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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Announcements

01:06 Listener Question: Smell Like Sheep

07:24 2 Samuel 4

10:56 2 Samuel 5

15:02 2 Samuel 6

17:54 Luke 18:18-43

23:19 Closing Prayer

23:56 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up folks?

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Hello.

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We are sitting here on Tuesday

recording for Wednesday.

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So it's Wednesday as you're listening

to this happy middle of the week.

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We've got true North and Adventure Club

tonight, so hopefully you are making plans

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to be there if that fits your age range.

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If you're, if you're older

than, than that age range,

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maybe don't show up for it.

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You know?

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It's not, unless you're serving.

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Unless you're serving,

then please do show up.

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And we do need people to serve

in both of those ministries.

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Yes, we do.

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And we've got Men's Retreat weekend

coming up fast and furious at us.

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And so, we'll talk more about that in

the coming days, but be praying for that.

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We would just ask that you pray for that

now as we are still preparing for that.

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But should be a.

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In full week Biblical counseling

intensive happened this past weekend.

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It was fantastic.

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It was just a great time with

Lucas Pace being in town.

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And we had a good turnout from our those

that registered to be a part of that.

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And I trust it was profitable

for everybody that was there.

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And so thank you for him coming

out and joining us for that.

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And we look forward to continuing to

see how God will bear fruit from that.

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Just a great, great time.

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Such good, helpful topics that we

covered during those sessions as well.

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So if you missed out on that, you'd

really like to be a part of it, please

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let us know and maybe we can find a way

to get you that information as well.

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But we did have a couple

questions come in.

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So, pastor Rod, did you want to tee

us up on one of the questions here

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from one of our faithful listeners?

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Yeah, there's the question about what it

means to, and what it means to you more

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specifically to smell like the sheep.

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So not too long ago you preached

about the high calling of an elder, an

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overseer, a pastor in the local church.

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And one of the things that you've

said before and have said recently

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on the podcast even is that a

shepherd should smell like the sheep.

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So that naturally raises the question,

well, what does that exactly mean?

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If I'm looking for a church and I'm.

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Examining the elder board, and I'm

wondering whether or not they fit the

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bill according to what you're saying.

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How do I know whether.

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And when they actually do smell like

the sheep, what do you mean by that?

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Expand on what that means.

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Yeah.

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So the analogy I think is

pretty straightforward.

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But if you ran into somebody that said,

I'm a shepherd, and yet they smelled like

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Versace cologne, all the, I don't even

know if Versace makes cologne, but they

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just smelled really good all the time.

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You never saw them in shepherd's garb.

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You never saw any sheep fur

on them do sheep pepper fur.

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Sure they do.

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You never saw any signs that they were.

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With the sheep, you'd say, well, I

don't know that you're a very good

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shepherd because you don't look

like you're ever with the sheep.

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A shepherd should be with the sheep.

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And that's what I mean when I say a

pastor should be a shepherd who smells

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like the sheep, meaning he should

be around the flock that he pastors.

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Now there are built-in

limitations to that.

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One man can't equally be around

every single person in the flock.

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Even with the church our size, we're.

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Medium, smaller to medium sized church.

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And so even with three of us as pastors

here, as shepherds in that role with

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our church where we're running around

300, just over 300 people, that's a

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tall order for even just the three of

us to split up the whole church and

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spend consistent time around everybody.

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What I mean by that is,

is the pastor available?

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Is he being intentional to a certain

extent to put himself amongst

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the sheep and be around people?

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Like, for example, on Wednesday nights,

I try to go inside and pick up my

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boys from Adventure Club because I

know I'm gonna see people from the

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church there on Wednesday nights.

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And so I'll show up to check them

out rather than, just having my wife

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going and do it or just having them

released and sent out, whatever.

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Because I get to stop and talk to,

a Dan Mayer or somebody else that's,

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I know I'm gonna see on Wednesday

nights 'cause they're gonna be there.

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Same thing, in-between services.

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For me as a pastor, I don't wanna run

off into the green room as even if

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my first service was a total flop and

I need to rewrite my whole sermon.

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I wanna spend time around the

people that God has entrusted.

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So I wanna stand in the back of

the auditorium and shake hands

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with people, have a chance.

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So many meetings, individual meetings,

have come out of me standing in the

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back of the room on Sunday morning.

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'cause somebody stops and says, pastor,

do you have time to meet this week?

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And it's an occasion for us to say,

yeah, let's find a time to meet.

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And that's turned into lunches or.

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Coffee or just coming into

the office, whatever it is.

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And then of course, doing the work of

counseling, we need to be available as

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pastors when somebody has a need that

comes up that they know they can come

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to us and we will shepherd them by

spending time with them through sitting

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down and saying, let's find out what's

going on in your life and how can we

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help in guiding you in counseling you.

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So it's not that.

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The shepherd is gonna smell like

all of the sheep in his flock

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equally, but he should be available

to all the sheep in his flock.

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He shouldn't be unreachable

untenable somebody can't get

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access to him because then he's

not really shepherding the flock.

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Yeah.

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I think probably the word that

comes to mind is just accessibility.

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Yeah.

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There's a kind of temptation in the

pastorate where we can easily cloister,

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go to our offices and just open our

books, open our Bible and get to work.

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It's a lot of us that, that's a, that's

one of the reasons we love the ministry

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because we get to study God's word

and figure out ways to preach it, but

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the bulk of what we do is not that.

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It's one tool among the many.

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And so just being around the people,

being accessible, being personable

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not being the kind of person who

says, I don't have time for you.

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I've gotta study my Bible this week and

then I've gotta go play golf or whatever.

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So it's accessibility in our mind.

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I think that's what we

tend to mean by that.

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It's not possible to be equally

available to everyone all the time.

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And certainly there's also

another temptation of simply just.

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Wanting to be around the

people that you like?

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Yeah.

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All of us have people that

are naturally are ilk.

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We're like, oh, you're just fun

to be around for whatever reason.

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And I think one of the traits of

a godly man is someone who goes

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outta his way to interact with

people that are not like him.

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People that are maybe even just in some

respects off-putting, like, we're just

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not alike in a lot of ways and besides

Christ, we have nothing in common.

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That kind of thing.

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That's a good thing.

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That's a good thing for

all of us to practice.

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And the pastor more than anyone he

does think about these things and.

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And attempt to accomplish

those very same things.

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So accessibility would

be the word I'd go to.

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Patch mark, any thoughts on it?

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No, I think that's, I

think that's important.

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The thing that comes to my mind is

that when there's these pastors.

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That have fallen, and we've

talked about them a lot.

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Often they're very isolated and they

isolate themselves intentionally.

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And there is a sense of accountability

and you must practice it.

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Well, it can be mishandled by

a congregation, but there is

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accountability that is brought about.

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The pastor properly interacting

with his people and that is

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a really important thing.

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There's a lot of these people have

come out and been like, oh, well

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actually he was really a cruel person.

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He was actually kind of mean to people.

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And it's like that only comes

out after they've fallen.

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But it wasn't known by people before

because he wasn't actually, he

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wasn't actually known by the people.

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So there is a, there's a, there's

an important element to this, which

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it does provide accountability

and it's a functional way of

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making sure the church is healthy.

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That's helpful.

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Yeah.

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Is he known?

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And I guess that's a really good

point, because that's one of the.

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It's one of the things I heard

about a pastor who recently fell.

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He was a great preacher, right?

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Solid, excellent preaching,

but nobody knew him.

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Mm-hmm.

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Hard to connect with.

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Didn't wanna really engage

one of those things.

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And I never knew that I mean for all,

when you hear about people, you read

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their blogs, read their books, hear

their sermons, you never get that sense.

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But it's really the

congregation that helps.

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Either confirm a pastor's calling

and his influence, or in many

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respects, work against him by saying,

actually you're a great preacher,

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but you're not a good shepherd.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Like I said, during that sermon, I fear

getting an, a passing grade in preaching,

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but a failing grade In pastoring.

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In shepherding.

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And that's kinda what

we're talking about here.

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Well, let's go ahead and turn

to our daily Bible reading.

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Those are good questions.

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If that creates more questions

for you, you can always ask

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the clarifying questions.

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We'd be happy to answer them.

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But we're gonna be in Second

Samuel four through six, and

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then Luke 18, 18 through 43.

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Second Samuel chapter four.

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We've got each boche.

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Now remember, each Boche is

the one that claimed the throne

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after his father Saul had died.

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So this isn't.

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Totally unexpected in the ways

that the world worked, that when the

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king died, the son took the throne.

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And so ish we could ask how much did,

was he aware of Samuel's anointing?

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Was he aware of the fact that God had

told Saul, I'm gonna take the kingdom

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away from you and give it to another?

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How much did Ishish know?

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And perhaps even David's

response to what happens in this

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chapter might indicate that.

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Osh didn't know as much as

we may have thought he knew.

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We may assume well ish.

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Beeth is just a slimy guy and he doesn't

want to seed the kingdom and he's

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just being selfish and greedy here.

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Or he's the son of the king that just

died and he's the one that makes the

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most sense to be the next in line based

on the fact that the other brothers

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died on the mountain with Saul.

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So he's gonna take the throne well.

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Eventually, some evil men come in

chapter four, and they are going to

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take matters into their own hands

as the kingdom is on the decline.

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And Joab has or not Jo Hab.

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Abner has defected and the

writing seems to be on the wall.

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You've got a couple of evil men that

decide they're gonna take matters into

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their own hand and think that maybe

they'll get some favor with David,

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since David seems to be on the up and

they go and they murder ish bhe, they

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take his head and they bring it back.

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To King David thinking that they

have done him a great favor.

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Well, much like the Amalekite

that came and said, I struck

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down Saul on the mountain.

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David is not pleased with this and

David is in fact going to end up

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taking these two men and dispatching

with them pretty quickly in a rather

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public and shameful way to show

that what they did was not right.

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And again, that might indicate that ish

Bhel was not as much of a bad guy as

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we might initially think that he was.

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And notice that David is doing the

opposite of what Saul did, right?

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Saul was worried about his throne

being taken by David, and so he

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tries in his own power, his own

strength to protect his throne.

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David is rather saying, this guy who.

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In some sense, to your point, pastor PJ

technically has rights to the throne.

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He threatens me in that way.

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This guy I'm actually going to protect.

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He doesn't end up protecting him,

but he's upset when he is murdered

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and he's not seeking to protect

what God has promised him with his

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own strength and his own power.

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It sounds to me like you're identifying a.

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Character quality of Godly

leadership, and it's that godly

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leadership is not insecure.

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Yeah.

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There is a sense of security that

comes from saying, I'm going to

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serve where God wants me to serve.

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I'm going to lead where

God wants me to lead.

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And if God changes that.

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So be it.

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Like, who am I to argue against him?

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There is a divine freedom that God

grants to people who are willing to

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say, not my will, but yours be done.

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The moment that we try to grasp and

take control over that thing that

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we want or that situation that we're

hoping for is the moment that we put

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ourselves in a very precarious situation

because now you might find ourselves

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working against God in this case.

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These two men who dispatched ish beeth

had no idea they were actually working

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contrary to God's will and even David's

will, in this case, the earthly king,

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who again, he's pointing to the future

Davidic king, which is da Jesus.

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And Jesus is the one who rules with

equity and he rules Magnanimously.

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He's generous, he's

kind a smoldering wick.

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He will not quench that kind of thing.

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And here you have this great picture

of David showing a willingness to

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say, I'm gonna trust the Lord to

deal with people as he sees fit.

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Now that's true in the earlier

part of his life as things.

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Progress.

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Later he matures.

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Things change.

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I think you see a subtle shift

in David's demeanor about this.

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It's not a full shift.

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It's not like a 180 turn, but there's

some interesting changes down the block.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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One chapter five, the tribes

gather with David and they say,

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it's time to make you king.

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We're here we're bone of your bone and

flesh of your flesh in that union.

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And that should echo in your mind

back to the even words of Adam to

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Eve and the marital covenant there.

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And so the people of Israel

coming in and say, we're yours.

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We're gonna pledge

ourselves completely to you.

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The uniting of.

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These fractured kingdoms together under

one king, and that is gonna be David.

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And then in the rest of chapter five, we

get this fascinating scene where David

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goes to battle against the Philistines.

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And what's so fascinating about it is

not that he beats the Philistines twice,

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but the way that he goes about it.

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And one of the first notable things that

we see here along with David's character.

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As we learn more and more about it

is that he goes to the Lord, the

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Philistines, draw out for battle,

and David's gonna seek the Lord.

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Lord, what should I do?

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And he waits.

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He's the anti Saul in that regard.

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He's going to be patient.

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God's going to tell him, this

is what I want you to do.

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And then I think we see even more

so David's uniqueness as compared to

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Saul when the Philistines come back

out and they drop again in the same.

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Spot to do battle in the same valley.

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And so we're meant to say, okay,

look, it's the same thing, same song,

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second verse, just go beat them again.

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But David doesn't assume that God is

gonna win the same way He's dependent

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enough on the Lord to go back to the Lord.

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Say, Lord, what do you want me to do?

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And we might be sitting there

saying, are you kidding me?

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God already answered this question,

David, just go do what you did before

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E, except this time God says, I

want you to do it a different way.

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And David's.

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Submiss submissive to the Lord and

goes about it a different way and

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God wins the victory form again.

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So second Samuel five I think is good.

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We see him united as

king over all of Israel.

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And then we see these two battles

where we see David's character and

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trust in the Lord come forward in how

he goes about seeking the Lord's will.

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I think this is a good example of

how we answer the question in our

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life of, God says we need to do

things and he's going to make it

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happen, but we also participate.

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In these things, right?

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And it's sometimes a little hard

for us to understand and to kinda

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differentiate those two things or

understand how they work together.

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But in this case, the Lord gives, and

we're gonna see lots of this, right?

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And we already have the Lord gives

David lots of victory, lots of favor.

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But David still has to go, right?

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He still has to go and

be obedient to the Lord.

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You might ask the question,

why doesn't God just, send fire

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and brimstone done that before?

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Why doesn't God just

send fire and brimstone?

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He's done that before.

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Why doesn't he do that?

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Well, I think it's because

he's using David, right?

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David is the fire and brimstone that

God is using and David is responding in

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faithfulness and gets to demonstrate.

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That he's a godly man.

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And that's a good thing

for David to experience.

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That's a good thing for us to be able

to look back at David's life and to

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be able to see somebody who did that.

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Yeah.

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And be able to seek to apply

that in our own life today.

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Lemme point out another thing

too, as we're looking at it here.

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Second Samuel five tells you how old David

is when this actually turns out the way

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that he was promised it would turn out.

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That's a good point.

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He's 30 years old.

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He's not a young man.

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He's young-ish, but he's not a young man.

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Yeah.

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You saying him old?

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Well, a little bit.

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And I just gotta point out

here he's 30 Moses was 80.

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God is.

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He is really okay with saying

I'm not going to put you in a

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place until I think you're ready.

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Yeah.

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And for a lot of us we're thinking,

when you're young twenties, that's the

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time now I should have the job, I should

have the position that I'm looking for.

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By that point, if I haven't

done that yet, I'm way behind.

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And I understand that because we're human

bound or rather time bound humans, we feel

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this pressing need to make stuff happen.

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Mm-hmm.

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But David is such a great example because

he's literally running in the wilderness

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away from Saul saying, Lord, you said.

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I didn't ask for this.

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You are the one who gave me this promise.

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And now finally, 30 years into his

life, God positions him to be the actual

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King of Israel at HEB Brown, no less.

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So this is not even you're not in

Jerusalem, you're not the capital yet.

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He's still serving in some obscurity.

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The kingdom is not united

the way it's supposed to be.

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His situation is really not rosy

for still some time to come.

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And I think that's an

important lesson for all of us.

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We all want things to happen.

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We all have dreams for our

lives, for our kids, and God is.

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Sometimes far slower to act than

we prefer, but often it is the

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better thing for us to say, okay,

Lord, , I don't wanna force it.

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I wanna wait for you to do things.

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And here we have a good example in

David who waits 30 years to become the

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king that God promised he would be.

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Well, chapter six, we see David

in not so much of a bright light

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because he's gonna go to bring the

arc up to Jerusalem and you might

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think, well, isn't that a good thing?

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And on the one hand, yes, but

on the other hand, he doesn't

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go about it the right way.

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He puts the arc on a cart.

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Now, this was something that you

may have looked at and read past

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as you're reading this and thought,

okay, he puts the arc on a cart.

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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Was probably pretty heavy.

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This would be a, an

efficient way to go about it.

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The problem is the Old

Testament law prohibited this.

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The Ultimate Testament law said

that they were not to actually

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put the arc on a cart, but in

fact it was to only be carried.

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So, because it was on the cart, it was.

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Prone to what happens.

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The ox begins to trip and stumble

and the arc begins to fall, and Za

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is there, and he's the unfortunate

one who reaches out to study the arc.

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And I'm always reminded of Varsi

Sproul's comment that USA's greatest

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mistake was thinking that his

hands were cleaner than the dirt.

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And that was one that, that has always

resonated with me because the sinfulness

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of ZA was the problem coming to reach out,

to contact something that represented the.

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For the people, at least the

place where God's glory appeared.

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And so USA struck dead.

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David is incensed by this.

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The place is even called God

Broke Out or something similar

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to that in the translation.

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And David leaves the

arc behind with a man.

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Well, then he finds out that

this man is being blessed.

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And so he's like, nevermind, let's

bring the arc back this time.

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He goes, it's gonna be carried.

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They're gonna be sacrificing all

kinds of animals along the way.

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And they bring it into the

city with great rejoicing.

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And there's Michal Saul's daughter

who is despising David, because

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David is dancing with all of his

might before the Lord stripped down.

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And she says, look at how you've

embarrassed yourself in front of

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all of these the women of Israel.

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And David says I will embarrass

myself even more if it means

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that I'm gonna worship the Lord.

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And then it says at the end, McCall died.

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A barren woman.

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She never had a child as

probably God's hand of discipline

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against her for all of this.

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I'd say it's definitely her hand.

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Her hand.

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Oh no.

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Whoa.

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Wow.

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It's definitely God's

hand of judgment upon her.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Better to be foolish in man's eyes.

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Than to be foolish in God's eyes.

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And I think that's the point that

stands out to me with David, and

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this is one reason why he's called

a man after God's own heart.

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He gets it.

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He doesn't always get it, he gets it

imperfectly, but when he does, he does.

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And that's, I think about that all

the time this particular passage

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in part because of what I do as

worship leader for our church.

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This is I get to stand in front of

people and it's, it is different.

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It's weird.

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And you're gonna be dancing.

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This Sunday and I home Sunday, and you

know, bro, sometimes I get pretty close.

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I get, I start moving pretty well

and I'm like, oh man, I'm getting

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all the, you know, my hips are

shaking a little too much perhaps.

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So I feel sometimes I try to restrain

myself for the sake of saying,

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I don't want to cause people to.

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Think poorly about our church or get the

wrong impression, but man, far better

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to be foolish in man's eyes than God's.

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Mm-hmm.

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I never want the opposite, but

so often we do make that trait.

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Yeah.

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And David's a good example

for us not to do that.

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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Well, I flip over to Luke 18.

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We're gonna start in

verse 18, and we found a.

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Familiar story here.

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It says, A ruler asked him, good teacher,

what must I do to inherit eternal life?

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What struck me reading this this time was

what we're dealing with here is not, this

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is not an atheist, this is not agnostic.

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This is not somebody who is from the

world coming to Jesus saying, Hey,

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how do I get into what you have?

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This is somebody who's religious

because Jesus responds and says,

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this is what you need to do.

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Do you need to?

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He says, in fact, in verse 20, you

know the commandments, and so Jesus

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even recognizes, man, you're familiar.

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With the law, you're,

you know what's involved.

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And this man is a righteous man

because Jesus says, here's the

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commandments, don't do this, don't do

this, don't do this, don't do this.

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And the man responds and says

Hey I've been doing all of

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those things my whole life.

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And then Jesus drops the boom when

he says, one thing you lack go sell.

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You have.

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And then come and follow me.

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And so what stuck out to me this

time was that this is somebody who's

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religious, who has something still in

his heart that is keeping him back from

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full surrender to following Christ.

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And I think that's a good

warning to us in the church.

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We might be in the church

thinking, look how righteous I am.

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Look at I do this.

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My, my attendance at church is great.

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I go to both the nine and the 11, and I

go to community group every single week.

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And I serve at both a nine

and 11 at the same time.

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And I drive the trailer and I load

the trailer and I unload the trailer

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and I serve at Adventure Club.

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And we might think we've got

all of these things going.

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And yet if there's something in our

heart that we're harboring that we have

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not surrendered to Christ, or if there's

something that we love more than Jesus,

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that if God were to say give me this.

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We would say, no way.

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Then we are the rich

young ruler in this story.

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And on top of that I try to remind

myself and my kids, and I guess

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it's probably good for us to be

reminded too, is that we are wealthy.

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We are the rich young

ruler in many respects.

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Granted, all of us who have.

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Who have submitted our lives to Christ.

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We've calculated the cost, but so often

money does pose a threat against us

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even today, and we're gonna talk about

that this weekend with the parable of

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the soils, it poses a threat against

us because of what it can do for us.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's not an idol in the capital I sense,

but it certainly is an idol where we all

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feel the tug of it's power, its influence.

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It can buy us a nicer home, nicer cars,

nicer position, better healthcare perhaps.

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And so.

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The problem for us is that we can be

wooed into taking maybe a really high

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paying job and knowing, oh, that's

gonna really hinder my ability to

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be at church with any regularity.

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Or even I can't be part

of my small group anymore.

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And that's where I get my

primary fellowship time.

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And there's calculations that we

might be tempted to make where Jesus

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says, and this is where the word

makes sense for those who are wealthy.

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It is.

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He said, offer for, hold

on how difficult it is.

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Here we go.

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Verse 24, how difficult it

is for those who have wealth

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to enter the kingdom of God.

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And we read that.

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I'm like, well, why It

doesn't seem like that.

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And yeah, we, it just takes a couple

seconds to think, man, money can

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be such a tool of the enemy to

navigate us away from our first.

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And we'd be so willing to trade, like,

oh, I'm gonna find, I can get this

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great job in wherever this big city.

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And so I'm gonna take the job not knowing

if there's a church there, not knowing

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if there's any place for me to really

plug in and still be fed by the word.

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We have to make decisions first

and foremost for what's gonna

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help our love for Christ grow

and not for the financial thing.

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Don't preach my sermon

out from underneath me.

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Oh man.

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Sorry.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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I'm taking it back.

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We'll cut that.

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No, no, no.

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That's so helpful.

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And just a little foretaste.

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I will, what I'll seek to do as

an admirable job, as you just

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did explaining that on Saturday

morning, that's gonna be so good.

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Gentlemen.

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Don't miss that.

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That was the pre preach.

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Pre before the actual, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, Jesus, after this is going

to again, foretell his death.

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Now this is the third time.

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And we have to remember the

disciples don't understand.

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He, they still don't know.

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They're still gonna be shocked.

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They're gonna run from the garden.

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We're gonna see here, except for

John and Judas, for obvious reasons.

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They're all gonna run.

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And so even though Jesus is

being explicitly clear they don't

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understand, just like I was preaching

a couple weeks ago, maybe this was

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it, even just this last weekend.

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They don't understand that first he came

to suffer and then enter into glory.

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And so this is the third time that he's

telling them what is going to happen.

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And then after this, we see

Jesus healing the blind beggar.

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And I love this story because

I do think we get a small

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picture, as I've said before, of.

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Salvation In this story the beggars

crying out, son of David have mercy on me.

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He recognizes Jesus is the

only one that can help him.

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Jesus draws him to him.

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He says, what do you want?

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He says, I wish to see

he confesses his need.

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What is his greatest need?

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He needs to see and he can't see,

and only Jesus can enable him to see.

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And then Jesus gives him sight.

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And then what does the man do?

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He turns and he follows Jesus.

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This is such a beautiful

picture of what salvation is.

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All of us spiritually lost, blind.

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Apart from Christ, Jesus is the only

one that can save us from our sins.

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We come to him, we confess we wish to

see spiritually, we wish to be cleansed.

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We wish to have our sins forgiven.

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The only one that can

do that, Jesus is you.

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And then once we receive that through

the faith and repentance in his

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sacrifice force, then we spend the

rest of our lives following him.

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And so that, I love the

story of the blind bagger.

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And the one that calls out and then

ends up becoming one of Jesus' followers

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and I believe eventually when we get

to heaven, we'll get to meet this guy.

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The irony can't be missed that this blind

guy sees Jesus as who he ought to be seen.

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He sees him as the son of David, and we

just saw in the previous verses that.

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The 12 did not understand when Jesus

told them what was gonna happen to him.

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That's just fascinating

fascinating narrative that we

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see here from Luke Humorous.

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Well, hey, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God make us all like this blind

beggar that are aware that we

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want to follow you because of the

deliverance that we've had from you.

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I can't imagine that he didn't wake

up every day and open his eyes and

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be able to see and remember that he's

seeing because Jesus enabled him to see.

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I pray that we would have that same

approach to our walk with Christ, that

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we would wake up every day and think to

ourselves, we're right with you because

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of what Christ has done for us, and

we wanna devote our lives and devote

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ourselves to following Jesus as well.

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So we pray this all in his name.

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Amen.

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