Navigating the Will of God and Saul's Rise as Israel's King

In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss the complexities of understanding and navigating God's will for one's life, debunking common Christianese around the topic. They emphasize seeking God's desired will through biblical principles, prayer, and counsel. The episode also delves into 1 Samuel chapters 9-12, detailing Saul's selection, anointing, and official recognition as Israel's king, contrasting initial perceived humility with potential insecurity. The show concludes with a reflection on the importance of prayer in the life of believers and ministers.

00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:11 Camping Plans and Reflections

01:23 Understanding the Will of God

04:53 Biblical Decision Making

10:27 Saul's Anointing and Early Reign

16:48 Samuel's Farewell Address

21:57 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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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, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

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That's a lot of haze.

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A lot of haze.

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A lot of haze, and it going up.

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Yeah.

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Inflection.

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Mm-hmm.

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Upwards.

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Yeah.

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Uh, what's going on?

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It's, uh, it's Thursday.

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Are you ready for the camp out tomorrow?

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Tomorrow night?

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Yes.

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That was the sigh of, yes, you guys

should be in the office right now.

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You should see the expression of

sheer excitement, joy and joy.

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Unspeakable joy is what

This is inexpressible even.

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I think it's, it's borderline.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if I've ever seen you this

inex expressively ecstatic about anything.

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I mean, in your life.

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Rod: Yeah.

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Well, here's the thing.

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I, I went camping all as a young man.

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I did it all the time.

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Yeah.

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And as a kid it's great.

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Yeah.

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'cause you're not bothered by

lots of the things that for

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sure adults are bothered by.

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And it.

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It's fine.

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Yeah.

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I liked it, but now I have a house

that I pay a lot of money to live

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in and I feel like I owe it to

the house to live in the house.

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To enjoy the house, and

I owe it to the Lord.

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Yeah.

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To enjoy the house.

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I don't wanna pay to sleep outside.

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I'm just saying.

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I mean, great if it's your, if

it's your jam, here's the thing.

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If, if I, if I had the, uh, time and

the wherewithal to, to buy a nice tent

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and, you know, a good blowup mattress

and a lot of the stuff that goes along

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with it, I think I'd be okay with it.

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I could be, I could get behind it.

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Right.

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But the upfront cost to get all those

things, I feel like is just more time

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and more energy than I care to spend.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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And money.

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That's fair.

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Yeah.

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Speaking of stuff like that, speaking

of stuff like that, a lot of things

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that people could make decisions on,

and I think this is one of those, uh,

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Christianese terms that I'd love to

get you to speak more about, especially

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as it relates to Oh yeah, we're

doing that actually doing the thing.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Christianese term, the will of God.

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Yeah.

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And this is a biblical term.

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The will of God.

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What's God's will.

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And, um, I, I felt, God

tell me, I felt God lead me.

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Mm-hmm.

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I had a piece about it.

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Sometimes Christians say, you

know, I felt like a, I just, I had

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to move to Texas because I just

felt like God wanted me to do it.

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This introduces a whole category of

Christian decision making that I want

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you to talk about, because I think

a lot of people find that the idea

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mystical, like, oh, I guess I'm just

gonna feel something in my stomach.

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There's gonna be some sense of

assurance in my belly that says,

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marry that girl, liver quiver, a liver

quiver, all those kinds of things.

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Um, how does a Christian understand

the will of God and how do you navigate

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that such that you make a decision

that you feel like this is God's will.

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Could you ever make a

decision not in God's will?

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Mm-hmm.

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Talk about all

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PJ: those things?

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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Let me start with the last question.

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Yes.

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You can make a decision that's

not in God's desired will for you.

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Um, now his, his decree of

will, the, the will of his

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ordained plan for our lives, no.

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That we're, we're operating

within that will, uh, but.

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Um, there's a desired will first,

thus four says, this is the will

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of God, your sanctification.

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That is, that you abstain

from sexual immorality.

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So there he's talking about that.

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But, but your sanctification,

let's just talk about that phrase

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that that means that you would be

like Jesus, that you'd be holy.

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So if God's desired will is that

you would be like Jesus, can I do

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something that is against, that will?

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And the answer is yes.

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Every time you sin, you do something

against the desired will of God

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that you would be sanctified,

that you'd be like Christ.

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Now, um.

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He's his decreed will, his ordained

will is such, uh, that it, it is big

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enough and broad enough to, uh, even

incorporate the, uh, the, the ends

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of our sinfulness and our, our evil.

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And he still uses those things towards the

accomplishment of, of his, of his will.

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Um, however, um.

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It.

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I can't even go on right now.

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Just tell him what you're laughing at.

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I think you're gonna wanna know I'm

laughing at a shirt that Pastor Rod

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put on that uh, I don't think is

in keeping with the will of God.

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What could you possibly mean?

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This is such a good shirt.

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The shirt says.

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The shirt says words on it.

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It says, I'm gonna read it backwards.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna read it backwards.

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What do you It says, said you

everything with agree eye.

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So you guys can do the legwork on

putting that back forwards there.

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Um, and, and Mayor Dan, we

can thank for Mayor Dan.

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Of course.

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Of course, no.

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Pastor Rod is wearing a shirt.

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Uh, that, uh, it, it, if you've been

hearing me, uh, agree with Pastor Rod a

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lot recently and you've been thinking,

wow, pastor Pier really likes that,

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that sentence a lot, he likes a lot

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Rod: of what he says these days.

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He's so affirmative

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PJ: and it sounds exactly the same.

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His inflection is the same.

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He en enunciates the same

way, emphasizes the same.

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Oh, really?

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It's almost like it's the same phrase

that got cut and just dropped in,

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sprinkled, in, reused over and over again.

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Well, pastor Rogers took off his outer

shirt and he has a shirt on underneath

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with that phrase, my under garment.

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Yes.

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Um, I was wondering where you

went and then you came back

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in, you had two undershirts on.

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I'm like, what is this joker doing?

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Why does he have two undershirts on now?

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And then you sit up all like turned

around to take your shirt off.

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I'm like, okay, what does it say?

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Alright, that's.

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I knew it was coming.

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I knew it was coming.

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Rod: Alright, get back

to the topic at end.

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Okay.

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PJ: I just wanted to make

sure that I got it in.

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Eventually, God's will.

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This is my new official podcast shirt.

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Yes.

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So you can do something outside of

God's desired will for your life.

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Now, how do I know if I'm acting

in accordance with God's will?

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There's a lot of different ways,

uh, that we would say, number

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one, if you're worried about that

and concerned about that, that's

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that's a great starting point.

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Uh, rather than just assuming.

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That because you're a Christian, you

go to church kinda like we talked

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about yesterday, trusting in the

things close to God that that, okay

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then fine, I can go do whatever I

wanna do and not worry about it.

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Clearly this is God's will.

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Being at, at you.

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Being at peace is not always God's will.

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Uh, about a decision is

not always God's will.

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And how do I know that?

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Because there are plenty of unbelievers

that make decisions, make your

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decisions in life that they would say,

I have a piece about this decision.

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Right?

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And clearly we would say that they're not.

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Seeking God's will in that decision.

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So you being at peace doesn't equal

that you're in the will of God.

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Um, I think seeking counsel from friends

and not finding just a bunch of yes men

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that will be like, oh yeah, that's great.

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You should go do that.

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But making sure that you've got

people in your life who will say,

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I don't think you should do that.

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I, I I don't think that's the

best move, the best option.

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Uh, make sure you're seeking them out

on something and if, and if they're

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agreeing with you, that's, that's

a big step in the right direction.

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Prayer is huge on this Psalm

1 39 that you would be.

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Be praying, honestly, meaning it

God, search my heart on this and,

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and reveal to me my motives and, and

reveal to me if there's any sinful

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motive that I have about this decision.

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You know, ask God to bring that

to light and be sensitive to

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that journal about these things.

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I, I, I would say there's a, that's,

that's a lot of the process that I

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would go through at the end of the day.

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Uh, we walk by faith, not by sight.

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And so there's some decisions that, in

fact, I would say a lot of decisions.

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At the end of the day, you're not

gonna be able to know a hundred percent

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that you're in the desired will of

God, but you can, you can have a, a,

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a greater feeling that you are than

that you aren't, if that makes sense.

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Rod: Okay.

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One quick follow up.

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How then can someone have any confidence

with the decisions that they're making?

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If it's not expressed

explicitly in the Bible?

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How can someone feel any sense

of assurance that they're

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making the right decision?

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So marrying a spouse, for instance, a big

decision, or buying that really nice car.

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You know, some people can really

tussle over that because they

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wonder, well, if I only, if I spent

half that money, I could, yeah.

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Give 15 to missions or whatever

else, or uh, or you know, or even

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having this many kids or having three

kids and not four or four kids and

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not five or whatever the number is.

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How do you feel confident about the

decisions that you're making if it's

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not explicitly spoken upon in scripture?

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PJ: Yeah, I mean, let's

take the spouse situation.

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You're getting ready to marry somebody.

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How do I know if this is the right person?

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I think you look at what you know to be

true in the Bible, non-negotiables, that

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it is clear that God's will is for you,

number one, that you got, you're marrying

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somebody the opposite gender biologically.

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That's, that's number one.

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That's key.

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Uh, number two, that they

are somebody who loves Jesus.

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That they're a believer that

that's something that the

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Bible explicitly commands.

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So that has to be there.

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Um, then you get into the realm

of, uh, you know, those things

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of are you attracted to our

character or his character?

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Are you attracted to them physically?

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There's elements there that you can kind

of go through to say, okay, if those,

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those things I know the Bible tells me

are, have to be true about this decision

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are in place, then it's, it's a matter

of evaluating the other things going.

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Can I feel like, do I feel like I'm

making a confident decision in a wise

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decision based on these other things?

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Um.

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And again, other voices

are gonna help you in that.

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So there are, you may not have the

Bible saying this is who you're supposed

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to marry, but the Bible's gonna give

you a good starting place to be able

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to, to whittle that list down, to go.

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I've gotta have people that meet these

qualifications according to the Bible.

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So I have to find somebody in that realm

and then I can make that other decision.

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Your car, how, how do you

know whether to spend.

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$15,000 on a car, $10,000

on a car, $40,000 on a car.

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Uh, some of that is gonna

come down to your conscience.

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The Bible tells us not to sin

against our own conscience.

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So you could always, it, it,

you could say, well, I'm not

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gonna spend $40,000 on a car.

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I'm gonna spend $10,000 on a used car.

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Great, well, why don't you spend $8,000

on a used car and save an extra two grand?

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Why don't, let's whittle it down more.

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Can you go to seven?

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So at some point you're gonna tap

out and go, you know what, no, my

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conscience says I need something

reliable, that I'm gonna be able to.

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To, to drive for a while, that's

gonna get my family from point A

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to point BI, I want something safe.

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And so you're gonna spend

a little bit money for the

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more money for those reasons.

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Now somebody else may spend $40,000

on that, their brand new car, and they

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could still be doing that in the will of

God because they could still be giving.

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I.

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A lot of money on the side to other

areas, and they might be thinking, this

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is the wise decision for my family.

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So a lot of those things are

more subjective, but they still

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need to be bathed in prayer.

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You should still seek outside

ca counsel from other people.

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Uh, but ultimately you're also gonna know

that the spirit's gonna be working in

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your life through your conscience, and

you shouldn't sin against your conscience

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if, if your conscience is pressing

upon you about a, a particular issue

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or decision, don't make that decision.

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Rod: So it sounds like at the end of

the day, uh, I mean there's a lot of

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criteria that you gave us to consider.

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Maybe at the end of the day, the decis,

the decisions that we make in so far

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as are not inherently sinful are just

this, our decisions that we make By

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faith, we're trusting that the Lord

is gonna use our mental faculties,

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our friendships, and our knowledge

of scripture to make a good decision.

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And it's kind of like that mindset

of saying, well, whether we eat

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or drink or whatever we do, we're

doing it to the glory of God.

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And if you can do that, that's probably

a helpful, a helpful place to land.

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I also think about chapter 10 of

Partners, which talks about discerning

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gray areas and helping discern the

will of God in all these categories.

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So I.

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I know that there's a lot more we could

talk about with term, with, with regard to

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the will of God, but hopefully that helps

jog your thinking about what the word

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means or what we mean by the term, not

just the word, and we say the will of God.

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It's, it's a loaded term and

it, it isn't just about liver

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shivers and following your gut.

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Sometimes that's helpful and sometimes

that you might come to a decision

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where you have to do it based on that.

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A lot of other things, not withstanding,

our, our decision is gonna be ultimately

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a decision of faith in Christ that

we're trusting him even as we utilize

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all the means that he gives us.

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To make a good decision.

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So thank you for talking about that.

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We can now

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PJ: jump into the word of God.

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Alright, first Samuel 9, 10, 11 to 12.

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First Samuel, nine, the people of Israel.

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Ask for King.

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God said, I'll give you King.

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And God selects his king in

chapter nine, at least privately.

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And this is gonna be Saul, Saul of Kish,

um, who was a Benjamin Knight, not a.

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Not a member of the line of of Judah.

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And so we know that this is ultimately not

gonna be the final line that God is gonna

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use, that he's gonna reject this line.

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And he will do that eventually with Saul.

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But Saul is chosen, uh, and

it happens through this whole

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process of there's lost donkeys.

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Saul goes looking for the donkeys happens

upon Samuel because Samuel's a local seer.

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They're looking for

answers about the donkeys.

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Samuel says, don't worry about the

donkeys, we're gonna make you king.

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And, uh, Saul is going to be, uh,

selected as the, the one that's

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gonna lead the people of Israel.

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Um, and so this is a

private, uh, anointing.

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This is a, a private, uh,

selection at this point.

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And, um, this is, is going to

be publicized more and more.

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But, but at this point, this is just

God saying, Hey, this is the guy and uh,

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it's gonna be Saul here in chapter nine.

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Chapter 10.

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Then in the first part of this chapter,

the, uh, the actual anointing, I mentioned

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the selection in chapter nine, the, the

actual private anointing takes place here

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in the beginning of chapter, uh, 10 Samuel

says in 10, one has not the Lord anointed

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you to be prince over his people Israel.

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Now, not king, but prince.

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Why not king?

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Because God is still the true king.

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So this one is gonna reign as prince.

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He's gonna be the, the vice regent, so

to speak, over the, uh, the nation over

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the people ruling on behalf of Israel.

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Um, Saul is humble at this

point, which is commendable.

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I.

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And, uh, and we're gonna even see

that he's, he's bashful, uh, in, uh,

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in the, the later on in the chapter

when Samo goes to announce him to

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the, the people of Israel as a whole.

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And they say, Hey, where is this guy?

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And he's over found hiding in the luggage.

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And so this is not the prideful saw

that we see later on in the book.

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This is a bashful saw.

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This is a, a timid saw and uh, and a

humble saw, um, that, uh, Samuels is.

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Anointing privately and then

later announcing publicly in

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the back half of chapter 10.

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Rod: I'd love you to interact

with this take that I have on this

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as I read it this time around.

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I thought, you know what?

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Maybe I misread Saul all along

in terms of these early chapters.

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'cause I, I, I made the same.

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I have a note in my Bible right here

that says something about the fact

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that humility has to be nurtured.

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And I think that's true as far as

it goes, but we need to nurture

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humility if we wanna keep it.

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It doesn't stay static.

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It, it has to constantly be guarded

and tended to like in a garden.

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Um, but I wonder if what we're seeing

in Saul is not humility, but insecurity.

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That it's not that he's just a really

humble guy who's saying, ah, shucks.

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You know, who am I?

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I think, and I wonder

if he's just insecure.

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Another form of pride.

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So not pride where it's.

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Arrogant.

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It comes off in the way that we

typically expect and what we'll

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see later, but the pride of saying,

look, I, I'm not fit for this.

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I can't do this.

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I won't do this.

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I don't wanna embarrass

myself or my, I don't know.

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I don't know.

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There's pride can manifest at both

polars is what I'm trying to get to,

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and I wonder if that's what we're

seeing here is just pride in a different

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form, because I don't know that it's.

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I don't, I don't know that it's a

good thing that he's being told by God

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through Samuel, look, you're the guy.

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And he says, no, I'm not gonna do that.

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You're the guy.

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No, I'm not gonna do that.

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Right.

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I'm just gonna hide in the baggage.

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Please don't, don't pick me.

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I don't wanna do this.

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I wonder if it's just another

form of pride that comes out in

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insecurity, and I think that makes

more sense to me than thinking he was

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humble initially and now he's not.

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I think he's the same guy.

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It's just a different,

a different side of him.

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PJ: That's fair.

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Yeah.

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I, I, I can see that.

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And, uh, and you can see

that in his actions too.

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It's not necessarily that this is

a biblical humility, um, but maybe

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yeah, an insecure humility that

we see here, which is not, which

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is a, a different form of pride,

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Rod: right?

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Yeah.

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Which is what I'm trying to make sense of.

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'cause otherwise it's like,

oh, what happened to him?

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He was humble and then he wasn't.

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And I, I think it's more consistent

to read him, even though he's

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better in some situations.

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I, I, and they're certain that

we're gonna read some of his better.

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His better events, his better episodes,

but I still think he's probably got a lot

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of pride that keeps him from accepting

the will of God and saying, yeah, I, I

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man, if I could serve the Lord, so be it.

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Yeah.

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Be it unto

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PJ: me, as Mary will say later on.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You may be wondering about,

well, what do we do with the fact

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that Saul's gonna prophesy here?

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He's gonna do this actually a

couple times, uh, in his life,

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but naked one of those times.

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Yeah.

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This is, and we talked about

this, uh, during the, the.

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Series on, on judges and, and looking

at Deborah, this is not pro prophesying

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the same way that that Isaiah,

Jeremiah, Micah, mayhem, all those

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came out and prophesied, saying thus

says the Lord, here's the message.

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You need to repent or

this, this is gonna happen.

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This is him giving a

message from the Lord.

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This is him speaking a

message from the Lord.

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Not direct revelation.

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Otherwise, we would have it.

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Recorded for us in scripture.

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Not inspired, I, I should say not God

breathed, but he's certainly serving

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as a messenger of God in this context.

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And it is a, a temporary situation

because it is not an ongoing situation.

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It's temporary here, and it's a sign

of confirmation, um, to take this

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man to your point, who seems to be

very insecure and to tell him that

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this is a, this is a God thing.

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This is, he's behind this.

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And he is, he is truly the one that

is saying You're gonna be the king.

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Um.

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And so then in, in chapter 11, uh, we

get the, uh, the first victory of Saul.

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We've got this situation where

the Ammonites come up against

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the men of Ja Jesh, Gilead.

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And the men of Jesh Gilead, now

remember them because they're gonna

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come back into play in Saul's,

uh, not life, but in Saul's death.

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Um, they will be there to honor

Saul and Jonathan, uh, in, in death.

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And so just stick a pin

in the, then the, uh.

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Memory of Jesh Gilead.

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And I think it, it comes back to

this particular situation here

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because these men are in trouble.

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The, this town is in trouble and

Saul catches word of it and the

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spirit of God, it says in verse six,

rushes upon Saul when he hears about

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the, the danger facing these men.

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He cuts up the ox and he sends it across.

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Israel says, so will God do to every

man who doesn't show up to, to fight?

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They come out, they free the, the,

the residents of Jesh, Gilead,

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and uh, and they defeat the

Ammonites in the process there.

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And then in chapter, uh.

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12, which is, is the, the final

chapter, I guess, of our reading, or

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no, the, sorry, the end of chapter 11.

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That's I was thrown off for verse 12.

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End of chapter 11, verse 12.

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Uh, this is where the, the, the kingship

is formally installed and sa, they,

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they formally anoint him publicly.

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So you've got this progression from

chapter nine all the way through the

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end of chapter 11 here, where it's the

private selection, the private anointing,

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the public selection, and then really

the public anointing and confirmation

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here at the end of chapter 11.

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And now Saul is officially

the, the guy everybody knows.

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He's the guy.

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And this has been formalized chapter 12.

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Then I alluded to this yesterday.

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This is Samuel's message of, Hey,

I, I, what I did, I, I did in the

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integrity of my heart, I led you

well and I led you faithfully.

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And if there's anything that I've done

wrong, pointed out to me, let me know.

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And so, man, I, I.

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I tremble under the, the reality of

man, I, I would love to be able to

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say that by the time I'm, I'm done

serving as a pastor, I'd love to have

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led in such a way that I could say,

Hey, show me where I let you down.

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Um, that's a, it's a

terrifying invitation.

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And it, I think it just, it speaks to

single's character, um, and his concern

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for them, which is manifest in what he's,

his instructions are to them after this

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where he says, look, if, if you'll fear

the Lord, verse 14, obey his commandments.

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Don't rebel against the

commandment of the Lord.

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Both you and the king who reigns over

you will follow the Lord your God.

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It will be well with you.

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But he says, if not, then it's

not gonna go well with you.

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The Lord's gonna be against you.

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Now, Samuel's not dying at this point,

but this is his farewell address in

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the sense of saying, I'm, I'm out.

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I'm stepping out from the role

of leadership and now it's

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Saul that you need to follow.

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And so that.

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When you read farewell address, it's not

that he's dying, but that he's resigning

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from his role as that leader in in Israel.

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Yeah.

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And there's so much about

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Rod: him that is so cool to observe.

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He, he's taking the step behind, he's

letting the king do the king's thing and

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he's going to now take a subservient role.

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Um.

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As a, as a leader from behind, as it were.

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He, he's allowing Saul to

take center stage, which is

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appropriate and right, and good.

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And of course, the phrase that I

think a, a lot of us resonate with,

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um, he talks about in verse 22, the

Lord's not gonna forsake his people.

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Um, he says, moreover, as for me in verse

23, far be it from me that I should sin

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against the Lord by cease or pray for you.

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Now because of his particular role

as judge, as prophet, it makes a

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lot of sense, positionally that

he would say this, but really

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every leader in God's employee.

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Should feel the same kind of compulsion.

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I think it's a right

and good thing to say.

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Even though I'm not a prophet and I'm

not a priest and I'm not a judge, I still

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bear the same responsibility to pray

for the people that are under my charge.

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And every husband, father, mother,

every, every leader under God's

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employee, as I said, ought to feel that.

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If you're not praying for your

people, whoever they might be, your

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grandkids or your own kids or your

spouse, um, who's gonna do that?

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Uh, who's gonna do that for you?

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Now, you can't take that

and export to somebody else.

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GPT does a lot of cool things, but you

can't tell GPT Hey, pray for my family.

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Uh, pray for my, my flock.

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I.

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Hey, please pray for them and, and

make sure that you lay before the Lord.

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Things that are really important to them.

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No, you gotta do that.

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You have to take that seriously

and to feel that sense of, man,

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I don't wanna sin against anybody

by failing to pray as I should.

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And I know that hits all of us,

that steps on all of our toes.

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But it's a good reminder for us in

the life of Samuel who lived in an

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above reproach way full of integrity.

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That's the kinda life that I wanna be

able to testify to that I, I lived.

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Intentionally enough to pray for

people because that was right.

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That was good.

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Uh, you'll never regret that.

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You're never gonna regret spending

time praying for your family.

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Yeah.

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You're never gonna regret spending

time praying for your church.

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Uh, the devil would love to make you busy

and distracted so that you don't do that.

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Uh, so if, if you have time today, and

maybe right now, even as you wrap up

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this podcast soon, maybe it's a good

time to spend some time praying for

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your church, praying for your family,

praying for the people that you serve.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah, man, that's interesting

that you bring up.

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You can't ask GPT to pray for your family.

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You, you prob you can, but

it's, it's not, it's a computer.

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Right.

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It's a computer doesn't count.

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There's not the soul there, right?

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Yeah.

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And that's why people are like, well,

are are, is GBT gonna replace pastors?

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Are we gonna have robots up there?

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Just, you know, if they can produce

a sermon on GPT, then why not?

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You know?

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Yeah.

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Why do we need to have pa Well, because of

that, because there's no soul behind it.

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There's no connection to the content.

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It's not produced from somebody

who has, there's something about

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the, as you're prepping a sermon

or praying for somebody, you are.

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Personal human concern for that

person that comes through in

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the words that you're writing

that a, that a machine can't do.

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Yeah.

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Um.

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That I think adds more of the

intangible, maybe we call it mystical

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power to, ooh, you're getting mystical.

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Well, you know, uh, to the, the

content of what we're, what we're

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saying, what we're praying about.

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Rod: 100%.

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I agree with everything you just said,

and I would say beyond that, mark,

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I would say beyond that, just take a

little slice of what you're getting at.

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If you just think about the concept

of time a robot doesn't have

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time, uh, they have a hard drive.

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They, they have, you know.

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Bits and bites and they have batteries.

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They don't really have a life though.

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Yeah.

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For a human, you never get the time

back that you invest into prayer.

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Yeah.

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You never can recover it.

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You can't say, oh, you know

what, I, let me just get a new

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battery and I can expend, I can

ex expand or extend my life force.

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Yeah.

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Once I spend my life force on

praying, I never get that back.

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And that's my point.

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And to your point as well, that a.

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A robot doesn't care, right?

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A, a machine, a computer doesn't care.

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Once you wear out the machine, you

could just get a new one, replace.

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It doesn't have consciousness.

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Uh, but for a human, you could never say,

oh, well, let's just give you a new brain.

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Oh, your brain wore out from praying.

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Well, let's just give you a new brain.

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Oh, your knees wore out.

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As they said about James, the brother

of Jesus and the flesh, and said that

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he was such a prayer warrior that his

knees became all like, like camel me.

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So they called 'em all camel meese.

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And that was true.

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I don't think James is regretting

saying, man, I spent so much time

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on my knees praying for people

that my knees are messed up now.

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I think he, he, he appreciated that

he, he enjoyed that investment even

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more today than he did at first.

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So that's a good, that's

a great point, man.

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We should, we should use our lives.

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Pour ourselves out for the sake of others.

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Yep.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Well, let's, let's pray right now.

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God, we, uh, we often pray for our

church and we pray for our church

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people, um, individually and, and in the

mornings and when we're spending time

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with you and as, as they come to mind.

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And, and yet we just wanna

be able to do that more.

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We wanna pray for our families more.

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Those that are listening to this

God, we want to, uh, corporately.

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I trust all of us, pray for those

that are brothers and sisters

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in Christ and, and invest.

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Our caring concern in pleading with

you, the God who's able to do all

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of these things that we're asking,

uh, that you do and more above and

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beyond all that we think or imagine.

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We, we want to intri you

to, to do these things.

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We want to see you act.

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We want to see prayers answered and

we're not gonna see prayers answered

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if we're not making prayers offered.

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And so, God, we want

to be a praying church.

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We want to be faithful to do that.

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We want to invest that time.

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Even as Pastor Rod was just saying,

we're never, never gonna regret time

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spent praying for our family, uh,

praying for others, praying for our

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church, praying for people that we love.

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And so God, we, um, ask in prayer that

you would make us more of men and women

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of prayer and, uh, instill in us a greater

desire to spend more time in praying to

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you and have a, a greater conviction of

our need to, and the value in doing that.

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And so we ask this and we

pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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