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Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Rosebro.

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I am your servant in Jesus Christ. This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the word of God.

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So let me ask you this. Have you ever been told the Bible is all about you learning how to take risks, to be vulnerable, to live a bigger and more expansive life?

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Yeah, if you've ever been told that, go ahead and hit the like button. Don't forget to subscribe down below.

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Ring the bell. All those important YouTube -y type things. Because when somebody's teaching you that this is what the

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Bible is about, or they get up on a Sunday and they try to take the biblical texts and then work them in this way, yeah, they don't know what the

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Bible is about at all. The Bible isn't about you taking risks. It's about what Christ has done for you in order to save you.

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All of that being said, we're going to be heading over today to the Champions Center in Tacoma, Washington.

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This is where Kevin Gerald holds court as the vision casting leader.

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And in the past, I've referred to him as kind of a fake Rolex version of Joel Osteen.

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I haven't repented of that. I think that's a good way to think of Kevin Gerald. He is, at his core, a motivational speaker.

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He is not a biblical exegete. He does not preach repentance and the forgiveness of sins.

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This is a guy who basically is scratching itching ears and telling people what they want to hear rather than what

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Scripture really does say and what they need to hear. And along the way, we're going to be taking a look at the story of David dancing before the

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Ark of the Covenant. And we're going to put it in context and we're going to help you understand what the big offense was when his wife

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Michal confronts him regarding that. And then we'll note then, knowing a good way of understanding this text, what

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Kevin Gerald is doing with this. And so the sermon series that we're going to be looking at today, this is installment number one from his sermon series,

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Kevin Gerald's sermon series called Naked and Unafraid. Naked and Unafraid.

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Yeah, that's what it's called. And we're going to end up doing two segments on this particular sermon series to demonstrate that Kevin Gerald is just not a sound exegete.

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But again, I'm going to point out, we hold Kevin Gerald out as a quintessential example of what is running through much of the church today.

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People who do not know how to rightly handle God's word have forsaken the true preaching of repentance and the forgiveness of sins and have wrestled the biblical text into somehow meaning that God wants you to take risks, to have a big life, to be successful and all that kind of stuff.

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That's not what the Bible is teaching, nor is it what the Bible is about. So let me whirl this up and let's get this over here.

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I'm properly oriented today, I think. And so let's listen in to part one of Naked and Unafraid from Kevin Gerald and see if we can make any sense of what he's going to be doing with the biblical text.

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And like I said, this will be one of a two -part series we're going to do on his sermon series called Naked and Unafraid.

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Here we go. We want to welcome everyone who is joining us from around the country, those of you who are at different locations around the nation and you are in your own church today.

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We're so glad that you and your church are joining us and a part of our series that began right here today, and that is the series

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Naked and Unafraid. What a name for a sermon series at a church,

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Naked and Unafraid. You'd think it was maybe about like Adam and Eve before the fall.

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I mean, you can kind of work that out. You know, after the fall, it's

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Naked and Afraid. But OK, so we're not talking about Adam and Eve, though. It's we're going to be talking about the important part about being vulnerable and taking risks.

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Yeah, I'm not making that up. We continue. Now, you might be wondering what what like what is this about?

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And it has been I want to admit it has been fun seeing people react to the title and all the questions and all the comments that people are making.

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It's so much fun, which is why I actually just want to begin with the premise of the book that's found in Second Samuel, Chapter six.

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So let's pray. OK, the premise of the book that's found in Second Samuel, Chapter six,

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Second Samuel. Is a book, so are you saying that this is the entire premise of Second Samuel?

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What am I to make of this? The other and then we'll get started. Say with me. All right. So like I've said,

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I have always likened Kevin Gerald to be a a fake Rolex version of Joel Osteen.

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Joel Osteen would be the original. Kevin Gerald is a cheap, you know, Taiwanese knockoff, but he's got the

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Rolex thing going on. So, yeah, he doesn't quite have the chops that Joel Osteen does, but he's at his core a motivational speaker.

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So listen to how this service starts off and what their basic creed is rather than saying this is my

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Bible. I am what it says I am. I can do what it says I can do. No, Kevin Gerald has something similar but slightly different that he starts off.

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My heart is open. My mind is ready. Make me better, God. And I'm good enough and I'm smart enough.

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And gosh darn, people like me. By your word, I receive it and I believe it.

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I won't be the same again. Never be the same. Never, never, never. In Jesus name, give somebody a high five and you may be seated today.

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Yeah, give him a high five, man. 2 Samuel chapter 6. David is king of Israel, and as a man after God's own heart,

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David has longed to have the national symbol of God's presence, which was the

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Ark of the Covenant. He has longed to have that back in Jerusalem.

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It's a little greater than that. He needs it back in Jerusalem because he wants to build a permanent facility for the

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Lord. He wants to build a temple, and God's been hanging out in a tabernacle, in a movable tent.

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So okay. And a lot of you might have thought Ark of the Covenant is just something they produced in Hollywood, but not so.

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It's right there in scripture, and it represented the presence of God. And so David, as the king, has longed to have it in Jerusalem because it was stolen by their enemies.

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And so today is the big day, we're going to read about it, but today is the big day where the

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Ark is arriving in the city. And it's festive. It's a huge celebration.

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There's parades in the street, and David is right in the middle of it.

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He's right down in the middle of the parade, and he is dancing, and he is excited, and he is worshiping

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God. Meanwhile, David's wife, Michal, who was King Saul's daughter, was not in the streets, but she was watching the festivities from a window in the palace.

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This is true. Later that night, David headed home, and that's where we're going to pick up the story.

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In verse 20, 2 Samuel 6, it reads like this. Now I'm going to stop here, because you're going to note, he's starting with the end of the story.

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And the three rules for sound biblical exegesis are context, context, and context.

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So I mean, pastor has nothing better to do on a Sunday than teach the word, right?

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So context and helping people rightly understand a biblical text should be high on his priority list.

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Bible twisters, it never seems to be high on their priority list. So let's take a look at what's going on here in 2

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Samuel 6. I'm going to, you know, whirl myself back here, and let's see here.

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Here we go. 2 Samuel 6, verse 1. And we're going to note here that there was a false start, if you would, based upon the fact that David and the people of Israel weren't paying attention to the finer details in the

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Mosaic Covenant and how to properly handle the Ark of the Covenant. So David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30 ,000,

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David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah to bring up from there the

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Ark of God, which is called by the name of Yahweh Sabaoth, the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned on the cherubim.

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They carried the Ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill of Uzzah and Ahail.

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Now a little bit of a note here, you're not supposed to take the Ark and put it on a cart. It's got, you know, rings in it, so you put it up on poles, and Levites are supposed to be the ones handling it.

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So already it's like, uh -oh, this is a setup for failure because the

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Ark's not supposed to be handled and transported in this way. And so the sons of Abinadab were driving the new cart with the

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Ark of God, and Ahail went before the Ark. And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before Yahweh with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines, castanets and cymbals.

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And they came to the threshing floor of Nakhon, and Nakhon Uzzah put out his hand to the

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Ark of God, took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the

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Ark of God. I've heard one exegete put it this way, is that, yeah, poor

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Uzzah, he thought his hand was more holy than the ground, and he was wrong. And he died as a result of it.

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So the Ark isn't supposed to be transported this way, you're not supposed to touch it, And here you got a fellow who, meaning well, but being ignorant of the commands of God regarding how to transport the

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Ark, when the ox stumbled, he goes to save the Ark from hitting the ground, and he assumes room temperature, bad thing.

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So this gets David's attention. So the anger of Lord was kindled, God struck him down there because of his error, and he died.

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So David was angry because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah, and that place is called

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Perez Uzzah to this day, and David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, how can the

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Ark of the Lord come to me? Perez Uzzah means breaking out against Uzzah. So David was not willing to take the

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Ark of Yahweh into the city of David, but David took it aside to the house of Obed -Edom the

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Gittite, and the Ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed -Edom the Gittite for three months.

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And Yahweh blessed Obed -Edom and all of his household. And it was told to King David, the

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Lord has blessed the house of Obed -Edom and all that belongs to him because of the Ark of God.

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So David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house of Obed -Edom to the city of David with rejoicing.

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And when those who bore the Ark of Yahweh had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal, and David danced before the

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Lord with all of his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the

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Ark of Yahweh with shouting and with the sound of the horn. Now I'm just going to say this outright.

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We Americans miss the subtlety here because we Americans do not have royals.

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We have basically commoners who we elect to the office of the presidency, but at their core there's nothing royal about them or anything like that.

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So in order to understand what's going on here, let me give you an example that might make sense.

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I remember back a few years, the Summer Olympics were held in London. And so if you think about it, part of the deal is with the opening ceremonies, there are dancers and there are singers and there are entertainers and things like that.

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And could you imagine the kerfuffle, the scandal that would be caused if Queen Elizabeth decided that she would put aside all of her royal sovereignness, if you would, and decided that she was going to dress up as one of the dancers and dance and sing and twirl and all this kind of stuff in front of the

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Olympic torch, everyone would be like, what is she doing?

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She's the queen. She can't be acting like a commoner. And that's the point of what's going on here is that David is the king of Israel.

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God has established him as the uncontested king of all 12 tribes of Israel.

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And and what has he done is that while the ark is coming in, he has utterly humbled himself so that he is behaving like a complete commoner.

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There is no distinction between him and the other people of Israel before God.

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He is on the same level as anybody living, you know, even in the lowest ranks of poverty in in Israel.

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David has made no distinction. He is there on ground level. All the trappings of monarchy and royalty are missing.

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He's wearing a linen ephod and he's dancing before the Lord, basically utterly humbling himself before God.

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That's what Michal is going to take issue with. So he was wearing a linen ephod.

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David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh was shouting with the sound of the horn.

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And as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out of the window and saw

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David leaping and dancing before Yahweh. And she despised him in her heart.

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Mm hmm. He's supposed to behave like a king and he's acting like a commoner. And so they brought in the ark of Yahweh and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it.

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And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh. And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh, Sabaoth, the

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Lord of Hosts, and distributed among the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, a cake of raisins and to each one.

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Then all the people departed to his house and David returned to bless his household.

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But Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David and said how the king had how the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of the servants, female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself.

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Now, no, she's not claiming that David was naked. He wasn't.

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He was wearing a linen ephod. So what is she upset about? That he had uncovered himself and was no different than any of the vulgar fellows, the commoners of Israel.

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That's the issue. And this is what she took issue with. But note that David, the psalmist, I think in one of his psalms wrote, humble yourself in the sight of the

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Lord and he will lift you up. So he humbled himself. I mean, all the trappings of monarchy.

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He wasn't wearing a crown. He was just dressed like any ordinary fellow, dancing and celebrating before the

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Lord. You wouldn't have been able to say, hey, there's the king right there unless you knew his face. That's the only thing that distinguished him.

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So Michal is upset with that. OK, so David said to Michal, it was before Yahweh who chose me above your father and above all his his house to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of Yahweh.

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And I will celebrate before Yahweh and I will make myself yet more contemptible than this.

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Again, the issue is not that he was naked. He wasn't. The issue is that in her eyes, he made himself contemptible by humbling himself before the

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Lord. And I will be abased in your eyes, but by the female servants of whom you have spoken by them,

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I shall be held in honor. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child to the day of her death.

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So what's the issue again? The issue is, is that David abased himself rather than behaving like a king.

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He he behaved like a servant, a commoner, the lowest of the low in Israel. There was no way to distinguish him as king.

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And that's the point. All right. So now you know what the text is about. Let's go back to Kevin Gerald and let's see what he's going to do with this text.

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So but when David returned to bless his household, Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet

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David and said how the king of Israel distinguished himself today.

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A little sarcasm going on here. Mm hmm. He uncovered himself in the eyes of his servants' maids as one of the foolish ones, shamelessly uncovers himself.

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So David said to Michal, it was before the Lord, it was before God, he says, who chose me, by the way, above your father and above all his house to appoint me ruler of the people of the

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Lord over Israel. We're hearing from a guy who knew who he was.

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He knew his assignment. And he says, this is not about me.

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This is about the Lord who has appointed me and given me assignment and I am doing what

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God wants me to do. And so the last line says, therefore, I will celebrate before the

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Lord. Now, going back to the text, when you just read the scripture, you might conclude that David's wife,

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Michal, is mad at David because he took off his clothes. And he danced in the streets without his clothes on.

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Common misconception. But that's not why she's upset. But guess what?

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David was physically clothed. Right. He was wearing a linen ephod. Correct.

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What Michal was angry about was that David, who was the king, was down in the streets, mingling, celebrating, taking off his royal garment, having fun and worshiping

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God with the people. In her mind, the street was not where he belonged.

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Yeah, you're going to note he is so close. I mean, just so close on this.

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He's really keying in on the right details about him abasing himself as the monarch.

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He shouldn't be getting caught up in something like this, like he shouldn't be out there engaging and interacting and interacting is not the issue.

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It's about laying aside everything that distinguishes him as the monarch, as the king.

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She obviously preferred the window and she obviously thought that he was foolish to put himself out there like that.

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So I want you to put himself out there like that. I mean, he was so close. He had the formula.

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It's like he was sitting there going, all right, two plus two plus two.

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Let me work that out. Two plus two is. Two hundred and twenty two.

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No, you see, he was so close. I mean, he he was working the problem, but the answer just missed the mark.

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Just notice the contrast that we have. She's in the window. He's in the streets.

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She's at a distance. He's participating. She sees what he's doing as risky and he sees what he's doing as rewarding.

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How do you figure, oh, David's a big risk taker.

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Now you're going to note here what Kevin Gerald is doing there by missing the whole point is now he's in charge of this text.

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And this is a descriptive text. And he's going to turn it into a prescriptive text.

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And so the question is going to be, are you a risk taker or are you playing it safe?

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Are you experiencing the reward of taking risks? Oh, and God wants you to take big risks, apparently.

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Or are you being like McCall and playing it safe? This is not what this text is about at all.

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Today, I want to talk about the fear of exposure. All right, is it sinful to have a fear of exposure?

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You see, being open and vulnerable is one of the most common fears we face.

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This isn't about being open and vulnerable. It's about humbling yourself before God. When my wife,

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Sheila, and I first met, I said hello and she extended her hand and said, hi,

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I'm Sheila. And I'm shy. I shook her hand and I said, it just came out of my mouth.

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I said, I'm Kevin and I'm careful. And the game began.

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How does that help me rightly understand this text? You'll note sermon illustrations are supposed to help you properly understand the correct sense of a biblical text.

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This sermon illustration has taken me far away from a proper understanding of what's going on in this text.

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As a result of it, it's not helpful at all. Let the game begin.

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See, neither one of us was telling the truth. So your whole relationship's built on lies?

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Go figure. She wasn't and isn't shy. Does anybody want to say amen to that one?

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She's not shy. And I wasn't careful because a year later we were married.

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But the point is that along the way, both of us had learned how to present to others a version of ourselves that we want others to see.

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Which is based on lies. So rather than speaking the truth about yourselves, you were flat out deceivers.

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Most of us began relationships like that because it's reasonable.

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It's not smart to open your life equally to everyone. And that's not what

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I mean when I refer to being vulnerable. See, vulnerability is not weakness.

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You can be vulnerable and strong. But you can't be strong at the same time. It doesn't mean trusting everyone or committing to everyone.

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What does vulnerability and strength have to do with this text? Answer, nothing.

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It doesn't mean giving yourself to everyone. It doesn't mean setting aside common sense.

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It doesn't mean getting naked with everyone. Just thought I'd clarify that today.

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The definition that we're embracing and using for vulnerability is this.

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Vulnerability is making a move with no guarantee of the outcome.

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Okay, so I have to ask the question. If the story of David dancing before the

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Lord, wearing only a linen ephod, which basically he put aside all the trappings and distinguishing marks of being the monarch of Israel and was as common as a slave was in Israel.

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How does that represent, quote unquote, vulnerability? If the way you're defining vulnerability is making a move with no guarantee of the outcome.

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You see, using this definition, it doesn't fit the story of David dancing before the

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Lord. At all. Vulnerability is making a move with no guarantee of the outcome.

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So is it a mortal or a venial sin if I do not properly engage in godly vulnerability?

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Whatever that is. It's putting yourself out there. So God wants me to put myself out there.

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How do you figure? See, we sometimes hesitate on something as simple as a smile.

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Think about it. Because we don't know if they'll smile back. Isn't that interesting?

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No guarantee if I put myself out there, what the response is going to be.

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And it's the same with things like admitting that we're wrong. We're saying that we're sorry.

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Why is that scary to us? What does that have to do with David dancing before the ark?

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It's because we're putting ourselves out there. And we're not sure.

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You'll note that all the people going on. Yeah, right. Yep. Oh man, that's what we call a bullpen.

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So Kevin Gerald there at the Champion Center utilizes a bullpen. These are people who volunteer to react this way.

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They are trained to do this. They are volunteering to do it. I don't know if they're paid to do it. But it's a form of manipulation so that the rest of the people there at the

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Champion Center are going, Well, they think this is profound. So I better start taking notes or something so that I can think it's profound too.

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It's a form of manipulation. Steven Furtick and others have mastered the use of the bullpen.

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And there is no guarantee that they're going to respond or reciprocate or say back,

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Yeah, no, I'm sorry. It was my fault. See, in its greatest strength, vulnerability is simply accepting the risk of living a large, open, and expansive life.

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Are you living large for Jesus? If you're not living large, it could be a mortal or a venial sin.

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We're not sure which. So vulnerability is about living a large and expansive life.

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What does that mean? I mean, I'm trying to lose weight.

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I'm always trying to lose weight. It seems like the perennial thing I'm always doing. I'm trying to not live a large life.

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Is that wrong of me? I don't want to be expansive anymore.

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Is that wrong of me? What biblical text says

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I need to live a large and expansive life? Which means if you're Simon Peter, it's getting out of the boat.

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That didn't work out well for Peter. He sunk. He didn't walk on the water because of his great belief and faith in Jesus.

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He didn't believe it was Jesus. He said, Lord, if it's you, then let me walk on the water.

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Because he had great doubt, and then he ended up sinking too. Oh, this is terrible.

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If you're a girl named Esther who has been in captivity in a foreign land, vulnerability means being an advocate for your people who are in danger of genocide.

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So are you walking on the water? Are you being an Esther? Who's next? Moses? If you're

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Moses, it's not letting a speech impediment stop you.

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Can anybody hear what I'm saying today? You are aware that God ended up working around that particular issue of Moses.

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Let me see if I can find it. Here we go. Here's the Lord. He's talking to Moses out of the burning bush.

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He's going to send him. God gives him three miracles, turning water into blood, putting his hand in his cloak and it coming out leprous, him putting it back and it no longer being leprous, and also taking his staff and throwing it on the ground and it becoming a snake.

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Moses is just having none of it. I mean, Moses don't want to do this assignment that God's called him to.

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So in Exodus 4, 10, Moses said to Yahweh, Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I'm slow of speech and of tongue.

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So Yahweh said to him, who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute or deaf or seeing or blind?

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Is it not I, Yahweh? Now, therefore, go, I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.

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But Moses said, Oh my Lord, please send someone else. Apparently, he didn't he didn't understand.

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He needs to be vulnerable here. He's got to rise to the occasion and and stuff like that.

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So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses. And he said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the

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Levite? I know he can speak well. Behold, he's coming out to meet you when he sees you.

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He will be glad in his heart. You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth.

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And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. He shall speak for you to the people and he shall be your mouth and you shall be as God to him.

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Yeah. So, you know that God ended up working with Moses's complaint about being not able to speak well.

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And who ended up becoming the talker? Not Moses. The talker turned out to be his brother,

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Aaron. Yeah, it's like that little fact didn't quite, you know, he didn't Kevin Jarrell didn't know that or something here.

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I'm talking about this willingness to put yourself out there when there is no guarantee of the outcome.

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So have you put yourself out there enough? Have you been vulnerable enough for Jesus? Because God wants you to do this because if you haven't done this, then you probably angered

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God. Yeah. And, you know, and things will really go badly for you.

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See, God wants you to be this this complete risk taker in your life.

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And apparently playing it safe is a bad thing. Yeah. God doesn't want you to do that.

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Which. OK. None of the biblical texts he's gone to teach this. So which text text teaches we better be vulnerable, audacious risk takers for God.

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And if you're Moses, it's accepting your call and accepting what

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God has called you to do, even though you feel inadequate and you're focused on your insufficiency.

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And I want to just say to everyone today that this is a life decision that we all face repeatedly.

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Are you making the proper life decisions to embrace vulnerability and risk taking? Apparently, that's what

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God wants you to do. And sometimes daily. And this is how I really hope that I can help you, encourage you, lift you, move you forward in your walk with God is because we face.

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So this is affecting your walk with God. And you're only going to go deeper if you become a more effective, vulnerable risk taker.

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What exactly am I risking here? A decision often in life, sometimes on a daily basis.

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And that decision is this. It's window versus street.

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What's the window in your life that's keeping you from the street? This is no way to recover from this.

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Yeah, you can see why I've decided I'm going to do at least two segments on this particular sermon series.

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Because, by the way, the second one's even goofier and a complete mangling of God's word, even worse than the first.

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And so if this is the foundation of the whole sermon series, which is like so far off biblically that I don't even recognize any of this is biblical teaching.

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Just imagine what part two is going to be because it builds off of this bad foundation.

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So, yeah. So let me come back to here. So the best way

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I can say it is this. Is the Bible and especially the call of Moses and David dancing before the

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Lord in the Ark of the Covenant. These are not telling you that you need to learn how to become vulnerable risk takers.

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Far, far, far from it. And when pastors and vision casting leaders and megachurch prophets and people like Kevin Gerald are telling you, you need to take bigger risks and make yourself more vulnerable and stuff like that.

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What they're doing is burdening with you a heavy burden because you're going to note then immediately you begin to feel guilty about what?

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Your normal life. So are you a dad and do you work in an office?

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Now, all of a sudden, you know, going to work every day and clocking in, clocking out, getting a paycheck, putting the paycheck in the bank and your wife then going to the grocery store to buy the groceries, to cook up the food, to feed the children, make sure they're clothed.

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All of a sudden, you just aren't being vulnerable and risk taking enough. And God is displeased with your normal everyday life.

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But the reality of the situation is this, is that in your normal everyday life as husband, as wife, as father, as mother, as child, employer and employee.

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These are the places where scripture teaches that you do your good works and they are pleasing in God's sight because scripture says so.

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So if you buy into this idea, I got to be vulnerable, a big risk taker, and I need to be naked and unafraid.

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Then what ends up happening is, is that you don't feel like your life is pleasing to God at all.

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And that's the problem. We'll talk more about this in part two of our look at this naked and unafraid sermon series.

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