1 Samuel 14:47-52

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1 Samuel 14:47-52

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Alright, 1 Samuel 14, verse 47, and we'll read through the end of the chapter.
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We'll finish it today.
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It says, Now when Saul had taken over the kingdom of Israel, he fought against all of his enemies on every side, against Moab, the sons of Ammon, Edom, the kings of Zobah, the Philistines.
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And wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment.
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He acted valiantly.
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He defeated the Amalekites and delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them.
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Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishbi, Malkishua, and the names of his two daughters were these.
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The name of the firstborn was Merib, and the name of the younger was Michael, and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, and the daughter of Ahimaaz.
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And the name of the captain of his army was Abner, the son of Nir, Saul's uncle, and Kish was the father of Saul, and Nir, the father of Abner, was the son of Abio.
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Now the war against the Philistines was severe all the days of Saul, and when Saul saw any valiant man, he would take him for himself and attach him to his staff.
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So if you remember back when we started chapter 13, you have chapter 13, verse 1 through 14, 47 and 48.
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Actually, it's 49, I think.
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Let me look and make sure.
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Nope, 48.
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If you remember me saying that 13 and 14 had an artificial break.
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It was not a break that was made by the interpreter of our English translation, but it actually is the same thing.
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So what you have in the beginning, do you remember what we had here? Somebody look back in chapter 13 and what did it say? I know we all got different translations probably in that, but what did it say? Saul was blank years old.
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Saul was blank years old, right? So we have Saul was, and we'll just do this, because everybody has 40, 42, he reigned 40 years, he was 30 years old.
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So we understand that this right here, it's called an inclusio in biblical interpretation, and the reason being is these actually become brackets.
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This was telling you what? You may remember, what was this telling us in verse 1 of chapter 13? It was the beginning of Saul's reign.
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This is giving us how Saul reigned, and if you go back, or actually if you go forward into 2 Samuel, I think it's in 2 Samuel chapter 2, you'll see that same pattern when Ishabeth, Ishabeth becomes king.
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It says he was such and such old when he began to reign.
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Then when you get to chapter 5 of 2 Samuel, it'll say David was 30 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for 40 years.
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So you have, that's the pattern that all the kings moving forward come, is going to be started.
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Now if you were looking at the Septuagint, 1 Samuel and 1 Kings is all one book called kingdoms, and if you ever look at the Masoretic text, Samuel is one book.
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Samuel 1 and Samuel 2 is just all one book.
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So this is called an inclusio.
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It's giving you a bracket.
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This is when Saul began to reign, and what does this tell us about Saul? These two verses, what is it saying? It's saying he made war with everybody.
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So this is the, this right here, that was Saul's success.
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What did he do? What does it say? Say to people.
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Who are the people he's fighting against now? Who? Everybody.
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Yeah.
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Everybody.
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I mean, he's fighting against these people.
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Look, way up here.
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Now that's an S because there ain't no Z in Hebrew because I had all this transliterated into, so this is way up here.
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Alright? So he's fighting all these dudes.
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He's fighting all these dudes.
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He's fighting all of Ammon.
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He's fighting all of Moab.
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And he's still fighting here and here, and we're going to see next week, if the map went further down, if you can see where Amalek starts down here, he's going to take them all the way to Egypt when he goes to fight.
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So was Saul a good military leader? Yeah.
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I mean, it says it right here.
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What does it say he did? Verse 48.
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He acted valiantly, and he defeated the Amalekites, and if you go up just a little bit further at the end of verse 47, it says, and wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment on all their enemies.
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Hey, man, Saul was a very, very valiant warrior and king.
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What he did is exactly what God said he would do when he raised him up and when he commissioned him by Samuel.
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What did he say? Remember what he said we said last week? What was the thing that Saul was going to do no matter what? He was going to deliver God's people from their enemies, and that's what he did.
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That's exactly what he did.
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So we have in verse 48, he acted valiantly, he defeated the Amalekites.
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He has not yet defeated the Amalekites, but remember, this is the inclusion.
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It's giving you what took place in Saul's reign, okay? And it says he delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them.
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Does anybody remember when Andy was teaching through judges at the beginning? What was the reason for raising up judges? Judges chapter 2, the exact same terminology, that God's deliverers would deliver them from those who would plunder them.
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That's exactly the same word used in chapter 2 of judges.
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Saul, Samuel had appointed and anointed Saul as king to be the deliverer that would save Israel from those who would plunder them.
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And then we get to verse 49, and now this is going to be basically who Saul's family is.
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It says, now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishi.
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These are his sons.
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Now do we know that, how many other sons do, does anybody know if he had any other sons? Yay, nay? What's that? Yes, he did.
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He had more sons.
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He had one, which would be Ashivosheth, if you ever want a trivia question, who was the second king of Israel? Ashivosheth, not David.
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When Saul was killed, Abner put Ashivosheth in his place.
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David warred with Ashivosheth for two years until he unified the kingdom again.
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So he had his son.
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And you can, you want to go, I think it's in 2 Samuel chapter 21, well let's turn there so you don't think I'm just spouting off information, let you read it for yourself.
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I think it's 21, I think it's down between 7 and 10, or 7 and...
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Now the king spared Ashivosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and the sons of Jonathan.
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So the king took the two sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Ai, Armon and Mephibosheth, who were what? Born to who? Saul.
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You see that? Rizpah was his concubine.
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So we have two children, Armoni and Mephibosheth.
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There was two Mephibosheth's and one was Jonathan's son, whom David spared because of his oath with Jonathan, being his best friend.
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But this one here is not spared, and this is actually when we get, once we get into 2 Samuel, this is something that we don't hear about in Saul's conquest, but he actually goes into the land of Gibeah, and if anybody remembers when Andy was teaching through Joshua, when they came into the land of Gibeah, they were, Joshua got deceived.
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Anybody remember that story or that narrative? Joshua got deceived.
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He made a covenant with those men that they would be their slaves and their woodcutters and all of that.
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Well, remember the land had not yet been parceled out when that had happened? So God honored that vow that he made with the Gibeonites.
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Where does Gibeah fall into the land once it's parceled out? It falls into the land of the Benjamites.
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Who was a Benjamite? Saul was a Benjamite.
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You know what Saul tried to do? Saul tried to exterminate those people, and because they did that, God put a curse on the land in 2 Samuel where he put a great famine in the land, and David's like, hey, what's going on? And he said it's because of what Saul did to the Gibeonites by trying to exterminate them.
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So you need to go to that king and ask him or their leader, and what can I do to basically stop the plague? And they said, we want all of the seven sons of Saul.
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And they killed the seven sons of Saul because of that.
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So anyway, that's how, that's what took place.
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So back to...
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So these two would have survived, right? The Ishu and the Melchishuah? No, go ahead, I'm sorry.
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Because Jonathan obviously died.
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And these two died in battle.
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When we get to the end of the last chapter, they die in battle.
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There's Saul and three sons die in battle.
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And the reason why I believe, and Andy may agree or disagree, I'm not sure, and I know Bert's talked about it for a long time.
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My understanding, and this is all conjecture, okay? So if somebody disagrees with me, I'm fine.
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The reason why I don't think he's listed here, they're listed here, is because she was the concubine.
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That's not the wife.
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Concubine was the purpose of raising up seed and sexual gratification.
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I could be wrong, but that's my understanding of it.
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So you get to here, you're having the end.
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Jonathan's killed, Saul's killed, these men are killed.
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They're actually, heads are cut off and they're stuck up on a wall at the end.
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And if you remember, we talked about a number of weeks ago, this happens 40 years after Saul starts.
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And you remember who comes and retrieves his body? It was Jabesh Gilead that goes and gets him, because who did Saul first liberate from the hand of Nahash? It was those people.
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So they hadn't forgot what Saul had done for their land.
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And they're the ones that went and retrieved his body and took it down and burned it and took his bones and buried it with his family.
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And it says, and the names of his two daughters were Mirab and the older, the younger was Michael.
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And these two will be very significant when David starts his conquest.
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Once he defeats the champion Goliath.
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And then in verse 50, it gives Saul's wife, who was Ahinoam and the daughter of Ahiomaz.
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And the captain of his army was Abner, the son of Nir.
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Abner was a bad dude.
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You're going to see there's, Abner is putting one, the king of his, the captain of his army.
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And you're going to see one just like Abner that gets raised up when David comes named Joab.
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And these dudes are ruthless.
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I mean, they actually head up conquest and just, I mean, slay everybody that the king has them do.
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And then you have other times where they do that, which they're not supposed to do.
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Joab takes into his own hands as David's captain and he begins to kill people for David that David said don't kill.
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We even say he even kills David's own son.
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And Abner, he tries to follow the rule of the king, but he has his downfalls as well.
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And it goes on to say in verse 51 that Kish was the father of Saul and Nir the father of Abner and he was the son of Abiel.
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And the war against the Philistines was very severe all the days of Saul.
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And when Saul saw any mighty men, they were valiant, he took them and attached them to his staff.
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Just real quick, when we see what took place at the very last sentence or the last phrase of chapter 14, verse 52, he's doing exactly what he said Samuel would say he would do.
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When he sees your men, he's going to see those that will benefit him and what's he going to do? He's going to take them.
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Does yours say attach? How many others, anybody say take or attach? Everybody says attach, attach, attach, take.
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Yeah.
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That's actually, it means to put to or to put into force or put into service.
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Yeah, so he's doing exactly what Samuel said he was going to do.
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He's going to find those that will fight for him, that are valiant, that are strong.
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Notice he didn't put anybody weak in his court.
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He didn't put any frail people in his court.
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He didn't put any ugly women in his court.
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He put the best.
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And that's exactly what Samuel said would happen.
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So, up until this point, what have we learned about Saul or anything? In what way? I agree with you, so I'm not disagreeing.
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I hope you learned that because that's what I've been saying for, you know, what, six weeks.
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Yes, but in what way? He did, he was, he would defeat enemies.
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Alright.
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What else did he do? He was unfaithful.
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He was unfaithful.
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In what way? I agree.
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I agree.
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He didn't trust in God.
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Lack, and I know this is the dead giveaway, but lack of faith.
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Lack of faith.
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Everything Saul did in this arena here was predominantly good.
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Did he have some times where there was hiccups in his conquest? Yeah.
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Who was the first one to go do the first attack on the garrisons of Philistine? Was it Saul? No, it was his son.
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Okay.
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Who did the second? Jonathan.
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Jonathan again.
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What? He was a successful deliverer because then he started sending out his armies to just make war out of all those enemies.
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Hey, and what was the plan when they came into the land and he was teaching through Joshua and Judges? What were they supposed to do with all them people? Subdue them.
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How? Take them out.
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Kill them.
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Kill every one of them.
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I think it's in 1 Kings 11 2 Kings.
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I can't remember.
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It says that the Canaanites or the Amorites, which could be a synonym for the Canaanites and Amorites.
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Sometimes when you hear Amorites, that is a synonym for it.
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What was the purpose they were made for? The Scripture actually says they were created for what? Destruction.
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Corrine.
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And we're going to get into that next week.
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We might start a little bit in today.
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And that means something dedicated for destruction.
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Given to God, devoted for destruction as an offering to God by deslaying them.
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And when they came into this land, they were supposed to go through and wipe them out.
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What they did to Jericho is what they were supposed to do to every other city as they went through.
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Was to kill them.
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What did they do to Jericho? They destroyed it.
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Yeah.
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When I was in the Middle East in 2014, you can go...
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There is a city, Jericho, today, but it's said to never be rebuilt.
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But it's just outside of the ancient city.
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It's just outside of the modern city.
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And you can still see the ruins.
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They have uncovered those ruins never to be rebuilt.
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Again, it's rubble.
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And when they went in and God said, this is devoted to destruction to me, and it was never going to be rebuilt, that's exactly what he meant.
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Same thing me and you talked...
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about Babylon.
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Babylon is never going to be rebuilt when it falls.
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When it fell, it was never going to be destroyed.
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Short-lived empire.
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Seventy years.
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Flattened.
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Never to be seen again.
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The only thing you can see is just the rubble.
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Same thing for Nineveh.
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When God says, I'm going to destroy this nation, what do we find about Nineveh today? It's just rubble.
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What about the Edomites? What are they? They're just on the pages of history.
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Alright, what else do we know about Saul? These are the main two.
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Anything else y'all learned about Saul? Yes, sir.
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Personal glory over God's glory.
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Personal...
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Prideful.
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Who said that? Prophet? Prideful.
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Prideful, yes, I do believe.
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And this here is going to lead to another thing, which made him be, although decreed by God, why this was so good.
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So hang on just a second.
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Personal gain.
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I think what he did was always for personal gain.
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And that comes out of pride.
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But you know what made him such a successful deliverer and king? Dude, he was nationalistic.
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Nationalistic pride.
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He believed that the Israelites were better than the nations around them.
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Now, were they God's chosen people? Were they God's chosen nation? But were they better? Not better.
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Better off? And the fact that they had the covenants and things of God, but they weren't better.
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Look, we're all on this right here, this line.
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No matter what ethnicity you are, you're this.
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You're a sinner.
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You're no closer to God because of your ethnic group.
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That's not how Saul really saw that.
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Saul saw.
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Saul really saw that.
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And we'll even say, go back to what I just brought up about the Gibeonites.
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The Gibeonites actually were not bad people.
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Did they deceive Joshua when they went in with the ragtag clothes and the moldy bread? Yes, they did.
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Their reason for doing it was they were trying to save their own neck.
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They knew that Joshua was coming across the land, and the conquest was to crush all of God's enemies.
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And they deceived Joshua.
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They wouldn't say Joshua had any type of character flaw.
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That would have been the time.
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Although I don't see it quite that way.
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He was deceived.
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And he made a covenant with them.
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But Saul saw them as being an enemy of God because they were in the land that was given to the Benjamites and they should have been killed.
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But you know what Saul should have done? He should have honored the covenant that his forefather probably 500 years earlier Joshua had made.
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And God punishes them because of it.
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So his personal gain we could go back to what's going to be two.
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Two times he was to offer sacrifice or let me back up.
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Not to offer sacrifice.
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And what does he do? Lee said it.
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He did it for his personal gain.
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And the first time he was told not to offer the sacrifice until Samuel got there and he did it because he was, what do you believe, his fear of man trying to coerce God into giving him some great victory in this.
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He was told not to offer the sacrifice.
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He waited seven days and what did he do? He waited six days and 23 hours or something.
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Okay.
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So the pride was he was he was he was nationalistic national pride.
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And just let you know that right there will be the thorn in the flesh for the Jewish people all through it.
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Think about Samaritans.
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They hated Samaritans.
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Why? Because they were mixed.
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They were mixed.
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They were half Jew, half Assyrians.
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Ma'am? Yeah, and they did.
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They did worship their own way but they thought that because they were half-breeds they should be either ostracized, exterminated or whatever.
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Yep.
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Matter of fact, any time the Jewish people the practice of Jewish people coming to a Gentile, what were they supposed to do? Wash their hands.
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Hey, you go over there today and you talk to an Orthodox Jew you try to reach your hand out, they won't even touch, they won't even shake your hand because we're unclean.
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Yeah, unclean.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Yeah.
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Sometimes they won't even talk to you.
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They'll act like they can't speak English to you and say, hey, where can I exchange these shekels? Oh, it's right down there.
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What else? Everything he did was for personal gain and we're going to see this starting next week was really self-gratification is what he was trying to do next week.
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What else? Alright, we got prime.
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What else? Question.
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You said that the Gibeonites weren't bad people but they were, just like the rest of them fitted for destruction.
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They were supposed to be exterminated, right? Yeah, but once they made that covenant God honored that covenant and that's why we read in 2 Samuel chapter 21 God honored Joshua's covenant with those people.
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Because he made it for the Lord.
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He sure did.
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He did.
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That's why if you talk about any type of character flaw in Joshua maybe because he was deceived I mean, would any of us have thought that when these guys come in, somebody comes up here today with ragtag clothes on dragging in say they had some hungry kids and we give them something to help them we don't know the background.
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We don't know we're being deceived if we're being deceived.
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That's the whole reason.
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He was deceived.
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So God honored that and you see that God honored it in 2 Samuel chapter 21 by doing what? By putting a famine on the land.
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And then to stay that famine, he tells David you go find out what they want.
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They go, we want the seven sons of Saul.
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And they hung him out there for I think it said for four months and the mother, Rizpah out there for four months waving away the birds of prey and the beasts of the field to keep them from eating the bodies until she could take him down.
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It's terrible.
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2 Samuel is ruthless.
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You don't think there's some bloodshed in this one? It's everywhere.
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Conspiracy, rape, incest, I mean all kinds of crazy mess going on.
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Brother killing brother.
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It's ridiculous the stuff that goes on.
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People go, I need to read another book.
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Man, read the Old Testament.
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Anything you want to find in there is there.
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Alright, what else? You can't see it down here, but we'll put it here.
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It caused other people to sin.
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Yep.
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We've got 15 minutes.
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So what we'll do.
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Is foolish always sinful? You said not a trick question.
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It's not a trick.
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It's not a trick, I promise.
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We'll say this.
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If I change this word, because it's the unwise.
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Is unwise always sinful? That's easier to understand than foolish, isn't it? Was Saul's oath unwise for his men? Sure it was.
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They were fighting and what did they need to do? They needed to eat.
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It was unwise.
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That's what made it foolish.
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What made it sinful? Do you remember what we said last week? What's that? Yeah, but what made it sinful was it self-motivated.
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He didn't say, hey, you don't eat because this food that we're taking in and the booty that we're dragging in to spoil is given to God for destruction.
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He says, you don't go in here and you don't eat any of it because I want my enemies defeated.
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He made it self-motivated.
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Once again, he made it about personal gain.
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He tried to manipulate the people to fight better for who? Him, not God.
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And that made it foolish.
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That's what made it foolish.
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What kind of things do we do that are unwise that are not sinful? Because I do believe that his oath was unwise, but the motivating factor is what made it foolish.
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I think entry into those with haste can make it unwise.
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It's like not praying to God, not seeing His, you know, advice.
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Haste can be a way that we can enter into.
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And in Saul's case last week, if you remember, I said what made it.
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God had already given His enemies into His hands, just like Jephthah.
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He did not have to make a foolish oath.
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It was unnecessary.
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God had already said you're going to be the deliverer of my people.
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No need.
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He didn't have to.
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So that made it, that's what made it sinful, unwise to His people, causing, leading His people into sin, is what it did.
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Because hey, they were culpable of their own sin for eating the meat with blood, right? Yeah.
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Me and you were talking about ceremonially unclean the other day.
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Remember? Tim? You, man.
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Yeah, remember we were talking about that? Last week, those men were to be put to death because they were ceremonially unclean and God, and they didn't do it.
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They should have been ceremonially unclean for eating blood, meat that had not been drained.
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And they didn't.
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What happened? We do see Saul kind of back up.
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He says, bring that stone here.
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Let's kill these oxen.
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And y'all eat like you're supposed to.
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What's unwise that's not foolish? One, I don't think you should drink a can of paint.
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It's unwise.
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But I don't think it's a sin.
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I don't think you should swallow bubble gum.
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Because it's unwise.
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I just did.
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But I don't think it's a sin.
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You know, there's a lot of things in Scripture, such if you go through, we go through some of the Proverbs, and it is the constant folly and wisdom, folly and wisdom, folly and wisdom.
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Not everything that was folly was sinful.
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Not everything.
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We'll just take, hey, the Bible in the Proverbs did not have a prohibition against drinking an alcoholic beverage.
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What did it say was the foolish, what would make the fool out of the person who indulged in such a way that they become drunkard like a mast on top of a boat.
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Right? That's why.
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That's what it did.
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when he was supposed to not make the sacrifice.
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You remember what the word that he specifically said about when Samuel says, why did you do that? He said, I forced myself to do that.
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God wasn't twisting Saul's arm, saying against your desires and wills, Saul, you're gonna sacrifice.
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It's not.
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Saul's own wicked desires, the own wickedness of his own heart, he wanted to be disobedient.
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All he had to, he was that close to being obedient.
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Did you raise your hand? Well, it's sort of kind of, it all goes back to seeking the glory of man instead of the glory of God.
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Even when Samuel came and rebuked him, he was like, will you go back with me before the people? And sometimes we want to be seen so bad in the eyes of people to think well of us.
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And so we will even sacrifice God and so that goes back to, I guess, pride or seeking the glory of man.
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Yeah, well, obviously everything comes out of the root of pride because where does everything come out? My desire to be God when God is God.
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And that's prideful.
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But everything he did was for personal gain.
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It was not, I mean, look, he was set up, look, you want a people, a few weeks ago, we put the list of all the, not all of them, but a good list of how the nations around them kings were.
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Every one of them was self-motivated.
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Every one of them.
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It was to take everything.
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Look, if he's going to go and he's going to take your vineyards, he's going to take your women to come and cook and be his weavers and to do the clothing.
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He's going to take your fields.
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He's going to take the best of all this.
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He's going to take the best of your horse, your donkeys, your cattle, your sheep, your goats.
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And then he's going to find the best fighters, the best wield swingers in the nation and spear throwers and archers.
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He's going to make him his own.
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He's going to take them and make them his own.
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Is that not all about his personal gain? Every bit of it's about his personal gain.
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He's going and taking.
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Now, there is a contrast when you see him and David.
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Men attached themselves to David because David was valiant.
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We don't see that with Saul.
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And we can do that as we get into the second section.
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We'll see those contrasts.
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And why did Saul have to take people into his, basically, as y'all said, someone say attached himself, put them into service.
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Why? Because he was chosen by the people to be this guy.
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This was not the king after God's own heart.
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And you're going to see that contrast between him and David.
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I mean, David, when he goes out and he fights, men go fight with David because he was David and because even Saul says, hey, this is going to be the guy even Saul recognized at some point because this is the guy.
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This is the one y'all will follow one day.
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And you see that was because David was going to the Lord God like even from Goliath.
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Yeah.
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He's like, God, you know, David.
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Yeah, David never said, God's going to give or what he actually says, God's going to, you're going to be given into my hands, but who does he say is going to do it? God, God's going to do it.
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God's going to be the one to do it.
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Yahweh's going to be the one to give me the strength to cut off your head and hold it up and walk around with it in a bag for a week, you know, because that's what he does.
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He carries that head around with him.
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Imagine that.
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Oh yeah, by the way, in case y'all have a, wonder what I did last Saturday.
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Here's Goliath's head.
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And then he takes his armor and puts it in his own tent.
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We see that armor and that sword kind of move around through the time of David's running from Saul.
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So, and interesting that those implements always go back to, wow, this was the sustaining act of God in David's life.
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All right, so next week, we will see the major decline of Saul.
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Probably two weeks is where we'll be in chapter 15.
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So if y'all read ahead, it'll be two weeks.
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Any questions before we pray and leave? Comments? Tim, you'll pray for us? Saints, thank you for leading us and guiding us into these truths that are meant to sanctify us, Father God, help us to protect against pride and seeking the glory of others.
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Help us to seek your glory above all things, Father God.
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We love you and we thank you and we ask that as we enter into worship that you would lead Pastor Plosky as he has labored in your word, open our hearts to be accepted.
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We love you and we thank you and we ask these things in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.