In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts encourage listeners to continue praying for Pastor Rod's recovery and reflect on the significance of Passion Week, the suffering of Jesus. They delve into the biblical story of David from 1 Samuel chapters 21-24, highlighting David's struggles, including his deception of Ahimelech, his encounter with the Philistines, and his moral dilemmas. The discussion emphasizes David's faith, his respect for God's anointed, and contrasts between his righteous and flawed actions. The hosts also provide insights about key figures like Saul and Doeg, and the impactful events surrounding David's journey.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:19 Understanding Passion Week

00:50 The Suffering of Jesus

02:22 Upcoming Good Friday Service

03:01 Daily Bible Reading: 1 Samuel 21-24

03:19 David's Trials and Tribulations

03:52 David's Moral Dilemmas

06:01 David's Encounters and Escapes

10:31 David Spares Saul's Life

13:22 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey, hello again.

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I'm here to say you guys

need to pray harder.

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'cause Pastor Rod's voice

is still not fixed yet.

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It's still Saturday in our world.

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Yeah, I guess that's true.

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That's fair.

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In all fairness, it's about 10 minutes

after we asked you to pray last time.

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Yeah, it's it's Monday and it's Monday of.

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Passion Week.

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Passion Week being the week of the Lord's

passion, his suffering on our behalf.

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And again, just the way that

they, it worked out with our

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preaching schedule and everything.

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We focused a little bit on the beginning

stages of the crucifixion this past

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Sunday, and then we get to anticipate

that all the way through Friday as

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we move towards the Lord's Supper.

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And Good Friday, inquiring Minds Wanna

know why Jesus was so stoked to go to the

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Rod: cross?

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PJ: Yeah.

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Why do they call

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Rod: it Passion Week?

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Different different used

the words passion there.

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Passion being his equated

with his suffering.

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Not passion as in zeal the the

pathos, the emotion that the yeah the

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suffering ordeal of the entire week.

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When you hear that, it's not that

Jesus was like, yes, let's go.

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Which is important.

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In fact, that's what we're talking about.

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What we did talk about rather

yesterday AT church is just, there was.

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Pain there was physical suffering.

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And that's what, when the writer

of Hebrews says he despised the

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shame of the cross, the, there was

tangible, real shame of the cross.

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And Jesus did not just walk out of the

garden of Gethsemane and straight onto the

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cross and just hop up there and say, okay

God, go ahead and pour out your wrath.

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And I'm done.

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There, there was an ordeal that it was

the father's will for him to endure.

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And that was, that was the whole thing.

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That was the trials that was

condescending to allow Pilate

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to pronounce judgment over him.

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That whole scene of just telling

Pilate, you would not be in the

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position that you're in if God had

not brought us to this moment in time.

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That the mockery from the soldiers,

the beating the flagellation,

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all of it's just this is.

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This is something that is so much

bigger than just, I say just, and

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I don't mean to demean it at all,

but it's more than the hours on the

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cross that Jesus was hanging there.

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It was everything from his betrayal to

his arrest, to the trials, to the beating,

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to carrying his own cross to the hill,

to being nailed to the cross, to raised

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up, to suffering, to dine all of it.

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And we began to look at

it yesterday and we will.

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Finish our look at it with part two

here on on Friday evening, which

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hopefully you're planning to join us for.

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It's gonna be at six 30 over at Founder's

Classical Academy, and it's gonna be

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a shorter service, just an hour long.

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We do have childcare available

for some of them not all.

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Yeah, I believe it's five and under.

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We'll have childcare available.

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Everybody else will be in service with us.

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We'll do some worship in song and then

have a more abbreviated message focused

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on the cross of Jesus from the the second

half of this this two part message here.

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So chapter 19 of John.

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So it's a heavy week, but it's a

good week for us as Christians.

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And it's, I think, appropriate for us

to feel the weightiness of it as we

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anticipate the cross, and then to feel the

joy on Sunday morning of the resurrection.

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Let's jump into our daily Bible reading.

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We are in first Samuel 21, 22, 23, and 24.

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So four chapters today.

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First cha chap, first Chamal words.

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I.

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Words.

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Yep.

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First, first Samuel chapter 21.

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David is again, running for his life.

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Remember contextually where we're at.

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So David has Jonathan

confirmed what David suspected?

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Saul wants him dead.

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I don't know how David suspected

that other than a couple of

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spears that were thrown at him.

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A couple of things like that.

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But while he's on the run, verse

two, David lies to the priest there.

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Pastor Rod, what do we do with this?

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Is this similar to what we figured out

with the other circumstance that we

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looked at recently of telling a partial

truth, not telling the whole truth?

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'cause David lies to Alek

here about why he was there.

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He says the king sent me,

the king didn't send him.

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The king was trying to kill him.

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Yeah.

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We'd have to

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Rod: distinguish this

one from the other one.

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This one doesn't.

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Sit the same way because God

doesn't tell him to do this.

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And David recognizes he

owns, at least part of this.

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He says, I've occasioned

the death of these men.

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Or it is because of my

words that I've caused this.

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So David owns this later on.

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This is not a good move.

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And even though you could justify

it in some ways and say I understand

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why he did it, man I, he really put

himself in a really bad spot because

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again he is secondarily, I believe,

responsible for the death of these men.

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And it would've been better for

him just to be honest and say, look

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I'm on the run, I'm on the lamb.

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I need help here.

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I.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah, it is interesting.

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The bread of the presence

was not meant for David.

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It was meant for the priests.

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And yet a Alek gives some to David and

to his men here, and Jesus is actually

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gonna commend a alek for doing that.

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In Matthew chapter 12, verses

three through seven, you just

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preached through that passage.

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It any notes from the what

Jesus, the connection Jesus

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makes there in, in Matthew 12,

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Rod: only that Jesus Jesus

isn't violating the law.

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So when Jesus does it they use it in

terms of, there are a agree argument

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against him about violating the Passover.

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And so Jesus responds with saying,

look there are times when there's other

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laws that supersede the law that you're

focusing on in particular the Sabbath.

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And so Jesus makes the

point just as David I.

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Righteously used the bread of

the presence, which wasn't lawful

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for him in a technical sense.

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The sanctity of life

demanded that take place.

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And there was no breaking of the law

there, there was no sin held against

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David or a Bimal, Alek for that.

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It was a right move.

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And so I think what I heard.

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One of my old pastors say about

something like this is that there

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are commands that compete with one

another, and it takes wisdom to know

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which command supersedes the other.

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And to do that well requires you to

know your Bible so well, that you could

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say, okay, how does God's mind think?

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And therefore, how do I

respond to those things?

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And it doesn't mean that God is saying,

do A and then do B at the same time.

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This is not contradiction, but that

laws can often be in conflict and one

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is weightier and one is less weighted.

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This is why Jesus says something like.

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Like you, you tie the mint

in cumin, but you neglect the

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weightier matters of the law.

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You're gonna do the small thing,

but you get rid of the big

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thing, you're missing the point.

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So I think that's the idea here.

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The weight of your, the weight

of your responsibility was a pre

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preservation and protection of life.

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I.

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PJ: Yeah, yeah.

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Getting well spoken first female 21 7.

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Notice this guy do that.

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Mite shows up.

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He's a, just a wretched individual and

he witnesses all of this happening.

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And so just put a pin on that.

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'cause he runs to tell Saul

and that's gonna have some

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devastating consequences later on.

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As David's leaving though, he

says, Hey, do you have a weapon?

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And the guy says, actually, yeah, I've

got the weapon of all weapons for you.

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It's Goliath's sword and you.

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We're the one that took down Goliath.

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So David now has Goliath's sword in his

possession, which Goliath was a large man.

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So David must have been pretty stout

at this point in time in his life

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to be able to wield that thing.

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And then in first Samuel chapter 21.

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Then from here on verses 10 through

15 David's on the run again and finds

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himself this time amongst the Philistines.

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Now David and Goliath background

there, Philistines are not gonna love

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him too much and they recognize him.

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And so David begins to act like

a crazy man to escape their ire.

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So here.

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Yeah, I think there's a couple

things in Chapter 21, not

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super commendable for David.

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Number one, he's lied to Alek.

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And then number two here when he

acts crazy in the presence of the

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Philistines I, this is, again,

God is not involved in this.

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David is not seeking God's will going,

Hey God, do you want me to, to Dr.

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Dribble down my beard and act like a

psycho person so that they let me go?

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He's trusting himself rather

than trusting in the Lord.

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And even though in yesterday's podcast

we talked about the fact that he is

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trusting in the Lord, so often it's not.

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Perfectly, and this is an example of

where he takes things into his own hands.

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And we can be tempted to do that too.

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When life gets difficult, we can

think, okay, Lord, rather than

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seeking your way out of this, let

me pull myself up by my bootstraps.

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Let me pull the ripcord myself

on this parachute and get myself

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out of the trouble that I'm in.

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I think that's what David

is doing here in Chapter 21.

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Not the best situation.

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Chapter 22.

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Then David, you'll notice here collects

quite the crew of people to himself.

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These are not people that you would

draft right away to say, Hey, these

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are the types of people that I want.

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He gets a crew of desperate men

men that society had rejected in

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outcast and some unsavory characters.

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And they all come to him

at the cave OFM there.

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Meanwhile do the mite runs and tells Saul

what a Himalaya had done in that help.

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Alek had helped David.

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And so Saul ordered somebody

to go and kill the priests.

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And no one amongst his men wants to obey.

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They understand the gravity of this.

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And here's the wicked man Dogue, who

volunteers and kills them all, except for

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this man of Bahar who escapes to David

and ends up being David's connection.

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David's priest there while

David is on the lamb.

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Yeah, chapter 22, Saul in his blood

thirst is ex growing excessively.

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Um.

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It just.

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It's evil, it's wicked, and it's seen here

in the murder of all of these priests.

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And Doug's just a wretched guy.

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He doesn't share Saul's thirst

vengeance against David.

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He doesn't have a dog in the fight.

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He just is an evil, despicable person

and there's no other way around it.

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Aside from that chapter 23, then verses

one through six, David delivers a town

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there in the area of Philistia named

Keila, K-E-I-L-A-H, after receiving

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confirmation from the Lord that he

would give him victory there over the

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Philistines who were attacking the town.

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And so he goes out and he delivers

them, he spares them, he saves them.

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Saul discovers that he's there and this

is an interesting circu circumstance

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because David asks and seeks the Lord.

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He says, Hey, if I stay here,

are they gonna turn me over?

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And God says, yeah, if you

stay there, they're gonna.

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Turn you over.

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And the zip fights are the inhabitants

and David ends up running and flees into

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the wilderness of may own eventually

making his way to an area called in Getti.

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But meanwhile here, there's another

interaction between David and

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Jonathan in verse 15 through 18.

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As Jonathan hears that he's there and

goes to him where he is, and again,

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affirms his loyalty and reconfirms the

covenant that they had made together

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there at, while they're taking refuge

there with the, in the wilderness of Ziff.

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We don't have cool

names like that anymore.

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Have you noticed that Pastor

Rob the wilderness of Ziff?

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Oh, we've got places like

Grand Prairie and Italy.

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You and Grand Prairie.

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I found that from somebody

that they used to live there.

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So it's like your, you

took issue with money.

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It's your town now.

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Yeah, it is.

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I guess so.

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You like Grand Prairie?

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Rod: Grand Prairie.

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What's the other Curtis, Chris, Kyle.

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Kyle, Texas.

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Cool places.

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Yep.

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You're talking about that.

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PJ: Did you know there's a Corinth, Texas?

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Yes.

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Yep.

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Yes, I did see that on the map.

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Not Corinth.

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Don't call it Corinth.

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It's Corinth.

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Oh, okay.

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Yep.

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It's over there.

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Near.

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That'll be easier

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Rod: because we know Corinthia.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: So it just feels like it.

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That's more natural.

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PJ: Near Flower Mound, we

got Flower Mound, Texas.

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We've got

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Rod: no to flowers over there.

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PJ: Yep.

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Ponder Texas.

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There's a good steakhouse up there.

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Rod: I like the guy who does the weather

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PJ: ponder on weather.

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Rod: Yeah.

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PJ: Does he live in Ponder?

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I know he should.

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He should.

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Yeah.

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Making his McKinney actually.

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Otherwise it's false advertising.

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Oh.

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Anyways.

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Yeah.

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So chapter 24.

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Then David is at this cave in Getty

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go there to in Getty to the springs

of, in Getty, and we don't know the

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exact cave where he and his men were.

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Were taking refuge there.

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But it's a narrow canyon

that you truck back into.

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And at the end of it is a

waterfall and it's a refuge.

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It's not far from there is the Dead Sea.

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And the Dead Sea is very arid and dry,

and the territory is very desert-like.

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So when you think of a desert,

that, that is very similar to what

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the territory around in Getty is.

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And yet in Getty is this little oasis.

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It's this outcropping, it's green as

you walk back in there and it's well

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fed and it's fed by these springs.

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And so David, it's natural that

David and his men would take.

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Refuge there, takes shelter there.

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And that's what they do.

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And in chapter 24, Saul comes upon him

there, and Saul enters the cave where

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David and his men happened to be camped

out and doesn't understand, doesn't

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realize it, and goes to relieve himself.

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And David cuts off a corner of his robe.

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And yet David's heart is struck.

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So Pastor Rod talks to us a little bit

about David's guilt over cutting off a

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corner of Saul's robe because to, to us

that's that's, that seems pretty base.

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That's not a big deal.

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You ruined his robe, maybe.

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Rod: Yeah, I, and I scratched

your car a few times and I have

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felt no compunction about that.

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Yeah, I feel totally fine, so I get it.

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David understands and appreciates the

role and the position of the king.

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And because he honors the King of Kings,

he can look at that role and say, I can.

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I can distinguish the man from the

position to the point that I can respect

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the role even if I don't respect the man.

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And so David has such a high regard

for God's authority and God's role in

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and solves life, that he's unwilling

even to give the impression that he.

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Intends any harm on Saul's life.

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'cause ultimately he knows

God has to do the work.

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God's gonna remove him or exalt him.

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David knows that God has to be the

actor in this situation, and he

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doesn't even want to get close to

stepping on God's toes in this.

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So I think this is David's piety.

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This is a good time, a good experience

of something that David does.

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It just really shows his heart

toward God and his heart, in

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this case, toward the man's soul.

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Yeah.

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And it's actually gonna be

effective in softening Saul's heart.

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Toward him, at least in

this particular moment.

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PJ: Yeah, in this instance.

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Yeah, for sure.

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'cause Saul says there, he says

in verse 20, he says, now behold,

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I know that you shall surely be

king and that the kingdom of Israel

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shall be established in your hand.

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And then he asks.

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David, something similar

to what Jonathan did.

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Swear to me therefore, that you'll

not cut off my offspring after me.

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You'll not destroy my name

outta my father's house.

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David, it says, swore this

to Saul there in verse 22.

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But yeah, this is this is a

highlight of David, David being

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a man after God's own heart.

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It's actions like this that we see that.

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Born out for us.

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So David's gonna have an op another

opportunity not too far from now

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to end up taking Saul's life.

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And again, he's gonna spare Saul's life.

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So, yeah.

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Alright, let's let's pray and then

we will be done with this episode.

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God we are grateful for the

example that we find in David,

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both the good and the bad.

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We're thankful for the reality that

you call a man like David, a man

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after your own heart, even though

he wasn't a man who was perfect

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by any stretch of the imagination.

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That gives us, and it encourages us.

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It gives us that encouragement to

continue to press on and to to follow you.

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And to follow you with everything

that, that we're able to do.

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And so even as we just strive to be

faithful to to our roles as husbands or

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wives or wherever we may find ourselves,

students or whatever that is, God, we

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want to be able to, at the end of our

life, have somebody say they were a man

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after, or a woman after God's own heart.

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And so help us to live such a life and

to lean on your grace as we're not able

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to do that with perfection, but to,

to trust that you will enable us to be

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more like Jesus with each passing day.

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We pray in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See ya.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said