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Caption transcript for The Warrior King: “David and Saul” (2/8)

• 00:53 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:56 JEFFREY SEIF HERE.
• 00:58 AND I WANT TO THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR GOING ON THE JOURNEY WITH US INTO BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
• 01:05 DAVID'S A FASCINATING PERSON.
• 01:07 HE HAD A FASCINATING STORY.
• 01:10 AND LIKE OUR OWN STORIES, IT'S NOT PICTURE PERFECT.
• 01:13 IN TODAY'S EPISODE WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW DAVID HAD A "SAUL".
• 01:19 WE ALL HAVE A "SAUL".
• 01:20 AND I MEAN WE DON'T LIVE PERFECT LIVES
• 01:22 AND SOMETIMES THERE ARE PEOPLE OR CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ARE DOWN RIGHT THREATENING.
• 01:28 I WANT YOU TO GET THE BETTER OF YOUR "SAULS", YOUR PROBLEMS,
• 01:31 AND SO PLEASE STAY TUNED NOW AS WE CONSIDER BIBLICAL MEDICINE FOR LIFE'S ASSORTED HURTS.
• 01:39 IT HAD HAPPENED BEFORE TO KING SAUL,
• 01:42 A DARK EVIL SPIRIT HAD SETTLED ON HIS SOUL ONCE AGAIN LEAVING HIM UTTERLY DISTRAUGHT.
• 01:49 DAVID MEANT WELL IN PLAYING A TUNE
• 01:52 BUT IT DID LITTLE MORE THAN FURTHER TORMENT THE TROUBLED KING.
• 02:03 DAVID WAS GONE FOR NOW
• 02:05 BUT THE EVIL REMAINED
• 02:08 TAUNTING HIM WITHOUT MERCY.
• 02:14 I AM SURE THAT IT WAS EXTREMELY PAINFUL FOR DAVID AND I WANT YOU TO GET THE POINT AS WELL.
• 02:21 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 02:23 BECAUSE IT CAN BE EXTREMELY PAINFUL FOR US.
• 02:26 AND WHAT'S THAT PRAY TELL?
• 02:27 WHEN WE ARE NOT ONLY ABANDONED BY FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES,
• 02:31 NOT ONLY DISAPPOINTED BUT OUT AND OUT RIGHT BETRAYED,
• 02:35 IT'S TRAGIC.
• 02:36 SOMETIMES THERE'RE PEOPLE...
• 02:38 WE SERVE THEM WELL IN RESPONSE TO WHICH WE GET NOT JUST DISRESPECTED
• 02:42 BUT THEY UNLEASH FORCES THAT LOOK TO KNOCK THE LEGS OUT FROM UNDERNEATH US.
• 02:47 SOMETIMES WE CAN TAKE OUR FRIENDS AND WEIGH THEM IN THE SCALES AND THEY CAN COME UP WANTING.
• 02:52 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 02:54 BECAUSE MUCH AS WE TRY AND LOVE THEM THEY COME AFTER US WITH A VENGEANCE.
• 02:58 AND THAT'S TRAGIC ISN'T IT?,
• 03:00 THAT WE HAVE TO BE ON THE DEFENSIVE,
• 03:02 THAT WE HAVE TO BE ON THE READY AGAINST FRIENDS, PEOPLE THAT WE SERVE, PEOPLE THAT WE LOVED.
• 03:08 THAT'S WHERE THE WARRIOR KING DAVID...WELL HE'S NOT A KING YET
• 03:11 BUT THAT'S WHERE HE FINDS HIMSELF.
• 03:12 AND MAYBE THIS IS HIS TRAINING ON THE WAY TO BE THE KING.
• 03:16 WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
• 03:18 YOU KNOW THE STORY...DAVID ENTERED INTO A WORLD AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF SAUL'S DEMISE.
• 03:23 SAUL WAS VESTED WITH AUTHORIZATION TO BE THE KING TO LEAD THE PEOPLE
• 03:26 BUT HE WASN'T LEADING THE PEOPLE HE WAS BLEEDING THE PEOPLE.
• 03:29 HE WAS FEEDING OFF OF THEM INSTEAD OF FEEDING THEM.
• 03:31 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 03:33 WELL IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE HOUSE OF SAUL.
• 03:35 IT WAS ALL ABOUT HIM BENEFITING FROM THE POSITION THAT HE HAD
• 03:39 INSTEAD OF USING HIS ENERGIES TO BE OF A BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY.
• 03:42 GOD FINALLY SAYS, "I CAN'T WORK WITH THIS MAN ANYMORE.",
• 03:45 "HE JUST WON'T REPENT.",
• 03:46 "HE'S NOT TEACHABLE."
• 03:48 SO THE WORD TO SAUL FROM THE PROPHET SAMUEL IS, "ENOUGH ALREADY".
• 03:53 THE LORD WENT TO SOMEONE ELSE, DAVID,
• 03:57 AND HE FOUND IN HIM SOME STOCK THAT HE COULD RAISE UP AND USE.
• 04:00 NOW WHAT'S INTERESTING, PART OF DAVID'S BEING RAISED UP
• 04:04 WAS HIM TO HAVE THIS TITANIC STRUGGLE WITH A MAN THAT HE BEGAN SERVING.
• 04:10 AND ISN'T THAT TRAGIC?
• 04:12 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE EVER FOUND YOURSELF IN A PLACE WHERE THE WORLD HAS TURNED ON YOU.
• 04:15 HERE WE'RE IN A HOME WHERE THERE'S SOME LOVE, PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER.
• 04:19 AND YOU'D HAVE HEARD THE EXPRESSION THAT "A MAN'S HOME IS HIS CASTLE"
• 04:23 AND THE REASON WHY THAT IS,
• 04:24 IS SOMETIMES THE WORLD OUTSIDE CAN BE SO VERY PRECARIOUS, VERY TUMULTUOUS,
• 04:28 SO WE RETREAT INTO THE CONFINES OF OUR OWN HOME.
• 04:31 BUT WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOUR OWN HOME, WHEN YOUR OWN SAFETY ZONE TURNS ON YOU?
• 04:35 DAVID HAD THAT HAPPEN.
• 04:37 HIS WHOLE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
• 04:38 HE LEARNED TO RELY ON GOD.
• 04:40 BUT THE SAME GOD THAT HE WAS RELYING UPON
• 04:42 WAS THE ONE WHO WAS COUNTED UPON TO SEND THE TROUBLES.
• 04:46 IF YOU LOOK IN I SAMUEL, CHAPTER 19, WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 9....
• 04:52 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 05:00 I DON'T KNOW THAT GOD'S IN THE BUSINESS OF DISPATCHING DEMONS,
• 05:04 THE POINT IS THE LORD ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN.
• 05:06 AND SO WHY IS IT THAT THE LORD ALLOWS BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE
• 05:10 OR WHY HE ALLOWS HIS PEOPLE TO HAVE BAD PEOPLE ASSAULT THEM?
• 05:14 WELL, WE LEARN TO TRUST IN HIM TO BE SURE.
• 05:17 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO BE CHAMPIONS
• 05:19 WE HAVE TO LEARN TO BEAR UNDERNEATH DIFFICULT BURDENS AND WEIGHTS
• 05:23 AND THAT MAKES US IN THE PROCESS.
• 05:25 DAVID WAS A KING... HE HAD TO LEARN HIS CRAFT; LEARN ABOUT TRUSTING IN GOD,
• 05:29 LEARNING ABOUT HOW GOD CAN DELIVER FROM BAD PEOPLE AND BAD CIRCUMSTANCES.
• 05:34 DAVID LEARNED THAT AND HE BECAME THE WARRIOR, HE WAS FORGED IN THE FURNACE OF AFFLICTION.
• 05:40 THERE WERE MANY THINGS THAT DAVID LEARNED BY THE WAY BECAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTIES THAT HE EXPERIENCED,
• 05:45 DIFFICULTIES THAT SERVED HIM WELL.
• 05:47 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE DIFFICULTIES THAT YOU EXPERIENCE IN LIFE IF YOU'RE WALKING WITH THE LORD
• 05:51 CAN SERVE YOU WELL, AS WELL.
• 05:54 AND WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 05:55 BECAUSE SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT ALL THINGS, EVEN SAUL THINGS...
• 05:58 IT SAYS ALL THINGS WORK FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO LOVE GOD
• 06:02 WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
• 06:05 I HAVE A SAUL IN MY LIFE, ONE OR TWO TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH AND YOU PROBABLY DO AS WELL.
• 06:10 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 06:12 IF YOU HAVE THE LORD IN YOUR LIFE, THAT'S PLENTY GOOD TO GET THE BETTER OF LIFE'S CHALLENGES.
• 06:16 ITS EASY TO FEEL ALONE ISN'T IT SOMETIMES?
• 06:18 WHEN YOU FEEL YOU'RE RUNNING AWAY FROM PEOPLE'S SPEARS.
• 06:21 BUT THAT'S NOT ALL THE STORY WITH SAUL AND HIS FAMILY.
• 06:25 I THINK YOU KNOW...IF YOU READ THE BIBLE YOU'LL LEARN THAT SAUL HAD A SON JONATHAN,
• 06:30 A MAN OF DIFFERENT SORT ALL TOGETHER.
• 06:33 IT'S INTERESTING IN AS MUCH AS SAUL WAS HELL BENT ON DESTROYING DAVID.
• 06:37 DAVID HAD ENDEARED HIMSELF NOT ONLY TO JONATHAN AS A BEST FRIEND, A GREAT FRIEND,
• 06:41 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT HIM IN A MOMENT,
• 06:43 BUT NOT JUST THAT BUT EVEN SAUL'S DAUGHTER FELL IN LOVE WITH DAVID...GO FIGURE.
• 06:48 AN UPSIDE DOWN WORLD ISN'T IT?
• 06:50 AND SOMETIMES AN UPSIDE DOWN WORLD IS THE KIND OF WORLD THAT GOD USES TO GET HIS PEOPLE RIGHT SIDE UP.
• 06:56 AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE STORY OF OUR WARRIOR KING DAVID
• 06:59 WE LEARN ABOUT DAVIDIC LEADERSHIP IN GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES
• 07:02 AND WE LEARN HOW HE USED DIFFICULTIES TO MAKE THAT MAN WHO HE WAS.
• 07:11 DAVID AND I HAD BECOME THE BEST OF FRIENDS DESPITE MY FATHER'S ATTEMPTS TO HAVE HIM SLAIN.
• 07:17 DAVID REMAINED INTENSELY FAITHFUL TO THE THRONE.
• 07:20 OUR FRIENDSHIP HAD NOW BECOME THE ONE LINK THAT KEPT HIM ALIVE.
• 07:25 WE LAUGHED TOGETHER...PERHAPS IN DOING SO HOPING TO FORGET MY FATHER'S RAGE.
• 07:32 DAVID ASKED ME TO BE LOYAL AND KIND.
• 07:36 I AGREED KNOWING I COULD NEVER FIND A BETTER FRIEND,
• 07:41 ONE WHO IN THE FUTURE WOULD REPLACE MY FATHER AS THE KING OF ISRAEL.
• 07:53 THE WORD "FRATERNITY" COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD "FRATER" WHICH MEANS "BROTHERS".
• 07:58 AND AS YOU MAY WELL RECALL FROM THE BIBLICAL TEXT,
• 08:02 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 08:10 AS YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT "PEOPLE NEED PEOPLE",
• 08:13 YESHUA, JESUS, IS ON RECORD SAYING,
• 08:21 "BY YOUR FRATERNITY,"
• 08:23 WHEN I THINK OF THE STORY OF DAVID AND JONATHAN
• 08:25 I'M REMINDED OF A RELATIONSHIP THERE THAT TO ME IS JUST FANTASTIC.
• 08:33 AND BY THE WAY IT'S RARE AMONGST MEN THESE DAYS OUTSIDE OF THE THEATRE OF COMBAT I SHOULD SAY.
• 08:39 MEN GO OFF TO WAR, MEN FORGE BONDS WHEN MEN STRUGGLE TOGETHER AGAINST A COMMON FOE.
• 08:48 I NEVER SERVED IN THE ARMY BUT I HAVE A CAREER IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.
• 08:52 I KNOW THAT THERE'S A KIND OF FRATERNAL BOND AMONGST MEN WHO BEAR ARMS IN DEFENSE OF HOME AND HEARTH IN THE POLICE FORCE,
• 08:59 THAT THERE'S A LIFELONG BOND THAT COPS SHARE.
• 09:03 AND BY THE WAY, IT'S ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 09:06 I CAN GO TO ANOTHER CONTINENT AND TALK TO A COP ABOUT COP STUFF AND WE ARE INSTANT BUDDIES.
• 09:11 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT BRAVING THE SAME KIND OF HAZARDS THAT FORMS BONDS
• 09:16 AND MEN NEED THOSE BONDS.
• 09:20 TRAGIC OUTSIDE OF WAR MALES DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS IN WAR
• 09:26 WHERE THEY LEARN TO WORK TOGETHER...WE CULTIVATE SKILLS ON RELIANCE, RESPONSIBILITY
• 09:32 AND THEN WE LEAVE THAT WORLD AND GO INTO CIVILIAN LIFE AND ITS EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF.
• 09:37 AND THERE'S SOMETHING IN THAT MALES FEEL SOMETHING MISSING,
• 09:41 THERE'S A VACUUM, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS FIXED.
• 09:44 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 09:45 BECAUSE A MAN IS ALONE AND MEN WERE NOT MADE TO BE ALONE.
• 09:51 STRANGE AS THAT MIGHT SOUND THERE'S A VOID IN THE HEART THAT MEN HAVE THAT CAN'T BE FILLED BY A WOMAN.
• 09:58 I KNOW I CAN BE MISUNDERSTOOD IN SAYING THAT...
• 10:01 IT WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST TIME AND I CAN GET BAD MAIL..."OH I DON'T BELIEVE IT",
• 10:05 BUT ITS TRUE MEN NEED MEN.
• 10:07 I THINK IT'S PROBLEMATIC.
• 10:09 AIN'T IT LIKE THE DEVIL TO SEXUALIZE THAT?
• 10:11 I THINK THAT INDEED IS PROBLEMATIC.
• 10:14 WHEN I LOOK HERE IN THE SACRED TEXT TO SEE ABOUT THE SACRED BOND BETWEEN MEN...
• 10:18 LET'S NOT EVEN THINK OF THE SEXUALIZING THAT...
• 10:21 I BELIEVE THE BIBLE LEGITIMIZES RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE NOT ADAM AND STEVE
• 10:26 BUT I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS.
• 10:27 IN I SAMUEL, CHAPTER 20 AND VERSE 16,
• 10:32 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:40 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:41 HE CUT A COVENANT.
• 10:43 HE MADE A COVENANT WITH DAVID AND WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 17,
• 11:00 I BELIEVE THERE'S A LONGING FOR THAT BY THE WAY.
• 11:02 I BELIEVE THERE'S A NEED FOR THAT.
• 11:05 I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW AS A POLICE OFFICER I WOULD LOVE TO JUST TO SIT AROUND IN UNIFORM WITH OTHER MEN.
• 11:10 MAYBE THERE'S A FIGHT, THERE WAS AN INCIDENT, SOMETHING WE WORKED TOGETHER TO BREAK UP
• 11:16 AND THEN THERE'S A KIND OF CAMARADERIE WHERE WE CONNECT AND WE PROCESS WHAT HAPPENED.
• 11:20 AND OH FOR THE JOY OF THAT AND TO ME IT'S TRAGIC HOW THAT'S MISSING OUTSIDE OF THAT CULTURE.
• 11:27 I'VE HAD SOME EXPERIENCE SERVING AS A FIREFIGHTER AS WELL
• 11:30 WHERE WE DEBRIEF, YOU DON THE BUNKER GEAR.
• 11:33 YOU KNOW MOST PEOPLE ARE SMART ENOUGH TO RUN FROM A FIRE,
• 11:36 SOME PEOPLE ARE DUMB ENOUGH TO RUN INTO IT.
• 11:37 BUT I SAY THAT TONGUE IN CHEEK OF COURSE,
• 11:40 THEY'RE NOT DUMB THEY'RE HEROES.
• 11:42 THE POINT IS THAT WHEN PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER IN A COMMON CAUSE AND A COMMON STRUGGLE
• 11:46 IT FORGES ALLIANCES THAT WOULDN'T OTHERWISE BE THERE AND WE NEED THAT.
• 11:51 I BELIEVE THAT GOD'S PEOPLE NEED TO RECOVER THAT.
• 11:54 AND THERE'S DIFFERENT FRATERNAL ASSOCIATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA.
• 11:57 PROMISE KEEPERS IS RAMPING UP AGAIN.
• 12:00 COACH HAS RESUMED THE HELMET,
• 12:02 THAT ALONG WITH RALEIGH WASHINGTON.
• 12:04 TWO MEN WHO LOVE ISRAEL, LOVE JEWISH PEOPLE, WHO LOVE MESSIANIC JEWS I MIGHT ADD.
• 12:08 AND PROMISE KEEPERS IS AGAIN GOING TO TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM.
• 12:12 AND LOCAL CONGREGATIONS, WE DO WELL TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEN TO LINK UP WITH MEN.
• 12:18 THE BIBLE SAYS,
• 12:19 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 12:26 HEAR ME
• 12:27 MISTER, YOU MIGHT HAVE A LOT OF TALENT
• 12:29 BUT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO EXCEL,
• 12:31 YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO REACH WHAT YOU COULD OTHERWISE BE
• 12:34 IF YOU FOREVER WANT TO GO IT ALONE IN LIFE.
• 12:38 FIND GOOD FRIENDS, CULTIVATE THOSE BONDS, BE FAITHFUL TO EACH OTHER.
• 12:43 DAVID AND JONATHAN DID THAT.
• 12:44 IT'S A MOVING STORY.
• 12:46 NEVER MIND MY WORDS, READ THE BIBLE ITSELF
• 12:48 AND LEARN HOW DAVID WAS THE BETTER FOR HIS ASSOCIATIONS WITH JONATHAN.
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• 13:35 I'VE HAD A BLAST!
• 13:37 YOU KNOW THE BIGGEST THING THAT I REALLY HAVE TO SAY
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• 13:50 AND IT'S REALLY NICE TO BE WELL TAKEN CARE OF.
• 13:52 I'VE FELT SO SAFE HERE.
• 13:54 I FEEL SAFER HERE THAN I DO IN THE UNITED STATES.
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• 14:32 AN OFFER TODAY IS,
• 14:34 "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM"
• 14:37 PUT THIS ON YOUR CAR AND LET THE WORLD KNOW WHERE YOU STAND.
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• 15:06 WE LIVE IN A TOUGH WORLD.
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• 15:18 AS WITH GETTING OTHER THINGS AS WELL.
• 15:20 TALK ABOUT GETTING IT, I HOPE YOU GET THIS STORY.
• 15:22 SAUL CERTAINLY DID.
• 15:24 DAVID AND SAUL HAD A LOT OF TENSIONS, SAUL'S FAULT NOT DAVID'S.BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 15:28 GOD HAS A WAY OF BRINGING PROBLEMS TO PASS.
• 15:32 YOU'LL LEARN THIS AND MORE AS WE CONTINUE WITH OUR STUDY OF DAVID.
• 15:40 IT WAS A SLAUGHTER FIELD.
• 15:42 NEVER BEFORE HAD KING SAUL EVER WITNESSED SUCH CARNAGE.
• 15:47 THE PHILISTINES HAD KILLED HIS THREE SONS AND NOW IN THE LAST MOMENTS OF THIS HOPELESS BATTLE;
• 15:54 THE WOUNDED KING PLEADED FOR HIS OWN DEATH.
• 15:58 LOYAL TO THE END AND GRIPPED WITH FEAR, HIS ARMOR BEARER REFUSED THE KING'S PLEA.
• 16:06 AND SO IT WAS THAT SAUL WOULD USE HIS SWORD ONE LAST TIME.
• 16:27 THE EXPRESSION "TO FALL UPON ONE'S SWORD"
• 16:30 SPEAKS OF SOMEONE TAKING THEIR OWN LIFE.
• 16:33 AND WE'RE AT A PLACE IN DAVID'S LIFE
• 16:37 WHERE HE'S LEARNED THAT HIS NEMESES HAS FALLEN
• 16:40 UPON HIS SWORD.
• 16:43 SAUL IS DEAD AND JONATHAN ALONG WITH HIM.
• 16:49 FOR MY MONEY SAUL COULD HAVE DIED A LOT SOONER AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN OKAY
• 16:54 BECAUSE THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH IS I DIDN'T LIKE THAT MAN SOON AS I MET HIM IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
• 17:01 AT LEAST NOT LONG AFTER I READ HIM I REALIZED THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT MAN.
• 17:06 JONATHAN ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU JUST CAN'T HELP BUT FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM.
• 17:11 I LOVE THAT GUY AND I SAY THAT AT THE RISK OF BEING MISUNDERSTOOD.
• 17:16 IN ANY CASE, DAVID HERE IS CONFRONTED WITH THE FACT THAT BOTH ARE DEAD
• 17:22 AND IT'S MONUMENTAL IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT.
• 17:25 THE SAMUEL TEXT IS CLEAR THAT DAVID HAD EVERY REASON TO WANT TO KILL SAUL
• 17:32 AND HE NEVER EXERCISED HIS PREROGATIVE.
• 17:35 DAVID'S CONDUCT IS STERLING.
• 17:38 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 17:40 BECAUSE HE WON'T TAKE IT UPON HIMSELF TO BE GIVEN TO EXECUTING HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER IN THAT SOCIAL SYSTEM.
• 17:49 HE SPENDS 13 YEARS NOT FIGHTING SAUL BUT RUNNING FROM HIM
• 17:54 AND NOW AS HE'S RUNNING HE'S OVERRUN WITH THE FACT THAT SAUL IS DEAD.
• 17:58 WE COME UPON THAT STORY IN I SAMUEL.
• 18:02 VERY SIMPLY IN VERSE 4
• 18:07 AT THE END SAUL AND THE ARMY IS ENGAGED IN A CLASH WITH THE PHILISTINES
• 18:15 AND IT DOESN'T GO SAUL'S WAY.
• 18:18 AND WE'RE TOLD FINALLY IN VERSE 4,
• 18:21 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 18:32 HE WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED AND HE SAID, "ENOUGH ALREADY".
• 18:36 THE BATTLE'S GONE HORRIBLY.
• 18:38 HE EXPERIENCES THE DEATH OF HIS OWN AROUND HIM.
• 18:42 IT'S TRAGIC AT ONE LEVEL,
• 18:43 WE'RE TOLD THEN IN VERSE 7 VERY SIMPLY,
• 18:48 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 18:59 WHAT'S INTERESTING FOR MY MONEY IS THE WAY THAT DAVID RESPONDED TO IT.
• 19:03 AS I'D SAID, THE WAY I PERCEIVE IT, SAUL COULD HAVE DIED A LOT EARLIER
• 19:07 AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN OKAY.
• 19:09 I WOULD IMAGINE DAVID COULD HAVE BEEN TEMPTED TO JUST BREATHE A DEEP SIGH OF RELIEF
• 19:15 BUT IT WASN'T THE NATURE OF THE GUY DAVID.
• 19:18 AND THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING I THINK, AND IT'S EVIDENT,
• 19:21 AND YOU'LL HEAR DAVID IN HIS OWN WORDS, DAVID WAS MOURNFUL OVER IT,
• 19:25 DAVID HAD BEEN RUNNING FROM THAT MAN FOR 13 YEARS.
• 19:28 AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 19:29 GOD USED THAT TOUGH GUY TO GROW UP DAVID.
• 19:32 GOD USED THE SAUL,
• 19:35 HE USED IT ALL,
• 19:36 WARS WITH HIS OWN, WARS WITH THE PHILISTINE TO MAKE THAT MAN THE MAN THAT HE WAS.
• 19:40 AND GREAT LEADERS ARE GREAT BLEEDERS, THAT IS TO SAY,
• 19:44 WE ALL HAVE SCARS UNDER OUR SHIRTS AND THEY MAKE US THE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE.
• 19:52 DAVID'S LEADERSHIP WAS FORGED IN THE FURNACE OF CHALLENGE.
• 19:57 DAVID MAKES PEACE WITH HIS NEMESES IF YOU WILL.
• 20:01 AND YOU KNOW THERE'S THE OLD SPANISH EXPRESSION, "ADI'OS" WHICH DOESN'T MEAN GOODBYE,
• 20:05 IT IS GOODBYE, BUT IT MEANS "TO GOD".
• 20:08 AND I THINK THAT DAVID GAVE HIS STRUGGLES OVER A LONG TIME BEFOREHAND
• 20:12 AND NOW HE EULOGIZES SAUL AND JONATHAN.
• 20:16 I WANT YOU TO HEAR THIS IN II SAMUEL, CHAPTER 1,
• 20:20 HE SAYS IN VERSE 23,
• 20:28 HOW CAN DAVID DESCRIBE JONATHAN AND HIS FATHER AS THE LOVELY AND THE PLEASANT?
• 20:34 YOU KNOW WHY?
• 20:36 I MEAN....YOU CAN BE VEXED OVER SOMEBODY THAT'S REALLY BEEN MESSING YOU UP FOR YEARS,
• 20:41 BUT YOU MAKE PEACE WITH IT AND YOU JUST SAY, "GOD...WHATEVER".
• 20:46 I THINK ITS STRIKING THAT DAVID HIMSELF DID MUCH THE SAME.
• 20:50 HE SAYS IN VERSE 26,
• 20:55 DAVID LEARNED TO FORGIVE AND GIVE IT OVER TO GOD AND HE WAS ABLE TO GO ON TO GREATNESS.
• 21:00 WOULD THAT WE DID LIKEWISE.
• 21:04 (Jeff Speaking) AND NOW IN PRAISE TO GOD ADONAI
• 21:07 FROM JERUSALEM'S KING OF KINGS PAVILION
• 21:10 WE JOIN PAUL WILBUR IN SONG.
• 21:27 ♪WHO IS LIKE HIM THE LION AND THE LAMB♪
• 21:32 ♪SEATED ON THE THRONE♪
• 21:38 ♪MOUNTAINS BOW DOWN♪
• 21:40 ♪EVERY OCEAN ROARS TO THE LORD OF HOSTS♪
• 21:45 ♪COME PRAISE HIM♪
• 21:46 ♪PRAISE ADONAI♪
• 21:51 ♪FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN 'TIL THE END OF EVERY DAY♪
• 21:57 ♪PRAISE ADONAI♪
• 22:01 ♪ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH♪
• 22:04 ♪ALL THE ANGELS AND THE SAINTS
• 22:06 ♪SING PRAISE♪
• 22:52 ♪OH PRAISE ADONAI♪
• 22:58 ♪FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN 'TIL THE END OF EVERY DAY♪
• 23:04 ♪PRAISE ADONAI♪
• 23:09 ♪ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH♪
• 23:11 ♪ALL THE ANGELS AND THE SAINTS
• 23:13 ♪SING PRAISE ADONAI♪
• 23:19 ♪FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN 'TIL THE END OF EVERY DAY♪
• 23:24 ♪PRAISE ADONAI♪
• 23:29 ♪ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH♪
• 23:32 ♪ALL THE ANGELS AND THE SAINTS
• 23:34 ♪SING PRAISE♪
• 23:40 ♪BRING YOUR PRAISE TO THE LORD
• 23:44 ♪ALL YOU THAT HAVE BREATH GIVE HIM PRAISE♪
• 23:49 ♪FOR HE IS LORD OF LORDS♪
• 23:58 ♪ALL THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES...
• 23:59 ♪THEY SING THEIR PRAISE...♪
• 24:06 WELL THAT WAS PAUL WILBUR AND HIS TREATMENT OF "PRAISE ADONAI",
• 24:09 HEBREW FOR "PRAISE THE LORD".
• 24:11 AND WE CAN PRAISE THE LORD, BY THE WAY,
• 24:13 WHEN ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE BIBLE HUG AND KISS EACH OTHER.
• 24:17 AND THAT'S THE STORY AS WE LOOK NOW WITH ZOLA LEVITT AND TOM MCCALL
• 24:21 WHO SPOKE TO DR. AVRAHAM BIRAN FOR ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS DISCOVERIES IN ANCIENT ISRAEL
• 24:27 THAT CORROBORATES THE BIBLICAL STORY OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
• 24:33 MOST IMPORTANTLY
• 24:34 THE STONE CALLED
• 24:35 "THE HOUSE OF DAVID STONE"
• 24:37 WAS FOUND HERE AT TEL DAN,
• 24:39 A STONE INSCRIBED WITH THE PHRASE, "HOUSE OF DAVID"
• 24:42 WHICH WAS THE FIRST REAL EVIDENCE OF THAT DYNASTY.
• 24:48 CHIEF ARCHAEOLOGIST AND FINDER OF THE STONE, DR. AVRAHAM BIRAN
• 24:52 TRANSLATES FROM THE ARAMAIC CHISELED IN THIS MOST IMPORTANT FIND.
• 24:57 (Dr. Biran speaking) THE LAST LETTER OF THE WORD "KING", "MELECH"
• 25:01 AND THEN NEXT TO IT IS "BEIT", "HOUSE", "DAVID"
• 25:10 "HOUSE OF DAVID" WITHOUT THE DOT BETWEEN.
• 25:13 NOW THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEN THE EXPRESSION
• 25:16 "BEIT DAVID", "HOUSE OF DAVID"
• 25:19 WAS APPARENTLY A KNOWN EXPRESSION.
• 25:23 (Zola speaking) DR. BIRAN RESPONDS TO THE SCHOLARS WHO QUESTIONED THE IMPACT OF THIS INCREDIBLE FIND.
• 25:28 SINCE THE HOUSE OF DAVID, FOR EXAMPLE THE NAME, THE EXPRESSION
• 25:32 AND THE NAME "DAVID" FOR THAT MATTER WAS NEVER FOUND OUTSIDE THE BIBLE.
• 25:37 PEOPLE USED TO SAY, "WELL YOU KNOW PEOPLE INVENTED A LEGEND."
• 25:43 SO NOW YOU HAVE EVIDENCE ON STONE, ENGRAVED ON STONE OF THE EXPRESSION, "BEIT DAVID",
• 25:52 "HOUSE OF DAVID".
• 25:55 NO, I DIDN'T STEAL THE ORIGINAL.
• 25:58 BUT THIS FAMOUS HOUSE OF DAVID STONE REMINDS US OF THE FACT THAT THERE REALLY WAS A DAVID.
• 26:06 AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE DAVID STORY IN THE BIBLE
• 26:08 WE'RE REMINDED OF THE FACT THAT THERE REALLY WAS A SAUL.
• 26:13 AND WHEN WE LOOK AT SAUL'S STORY IN THE BIBLE WE'RE REMINDED OF THE FACT THAT WE ALL HAVE A SAUL
• 26:20 AND THAT GOD USES SAUL TYPE PEOPLE AND SAUL TYPE CIRCUMSTANCE
• 26:26 TO MAKE US INTO THE PEOPLE GOD WOULD HAVE US TO BE.
• 26:30 OH WOULD YOU NOT PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE LORD TODAY,
• 26:33 REPENT OF YOUR SINS, GET RIGHT WITH HIM,
• 26:35 MAKE YOUR WAY INTO A BIBLE BELIEVING CONGREGATION AND LEARN TO WALK WITH GOD.
• 26:40 YOU'LL FIND THAT DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING HE'LL TAKE YOU TO A GREAT PLACE.
• 26:45 THANKS FOR BEING WITH US TODAY AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:49 SHA' ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:51 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.