00:00 Introduction and Holy Saturday Discussion

00:28 Theological Debate: Where Was Jesus on Holy Saturday?

02:13 Exploring the Apostles' Creed and Jesus' Descent

09:06 David's Encounters and Leadership in 1 Samuel

15:32 The Significance of Burial in Christian Tradition

19:12 Psalm 18: David's Praise and Reflection

21:04 Conclusion and Prayer

21:56 Podcast Outro and Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Saturday.

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This is Holy Saturday, or

sometimes called Black Saturday.

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Is it called Black Saturday?

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Sometimes, not always.

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It depends on what liturgical

calendar you follow.

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But yes, it can be called Holy

Sat Saturday or Black Saturday.

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Is that where the band Black Sabbath?

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Yes.

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You got their name.

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That's, I don't know, maybe that is it.

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I doubt it.

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And they're not a Christian band by any

stretch of imaginations, so last time I

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heard they were not professing believers.

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Yeah.

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But things could change.

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Who knows?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So let's talk about that then.

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Where's Jesus today?

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Not today.

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Today.

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We know where he is right now, but.

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2000 years ago, where

was Jesus on Saturday?

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What was he doing?

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While his body was in the tomb?

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In fact, we talked about this a little

bit last night, that there is a, there's

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the deity the human nature of Christ

and the god, the deity of Christ, right?

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And the death was experienced.

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The physical death was

experienced in his humanity.

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But his divine nature did

not die in that sense.

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It didn't cease to exist

in his divine nature.

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He still was God and God can't die.

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And so that's confusing, but where,

let's talk through that Pastor Rod.

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Where is Jesus on Saturday

as his body is in the tomb?

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So that's an important place

to start, what you just said.

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Everybody should know

his body, his physical.

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Flesh was in the tomb.

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There, there was, there's

no funny business there.

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The disciples did not steal his body,

contrary to popular opinion but where

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his soul is, where his spirit is,

God is spirit, and those who worship

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him as worship in spirit and truth.

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John chapter four, I believe it's

verse 24, we'd have to say that

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Jesus' spirit is with the Father,

and I think that's our best.

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That's my best guess.

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There is a, there is something mysterious

about the timing of it though, and I'll

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offer this because Jesus is said to have

gone to proclaim to the spirits in prison

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sometime after his death on the cross.

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This is mentioned in one Peter and he

says that Jesus went there, actually

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one Peter three 18 region being put

to death in the flesh, but made alive

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in the spirit in which he went and

proclaimed to the spirits in prison.

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This could actually be understood

a few different ways, but

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there's something happening.

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He's probably proclaiming victory.

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I've defeated sin and death.

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He's proclaiming his victory in the

cross and his soon to be resurrection.

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So it's hard to say what the exact

and precise timing is, but in fact,

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even have the Apostles creed, which

says that he descended into hell.

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So that might be worth talking about.

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But we believe that at some point

in that transition, Jesus did go to.

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The right hand of the father in some

limited sense because he doesn't fully

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do that until he ascends to the right

hand of the father, post his 40 days

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back on Earth after his resurrection.

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So he ascends to the right hand of God

in the flesh with his new body, minus

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the the physical wounds, which will

remain there for the rest of eternity.

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So there, there is a bit of mystery

in terms of the timing, but that

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would be my short-ish answer.

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Pastor Pia, I'd love

for you to jump on in.

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Yeah.

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The, that Credle statement

that he descended into hell was

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actually not originally a the.

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The, in the autograph of the Apostle Cree.

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It wasn't part of the original document.

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It was added subsequent at a lot of time.

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By who?

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I don't remember.

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Bob.

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I was just researching this though.

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'cause I was studying

this for for this weekend.

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I can't remember who it was

that, that added that in.

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Was it that Uncle Bob that

you always talk about?

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Yes, it was him.

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He did it.

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He's so mischievous.

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He doing stuff like that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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He is.

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No, I would agree with you.

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I think my take on it is that Christ

was in heaven at the, with the Father.

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In fact, when he says to the

thief on the cross, today, you

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will be with me in paradise.

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Some believe that because the

text actually says, I say to you.

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Comma, today, you'll

be with me in Paradise.

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Because the original documents

didn't have any punctuations.

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No.

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Some argue, yeah.

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That it was, I say to you today, you

will be with me in Paradise, which would

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imply that, okay, maybe Jesus wasn't

in paradise with him, but he's saying,

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I'm saying to you right now in this

moment, that eventually you will be,

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that's what the Jehovah's Witnesses say.

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And I don't think that bears,

I don't think that holds up.

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I think as, as far as the.

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Proclaiming victory to

the spirits in prison.

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I, in part I, the disarming,

the rulers and the authorities

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that, that exist there.

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I think it's hard that, that's

such a problem, passage for

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us of what does that mean?

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What does that look like?

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I don't believe Christ

descended into hell.

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And certainly he didn't

need to descend into hell to

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experience any sort of suffering.

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All of the hell that Christ

experienced was the hell on the cross.

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Yeah.

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He absorbed the full wrath of the father,

which is why he says it is finished.

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And so the only reason for him

to venture into Hell is to.

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Proclaim victory.

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But then there's a question

of, okay, to what end?

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Because the, some have said he went,

he descended into hell to lead for

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lead out of hell that the, or out of

the holding tank, if you will, the

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Old Testament saints, and lead them

up into the presence of the father now

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again, I think that's an extrapolation.

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I don't think that's there in the text.

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So it's hard.

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It's a troubling passage.

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I'm confident saying he was with the

father and being with the father.

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He was with the thief on the

cross the believing thief

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on the cross at that point.

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And then reunited with his.

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Humanity in on the third

day, on Sunday morning.

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What you're doing introduces the principle

of interpreting less clear scriptures

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with the more, more clear scriptures.

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Jesus words to the thief on

the cross do make it clear

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that he was in paradise, right?

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Minus the punctuation.

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It's, it would be really strange for Jesus

to say, Hey, I'm saying this to you today.

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Obviously you are right.

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Yeah.

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And Jesus never says anything like that.

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He, it would be a unique phrase of

Jesus to say, Hey, I say to you today.

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He doesn't do that, right?

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This would be the only instance.

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So it's better to say, I say to you.

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Today you'll be with me in Paradise.

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That makes more sense of the context,

and therefore that's one of the clearest

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indicators of what we believe about

Jesus presence after the crucifixion.

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So he had to have done some kind of

proclamation to the spirits in Sheol

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at that point in the realm of the

dead and then gone to the Father.

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But again, I would say it's a

limited, it's not the formal

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ascendancy to the right hand

because he didn't have his body.

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His body has was still on earth and he

needed to go retrieve it because he's

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the first fruits of the resurrection.

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This is what's gonna happen to you

and me at some point in the future.

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Our bodies may be left here.

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And our souls are gonna go to

be with him, to be away from the

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bodies, to be present with the Lord.

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That's what Paul says, which seems to

be, seems to apply also to Jesus himself.

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And so at some point he's gonna resurrect

us our souls and our bodies will be

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reunited and glorified and be given to

the Father for forever never to experience

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sin or suffering or death ever again.

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And that's what our hope is.

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And that's why Jesus being the pioneer

of our faith, the first fruits of the

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resurrection, gives us that confidence

because he's already shown that

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it's possible and that he's done it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And to the point that you made right at

the beginning of that, when he said that's

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not in keeping with the things that he

says, if he was trying to convey that, he

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would've said something like truly, I say

to you, you will be with me in Paradise.

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That's what he would do to set

something up and emphasize what

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he was about to say, is he would

say truly, I say to you, right?

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Bingo.

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And instead of saying, I say to you

today, yeah, no I'm with you man.

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I.

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Fascinating.

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I was reading through and preaching

on this tomorrow, so I'm gonna

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be careful not to preach my legs

out from under me on this one.

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Don's do it.

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It's it a smaller exegetical point.

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Don't do it.

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But it's fascinating to think about

because Jesus is with Mary Magdalene

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after he raises from the dead,

by the way, he raises surprise.

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What?

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And she's holding to

him, holding onto him.

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And he says to her, don't clinging to me.

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I have not yet ascended.

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Go and tell my brothers

that I am ascending.

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To their father and your father and

their God and your God, and and Carson

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as well as a couple others make the

point that Jesus may have gone back

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and forth in his resurrected body

between the right hand of the Father

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and Earth during the 40 days of his.

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Of his post resurrection appearances.

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Interesting.

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Rather than interesting spending the

night and sleeping there on earth,

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which would make sense with the

appearance records that we have of

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this, because he shows up in the upper

room with the doors locked, right?

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And then what do we find next?

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We find the disciples, they're out,

ready to go fishing again, which

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would imply that they're waiting

on the appearance of Jesus again.

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They don't, he hasn't been with them.

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And so they're ready to

go back fishing again.

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They go back fishing again.

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Jesus, all of a sudden

is on the beach again.

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And Peter's so excited 'cause they're

Jesus again and he jumps outta

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the boat and he swims to shore.

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I like it.

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I like the idea of it.

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It seems like a stretch, but I like it.

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I'm, and I'm with you.

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I'll grant, it's a stretch, but they're,

the reason is they're looking at

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that statement, don't clinging to me.

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I have not yet ascended.

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Go and tell them I am ascending to the

father, to their father and your father.

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It's such a difficult text to understand

what he's really driving at there that.

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You are left to, to

speculate a little bit.

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And that's where they went in

their sanctified speculation

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of going maybe he was, yeah.

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And see this is where my, again, this

is similar to the Saturday situation

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where I'm saying it, I, there is

something special about his ascendancy.

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Yeah.

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His coming to the right

hand of the father.

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Yeah.

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That's a big deal and probably a bigger,

big deal than we often think about.

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So I, yeah, it makes sense.

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It's a possibility.

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It just puts me back in the

Saturday situation and saying,

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okay what's the nature of that?

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Going back to the father looking

and what would you call that?

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Is everything short of the ascendancy?

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Except it's not the final.

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Ascendancy.

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Which is why it's okay.

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Yeah.

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It just feels different.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's interesting.

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Alright, let's jump into our text now

that we're 10 minutes into our go.

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Sorry, we're gonna, we're

gonna make it quick.

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This has been doctrinal googly.

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It's been yeah.

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You can't be mad at this.

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Good googly.

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Hey first Samuel 28.

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So without Samuel and with God not

responding to his inquiries about what to

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do here when the Philistines are drawing

up for battle against him, Saul turns to.

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The medium the witch of Endor, if you

will, and asks her to bring Samuel up.

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She does.

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And she's, I think, shocked

possibly because it actually worked.

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And and here's Samuel, and she

sees Samuel and that immediately

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tells her who she's dealing with,

even though Saul was disguised.

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She says, your Saul, what have you done?

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Samuel says, Saul, what have you done?

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Why am I here?

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And Saul tells Samuel

God wouldn't talk to me.

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Tell me what's gonna happen.

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And Samuel says the Philistines

are gonna win, and you and your

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sons, you're both gonna die.

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All of you're gonna die in battle.

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And it wrecks Saul at that point

afterwards, and his men and

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this this medium, have to try to

encourage him to take some food to

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be strong, to be able to go on and

continue with the battle at hand.

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One Samuel 29.

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The Philistines grow suspicious

in this chapter of David and

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his men, as we've alluded to.

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And and they basically go to King

Ake and they say, Hey, we don't want

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David and his men going with us.

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And ake calls David and says to

David, Hey, you've been fine.

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I have no reason to question you, but

my men are uncomfortable with you.

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We're gonna send you back home.

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You don't need to go

into battle with this.

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And David says something

interesting in verse eight that

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hit me differently this time.

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David said to Aish, but what have I done?

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What have you found in your servant

from the day I entered your service

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until now that I may not go and fight

against the enemies of my Lord the king?

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I wonder if David wasn't

communicating, wasn't.

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The double meaning there that he,

my Lord the king isn't Aish, but

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it's still Saul at this point.

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And that's in keeping with the

fact that he wouldn't raise his

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hand against the Lord's anointed.

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That for him as an Israelite,

Saul is still his Lord and king

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because he's the one that God put

in place over the people of Israel.

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So David could Integrity with integrity.

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Tell Aish, look, I, I'm surely

I'm gonna go and fight against the

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enemies of my Lord of the king.

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Yeah.

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Meaning, dude I'm going,

I'm gonna take you guys out.

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Which would be deception.

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It would be, which suggests that there's

a difference between lying and deception.

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Yes.

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I, so I, here's interesting.

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I've been, you and I talked about this

before and I just want to lay it out here.

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I've been doing some more studying lately.

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Came across a situation that has caused

me to dive back into this subject again.

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And as clearly as we can say let's

just say the Lord hates lying.

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Yes, he is Evidently clear about that.

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He hates lying.

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But there are times when

deception, it is permissible.

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It doesn't, but, and I guess

again we qualified this last time.

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I'll just say it again.

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You can use this in a sinful

way to say, I'm just gonna lie.

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And the Lord's okay with that.

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That's not what I'm trying to say here.

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But evidently this is,

you're exactly right.

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David is using a fork's tongue.

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To say something true, even

though in Ish's mind he's saying

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something favorable to him, he's

actually saying the exact opposite.

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I don't think this is

wrong on David's part.

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It is.

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It's what he's saying is true.

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Yeah.

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But what Aish believes is not true.

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I think this is intentional and deception

on David's part that is permissible.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Yeah, I think so too.

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David is sent back in chapter 30.

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He comes back to a horrific

scene back at Ziklag where he

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and his men have been living.

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And that is that the town has been

ransacked and burned and all of his loved

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ones and the family members and every,

everybody else have been taken captive.

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And they are now with the

Amalekites, you'll remember the

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malachite, you remember King A gag.

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From a while back that Saul didn't

fully execute the Amalekites

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didn't kill ag G we said they

were gonna come back on the scene.

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Here they are and David

and his men are distraught.

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His men are angry to the point that

they're blaming David for this.

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But you'll note in verse six,

David strengthened himself

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in the Lord his God, which.

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Sounds great, but we have

to understand what he means.

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What is what?

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How did he do that?

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And that's what is next.

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He turned to the Lord and sought guidance

from God when things were looking bleak

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for him, and he was distraught and he

was distressed, and he was crushed and

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downtrodden and afraid for his life.

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He did not look for human wisdom to

try to help him out of the situation.

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He didn't pull himself up by

his own bootstraps and say let

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me figure this out on my own.

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He turned to the Lord and

sought the Lord's guidance.

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Sought the Lord's wisdom,

said, Lord, I need you to help.

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Me here.

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I think that's what it means, that he

strengthens himself and the Lord is God.

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And we should do that too.

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And God responds and says,

David, go I'll be with you.

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And so David rallies his men and what

was probably the greatest halftime

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speech ever given to, to get them

from wanting to kill him to being.

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Willing to go out against the Amalekites.

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And God just so happens to orchestrate

things that they find this servant

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who was a servant of the Amalekites

and he leads them to the camp.

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And David and his men get their vengeance.

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And I love it because David takes

400 men into battle with him.

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The 600, but then 200

stay with the baggage.

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He takes 400 men into battle with him.

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And it says in the text

that 400 of them escaped.

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Of the Amalekites.

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So the number of those that escape

are equal to the attacking army

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there, which gives us an in, in

indication number one of the rage

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that they probably attacked with.

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And number two, this was

gout behind the army.

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Chapter 31.

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Then oh, by the way, just a shrewdness

of David there at the end of chapter 30.

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It says, when David came to Ziklag

verse 26, he sent part of the spoil

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to his friends the elders of Judah

saying, here's a present for you from

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the spoil of the enemies of the Lord.

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And so David is setting up his

leadership already here by by currying

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favor with the leaders of Judah here.

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And so this is shrewd by

David to do what he does here.

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Chapter 31.

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This is the fulfillment of the prophecy of

Samuel, or the spirit of Samuel at least.

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And this is where Saul and Jonathan

and Beda and mal Kahua, the sons

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of Saul are killed in battle.

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And the battle rages Saul ends

up falling on his own spear.

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And then when the Philistines find

the bodies of Saul and Jonathan and

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the other, the his other sons, they

take them to Behan and they hang

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them on the wall there in Behan.

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And the men of Jesh, Gilead, I mentioned,

if you remember all the way back to the.

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Opening episode when we talked about

the reign of Saul, that I said, remember

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the men of j Jesh Gilead, because

they're gonna remember Saul fondly

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because they hear about what's happened.

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And this is the town that Saul had

delivered originally, and he had

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gone to their rescue right off the

bat when he had first become king.

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And so they go to Betson and they take

the bodies down and they bring them

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back and they give them a burial that.

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Is fitting with Saul's role as king.

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Quick note here about the

fact that they were burned.

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This is not a typical way

to, to handle dead bodies.

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The most likely reason why is

because their bodies were mangled.

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They weren't pretty to look at.

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There's a, as you can imagine, if they're

taking the body of Saul and his sons

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they're gonna, they're gonna parade that.

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So their bodies are

probably not in good shape.

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That's probably why they burn the bodies

to prevent further desecration or shame.

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But Christians.

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For the longest time do what they do.

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In verse 13, they bury people.

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We, we bury people and there's a

really important reason for that.

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I know a lot of people today will

look at cremation as being a viable

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solution for dealing with the dead body.

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Can you quickly just say why

we think that it's better to

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bury a body versus cremating?

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It has to do with what's gonna

happen when the Lord returns and the

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resurrection bodies that we have the

bodies that we have, that we sow.

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Perishable are gonna

be raised imperishable.

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So though they're gonna look different

than they do presently, praise God.

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Our earthly bodies will have something to

do with our glorified bodies and we want

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to honor those earthly bodies even in

death, even though it's just the shell,

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even though the soul doesn't stay with the

body, we want to show that they are our.

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Still the created in the image of God

and one day will raise to, to be reunited

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with the soul in the glorified body.

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That doesn't mean that somebody who

is, has been cremated or the, something

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that happens in a, an explosion or

something like that that they're

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not gonna have a glorified body.

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No, they will.

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We just want to be careful to.

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To honor the body as much as we possibly

can because God's not done with it yet.

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And and that's important for us to

know we're not here to just destroy

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the earthly shell, because God's

gonna take that and transform it into

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its glorified body, which Paul talks

about in one Corinthians 15 as well.

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So there's great, rich symbolism

that's connected to a burial.

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And I would hope if you're thinking

about your family in the future and

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you're preparing your own grave and

you're thinking about buying your plot.

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Or your little container where you

would put your ashes, we would strongly

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encourage you to consider the rich

symbolism of burying your body.

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Because of how, this is the, this has been

the Christian tradition for years now.

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Even in Christian cemeteries, the feet

point East with the expectation that Jesus

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will show up in the east and you'll just

rise straight up, ready to face him as

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opposed to facing the other direction.

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Not that he couldn't figure it out.

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He could turn you the

way he wants it to, but.

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Everything is symbolic and

the symbolism is important.

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We think it's worth if you

can make it happen to do that.

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It's a good thing.

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It's a great thing even.

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And just like you get married in

front of people you get married

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with witnesses and there's Christian

symbolism all over that you wouldn't

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say let's just go to the courthouse.

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It's just as.

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Honest, and it's true.

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I guess you could say, let's

just go to the courthouse.

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Let's formalize it with the state.

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You could do that, but most

people understand the significance

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of the marriage ceremony.

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And we would say there's just as

much significance in the burial

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ceremony, putting you in the grave and

pointing your feet toward the east.

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If we're able to, at a Christian

cemetery and saying, look, your

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body's gonna be resurrected again.

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This is the hope of the Christian life.

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Yeah.

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In in Israel, on the Mount of Olives,

there's a Jewish cemetery and they are all

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buried with their feet towards the city.

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And so the Mount of Olives is on the

outside of the city, walls there in

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Jerusalem, but they're all pointed

towards the city and and the gate

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there wherein they, it's prophesied

that the Lord will walk into.

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So that's cool.

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Zacharia talks about the

Lord descending in his feet,

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landing on the Mount of Olives.

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And so when that happens, the idea

there is the resurrection of the

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dead there will follow him in the

mess, the Messiah into the city.

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Now the Jews that's cool are Miss.

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Misunderstood in that today because they

missed the first coming of the Messiah.

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But you think about the Old

Testament that was there, they were

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ready to go in with the Messiah.

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Given the fact that I do have Jewish

blood in me, I'd like to be buried there.

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So we're all listening.

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Yeah, I think it's Christine, my love.

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I wanna be buried there.

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I think it costs a lot,

pastor PJ make it happen.

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I think it costs a lot of money.

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I fully expect to go before you do please.

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Again, these are my dying wishes.

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I want to be buried at that cemetery.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Okay, great.

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Awesome.

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Good thing there's not haunting

because I don't know if we're

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gonna be able to make that happen.

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I would ask the Lord to make a special

provision for me to come into this

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office until you make things right.

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You ever see that?

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Was that Kevin Costner ghost?

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Yeah.

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It's been a long time.

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It's been a minute, huh?

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Yeah, it's an old movie.

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Anyway.

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Yeah.

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Alright, Psalm 18, then as we wrap things

up here today you'll notice that this

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is here because of the title of this.

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It says, the Psalm of David, servant of

the Lord, who addressed the words of this

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P song to the Lord on the day when the

Lord delivered him from the hand of all

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of his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

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When is this specifically?

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We're not sure, I don't think this is the

day that he found out that Saul has died.

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'cause he's gonna have a different

song that he's gonna sing then

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he's gonna sing a song that honors

Saul and honors Jonathan when he

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finds out about the death of Saul.

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But I think this is just reflecting

back on the fact that the Lord

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did spare him, that the Lord did.

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He didn't have to take

things into his own hand.

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He didn't have to kill Saul himself.

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Even though he was given two

opportunities to golden opportunities,

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he can look back at the Lord and

say, okay, God, you were in control.

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You honored my submission

and obedience to you.

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And he gives this this

praise in this psalm.

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And so it covers the.

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Things like the first three verses,

focusing on the Lord as the refuge for

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David, the place of safety, the place that

he could flee and be safe in the Lord.

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Verses four through 19, the Lord as

the deliverer, he's the one that is

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gonna bring deliverance, not David,

by him, his own hand, but the Lord is

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gonna do that verses 20 through 30, an

expression of just confidence in God.

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God your way is perfect, is

basically what David is saying here.

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He's his, he's worked things

out in accordance with his

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plan, and his plan is ideal.

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His plan is perfect.

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There's no questioning it.

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And then verses 31 through 45, focused

on the victory of God, the victory of

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the Lord, making sure that everybody,

again knows who gets the glory in this.

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It's not David, it's not anyone else.

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It's it is the Lord.

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The Lord is the one who's

worked all things together.

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And then it concludes with a

section in verses 46 through

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50 of just David praising God.

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And so Psalm 18 is so rich.

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So much here.

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But it's a good reflection back

on, on everything from the time

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that David was anointed to David

and Goliath, to his time in Saul's

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service to then running for his life.

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And all of that leads to the

culmination of him looking back

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at all of that in Psalm 18 and St.

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God, you are good for what you've done.

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Amen.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, this is Saturday of Holy Week, and

we are reminded of the reality of your

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death still today as the body of our Lord

and Savior was still in the tomb today.

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And it was yet to be resurrected, yet to

be raised, and yet it was going to be.

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And even now as you were proclaiming

victory over the spirits imprisoned and

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we confess that we don't fully understand

what that meant or what that looked

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like, you were proclaiming victory.

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We do know what that meant in that.

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The cross was the instrument by

which you disarmed the rulers

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and the authorities of this age.

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And so we're so thankful for the cross.

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We're grateful for this time.

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We can't wait for tomorrow morning

to gather with our people, with our

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church family, and to say he has risen.

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He's risen indeed as we celebrate

the resurrection together.

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So we look forward to that.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep bring your Bibles.

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Woo.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said