In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts reflect on a successful church camp event and offer gratitude for the efforts made by the organizers. They then discuss personal and collective challenges, including Pastor Rod's current health issues and the significance of male friendship in the church community, as exemplified by David and Jonathan's bond. The conversation transitions to a chronological reading of 1 Samuel chapters 18-20, juxtaposed with Psalms 59 and 11. The hosts dive deep into David's trials, his unwavering trust in God, and the imprecatory Psalms, providing advice on their application for Christians today. Listeners are encouraged to invest in meaningful friendships and to draw strength and wisdom from the biblical passages discussed.

00:00 Introduction and Camp Out Recap

00:50 Unexpected Challenges at the Camp

02:02 Pastor Rod's Health Concerns

04:13 Upcoming Events and Prayer Requests

04:43 Daily Bible Reading: Entering the Psalms

05:37 David and Jonathan's Friendship

09:00 Saul's Jealousy and David's Escape

12:49 Imprecatory Psalms Explained

16:22 Jonathan's Covenant with David

17:48 Psalm 11: Trusting God in Troubled Times

19:03 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

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Hey everybody.

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We made it.

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We are back after the camp out.

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It's another edition of

the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yes, and thank the Lord.

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It was a great event.

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Mark, Allie, your whole team,

did a superb job at organizing at

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running it Lewis with the games.

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It was great, man.

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It was just, I heard multiple people say

this was their favorite event that they've

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been a part of at Compass Bible Church.

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Is that right?

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That's really cool, man.

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I'm, that's a high bar.

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That is a high bar.

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That's a, that's pretty cool.

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Now, one of them happened to be Patrick

Chen, whose family won Best family.

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Oh yeah.

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You win best family, of

course you're gonna love it.

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Yeah.

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And then I think the arses came in second.

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They put the trophy on

the hood of their car.

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They like attached it as a hood ornament

to That's cool hood of their car.

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So I think that will decrease your

efficiency probably a little bit.

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Yeah.

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Although it's a tiny trophy.

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The second place is small first

place, massive second place.

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Not as massive.

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But no, it was a great time, man.

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We, last night the park police showed up.

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They wanted to see our permit,

which is understandable.

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Okay, fine, whatever.

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But they showed up at 1145 what I know.

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And so unbelievable.

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Thankfully, Allie happened to be

one of the people still awake at

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that point, and she has the permit.

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So she showed the, rent a cop there.

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Here's our permit.

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We're allowed to be here.

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And then he turned into nice guy.

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And then the police showed

up to go down and chase other

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people out of other campsites.

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That Irwin Park.

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There were gunshots too, man.

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Irwin Park.

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It's like Compton.

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I didn't know this, but McKinney,

you have experience in Compton.

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Y you would be shocked, man.

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I, me and Compton, mean

Compton go way back.

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Way back straight outta.

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Wow.

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I'm actually not, I don't, but no.

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There, there were some gunshots that

people were talking about and this

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is coming from reputable sources.

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Stephen Little said he heard

gunshots going off in the forest.

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This is where we're taking

our church to go camping.

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Amen.

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I said it was a great event.

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I didn't say it's a great location.

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Yeah.

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The, we had the bathrooms were locked,

so we had porta-potties the whole time.

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Yeah.

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I heard that they were broken.

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They were broken.

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Yeah.

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There was a pipe that burst in one

of the bathrooms, so you know that it

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could have been worse, but man, it was.

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It was just, it was great.

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It was good fellowship, good time.

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Weather was perfect.

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Aside from everything else, pastor

Rod you're let's just draw attention

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to the elephant in the room.

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You don't sound like yourself.

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This whenever it is,

they're listening to this.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what's going on.

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You can pray for my voice and my.

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My, everything in my nasal passage.

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I don't know.

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What's something I,

maybe I have laryngitis.

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It sounds like it.

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It sounds like it, but I have no idea.

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I've never had this before.

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This is a new territory for me.

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I haven't been sleeping

super great either.

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I don't know what to make of that.

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I've been waking up about

three o'clock every night.

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I.

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Every morning, and I'm unable to shut off.

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Like I just, so I just

lay there, I toss, I turn.

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And it's one of those things where

I'm like, okay, are is there something

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happening in my body or just something

happening in my heart and my soul

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that I'm just, I'm stressed out

by something and I don't know it.

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I don't have an answer to that.

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I just know that I've been wrestling

and so I'm not sure if this is related

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to it or if it's, I don't know.

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Adjacent.

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Yeah.

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I just know that I've had better

days, but I've also had worse too.

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So even though I sound I don't know,

whatever I sound like right now I just.

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I've had worse days.

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I don't feel as awful as I sound.

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So here's the follow up question for you.

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Would you like, because you've just

told a church full of people who

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love you, that you have laryngitis.

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So would you like everybody's remedies

for how to cure your laryngitis?

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I've already got a couple people

at the the church camp out who told

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me what they thought I should do.

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One was about a summer told

me I needed to eat garlic.

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Okay.

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And gargle.

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What was it?

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I forget.

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Did get this I remember the garlic part.

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Salt water.

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Oh was it honey water and more

teaspoon of honey, something like that.

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Every two hours she said, and she

said for me it like resolved it

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over the course of 24, 48 hours, but

she had to do it every two hours.

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She's so I got up in

the middle of the night.

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I did it anyway.

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If it's easy, it doesn't

require me to do a whole lot.

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I'm totally willing to hear it.

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Ramin told me to gargle with typical

salt water, antiseptic, or I guess salt

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water too would probably work, but sure.

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I'm open to it.

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I.

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I don't expect me to talk a whole lot.

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I guess I'll listen to you, but I

won't be asking a ton of questions.

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It takes a lot of energy to talk

right now for obvious reasons.

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Totally.

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Besides that I'll happily take that dude.

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I'm just saying if if you're

gonna have garlic every two hours,

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then she said, I smelled awful.

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Kristen and the kids may go back camping.

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They may leave you and go camp again.

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Dude, I probably smelled

worse than that though, Sue.

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I think it'll be okay.

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Yeah.

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That was camp Out was great.

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Thanks for you guys that we're

praying who weren't there.

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Yeah.

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Please be praying for Pastor Rod's

voice to recover and get strong.

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We've got a big weekend

coming up next weekend.

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I don't know if you guys realize

that, that's like a, it's a big deal.

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It's one of the highest holy

days that we have as the church.

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It's arguably the ar Yeah I

can't think of a bigger one.

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Christmas is important, but.

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Christmas is here because of

Easter, because of what we're

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celebrating on on Sunday.

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So pray for Pastor Rod's voice, pray

that it would come back to full strength

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and that nobody else would get sick.

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In the meantime, that'd be my good Friday.

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Yep.

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Yeah, that would be super helpful.

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We would appreciate that.

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Alright, let's jump into

our daily Bible reading.

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We are starting to wade into

the territory of the Psalms now.

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We've hit a couple Psalms already,

but we're gonna start to hit

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a lot of them because we are

entering into the life of David.

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And as David is one of the

most prolific psalmists.

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We have others in the book

of Psalms, but David, I.

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Is attributed with the majority

of the Psalms that we read.

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So those, because of the chronological

plan will be sprinkled in.

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So come to expect that some of

them are gonna be quite obvious

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where it's got a direct connection.

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In fact, I think in our reading today,

there's a pretty direct connection where

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you can go, okay, this makes sense.

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He wrote it at this time.

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In fact, some of the super prescriptions

of the psalms will tell you those things.

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Other times it's.

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The editors and the people that made

this plan, it's their best guess of

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when to read these psalms in concert

with what's going on in David's life.

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The words of the Psalms are inspired.

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Their placement alongside the

chronological reading plan, that's an

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editorial decision, and so we're, we'll

do the best that we can to roll with it.

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But we get in chapter 18, we are

after now David and Goliath and David

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has been recognized for his bravado

and his courage and his victory.

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Three.

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And yet he's the one that is

pointing to God through this all.

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And Jonathan.

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Hello, Jonathan Saul's son.

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It says there in verse one, as

soon as David had finished speaking

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to Saul, the soul of Jonathan

was knit to the soul of David and

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Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

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Pastor Rod.

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Last year we did our men's

retreat and talked about male.

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Friendship, and this is probably

the preeminent example of of

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biblical male friendship at work

here between David and Jonathan.

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Yeah.

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And it's a shame that this relationship

has often been twisted to be

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something else for so many reasons.

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And one of the things that I often

see in this passage is that the tip,

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the male friendship as I idealized in

scriptures, doesn't look like almost

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anything that we see today, right?

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Anyone that has a friendship.

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This close, and that's probably our loss.

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That's sincerely something that

I feel a burden for, even though

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I don't know how to fix it.

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Our culture is just different and maybe

that's some of the thing that's happening

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here where the translation doesn't

quite make sense, but I think there is

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a lot left on the table between male

relationships and it's the Jonathan David.

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A paradigm that gives me that sense of

saying there's clearly something more.

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There's another gear to male friendships

that a lot of us don't know, in part

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because we're busy doing our own things.

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We're busy running our own ways.

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But man, this is something I

think if you're a lady and you

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know that your husband doesn't

have very many good friends this

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is something worth praying about.

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This is something that God uses to

preserve our relationship in him and

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also to keep us running the race.

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Having a good brother by your

side can make a ton of difference

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when you're going through.

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The valley of the shadow of

death to use David's terms.

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So pray for your husband if he has male

friendships, to have deep and honest

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and real and genuine male friendships.

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And if he doesn't have that,

pray all the more that God would

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help him to identify these men.

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Yeah.

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And men, if you're listening to this

and you would say, Hey that's me.

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I don't have super close

friendships with other guys.

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Then are you availing yourself

to those friendships forming?

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Are you involved in a community group?

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Are you involved in men's

Bible study when we have it?

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Are you coming on our men's retreat?

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Men's retreat is one of the.

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The best areas to and opportunities

to deepen friendships with

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other guys at the church.

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You're gonna be with them for about 24

hours of pretty highly condensed time,

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and there's gonna be opportunities

to do free time events together,

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but just to sit and talk with each

other over meals and everything else.

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This is a great opportunity, men to sign

up for our men's retreat and come and be a

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part of this and build into the foundation

of what will be some great relationships.

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If you're sitting there and you're

not involved in a community group,

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you, you're not involved in men's

bible study you would look at men's

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retreat and go I don't wanna be there.

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Then you sit there and you say and I just

don't have any friends at the church.

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Then pick up a mirror and stare

hard into the mirror because

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the problem's not the church.

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The problem is your attitude

about whether or not you want to

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invest in these relationships.

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Not to be overly harsh, but I think

that the opportunities are there.

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I, and I say that because I know

how awesome so many of the men in

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our church are, and we've got a

plethora of men in the church that.

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Would benefit anyone to get to

know and build friendships with.

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I know there's plenty of men in the church

who just bless me in the areas that I get

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to know them and spend time with them.

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So that's why I'm coming down so strong

on that, is because the, there, it's good

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for you to invest in these connections,

these relationships as Jonathan in.

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David grow close together.

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David and Saul begin to separate, and

not that they were ever super close,

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but verses six through 16 in chapter

eight, David's military endeavors

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and prowess begins to drive a wedge

between him and Saul because Saul

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wants the glory that David is getting

and so much so that it prompts Saul.

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Not for the only time as we'll.

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Find out to pick up a spear and try to s.

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To, to spear David to death.

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That's a problem.

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And thankfully he fails.

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And so then after this, Saul takes David

and puts him over a thousand of his troops

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in order to get him out of his presence.

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A weird.

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Manic relationship here between

Saul and David, but Saul's view

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of David is this weird mixture

of jealousy and fear and hatred.

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And so what he's gonna do then in

the rest of the chapter here is

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he's gonna say, okay, how can I.

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How can I make sure that

David's gonna be on my side?

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And the way he's gonna do that is gonna

give David his daughter Mical in marriage.

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And so Mical is gonna become

David's wife, and it's an alliance.

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It's just a strange alliance because this

is an alliance between two rival kings.

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I guess theoretically we

could argue that, but not yet.

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At least this is an alliance between Saul

and his servant David, and wanted to make

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sure that he and David are on the same

same wavelength, same team, so to speak.

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But Saul knows what's going on.

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Look at verses 28 and 29 of chapter 18.

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When Saul saw and knew that

the Lord was with David, he

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was even more afraid of David.

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And so Saul was David's enemy continually.

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So Saul begins to suspect as God

has already told Saul, Hey, the

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kingdom's not gonna remain with you.

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That maybe David is the guy that

the kingdom's going to when as

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sooner comes to take Annie's hand.

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Oof.

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Will you require the same bride price?

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Yes depending on the man.

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I don't know where he is

gonna find Philistines.

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Around 200 of them on top of that, right?

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200 men.

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Yikes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Stick a pin in the name Mical, by the way.

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She's gonna come back up later on in

the story in not so much of a positive

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light, but, anyways chapter 19 me call

comes up sooner than later because

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there's a, an assassination plot that

is discovered and Jonathan Dissuades,

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his father from killing David, even

manages to make it so David could

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return to the King's presence again.

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But that doesn't last long

as, again, here comes.

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Spear number two, Saul tries to

kill David, and so then Saul's gonna

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send soldiers to David's house to

arrest him and basically hold him

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captive until he can kill him.

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Nicole learns about it and she

tells David and David escapes.

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Now she takes a household idle, which

she shouldn't have but she does, and she

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puts some hair on it and lays it in the

bed, and it deceives the guards there.

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Mical delivers David, but even the

fact that she's got a household idol

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foreshadowing of the fact that Mical

may not be on, on the best terms with

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the God of Israel here rest of chapter

19, you get this weird scene where Saul

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pursues David and, there's messengers

that, that are sent out there, and

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Saul eventually goes after him himself

and they all end up prophesying.

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And this is strange because you'll

remember Saul prophesied after Samuel

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said, Hey, you're gonna be king.

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And that was to confirm his role as king.

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Here.

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It seems more to humiliate Saul in,

there's more things that he does in

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concert with this disrobing in the such.

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But I think this is too.

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Humiliate Saul and for Saul to be reminded

by God, Hey, you're not in control.

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Look what I can make you do

if I want you to do this.

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And so that's kinda what

happens there in chapter 19.

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Chapter 59 then is of Psalm 59.

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Sorry.

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I think is good to jump in and

cover here because of the context.

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I, I mentioned some directly connect

there and here it says a Mik Tom of

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David when Saul sent men to watch

his house in order to kill him.

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So we just read about that in

one Samuel 19 and here we read

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the psalm that David wrote.

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Reflecting back on that appealing to his

innocence he has an imprecatory plea.

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Maybe let's introduce

that concept briefly here.

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'cause we're gonna read more direct

Imprecatory psalms, but the psalms were.

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Where David is praying for judgment

against his enemies pr, do you want to

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address how we should go about reading

those as far as when we approach them,

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the best way for us to benefit from them

and how we should think about application?

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Let's start off by saying that the

application of an imprecatory psalm is

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difficult for the New Testament Christian

who has been told to forgive his enemies.

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God's enemies.

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On the other hand, I think there is

a place to use an a precatory psalm.

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So let's just frame this under

the Old Testament covenant, under,

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even in his particular here, the

Davidic Covenant, where God said,

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I'm gonna make you a sure house.

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I'm gonna bless you.

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You're gonna be my king.

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A king naturally has enemies,

and in this case, the king's

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enemies are God's enemies.

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These are not just personal vendettas.

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And so when David prays

an imprecatory psalm.

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A Psalm that praise

curses upon his enemies.

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This is not David saying, I just don't

like the way that you treated me.

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna deal with you.

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I'm gonna ask God to curse you.

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This is not a, a little foible.

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This is not something that

is, is David having a bad day?

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This is God's king, God's representative,

leadership, doing a righteous thing,

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a righteous act, which in this case is

calling down judgment, which is what God

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will do for everyone who opposes him.

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You read here in verse eight.

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You, oh Lord.

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Laugh at them.

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It sounds a lot like Psalm

chapter two where it says,

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kiss the sun lest he be angry.

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The Lord will laugh in

derision against his enemies.

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And so what you have here is a microcosm

of the larger picture of Jesus rulership.

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So everything that you see here

ultimately points to Jesus and its

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fulfillments of Jesus judgment of the

nations that will not bow the knee.

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And that here in glimpses in David.

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So that's where it fits in the Old

Testament or in the narrative of

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redemption history in the story of

redemption history as a New Testament

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Christian, I don't think we're often gonna

be using these because we don't have, I.

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The same kind of position David did.

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However, again, I will say

for God's enemies I don't

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think they're off the table.

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In fact, I prayed against Planned

Parenthood with Imprecatory Psalms

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and granted, I'm praying against

an organization and not a person,

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but I have used the CEO's name

before and say, Lord, stop her.

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Yeah.

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I use these kinds of psalms to, to help

inspire and motivate a righteous prayer,

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hopefully a righteous indignation,

but I would say handle them carefully.

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Yeah.

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Yeah I just thought, just popped into

my head when you were talking about that

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in, I think one Corinthians six when our

chapter, sorry, chapter five, when Paul

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is confronting the church there for having

somebody in the midst that's in an immoral

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relationship with somebody that he says,

even the world wouldn't do these things.

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And then it says in there, you need

to discipline him outta the church.

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You need to turn him over to Satan

for the destruction of his flesh, lest

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his soul should perish also, which

would imply that perhaps this guy.

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Didn't forfeit his soul eternally.

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But there, I wonder if there's a

measure of imprecatory ju prayers

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that we can pray such that it's God we

desire the salvation of your enemies.

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We desire that they would repent

and believe, but in the meantime, I.

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Stop them, whatever means necessary, stop

them from doing what they're doing there.

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I think that's a really interesting and

helpful framing of that, because you're

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right, Jesus does say to pray for your

enemies pray for those who persecute you.

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Love your enemies.

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Give them food and give them water.

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Give 'em shelter.

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You're putting, burning

coals in their head.

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So again I would make a

distinction between our enemies.

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We're not the Davidic king.

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We're not the Messiah.

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And God's enemies, for God's enemies.

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I feel the preparatory psalm still have

a place for my personal enemies saying

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and I may say, oh man they're against

me because I'm a Christian maybe.

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And if that's a case, this is

a place for me to display that

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kind of love and affection.

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But when it comes to something

that's clear and evidently

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opposed to God's rulership in his

authority, in our lives again I

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feel like these still have a place.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 20 then, as we jump back into

First Samuel first Samuel 20, we get

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here more on David and Jonathan and

the development of the relationship.

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This is gonna be a chapter that includes

a covenant that's entered into, and

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what's worth note here is Jonathan

understands that the kingdom is going to

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David and he is treating David that way.

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He's talking about David that way,

and in fact he even says, look if

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my father wants to do you harm.

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And something befall you.

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I'm gonna let you know.

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And then he says, and David,

here's what I'm asking of you.

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If something happens to

me, take care of my family.

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And that's this covenant relationship

that they enter into this mutual care

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and concern for one another's wellbeing.

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And David's gonna follow

through with this down the road.

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We're gonna find that out with one of

Jonathan's sons named Mephibosheth.

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But this is again, just the Jonathan is

a commendable guy, and we only get such a

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brief snapshot of Jonathan's life because.

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It's not gonna last for very much longer,

but he's a commendable guy and I, I.

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I hope and believe that in eternity

we'll get to find out more about him

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and get to know him a little bit more.

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But he and David have this unique

relationship and the plot in

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chapter 20 eventually reveals what

David suspected to be the case.

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And Jonathan warns David to flee.

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And it's such a great cost here

because Saul goes off on his son.

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And just blows up at him.

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And Psalm even tries to kill his son

when he realized what was happening.

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And so the parting there at the end

in verses 41 through 42, just a moving

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scene depicting their true love for

one another and their commitment

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to their friendship together.

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Psalm 11.

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Then as we.

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Conclude not entirely sure of the

placement of this psalm, but thematically

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it does work here in the Psalm, David asks

the unknown counselor how they can advise

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him to run for his life when it was God

whom he trusts and he's still reigning.

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God is, and he's still aware of all that

men plot and do so even back in, in Psalm

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59 the confidence David had there that.

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God was gonna deliver him

is still present here.

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And so that's gonna be an

interesting tension in David's life.

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David is gonna run from his life so

often, but all at the same time in

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the Psalms we're gonna read that he

expresses a confidence and a trust in

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God despite the fact that he's running.

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He's not running

thinking, man, this is it.

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I need to take care of

myself because God can't.

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He's understanding.

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And this is that whole idea of God's

sovereignty and our circumstances and.

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Evil befalling us and everything else.

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And I think David is a great example

of somebody who trusts that God, a

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sovereign over the events that are

before us, but he's not gonna then

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say, so I'm gonna let go and let God.

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He's still gonna say, you know what?

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If Saul's got a spear, I'm gonna run.

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I'm gonna dodge that spear and trust

that's, God ordain my steps as well.

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So Psalm 11.

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A great psalm about fleeing and

taking refuge and needing to trust

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the Lord in the midst of the troubles

and persecutions that befall us.

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Well, lemme pray and then we

will be done with this episode.

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God give us great wisdom to know

even as we were talking about in

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preparatory prayers and in Psalms,

we want to be careful with those

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and we want to know that our right

righteous indignation is an in.

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Indignation is an anger that is rooted

in the offense being against you more

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than it is the offense being against us.

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And so helps us to learn from passengers

like this and sections like this so

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that we can we can act in accordance

with what you would have us do.

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And so we thank you for these texts and

we thank you for the life of David, the

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friendship that he has with Jonathan

and the example that he is for us.

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Pray for.

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Godly friendships like that

to saturate our church.

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We pray Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah, bye.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said