.500 --> 03:30.940 Discovery Channel or anything about wild goats. They like to live up high. 03:31.380 --> 03:38.020 So Dave and his men are staying in high places trying to avoid being detected and it's a little harder to... 03:38.800 --> 03:43.600 pursue after people when they're up in the crag and up in the place where the wild goats are. 03:43.600 --> 03:48.560 So if you ever get a chance to watch documentaries about them, it's pretty interesting. 03:48.560 --> 03:55.120 So they like to live pretty high up. So they're staying in high places, I think, is kind of a way 03:55.120 --> 03:58.000 of telling us that. So they came to the sheep coats. 03:58.500 --> 04:00.340 By the way, where was a cave? 04:00.340 --> 04:02.940 And Saul went in to cover his feet, 04:02.940 --> 04:06.340 and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. 04:06.340 --> 04:08.300 So they were hiding in that cave, 04:08.300 --> 04:10.340 and guess who comes? 04:10.340 --> 04:11.300 Saul comes. 04:11.300 --> 04:14.580 The guy that, I mean, it seems like it's the perfect setup. 04:14.580 --> 04:18.380 Now David can, you know, just get rid of Saul. 04:18.380 --> 04:21.780 I mean, he's in a vulnerable position, literally. 04:21.780 --> 04:24.220 Because when it says that he went in to cover his feet, 04:24.220 --> 04:25.900 this is a euphemism for him. 04:26.500 --> 04:31.080 Going to the bathroom. I'll just say that or the number two 04:32.660 --> 04:37.500 That's what it's being a euphemism for so I don't want to get more graphic than that because the Bible is not getting more 04:37.500 --> 04:40.240 graphic than that, but that's just what the euphemism is for 04:40.760 --> 04:44.380 Because you know usually you kind of have to anyway 04:45.640 --> 04:47.500 Yeah, so 04:47.900 --> 04:54.900 Yeah, so euphemism is used on purpose in the Bible so that God doesn't have to explain 04:54.900 --> 04:59.620 all the ugly stuff that is entailed with those things. 04:59.620 --> 05:03.780 So obviously it's a natural function of our body that we have to do, but there's lots 05:03.780 --> 05:08.260 of euphemism that the Bible uses and there's probably stuff that I forgot, but I did come 05:08.260 --> 05:12.780 up with a little list of things and some verses that we can go look at. 05:12.780 --> 05:14.620 So euphemism. 05:15.200 --> 05:27.200 If you look it up, euphemism is a mild, indirect, or polite word or phrase used to replace one that is considered harsh, blunt, offensive, or taboo. 05:27.200 --> 05:37.200 Common examples include saying passed away instead of died, let go instead of fired, or powder room instead of toilet. 05:37.200 --> 05:42.200 I don't know if I've ever heard anybody use powder room before, but that's kind of an old-timey saying, I think. 05:42.400 --> 05:43.760 What do they call it in Canada? 05:43.760 --> 05:45.760 They call it the washroom. 05:45.760 --> 05:46.920 I got to use the washroom. 05:46.920 --> 05:48.680 Are you washing your hands or something? 05:48.680 --> 05:50.920 What's going on? 05:50.920 --> 05:53.840 In England, they just call it the toilet. 05:53.840 --> 05:54.960 Got to go to the toilet. 05:54.960 --> 05:57.240 It's like, oh, TMI, bro. 05:57.240 --> 06:01.920 I didn't really need to know all that. 06:01.920 --> 06:04.360 But that's what they call it. 06:04.360 --> 06:06.960 Yeah, who calls it the water closet? 06:06.960 --> 06:07.440 Oh, in America. 06:07.440 --> 06:07.940 Yeah, OK. 06:10.000 --> 06:14.960 The privy chamber is another, that's an older word that people would use. 06:14.960 --> 06:19.600 But so, so yeah, that's what a euphemism is. 06:19.600 --> 06:26.160 And there's and usually it's something that's like maybe just something that's, you know. 06:26.400 --> 06:33.840 that are left to, you know, for people to understand when they get older or it just doesn't necessarily need to be said in detail. 06:33.840 --> 06:41.640 So let's look at a few. Let's look at Genesis 4. Go ahead and keep your finger here. We'll just look at some tonight, some euphemism in the Bible. 06:41.640 --> 06:48.320 And if you have one that you can think of right off the top of your head, go ahead and raise your hand and I'll call upon you. 06:48.320 --> 06:50.520 So Genesis 4. 06:51.100 --> 06:58.460 Verse 1, and Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived in barricain and said, 06:58.460 --> 07:02.460 I have gotten a man from the Lord. So that is a euphemism for 07:02.800 --> 07:06.540 The thing that married couples do that brings forth children. 07:06.540 --> 07:08.820 So it says that he knew his wife. 07:08.820 --> 07:11.720 So that's a euphemism. 07:11.720 --> 07:18.020 It's not telling you everything, but it's just a word that's used to help you understand 07:18.020 --> 07:21.020 what's happened there. 07:21.020 --> 07:22.020 Genesis 16.2. 07:22.020 --> 07:23.500 I'm going to go through these fast. 07:23.500 --> 07:24.900 So Genesis 16, 2. 07:26.900 --> 07:32.660 says in sarai said unto abram behold now the lord hath restrained me from bearing 07:32.660 --> 07:39.220 i go i pray thee go in unto my maid it may be that i may obtain children by her 07:39.940 --> 07:47.380 and abram hearken to the voice of sarai so that go in unto is the same euphemism as i 07:49.000 --> 07:55.880 that they might know them or whatever. So Genesis 39.7 is another euphemism for the same thing. 07:56.600 --> 08:02.760 And it came to pass after these things that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and she 08:02.760 --> 08:09.000 said lie with me. So when Potiphar's wife was trying to get Joseph to commit adultery with her, 08:09.000 --> 08:11.080 she said lie with me. So 08:11.900 --> 08:19.340 another euphemism there. And then Leviticus 18 verse 6 says, 08:20.060 --> 08:27.900 none of you shall approach to any that is near kin to him to uncover their nakedness. I am the Lord. 08:27.900 --> 08:34.780 Now that can be truly meaning that, but it also could be a euphemism for doing more than that, 08:34.780 --> 08:38.860 which the other words would explain what that means. So obviously I want to 08:39.400 --> 08:42.640 Be careful, while I'm using euphemisms, 08:42.640 --> 08:45.260 we do have children in here and stuff like that. 08:45.260 --> 08:47.320 So if you're old enough to know, you're old enough to know. 08:47.320 --> 08:49.720 All right, bodily functions. 08:49.720 --> 08:51.840 So we're in the chapter where it's talking 08:51.840 --> 08:55.960 about the bodily functions, and that's to cover his feet. 08:55.960 --> 08:59.520 And I think that, let's see, there's one in Judges, 08:59.520 --> 09:02.560 where I think it's the big old fat dude. 09:03.400 --> 09:07.400 He's covering his feet in the summer parlor. 09:08.100 --> 09:13.420 So, they thought that he might be covering his feet in the summer parlor and then they 09:13.420 --> 09:17.660 were ashamed because the doors were locked and they finally busted in and they found 09:17.660 --> 09:18.660 out that he was dead. 09:18.660 --> 09:20.860 He wasn't actually doing what they thought he was doing. 09:20.860 --> 09:25.400 But yeah, they say the same euphemism of covering his feet because when you pull your pants 09:25.400 --> 09:28.140 down to go to the bathroom, it covers your feet. 09:28.140 --> 09:30.460 So I was fighting with AI about this last night. 09:30.460 --> 09:31.340 I just want to let you know. 09:33.000 --> 09:36.780 Because they're like well, he's not technically covering his whole feet 09:36.780 --> 09:43.200 I'm just like where why don't why does it have to be covering your whole feet because what I was arguing about is that I 09:43.920 --> 09:50.380 Don't think that men wore tunics that all men wore tunics in the Bible like that's what everybody thinks or whatever 09:50.880 --> 09:52.160 but 09:52.160 --> 09:53.600 Why would you have to? 09:54.100 --> 09:58.340 pull a tunic off of you in order to go to the bathroom. 09:58.340 --> 10:02.500 That's what women would have to pull up and men have to pull down. 10:02.500 --> 10:06.340 So there's got to be some kind of britches on or something in order for 10:06.340 --> 10:10.260 you to cover your feet. That's all. And I was just like trying to push back 10:10.260 --> 10:13.540 with AI and AI just was, they're just as strict as that is that 10:13.540 --> 10:18.500 Muhammad isn't a pedophile. They were not falling, you know, for 10:18.500 --> 10:20.600 anything. But I was just like, well... 10:20.700 --> 10:22.440 You know, I mean, what else would it mean? 10:22.440 --> 10:23.440 They're like, that's a pretty good, 10:23.440 --> 10:25.480 that's actually a pretty good argument that you're using. 10:25.480 --> 10:28.640 But, you know, history tells us the flannel graphs, 10:28.640 --> 10:31.560 you mean the flannel graphs in Sunday school tell us? 10:31.560 --> 10:32.680 I don't know. 10:32.680 --> 10:35.920 So, I mean, I just don't believe that 10:35.920 --> 10:38.240 we wore the same garments that women wore. 10:38.240 --> 10:40.840 I mean, that'd just be weird if everybody's walking around 10:40.840 --> 10:42.300 wearing the same looking garment. 10:42.600 --> 10:48.600 So, I'll get more into that here in a minute, but I think it just proves that Saul was wearing pants. 10:48.600 --> 10:51.600 So, he was wearing a robe too. 10:51.600 --> 10:54.600 There's no doubt he was wearing a robe, but that's not a tunic. 10:54.600 --> 11:00.600 A robe, you know, and robes don't necessarily have to be something that goes all the way down. 11:00.600 --> 11:02.300 And that's the other thing, when I looked up... 11:02.700 --> 11:07.020 It said, a long flowing garment that goes all the way down to your feet. 11:07.020 --> 11:10.060 It's like, is that really what all robes are doing? 11:10.060 --> 11:11.340 Because I don't think so. 11:11.340 --> 11:15.300 I actually have one of those man robes that I brought that one time to show that not all 11:15.300 --> 11:17.220 robes are built like that. 11:17.220 --> 11:19.460 Not a manly robe anyway. 11:19.460 --> 11:22.620 So I mean, women's robes usually will be like that. 11:22.620 --> 11:25.460 But if a man has a robe, they generally don't go past it. 11:25.460 --> 11:28.940 I mean, they're not going to go too much further past the knees. 11:28.940 --> 11:29.780 So, but. 11:30.900 --> 11:36.500 I mean, anyway, let me let me move on here. I'll get to that. I'm getting ahead of myself. So, 11:37.220 --> 11:45.300 you know, I'm still mad at AI right now. So anyway, let's see. So Genesis, so bodily functions. Okay, 11:45.300 --> 11:55.060 Genesis 4626 says, all the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, 11:55.060 --> 11:58.580 besides Jacob's sons, wives, all the souls or... 11:58.800 --> 12:07.840 three score and six. So it's saying that they came out of his line. So yeah, so if you know, 12:07.840 --> 12:17.520 you know. All right, death. Death. So the Bible uses the term sleeping when it talks about 12:17.520 --> 12:22.000 people that are saved that die. It doesn't ever use that for someone that's not saved. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.400 When it's talking about someone that's unsaved, they're dead. 12:25.100 --> 12:27.100 Because when they die, they go to hell. 12:27.100 --> 12:29.100 And death is hell. 12:29.100 --> 12:33.100 So, but truth, I mean, obviously sometimes it does say that they're dead, 12:33.100 --> 12:36.100 like Jesus says plainly about Lazarus, because they're like, 12:36.100 --> 12:39.100 well, surely if he's sleeping, he'd do it well. 12:39.100 --> 12:42.100 You know, he's going to wake up and everybody needs sleep when they're sick. 12:42.100 --> 12:44.100 That's the best thing you can do to get better. 12:44.400 --> 12:51.880 But Jesus plainly tells them that Lazarus is dead so that they got what he was saying. 12:51.880 --> 12:56.720 But generally the Bible, when it's talking about believers, it talks about them sleeping. 12:56.720 --> 12:58.960 Kings 2 10 says. 12:59.700 --> 13:04.900 So David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. 13:04.900 --> 13:08.220 So even in the Old Testament it says slept with his fathers. 13:08.220 --> 13:13.460 So he's buried where his fathers were buried and it's talking about sleep. 13:13.460 --> 13:18.340 And you know, unsaid people will arrest these things and say it's soul sleep like the 13:18.340 --> 13:19.340 Jehovah's Witnesses. 13:19.340 --> 13:23.420 You know, they think that you just go to sleep and you're like in this like... 13:23.900 --> 13:30.580 state of sleeping, but that's not what the I mean how did how did Moses and Elijah come down at the 13:31.340 --> 13:34.700 Transfiguration if they're sleeping I mean, please explain that to me 13:35.400 --> 13:39.680 They came down, it seems like they were functioning pretty well. 13:39.680 --> 13:43.400 They weren't like sleepwalking to the Mount of Transfiguration. 13:43.400 --> 13:48.320 It's like they're asking, hey, should we build Moses and build them tabernacles? 13:48.320 --> 13:53.200 So they were uncomfortable just seeing them, but they're conscious. 13:53.200 --> 13:54.200 People are conscious. 13:54.200 --> 13:57.920 When you die in the Lord, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. 13:57.920 --> 13:59.920 That's what the Bible teaches. 13:59.920 --> 14:03.360 It doesn't, I don't think we're all on like a permanent CS. 14:03.400 --> 14:06.480 up there where everybody's got their little nap mats or something like 14:06.480 --> 14:10.680 wearing kindergarten or something permanently sleeping so it's just the 14:10.680 --> 14:15.560 Jehovah's Witnesses come up with some really strange doctrine. John 11 11 says 14:15.560 --> 14:21.160 these things said he and after that he saith unto them our friend Lazarus 14:21.160 --> 14:24.400 sleepeth but I go that I may awake him 14:24.500 --> 14:29.500 out of sleep. So again, a euphemism for death for Christians is sleep. 14:29.500 --> 14:33.740 Let's see, what are some other ones? 14:33.740 --> 14:37.660 Genesis 31.35 14:37.660 --> 14:40.740 Genesis 31.35 14:40.740 --> 14:42.900 and this is called 14:42.900 --> 14:48.580 in the Bible, the custom of women. Genesis 31, 35, and she said to her father, 14:48.580 --> 14:54.580 let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee for the custom of women is upon me. 14:54.580 --> 14:58.180 And if you know what that's talking about, you know what that's talking about. There's other 14:58.180 --> 15:03.460 euphemisms that the Bible uses too, but it's not really necessary to go into all that. 15:05.060 --> 15:07.940 And then Deuteronomy 25 verse 11 says, 15:09.500 --> 15:21.180 When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near, for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by his secrets. 15:21.900 --> 15:28.300 That's talking about grabbing them in a place that's, you know, is wrong. 15:28.300 --> 15:30.300 It says their hand should be cut off for doing that. 15:30.300 --> 15:32.900 So it's a pretty harsh punishment. 15:32.900 --> 15:34.900 But it's a low move. 15:34.900 --> 15:37.700 I mean, that's a woman's move to hit there. 15:37.700 --> 15:39.700 But, you know, guys would do it too. 15:39.700 --> 15:44.900 But it's talking about the secrets. 15:45.200 --> 15:51.200 And men, we come up with all kinds of euphemisms for them anyway, but I won't go into all that. 15:51.200 --> 15:52.200 The stones. 15:52.200 --> 15:54.200 Yeah, the stones. 15:54.200 --> 16:01.200 Men might say the family jewels. 16:01.200 --> 16:04.200 And then privy memos, another thing that's used. 16:04.200 --> 16:08.360 and then hind parts can just mean the back or backside but like 16:08.700 --> 16:13.300 it probably also could be that part, you know, the other part there. 16:13.300 --> 16:16.300 So, let's see. 16:19.800 --> 16:24.000 I mean, that's pretty, oh, okay. 16:24.000 --> 16:27.000 Another one for death would be, 16:27.000 --> 16:29.160 the Bible talks about giving up the ghost. 16:29.160 --> 16:31.960 It means to breathe your last breath, basically. 16:31.960 --> 16:34.720 And so when Jesus, he gave up the ghost, 16:34.720 --> 16:35.680 that's what it's talking about. 16:35.680 --> 16:39.000 So you give up your spirit, leaves your body, 16:39.000 --> 16:42.080 that is giving up the ghost is what it's talking about. 16:42.080 --> 16:45.000 So, anybody got any other ones that you can think of? 16:50.200 --> 16:50.700 Yeah. 16:54.900 --> 16:57.300 the bowels and the reins. 16:57.300 --> 16:58.300 Yeah. 16:58.300 --> 16:59.300 So, yeah. 16:59.300 --> 17:00.300 Yeah, that's another one. 17:00.300 --> 17:01.300 Good one. 17:01.300 --> 17:06.420 Yeah, he said, what's saying for the seat of your emotions is the Bible is using that 17:06.420 --> 17:08.100 as a euphemism. 17:08.100 --> 17:09.100 And kind of the heart too. 17:09.100 --> 17:13.360 Well, I mean, it's like, is it actually talking about the thumping thing in your chest that 17:13.360 --> 17:15.740 pumps blood through your body or is it talking about your mind? 17:15.740 --> 17:19.540 You know, and I think that sometimes it can be talking about both. 17:19.540 --> 17:21.700 But, yeah. 17:21.700 --> 17:22.300 So. 17:22.800 --> 17:27.800 Okay, let's go back to our text in 1 Samuel chapter 24, but euphemism is a thing that 17:27.800 --> 17:32.960 the Bible does use and a lot of times though the Bible doesn't use euphemism. 17:32.960 --> 17:40.040 It uses very harsh words that are harsh to our ears today and that's why the modern 17:40.040 --> 17:45.400 versions change them like words like piss and bastard and damn. 17:45.800 --> 17:53.400 damnation, hell. They don't like that word either. So, but, you know, piss is used a lot of times in 17:53.400 --> 17:58.280 the Bible and people don't like that word or whatever, but that's what it is. So when it says 17:58.280 --> 18:04.840 then the piss against the wall is a euphemism actually for men. Dudes, there's a, that's a good 18:04.840 --> 18:06.440 euphemism. I forgot about that. 18:06.800 --> 18:10.640 I love how God just helps me and reminds me, okay? 18:10.640 --> 18:12.240 Piss leads to piss against the wall. 18:12.240 --> 18:15.760 So yeah, but then it's, so when it says, 18:15.760 --> 18:19.160 I'm gonna cut off them who pisseth against the wall, 18:19.160 --> 18:21.160 it's talking about killing all the males. 18:21.160 --> 18:23.360 So, and only men piss against walls. 18:23.360 --> 18:26.080 So, I won't piss anywhere, it doesn't matter. 18:26.080 --> 18:29.080 So, I'm like, oh, you're saying piss, that's a bad word. 18:29.080 --> 18:30.800 No, it's not, because it's in the Bible. 18:30.800 --> 18:33.680 How can a word that's in the Bible be a bad word? 18:33.680 --> 18:34.500 It can't be. 18:34.800 --> 18:39.000 So, just like the word bastard, you know, they'll say illegitimate child. 18:39.000 --> 18:46.120 It's like, bastard is a word that God chose to put in the Bible. 18:46.120 --> 18:49.520 So, like, there's no reason to avoid using it. 18:49.520 --> 18:53.680 Whore is another one, and that's really a triggering word today. 18:53.680 --> 18:57.720 Don't say whore or harlot, but that's the words that the Bible uses. 18:57.720 --> 18:58.560 So. 18:58.800 --> 19:02.440 I mean, I forget what chapter it is in Ezekiel. 19:02.440 --> 19:05.720 I feel like it's chapter 18, but I might be wrong about that. 19:05.720 --> 19:08.840 He just says, like, whore and harlot and whoredom. 19:08.840 --> 19:11.760 It feels like hundreds of times. 19:11.760 --> 19:18.640 If a whore is in church, she's definitely going to feel uncomfortable in that chapter. 19:18.640 --> 19:18.960 So... 19:19.500 --> 19:21.500 Let's see, what are some other ones? 19:21.500 --> 19:25.820 Yeah, but I mean, there's just sometimes there's this harsh language and then people try to 19:25.820 --> 19:31.160 blunt those things down and God doesn't want us to blunt the things down that he doesn't 19:31.160 --> 19:32.160 want us to blunt down. 19:32.160 --> 19:34.420 And he doesn't want us to take the word hell out of the Bible. 19:34.420 --> 19:37.380 He doesn't want us to take even blood. 19:37.380 --> 19:38.820 I mean, the blood is taken out. 19:38.820 --> 19:40.420 Why does the blood get taken out so much? 19:40.420 --> 19:43.820 Well, people don't want to be reminded of bloody things. 19:43.820 --> 19:45.820 But Jesus's death was a bloody death. 19:46.100 --> 19:50.300 And I think it is important that we understand that he died a bloody death that wasn't just 19:50.300 --> 19:54.300 like the Catholic cross where there's a couple trickles coming out of him or something like 19:54.300 --> 19:55.300 that. 19:55.300 --> 19:58.380 No, he was a bloody mess when he died. 19:58.380 --> 20:04.140 And he was bruised and beaten and battered and he did not look pretty. 20:04.140 --> 20:10.220 And so, yeah, so we're supposed to use euphemisms where necessary. 20:10.600 --> 20:11.880 And when do we use them? 20:11.880 --> 20:13.360 Well, where does God use them? 20:13.360 --> 20:22.160 Potty talk, other relations between a husband and a wife. 20:22.160 --> 20:28.080 And obviously, the death thing is just like, 20:28.080 --> 20:32.000 I think that's more helping us to understand who's saved 20:32.000 --> 20:34.720 and who's not. 20:34.720 --> 20:37.720 And then the custom, the... 20:38.600 --> 20:43.000 Her cus the time of her whatever custom is you know obviously 20:43.840 --> 20:45.840 There's a lot of different things for 20:46.480 --> 20:49.480 For that after church if somebody wants to hear this story 20:49.480 --> 20:52.240 I tell you about the time when I said something really funny 20:52.240 --> 20:56.520 But I don't want to say it in church right in front of everybody so it's not like really bad or anything 20:56.520 --> 20:58.520 But it was funny though 21:00.200 --> 21:05.200 So, that's what happens when you listen to what your mom is saying sometimes and then 21:05.200 --> 21:08.200 you repeat it in front of one of her friends. 21:08.200 --> 21:17.200 Anyway, verse 4, And the man of David said unto him, Behold, the day of which the Lord 21:17.200 --> 21:21.680 said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do 21:21.680 --> 21:24.760 to him as it shall seem good unto thee. 21:25.200 --> 21:29.040 Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. 21:29.680 --> 21:33.840 So what's always tripped me out about this passage is that they're in a cave. 21:33.840 --> 21:36.640 I'm sure that there's not elevator music playing inside of it. 21:37.200 --> 21:39.520 Every noise could probably be heard. 21:40.320 --> 21:41.500 And so 21:42.200 --> 21:47.700 I don't know what, I don't know, I don't know, they must be very quiet and then they're, they got, they're talking back and forth. 21:47.700 --> 21:57.800 So how Saul's not hearing that is just, it must be, I mean, to me, I've always just thought, well, it must be some sort of a miracle that God is not allowing them to be heard or maybe they're further away. 21:57.800 --> 22:03.000 And then David sneaks up. It's probably that they're further away and just really being very careful about how they whisper. 22:04.800 --> 22:07.800 But I mean in a cave you can hear a lot of noises and things like that. 22:07.800 --> 22:09.940 So, but maybe there's water. 22:09.940 --> 22:14.140 There could be water like running someplace where it makes it harder to hear all the little 22:14.140 --> 22:16.580 noises so. 22:16.580 --> 22:20.940 But yeah, so they're hiding in this cave and they're like, hey, this is what God said. 22:20.940 --> 22:22.180 He was going to deliver into your hand. 22:22.180 --> 22:23.580 Here he is on a silver platter. 22:23.580 --> 22:24.080 Let's get him. 22:24.600 --> 22:27.600 And so David pops up and he's like, yeah, let's... 22:27.600 --> 22:29.840 And so he just slices a... 22:29.840 --> 22:32.360 It says the skirt of Saul's robe. 22:32.360 --> 22:36.040 So in a skirt, in modern times, 22:36.040 --> 22:37.240 we just... 22:37.240 --> 22:39.640 A skirt is something a woman wears, 22:39.640 --> 22:43.440 and it's like a dress, but it's a skirt. 22:43.440 --> 22:48.360 But skirt can just mean the length of a garment, 22:48.360 --> 22:51.800 like the excess of length. 22:52.300 --> 22:59.480 So, he, you know, but robes, again, if I had my church coat on, it could look like a robe 22:59.480 --> 23:02.380 because it goes down a little bit further than my waist. 23:02.380 --> 23:05.500 Most, I mean, if everybody just wore coats that were just right at their waist, it would 23:05.500 --> 23:06.500 look funny. 23:06.500 --> 23:09.780 There are coats that fit like that, and I hate wearing them. 23:09.780 --> 23:15.260 But, you know, there are coats that fit like that, but most coats don't fit like that. 23:15.260 --> 23:16.740 They go a little further down. 23:16.740 --> 23:20.260 And if he's wearing a robe, I mean, we think of... 23:20.300 --> 23:24.900 things in terms of what we know and what we see in everyday life. But I'm sure his robe 23:24.900 --> 23:30.820 didn't look like a bathrobe necessarily. But it probably looks similar to that. But again, 23:30.820 --> 23:34.460 he's a king too. So he's probably wearing different garments than other people would 23:34.460 --> 23:39.820 be wearing. And Jesus said that they that wear a soft raiment are in kings' houses. 23:39.820 --> 23:46.260 So not everybody dressed the same. And definitely if you're in some royal entourage of Saul, 23:46.260 --> 23:47.700 probably dressing differently. 23:48.000 --> 23:51.840 If you're in the palace where Saul's at, you're probably dressing differently. 23:51.840 --> 23:53.440 You're not wearing rough garments. 23:53.440 --> 23:55.920 You're not looking like a soldier. 23:55.920 --> 23:58.960 But again, I still think that Saul was wearing pants because it says that he covered his 23:58.960 --> 24:00.480 feet in the cave. 24:00.480 --> 24:05.680 I mean, I don't know what else you'd cover your feet with, you know, and especially since 24:05.680 --> 24:10.080 I don't think the robes necessarily went all the way down to their ankles or whatever. 24:10.080 --> 24:13.560 And Jesus warned us about wearing long clothes. 24:13.900 --> 24:17.640 and people that desire to wear these long clothes. 24:17.640 --> 24:20.640 It's a sign of people that want to be looked upon. 24:20.640 --> 24:24.340 And that's why people dress in these wizard outfits 24:24.340 --> 24:26.280 that are in the Catholic Church, 24:26.280 --> 24:28.220 and then these other types of churches, 24:28.220 --> 24:31.820 the Presbyterians and whoever else, monks. 24:32.100 --> 24:37.020 Buddhist monks, I mean you can pick them out in an airport easily because they're wearing 24:37.020 --> 24:41.020 some orange prison jumper and you know whatever. 24:41.020 --> 24:44.980 They look like they have the same color as prison fatigues, you know what I'm talking 24:44.980 --> 24:45.980 about? 24:45.980 --> 24:49.380 Baggy looking like they're in some karate class or something. 24:49.380 --> 24:53.580 But you know, then I've seen, you know when I was in England, this is a big thing in England, 24:53.580 --> 24:56.400 is people trying to look like they're poor. 24:56.400 --> 24:58.080 So they're trying to look like the friar tuck. 24:58.600 --> 25:03.700 You know, and they got like a sackcloth, like a little burlap bag on, and then they have 25:03.700 --> 25:06.380 a rope belt, and they're walking around. 25:06.380 --> 25:07.380 But what are they trying to do? 25:07.380 --> 25:08.940 They're trying to draw attention to themselves. 25:08.940 --> 25:11.220 Hey, look at me, I'm poor. 25:11.220 --> 25:13.500 I take a vow of poverty, so look at me. 25:13.500 --> 25:17.700 And it's like, Jesus said you have your reward when you do that. 25:17.700 --> 25:20.100 So that's why he warns us against wearing those types of things. 25:20.100 --> 25:23.100 So if the pope is so holy, why is he wearing... 25:23.800 --> 25:28.520 a bunch of stuff to make him look and stand out from other people, you know. 25:28.520 --> 25:31.240 And people are like, well, what about you? You're wearing a tie and a shirt. Well, 25:31.240 --> 25:34.280 so does every businessman. Well, I mean, at least they used to, 25:35.080 --> 25:38.520 but a lot of people still have to wear shirts and ties to do business. 25:38.520 --> 25:42.680 Even like on Wall Street and stuff, I'm sure that they all wear coats and ties and shirts. 25:43.240 --> 25:46.360 Not that that makes them better or anything like that. But I'm just saying that there are certain 25:46.360 --> 25:49.800 jobs where you do have to wear like, I mean, nobody's going to look at me. 25:50.700 --> 25:55.560 Walking down the street with a shirt and tie and just think that I'm necessarily from church. They could just think that I'm just a businessman 25:56.460 --> 26:03.240 So but if I was walking around wearing some funny hat that goes up to here and some 26:03.760 --> 26:05.760 wand looking like you know 26:06.260 --> 26:10.500 Harry Potter or something some wizard or Merlin the Magician and 26:11.180 --> 26:12.860 Then these long 26:12.860 --> 26:14.100 You know 26:14.100 --> 26:17.300 Cuffs and you know doing all this and stuff 26:18.300 --> 26:22.520 It's just, you know, we're not Jesus said to not dress like that 26:22.520 --> 26:27.260 So I don't when you know the only time that Jesus ever wore a robe is when one was put on him 26:27.260 --> 26:31.700 Otherwise, you can't ever point to a place in the Bible where Jesus was wearing a robe 26:32.020 --> 26:35.060 But yet what does everybody say that Jesus wore a robe? 26:35.600 --> 26:40.460 But he only wore it for a few minutes, so they made fun of him while it was on him, 26:40.460 --> 26:41.460 and then they took it off. 26:41.460 --> 26:42.460 And what were they saying? 26:42.460 --> 26:43.460 Hail, King of the Jews! 26:43.460 --> 26:48.540 And they were pretending to bow down to him and saying, oh, and pretending to worship 26:48.540 --> 26:49.540 him. 26:49.540 --> 26:50.540 Because what? 26:50.540 --> 26:56.420 Because when he had that purple robe on, it made him look like he was a royal prince 26:56.420 --> 26:57.580 or king or something like that. 26:58.200 --> 27:05.480 They probably got it from Herod or somebody that was some royal person, some prince of some sort. 27:05.480 --> 27:12.280 But they put that on him to make fun of him. So he wasn't just walking around wearing a purple robe all the time. 27:12.280 --> 27:14.680 That was put on him to mock him. 27:14.680 --> 27:23.000 But Saul was wearing something that had obviously a skirt and it was cut off by David. 27:23.000 --> 27:23.500 So. 27:24.600 --> 27:30.880 And by the way, it says that he was wearing a robe, not a tunic, by the way. 27:30.880 --> 27:34.360 So but you'll see in the modern versions that it always says tunic. 27:34.360 --> 27:37.120 And a tunic is like what Muslims wear in like the Middle East. 27:37.120 --> 27:41.440 They're like a straight tube-like dress or something. 27:41.440 --> 27:44.720 Sorry but I just don't believe that that's what they wore. 27:44.720 --> 27:45.720 I'm sorry. 27:45.720 --> 27:47.040 I just don't see how you... 27:47.400 --> 27:56.400 operate and build things and, you know, how do you ride horses and things like that? 27:56.400 --> 27:57.900 Oh, you gird up your loins. 27:57.900 --> 28:00.400 Oh, you mean you turn it into a baby diaper? 28:00.400 --> 28:02.400 Is that what you do? 28:02.400 --> 28:06.400 Have you ever seen the little picture where it shows this is what girding up your loins looks like 28:06.400 --> 28:10.400 and it makes you, it shows all the different steps and then it looks like you're in a baby diaper? 28:10.400 --> 28:12.400 Is that what you think that they were doing? 28:14.500 --> 28:20.460 Yeah, of course it's made up. But why do they want to make them in always be in 28:20.460 --> 28:27.700 dresses in the in the old days like that? Yeah, it's exactly that. So that when you 28:27.700 --> 28:31.740 look at them with their dresses and the wizard outfits on, it's not that weird 28:31.740 --> 28:35.700 because that's what all the prophets and all and that's what Jesus wore. No, that's 28:35.700 --> 28:39.940 not what they wore. I don't believe that for a second. That is brainwashing. Mind 28:39.940 --> 28:42.100 defilement is actually what it really is. 28:42.200 --> 28:47.120 our brains need to be washed and just verses like these will just help us out and be like no 28:47.520 --> 28:50.420 You don't pull dresses down. That's not how it works 28:53.300 --> 28:57.000 Yeah, the Greeks were making fun of him for wearing pants, the Persians. 28:57.000 --> 28:59.860 They're like, oh, ha ha, it's like, dude, you're wearing a dress, bro. 28:59.860 --> 29:02.400 What are you laughing about? 29:02.400 --> 29:03.900 You're wearing a skirt. 29:03.900 --> 29:06.840 Yeah, you're wearing a miniskirt. 29:06.840 --> 29:08.620 And you're a queer, too, by the way. 29:08.620 --> 29:12.600 So there's also that to think about. 29:12.600 --> 29:13.600 So yeah, I mean. 29:13.600 --> 29:13.700 you 29:14.200 --> 29:18.680 I think he was wearing a robe, but does it say it was this giant long robe? It doesn't say that. 29:18.680 --> 29:24.920 But he could have just cut just a little piece off of it. And you know, the whole gird up your loins, 29:24.920 --> 29:30.600 diaper, diaper look, diaper genie look or whatever. That's just phony. It's just not true. 29:30.600 --> 29:34.760 And they were not supposed to expose their thighs because that was nakedness. So in order to gird 29:34.760 --> 29:39.800 your loins up like that, which is not possible anyway, and it's just weird. 29:40.300 --> 29:44.500 But you would have to be exposed and naked all the time. 29:44.500 --> 29:48.100 And I just don't believe that the Israelites would have been doing that. 29:48.100 --> 29:50.300 So I don't know who came up with that. 29:50.300 --> 29:56.000 Probably some dumb Bible scholar that wasn't even really a scholar that probably could only speak one language. 29:56.000 --> 29:57.200 Who knows? 29:57.200 --> 29:59.300 But they always want to put men in dresses. 29:59.300 --> 30:00.500 This is what they want to do in Hollywood. 30:00.500 --> 30:02.500 They always want to put men in dresses too. 30:02.500 --> 30:04.500 They want to just make everybody a fag. 30:04.700 --> 30:06.820 But I don't believe that the prophets were like that. 30:06.820 --> 30:08.460 I don't believe that they dressed like that. 30:08.460 --> 30:10.220 I don't believe Saul dressed like that. 30:10.220 --> 30:12.220 I don't believe Jesus dressed like that. 30:12.220 --> 30:19.380 So I don't think that they just were free you know and no whating all over commando 30:19.380 --> 30:21.500 style in the Middle East. 30:21.500 --> 30:24.580 Sorry, I just don't, I'm sorry, I don't believe that. 30:24.580 --> 30:30.260 The priests were supposed to wear britches, breeches, and those are short pants. 30:30.800 --> 30:33.800 Okay, those are what we call shorts. 30:33.800 --> 30:36.080 And they went down past the knee. 30:36.080 --> 30:40.120 And so they weren't just wearing a robe and nothing on underneath. 30:40.120 --> 30:42.560 They had to wear pants underneath. 30:42.560 --> 30:48.380 And the Bible says that that's a man's garment because they were men. 30:48.380 --> 30:51.700 So it's just a fact that men wore pants. 30:51.700 --> 30:52.700 They wore pants. 30:52.700 --> 30:53.700 The priests wore pants. 30:53.700 --> 30:56.300 They had to wear them. 30:56.300 --> 30:57.140 And so. 30:57.700 --> 31:00.500 When people were like, oh yeah, that's, you know, 31:00.500 --> 31:02.900 that's an, that's an, uh, 31:02.900 --> 31:05.620 a drogynous, you know, pair of, uh, 31:05.620 --> 31:08.260 that pants are for women and for men. 31:08.260 --> 31:09.660 I don't believe that. 31:09.660 --> 31:11.100 I don't believe that either. 31:11.100 --> 31:15.140 Um, because for thousands of years, 31:15.140 --> 31:17.060 women have worn skirts and dresses, 31:17.060 --> 31:18.940 and men have worn pants. 31:18.940 --> 31:21.220 And they're like, AI, when I was fighting with them 31:21.220 --> 31:23.460 about this, they were like, pants weren't even invented 31:23.460 --> 31:24.580 until, you know. 31:24.700 --> 31:27.620 they were talking about in the Steps of Russia or whatever. 31:27.620 --> 31:31.300 It's like, bro, I've seen a pair of 3,500 year old jeans 31:31.300 --> 31:34.100 from China, okay? 31:34.100 --> 31:35.940 And I'm sure that wasn't... 31:35.940 --> 31:39.540 The pants have been around since the dawn of time. 31:39.540 --> 31:42.540 3,500 years ago was when Moses was around. 31:42.540 --> 31:43.380 And guess what? 31:43.380 --> 31:44.940 Moses wore short pants too. 31:44.940 --> 31:47.100 Ha ha ha! 31:47.100 --> 31:48.220 You know, people that rode... 31:48.220 --> 31:50.900 I mean, if you rode horses, you wore pants. 31:51.300 --> 31:58.460 You're not going to ride around with no britches on and wearing a tunic. 31:58.460 --> 32:00.060 It's just not going to happen. 32:00.060 --> 32:01.060 Right? 32:01.060 --> 32:04.460 I mean, these people just have like the weirdest imaginations. 32:04.460 --> 32:07.940 No, they wore tunics! 32:07.940 --> 32:13.340 They were not supposed to look and look exactly like women. 32:13.340 --> 32:15.820 Women are supposed to dress like men and men are not supposed to dress like women. 32:16.800 --> 32:20.480 It's just not supposed to be that way. 32:20.480 --> 32:22.280 I actually have a verse for that too. 32:22.280 --> 32:27.880 I was going to read it at the end of the sermon, but I'll read it right now since I'm already 32:27.880 --> 32:28.880 on one right now. 32:28.880 --> 32:34.680 Deuteronomy 22 verse 5 says, The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, 32:34.680 --> 32:38.760 neither shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all that do so are an abomination unto 32:38.760 --> 32:42.360 the Lord thy God. 32:42.360 --> 32:43.920 So please explain to me how. 32:44.400 --> 32:49.400 Men and women in the Bible days were wearing the same exact thing. 32:49.400 --> 32:52.400 Or something that looked exactly the same. 32:52.400 --> 32:53.400 They weren't. 32:53.400 --> 32:57.400 If you're walking down the street and women and men have the same haircut, 32:57.400 --> 33:01.400 the same, you know, they're wearing the same jumpsuit, 33:01.400 --> 33:04.400 you know, the trackie suit or whatever, 33:04.400 --> 33:06.200 how are you going to tell the difference between them? 33:06.800 --> 33:09.200 from behind. How can you really tell? I mean, obviously, 33:09.200 --> 33:12.400 men and women's bodies are different sometimes. 33:12.400 --> 33:17.000 I mean, but if it was Michelle and Barack Obama, you'd probably think one was the man and one was the woman. 33:17.000 --> 33:22.000 Right? Big Mike looks more manly from behind. 33:22.700 --> 33:25.980 Ever seen the picture where they're kayaking? 33:25.980 --> 33:26.980 You seen it? 33:26.980 --> 33:30.640 They're kayaking and it's like she's got these big old shoulders, like these big old man 33:30.640 --> 33:36.780 shoulders and he's like, you know, this little string bean like trying to row his oar. 33:36.780 --> 33:39.100 You've seen the Obama workout video, haven't you? 33:39.100 --> 33:45.900 Where he's like got that little three pound weight and he's just like eee, eee, eee. 33:45.900 --> 33:47.900 Super funny. 33:48.500 --> 33:54.020 him and Joe Biden are going for it. Anyway, all right, I'm off the rails here. Let's get back to 33:54.020 --> 34:04.420 the sermon. But the word gird means to primarily, it means to encircle or bind or prepare oneself 34:04.420 --> 34:15.540 for action. So it also means to tie, bind, or wrap a belt, cord, or band around the body or an object. 34:16.100 --> 34:19.440 doesn't mean to tuck in your dress. 34:19.440 --> 34:24.040 Because like, why would you be wearing a belt anyway 34:24.040 --> 34:25.800 if you had a tunic on? 34:25.800 --> 34:30.700 Like, that's just one of your accessories? 34:30.700 --> 34:34.460 I mean, that's what, I mean, I just don't understand that. 34:34.460 --> 34:37.120 Like, isn't that a little restrictive? 34:37.120 --> 34:38.460 Even more restrictive? 34:38.460 --> 34:39.580 It just doesn't make sense. 34:40.000 --> 34:42.040 But literally, like when it says to gird up your loins, 34:42.040 --> 34:44.440 it's talking about to tighten up your, 34:44.440 --> 34:46.840 to just make sure your pants are up and tight 34:46.840 --> 34:49.600 and to tighten them up so that you can get some work done. 34:50.920 --> 34:52.440 That's what it's talking about. 34:52.440 --> 34:56.960 So, I was out sewing today and my pants were falling down 34:56.960 --> 34:59.560 the whole time I was helping to hold them up. 35:00.960 --> 35:02.560 I had too many things in my pocket or whatever 35:02.560 --> 35:04.040 and these pants are too big for me. 35:04.040 --> 35:04.880 But. 35:05.800 --> 35:11.200 I was having to gird myself up even more and tighten my belt even more so that my pants wouldn't fall down. 35:11.200 --> 35:13.200 So that's girding up your loins. 35:13.200 --> 35:19.700 Your loins are this area right here under your belly and that's what you're supposed to gird up. 35:19.700 --> 35:26.900 So it could also mean to ready oneself mentally or physically for a difficult situation. 35:27.400 --> 35:33.560 to challenge or conflict, often used in phrases like gird yourself or gird your loins, 35:33.560 --> 35:37.160 but gird up the loins of your mind, as said in the New Testament. 35:37.160 --> 35:42.120 So, you know, it's to be ready and ready for some action. 35:42.120 --> 35:49.640 So, but, yeah, why do you need to tuck your dress into your belt before going someplace? 35:50.300 --> 35:52.500 I mean, I just, and then show off your nakedness. 35:52.500 --> 35:53.820 It's just bizarre. 35:53.820 --> 35:54.760 It's bizarre teaching. 35:54.760 --> 35:56.620 It just doesn't make sense. 35:56.620 --> 35:58.460 And I just don't believe it for one second. 35:58.460 --> 36:01.820 I don't care what ancient pictures someone is showing me. 36:01.820 --> 36:05.780 They're not wearing dresses. 36:05.780 --> 36:09.460 So I challenge the validity of those pictures. 36:10.500 --> 36:12.720 So maybe they wore those. 36:12.720 --> 36:14.520 Maybe their people wore those things, 36:14.520 --> 36:15.820 but I don't believe that. 36:16.300 --> 36:18.300 all God's people wore those things. 36:18.300 --> 36:20.300 And if they did, they weren't right with God. 36:20.300 --> 36:22.300 I mean, it's not like people weren't right with 36:22.300 --> 36:24.300 or were always right with God at all times. 36:24.300 --> 36:26.300 So if they were wearing something like that, 36:26.300 --> 36:28.300 they were wearing something that they even were wearing 36:28.300 --> 36:30.300 and they weren't supposed to be wearing those. 36:30.300 --> 36:33.300 So, I mean, it's just like 36:33.300 --> 36:37.300 men in Hawaii and the Polynesian islands 36:37.300 --> 36:40.300 wearing those skirts when they do their little dance 36:40.300 --> 36:41.300 or whatever that they're doing. 36:42.000 --> 36:45.000 They're wearing a fag garment. Sorry. 36:45.000 --> 36:49.000 Is there any Simons around? I mean, then who cares? 36:49.000 --> 36:53.000 So, I mean, you can get mad about that all you want. 36:53.000 --> 36:57.000 The custom of the people. It's a fag custom. 36:57.000 --> 37:00.000 It just is. You know? 37:00.000 --> 37:04.000 It confused me and I used the woman's bathroom when I was there in the dark. 37:04.000 --> 37:07.900 It's like if it's making me confused, then you need to get rid of that. 37:08.000 --> 37:13.060 If it's making men, like, if you can't see which one is male or female on the outside 37:13.060 --> 37:16.520 of the bathroom because they're both wearing skirts, there's a problem with your bathroom 37:16.520 --> 37:17.520 pictures. 37:17.520 --> 37:18.520 Literally. 37:18.520 --> 37:19.520 I mean, look it up. 37:19.520 --> 37:22.720 You can see that they both are wearing dresses. 37:22.720 --> 37:23.720 Like that's confusion. 37:23.720 --> 37:28.200 You know, in America, we have two distinct pictures. 37:28.200 --> 37:31.240 One has a dress on and one has pants on. 37:31.240 --> 37:32.480 And you know what? 37:32.480 --> 37:33.840 It's not confusing. 37:34.500 --> 37:40.900 At all. I mean, it might be confusing to some confused tranny, but it's not confusing to me. 37:40.900 --> 37:44.300 So, I don't think it's confusing to any kid. 37:44.300 --> 37:48.700 I mean, you accidentally might walk into one because they have... 37:48.700 --> 37:53.300 Now they have the double... You know, we even have those signs over here just because they're single use bathrooms. 37:53.300 --> 37:58.900 But, I mean, there's policies all over the place where you can just use any bathroom you want. 37:59.600 --> 38:03.600 And it's, you know why? So that weirdos can go into your bathroom. 38:03.600 --> 38:09.600 That's why they do it. Because weirdos, weirdo men dressed like women like to go into women's restrooms. 38:09.600 --> 38:15.600 That's what it is. And I don't care what you say, it's bizarre, it's weird. 38:15.600 --> 38:17.400 But I will use a woman's restroom. 38:18.800 --> 38:21.520 If it's single use and I have to go really bad and there's no line. 38:22.400 --> 38:26.720 I'll sneak into it. I don't care. So what? You got me. Nobody else is listening to this anyway. So 38:26.720 --> 38:31.840 it doesn't matter. Pastor Thompson uses the women's restroom. Hey, if it's single use, 38:31.840 --> 38:36.240 it's single use. That's just all there is to it. I mean, you're going to sit there and pee your 38:36.240 --> 38:40.320 pants because there's no women in that line. It's like it's single use, man. Just lock the door. 38:42.300 --> 38:47.500 But I'm against men using women's restrooms and they're just going in there like it's nothing. 38:47.500 --> 38:54.300 And then they're on their whatever TikToks talking about how brave they are and 38:54.300 --> 38:56.000 who's gonna stop me from doing it? 38:56.000 --> 38:57.500 Well, women aren't gonna stop you from doing it. 38:57.500 --> 38:58.500 That's for sure. 38:58.500 --> 39:04.200 You're like six foot eight with a big giant Adam's apple and, you know, high heels on. 39:04.200 --> 39:07.200 But some man should stop them. 39:07.200 --> 39:09.300 So. 39:11.600 --> 39:15.600 I don't have time to go through these verses, but there's a ton of verses about girding up your loins. 39:18.600 --> 39:20.600 Let's look at a few. We'll just look at a few of them. 39:20.600 --> 39:24.600 Okay, so look at Exodus 12.11. Exodus 12.11. 39:30.700 --> 39:36.380 Exodus 12 and 11 says, and thus shall you eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, 39:36.380 --> 39:41.820 and your staff in your hand, and ye shall eat it with haste, it is the Lord's Passover. So, 39:42.540 --> 39:48.460 you know, when it's talking about having your loins girded, they can be talking about just being 39:49.260 --> 39:56.060 you know, in readiness and urgency, ready to go. And 1 Kings 18 and 46, you don't have to turn 39:56.060 --> 39:58.380 turn to Acts 12, 8. 39:58.900 --> 40:08.880 In 1 Kings 18, 46 it says, In the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he girded up his 40:08.880 --> 40:13.860 loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. 40:13.860 --> 40:18.260 So he girded up his loins. 40:18.260 --> 40:23.340 Acts 12, 8 says, And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. 40:23.340 --> 40:24.220 And so he did. 40:24.600 --> 40:28.840 And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me." 40:28.840 --> 40:34.160 So he's basically telling him, get your pants on, cinch up your belt, get your sandals on, 40:34.160 --> 40:35.480 get ready to go. 40:35.480 --> 40:41.600 So there's the sense of putting on your clothes and making sure your belt's tight. 40:41.600 --> 40:45.920 I mean, who's ever worked at a job where you forgot your belt, guys? 40:45.920 --> 40:47.400 You ever done that? 40:47.400 --> 40:49.640 You ever had to use rope? 40:49.640 --> 40:50.320 That's a sucky day. 40:51.600 --> 40:52.600 It really is. 40:52.600 --> 40:56.200 Because rope just doesn't really do the trick like, you know, a good old fashioned belt 40:56.200 --> 40:57.200 that cinches. 40:57.200 --> 40:59.200 Those are like the worst days ever. 40:59.200 --> 41:01.000 It's like, oh man, I can't believe I forgot. 41:01.000 --> 41:02.000 How did I forget my belt? 41:02.000 --> 41:05.880 You know, it doesn't happen very often, but every once in a while you do it and it's just 41:05.880 --> 41:09.320 like, but I'm notorious for doing it when I go out of town. 41:09.320 --> 41:11.640 I'll be out of town like, how did I forget my belt? 41:11.640 --> 41:15.720 It's the one thing I actually need, you know, besides my suit or whatever. 41:16.300 --> 41:19.140 And then I'll just forget my belt, so then I'll have to go buy a belt. 41:19.140 --> 41:23.420 So I have like five or six black belts that I have like that I'll never use, you know, 41:23.420 --> 41:26.660 that are crappy ones because I just buy real cheap ones to get me by. 41:26.660 --> 41:33.860 But anyway, so let's look at Psalm chapter 18. 41:33.860 --> 41:40.200 So sometimes it's talking about how God will give us strength and He, you know, girds us 41:40.200 --> 41:41.200 with it. 41:41.200 --> 41:42.880 Psalm 18 verse 32. 41:43.500 --> 41:48.140 It is God that girdeth me with strength and maketh my way perfect. 41:49.500 --> 41:55.660 And verse 39 says, for thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle, thou hast subdued me 41:58.780 --> 42:03.900 under me those that rose up against me. First Samuel 25 verse 42:04.500 --> 42:10.260 13 says, and David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword, and they girded on every man his sword. 42:10.260 --> 42:12.260 And David also girded on his sword. 42:13.100 --> 42:16.700 Mental and spiritual preparation. Here's the New Testament references to it. 42:17.180 --> 42:23.260 1 Peter chapter 1 13 says and Kurt and go ahead and turn to Ephesians 6 14. 42:23.580 --> 42:25.580 I'll read 1 Peter 42:25.980 --> 42:27.980 1 13 says 42:27.980 --> 42:29.980 Gird up the loins of your mind. 42:31.380 --> 42:32.500 So 42:33.000 --> 42:35.000 That's the admonishment about that. 42:35.000 --> 42:38.800 Ephesians 6, 14 says to girt, 42:38.800 --> 42:41.640 that you're girt about with truth. 42:41.640 --> 42:44.880 And then Luke 12 verse 35 says 42:44.880 --> 42:47.060 that the loins have been girded 42:47.060 --> 42:48.900 and their lights are burning. 42:49.800 --> 42:52.880 And Job 38 verse three commands us 42:52.880 --> 42:56.140 to gird up our loins like a man. 42:56.140 --> 42:58.600 So again, like a man. 42:58.800 --> 43:01.400 It doesn't say like a woman, it says like a man. 43:01.400 --> 43:05.600 So if the garments are very similar, 43:05.600 --> 43:07.400 then why would only men do it? 43:08.600 --> 43:10.240 It just doesn't make sense, okay? 43:10.240 --> 43:13.040 It's because they're belts for holding up your pants, 43:13.040 --> 43:14.280 because men wore pants. 43:14.280 --> 43:16.360 They have always worn pants. 43:16.360 --> 43:18.400 And I'm not saying that they always do now, 43:18.400 --> 43:21.940 but again, the reason why men are dressing like that 43:21.940 --> 43:23.600 is because they want to be noticed. 43:23.600 --> 43:25.160 That's why Muslims do it. 43:25.800 --> 43:31.640 They want you to see them as spiritual. 43:31.640 --> 43:33.800 The Catholic priest wants you to see them as spiritual. 43:33.800 --> 43:36.520 The Pope wants you to see them as spiritual. 43:36.520 --> 43:40.200 But what you wear does not make you spiritual. 43:40.200 --> 43:46.480 So it's just, I just do not believe that they are wearing, why would Jesus tell you not 43:46.480 --> 43:49.320 to wear those things and then he's wearing them? 43:49.320 --> 43:50.320 This is like... 43:51.400 --> 44:02.280 It says that if a man has long hair, he prays or prophesies with long hair that he's dishonoring 44:02.280 --> 44:05.520 his head, which his head is God. 44:05.520 --> 44:12.240 So if a man does that, or a man's head is the Lord Jesus Christ, so if he covers his 44:12.240 --> 44:16.720 head, which is talking about having long hair, and if it's dishonoring Christ, then we're 44:16.720 --> 44:18.640 supposed to believe that Christ had long hair then? 44:19.700 --> 44:23.140 It's a shame for a man to have long hair, but Christ had long hair. 44:24.980 --> 44:31.300 How's that? How do you come up with that? Because some fag painter in the Renaissance 44:31.860 --> 44:36.500 painted him to look exactly like him, like Caesar Borga or whatever his name was. 44:37.400 --> 44:42.040 He drew a picture that looked just like his little faggy self and made himself to look like Jesus. 44:42.040 --> 44:46.360 And then everybody has pictures of that painting on their wall to make it make us think that that's 44:46.360 --> 44:50.920 what Jesus looked like and that Jesus had long hair. Jesus did not have long hair because then 44:50.920 --> 44:54.920 Judas could have just walked into the garden and said it's the one with the long hair. That's the 44:54.920 --> 44:59.800 one. He wouldn't have to walk up and kiss them because nobody had long hair back then. If you 44:59.800 --> 45:05.160 look at the bust of all the Caesars and and they had short hair they didn't keep long hair. 45:06.800 --> 45:10.240 Yeah, it's the skinny Italian with the long hair. Go get him. 45:10.240 --> 45:12.880 It's the skinny hippie with the dress and the long hair. Get him. 45:14.640 --> 45:18.320 It's ridiculous because other people did not have long hair back then. 45:19.680 --> 45:24.720 And the Bible says it's a shame for men to have long hair. That's why the Nazarites were to grow 45:24.720 --> 45:32.160 their hair long to show that they had a vow that they hadn't met yet. When Paul had a Nazarite vow 45:32.160 --> 45:34.480 and he went to go to the temple. 45:34.900 --> 45:38.900 What'd he do? He shaved his head because his vow was complete. 45:38.900 --> 45:43.900 So Samson had long hair and was supposed to do that for his whole life because he was an exception to the rule. 45:43.900 --> 45:46.900 He was a Nazarite from his from his birth. 45:46.900 --> 45:48.900 But that was a special exception. 45:48.900 --> 45:53.900 So, yeah, anyway, let's move on. 45:53.900 --> 45:56.900 So verse five in our text says. 45:58.500 --> 46:02.660 And it came to pass afterward that David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt. 46:03.220 --> 46:07.060 And he said unto his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, 46:07.060 --> 46:14.260 the Lord's anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord. 46:15.700 --> 46:19.780 So David stayed his servants with these words and suffered them not to rise against Saul, 46:19.780 --> 46:25.300 but Saul rose up out of the cave and went on his way. So he just missed being killed 46:25.300 --> 46:32.180 and doesn't even realize it. But what does David say? That he's not going to stretch forth his hand 46:33.380 --> 46:38.900 against the Lord's anointed. It's his master. David still has loyalty to him even though 46:38.900 --> 46:41.780 he's trying to kill him, even though he's hiding in a cave right now. 46:42.600 --> 46:46.360 and had the drop on him and could have killed him even though David himself is anointed 46:47.000 --> 46:52.280 he still is not going to try to destroy the Lord's anointed. He felt bad about just cutting this 46:52.280 --> 46:55.800 the the the piece off of his robe like that. 46:57.100 --> 47:06.900 But yet people today just have no shame in just going after other Christians, going after other pastors, going after other leaders. 47:06.900 --> 47:10.900 And it's not, look pastors are not the only ones that are the anointed of the Lord. 47:10.900 --> 47:18.900 Every Christian is anointed of the Lord because the anointing is represented what? The Holy Spirit, right? 47:18.900 --> 47:23.460 So, David is feeling bad and... 47:24.100 --> 47:27.000 rightly so because he shouldn't be doing that. 47:27.000 --> 47:34.380 But obviously, you know, leadership is different in a way where, you know, this guy is the 47:34.380 --> 47:35.380 king of Israel. 47:35.380 --> 47:36.680 And what is David also doing? 47:36.680 --> 47:37.940 He's respecting the office. 47:37.940 --> 47:42.400 You know, Saul doesn't necessarily deserve to be in that office anymore, but David is 47:42.400 --> 47:47.260 still respecting the office of the fact that he is still the Lord's anointed. 47:47.260 --> 47:50.180 And look, it's God's job to remove and set up kings. 47:51.000 --> 47:56.200 When God was ready to have Saul removed, God removed him, didn't he? 47:56.200 --> 47:58.640 But David said, I'm not going to do it. 47:58.640 --> 48:01.000 It's not going to be me. 48:01.000 --> 48:02.000 And what would have happened? 48:02.000 --> 48:07.400 He would not have had the respect that he did and be able to unite all of Israel the way he did, 48:07.400 --> 48:12.440 because if he would have killed Saul like that, Benjamin would have never have gone with him. 48:12.440 --> 48:14.800 He would have never been able to unite all the people. 48:15.200 --> 48:20.320 And so because of the way David was and the respect that he had from everybody 48:20.800 --> 48:23.480 That's what made him the effective leader that he was 48:24.120 --> 48:27.220 But also just the fact that he knew he was he just shouldn't do it 48:27.320 --> 48:30.160 God did God set the table for him to be able to do it. I 48:30.760 --> 48:35.680 Believe he was testing him. What's David gonna do? You know is David gonna kill him and 48:36.680 --> 48:41.680 You know, I don't know what would happen if David would have but I'll tell you this that this is why David is a man 48:41.680 --> 48:42.900 after God's own heart 48:43.100 --> 48:45.400 because he had the chance to take him down. 48:45.400 --> 48:47.200 He had the chance to kill him. 48:47.200 --> 48:51.500 And he had the right to defend himself in reality, didn't he? 48:51.500 --> 48:53.300 I mean, if someone's trying to kill you, 48:53.300 --> 48:56.000 and you kill them, that's called self-defense. 48:56.000 --> 48:57.400 And I don't think that people, 48:57.400 --> 49:01.000 most people probably wouldn't have blamed him for doing that. 49:01.000 --> 49:05.600 But, you know, sometimes, you know, being a Christian sometimes is... 49:06.300 --> 49:12.620 doing the thing that you, you know, obviously doing what you think that God would want you to do instead of what you want to do. 49:13.220 --> 49:18.840 It's like people get this Samson mentality where whatever they do I'm going to do worse to them. 49:19.340 --> 49:21.480 And Christians should not adopt that attitude. 49:22.040 --> 49:29.400 Samson is a lesson for us as to not, how to not be carnal as Christians, how to not deal with people like Samson did. 49:29.900 --> 49:34.300 And look, I'm not saying that Samson was a totally bad guy, but he was an example of 49:34.300 --> 49:37.260 a bad Christian. 49:37.260 --> 49:40.340 And Saul is a bad example as a Christian. 49:40.340 --> 49:42.620 But who deals with him? 49:42.620 --> 49:45.780 Who's the one that is supposed to deal with Saul? 49:45.780 --> 49:46.580 God deals with Saul. 49:48.500 --> 49:56.000 God, you know, did not move, you know, I think that God just allowed David to be able to be put in that situation to see whether he was going to pass that test. 49:56.000 --> 49:59.600 And I think that he passed it with flying colors. And this isn't the only time. 49:59.600 --> 50:04.300 There's another in two more chapters, he's going to do the same. A similar situation happens. 50:04.300 --> 50:07.300 And because Saul just can't keep his word. 50:07.300 --> 50:15.800 So it says, David also arose afterward and went out of the cave and cried after Saul, saying, My Lord, the king. 50:16.500 --> 50:20.740 And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth and bowed himself, 50:20.740 --> 50:26.500 respect. And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, 50:26.500 --> 50:32.340 David, seeketh thy hurt. Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered 50:32.340 --> 50:39.140 thee today into mine hand in the cave, and some bade me kill thee. But mine eye spared thee, 50:39.140 --> 50:41.940 and I said, I will not put forth mine hand. 50:42.300 --> 50:46.300 against my Lord for he is the Lord's anointed. 50:46.300 --> 50:48.800 So what does he mean? I'm not going to kill him. 50:48.800 --> 50:52.300 He's the Lord's anointed. It's not, I'm not going to, I'm just not going to do that. 50:52.300 --> 50:57.300 And that should be the mentality that we have as Christians also. 50:57.300 --> 51:02.300 And look, there's, does it apply to us today? It absolutely does. 51:02.300 --> 51:09.300 I mean, I wasn't anointed with oil, but the anointing in the New Testament is the Holy Spirit being poured out upon you. 51:09.800 --> 51:14.760 Every single person that's saved in this room has the Holy Spirit, and so you do have an anointing. 51:14.760 --> 51:19.640 The Bible actually says in 1 John chapter 2 verse 20, it says, 51:19.640 --> 51:24.120 but you have an unction from the Holy One and you know all things. 51:24.120 --> 51:27.720 So that unction that it's talking about means anointing. 51:28.440 --> 51:32.120 And again, in biblical times, it was used to consecrate the priest. 51:32.700 --> 51:41.200 They were, you know, to have oil poured upon them to consecrate the kings that was poured upon them also and the prophets. 51:41.200 --> 51:50.200 So they were ordained in that sense to where the oil is poured upon them and that was a picture of the Holy Spirit being poured upon them. 51:50.200 --> 51:54.200 And then when it says you have an unction from the Holy One, who's the Holy One? 51:54.200 --> 51:57.200 Well, the Holy One of Israel is the Lord Jesus Christ. 51:58.500 --> 52:01.460 That's how we got that that anointing was from the Lord Jesus Christ. 52:02.180 --> 52:07.460 And it again represents the presence, the indwelling and the gift of the Holy Spirit to all believers. 52:08.260 --> 52:12.820 So we all are the anointed of the Lord in the New Testament. 52:13.780 --> 52:15.780 But there's still leadership in the New Testament. 52:15.780 --> 52:18.820 There's still leadership to respect the New Testament, but you don't see. 52:19.700 --> 52:26.260 A lot of people respecting leadership in the New Testament as far as like once someone declares someone to not be worthy of being a pastor 52:26.260 --> 52:31.780 anymore, they just drop the name pastor off their name and just start calling them by their last name and 52:32.500 --> 52:39.040 That's when you know that they've lost all respect because now they've deemed it since they've deemed you not worthy to be called pastor anymore 52:39.260 --> 52:46.000 Then they just dropped that name so they dropped the name pastor because they don't deem you to be but did David say 52:46.600 --> 52:49.600 I don't deem Saul to be worthy to be called the king anymore. 52:49.600 --> 52:54.100 So I'm just going to call him, you know, Bozo or whatever. 52:54.100 --> 52:56.100 No, he doesn't say that. 52:56.100 --> 53:00.100 He calls him, my lord the king, is what he calls him. 53:00.100 --> 53:05.100 He keeps the title, even though he's trying to kill him, even though he's... 53:05.300 --> 53:08.700 moved heaven and earth to try to destroy him every chance he gets. 53:08.700 --> 53:12.800 He's tried to track him down and kill him many times and he's going to do it again after this, 53:12.800 --> 53:18.300 but he still respects him and he respects the office and he respects the fact that he's the Lord's anointed. 53:18.300 --> 53:23.500 And again, the reason why David is a man after God's own heart. 53:23.500 --> 53:31.100 So, and we'll get to 1 Samuel chapter 26, and a couple more chapters here. 53:31.400 --> 53:36.400 But Abishai offers to kill him in chapter 26. 53:36.400 --> 53:40.400 He says, I'll smite him once and I won't have to do it again. 53:40.400 --> 53:46.400 And then David says to him, destroy him not for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless. 53:47.200 --> 53:48.480 In verse 11, he says, 53:48.480 --> 53:51.120 the Lord forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lord's anointed, 53:51.120 --> 53:57.200 but I pray thee take thou now the spear that is at his bolster and cruise of water and let us go. 53:57.200 --> 54:02.320 In 2 Samuel 1, 14, David, when he thinks that this guy has killed Saul, 54:02.320 --> 54:05.280 because he claims that he killed Saul, he says, 54:05.280 --> 54:10.240 how was thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand and destroy the Lord's anointed? 54:10.240 --> 54:11.840 And then David does what? 54:11.840 --> 54:12.640 He has him killed. 54:12.640 --> 54:14.400 He's like, kill this guy. 54:15.100 --> 54:19.580 So, you know, it was a dumb mistake for him to say that because David wouldn't put his 54:19.580 --> 54:22.860 hands on it and then he's going to let this heathen do it. 54:22.860 --> 54:24.480 No. 54:24.480 --> 54:28.100 The Bible says in 1 Chronicles 16-20, it says that when they went from nation to nation 54:28.100 --> 54:31.500 and from kingdom to another kingdom, he suffered no man to do them wrong. 54:31.500 --> 54:36.480 He reproved kings for their sakes, saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets 54:36.480 --> 54:36.980 no harm. 54:37.600 --> 54:45.680 And God loves his people, God loves the saints, God loves Christians, and he doesn't like it when 54:45.680 --> 54:52.400 people mess with his anointed, period. So again, we are his anointed, but you know, he does also care 54:52.400 --> 54:58.000 about leadership. You know, he does care about the chain of command, as I guess you would say it, 54:58.640 --> 54:59.760 and he doesn't want... 55:00.500 --> 55:03.500 you know, his leadership being disrespected. 55:03.500 --> 55:05.700 So, I mean, that's been a thing from the Old Testament. 55:05.700 --> 55:08.700 He's not going to change it in the New Testament. 55:08.700 --> 55:15.060 And he even said, let no man despise thy youth to Timothy. 55:15.060 --> 55:18.700 Let no man despise thee, he says to Timothy. 55:18.900 --> 55:21.700 So, you know, sometimes people will try to despise pastors. 55:21.700 --> 55:25.800 Oh, you're just, you know, all you do is play golf all week and then preach one sermon a week. 55:25.800 --> 55:29.900 It's like that's just maybe some pastors do that, but not this pastor. 55:29.900 --> 55:35.800 So, I mean, I don't know what people think, but, you know, I guess there are pastors that are like that. 55:35.800 --> 55:41.400 But, you know, not in a Baptist church anyway, I don't think so. 55:41.400 --> 55:42.400 But I mean. 55:45.900 --> 55:50.520 Abraham and Sarah lied and said they're brother and sister even though they were kind of still were and 55:51.560 --> 55:54.680 God was ready to kill Abimelech over it and 55:55.200 --> 56:00.020 Rebuked him and was like don't say anything that you shouldn't say to him. He's like 56:00.600 --> 56:05.840 You know, he's ready to kill Abimelech just because he did something he didn't know he was doing something wrong 56:06.500 --> 56:10.060 But listen, we're supposed to not avenge ourselves. 56:10.060 --> 56:13.820 So even if someone does do you wrong that's a Christian, what does the Bible say? 56:13.820 --> 56:19.400 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath, for it is written, 56:19.400 --> 56:20.900 vengeance is mine. 56:20.900 --> 56:22.540 I will repay, saith the Lord. 56:22.540 --> 56:25.260 It doesn't say vengeance is fine. 56:25.260 --> 56:26.620 It says vengeance is mine. 56:27.700 --> 56:33.140 And so, you know, the more we take matters into our own hands to get revenge on people that do us 56:33.140 --> 56:37.860 wrong, and especially, you know, this is talking about Christians. Obviously, I think that it can 56:37.860 --> 56:42.260 be, you know, in Romans chapter 12, I think it's definitely could be talking about people that are 56:42.260 --> 56:47.940 unbelievers for sure. But in Hebrews, it's not talking about unbelievers. It's talking about 56:47.940 --> 56:54.420 believers and it specifically says in Hebrews chapter 56:56.700 --> 57:02.100 10 verse 30 it says, for we know him that saith that has said vengeance belongeth unto 57:02.100 --> 57:08.180 me I will recompense saith the Lord and again the Lord shall judge his people it is a fearful 57:08.180 --> 57:11.260 thing to fall in the hands of the living God. 57:11.260 --> 57:13.840 He's talking about judging his own people. 57:13.840 --> 57:18.560 So God is supposed to judge his own people obviously we do judge in the church certain 57:18.560 --> 57:23.760 things but you know ultimately God's hand is the one it's going to be upon. 57:24.100 --> 57:27.780 in situations like this. 57:27.780 --> 57:30.980 Obviously we do kick people out of church if we have to, 57:30.980 --> 57:32.860 but God honors that kind of judgment 57:32.860 --> 57:34.020 because we're supposed to do it. 57:34.020 --> 57:36.420 He tells us to do those things. 57:36.420 --> 57:38.220 But when it comes to getting revenge 57:38.220 --> 57:42.540 and physically attacking people and things like that, 57:42.540 --> 57:45.100 I mean we're just not supposed to do stuff like that. 57:45.200 --> 57:54.200 It's never our job to take down kings. It's never our job to take down people and get revenge on people. 57:54.200 --> 57:57.200 The Bible specifically tells us not to do that. 57:57.200 --> 58:00.200 Verse 13 in our text says, 58:00.200 --> 58:05.140 sayeth the proverb of the ancients, wickedness proceedeth from the wicked, but my hand shall 58:05.140 --> 58:06.140 not be upon thee." 58:06.900 --> 58:12.260 I like that proverb. It's not a proverb that's in the Bible. It's just said by David here, 58:12.260 --> 58:16.020 but it's a proverb of the ancients. Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked. 58:16.660 --> 58:23.700 I mean, it's not really rocket science, but it's just true. If people are doing wicked things, 58:23.700 --> 58:28.020 then that means they're wicked. I mean, wickedness proceeds from the wicked. But he says, 58:28.020 --> 58:32.420 but mine hand will not be upon me. You're not going to see the wickedness coming from me. 58:33.400 --> 58:37.560 After whom that the king of after whom is the king of Israel come out after whom does thou pursue? 58:38.200 --> 58:45.760 After a dead dog after a flee the Lord therefore be judged and judged between me and thee and see and plead my cause and deliver 58:45.760 --> 58:47.240 Me out of thine hand 58:47.240 --> 58:52.520 if someone's messing with you just go to the Lord about it and ask God to intervene and 58:52.800 --> 58:57.200 I've ended plenty of conversations like this where I just say hey the Lord judge between me and you 58:58.500 --> 59:03.300 That's it. I mean, because eventually the argument has to just stop. You can't just keep going on and 59:03.300 --> 59:06.900 on with the conversation with somebody. Eventually you just have to say, hey, the Lord just judged 59:06.900 --> 59:12.020 between me and you. We'll see, you know, we'll see who's who he what side he picks because that's 59:12.020 --> 59:16.340 basically what David's saying here. And it came to pass when David had made an end of speaking these 59:16.340 --> 59:22.260 words unto Saul that Saul said, and this thy voice, is this thy voice my son David? And Saul lifted up 59:22.260 --> 59:23.460 his voice and wept. 59:23.800 --> 59:29.240 So, Saul is having a moment of clarity from his insanity here and he seems like he's 59:29.240 --> 59:30.240 fine right here. 59:30.240 --> 59:34.480 And he said to David, thou art more righteous than I, for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas 59:34.480 --> 59:36.440 I have rewarded thee evil. 59:36.440 --> 59:37.720 And this is the Christian way. 59:37.720 --> 59:41.560 This is David behaving like a Christian should. 59:41.560 --> 59:42.560 And it worked. 59:42.560 --> 59:46.680 And thou hast shown this day how that thou hast dwelt well with me. 59:47.800 --> 59:52.280 for as much as when the Lord hath delivered me into thine hand thou killest me not. 59:53.080 --> 59:58.040 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? Wherefore the Lord reward 59:58.680 --> 01:00:02.200 the good for that thou hast done unto me this day. 01:00:02.700 --> 01:00:08.500 And now behold I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand. 01:00:08.500 --> 01:00:13.340 Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord that thou will not cut off my seed after me, 01:00:13.340 --> 01:00:17.660 and that thou will not destroy my name out of my father's house." 01:00:17.660 --> 01:00:22.300 And I've already kind of preached about that, but I believe that David, I mean it says, 01:00:22.300 --> 01:00:27.900 and David sweared unto Saul, and Saul went home, but David and his men gapped them up onto the hold. 01:00:27.900 --> 01:00:28.600 So. 01:00:28.900 --> 01:00:30.900 This is where the story ends tonight. 01:00:30.900 --> 01:00:37.900 But euphemism, again, is appropriate when God uses them about specific things. 01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:41.900 They're not necessary to be intimate on the detail. 01:00:41.900 --> 01:00:43.900 Don't be fooled by flannel graphs. 01:00:43.900 --> 01:00:46.900 Pants have been around for centuries, for thousands of years. 01:00:46.900 --> 01:00:49.800 Jesus didn't wear a dress. Jesus didn't have long hair. 01:00:49.900 --> 01:00:53.180 Men didn't wear dresses and if they did they weren't right with God. 01:00:53.180 --> 01:00:58.700 And women and men are not supposed to go around looking the exact same. 01:00:58.700 --> 01:01:01.420 Not having the same haircut and the same clothes on. 01:01:01.420 --> 01:01:06.540 And finally we should never make it our life's mission to take down another pastor 01:01:06.540 --> 01:01:10.460 or a saved person or judge another man's servant. 01:01:10.460 --> 01:01:12.940 We should always be willing to extend grace. 01:01:12.940 --> 01:01:14.940 We don't always have to attack. 01:01:14.940 --> 01:01:16.460 We can be like David. 01:01:16.700 --> 01:01:21.260 we can be like Jesus and sometimes it's hard sometimes it's hard when people are mistreating us 01:01:22.220 --> 01:01:28.380 to not lash out because that is our nature is to be more like Samson but like we're 01:01:29.260 --> 01:01:36.780 as New Testament Christians we are called to be better than that we were called to turn the other 01:01:36.780 --> 01:01:41.100 cheek to bless those that curse us to pray for our enemies. 01:01:41.800 --> 01:01:46.920 And David exemplifies this in the Old Testament and shows us exactly what we're supposed to be like. 01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:50.760 He was, you know, that's why, again, why he's a man after God's own heart. Let's pray. 01:01:50.760 --> 01:01:54.040 Lord, thank you so much for this great chapter in the Bible. I pray you'd help us to 01:01:55.000 --> 01:02:01.160 be more Christian towards others and especially Lord to those of our own faith. 01:02:01.160 --> 01:02:04.280 And Lord, help us to be more forgiving. Lord, you forgave us so much. 01:02:05.100 --> 01:02:11.600 And sometimes we're like that person that grabs someone by the throat and forgets all the things that we were forgiven for. 01:02:11.600 --> 01:02:19.900 And I pray that you just help us, Lord, to walk in this world as lights and not as children of darkness. 01:02:19.900 --> 01:02:29.900 And Lord, help us to think on you this week and rest this week and pray to you and help us to fight the good fight of faith, Lord. 01:02:29.900 --> 01:02:32.900 And we ask that you take us all home safely. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. 01:02:43.100 --> 01:02:48.500 I did my senior thesis on ancient Greek hoplite warfare. 01:02:48.500 --> 01:02:51.020 To their northwest, the Celts are wearing pants. 01:02:51.020 --> 01:02:53.740 To the northeast, the Scythians are wearing pants. 01:02:53.740 --> 01:02:57.940 To their far east, the Persians and the Parthians are wearing pants. 01:02:57.940 --> 01:03:01.980 Their neighbors were wearing pants, but Greece was not, its mountainous was not given to 01:03:01.980 --> 01:03:03.700 cavalry. 01:03:03.700 --> 01:03:08.820 They didn't really ride horses in Greece, so they could get away with the tunic. 01:03:08.820 --> 01:03:09.820 Anyway. 01:03:09.820 --> 01:03:10.100 Thanks for watching! 01:03:10.300 --> 01:03:15.300 133 in your reticune hymnal. 01:03:18.200 --> 01:03:22.200 Safe wherever I go, we'll sing it through twice. 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:22.900 Sean can enclose this with a purpose.