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Chapters

00:00 Welcome

02:38 Sunday Morning Warfare

08:45 1 Samuel 27

11:33 1 Samuel 28

19:19 1 Samuel 29

19:57 Luke 17:1-19

23:45 Closing Prayer

24:40 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to Sunday's edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It's the Lord's Day.

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It is.

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And we hope wherever you are, you either

have been to church or you're on the way

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to church, depending on whether you wanna

go to the nine o'clock or the 11 o'clock.

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'cause we've got two options now for you.

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And the 11 o'clock is surprisingly

lighter than the night.

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Yeah.

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Because at the old church where I

came from, the 11 was the service.

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That's where all the cool kids went, and

it was always like louder music, and the

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worship was always far more charismatic.

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I don't know what happened, but this

one, it seems to be the opposite.

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Our nine o'clock crowd is the more.

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Rowdy.

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Not rowdy, but they're the bigger one.

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They're in full force.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it is.

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That's true.

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I think it's 'cause we've got a lot of

kids in our church and the kids tell

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mom and dad which service they want.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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I think it's because of nap time

and all those we things, you know.

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So world, a child led

church, it's a new thing.

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We're gonna write a book on it.

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No, but let's talk about church.

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Church starts at nine

and church starts at 11.

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And so, we know that.

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Life gets busy, life gets chaotic

and getting out the door and

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getting kids checked into to

kids ministry and everything else

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like that can be crazy at times.

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But at the same time when we plan our

services and Pastor Rob puts a lot of

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time into the worship component of things

and certainly there's the preaching

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side of things and everything else.

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We're playing in the full service.

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We're playing in the full service from

nine o'clock all the way until it ends.

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And same thing from 11 o'clock

all the way until it ends.

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And we really want you to be

there for the whole thing.

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In fact it's our worship in.

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We as a church are better when we

have everybody there from the very.

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Opening chord that's played from

the first song through to the end.

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It's a better product, even

corporately for us to be together,

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lifting our voices together.

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It's good for us to be there and

it's good for you to be there.

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It's good for you to be

there for the whole thing.

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Church is, and not, I'm not saying

that any of you have this mentality

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necessarily, but church is not just

the sermon church is everything.

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The worship is a vital component

in song just as much as.

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The preaching of the word is a vital

component as well as, our offering

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and our prayer time, everything

else is hugely important there.

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So all that to say if I can give you a

little bit of a nudge just to say, if you

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need to set the alarm a little bit earlier

to get everybody out the door on time.

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If you need to lay the kids' clothes

out the night before to make sure you

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know exactly what they're wearing.

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If you need to prep, breakfast the night

before and do overnight oats or whatever

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it is, just to make Sunday as easy and

frictionless as possible at home to get

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you and your family to church on time.

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Do that.

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It will serve you, it will serve

your family better, and it'll

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serve your brothers in Christ and

sisters in Christ better for you

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to be there for the whole thing.

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We want to see you there.

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We wanna see your smiling faces

and it's an encouragement to our

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worship team too, when they get up

to start the service and they see.

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The room is dense.

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There's people there and they're

ready to engage and they're ready

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to sing along with our team.

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Yeah.

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Sundays are interesting because I think.

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You can almost feel the spiritual

opposition to you getting to church.

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It feels like if things can

go wrong, they do go wrong.

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It feels like there's shorter tempers.

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People are up early and they're not

necessarily in the best attitude.

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There's just so many things that

work against Sunday working the

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way that God is designed, and I

don't think that's an accident.

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I do think there is legitimately

greater spiritual warfare in opposition

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to the average Christian family.

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Who wants to do the right thing?

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I don't doubt for one second that

the spirit is indeed willing.

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Everyone wakes up with the intention.

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Let's get to church,

let's get there on time.

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Let's be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

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But then there's the flesh, and

then there's fallenness in our own

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hearts and the hearts of the others.

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And then there's these,

why is this light red?

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No one's here.

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I could just run the red light

right now and get to church on time.

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What's happening?

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Why is there traffic at.

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4:00 AM on Preston Road because

there's always traffic on Preston Road.

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4:00 AM Well, I guess not

everybody gets through that early.

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There's just always

these things on Sunday.

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Have you guys noticed that on Sundays

or anytime you're trying to go to

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church and do something good, you're

trying to go to community group.

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If it's not at your house,

you're trying to go and do

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something good for God's sake.

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And there's always.

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More obstacles than what it feels

like there should ordinarily be.

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Absolutely.

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I definitely think that's the case.

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I think that Satan doesn't want

us to be there and he's going

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to use all of his everything.

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He has everything in the, in the, all his

resources, all his resources, everything

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he has in the tank, his whole arsenal.

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To keep you from being there, because what

we do on a Sunday morning is so important

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for everything that we do in life.

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And it's going to change how

you go to work the next day.

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It's gonna change how

you do your kids' sports.

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It's gonna change all these things, and

he doesn't want those changes to happen.

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And so, yeah, I think he definitely

is at work in those things.

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And, and we don't perceive

spiritual forces necessarily,

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our hair isn't standing on end

or anything like that, but.

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I do think practically all those

little things get in the way.

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Yeah.

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And to that end, I would suggest try to

get into your seat, not just on time,

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but maybe even a couple minutes early.

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Mm.

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If you are.

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Calculating your morning so that

you have a little bit of a buffer

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to begin with, that will be good.

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'cause then if things do go

sideways, yeah, you'll have a

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little bit of extra time and you

won't necessarily be as stressed.

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But then let's say the Lord

gives you the opportunity to

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be there a few minutes early.

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Take that chance to settle in,

pray, get your, prepare your heart.

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Get ready for what's gonna happen and

use that time well, that time will

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not be wasted if you show up five

minutes early and you have the chance

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to pray for what's about to happen.

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Indeed, you know that, that.

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Could be a great thing for you

to build into your morning.

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One of my pros in college used to

say, Sunday morning starts Saturday

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night, and on that note at Sunset.

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Yeah.

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Being, yeah.

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At Shabbat.

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Yeah.

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No, just being intentional

about the whole thing.

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Getting good rest and just being

ready, being prepared and I would

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say that carries over into, yeah.

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Getting there a little bit early,

looking at, the worksheet, looking

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at the passage, reading through it,

praying through it, asking God to do

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what he wants to accomplish in your

heart and in your life during that time.

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And I would imagine most of the people

listening to this are not the ones

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who are guilty of this all the time.

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And maybe here or there.

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My guess is if you listen to this

podcast consistently, this isn't by

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and large true of everybody here, but

we also wanna build a culture in our

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church where we care about these things.

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Yeah.

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And so even if you are somebody who comes

early and is ready to go, do what you can.

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You don't have to, don't,

you know, don't shame them.

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Yeah.

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Don't shame them.

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Shame them.

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But do what you can to help us build

a church culture where we care about,

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the minute of 9:00 AM to 9 0 1.

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Yeah.

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In our church service.

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That's a good point.

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Otherwise, we're gonna

start doing previews.

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What are those previews like?

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The movie theater, previews,

trailers, this event's coming up and

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we're gonna vary the timing on it.

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So you don't, you can't predict it.

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You're just gonna have to, so let me

offer just one more potential pushback

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that people won't say, but they'll feel.

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Okay.

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And then I want you guys just

to riff on this briefly, 'cause

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we're already a few minutes in.

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I don't like the worship.

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That's gonna, someone's not gonna

say it, but someone is thinking it.

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I guarantee you.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Because I've thought that before.

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Yeah.

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No one's ever thought that except you.

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Sorry, sorry.

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I can't answer a good question.

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I'm just kidding.

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Oh, I was all alone here

on this sinful island.

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No, I would say this.

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Look, no matter where you're at

I don't think across the board

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you're gonna love every song that

you hear when you're in a church.

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The worship team doesn't love

every song that we play, right?

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So I think more importantly,

the challenge is.

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Let me then if this isn't my favorite

song, let me think about the words

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that we're singing, because I can

tell you, I trust Pastor Rod.

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I trust his song selection.

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I know that he puts a

lot of thought into it.

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We're not singing fluff, we're not

singing stuff that is just gonna

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be, the same seven words, 11 times.

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It's a little fluff in there.

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Sometimes it, but it's like the

desserts, but it's theological fluff.

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Yes.

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It's not plum.

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It's not just yeah, sure.

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It's not nonsense.

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So look for the theological nugget,

even during the song that isn't

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your favorite, and meditate on that.

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If that means you're not singing in,

in, in that moment, as long as you're

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not sitting there with your arms

crossed with a furrow brow, okay, fine.

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But if you can contemplate that

theological nugget, maybe you're

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gonna pick up your Bible, you're gonna

turn to a passage that reminds you of

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that truth, that might be a good way

to still stay engaged even during a

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song that might not be your favorite.

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I agree with that.

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The, my other suggestion might be, look

around at other people who are singing.

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Look at the rest of God's

people who are singing.

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Like Stare at them.

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Yeah, stare at them.

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Okay.

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Stare at them down.

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Full on stare.

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Oh, no.

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No blinking either.

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You know what I mean?

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You know what I mean?

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I'm saying enjoy God's.

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Church worshiping, even if you

don't enjoy the individual song.

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Yeah.

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Enjoy God's church and his

people together worshiping him.

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Pull out your phone and video them as

they're saying while you're staring and

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blinking, walking them down the aisles

and just like it was unblinkingly.

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Well, we could use a media team.

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Someone told me and it stuck.

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'cause it hit and it hurt.

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But worship's not about you.

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Like what, so you don't like the song?

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So the worship is not about you.

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It's about what the, it's for the Lord.

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And it's also an

encouragement to your people.

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So sing and participate because

that's what God wants you to do.

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And I'm like, you know what?

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I guess that kind of does clarify for me.

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I may not be my favorite song,

but okay, I'm here to do it.

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The Lord wants me to, I'm

gonna do it with a smile.

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So help me God, to quote

a great pastor theologian.

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Oof.

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Oof.

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Yeah.

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That one hurts.

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Which I say that often.

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Come on church.

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Come on.

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Come on church.

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Oof.

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Alright.

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Hey, let's jump into our

daily Bible reading for today.

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We're in first Samuel 27 through 29,

and so if you on Sunday, see Pastor Mark

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with his phone out and he's just walking

by you recording you unthinkingly,

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just know he doesn't like the song and

he's a little awkward and it's okay.

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Why are you trying to sync my point?

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First Samuel 27 through 29

at Luke 17, one through 19.

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Alright, first Samuel 27.

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David goes to the Philistines and

I'm still conflicted over this move.

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On the one hand I understand it,

there's not a lot of places that

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he can go with his men and be.

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Safe.

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He's having, I'm not conflicted.

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He's having him to move.

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You think it's a bad move?

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I think it's a bad move.

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Okay.

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Wow.

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I tend to agree with you, but

here's my pushback on that.

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Number one there, there's, he's

got 400 mighty men With him there's

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not a lot of place for 400 mighty

men , to hang out unnoticed.

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And he is running.

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If he stops running,

Saul's gonna kill him.

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Number two.

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While they're with the Philistines,

he is sabotaging God's enemies.

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He's working against them.

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So he's going out and raiding

the enemies of Israel still while

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under the guise of the Philistines.

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Even when the Philistines, and we're

gonna get there in two chapters decide

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that they're gonna go to battle.

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And David's David wants to go, I think,

fully that David is going to turn against

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the Philistines during that battle.

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I don't think he's gonna lift

a sword against the Israelites.

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He had every opportunity

to kill Saul twice.

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And he never did.

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I don't think he's all of a sudden gonna

be okay killing the armies of God either.

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So that's the only reason why I say

I'm conflicted by this move to the

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Philistines, is because David is shrewd

while he's there, to still be serving the

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Lord, even though he's in enemy territory.

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Yeah, that is absolutely

reasonable, and I think you're right.

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I think the, yeah, and again, I'm not

totally settled on this, but I would say

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it's not a good move because it's not a

good move when the people of Israel leave.

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The promised land, when they leave

God's specific territory that he

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has granted to them, that never

works out well in other situations.

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And at best, the situation ends up

being a neutral situation, right?

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There's not great favor that is bestowed

on David for these particular actions.

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So yeah, that's just my 2 cents.

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I think David acknowledges

that this is a bad move.

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Even though the psalm that's

written in response to it is largely

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positive, he acknowledges, and thanks

God for his favor and his grace.

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And this is the downside of reading

this plan, because we're not gonna

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get to the Psalms until right.

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A couple months, I think.

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But Psalm 56 is the one.

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And Psalm 34 that talk about this

particular season, and I think

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they're largely positive Psalms and

he ascribes credit to God for it.

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So I think if I'm putting my feet into

the sandals of David I think he knows

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this isn't a good move, but this is

a move of desperation as you see in

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verse one here, he says, now I shall

perish one day by the hand of Saul.

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There's nothing better for me than that.

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I should escape to the

land of the Philistines.

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So he's desperate and obviously.

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Not thinking, well, at least

that's the way I understand that.

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He's not thinking clearly.

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He's not thinking by faith,

he's thinking by fear.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Which is what provokes his decision.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Well, chapter 28, there's

a little interlude here.

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As the Philistines are

preparing for battle against the

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Israelites, Saul is panicking.

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He doesn't have Samuel anymore,

and God is not answering him.

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He's seeking the Lord.

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And the Lord has left him.

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The Lord has abandoned him.

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The Lord is not providing guidance

and counsel to him anymore.

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So Saul decides to pursue other

means and he thinks, well, Samuel

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always gave me good advice.

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Lemme see if I can get to Samuel and he.

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He then proceeds to go

to a medium or a witch.

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And he had banished them from the

kingdom and even ordered them to be

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executed if they were still there.

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So, he has to disguise himself.

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He goes there and he asks this

woman to bring up Samuel for him.

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Now, a again, another situation

where I go back and forth, is this

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Samuel or is this a demonic spirit

under the guise of Samuel is.

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There is a situation where God

would dispatch Samuel from his

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presence after Samuel's dead to go

back in, in a spirit being form.

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'cause I don't know that we see this.

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Elijah and Moses on the Mount of

Transfiguration, they're with Jesus.

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They're there and they're not

said to be spiritual forms

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there or spirit beings there.

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This is just an interesting and the

witch is shocked, which I think tells

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me that this is the first time this

has legitimately worked for her.

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She is.

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Absolutely flabbergasted sees

that it's Saul, but I'd love to

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get y'all's thoughts on is this

Samuel or is this an evil spirit?

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I do think it's Samuel.

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I can't say that with absolute certainty,

but I do think it's Samuel and part

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of that is because he prophesies of.

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The coming death.

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That's true of Saul and his and his sons.

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And that does indeed come to be.

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Could a demonic force have Yes.

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That that was gonna happen?

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Perhaps.

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But I do think, the test of the prophet

is, are the prophecies they make true.

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And it is true.

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And it could have been just a coincidence.

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But I'm gonna be inclined to see this,

given the way it's structured narratively

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to say that this is indeed Samuel.

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I would agree with that.

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I don't see anything in the text

that would lead me to doubt that

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all the signs appear to be positive.

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That is, they affirm.

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What the narrator's narrating that this is

the prophet Samuel, he doesn't say us the

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spirit of, or a spirit that appeared to

be pro to be Samuel, something like that.

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It is who he says he is, at

least as far as we can tell.

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And I, for many reasons, this is

exceptional and I would be I don't

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think God does this as a rule.

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I don't think He says, I'm gonna

let you have access to one of my

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servants and I'm gonna let it.

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Let him or her be summoned by some

kind of witch or medium or satanist

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who proffers, these kinds of things.

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I think this is an

exceptional circumstance.

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Now, as far as the medium, the witch at

Endor she could have been shocked because

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of who it was, and I've heard that before.

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It's like, oh, this is the Sam.

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What are you doing?

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Who are, you must be solvent.

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And, oh, oh my, I'm in trouble.

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I'm gonna die.

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And she had every reason to think that,

because that was the death penalty.

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In fact, what was warranted.

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So.

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I don't know.

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I do know that the

spiritual realm is real.

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I do know that they're really

good at imitating because they've

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had a long time to observe us.

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Whether or not God allows human spirits

to interact with or yeah, deceased human

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spirits to interact with us after death.

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I don't think that's.

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That's what you can take

from this with anything.

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I think this is exceptional.

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God uses, and God does not ever, ever

even give anything close to saying,

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Hey, you should try this someday.

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Yeah, I think that's a good

point to, to notice, right?

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This is not something that a

Christian should apply in their

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own life in any way ever, or pursue

even to the slightest degree, right?

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This is carried out by a witch.

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Right by somebody who is a, to whatever

degree, somebody who deals with evil

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spirits in the evil spiritual realm.

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And this is incredibly dangerous.

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And also notice what happens to

Saul because he pursued this right?

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The next thing that happens to

him is he dies death penalty.

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And so this is judgment from the Lord.

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This is judgment for

the Lord for his life.

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But also I think.

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Because of what he specifically does here.

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Can I ask you a personal question?

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No.

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Collective view.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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Well, okay, fine.

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I take it back.

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Have you ever had anybody tell you that

they or a family member encountered a

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recently deci deceased family member?

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Spiritually.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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You've had that.

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Yes, actually several times.

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Multiple times for me too.

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Yeah.

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And I guess I'm assuming that there's at

least a couple people who are listening

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who have had something similar take place.

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Yeah.

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Either they, themselves have,

I saw her, she was there.

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It looked like my grandma.

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It was the same shape, or, my grandpa,

there was something that happened there.

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He moved the vase.

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That was his, weird stuff like

that takes place in people's homes.

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And it's intimate family members,

it's usually not like in the

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middle of a public square.

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It's in the privacy of their home.

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If that were to happen to a Christian,

someone that, you know in the

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church, someone dies and there's

some kind of spiritual activity

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that they perceive, what would you

encourage them to do with that?

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It reminds me of, in some ways

the regimen and Lazarus again,

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because I think our testimony is.

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We have everything necessary for life and

godliness in, in the pages of scripture.

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And so as far as what we need for our

faith and our trust and our confidence

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and where they are and what's going

on we have that revealed to us

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already in the pages of the scripture.

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I don't think we need more than that.

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And so I'd be cautious to say

that this is God giving us

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additional information, revelation.

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Anything else like that?

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I'll see the.

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Airwaves to you guys.

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My default would be skepticism.

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Even if it were to happen to me, I

think my default would be skepticism,

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but that shouldn't come as a surprise.

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'cause I'm also the guy that

doesn't believe in aliens.

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So, I'll open the airwaves to you guys.

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I think typically and I think,

there's, we're generalizing here.

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I would wanna know more about

the individual situation.

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But I'm gonna, because we're

generalizing, I'm gonna give a

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generalized answer, at least that's

fair to the best of my ability.

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I think those things are often

the person's natural grief.

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In at work, right?

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You when you lose somebody, you like

hear their voice sometimes, right?

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Yeah.

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Or you.

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Or you, oh, they're

there, or, where are they?

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Right?

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You have those sort of impulses or

those sort of things when there's,

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especially when they're so built

into your daily life, right?

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If it's a spouse who

you've spent 50 years with.

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It's quite a shock the day they're gone.

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Right?

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And your brain, even the way your brain

is programmed, expects to see them

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there, expects to hear their voice.

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Yeah.

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Expects this to happen or that to happen.

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And so I think generally this

is the process of grief at work.

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And again, I would wanna know more about

the specific situation to be able to.

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Answer that in specific settings,

but that would be my general

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explanation or way I would see this.

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I appreciate that and I think

I would offer a caution as

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heartfelt as I can offer it.

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And I agree because when you lose

somebody that you love, that, that's

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a gut punch and it leaves a void

in a chasm in your soul mm-hmm.

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That just never gets filled.

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That person is never going to be.

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In the room with you again, and

that kind of emptiness and sadness

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can play tricks on the mind.

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I would agree with that.

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But the testimony that I've gotten

from people is I was so comforted.

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It meant so much to me that

I could see her or see him.

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I heard his voice or something like

that, and I, that concerns me for your

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sake, because God doesn't want you to

find comfort in your lost loved one.

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He wants you to find comfort in him.

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He wants you to go to him as the source

of your and endurance and encouragement

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and your ability to trust what he's doing.

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Now, is it possible that God

could give you some kind of sign?

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It's possible, but that

possibility is such a speculative.

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Unsure.

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You just can't ground it in anything.

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Your best bet, if that ever were to

happen to you or someone says that

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to you and say, I would use it as

an opportunity to pray and just say,

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Lord I'm hurting, I'm struggling.

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Will you please, will you comfort me?

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I don't wanna be comforted by

food or by visions, or by, I'm

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gonna watch friends for the next

72 hours because I'm just so sad.

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Just face it with the Lord.

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Take comfort in him.

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Yeah I'm good with both those responses.

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I think that's helpful.

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Yeah.

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Last chapter we touched on it already, but

the Philistines are getting ready to go

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to battle and the king of the Philistine

armies is ready to send David with them.

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His lords come back and say,

Nope, we're not doing this.

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We know who this guy is.

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SA has killed his thousands.

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David is 10 thousands.

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So the king calls David and

says, Hey, you need to go back.

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And I think this is God preventing

David's loss of life even at the

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hand of the Philistines, as much as

at the hand of the Israelites, just

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because of what I was saying earlier.

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I think David was gonna

turn on the Philistines.

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It's speculation, but

that's my take on it.

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So, God prevents David from having

at least to go and fight his, the,

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his brothers, that he's going to

shortly lead here as their king.

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So this is a mercy of

God by sending him back.

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Luke 17, one through 19 in the

New Testament reading today.

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I find it interesting after his

address to, in the first four verses

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about temp tempting people to sin and

what happens to those that especially

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cause the little ones to sin.

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And then he says talks about forgiveness.

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That the initial response of the

apostles is, Lord, increase our faith.

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Increase our faith.

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This is, it reminds me a little bit of,

in John's gospel when Jesus is talking

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to his disciples and so many people leave

and Jesus looks at them and they say,

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he says, do you guys wanna leave too?

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It's, some of Jesus's

teachings are hard hearing.

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The teaching.

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You have to forgive when

somebody sins against you.

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That's not something we want to hear.

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These are hard things to process and I

think that's part of the reason why the

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apostles say, Hey, increase our faith.

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And Jesus is saying, look, you just

need faith like a mustard seed.

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You just need even a small amount of

faith, which is an encouragement to us.

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If you struggle, and even today I'm

preaching a little bit on anxiety.

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Anxiety and the relationship with

humility and pride and things like

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that, maybe you're a fearful person,

a person who struggles with anxiety,

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a person who struggles to do what

God calls them to do all the time.

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It's an encouragement that Jesus

is, you need a micron of faith.

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A small amount of faith

is what's necessary.

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And then over time, yes.

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Does that faith grow?

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Yeah, because that mustard seed

grows and becomes the biggest

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tree in the, in all of the forest.

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And that small faith

that we have will grow.

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God's gonna be faithful to that,

and I think Jesus is alluding

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to that here in this chapter.

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There's two things that really stand out

to me in this brief section of Luke 17.

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Which is where we are.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Just checking.

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Took me a second to catch up here.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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Two major things that stand out to me.

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Number one, the unworthy servants.

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I love this because I think this

is a really helpful framing of the

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work that we do on behalf of Christ.

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Some of us are great servants.

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We serve sacrificially, we serve lovingly,

we do, we just go above and beyond.

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We apply the Adi pat mentality,

anything, any place, anytime.

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And here Jesus says.

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How you're to think about yourself.

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Verse nine does the master thank the

servant because he did what was commanded.

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He says, so you also, when you have

done all that, you were commanded,

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say, we are unworthy servants.

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We have only done what was our duty,

what an entire reframing of the

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way that I look at my service Now.

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It doesn't mean that God is just a

cruel task master who doesn't care

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about your hurts and your sacrifices.

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Clearly he does.

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He's going to reward you.

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He will bless you.

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But before he gets to that point

here in Luke 17, he tells us like

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this is how you're think about

yourself, just an unworthy servant.

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And I'm doing what I'm called to do.

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I'm not acting exceptionally, I'm

not become, I'm not extraordinary

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in an ultimate grand scheme.

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God sees us as this is

the right thing to do.

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I should see myself in this way.

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So let me encourage you to think of

yourself in these terms that Jesus says

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and often we don't do this, but we should.

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This is a really hard thing,

but a good thing for us.

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This helps reframe all of our

service, reframe what we do in

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terms of this is the right thing.

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And I can't take any credit for that.

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The Lord has done this through me.

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Secondly.

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I wanna point out to you in the Jesus

cleansing the 10 lepers, his final few

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verses here, verses 11 through 18, 19

the one thing that always stands out to

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me that I find so helpful for my soul

is that Jesus expects my Thanksgiving.

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He doesn't look at the one who came

back and says, Hey, you did it.

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Good job.

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Well done.

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I appreciate your gratitude.

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What a good thing for you to do.

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He says, where are the nine?

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Where are the others?

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He expects our gratitude.

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He deserves it.

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And both of these put Jesus in a very a

stranger light than what we're used to.

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But I think it's a helpful one.

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It fills out the whole picture.

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Jesus is gentle, lowly, and mild.

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Yes, but he's also the king.

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He deserves our respect.

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He deserves our trust.

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He deserves our duty, our heartfelt

joy filled duty, and our gratitude.

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This is the Lord.

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This is the king.

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He deserves these things.

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That's a great point.

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And it positions us right.

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We need to understand our

position rightly in order to be

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faithful in all the things we do.

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If we misunderstand our position

before God, that's a big, that's

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gonna cause a lot of problems.

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It's gonna be a big problem.

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Totally.

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Well, let's pray and they'll be done with

this episode, the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Lord, give us such a humble mind, mindset

and mentality, even as we're talking

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about in our church service today.

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We wanna be those that serve.

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And recognize that this is

what we're called to do.

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This is who we are meant to be, that

Jesus is the Lord of our life completely.

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And so God, we want to

be a church that is.

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Geared that way.

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And also a church that's grateful

and thankful for our salvation.

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That is always finding opportunity to give

thanks to you no matter what we're facing.

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If for nothing else other than eternal

life, salvation, forgiveness, mercy,

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grace that we see at the cross, Lord,

there's always reasons for us to be

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those that are the one gr grateful leper.

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Help us to be a church like that.

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We want to be.

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Careful to be grateful for what

you have done in our lives.

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And there's so many other things beyond

salvation that you've done for us, Lord,

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that we should always be thankful for.

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So help us to be grateful people

we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

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